1) A Russian airliner
carrying 217 passengers and seven crew
members crashed resulting in death of all persons on-board. A militant group
affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for downing of this
plane. This crash took place in Egypt
2) The 2015 Rugby World
Cup (Men) was won by New Zealand against Australia
Rugby World Cup was
played at London’s Twickenham Stadium
3) Shaktikanta Das government
official was nominated in the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
by the Union Government
RBI’s Central Board is the highest body of
the RBI which takes decisions with regard to general direction of RBI policies.
It is headed by the RBI Governor and has 21 members altogether. Four Deputy
Governors of the RBI and two representatives of the Ministry of Finance are
also part of this elite body.
4) Indian Railway on 1
November 2015 launched a new pilot scheme ‘Vikalp’ under
scheme waitlisted passengers can get confirmed accommodation in next
alternative train if they opt for the option while booking their tickets
online.
It has initially been
launched on a pilot basis on two sectors – Delhi-Lucknow
and Delhi-Jammu.
Vikalp scheme will be
available only for the tickets booked through
internet for six months and option will be limited to mail and express
trains on the two selected sectors.
Passenger, if opts for the Vikalp scheme
while booking tickets online, will get SMS alert on their mobile phone about
getting confirmed accommodation in alternative train. Railway aims to achieve
the twin objectives of providing confirmed accommodation to waitlisted
passengers and ensure optimal utilisation of available accommodation by this
scheme.
5) Diplomatic solution
to end the Syrian civil war were held at
Vienna (Austria)
11 countries met at
Vienna These 11 countries were – the United
States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Qatar, Lebanon, France,
Britain and Germany. Representatives of the European Union also took part in
the talks.
6) CPI (M) is planning to launch a call-taxi service on the lines of cab aggregators
like Uber, Ola and Meru with the objective
of providing job opportunities to taxi drivers
7) Seven Naxal-affected States are 1) Chhattisgarh, 2) Jharkhand, 3) Bihar, 4) Andhra
Pradesh, 5) Maharashtra, 6) Odisha and 7) Telangana
Cobra Battalion (CRPF),
Salva Judum ,Operation Green Hunt were Started by CG.
8) Mysuru (Karnataka) became
the first visually-challenged-friendly Railway station in India (Braille technique)
9) Google is poised to ‘Project Loon’ and Drone based partner BSNL on a pilot project for providing
Internet connectivity by using large balloons. which uses big balloons floating
at a height of 20 kilometres above earth
surface for transmission of Internet services
It has already tested
this technology in New Zealand, California (the
U.S.) and Brazil.
As per Google, each balloon can provide
connectivity to a ground area about 40 km in diameter using a wireless
communications technology called LTE or 4G. One
major advantage of this project will be that it will not require mobile towers for Internet transmission.
10) Sundar Raman controversial Chief Operating Officer
(COO) of the Indian Premier League (IPL) who
resigned from his post on 3 November 2015
11) The applications for
these bonds will be accepted from 5 November to 20 November 2015 by the RBI.
The bonds will be issued from 26 November 2015.
Investors can buy a minimum of 2 units or 2 grams and a maximum at 500 grams per fiscal
year. Investors will get a fixed rate of interest of 2.75% per annum
(payable every 6 months) on the initial value of investment.
The bonds have a maturity period of 8 years, with exit option from the fifth
year. Holdings can be redeemed in multiples of one gram.
12) Justice Tirath Singh Thakur will be the 43rd Chief
Justice of India (CJI),
4 January 2017.
13) World Economic Forum’s (WEF) India summit was
inaugurated by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at New
Delhi theme is ‘Delivering Growth in the New Context’
The participants deliberated on forces of
change in India in the context of five of WEF’s global challenges – a)
agriculture and food security, b) environment and resource security, c)
employment, skills and human capital, d) long-term investing, infrastructure
and urban development and e) financial inclusion.
14) T-Hub, a start-up ever largest till in India
incubator built on a public private partnership (PPP)
model, was inaugurated by industrialist Ratan Tata at Hyderabad for
giving motivation push to start-ups
‘T-Hub’ is a PPP (public-private
partnership) between the Government of Telangana,
IIIT-Hyderabad, ISB and NALSAR and key private sector leaders.
15) Impacting Research
Innovation and Technology- IMPRINT India, an
initiative to develop a road map for research to solve major engineering and
technology challenges in 10 technology domains relevant for the country, was
launched by President Pranab Mukherjee This is a joint initiative of IISc
(Bangalore) and 5 IITs
These 10 areas include
health care, information and communication technology, energy, sustainable
habitat, nano-technology hardware, water resources and river systems, advanced
materials, manufacturing, security & defence and environment & climate.
5 IITs involved in this initiative are –
IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay.
16) Suryoday that aims to provide safe, affordable,
and quality solar lights to people with limited or no access to electricity in
rural parts of Rajasthan
17) Himachal Pradesh became the first state in North
India launched the RISHTA project, an
efficient smart LED based street lighting project to
RISHTA- Rajiv Gandhi Illuminating Scheme for Hill Town
Advancement
18) Rajasthan Government
launched the initiative “Annapurna Bhandar Yojna” is a public private
partnership (PPP) scheme.
19) Arogya Rajasthan campaign scheme launched by Rajasthan
government that will help in collection and compilation of health data of the
rural population in the state.
20) Haryana state government will be the first to have
disaster management plans for all its districts
21) PM Narendra Modi
launched three gold related schemes
Gold Monetization Scheme,
Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme and
Indian Gold Coins.
22) Forbes list of
World's Most Powerful People 2015 released
Russian President Vladimir Putin for the third
year in a row.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Rank 2)
President Barack Obama (Rank 3)
Narendra Modi Ninth
23) Jitu Rai won silver in 13th Asian Shooting
Championship at Kuwait City.
24) Operation Sophia by European Union It is against human smugglers and traffickers
in the Mediterranean Sea
25) Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) is expected
to take 10 percent stake in Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India
or TAPI
26) Nestle from Switzerland
27) Hindi is largest
spoken Indian language in the United States,
with nearly 6.5 lakh people speaking
28) Maharashtra
Government approves APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna for
pregnant and lactating women in the tribal areas of
the state. The scheme aims at providing at least one full hot cooked
nutritious food to every pregnant lady and lactating mother.
29) Impose AFSPA in Garo Hills: Meghalaya High Court
The Meghalaya High Court
has asked the Centre to consider enforcing Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act,
1958 (AFSPA) in militancy-hit
Garo Hills region in the state to help the administration restore the rule of
law.
30) Punjabi became third
most common language in Parliament of Canada
After English and French.
31) Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Arinjay commissioned in
Kochi
32) Economist Subir Gokaran has been appointed as an Executive
Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
33) Swachh Bharat 0.5% Cess
on all services from 15 November 2015.
34) 85 (out of 175 countries)
India’s rank in the recently released Transparency International’s Corruption
Perceptions Index for 2014
India was assigned a
score of 38 points out of maximum score of 100.
The Index rated Denmark as the least corrupt country with a score
of 92. Somalia and North
Korea jointly have been rated as the most corrupt countries with scores
of eight.
On a scale from 0 (highly
corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Corruption Perceptions Index measures the
perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide based on “expert opinion”
from around the world.
35) A new electric locomotive factory set up at Madhepura (Bihar)
Diesel
Locomotive Factory (DLF) at Marhowra (District
Saran) in Bihar.
36) Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval
limit from Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 5,000 crore for
FDI.
37) RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan was elected as the Vice-Chairman of the Bank
of International Settlement (BIS) Basel is
BIS headquarter
Basel Norms concern with
banking Regulation its prepared by BCBS
Basel
Committee on Banking Supervision.
38) Anup Chetia founding member of and its general
secretary of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)
In a major breakthrough the Bangladesh Government handed over a very prominent
ULFA leader to India
39) Bihar Assembly
Elections 2015 (Total Seats 243)
JD (U) Combine – 178 JD
(U) – 71, RJD – 80, Congress – 27
BJP Combine – 58 BJP – 53, LJP – 2, RLSP – 2, HAM – 1
Others – 7
40) Country’s first openly contested national election after 25
years (1990) was held Aung San Suu Kyi’s party emerged as the winner (National League for Democracy (NLD)
41) Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free by the World
Health Organization (WHO) still affected country is Guinea
Ebola epidemic in West Africa primarily affected three
countries – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (LSG)
42) Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had
banned Maggi noodles, saying it was unsafe and hazardous for consumption after
finding lead beyond permissible limits. The company had soon withdrawn the
noodles brand from the market.
43) Y. Ramakrishna Reddy
and Lakshmi Kanta Reddy, two amateur archaeologists, discovering rock paintings belonging to Mesolithic periods at Kadapa
Andhra Pradesh.
44) Union Government
issued notification for implementation of OROP
Features of OROP scheme -
• Pension will be
re-fixed for all pensioners retiring in the same rank and with the same length
of service as the average of minimum and maximum pension in 2013.
• The benefit will be
given with effect from 1 July 2014 to the ex-service men of all the three
forces.
• Those drawing pensions
above the average will be protected.
• In future, the pension
would be re-fixed every 5 years.
• Arrears will be paid
in four half-yearly instalments.
• All widows, including
war widows, will be paid arrears in one instalment.
• Personnel who
voluntarily retire will not be covered under the scheme.
• The estimated cost to
the exchequer would be 8000 to 10000 crore
at present, and will increase further in future.
45) Supreme Court upheld
Kerala Government’s ban on online lotteries case
in which Sikkim Government is also one of
the petitioners opposing the ban.
46) World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Montreal Canada
47) Nirbhay is India's first two stage, all-weather,
low-cost, long-range (150 KM) cruise missile
capable of carrying conventional and nuclear war
heads developed by the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO)
48) Arvind Panagariya
Committee (VC of NC) oversee the revival of three
urea plants
49) Japan has offered to
finance Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor estimated to cost about Rs
90,000 crore at an interest rate of less than one per cent
50) The World Science
Day for Peace and Development observed on 10
November
National
Science Day-28 Feb (Raman effects)
From UNESCO and the International Council for Science
in Budapest (Hungary) in 1999.
51) India re-elected to
UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
In April 2015, the UN
Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC)
elected India to the executive councils of UNICEF
and the World Food Programme, the governing council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Commission
on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
52) Justice Ajit Prakash
Shah (20th CP of LC) appointed as the Ethics Officer (Ombudsman) at BCCI
53) Ministry of Defence launched Army Cloud, Data Centre &
Digi-Locker for the Indian Army Headquarters in New Delhi.
54) India-Russia Joint
Military Exercise Indra-2015 begins in Rajasthan
55) Nuclear capable surface-to-surface Agni-IV missile successfully
test-fired
IGMDP-1983 (Integrated
Guided Missile Development programme)
PATNA Missile-
SLV-3 & Heart Stand
(APJ)
56) Prof Ashok Misra
headed Committee of Eminent Persons (CEP) on
reforms in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
57) What Happened to
Netaji? Authored by former journalist Anuj Dhar
58) Santoor maestro Pt.
Shiv Kumar Sharma honoured with Kala Shikhar award
59) SBI's Arundhati Bhattacharya Most Powerful Woman in
Indian Business: Fortune India
ICICI Bank's Chanda
Kochhar and Shikha Sharma of Axis Bank follow Bhattacharya at the second and
third place, respectively.
60) N Srinivasan removed as ICC Chairman (Dubai)
61) Indigenously made
communications satellite GSAT-15 was
launched successfully by the European Ariane 5
VA-227 launch vehicle from Kourou in French Guyana in South America. The
Ariane-5 rocket was hired at a cost of approximately 581
crores rupees.
The GSAT-15 was launched
into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)
62) Liberian teenager
Abraham M Keita won the 2015 International Children's Peace Prize
63) Former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India Subir
Vithal Gokarn appointed as IMF's Executive Director. Gokarn will replace Rakesh Mohan at the IMF.
Mohan’s three year
tenure ends in November 2015. Gokarn’s name was cleared by Appointments
Committee of Cabinet presided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as per an order
issued by the Department of Personnel and Training.
The former Deputy
Governor of RBI will represent India, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka and Bhutan on IMF's Executive Board. The Board is responsible
for conducting the day-to-day business of the multilateral institution.
IMF's Executive Board is
composed of 24 Directors, who are elected by member countries or by groups of
countries, and the Managing Director, who serves as its Chairman. The Board
conducts its meeting several times in a week and carries out its work largely
on the basis of papers prepared by IMF management and staff.
64) Annual Hundred Drums Wangala Festival begins in Meghalaya
It is a thanks giving
ceremony to Misi Saljong, which is also known as Pattigipa Ra-rongipa (The
Great Giver) for blessing the people with rich harvest of the season.
65) Documentary on
Malala Yousafzai directed by Davis Guggenheim
66) China’s President
recently meet with Taiwan President after 66 years
Chinese President Xi
Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou
67) Metro Man Elattuvalapil Sreedharan was appointed
to serve the United Nations’ High Level Advisory
Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST
68) MSF-Marginal Standing Facility
69) Facebook website
remains the most popular social networking site in India with 51 per cent of
users logging on daily
70) Rajasthan government
launched the Agro-Processing and Agri-Marketing Promotion Policy 2015
The policy aims to
promote agro-processing and to reduce post harvest losses at the farm gate thus
ensuring maximum prices of farmer’s agri produce. The state government also
signed 112 MoUs with private companies in different sectors during the launch
of policy.
71) RBI issued Uniform
Guidelines on Internet Banking for Cooperative
Banks
72) The 21st
International Conference on Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications
(INCOFYRA) will be held from 3 to 7 January 2016 at Prashanti Kutiram,
Bengaluru.
73) Heena Sindhu won
gold in 13th Asian Shooting Championship at Kuwait City.
74) India signed a pact
to cooperate on criminal matters with Indonesia
75) Centre for World Natural Heritage Management and Training for
Asia-Pacific region is going to be established at Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in Dehradun,
Uttarakhand
76) 7th BRICS Summit and 14thShanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit held at
Ufa-Russia-2015
77) Social Security Pact
between India and Canada
78) Tanzania’s first
female Vice President Samia Suluhu
79) “Rebooting India” authored by Nandan Nilekani
& Viral Shah released
The book talks about the
demographic dividend of India, which is expected to be the world’s youngest
country by 2020 with 64 percent (roughly 800 million) of its population of
working age.
80) Competitive index 2015-16 is 55
81) ‘India gold coin’ bearing
with Ashok Chakra
82) Start country’s first-ever double decker Shatabdi Express
(1988-100 years completed of JLN Birth) will
Mumbai and Goa
83) PRASAD (National Mission on Pilgrimage
Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive) and Swadesh Darshan schemes of Ministry of Tourism
Were launched to achieve
1 per cent share of international tourist
arrivals by 2016-17 from the present 0.68 per cent.
PRASAD's objective is to
augment religious and spiritual tourism in the country as India is a land of
many religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism,
Jainism and Sufism.
As part of SWADSH DARSHAN scheme, theme based tourism
circuits are identified for infrastructure development across the country.
Theme Based Tourist Circuit (TBTC) is defined as a tourist circuit around
specific themes such as religion, culture, ethnicity, niche, etc. A TBTC could
be confined to a state or could be a regional circuit covering more than a
state or union territory (UT).
84) Governing Council of
National Investment and Infrastructure Fund-NIIF
constituted under the chairmanship of Finance Minister members included
Secretary: DEA, Secretary: Financial Services, Arundhati Bhattacharya, Hemendra
Kothari,T V Mohandas Pai.
The GC was mandated to
consider approval of guidelines for Investment of
Trust property/Corpus of NIIF and parameters for appointment and performance
of investment managers/ advisors among others.
Initial corpus of 20000 crore rupees. It was set up as a fund under
the provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882.
85) VHP leader Ashok Singhal dead
86)
87) Standard Chartered
names Zarin Daruwala as new India CEO
88) Syed Akbaruddin appointed as 20th next
Permanent Representative of India to UN He will replace Asoke Kumar Mukerji who assumed the office in April 2013.
So far, excluding
Akbaruddin, 19 diplomats served as Permanent Representative of India to the UN.
Notable among them are the incumbent Vice President of India
Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1993-95), Brajesh C
Mishra (1979-81), Nirupam Sen (2004-09) and Hardeep Singh Puri (2009-13)
among others.
89) Patanajali Ayurved launched
Atta noodles & aimed to take on Nestle’s
Maggi, which will returned to the market after a five-month ban.
90)
91) International Day
for Tolerance observed 16 November
United Nations Year for
Tolerance 1995, proclaimed by the UNGA in 1993. On 16 November 1995, the UNESCO member states adopted the
Declaration of Principles on Tolerance and Follow-up Plan of Action for the
year.
92)
93) Saeed Jaffrey passes
away
94) PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Ambedkar Memorial in London
2017 announced as the UK-India Year of culture
95) Naval Ship
Vishwakarma commissioned
96) Rameswaram former President Dr. Abdul Kalam’s
birth place which has been included in Atal Mission
for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT-14)
for providing basic urban infrastructure.
97) Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay countries
which has been elected as the non-permanent members on the UN Security Council from 2016
98) Indian Institute of Science (IISc-
Bangalore-1909-supporting by- Jamshetji Tata) becoming the first from
the country Top 100 list of the prestigious ‘Times
Higher Education (THE) Ranking for
Engineering & Technology’ list 2015
US institutions Stanford, CalTech and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
were ranked top three in the list.
99) Marriott International Inc. Hotel group will
acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. for $12.2 billion to create the world’s largest hotel
chain
5,500
hotels with 1.1 million rooms worldwide in Europe, Latin America and Asia including India and
China.
100) ‘The Magic of the Lost Temple’, written by Sudha
Murty it was 25 book Sudha Murty,
chairperson of Infosys Foundation and wife of Infosys mentor Narayan Murty is a
prolific writer in Kannada and English.
101) VHP leader Ashok
Singhal passed away. He had organized a mammoth ‘Dharma Sansad’ in Delhi in 1984
and movement for reclaiming the Ram Temple at
Ayodhya in 1992
102) Y. Bhaskar Rao controversial Lokayukta of
Karnataka who is poised to become the first Lokayukta in the country to be
removed from his post by Assembly An alleged extortion racket in his office
that involves his son.
103) Tata Steel’s first integrated plant in India since the iconic
plant in Jamshedpur has been established in Kalinganagar
in Odisha’s Jajpur district. The plant was inaugurated by Odisha Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik on 18 November 2015.
104) Zarin-Daruwala senior ICICI Bank (as a Bank
set up in 1994) woman officer was appointed by Standard Chartered as the CEO of
its India operations. Standard Chartered is the oldest foreign bank in India.
105) Anil Ambani Group’s Reliance Power has exit from Tilaiya Ultra Mega
Power Project (UMPP) (Jharkhand)
The 4,000 MW Tilaiya UMPP was one of the three UMPPs
that were intended to be established by Reliance Power. The other two UMPPs are
Sasan (MP) and Krishnapatnam (AP)
106) The Seventh Pay Commission CP Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur submitted
its report to the Union Govt. hike salaries of the Central Govt. employees by 16%. Commission composed in 2014
The Pay Commission is constituted by the
Central Government every 10 years primarily to revise the pay scale of its
employees.
Important
recommendations of the 7th Pay
Commission:
Recommended Date of implementation: 1 January 2016
Minimum Pay: Rs. 18,000
per month.
Maximum Pay: Rs. 2,25,000
per month (for Apex Scale and Rs. 2,50,000 per month for Cabinet
Secretary)
In percentage terms the overall increase in
pay and allowances and pension will be 23.55%.
Within this the increase in pay will be
16%, increase in allowances will be 63% and increase in pension would be 24%.
1) January, 1946
Srinivasa Varadachariar
2) August 1957,
jagannath Das
3) April, 1970- Raghubir Dayal.
4) June, 1983 P N Singhal
5) April, 1994- S. Ratnavel Pandian.
6) July, 2006 Justice BN
ShriKrishna
107) The Cabinet
Committee on Economic Affairs gave its approval 10% stake sale in Coal India
Limited (CIL) up Rs. 20,000 crore from the disinvestment
This will be third
disinvestment in CIL’s history.
Others disinvestment are
Power Finance Corporation (PFC), Rural Electrification Corporation (REC),
Dredging Corporation and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) – and has earned only
Rs.12,600 crore.
108) 21st
Nations 27th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organised for
12th Nations Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
trade agreement was held Manila (The Philippines)
21 Pacific Rim member
countries that promotes free-trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. It was
established in 1989.
The 21 countries that feature in APEC are –
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines,
Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.
US President Barack Obama and 11 other
world leaders met to reach out to discuss the ambitious Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) trade agreement – a landmark deal that proposes to create the
world’s largest free trade area.
The 12 countries that are involved in TPP
agreement are – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New
Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.
109) 5th time
Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar
Deputy Chief Minister
Tejaswi Pratap Yadav
110) Vijay Kelkar committee (10 Members) reviewing the public-private partnership model (PPP model) of
infrastructure development, has recommended improving the financing of such
projects.
111) Maharashtra become the first state in the country to
enact a law against social boycott (against social boycott of
individuals or families by caste panchayats. The act has recommended seven
years of imprisonment or fine of Rs. 5 lakh or both if the accused is proven guilty.
As per the act, the trial shall be completed within a period of six months from
the date of filing of the charge sheet.
Slain rationalist Narendra Dabholkar too
had picked up the issue before his murder in Pune.
112) 46th International Film Festival of
India (IFFI) 2015 held at Panaji (Goa)
The festival was
inaugurated by actor Anil Kapoor presiding over the opening ceremony as the
chief guest.
Matthew Brown’s “The Man Who Knew Infinity”
was the opening film of the festival, while world’s third Sanskrit film
“Priyamanasam” opened the Indian Panorama section.
Spain has been selected as the Focus
Country at the IFFI-2015.
113) Russia inks deal to
build Egypt’s first nuclear plant at Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast in the
northwest of the country. expected to be completed by 2022.
114) Walmart offers
entrepreneur development programme for women
115) Harshavardhan Neotia elected as President of
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for the year
2016- FICCI
Chairman of Ambuja
Neotia group,
Neotia will succeed the
current FICCI President Jyotsna Suri, Chairperson and Managing Director of
Bharat Hotels Ltd
Harshavardhan Neotia is
the Chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group that covers the entire spectrum of the Real Estate industry including housing,
hospitality, health care and education
116) UN Security Council
(UNSC) approved French-sponsored
resolution (2249 (2015) urging action
against ISIS- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Islamic State in Sousse,
Tunisia and Ankara, Turkey in 2015.
It is the 14th terrorism-related resolution adopted by the UNSC since 1999.
However, the resolution
does not constitute an authorisation for military action because it is not
drafted under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which is the only way the United
Nations can give a green light to the use of force.
117) Sundar Raman former
Indian Premier League Chief Operating Officer will join the Reliance Industries
Limited (RIL) as its Chief Executive Officer Sports
118) US have the maximum
number of international students from India
119) National Blood Policy, 2002 was modifies by the
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare which permitted
the transfer of blood from one blood bank to another in case of
shortage. Calcium Oxalate (Kidney stone & Protect blood Coating)
120) Central Victim Compensation Fund scheme was launched by the Union
Ministry of Home Affairs with an initial amount of 200
crore rupees which aimed at enabling support to victims of various
attacks, such as rape, acid attacks, human trafficking and women killed or injured
in the cross border firing.
121)
122) 25 percent basic
custom duty on Wheat
122)
123) TCS, Intel launched
Centre of Excellence for Internet of Things (IoT) in Hyderabad
124) World Economic Forum released Global Gender Gap Report 2015
It ranked 114/145 economies according to how well they are
leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational,
health-based and political indicators.
Iceland
(1), Norway (2), Finland (3),
Sweden (4) and Ireland (5) India-114 and
five countries with least gender equality are Iran
(141), Chad (142), Syria (143), Pakistan (144) and Yemen (145).
125)
126)
127) UNHCR (UN High Commission of Refugee) chosen for Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development for 2015
Its headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland and operates in 123 countries across the world.
128) Boko Haram (Nigerian) According to the Global
Terrorism Index, which is the world’s most deadly extremist group
129) World Toilet Day on 19 November with the theme
Sanitation and Nutrition
About 2.4 billion people around the world still do not
have adequate sanitation and 1 billion among them still defecate in the open.
Poor sanitation increases the risk of disease and malnutrition, especially for
women and children.
While 1000 children die
each day due to poor sanitation, women and girls risk rape and abuse because
they have no toilet that offers privacy. In September 2015, the UN General
Assembly approved the Sustainable Development Goal 6 that aims at access to
water and sanitation for all.
130) Union Cabinet
approved German as additional foreign
language in Kendriya Vidyalayas
German was taught as a
foreign language in KVs since September 2011
131) Technology Acquisition & Development Fund (TADF) under
National Manufacturing Policy-2011 launched
The fund will facilitate
acquisition of clean, green and energy efficient technologies. It will also
catalyse the manufacturing growth in Micro, Small
& Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector with an aim to contribute to
‘Make in India’ initiative.
The scheme will be
implemented through Global Innovation and
Technology Alliance (GITA), a joint venture
company. GITA was launched in 2007-08 by CII
and Department of Science & Technology to stimulate private sector's
investment in R&D.
Proposals from Indian
industry will be invited for reimbursement of 50 percent of technology transfer
fee or 20 lakh rupees, whichever is lower.
Financial support will
be provided in acquiring of patent from across the globe based on applications
received from MSMEs. Technology/Patent will be licensed to selected companies
and the selected companies will get a subsidy of 50 percent of the mutually
agreed value or 20 lakh rupees.
132) Delhi Government
approved Jan Lokpal Bill, 2015
The Bill envisages the
establishment of an independent authority to investigate offences under the
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. It also covers the Chief Minister’s Office.
Largely resembles the provisions contained in Uttarakhand Lokayukta Bill, 2011.
The bill prescribes
time-bound investigation of offences within six
months and states that as far as possible the trial in such cases should
be completed in six months. It also allows authorities to provisionally attach
assets acquired by corrupt means.
It provides that
punishment for any act of corruption cannot be less than six months and a maximum of 10 years. In rarest or
rare cases, the corrupt public servant can be sentenced to life imprisonment. It seeks to bring Delhi Police,
Delhi Development Authority and municipal bodies under its ambit.
The Delhi Janlokpal
Bill, 2015 is the newer version of Janlokpal Bill, 2014,
133) Full form of NCAER-National Council of Applied Economic
Research
134) Housing Development
and Finance Corporation-HDFC & YES Bank country’s largest mortgage lender and the new generation private
sector lender which are planning to list their bond issuances in London.
135) Kiren Rijiju conferred with Disaster Risk Reduction Asia Champion honour by UN
Rijiju also became the
first Indian to be conferred with this honour.
Asia Leaders’ Meeting
towards Implementation of the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction -DRR in Asia.
136) Foundation stone of
first Mega Food Park (MFP) at Nizamabad, Telangana
laid
Two more Mega Food Parks
have been sanctioned to be set up in Khammam and Mahboobnagar districts in
Telangana.
The park will have
facilities of 5000 MT Multi Commodity Cold Storage, 5000 MT Raw Material
Warehouse, 5000 MT Finished Good Warehouse, 5000 MT Grain Silos, 500 MT Deep
Freeze, 20 MT/day Turmeric Processing Facility and modern food testing lab.
20570 MT
137) Tianhe-2: World’s powerful Supercomputer for the sixth consecutive time processing speed of 33.86 petaflops per second (Pflop/s). It has held the
title since June 2013.
Supercomputer Titan of the US Department of Energy has been
placed at second position. It has a performance of 17.59 Pflop/s.
Supercomputer Sequoia of
Tech giant IBM was placed at third position.
It has processing speed of 17.17 Pflop/s.
K computer of Fujitsu
was placed at fourth position. It has processing speed of 10.51 Pflop/s.
Supercomputer Mira of
IBM placed at fifth position. It has processing speed of 8.58 Pflop/s.
138) Competition
Commission of India CCI (2002) imposed
penalties on 3 Airlines for concerted action
in Fixing Fuel Surcharge
These 3 Airlines are Jet Airways (India) Ltd, InterGlobe Aviation
Limited and Spice Jet Limited.
The matter was filed by
Express Industry Council of India under section 19(1)(a) of the Competition
Act, 2002 against Jet Airways (India) Ltd, InterGlobe Aviation Limited, Spice
Jet Limited, Air India Limited and Go Airlines (India) Limited alleging contravention
of the provisions of section 3 of the Act which deals with anti-competitive
agreements.
139) EKS Kosmos 2510 (Tundra 11L) the first satellite of Integrated Space System (Tundra) system, launched by Russia
140) leaders of 10-nation
group ASEAN declared the establishment of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) an EU-style
regional economic bloc at the 2015 ASEAN
Summit that concluded in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Explanation:
- The AEC envisages a single market with a
free flow of goods, capital and skilled labour across borders in the
highly competitive economic region. It will integrate Southeast Asia’s
diverse economies, a region with 620 million people and a combined gross
domestic product of $2.4 trillion.
- The ASEAN leaders also adopted the
declaration on “ASEAN 2025, forging ahead together”. The ASEAN 2025
document charts the path for the AEC building over the next ten years.
- ASEAN grouping
includes Brunei, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand
and Vietnam.
- 1967-Jakarta-Indoneisa (HO)
141) The legendary Windows operating system completed 30 years of Windows 1.01 on 20 November 1985.
142) Supersonic
interceptor Advance Air Defence-AAD missile
successfully test fired from the Abdul Kalam Island (Wheler
Island) off the Odisha coast.
Indigenously developed
by the Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) under Ballistic Missile Defence
Programme.
143) Mahatma Gandhi
International Centre inaugurated in Matale by Sri Lankan President
144) Swati Dandekar appointed Executive
Director (Ambassadorial Rank) to Asian
Development Bank by Obama
145) Djokovic became 1st player to win ATP World Tour Finals for 4th consecutive defeated Roger
Federer, in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.
146) Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India had made it mandatory for mobile service providers to
compensate consumers call drops with effect
from 1 January 2016.
146) Russia announced it
will permanently station a military unit in
the Arctic by 2018
North Pole
-Robert Pierre
South
Pole-Amundson
147) Pakistan signed Russia
an agreement to build a 1100-km gas pipeline
stretching from Karachi on Arabian Sea to the eastern city of Lahore
148) Portugal became the
first European country to sign MoU on the establishment of Nalanda University
149) Zam hydropower station which China has operationalised on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet
Autonomous Region its considered to be the highest-altitude hydropower station in the world.
150) Government of India
signed two loan agreements with Federal Republic of Germany for financing two
projects under the Green Energy Corridor programme for Himachal Pradesh and
Andhra Pradesh.
151) Russia inks
deal to build Egypt’s first nuclear plant at
Dabaa on the Mediterranean
coast in the northwest of the country.
152)
153) Barak-8 missile developed by Israel
154) China has
successfully launched a remote sensing satellite
Yaogan – 29 which will focus on experiments
on survey of land, crop yields and disaster relief.
155) Air India has
announced first-ever non-stop flight from New Delhi
to San Francisco from December 2
156) Sri Lanka has proposed to convert its existing
225-member-strong Parliament into Constitutional Assembly, whose primary
responsibility will be to produce a fresh Constitution of the country.
157) RBI granted
in-principle approval to National Payments Corporation of
India-NPCI to function as the
central unit for Bharat Bill Payment Systems-BBPS (GIRO-Government
Internal Revenue Order)
The present scope of BBPS
will include utility bill payments, such as, electricity, water, gas, telephone
and Direct-to-Home (DTH).
National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI) was incorporated in December 2008 and the Certificate of Commencement of
Business was issued in April 2009. It has been incorporated as a Section 25
company under Companies Act.
158) Queen Elizabeth II (from 1952) is set to open the Commonwealth heads of government meeting at Mediterranean island of Malta
Dominica-born
British lawyer Patricia Scotland
appointed as Secretary General of Commonwealth of Nations
First
woman as well to hold the role in the
66-year history of 53-member Commonwealth.
Scotland succeeds India's Kamalesh Sharma and will join the office
on 1 April 2016. She will receive a salary of nearly 160000
British Pound as well as a four storey mansion in Mayfair.
She was selected during
the 24th biennial Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta on 27
November 2015.
159) The UNESCO Fellini medal will be awarded in India for the
first time at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa) in collaboration with the International
Council for Film, Television and Audio visual Communication (ICFT), Paris. The
medal is given to a film that reflects UNESCO’s ideals.
160) 12th November
World Pneumonia Day observed
161) The Committee on Bankruptcy Law Reforms by Dr T K Viswanathan
162) Indian-born Harjit Sajjan has been sworn-in as Defence
Minister of Canada
163) HSBC to shut down private banking business in
India
The process is likely to
be completed in the first quarter of 2016.
164) Israel tests
Barak-8 missile co-developed with India
The missile is being
jointly developed by the Defence Research & Development Organisation
(DRDO), Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
165) World Robot
Olympiad, 2015 held in Doha; 2016 session to be held in Delhi
166) Sunil Kanoria appointed as President of Associated
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).
Kanoria has succeeded Rana Kapoor, Yes Bank Managing Director and CEO.
SREI which became one of the first Non-Banking Finance
company-NBFCs to get listed on the London Stock
Exchange.
Infosys Technologies became the first
Indian company to be listed on the US NASDAQ
in March 1999
Vedanta Resources listed in London stock exchange-2004
167) The National Milk
Day (NMD) 26 November stated from 2014
observed across India to mark 94th birth anniversary of the Father of the White
Revolution Dr Verghese Kurien.
World Milk Day that is
observed on 1 June every year under the aegis of UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO).
IDA along with around 22 state level milk federations.
Dr. Verghese Kurien is
also known as the Milkman of India and the architect of Operation Flood, He
founded around 30 institutions of excellence (like
AMUL, GCMMF, IRMA, NDDB) which are owned,
managed by farmers and run by professionals.
168) International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women observed 25 November
169) 26th November:
Constitution Day
170) India successfully
test-fires nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile
from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur carrying
500 kg to 1,000 kg of warheads and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin
engines. It uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory
to hit its target.
Inducted into India’s
armed forces in 2003, Prithvi-II, the first
missile to be developed by DRDO under India’s prestigious IGMDP (Integrated Guided Missile Development
Program), is now a proven technology.
171) Nitish announces liquor ban in Bihar from April 1
172) Indian School of Business (ISB) campus in Hyderabad to host Angel Summit in Hyderabad for
women entrepreneurs and executives speaking
on their experiences in building enterprises, raising funds and managing the
entities.
173) Nuclear-capable Dhanush missile successfully test fired from
warship Subhadra
One of the five missiles
indigenously developed by the DRDO under its strategic Integrated Guided
Missile Development Programme (IGMDP). The surface-to-surface
missile is a naval variant of Prithvi-II missile and can carry both
conventional as well as a nuclear payload of 500 kg.
174) Japan successfully
launches its first commercial satellite
Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying Canadian TELSTAR 12V communications
and broadcasting satellite for operator Telesat was successfully lifted off
from Tanegashima Space Centre (TSC).
The first commercial satellite launch was overseen by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
India had
launched its first commercial satellite
successfully in 2007 using Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying Italian satellite AGILE
for space exploration.
175) 2019 new deadline
for completion of PMGSY (2000-ABVP)
1000 Village Pop 500
Hilly Pop
PMGSY between the Centre
and States for all states will be in the ratio of 60:40. But for all land
locked 8 North Eastern states and 3 Himalayan states, the fund sharing pattern
of PMGSY between the Centre and States will be in the ratio of 90:10.
176) Operation Inherent
Resolve (OIR) to tackle ISIS by USA
177)
178) Indian Army
successfully test-fired BrahMos supersonic
cruise missile at the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan
179) The 21st
International Conference on Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications (INCOFYRA) will be held at Bengaluru
180) Sierra Leone Ebola-free declared by the World
Health Organisation
181) 2015 Paragliding World Cup held at Bir village of
Himachal Pradesh
182) Urban Development
Minister launched portal for small traders’ e-lala
183) Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) was reported over the
12-month period ending September 2015 by 37 banks led by prominent public
sector banks, as disclosed by credit rating CARE 2015 is 26.8%
While the overall NPAs now amount to Rs. 3,36,685 crore, the rise in the last 12 months
ended September 2015 was Rs. 71,000 crore.
Among the big banks, the bad loans of Bank
of India soared from Rs. 14,127 crore to Rs. 29,893 crore, of Bank of Baroda
from Rs. 13,057 crore to Rs. 23,710 crore, and of Indian Overseas Bank from Rs.
13,333 crore to Rs. 19,423 crore.
The only silver lining is SBI, India’s
largest bank, whose asset quality improved, with gross NPAs as a percentage of
gross advances falling 74 bps to 4.15% (Rs. 56,834 crore) from 4.89% (Rs.
60,712 crore).
184) Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) proposed Rs.
1.1 lakh crore railway safety fund that is
being established by the Indian Railways with the objective of improving safety
measures and upgrading railway infrastructure
185) Allergan Plc(Public
Limited Company) . (Ireland) Merge in Pfizer Inc.
(USA) about $160 billion.
Apart from male libido
drug Viagra and cholesterol drug Lipitor, Pfizer’s major drugs include nerve
pain treatment Lyrica and Prevnar, a treatment for pneumonia. Allergan, best
known for its anti-wrinkle treatment Botox, also makes Alzheimer’s
drug Namenda and dry-eye medication Restasis.
186) Silchar-Lumding broad
gauge rail line in Assam was inaugurated.
This rail-link will also
provide immensely beneficial for the states of Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram.
187) Bharat stage
(BS) norms are emission standards decided by the government to regulate
the amount of air pollutants from vehicles. They were adopted in line with
European regulation standard ‘Euro norms’ in 2000.
BS-I - Euro 1 - 2000
BS-II - Euro 2 - 2005
BS-III - Euro 3 - 2010
BS-IV - Euro 4 - 2015 (63
cities till 1 April 2015)
BS V norms: 1st of April, 2019
BS VI norms: 1st April, 2020
188) National
Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)-Nagpur
189) CEERI- Central Electronics
Engineering Research Institute Pilani/Chennai
1) Former Cabinet
secretary T.S.R. Subramanian has been
appointed chairperson of a committee set up by the Human Resource Development
Ministry to draft the new education policy.
2) BrahMos Supersonic cruise missile test-fired from Indian Navy's stealth destroyer INS Kochi
The world's fastest cruise missile.
3) FDI cap in telecom raised to 100% from 74%; up to
49% through automatic route and beyond via FIPB
* No change in 49% FDI limit in civil aviation
* FDI cap in defence production to stay at 26%-49% higher investment may be considered in
state-of-the-art technology production by CCS.
* 100% FDI allowed in single
brand retail; 49% through automatic, 49-100% through FIPB
* FDI limit in insurance
sector raised to 49% from present 26%, subject to Parliament approval
* FDI up to 49% in petroleum
refining allowed under automatic route, from earlier approval route
* In power exchanges 49%
FDI allowed through automatic route, from earlier FIPB route.
* Raised FDI in asset reconstruction
companies to 100% from 74%; of this up to 49% will be under automatic
route
* FDI limit increased in credit
information companies to 74% from 49%.
* FDI up to 49% in stock
exchanges, depositories allowed under automatic
route
* FDI up to 100% through automatic route allowed in courier services
* FDI in tea plantation
up to 49% through automatic route; 49-100% through
FIPB route
* No decision taken on FDI cap in airports (1000,
media (26), brownfield pharma (100) and multi-brand retail (51) .
4) Union Government
launched E-Pathshala, Saransh, Shaala Siddhi
Portals
E-Pathshala
is a web portal which hosts
educational resources for Students, Teachers, Parents, researchers and
educators. It contains textbooks and other e-books as E-Pub 3.0 and Flipbooks
in English, Hindi and Urdu. It is available through especially developed mobile
app interface on Android, IOS and windows platforms for wider access.
Shaala
Siddhi web portal is a
comprehensive instrument for school evaluation which enables the schools to
evaluate their performance in more focused and strategic manner. The web-portal
will help all schools to assess themselves and the results can be seen by all
enabling them to provide feedback.
Saransh is a tool which allows the schools to identify
areas of improvement in students, teachers and curriculum to facilitate and
implement change. The platform is presently available for classes 9th to 12th
and provides a comprehensive overview of standard 10th performance since 2007
and standard 12th performance since 2009 till the current academic session.
5) Defence Minister
commissioned India’s Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel (OPV) ‘Samarth’ at Goa
It is Coast Guard’s largest OPV.
The Ship built by Goa Shipyard
limited is the first in the series of six off Shore Patrol vessels.
6) 50 LAKH central Government Employee
7) Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna (UDAY)
for financial restructuring of debt of power
distribution companies. The Scheme aims for financial turnaround and revival of
Power Distribution companies (DISCOMs) and also ensures a sustainable permanent
solution to the problem.
8) Start country’s
first-ever double decker Shatabdi Express will
Mumbai and Goa
9) PRASAD (National Mission on Pilgrimage
Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive) and Swadesh Darshan schemes of
Ministry of Tourism
Were launched to achieve
1 per cent share of international tourist arrivals by 2016-17 from the present
0.68 per cent.
PRASAD's objective is to
augment religious and spiritual tourism in the country as India is a land of
many religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism,
Jainism and Sufism.
As part of SWADSH
DARSHAN scheme, theme based tourism circuits are identified for infrastructure
development across the country. Theme Based Tourist Circuit (TBTC) is defined
as a tourist circuit around specific themes such as religion, culture,
ethnicity, niche, etc. A TBTC could be confined to a state or could be a
regional circuit covering more than a state or union territory (UT).
10) National Investment
and Infrastructure Fund-NIIF constituted
under the chairmanship of Finance Minister members
included Secretary: DEA, Secretary: Financial Services, Arundhati Bhattacharya,
Hemendra Kothari,T V Mohandas Pai.
Initial
corpus of 20000 crore rupees.
It was set up as a fund under the provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882.
11) Syed Akbaruddin appointed as next Permanent Representative of India to UN He will replace Asoke
Kumar Mukerji who assumed the office in April 2013.
So far, excluding Akbaruddin, 19 diplomats served as Permanent
Representative of India to the UN. Notable among them are the incumbent Vice
President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1993-95),
Brajesh C Mishra (1979-81), Nirupam Sen (2004-09) and Hardeep Singh Puri
(2009-13) among others.
12) G-20 summit 2015
held at Antalya, Turkey
UN Reform, civil nuclear
cooperation, and cooperation in space and agricultural research also came up
for discussion.
13) India’s civil
nuclear agreement with Australia
14) Apple will open its first retail store in Singapore, which will also be Southeast Asia’s
first to be powered solely by solar energy.
15) India’s largest
missile systems manufacturing and integration
facility with an investment of Rs. 500 crore is being set up on a
sprawling 900-acre site at Palasamudram, Gorantla in Anantapur
district of Andhra Pradesh
16) First Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for
Treatment (AMRIT) AMRIT pharmacy outlet
opened at AIIMS Delhi for selling affordable drugs
17) Financial Inclusion
Fund (FIF) has been formed by RBI with a
corpus of 2000 crore rupees
18) Atal Mission for
Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).
81 mission cities in 5 states-Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and
Mizoram under AMRUT for 2015-16. Of 5748 Crore rupees.
19) Maareech, an Advanced Torpedo
(Water missile) Defence System, handed over Navy Chief Admiral Robin K. Dhowan
in Vishakhapatnam developed by DRDO
Maareech is a joint
project of Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi and NSTL,
Visakhapatnam. It is a state-of-the-art indigenous system for torpedo detection
and countermeasures.
20) November 19 World
Toilet day
21)
22) 21st Nations 27th
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organised
for 12th Nations Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
trade agreement was held Manila (The Philippines)
21 Pacific Rim member
countries that promotes free-trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. It was
established in 1989.
The 21 countries that feature in APEC are –
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines,
Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.
US
President Barack Obama and 11 other world leaders met to reach out to discuss
the ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement – a landmark deal
that proposes to create the world’s largest free trade area.
The 12 countries that are involved in TPP
agreement are – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New
Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.
23) Vijay Kelkar committee (10 Members) reviewing the
public-private partnership model (PPP model) of infrastructure development, has
recommended improving the financing of such projects.
24) Maharashtra become the first state in the country
to enact a law against social boycott (against social boycott of individuals or
families by caste panchayats. The act has recommended seven years of
imprisonment or fine of Rs. 5 lakh or both if the accused is proven guilty. As
per the act, the trial shall be completed within a period of six months from
the date of filing of the charge sheet.
Slain rationalist Narendra Dabholkar too
had picked up the issue before his murder in Pune.
25) Rajasthan Government
signed 295 MoUs attracting 3.3 lakh crore rupees investment
It aims to provide
around 239694 lakh jobs in the state.
The Energy sector got
MoUs worth 190000 crore rupees followed by
Petroleum with 77657
crore rupees worth MoUs.
Infrastructure got MoUs
worth 17038 crore rupees while
Manufacturing sector of
the state fetched MoUs worth 11760 crore rupees.
Roads and Highways
fetched 10000 crore rupees MoUs.
Tourism was allotted
with 5783 crore rupees MoUs,
Medical and Health with
4752 crore rupees MoUs, Agriculture with 2402 crore rupees and Education got
1807 crore rupees MoUs. Besides, award of sanctions in roads and highways got
MoUs worth 25446 crore rupees.
Adani Group Chief Gautam
Adani announced to investing 10000 crore rupees in the state over the next four
years.
Aditya Birla Group
Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla committed to invest 7000 crore rupees in the
cement sector.
Anil Ambani-led Reliance
Group announced plans of 6000 crore rupees investment in the solar sector. Hero
Motocorp Chairman Pawan Munjal announced to set up state of the art R&D
centre in Jaipur besides pledging further investment in solar energy.
26) Rajasthan, South
Australia signed Sister-State Agreement
Based on a two-way
exchange of research, policy and technical capabilities.
like sustainable water
management, agriculture , service , health care, communications, transport.
27) Tenancy laws Commission headed by T Haque (Former
CP of Commission of Agriculture cost & Price-CACP)
28) Richest Country
USA, China, Japan, Ger,
UK, France, 10-India
29) Bankruptcy Law Reforms Commission –Dr TK
Viswanathan
30) Black Money Committee- MB Shah
31) ATAS-Alternative Train Accommodation Scheme (Vikalp)
32) Scott Kelley (US) largest living in Space 216 Days
33) Batkamma Telangana State Festivals
34) Black Crane found in ACP
35) Largest Coral reef at MH, ANI, LD
36) East India Company purchased by Mumbai Based
Diamond Business Man Sanjiv Mehta in 15 Million US$
37) Novak D Jokowick
Brand ambassador of UNICEF
38) Largest Secure
Heritage in KT, TN, MP
39) World Heritage
Management centre will set up at Dehradun
40) National Biodiversity Authority set up at Chennai in 2003
41) After 100 km found
Space
Sky became black from
Space due to lack of Oxygen because it’s significant for Rays scattering
42) 1981 First space shuttle was Columbia than after Challenger, Discovery and
Atlantic.
43) 11 Countries in ESA (French Guiana –Kore au)
First space travellers
was Danish Tito (US) in 2002
44) First moon mission of
India in 2006 Japan in 2007
45) World first systematic population census in Sweden
46) Fear Metal-Plutonium
Hope Metal-Uranium
Future metal -Titanium
47) 33% forest necessary according to 1988 Forest policy
48) Russian Space launch
from Baikonur (Kazakhstan)
49) First planet probe for Venus
50) Sputnik 1961 USSR Failure
Mariner-2 1962
Successes
Pioneer-5 for Sun 1960 success
Mercury Mariner-10 NASA Success 1974
Moon- Pioneer 10 NASA Failure
Ranger-6 Success
Jupiter- Pioneer 10 NASA success
Uranus-1986 Success
Neptune-1989 Success both Voyager NASA
Mars-mariner-4 NASA 1964 Success
51) Udaipur India’s first skill centre set up under Din Dayal Upadhya Scheme
52) Xenon & Argon
are steroids
53) First defence Indian
satellite Rukmani in 2013 by GSAT, 7 Arian
-5 rocket
54) World first Biomass & Geothermal power plant at
Tuscany at Italy
55) Bangalore not in Smart City due to lack of public
Toilet, lack of taxation collection, No audit, Large Population & Not refer
by Karnataka Government
56) Vatican only city where women do not have voting Right now available in Saudi Arab
57) Maharashtra become
the first state in the country to enact a law against social boycott (against
social boycott of individuals or families by caste panchayats. The act has
recommended seven years of imprisonment or fine of Rs. 5 lakh or both if the
accused is proven guilty. As per the act, the trial shall be completed within a
period of six months from the date of filing of the charge sheet.
Slain rationalist Narendra too had picked
up the issue before his murder in Pune.
58) Three All India
Institutes of Medical Sciences (AllMS) set
up under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY) at Nagpur in
Maharashtra, at Manglagiri in Andhra Pradesh and at Kalyani in West Bengal.
59) 98% Population living in 156
countries
60) 19th Children film festival held at
Hyderabad
61) Best Athlete-male-Ethiopian Gengjbey Debaba
Female American-Easton Eton
62) 2016-International
Year of Pulses by UNGA
63) APJ & YS Rajan
Mission India –A Vision of Indian Youth
APJ & Srajan Pal Singh-Advantage
India –From Challenge to Opportunity
Hellen Keller- The story of My Life
Romila Thapaer -The Public Intellectual in
India
64) Target Olympic
Podium Scheme- TOPS headed by Anju Baby George
65) NH-96260.72 KM
RJ-7886, UP-7863,
MH-7047
(RUM)
Least
CH-15 KM
66) Japan successfully
launches its first commercial satellite
Japanese H-IIA rocket
carrying Canadian TELSTAR 12V communications
and broadcasting satellite for operator Telesat was successfully lifted off
from Tanegashima Space Centre (TSC).
The first commercial
satellite launch was overseen by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries.
India had
launched its first commercial satellite
successfully in 2007 using Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying Italian satellite AGILE for space exploration.
67) 2019 new deadline for
completion of PMGSY (2000-ABVP)
68) Union Government
announced 10 New/Revised Schemes for
Disabled Persons under the National Trust
DISHA: Early Intervention and School
Readiness Scheme
VIKAAS: Day Care Scheme
SAMARTH: Respite Care Scheme
GHARAUNDA: Group Home for Adults
Scheme
NIRAMAYA: Health Insurance Scheme
SAHYOGI: Caregiver training scheme
GYAN
PRABHA: Educational support Scheme
PRERNA: Marketing Assistance Scheme
SAMBHAV: Aids and Assisted Devices Scheme
BADHTE
KADAM: Awareness and
Community Interaction Scheme.
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