December 2014 Flashcards
(111 cards)
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60 people lose eyesight after
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Boston cataract surgery is at a camp in ghuman village in Gurdaspur district
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To monitor social issues Supreme Court set up
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Social justice bench
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Guinness record in chennai
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By 30,000 people to create national flat
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To Build capital city in AP memorandum of understanding with
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Singapore
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In 14,000 cr Satyam computer accounting scandal
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Economic offences court sentence of six months jail to raju
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Union cabinet gives nod to raise the cap In the insurance sector
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From 26 to 49 %
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Attempt to suicide
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To be decriminalised
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Russia excepts India offer to make
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Light utility helicopters jointly
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Coal mine special provisions bill 2014 pass by
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Lok Sabha
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Sangita kalanidhi m s Subbulakshmi award to
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T v Gopalakrishnan by ISRO chairman k Radhakrishnan
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New launch from Sri harikota
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GSLV MARK III
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Constitution Amendment Bill in lower house
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122
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Sahitya academy award for 2014
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Tamil writer poomani
For novel angnaadi
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SASTRA Ramanujam award 2014
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Professor James Maynard of Oxford at Kumbakonam
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Bharat Ratna
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Atal
Madan Mohan Malviya
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Ordinance Route for
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E auction of coal blocks
Fdi in insurance
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Union cabinet nod for
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Neutrino Observatory in theni tamilnadu
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Another ordinance to amend
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Land act
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AP capital region development authority act 2014 comes into force
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Ap
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A Boeing aircraft complete the worlds first flight using
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Green diesel a sustainable biofuels made from vegetable oil and waste cooking oil
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Asian of the year by Singapore press Holdings Ltd publisher of the straits times
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Modi
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ISRO S comm sat GSAT 16 launched from
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Arianespace rocket from kourou French guinea
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Massive oil spill by sinking of an oil tanker after being hit by another vessel
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In shela river in Sunderbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh
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New Mauritius pm
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Anerood jugnauth
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Agreement at the climate summit sets out guidelines for the
Submission of national and greenhouse gas pledges in 20151
| At Lima Peru
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Miss world 2014
Rolene strauss of South Africa
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World s first twin to scale Mount Vinson of Antarctica highest mountain
Tashi Malik
Nungshi Malik
Dehradun
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UK first woman bishop
Rev Libby lane
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Tunisia president
Beji said essebi
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Ukraine signs bill to drop
Non-aligned status
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December obituary
Deven Verma actor
V r Krishna Iyer former sc judge
Nedunuri krishnamurty Carnatic vocalist
Rajan Devdas Indian American photo journalist
Sayyid Hamid educationist and author
Luise rainer first winner of two consecutive oscars
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Sports news of dec
Deodhar trophy by East zone
Anand wins London chess classic
Champions trophy hockey by Germany in Bhubaneswar
Sarita devi banned
National premier chess title by s p Sethuraman
Dubai open golf by Arjun Atwal
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New generation navigation satellite launch from space centre plesetsk in Russia Northwestern Arkhangelsk
Glossnass K
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In less than two and half years SEBI Allowed as many as 123 entities to set up
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Alternative investment fundsAIF
Newly created class all pooled in investment vehicles for real estate , Private Equity and hedge funds
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ONGC Has commissioned its biggest commercial power project at
Palatana in south Tripura
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Biggest annual festival of Nagaland
Hornbill festival
Also mark the 50th anniversary of creation of Nagaland as a separate state out of the naga hills district of Assam and tuensang hills
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Turner prize
To Duncan Campbell for African art and a dance sequence inspired by Karl Marx
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National disaster response force
Central paramilitary tasked with getting out relief and rescue operations during calamity
Director general OPSINGH
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lok Sabha General secretary
Anoop Mishra
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Pres of European Council
Donald tusk former prime minister of Poland
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Successful test firing of Agni 4
Nuclear capable strategic ballistic missile range 4000 km
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Anti hijacking bill 2014
Replacing anti hijacking bill 1982 and amended in 1994
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Regional rural banks
Amendments to a law to strengthen the capital Base and financial stability of RRBs
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India along with US and Pakistan voted against
UN resolution calling on to accede to the NPT as non-nuclear weapon nation without conditions and to place all its nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards
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Raninder Singh
Pres of national rifle Association of India became the first Indian to be a member of international shooting sport Federation executive committee
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Swiss ambassador award for inspirational and socially responsible leadership
Azim Premji
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Corruption perception index release by transparency International India
India ranks 85 among175 as against 94 last year
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Schools of planning and architecture
Bill to convert them into centres of excellence and confer degrees to students
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Social justice bench
To judges is devoted to the delivery of Speedy Justice in a range of social issues related to the downtrodden and socially marginalised groups
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To help micro-small and medium enterprises MSME , RBI Permitted setting up of
Exchange based trading platform to facilitate financing of the bills raised by such small entities to corporate and other buyers including government departments and PSUs
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Hayabusa 2
Second generation astroid Explorer launched by Japan to collect
a steroid samples
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Arun Majumdar
Indian American scientist from Stanford university appointed the science envoy of the US
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Beighton cup
Hockey . Won by Indian oil in 2014
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India and Japan agreed to cooperate in
Cyber security and green ICT
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Statue of Shivaji
In Arabian Sea off Mumbai coast . Cleared by ministry of env
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Postal bank of India suggested by
Subramaniam committee
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International year of soils 2015
By UN s FAO food and agricultural Organisation
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Hero women's indian golf open at delhi won by
Gwladys Nocera of france
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Fourth Blind Cricket World Cup won by
India against Pakistan at Cape town
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29th Pune international full marathon
Men Amos mein do of Kenya
| Women Nancy wambua... Kenya
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122 member states of International criminal court give the Palestinian delegation observer status at the summit meeting for
Moving closer to world s permanent war crimes tribunal
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Multilateral investment guarantee agency MIGA
Political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the world bank Group
Bhutan joined as 181 St member
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First Arabic translation of Indian constitution launched in
Cairo
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BHEL commissioned 28 mw hydroelectric project at
Rwanda
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Confucius peace prize of China
Fidel Castro
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Another monthly economic index
State bank launched a tool that will primary track manufacturing activity to offer a forward looking economic trend
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Piñaka mark II
Indigenously developed
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Five posts for additional solicitors general
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For high courts of
Punjab Haryana
Patna Jharkhand
Karnataka
Gujarat
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Times person of the year
Health workers treating the ebola epidemic
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Lifetime achievement award at Dubai International film Festival
Asha Bhosle
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Essar oil signed deal with Russia s rosneft for
Import ten million tonnes of crude oil per year for ten years ...
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Shriti vadera
First woman to head a major British bank . Santander UK
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IB CHIEF
dineshwar Sharma
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Ruhi Singh
Miss universal peace and humanity 2014 in Lebanon first Indian to do so
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2016 Rio Olympic games mascot name and Paralympic games mascot name
Vinicius
| Tom
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14 Finance commission report submitted
Headed by y v reddy former Rbi gov
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RTGS
Real time gross settlement
| business hours increased to 12 hours on weekdays by RBI
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Visa for minorities from Pakistan Afghanistan Bangladesh
Extended from one year to five years
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Vasan Srinivasan
In six member Australian multicultural council that advices the government on multicultural affairs and policy programs
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Vivek hallegere murthy
19 Surgeon Gen of America who is the youngest person and first person of Indian origin to hold the post
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Xu youyu
Chinese pro democrazy activist awarded the Sweden's human rights price Olof Palme
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Amit priyavadan mehta
Federal judge in the district of Columbia. The first is Asian Pacific American to occupying this position
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Fencing of India Bangladesh border
Ordered by supreme court to Central government to check illegal migration
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Government asked not to appoint chief vigilance commissioner and vigilance commissioner without its approval
By sc
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Dubai's largest trading partner
China overtook India
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2014 top 10 scientists by the journal nature
K Radhakrishnan
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Venu Srinivasan
TVS chairman Conferred honorary citizen of busan for his efforts to enhance friendship and cooperation between the Republic of Korea and India
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Amendment in motor vehicles act passed to
Enable battery operated rickshaws to ply in capital and other parts
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NSSO SHOWS agricultural household debts
National sample survey Organisation
| 52% of agricultural households and 93% in on the Andhra Pradesh 89% in Telangana
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EPFO
| retain interest rate
Employing Provident fund organisation
| Retain interest rate at 8.75% benefiting more than five cr people
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GST bill in Lok sabha
Aim to create a single dad for goods and services across the country and rolling out the new regime from April 2016 subsuming various Levies like entry tax and octroi
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CERN
| pak
European organisation for nuclear research
| Joined by Pakistan to have access to the Swiss based facility research
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New RAW chief
new DG OF CRPF
CHAIRPERSON OF FICCI ... FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
US AMBASSADOR TO INDIA
Rajinder khanna
Prakash Mishra
Jyotsna Suri
Richard Rahul Verma
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World Cup kabaddi
Won by India both men and women
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India exported its first warship
Cgs barracuda an offshore patrol vessel to Mauritius
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Sahitya Akademi award
| Died three days later
Manthan by Konkani writer Madhavi sardesai
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World youth under 16 chess Olympiad
Held at gyor Hungary
| Won by top seed India
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New canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific started by
Nicaragua
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New set of norms defining non-corporative borrowers
By rbi
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RBI granted license to start operations as a non-banking financial company NBFC
To ford credit India
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To promote and develop small businesses the world trade centre India services council WTCIS Signed on agreement with
National Institute for entrepreneur shop and small business development NIESBUD
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Russia and four other ex-Soviet nations Belarus kazakhsatan Armenia and kyrgystan completed the creation of
A new economic alliance eurasian economic union intended to bolster their integration
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Coal India Ltd the world's largest producer and GAIL signed
Agreement to invest 9000 cr in the plant to convert coal into gas and use this fuel to manufacture fertiliser
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CAME in force UN arms trade treatyATT
To regulate the international trade in conventional arms
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Managing director of coal India Limited
S Bhattacharya
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Mission indradhanush
Aims to cover all not vaccinated or partially vaccinated children by the year 2020 against seven vaccine
Preventable diseases
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RBI relaxed norms for overseas direct investment in order to
Encourage Indian companies to expand their global footprint and showcase entrepreneurial skills
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Insurance regulatory and development authority changed its name to
Insurance regulatory and development authority of India
108
NAND Chaturvedi died
Yah Samay mamuli nah in
Shabd sansar Ki yayavari
Imandar duniya ke life
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Industrial Finance Corporation of India IFCI
Govt infused 60 Cr to make it a government company raising its stake to 51%
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The government and the Asian development bank signed a loan and grant agreement for
Karnataka integrated urban water management investment program to improve water resource management in the upper tungabhadra sub basin of Karnataka...
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