1. Union Cabinet chaired has approved Rs 4,000 crore budgetary supports for introducing measures to encourage shipbuilding and ship repair industry in India under the ambitious ‘Make in India’programme.
2. The 8 edition of a bilateral exercise between the Indian andRussian navies “INDRA NAVY”started from December 7 in Visakhapatnam
3. Vyachakurahalli village in Karnataka has become India's first smokeless village. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has declared the village smokeless as all 274 households have made a shift to LPG stoves.
4. India and Japan have inked a protocol for amending the existing convention for double taxation avoidance that provides for effective exchange of information in tax matters including bank accounts.
5. Japan has won the contract to build India's first bullet train that will link the cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad .
6. Time magazine has named German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, as the 'Person of the Year' for the year 2015. Time named Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the runner up who was followed by theUnited States Presidential candidate,Donald Trump.
7. Delhi has surpassed China's capital state, Beijing after it (Beijing) released its first ever air pollution red alert. Greenpeace India, while releasing a survey on indoor air quality in Delhi schools, recently, said that the pollution levels were found to be five times more than the safety limits.
8. India has launched the Indian Long Term Ecological Observatories (I-LTEO) programme to scientifically monitor 8 different biomes (natural landscapes) across the country.
9. The 5 edition of “Heart of Asia” conference, an annual regional gathering of Asian and other countries commenced in Islamabad Pakistan.
10. According to a recent report released by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries, India is the fourth largest source of black money outflow. According to the report, 1.1 trillion USD flowed illicitly out of developing and emerging economies in the year 2013.
11. Indian Space ResearchOrganisation (ISRO) has developed an autonomous regional satellite navigation system, Indian RegionalNavigation Satellite System (IRNSS), bringing the country close to having its own navigation satellite.
12. A strong earthquake of 7.2magnitude struck Tajikistan. The tremors were felt in North India, including parts of Delhi NCR (National Capital Region).
13. The Maharashtra state government has launched a website that enables the members of its legislature to send questions and move different motions in the House,online. With this, the Maharashtra legislature has become the first state in the country to launch one such online mechanism.
14. Union Government has introduced the Atomic Energy(Amendment) Bill on December 7, 2015. The Bill, which was introduced by Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Atomic Energy and Space, seeks to amend the Atomic Energy Act, 1962.
15. 2015 South East Asia Write Award has been conferred upon Indian- origin writer Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali aka J.M. Sali whose books are read in universities.
16. Two Indians Kartik Sawhney (21) and Neha Swain (28) are among the 60 others who have won the Queen’s Young Leaders award in the UK for their exceptional work in transforming the lives of others and making a lasting difference in their communities.
2. The 8 edition of a bilateral exercise between the Indian andRussian navies “INDRA NAVY”started from December 7 in Visakhapatnam
3. Vyachakurahalli village in Karnataka has become India's first smokeless village. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has declared the village smokeless as all 274 households have made a shift to LPG stoves.
4. India and Japan have inked a protocol for amending the existing convention for double taxation avoidance that provides for effective exchange of information in tax matters including bank accounts.
5. Japan has won the contract to build India's first bullet train that will link the cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad .
6. Time magazine has named German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, as the 'Person of the Year' for the year 2015. Time named Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the runner up who was followed by theUnited States Presidential candidate,Donald Trump.
7. Delhi has surpassed China's capital state, Beijing after it (Beijing) released its first ever air pollution red alert. Greenpeace India, while releasing a survey on indoor air quality in Delhi schools, recently, said that the pollution levels were found to be five times more than the safety limits.
8. India has launched the Indian Long Term Ecological Observatories (I-LTEO) programme to scientifically monitor 8 different biomes (natural landscapes) across the country.
10. According to a recent report released by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries, India is the fourth largest source of black money outflow. According to the report, 1.1 trillion USD flowed illicitly out of developing and emerging economies in the year 2013.
11. Indian Space ResearchOrganisation (ISRO) has developed an autonomous regional satellite navigation system, Indian RegionalNavigation Satellite System (IRNSS), bringing the country close to having its own navigation satellite.
12. A strong earthquake of 7.2magnitude struck Tajikistan. The tremors were felt in North India, including parts of Delhi NCR (National Capital Region).
13. The Maharashtra state government has launched a website that enables the members of its legislature to send questions and move different motions in the House,online. With this, the Maharashtra legislature has become the first state in the country to launch one such online mechanism.
14. Union Government has introduced the Atomic Energy(Amendment) Bill on December 7, 2015. The Bill, which was introduced by Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Atomic Energy and Space, seeks to amend the Atomic Energy Act, 1962.
15. 2015 South East Asia Write Award has been conferred upon Indian- origin writer Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali aka J.M. Sali whose books are read in universities.
16. Two Indians Kartik Sawhney (21) and Neha Swain (28) are among the 60 others who have won the Queen’s Young Leaders award in the UK for their exceptional work in transforming the lives of others and making a lasting difference in their communities.
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