1) Montenegro joined The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO-1949-
28 C) as 16th Non NATO Members.
NATO HO Brussels
(Belgium)
2) Global Initiative of
Academic Networks (GIAN) to improve the
quality of higher education through international
collaboration.
3) Maharashtra has emerged as the biggest economy (GSDP)
Rs 16.87 lakh crore in terms of gross state domestic
product (GSDP). It is followed by Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
The manufacturing sector in Gujarat and
Maharashtra accounted for 27.26% and 25.18% of GSDP respectively in 2014-15.
The three fastest-growing
states were Bihar at 17.06 per cent, MP
(16.86%) and Goa (16.43%). The laggards were
Telangana at 5.3%, Punjab (10.16%),
Rajasthan (11%).
Meanwhile, at a national level, India’s GDP
growth rate at 7.3% in 2015 exceeded that of
China, which grew at 6.9%.
4) The International
Agency for Solar Technologies and Applications (IASTA)
was launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the French
president, François Hollande, at the Paris Conference
of Parties-COP21 climate summit. This alliance comprises of over 120 countries with the primary aim to spread cheap
solar technology across the globe with
pooled policy knowledge.
IASTA will have its headquarters in India. The Indian government is investing an
initial $30m in setting up its headquarters in India. The eventual goal is to
raise $400m from membership fees, and international agencies.
Companies involved in the project include
Areva, Engie, Enel, HSBC France and Tata Steel.
The United Nations (UN)
Climate Change Conference or the 21st United Nations Conference of the Parties
(COP21) started at Paris participated 150 nations for a single agreement on tackling
climate change.
COP21 aims to cap the
rate of global warming at 2 degrees Celsius,
as compared to the current 2.5 to 3.76 degrees
Celsius.
Mission-Innovation-2015
UN Climate Change
Conference in Paris, 21 countries including India launched an ambitious
initiative to double their clean energy research and development budget over
the next five years as part of global efforts to tackle climate change. $20
billion to promote clean technologies
5) Yuan (Renminbi) will be added to the IMF-Special
Drawing Rights (SDR) basket alongside the
dollar, euro, Yen & Pound sterling-(GBP/GBS)
in October 2016
6) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its 5th
bi-monthly policy review on 1 December 2015 First Bi
monthly report published in April 2015
7) Gurgaon became the
first city in India which has a legalised bike taxi
system.
8) “Embrace of Serpent”
(Colombia) won the prestigious Golden Peacock award in the 46th International
Film Festival of India (IFFI 2015) held at
Goa.
The best director award went to Peter
Greenaway for ‘Eisenstein’.
French actor Vincent
Lindon was adjudged Best Actor for his role in ‘The Measure of a Man’.
Best Actress award was
shared by five actresses – Gunes Sensoy, Doga Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit
Iscan and Ilyada Akdogan for their roles in Turkish film ‘Mustang’.
Russian filmmaker Nikita
Mikhalkov was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. Director Goran
Radovavovic’s ‘Enclave’ was conferred the Special Mention Award for focusing on
ethnic conflict in Kosovo and Julia Vargas directed film ‘Sealed Cargo’ was
awarded the Special Jury Award.
The only Indian name in
the winner’s list was that of Bengali filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly, who was given
the inaugural ‘ICFT – UNESCO Fellini Medal’ for his movie ‘Cinemawala’.
9) Afghanistan 164th
member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) if approved
10) Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV)
The Inactivated
Polio Vaccine (IPV), in injectable form, was launched under the National Immunization Programme (NIP)
For now, immunization using IPV will be
restricted to Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. In the first quarter of 2016, it
will be expanded to the other Northern and Northeastern States and in the
second quarter, will encompass the five southern States and Maharashtra.
It is worth mentioning that no new cases of
polio have been reported in India for around 5 years now.
11) Andy Murray led
Great Britain won the Davis Cup title for 2015 after a gap of 79 years (since
1936) after defeating hosts Belgium by 3-1 in the finals played at Ghent.
12) International Day
for the Abolition of Slavery Observed globally on 2 December
According to the
International Labour Organization (ILO), there are currently an estimated 21
million forced labour victims worldwide, creating 150 billion US dollars in
illegal profits in the private economy each year.
13) President gave nod
to Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to allow women to work in night shifts
Workers to be eligible
for paid leave after working for 90 days in a year instead of the existing 240
days or more.
14) Sir Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan assumed Presidency of the Royal Society.
15) Gujarat
International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) launch Phase-2 will be focused on
International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) to be set up in GIFT SEZ.
India’s first IFSC is
already operational with the commencement of IFSC banking units by Yes Bank
& Federal Bank in November 2015.
16) Saudi Arabia recently allowed its women to Vote
and contest in Municipal Elections for the first time
17) Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Award is a national
competition of original technological ideas and innovations by children up to class 12 or those out of school up
to the age of 17 years.
18) Interceptor boat
ICGS C-422 commissioned into Indian Coast Guard service
19) NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar
20) Arvind Panagariya
& M. Govinda Rao are the authors of “The Making of Miracles in Indian
States”?
21) OECD-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development Paris-Fr
22) According to the Financial Secrecy Index 2015, Switzerland
have the most secretive jurisdiction in the world
23) Hindi is the largest spoken Indian language in US
24) Radha Kant Bharatiis
the author of "Interlinking of Indian Rivers
25) Federation of
International De Football Association-FIFA (Zurich-Swiss) World Rankings 2015, Belgium ranked No. 1
26) Australia at the Adelaide Oval
will host the first day-night test match against
New Zealand
27) Bad loans committee is headed by Jayant Sinha
28) Singapore replaced Mauritius to become the largest
source of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) into India during the first half of the current fiscal,
India has attracted
$6.69 billion (Rs 43,096 crore) FDI from Singapore while from Mauritius, it
received $3.66 billion (Rs 23,490 crore).
29) Tata Trust entered
into 5-year partnership agreement with Khan Academy
which free online education initiative for making localised content
accessible to students across the country
Khan Academy is one of
the world’s largest free online education initiatives
and has been established by Silicon Valley-based education entrepreneur Salman Khan. It is a not-for-profit
platform with over 30 million users
worldwide.
30) FIH Hockey World League title won by Australia against Belgium by 2-1
The tournament was played from 28 November
to 6 December 2015 at the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Stadium in Raipur
(Chhattishgarh).
31) Operation Smile-II
to start from 1 January 2016
is a campaign to
rescue/rehabilitate the missing children. It is a follow up of the exercise
Operation Smile that helped in rescuing and rehabilitating 9146 missing
children.
Under Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Juvenile Justice (Care and
Protection of Children) JJ Act, Protection of Child Right Act and others.
32) Arvind Subramanian (CEA) Headed the GST
committee
33) RV Easwar Committee view to simplify the
provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961
34) Revised Bilateral
Investment Treaty (BIT) will be used for Comprehensive Economic Cooperation
Agreements (CECAs)/ Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements (CEPAs) /
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
The new Indian Model BIT
text will provide appropriate protection to foreign investors in India and
Indian investors in the foreign country,
35) Commemorative coins
of Rs 125, Rs 10 released in honour of Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar.
36) Atlas V rocket lifted off with Cygnus Cargo Spaceship to International Space
Station (ISS)
The rocket lifted off
from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station
37) The public sector Cochin Shipyard Ltd has launched the nineteenth of the 20 Fast Patrol
Vessels being built for Indian Coast Guard. The vessel was named “ICGS Atulya”
38) Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in the
country to start Rotavirus vaccination project
under the Universal Immunisation Programme-UIP
39) Gujarat — Ahmedabad,
Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar — have been
included in the list of 100 Smart City.
40) Justice Ajit Prakash Shah Former Chief Justice of Delhi
High Court who was appointed as the ethics officer (ombudsman)
at Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
41) Singapore ranked first the World Bank Ease of Doing Business 2016 report-(DBR)
42) India's forest &
tree cover increased by 5,081 sq km: India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2015,
43) South Western Railway Zones introduces Biodiesel for trains
SWR’s first train
Hubballi-Bengaluru Janshatabdi Express powered by five per cent biodiesel
blended with High Speed Diesel was flagged off from Hubli.
44) Uttar Pradesh Govt
launches 1st International festival on Birds
45) RBI bars 56 NBFCs from conducting business
A Bajaj Finserv, Aditya
Birla Nuvo’s
46) RBI announced
revised Priority Sector Lending-PSL norms
for Regional Rural Banks. The PSL target was increased to 75 percent of total outstanding from the existing 60 percent. The revised target will be effective
from 1 January 2016. NB is 40%
PSL-Housing, Education,
MSME Loan, Agriculture
47) Lok Sabha passed
bill to establish Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
as National Standards Body
48) First India International Science Festival began at
IIT-Delhi
49) YouTube opens first video production studio in
India
it has similar
collaborations in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, New
York City, Sao Paulo, Paris and Berlin.
50) GAIL, ISRO launch
satellite-based portal to monitor pipelines
51) National Institute
of Solar Energy in India (NISE) Gurgaon
52) Brazil entered
longest recession since 1930s
53) Double Taxation
Avoidance Convention (DTAC) agreement with
Japan
DTAA- Double Taxation
Avoidance Agreement
TIEA-Tax Information
Exchange Agreement
54) Axis Bank (Country's
third largest private sector lender) launches country's first 'display variant' debit card
The EMV chip embedded, interactive debit card comes
with a display screen and touch-sensitive button that enables customers to
generate the OTP on the card
55) TAPI -Turkmenistan Afghanistan, Pakistan and India Gas pipe line
This ambitious project is
expected to be operationalised by December 2019.
56) Justice L Narasimha Reddy committee to look into
the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP)
scheme for the Ex-Servicemen
57) Dengvaxia first-ever dengue vaccine that was
approved by the Mexican government (First Government in World)
58) Jack Ma-led Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will acquire
iconic Hong Kong-based 112-year-old English-language newspaper, ‘South China Morning
Post’
59) UN Climate Change
Summit (COP21) in Paris on 12 December 2015
with 196 countries adopting a goal of “well below 2
degrees C” for temperature rise, and instituting a regime of financing
of developing economies to help make the transition. This agreement is
scheduled to come into effect from 2020
Main features of COP21
Agreement
It confirmed the key
objective of containing mean global temperature rise well below 2 degrees
Celsius and to endeavour to limit it to 1.5 degrees.
The agreement takes into
account the differentiation and responsibility of developing countries, and
their respective capacities in light of national circumstances.
The agreement approved a
provision of $100 billion per year as a floor by 2020 to help developing
nations.
There is provision for
adaptation to climate change. Apart from this there will be collective
stocktaking every five years of national actions and consideration of steps if
efforts are insufficient for the objective set.
60) Gambia African
country declared itself an Islamic republic
61) Shetkari Sanghatana’
founded by Noted economist agriculturist, politician, prolific journalist and
well-known farmer leader Sharad A. Joshi passed
away at the age of 81 in Pune
62) The Supreme Court upheld the validity of a minimum
education as a prerequisite for contesting polls at various levels in Haryana.
The Act requires that
general candidates must have passed Class X
examination while women and Dalit candidates
need to have cleared Class VIII.
Dalit women candidates
must clear Class V.
Apart from Haryana, Rajasthan is the only other state to fix minimum
education qualifications for those contesting panchayat polls.
63) A planeload of Syrian
refugees arrived in Canada
64) Competition Appellate
Tribunal (CAT) imposed penalty on 11 cement firms by
the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on
cartelisation charges.
The 11 cement firms
involved in this case are ACC, Ambuja Cements, Binani Cements, Century Textiles
Ltd, India Cements, JK Cements, Lafarge India, Madras Cements, Ultratech, JP
Associates and Shree Cements.
65) “On My Terms: From
the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power”
autobiography of NCP founder Sharad Pawar’s
66) TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2015 Angela Merkel
(German Chancellor). For her role in Europe’s crises over migration and Greek
debt.
67) Telangana Country’s
first anti-piracy police unit is being established Telangana
Intellectual Property Crime Unit (TIPCU)
Specially cyber-crime police, state IT
ministry, internet service providers, the Telugu film industry, legal experts
and financial experts.
TIPCU is modelled on London’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and
is being seen as critical for the Telugu film market, which is the
second-largest in South India after the Tamil film industry.
Every year, 1,500-2,000 films are produced in India, losing up
to 30% of their business to piracy.
68) 34 Islamic countries
agreed to form an “Islamic military alliance” to fight terrorism declared by
Saudi Arabia (Capital Riyadh)
The list of 34 members: Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Chad, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt,
Gabon, Guinea, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali,
Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Palestinians, Qatar,
Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab
Emirates and Yemen.
Dow Chemical and DuPont agriculture
giants (valuing nearly $130 billion-11600 Crore) merged of chemicals
titans Dow Chemical and DuPont resulted in a flurry of activities in the
financial markets on 9 December. The Wall Street Journal first reported this
news on 8 December. According to the reports the proposed tie-up would merge
two agricultural chemicals businesses and fold in DuPont’s seeds business.
70) Pune and Rajkot two new interim franchises(for two years) in the Indian Premier League (IPL)
that will replace the suspended teams of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan
Royals.
The Pune franchise was
bought by Kolkata-based business tycoon Sanjiv Goenka’s company New Rising,
while the Rajkot bid was won by Intex Mobiles.
71) ‘National Herald’ case, Congress gave a loan of
over Rs 90 crore. Founded by late Jawaharlal Nehru, that published
the National Herald and Quami Awaz.
72) USS Zumwalt largest
destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy that headed out to sea for the first
time it is 183 meter tall and weighs almost 15,000 tons.
73) Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) PSLV-C29
rocket into the space that carried with it 6 satellites of a South-East Asian
country Singapore
from SDSC Sriharikota
spaceport in Andhra Pradesh on 16 December 2015.
ISRO has put into orbits
57 foreign satellites belonging to 20 countries successfully. Significantly,
the list of countries includes scientifically advacned countries like the USA,
the UK, France and Germany among others.
74) Losar, the biggest Tibetan Buddhist Festival,
began in Ladakh region
From ruler of Jamiang Namgyal (1555 to 1610)
75) Saudi voters elected women candidates for first
time in Municipal council polls still
exception in Vatican. (Italy)
76) Article 142-The
Supreme Court, ordered to appointed
Justice Virendra Singh as Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh after the State government
failed to comply with its directives.
77) The mascot Tikhor is
a one horned rhino and is the brand
ambassador of 2016 12th South Asian federation
(SAF) Games held in Guwahati and Shillong from
6 February to 16 February 2016. 8 Countries participated,
3rd Time in India.
78) Vijay Kumar won gold
in the 59th National shooting championship at Tughlakabad in New Delhi.
79) Anil Kapoor was chief
guest of the 46th International Film
Festival of India (IFFI) held at Goa. Brand
Ambassador A.B.
80) 3120 crore rupees investment for 102 cities
approved under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)
81) PAN (permanent
account number) for all transactions in excess of Rs.2 lakh, regardless of the
mode of payment, to curb black money. From 1 January 2016
In the case of immovable property, where
quoting PAN is currently required for transactions of Rs.5 lakh, the government
has decided to raise the monetary limits to Rs.10 lakh.
As far as one-time payment of hotel or
restaurant bills is concerned, the Finance Ministry raised the monetary limit
to Rs.50,000 from the present limit of Rs. 25,000.
The limit is being raised to Rs.1 lakh from
Rs. 50,000 for purchase or sale of shares of an unlisted company.
Opening of a no-frills bank account, such
as a Jan Dhan account, will not require PAN.
82) NGT bans registration of new
diesel-run vehicles in Delhi (2000 CC)
NGT bench headed by
Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar and also
questioned Delhi government’s odd-even formula for vehicles to check pollution
in the city.
Presently around 23 per cent of the cars
registered in Delhi are running on diesel. The cars running are likely to emit
7.5 times more particulate matter (PM) compared to petrol cars. As per WHO,
emissions from Diesel cars produce more toxic nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and may
cause cancer.
83) Union Govt inks MoU
for establishing IIITs at Ranchi, Nagpur & Pune
84) India agreed civil nuclear deal with Japan
Talks started with USA
while agreement with France
85) Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor (CBIC)
project estimated with Rs. 3,000 crores
86) Southern Zonal
Council meet held recently at Vijayawada
87) Rashtrapati Nilayam,
Secuderabad (Telangana)
Rashtrapati Nilayam was originally known as
‘Residency House’ and was constructed in 1860 by Nizam Nazir-ud-Dowla. Later it
became the country house of the British Resident at Secunderabad.
88) TSR Subramanian committee head of New Education Policy
89) UNESCO designated
Varanasi and Jaipur as members of Creative Cities Network respectively City of
Music and City of Crafts and Folk Art
90) National Commission
for Safai Karamcharis recommended to make it a Permanent and Statutory Body
National
Commission for Safai Karamcharis was constituted on 12 August 1994 for a period of 3 years under the National
Commission for Safai Karamcharis Act, 1993. It was constituted to promote and
safeguard the interests and rights of Safai Karamcharis.
91) Salman Rushdie honoured with Mailer Prize for
Lifetime Achievement By USA.
92) Myanmar launched its first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Inle Lake
Myanmar fulfilled its
commitment to bio-diversity and eco-system conservation under the UNESCO’s Man
and Biosphere Prorgamme. (MBP) 1970
93) India and South Korea ink MoU on revised Double Tax Avoidance
Agreement (DTAA)
94) CGPDTM-Controller
General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks
95) Myanmar inaugurated Yangon Stock Exchange
96) Interlinking of
Indian Rivers wrote by Radha Kant Bharati
97) Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
98) China’s Chen Long
and Carolina Marin bagged the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Male and
Female Player of the Year Awards respectively in Dubai.
99) India has signed MoU
with Singapore for taking up the operations
and management of the two Indian airports i.e. Ahmedabad
and Jaipur airports.
100) 2016: UK-INDIA Year
of Education, Research and Innovation launched
101) Luxembourg & New Zealand to ratify Articles of
Agreement- AoA of Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB) 57 countries founded Members
HQ-Beijing
Apart from Luxembourg,
Australia, Austria, Brunei Darussalam, China, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand,
Singapore and United Kingdom ratified the 60-article agreement so far.
102) Human Rights Day December
10 (Celebrated from 1950)
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
103) Former CBI official M.L. Sharma committee head of the
vistors’ diary of the premier investigating
agency’s
104) The Bharatiya
Janata Party had
received Rs.
437 crore between 2014-15
105) Sukhoi-30 frontline
fighter aircraft received from Russia
106) The British
Government has selected cities from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
107) Idea Cellular buy
spectrum in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (West) from Videocon Telecommunications.
108) MSME- Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
109) French President Francois Hollande chief guest at the
Republic Day parade of January 26, 2016 (105 Min) HM
110) The public sector
Cochin Shipyard Ltd has launched the nineteenth-ICGS Atulya- of the 20 Fast Patrol Vessels being
built for Indian Coast Guard. What is the name given to the vessel?
111) Beijing issued
first-ever Red Alert on Air Pollution
112) SmartCity Kochi, a
joint venture of SmartCity Dubai and the Kerala Government
113) The US Federal
Reserve raised interest rates by 0.25 percentage points This was the first
interest rate increase Since 2006
114) Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) led the list with m-cap of
Rs. 465,230 crore, followed by Reliance Industries (Rs. 316,115 crore), HDFC
Bank (Rs. 266,718 crore), ITC (Rs. 259,127 crore) and Infosys (Rs. 247,358
crore)
115) New Zealand confirmed
a new flag (called Silver Fern) as a possible
challenge to oust the country’s current flag
116) Russian spacecraft
Soyuz was launched for the International Space Station (ISS) from Kazakhstan
117) Coca Cola will have
to shut down some factories in India if the government accepts a proposal to
impose ‘sin tax’ as proposed under the
provisions of GST. Sin tax has been proposed under GST is 40%. Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian headed
the panel on GST.
The Arvind
Subramanian-led committee had recommended a sin tax be applied to luxury cars, aerated beverages, Paan masala and
tobacco and tobacco products (for the states).
118) Justice Reva
Khetrapal took oath as Delhi's Lokayukta
119) RBI liable to
disclose information about banks under RTI Act: Supreme Court
120) The Bose Brothers
and Indian Independence – An Insider’s Account: wrote by Madhuri Bose, the
grand-niece of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
121) IRCTC ties up with
Paytm for e-catering payments
122) Lalit Modi back as Rajasthan Cricket Association
president
123) Bindeshwar Pathak founder
of Sulabh International
124) 2.75% annual interest that will be given on the sovereign gold bond
125) RBI decided to
grant in principle approval to The National Payments Corporation of India function
as the Bharat Bill Payment Central Unit in Bharat Bill Payment System
126) TADF-Technology
Acquisition and Development Fund
127) Vijay Diwas 16 December (from Indo-Pak War of 1971)
128) Pakistan
successfully tests nuclear-capable Shaheen-IA
ballistic missile
129) International
Atomic Energy Agency –Vienna (Austria) -IAEA ends 12 year Iran Nuclear Weapon probe
The move is seen as a
key step towards lifting UN, EU and US sanctions
and a symbolic victory for Iran.
130) Shashank Manohar was appointed as the CP of BCCI & International Cricket Council.
131) Defence sector FDI under automatic route is 49 per cent
132) International
Financial Service Centre (IFSC) started in
Mumbai.
133) United Nations Development programme (UNDP) Human
Development Report 2015 released
Three Based
1) Income 2) Age 3)
Literacy
First time it was
introduced by Mehbub Ul haq and Amartya Sen in 1990
Title Work for Human
Development in Ethiopia.
In the 2015 report,
India with a score of 0.609 has been ranked 130 out
of 188 countries in terms of Human Development Index (HDI). In the 2014
report, India was ranked 135 out of 187
countries.
134) Radha Krishna Mathur
was appointed as the 8th Chief
Information Commissioner (CIC) The post had fallen vacant after Vijai
Sharma completed his tenure on 1 December 2015. Term is 65 Years
12-10-2005 RTI Act
135) 100 years Completed
Mumbai’s iconic ‘Marine Drive’
The official name of the
road is Netaji Subhash Chandra Road, though it is used very rarely is also
known as the Queen’s Necklace because
136) Maruti and Suzuki Under
this agreement Suzuki’s its first car plant
will be established at Hansalpur-Near
Mehsana (Gujarat)
Maruti Company at Gurgaon
and in Manesar, which together manufacture 15.5 lakh cars.
137) The 50th Annual Conference of the Directors General of Police (DGPs) and Inspector
General of Police (IGP) of all States and
Union Territories was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Dhordo (Kutch, Gujarat)
This annual conference was held in Delhi
every year till 2013. Last year, conference was organised at Guwahati, Assam.
138) The United States lifted
a 40-year-old ban on export of crude oil by President
Barack Obama
139) The 2015 Indian
Super League (ISL) for football won by Chennaiyin FC against Goa FC by 3-2. Final held at the Jawaharlal Nehru
Stadium at Fatorda (Goa) on 20 December 2015.
140) The 10th
Ministerial Conference of the World Trade
Organization (WTO) held at Nairobi (Kenya) UNEP-
Director-General Roberto
Azevêdo
Liberia (163) African country & Afghanistan
(164) was formally included as a member of the WTO at its 10th Ministerial
Conference
141) Miss World 2015 held at Sanya (China) won by Mireia
Lalaguna Royo (Spain)
142) PFRDA switches to
PAN for online enrolment under NPS
143) India's biggest wildlife
rescue centre commissioned in Nagpur
144) Jeff Williams
appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Apple Inc
145) 2nd World Internet
Conference concluded in Wuzen, China
146) US Federal Reserve
Board/Bank Chairwoman Janet Yellen
147) Jaduguda in East
Singhbhum district of Jharkhand uranium mine.
Uranium Research Centre
Jaduguda
148) International
Migrants Day 18 December 2015. From
1990.
149) Indian-origin
official Sanjay Pradhan to lead Open Government
Partnership mission to promote government transparency,
accountability and responsiveness to citizens.
OGP launched on 20 September 2011, when the 8 founding governments (Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico,
Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United
States) endorsed the Open Government Declaration, and announced their country
action plans.
150) Sahitya Akademi
awards announced in 23 languages.
151) AP Shah Committee appointed to look into ONGC, RIL
dispute on Krishna Godavari gas fields
In the Krishna-Godavari
Basin, ONGC owns Krishna Godavari basin KG-DWN-98/2 (KG-D5) and the
Godavari-PML gas fields. These two fields are connected with Dhirubhai-1 and 3
(D1 & D3) fields located in the KG-DWN-98/3 (KG-D6) Block of RIL. In 2014,
the ONGC contended that RIL’s fields were being enriched due to migration of
gas from its idle fields. Against this backdrop, the Union Government appointed
the US-based consultant DeGolyer and MacNaughton (D&M) to look into the
matter.
D&M, which submitted
its report on 30 November 2015, concluded that out of the 58.68 billion cubic
meters (bcm) of gas produced from KG-D6 block between 1 April 2009 and 31 March
2015, 49.69 bcm belongs to RIL and the rest 8.981 bcm could have come from
ONGC’s fields.
152) President Pranab
Mukherjee earns Garwood Award for Outstanding Global Leader in Open Innovation
by The University of California
153) Indian Oil Corporation limited (IOCL), India’s
largest oil refinery.
SONIC BG-MR
154) India is 97th out
of 144 nations on Forbes’ annual list of the best countries for business in
2015
155) China launched the country’s first space telescope in search for signals of dark matter
156) India became largest remittances receiving country
in 2015: World Bank
72 billion
US dollars, China at 64 billion US
dollars.
Largest Remittance
receiving from GCC-Gulf Cooperative council
157) The first
cable-stayed bridge of north India connectivity between Jammu and Kashmir,
Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, is situated at Basholi (Kathua, JK)
592 m long cable-stay
bridge was started in September 2011
158) 30 June 2016 new deadline for exchanging pre-2005
currency notes
159) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) sixth consecutive
time topped the Fortune 500 List of Indian companies for 2015 with an annual
revenue of Rs. 4,51,911 crore.
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries
Limited (RIL) was second in the list with full-year revenue of Rs. 3,82,565 crore.
Tata Motors with a
revenue of Rs. 2,67,025 crore
160) ‘Rayani Air’ is the
name of Malaysia’s first Islamic airline that offers Shariah compliant services
including prayers before take-off, no on-flight serving of alcohol or meals
with pork and a strict dress code for female flight attendants.
161) INS Godavari first indigenously designed and built
warship of the Indian Navy that was decommissioned
in Mumbai built by Mazagon Dock Limited in
Mumbai,
162) ICC award 2015
– ICC Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers
Trophy) – Steve Smith (Australia)
– ICC Test Cricketer of
the Year – Steve Smith (Australia)
– ICC ODI Cricketer of
the Year – AB de Villiers (South Africa)
– ICC Women’s ODI
Cricketer of the Year – Meg Lanning (Australia)
– ICC Women’s T20
Cricketer of the Year – Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)
– ICC T20 Performance of
the Year – Faf du Plessis (South Africa) (119, 56 balls, 11×4, 5×6 – 2nd T20I
vs. West Indies, 11 January 2015, Johannesburg)
– ICC Emerging Cricketer
of the Year – Josh Hazlewood (Australia)
– ICC
Associate/Affiliate Cricketer of the Year – Khurram Khan (UAE)
– ICC Spirit of Cricket
Award – Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)
– ICC Umpire of the Year
(David Shepherd Trophy) – Richard Kettleborough (England)
163) FAME stands for – Faster Adoption and
Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles was launched in April 2015.
164) Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code 2015 It fixes a time limit of 180 days (extendable by a further
90 days) for completion of the corporate insolvency-resolution process
Now takes between five
and 15 years for lenders to recover money in the event of corporate default.
165) Slovenia rejected same-sex marriage in the country in a referendum
held in the country
same-sex marriages,
including Britain, France and Spain,
166) Miss Universe 2015 Pia
Wurtzbach (Philippines), held at the AXIS Theater, Las Vegas (USA)
Miss World 2015 Mireia Lalaguna
Royo (Spain) at Sanya (China)
167) Veteran actress
Sadhana passes away in Mumbai
168) 24 December, National consumer day that day
adopted Consumer Protection Act, 1986
169) Bharti Airtel ,Vodafone
& Idea, Reliance had launched 4G services in India.
170) Bihar Government
banned 15-year-old diesel vehicles from plying on Patna roads
171) UN adopted
resolution to observe 5 November as World
Tsunami Awareness Day
Great East Japan
Earthquake and Tsunami of 11 March 2011. It
claimed over 15000 lives,
On 26 December 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami claimed some 230000
lives which had its epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
172) SC directed State
and UT Governments to consider acid-attack victims under Disabled Quota
173) Juvenile Justice (Care
and Protection of Children) Bill, 2015
Bill permits juveniles
between the ages of 16-18 years to be tried as adults for heinous offences.
The Bill replaces the
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.
174) Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar approved Patna Metro Rail project
Lucknow Metro Rail
Project Phase-1A
175) Philippines became
first Asian country to approve world's first-ever dengue vaccine Dengvaxia
176) Zimbabwe announced to adopt Chinese currency Yuan
177) Pawan Kumar Agarwal
appointed as CEO of FSSAI food regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI).
He succeeded Yudhvir
Singh Malik, who was shifted as Additional Secretary in Niti Aayog in September
2015. Malik is believed to be the man behind the ban on global giant Nestles
popular noodle brand Maggi, which has now been removed.
178) International Tennis Federation announced winners
of 2015 World Champions
Men’s World Champion - Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Women’s World Champion -
Serena Williams (the USA)
Men’s Doubles World
Champions - Jean-Julien Rojer (Netherlands) & Horia Tecau (Romania)
Women’s
Doubles World Champions -
Martina Hingis (Switzerland) & Sania Mirza (India)
ITF Junior World
Champions - Dalma Galfi (Hungary) & Taylor Fritz (the USA)
ITF Wheelchair World
Champions - Jiske Griffioen (Netherlands) & Shingo Kunieda (Japan)
179) Odisha Government
launched Anwesha scheme to provide free education to SC/ST students
180) American aerospace
company SpaceX successfully launched and landed Falcon 9 rocket
181) 22 December celebrated National
Mathematics Day. Birth anniversary of great Indian Mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan. (1887-1920)
182) Maharashtra becomes
first state to allow MLAs raise online question
183) Hinduja Brothers received
lifetime achievement award at Asian Business Leadership Forum 2015
184) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd
(ICBC) becomes the Tata Group’s strategic banking partner
185) ‘Raiwind Palace’ Sharif’s residence near Lahore. Where
meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz
Sharif
186) Financial Inclusion committee headed by Deepak
Mohanty (Executive Director, RBI)
Base Rate /PLR-1972
Banks have to step up account opening for
women
Union Govt. should consider a welfare
scheme (Sukanya Shiksha) for promoting financial inclusion of women that can be
jointly funded by the Central and State governments
Need for better use of the mobile banking
facility for Government-to-Person (G2P) payments, and this would push
government in its financial inclusion drive
A unique biometric identifier such as
Aadhaar be linked to each individual credit account and the information should
be shared with credit information companies
Commercial banks in India must be enabled
to open specialised interest-free windows (primarily for Islamic banking) with
simple products
The committee pressed for digitisation of
land records to increase formal credit to all agrarian segments
187) subsidised LPG will not be given to a consumer
whose annual taxable income is more than Rs. 10 lakh will apply from – 1
January 2016
188) Pro Wrestling
League (PWL)
189) Reliance Jio
launched 4G telecom service
190) VS Malimath was Chairman of the Central Administrative Tribunal-CAT (A-323A),
member of the National Human Rights Commission of India-NHRC. He headed the
Committee on Reform of Criminal Justice System died
191) indigenously
developed Air-to-Air missile Astra
successfully test fired
Integrated Test Range
(ITR), Balasore.
PATNA Missile
192) China amended One
Couple, One Child Policy (1978)
193) PM inaugurates new
building of Afghanistan Parliament in Kabul
He also named one block
of Parliament as Atal Block after former
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
194) Seychelles Govt allows India to build Naval Base on its Assumption
Island
India’s first Naval Base
project has acquired significance following China acquiring its first African
naval base in Djibouti (near Horn of Africa) in November 2014.
195) Former Wicket-Keeper
Syed Kirmani nominated for 2015 Col. CK
Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
196) Good Governance/ABVP/MMM/ Day 25 December
197) Ujwal DISCOM
Assurance Yojana (UDAY) is the financial turnaround and revival package for
electricity distribution companies of India (DISCOMs) initiated by the
Government of India with the intent to find a permanent solution to the
financial mess that the power distribution is in.
However eleven states
have joined the scheme with Andhra Pradesh was the first state to join.Other
states that have given their in-principle approval are : Gujarat, Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Recently 4 other states
have joined the scheme. The 4 states are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and
Maharashtra thereby making the total of 15 states to have joined the scheme.
198) Amitabh Kant new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
the NITI Aayog He will replace Sindhushree Khullar
199) Raghuveer Chaudhari was selected for conferment of
51th Jnanpith Award for Gujarati
Raghuveer Chaudhari,
thus became the 51 writer overall and fourth Gujarati literary artist to
receive the prestigious award. His most noted works include novels ‘Amruta‘ and
‘Uparvas’
Gujarati writers who have won the award before Chaudhari are poet Umashankar
Joshi (1967), novelist Pannalal Patel (1985) and poet Rajendra Shah (2001).
Jnanpith Award is considered the highest
literary award in India. It was instituted in 1961 while first award was given
in 1965 to G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam writer).
It is presented by the
Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of
the newspaper The Times of India.
200) India’s rank in
World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business is 130 out
of 189
201) Cabinet clears
formation of JVs between Indian Railways and states for rail infrastructure
projects.
202) WHO officially declared
Guinea Ebola-free
203) Navy successfully
test fires Barak (Rays)-8 (Israel) long
range missile from INS Kolkata
204) Gujarat clinched
maiden Vijay Hazare Cricket Trophy against Delhi
-2015
205) North Korea claimed
to have successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb
test
206) Exception Tamil
Nadu all States are on board for implementing the National Food Security Act by
April 2016
207) Ujwal Discom
Assurance Yojana (UDAY) reforms for state-owned power distribution companies
Jharkhand, Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra , Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu &
Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana,
Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
208) Pranav Dhanawade, the opening batsman of Smt KC
Gandhi School (Kalyan), scored an unbeaten 1009 off 323 balls, a knock which
comprised 129 fours and 59 sixes against Arya Gurukul School.
209) Two Indian cities,
Delhi (24) and Mumbai (22), made it to the top-30 list of the World’s most
powerful, productive and connected cities prepared by international real estate
consultancy JLL.
210) Justice RM Lodha (former Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court) The three-member Supreme Court-appointed committee on reforms in the
BCCI and the Indian cricket administration
Important
Recommendations of Lodha Committee
Legalization of betting in the country,
Grant of Limited autonomy for IPL Governing Council, Separate governing bodies
for the IPL and BCCI, Only one person per post. No proxy voting of individuals
allowed, No BCCI office-bearer can be Minister or government servant, A steering
committee headed by former Home Secretary G K Pillai with Mohinder Amarnath,
Diana Eduljee, The constitution and establishment of a players association, The
report will now be considered by the bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur
at a later stage.
211) United Jihad
Council (UJC) claimed the responsibility for the Pathankot airbase attack
212) India won the 2015
South Asian Football Federation Cup (SAFF Cup) by against Afghanistan by 2-1, India
won Seven times (1993, 1997, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2011 and now 2015)
213) the 103rd edition (2016) of the Indian Science
Congress (ISC) was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi University of
Mysore (Mysuru) ISC since
214) Tumakuru
(Karanataka) new helicopter unit of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was
laid
215) The second edition
of Premier Badminton League (PBL) kicked-off
The 6 teams
participating in PBL 2016 are Awadhe Warriors (Lucknow), Bengaluru Topgun
(Bengaluru), Delhi Acers (Delhi), Hyderabad Hunters (Hyderabad), Mumbai Rockets
(Mumbai) and Chennai Smashers (Chennai).
The opening ceremony of PBL 2016 was held at Mumbai
216) SC directed Gujarat
government to make Gujarat State Cooperative Tribunal functional
217) Toilets made mandatory to contest Panchayat polls
in Bihar also in RJ
218) Union Government to
launch River Information System for Inland Waterways
219) India-Nepal Bus
Service resumed after 27 years
The service runs between
Kanchanpur in Nepal, which is close to Banbasa border in Champavat district of
Uttarakhand, and Anand Vihar ISBT in Delhi.
220) The International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC) on 30 December 2015
announced discovery and assignment of elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118.
It was discovered by the
scientists belonging to RIKEN research laboratory in
Japan. (TPSO)
113- ununtrium , Uut
115: ununpentium, Uup.
117: ununseptium, Uus
118- ununoctium, Uuo
221) Department of Posts
formed Kamlesh Chandra Panel on Gramin Dak Sevaks
222) Punjab Government
has announced to set up bio-ethanol refinery in the state to tackle the menace
of wheat and paddy straw burning
it is an alcohol derived
by process of fermentation mostly from carbohydrates of plant produce and
feedstocks. Commonly obtained from crops such as sugarcane, cassava, corn,
potato, beetroot and recently grapes, banana and dates etc. Uses: As a quasi-renewable
energy it can be blended with petrol or diesel making it a sustainable
transport fuel. It can also be used an alternative fuel in manufacturing
processes and cosmetic products etc.
223) India successfully
test-fired indigenously developed MBRL-Multi Barrel rocket launching System Pinaka II at Pokhran
224) Arunima Sinha scaled Mount Aconcagua in Argentina
First female amputee to
climb Mount Everest She is also the first Indian amputee to climb Mount Everest
225) Union Cabinet
approved Stand up India Scheme
Stand up India Scheme to
promote entrepreneurship among Scheduled
Caste/Scheduled Tribes and Women entrepreneurs.
While start up India started for all People.
226) Andhra Bank
launched Immediate Payment Service
National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI)
227) Competition
commission of India-CCI cleared Reliance Capital-Goldman Sachs deal.
243 crore rupees fund of
Goldman Sachs
1) APY now enrolled 12.5 crore
people
2) Till 51 foreign satellite sent by ISRO Entrix
3) Gram
Sanjivini-Initiative by IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited for information to rural
people regarding local mandis & weather by e Portal
4) Project mausam –from 38th conference of world heritage at Qatar
Major object of historical
research regarding cultural,religious & commercial aspects of Indian ocean
5) Spice Route Project
Like spice route connected with Kerala & others 31 worldwide countries 2000
years ago. Now Kerala & Government of India initiative for these
project.
Silk route
between India & China
6) Silver Notice- for control over Black money in world-wide banks
Conference held at ND
for global focal point conference on assets recovery
7) Ek Bharat Shresta
Bharat for unity in diversity especially in states.
8) My District My Plan-literacy mission for 40 to 60
years illiterate population
9) Gyan Setu-Developed by C-DOT
for rural people in Text, Video & Audio
Its significant for
Digital India
10) Health Slate
Technique-its tested 33 types disease lab test
11) Vikram-100
Super computer developed
by ISRO, 300 Tera Bytes, Expense 13 Crore
12) Bhaskar-Weather Computing
information System
13) Nand Ghar Scheme
PPP mode project for
modernization of aanganwadi especially by corporate House.
Vedanta Supported 4000
Aanganwadi co supported by Central Women & Child Development Ministry.
14) New Initiative in Indian Foreign policy
1) Look act Policy (2014) ASEAN Countries.
2) Economic Diplomacy
3) SCO –Shanghai Cooperation Organization
4) India Africa Forum
5) New Development Bank-NDB
6) Public Diplomacy
7) Make in India
8) Digital India
9) Skill India
15) NDA Scheme
1) Banking –
PMJDY ,APY,PM Jivan Jyot Insurance
Scheme (18-50 -12 Rs), PM Suraksa Bima Yojna(18-70-330 Rs), KVP, MUDRA Bank,
Sovereign Gold Bond & Gold Monetization Scheme (2.75) , Sukanya Smirdhi
Yojna
2) Agriculture
Rastiya Gokul Mission, Soil
Health Card Yojna ,PM Krishi Sinchai Yojna ,PMFBM
3) Technical
Digital India Mission, Rastiya
Aavishkar Abhiyan , Make In India, PM Kaushal Vikas Yojna ,Padey Bharat Badey
Bharat ,Din Dayal Antoday Yojna, C-DAC- Param Yuva-2, Meghraj
4) Urban
AMRUT Mission (JNNURM)
5) Rural
SP Mukherjee Rurban Scheme (CG-FEB-16)
6) Religious
PRASAD, HRIDAY,
7) Social
OROP, Pahal (LPG), PM kanij
Kalyan Scheme, Suvidha Train, Sugmay Bharat Abhiyan (Dec-2015) for 26 Million
Handicapped (Divyang) people, AMRIT-Affordable
Medicines & Reliable Implants for Treatment)
8) Education
E-Basta Scheme
9) Oceans
Sagarmala Project , Setu
Samundram (Mar-16)
10) Administration
Sevottam, NeGP, SWAN, ,
E-taal, FOSS (Free & open Sources Software, TIDE-Technology Incubation
& Development of Entrepreneur, ITRA-Information Technology Research Academy.
16) Digital Banking
& Women Empowerment
Meaning, Significant
& Barriers
17) On June 30, 2008, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh released India’s first National Action Plan
on Climate Change (NAPCC-2008-17) outlining existing and future policies
and programs addressing climate mitigation and adaptation. The plan identifies Eight
core “national missions” running through 2017 and directs ministries to
submit detailed implementation plans to the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate
Change by December 2008.
Emphasizing the
overriding priority of maintaining high economic growth rates to raise living
standards, the plan “identifies measures that promote our development
objectives while also yielding co-benefits for addressing climate change
effectively.” It says these national
measures would be more successful with assistance from developed countries, and
pledges that India’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions “will at no point
exceed that of developed countries even as we pursue our development
objectives.”
National Missions
National
Solar Mission: The NAPCC aims to
promote the development and use of solar energy for power generation and other
uses with the ultimate objective of making solar competitive with fossil-based
energy options. The plan includes:
Specific goals for increasing use of solar
thermal technologies in urban areas, industry, and commercial establishments;
A goal of increasing production of
photovoltaics to 1000 MW/year; and
A goal of deploying at least 1000 MW of
solar thermal power generation.
Other objectives include the establishment
of a solar research center, increased international collaboration on technology
development, strengthening of domestic manufacturing capacity, and increased
government funding and international support.
2) National
Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency:
Current initiatives are expected to yield savings of 10,000 MW by 2012. Building on the Energy Conservation Act 2001,
the plan recommends:
Mandating specific energy consumption
decreases in large energy-consuming industries, with a system for companies to
trade energy-savings certificates;
Energy incentives, including reduced taxes
on energy-efficient appliances; and
Financing for public-private partnerships
to reduce energy consumption through demand-side management programs in the
municipal, buildings and agricultural sectors.
3) National Mission on Sustainable Habitat: To
promote energy efficiency as a core component of urban planning, the plan calls
for:
Extending the existing Energy Conservation
Building Code;
A greater emphasis on urban waste
management and recycling, including power production from waste;
Strengthening the enforcement of automotive
fuel economy standards and using pricing measures to encourage the purchase of
efficient vehicles; and
Incentives for the use of public
transportation.
4) National Water Mission: With water scarcity
projected to worsen as a result of climate change, the plan sets a goal of a
20% improvement in water use efficiency through pricing and other measures.
5) National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem: The
plan aims to conserve biodiversity, forest cover, and other ecological values
in the Himalayan region, where glaciers that are a major source of India’s
water supply are projected to recede as a result of global warming.
6) National Mission for a “Green India”: Goals
include the afforestation of 6 million hectares of degraded forest lands and
expanding forest cover from 23% to 33% of India’s territory.
7) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture: The
plan aims to support climate adaptation in agriculture through the development
of climate-resilient crops, expansion of weather insurance mechanisms, and
agricultural practices.
8) National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate
Change: To gain a better understanding of climate science, impacts and
challenges, the plan envisions a new Climate Science Research Fund, improved
climate modeling, and increased international collaboration. It also encourage private sector initiatives
to develop adaptation and mitigation technologies through venture capital
funds.
Other
Programs
The NAPCC also describes
other ongoing initiatives, including:
Power Generation: The government is
mandating the retirement of inefficient coal-fired power plants and supporting
the research and development of IGCC and supercritical technologies.
Renewable Energy: Under the Electricity Act
2003 and the National Tariff Policy 2006, the central and the state electricity
regulatory commissions must purchase a certain percentage of grid-based power
from renewable sources.
Energy Efficiency: Under the Energy
Conservation Act 2001, large energy-consuming industries are required to
undertake energy audits and an energy labeling program for appliances has been
introduced.
Implementation
Ministries with lead
responsibility for each of the missions are directed to develop objectives,
implementation strategies, timelines, and monitoring and evaluation criteria,
to be submitted to the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change. The Council
will also be responsible for periodically reviewing and reporting on each
mission’s progress. To be able to quantify progress, appropriate indicators and
methodologies will be developed to assess both avoided emissions and adaptation
benefits.
19) Earth Over Shoot Day it means used earth Natural Resources in Year
20) Nuclear tie up with
Australia ‘
21) 15 years of Human completed at International Space Centre-ISS
22) 3 Gold scheme introduced
GMS, (Replaced Gold Deposit Scheme 1999)
Gold Sovereign Bond
Gold Coin Scheme
23) Bhuvan Alternative of Google Earth
24) GTI-Global Terrorist
Index (impact of terrorist in Country)
Iraq-1
Afg-2
Nigeria-3
India-6
25) Refugee &
Migration-Immigration
Dublin 2013 Guidelines
for Refugee
26) Gender Inequality Index-127/142 by UNDP
27) Moscow declaration
for supporting multilateral science projects.
28) Banks free to fix
interest rates on gold schemes
29) NIIF-National
Investment & Infrastructure Fund 20k Fund. 49% Private
30) China sent
communication satellite “Chinasat 2C”
31) Sendai Framework for Disaster reduction.
32) Kenya first in
financial inclusion report India is 9th amongst in 21 countries.
33) 36740 Mw Renewable
energy capacity
23762 Mw Solar Power 1lk target for 2022
4060 Mw Wind 65K till 2022
319 Total Private Investors
15 Total PSUs
34) Largest Forest
Largest % Mizoram (88.93), LD (84.56) ANI (81.84) ACP
(80.30) Total 21.34%
Least %-PB (3.52) HR
(3.58) RJ (4.73)
Areas Wise-MP (77462) ACP (67248) OR (50354)
Least –D&D (19.61) CH (22.3) HR (1584) PB (1771)
32.87 Lakh
Total Areas 21.34% Total
Forest Areas in India
35) Green Bond Money used for environmental
Project
Bond
Means Sponsor giving Interest to investor
money
Masala Bond-issued in Foreign
Country by Indian Companies.
Inflation
Indexed Bond (inflation will not influenced)
Money matured in Rupees
not in Dollar (also not influenced by Dollar Fluctuation) Income Tax reduced 20% to 5%
36)
37) Command Exit Policy in Defence-for promotion after
Kargil war Committee advised 1999
38) Digital Motion
Sickness (DMS) - Cyber sickness
39) Lisa Pathfinder launch from Koreau French Guiana
inquiry for Gravitational waves by NASA
40) Dr TK Visvanathan committee-
Bankruptcy reform Committee.
41) First Bi Monthly Report published in April 2015 (every 2
Months)
42) No Detention Policy
–Any students can’t promote in next class if secured less marks in last class
New Delhi Government.
43) National Institute
of Pharmaceutical Education & Research –NIPER
will open at Jhalawar (RJ)
44) “Ek Kadam Unnati Ki
or” initiative by Intel for Digital India.
45) Food security act
started in Telangana, Odisha, Assam
46) Kerala India’s first
states issued transgender policy
47) Phool Walon Ki Sair
festivals in New Delhi
48) Duggar Folk Culture
at JK
49) Sunil Kanoria
–Appointed ASSOCHAM president.
50) 20 Years completed
of Deaton agreement which end war between Bosnia & Herzegovina
51) AMRIT-Affordable Medicines & Reliable Implants
for Treatment)
52) 70 million hectare
grassland area in 1947 now is 38 million Hectare areas
World largest livestock in India 512
millions
53) OCI Advised by LM
Singhvi Committee (2005)
54) Male Iceland -81.2 Years Female-87 Japan
55) MTCR-Missile
Technology Control Regime
56) SCOMAT-Special
Chemical Organization Materials Equipment & Technology
57) ICGS-Indian Coast Guard Ship
58) 12 SAF-South Asian
Federation Secretariat at Shilong
59) First Dolphin Research Centre at Hugli River (WB)
60) Bio Ethanol Refineries set up at Panipat (PB)
61) Orissa first state
to set up Climate Change Action plan
Department in Gujarat
62) Green India Mission 2011 started by MZ, MN, KR, JR
63) Human Made Forest set up Mulaya Kathori (by Jadav
Payang at Mazali Island in AS)
64) EAG-Empowered Action Group -8 states under mission
BR-JR-MP-CG, UP-UK-OR-RJ
65) NITYAM- NITI Initiative To Yield Aspiration
Targets & Actionable Means for review of Administrative
Efficiency & welfare programme.
66) Adam Eve fruit was
–Eram Maculatam (like Apple)
67) Cooperative advised
by stretchy commission 1904 During Lord
Curzon
68) Nitrous Oxide major reason of Smog (Smoking+ Fog)
69) Begam Ezaz Rasool
Single Muslim woman CA members in 12 WM
70) Swach Rajasthan Mission
2003
71) Coral (MH) Wet Land (JK)
72) America not signed over Kyoto protocol
73) Road classification
advised by Nagpur plan
74) Jalianwala Bagh (1919) Committee Headed by Motilal
Nehru Committee
Set up Congress while British Set up hunter Commission.
75) 1818-BEIC agreement
with Mewr & Marwar
Sawai jaysingh set up
Jantar Mantar at JPR, Mathura, ND, Ujjain,
Varanasi
76) Operation Vijay-Goa,
DNH, DD /Kargil 1999
Operation Polo—Hyderabad
Operation Pavan-peace
forces in Srilanka by India
Operation
Megdoot/Cactus-Siachin Glaciers 1962
77) Japanese proposal to build country’s first bullet train line, which will
be one of India’s biggest foreign investments in its infrastructure sector. is
the $14.7 billion
505-km (315-mile)
Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor offering to cut travel time to two hours from the
current seven to eight hours.
79) Delhi has the highest
per capita income in India during 2014-15 Rs. 2,40,849
Puducherry Rs 1, 75,006,
Haryana at Rs 1, 47,076
during 2014-15.
80) Telangana Country’s
first anti-piracy police unit is being established Telangana Intellectual
Property Crime Unit (TIPCU) Specially cyber-crime police, state IT ministry,
internet service providers, the Telugu film industry, legal experts and
financial experts.
TIPCU is modeled on
London’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and is being seen as
critical for the Telugu film market, which is the second-largest in South India
after the Tamil film industry.
Every year, 1,500-2,000
films are produced in India, losing up to 30% of their business to piracy.
81) Self-Employment and Talent Utilisation (SETU)
set up by the Union Govt. for start-up businesses and
other self- employment activities
India Aspiration Fund
(IAF) under the Small Industries Development Bank of India with a capital of
Rs. 2,000 crore to give a boost to start—up ecosystem in the country.
82) I-LTEO- Indian Long
Term Ecological Observatories
8-different biomes
(natural landscapes) across the country. The I-LTEO will cover the Western
Himalayas to Western Ghats, Eastern Himalayas to Andaman and Nicobar islands,
central India to the Sundarbans and from Jammu and Kashmir to Rajasthan and
Gujarat.
Initiative launched
according to COP-21 Paris Climate Change Conference.
Supported natural
landscape, grassland, mammals, birds, fishes, insects etc.
83) The Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process was established
to provide a platform to discuss regional issues, particularly encouraging
security, political, and economic cooperation among Afghanistan and its
neighbors. This region-led dialogue was launched in November 2011
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