CAREER POINT SHIMLA

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF DEC- 2018

POLITY AND CONSTITUTION

  1. Special Courts To Try Politicians

Supreme Court has approved the central Government's Idea to set up 12 fast track courts to dispose 1581 criminal cases pending against MPs & MLAs within a year.

  1. Section 33(7) of Representation of Peoples Act

The amendment has been proposed by the Election commission in Section 33(7) of Representation of the People Act(ROPA) that allows a candidate to fight from two seats at the same time.

Section 33 in general talk about 'Presentation of nomination paper and requirements for a valid nomination.

  1. Social Audit Law
    Meghalaya became the first state in India to operationalize a social audit Law

INDIA AND WORLD

  1. RIC Foreign Ministers Meeting
    15th trilateral meeting of the Russia-India-china (RIC) foreign ministers was held in New Delhi
  1. WHO declared Gabon as polio-free country
    Now the disease is endemic and prevalent in two south Asian countries i. e Afghanistan and Pakistan
  2. World Migration Report
    Indian diaspora have been found to be world's largest as per the Report
    Indian Diaspora constitutes 6% of the total number of international migrants.
  3. Maldives And China
    Maldives has signed its first ever free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China.
  4. WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT
    WASSENAAR Arrangement has decided to admit India as its new member.

It is multilateral export control regime (MECR) to promote transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional Arms.

ECONOMY

  1. SRISTI
    It is note giveN to accelerate the deployment of roof to solar power in the country.
    It stands for Sustainable Roof top Implementation for solar Transfiguration of India.
  1. Monetary policy Committee keeps repo rate unchanged
    MPC(Monetary policy committee) of Reserve Bank of India decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at (6%)
  1. UN GDP forecast

United Nations reported GDP forecast of Indian Economy at 7.2% in 2018

  1. Iraq becomes leading oil supplier
    Iraq has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become top crude oil supplier to India.

SECURITY AND DEFENCE

  1. PRITHVI
    It is indigenously developed Prithivi Advanced Air Defence (AAD) supersonic interceptor missile
  1. Naseem-Al-Bahr
    11th edition of Naseem Al-Bahr - Naval exercise between India and Oman was held at oman.
  2. HAMESHA VIJAYEE

The southern command of Indian Army conducted major Army exercise called Hamesha vijayee was conducted in Rajasthan
The aim is to evaluate the capability of armed forces to strike deep into enemy territory in air-land battle.

  1. EKUVERIN
    India-Maldives military exercise that held in karnataka
  1. INS KALVARI
    India's first Scorpene Submarine.
    Built by Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai, Mumbai
    Designed by French naval defence and energy company(DCNS)

ENVIRONMENT

  1. Blue Flag Project
    Union ministry of Environment has launched Blue Flag Pilot Project to clean the beaches of India to enhance their standards.
  2. India was awarded certificate of commendation

For its effort to combat illegal wildlife trade,India has been awarded by the certificate of commendation by Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Operation Save Kurma was appreciated by CITES.

  1. Nation Carbon Market

China launched its National carbon market by setting a carbon price on the country's largest greenhouse gas emitter

  1. Joint Tiger Census
    .India , Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh have agreed to conduct a joint census of Tiger population.
  1. CYCLONE OCKHI
    Western coast of India was hit by tropical cyclone Ockhi.
    Name is coined by Bangladesh (ockhi means eye in Bengali)

SCIENCE ANS TECHNOLOGY

  1. SOFIA MISSION
    It is the joint project of NASA and German Aerospace Center to construct and maintain airborne observatory
    SOFIA :- (stratospheric observatory for Infrared Astronomy)
  1. ITCOOCEAN
    Govt approved estabhishment of ITC Ocean as category -2 Centre to be signed with UNESCO.

SOCIAL

  1. National Nutrition Mission
    The setting up of National Nutrition mission was approved by Govt.
    It is a low-point nutrition action plan that includes governance reforms.
    It aims to reduce all forms of malnutrition by2030
  2. National Strategic Plan
    It aims to strive, along towards fast track strategy of ending the AIDs epidemic by 2030 .
    Launched by ministry of Health
  1. Minority TAG
    A committee under National Commission of Minorities was set up to look into whether Hindus should get minority status or not.
    It argued that to protect the rights of Hindu in areas they shall be considered as minority.
  1. Ganga Gram Project
    It has been launched under Namami Gange Programme for Sanitation based integrated development of village.
  1. Utkrisht Impact Bonds
    United states Agency for International Development has launched a Rajasthan Development Impact Bond at Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
    It has been launched to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in Rajasthan .

MISC

  1. UNESCO : KUMBH MELA

UNESCO has inscribed Kumbh Mela on on its Representative List of Intangible cultural Heritage of Humanity.

  1. Eco-NIWAS
    Govt launches Eco-NIWAS (Energy conservation -New Indian way for Affordable and sustainable homes)

It aim to aware about sustainable building and energy efficient homes

  1. MSME - Sambandh
    Public Procurement Portal for MSME
  2. SAMEEP
    Student and MEA Engagement Program (SAMEEP) to aware student of functioning of External Affairs ministry.

Bullet Notes-December 2017

☞first ever women ambassador of Uk to the UN- Karen Pierce

☞E Chandrasekharan Nair, who recently passed away was a- Politician

☞Gold medal of best state pavilion at 37th India International Trade fair (IIFT)–Assam

☞ India’s first Cryptocurrency Exchange – coinome by Bill desk

☞Asian Development bank (ADB) has announced a loan of how much amount to improve rural road connectivity in india – USD 500 million

☞First lifetime Achievement award of chandigarh literary society –Ruskin Bond

☞First woman mayor in 100 year in lucknow –Sanyukta Bhatia

☞Mirabai Chanu is associated with which sport – weightlifting

☞Initiative launched by us- India Business Council ( USIBC) to Support women Entrepreneurs –WISE

☞ Which Currency note celebrated its centenary on Nov 30th –Re-1

☞Name of first Artificial intelligence (AI) Politician Development by Scientists in New Zealand –SAM

☞G. Sathiyan is associated with which sport –Table Tennis

☞Uttar Pradesh will organise Ayodhya Mahotsav in which country from next year- South Korea

☞Who chaired the first meeting held recently for Transformation of 115 backward districts for a new India’ by 2022 -Pk Sinha

☞Name of the marine oil pollution response exercise conducted by India –clean Sea -2017

☞Indian film personality 2017 award at 48th international film festival of india –Amitabh Bachchan

☞State govt that introduced ‘fish pond Yojna’ for creation of additional water bodies for freshwater aquaculture –odisha

☞Who has been stripped of the freedom of the oxford award-aung san suu kyi

☞Company that acquired time INC in $2.8 billion deal –Meredith corp

☞Hockey Men’s world cup 2018 mascot was released in –Odisha

☞Which team won the Davis cup title – france

☞ Budget for national Nutrition mission ( (NNM)- Rs. 9.046

(To reduce undernutrition by (2%) each year)

☞City that is going to have world’s first information Technology campus for persons with disabilities- Hyderabad

☞New Luxury Coaches of Rajdhani and Shatabdi express- SWARNA

☞First woman mayor in US (yuba City) -Preet Didbal

☞How many medals did india won at 20th Asian Archery Championship held in Dhaka -9 Medals

☞Best boxer title in world youth women’s boxing championship- Ankushita Boro

☞Armed forces week –dec 1st to dec 7th

☞India donated 500 metric tonnes of rice to –lesotho

☞Cambridge dictionary 2017 word of the year-populism

☞‘tendu’ leaves bonus tyohar-chhattisgarh

☞Who released his debut novel in ‘english named Two – gulzar

☞Deen dayal Divyangjan Sahajya scheme was launched in –Assam

☞ State assembly that passed Kapu Reservation Bill – Andhra Pradesh

☞Environmental Studies University will be setup in – west bengal

☞Time Magazine's person of the year 2017 – the silence breakers

☞ First male cricketer of 21st century that will ly international cricket

☞ Head of the committee that has been made to address the issue of rising stressed assets in power sector – AmitabhKant

☞23rd District to be included in national capital region – Shamli

☞State that launched a food safety on wheel mobile laboratory –Goa

☞India's Largest solar Floating plant – Kerala

☞Indian City that has been named in UN Environment report of five global cities that have Successfully Tackled solid waste – alappuzha, Kerla

☞State govt that announced cash rewards for gram panchayats and urban local bodies which makes their areas plastic free – Maharashtra

☞as per report by international energy Agency (IEA) , India is on course to give electricity for all by -2020

☞state that has offered email ids in hindi to its residents-Rajasthan

☞ forbes list of the highest paid athlete of all time-Michael Jordan

☞ World's largest lithium ion battery is made by –Tesla & Neoen

☞ Amount of loan granted by world bank for SANKALP Project - $ 250 million

☞State Govt That launched “Seva Sindhu” a Common Citizen Service portal to Provide Government- related services –Karnataka

☞First ever international wheelchair Cricket Tournament was hosted by –Nepal

☞Jokapatha Village recently got electricity connection for the first time since independence is located in –Chhattisgarh

☞India’s first and only design university – Haryana

☞Sameep Initiative has been launched by which ministry – external affairs

☞First indian city to have its own logo –Bengaluru

☞Atal Jan Ahar Yojana – South Delhi Municipal Corporation

IMPORTANT DAYS

☞Worlds AIDS day -1st dec
☞International day for Abolition of Slavery -2nd dec
☞International day of persons with disability -3rd dec
☞Medha Diwas ( Anniversary of Dr. Rajendra Prasad -3th dec
☞Indian Navy Day -4th dec
☞World soil day -5th dec
☞Anti corruption day -9th dec
☞Human Rights day -10th dec
☞Farmer day -23rd dec

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