COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING DECEMBER CURRENT AFFAIRS 2016 appointed former Sebi chief C B Bhave as nonexecutive Chairman and Independent Director. Appointments 29. Maha Vajiralongkorn became King of Thailand, after his 1. A. K. Dhasmana is appointed as new Chief of Research& Father Bhumibol Adulyadej died (Follwoing a record 70 years Analysis Wing (RAW). Rajiv Jain is appointed as chief of reign). Intelligence Bureau. 30. Mian Saqib Nisar appointed as 25th Chief Justice of Pakistan. 2. Actor Salman Khan named as ambassador of Brihan-mumbai 31. Nana AkufoAddo won presidential election of Ghana (West Municipal Corporation' drive against open defecation and litter Africa). under Swatch Bharat Mission. 32. National Party’s Bill English has been appointed as new (39th) 3. Actress Priyanka Chopra named as brand ambassador for Prime Minister of New Zealand Assam tourism. 33. Naveed Mukhtar is appointed as new chief of Pakistan’s spy 4. Adwaita Gadanayak has been appointed as Director General of agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA). 34. Navy Chief Sunil Lanba is appointed as Chairman of the Chiefs 5. Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa will be new Chief of Indian of Staff committee (COSC). Air Force, on retirement of Current IAF Chief Arup Raha. 35. Nigeria’s Environment Minister Amina Mohammed appointed 6. Airline AirAsia India appointed Amar Abrol as Managing as Deputy Secretary-General of United Nations. Director. 36. P R Sreejesh appointed as Goalkeeping coach of Under 21 7. Akbar Ebrahim elected as president of Chennai based Hockey Team. Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI). 37. P.V. Ramesh Babu appointed as Chairman & Managing 8. Akshaykumar M Kale elected as President of 90th Akhil Director as Rural Electrification Corporation of India. Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan. 38. Paolo Gentiloni has been named as Italy’s new Prime 9. Alexander Van der Bellen elected as new president of Austria. Minister. 10. All India Football Federation President Praful Patel has been 39. Praful Patel reelected as president of All India Football appointed as a Senior VicePresident of Asian Football Federation (AIFF) for the term 20172020. Confederation. 40. Praveen Mahajan became first woman President of All India 11. Anil Baijal has been appointed as 21st Lieutenant Governor of Tennis Association (AITA). Delhi, by Prez Pranab Mukherjee. 41. Pulkit Trivedi appointed as industry director of Facebook’s 12. Anil Kumar Jain appointed as National President of The Bharat India Business. Scouts and Guides. 42. Rajendra Kumar is appointed as a Member of Central Board of 13. Antonio Guterres (Portugal) appointed as 9th UN Secretary Direct Taxes (CBDT). General, replacing Ban Kimoon. 43. Rakesh Asthana appointed as Director in Central Bureau of 14. B.S. Bhullar has been appointed as chief of Directorate Investigation (CBI). General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). 44. Ravindra Gupta appointed as New Member (Rolling Stock), 15. Barbara Jatta chosen by Pope Francis as first woman to head Railway Board. Vatican Museums. She is now highestranking female 45. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue new Rs 500 administrator in Vatican City. denomination banknotes in Mahatma Gandhi (new) series with 16. Bernard Cazeneuve has been named as new Prime Minister of inset letter 'R'. Earlier, Notes were issued with inset letter 'E' after France. demonetisation. 17. Bipin Rawat is appointed as as new Chief of Indian Army, to 46. SP Vaid is appointed as Director General of Jammu and take office from Jan 1, 2017 after succeeding Dalbir Singh Suhaag. Kashmir Police. 18. German luxury car manufacturer Audi appointed Rahil Ansari 47. Savita Vaidhyanathan became first Indian American woman to as head of Audi India. get elected as new Mayor of key Californian city of Cupertino. 19. Girija Vaidyanathan is appointed as new Chief Secretary of - Cupertino is known globally known for Apple headquarters Tamil Nadu. situated in it. 20. Hwang Kyoahn became acting President of South Korea. 48. Shavkat Mirziyoyev elected as new President of Uzbekistan 21. IDFC Bank appointed Veena Mankar as NonExecutive (Central Asia). Chairperson. 49. Soli J Sorabjee reelected as President of cultural institution 22. Indian Actress Priyanka Chopra was appointed as UNICEF’s India International Centre (IIC). Global Goodwill Ambassador. 50. Sorin Grindeanu is appointed as new Prime Minister of 23. Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has appointed Suresh Romania. Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala as its life presidents. 51. Sultan Muhammad V appointed as King of Malaysia. 24. IndianAmerican PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi appointed as a 52. Sunil Arora is appointed as Director General and Chief member of US President elect Donald Trump’s 19member Executive Officer (CEO) of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs Strategic and Policy Forum. (IICA). 25. Indianorigin Saudibased entrepreneur Shaikh Rafik 53. Sunil Taldar has been appointed as Chief of Airtel's DTH Mohammed Major General of Kyrgyzstan. business. 26. J Ravichandran has been appointed as interim MD & CEO of 54. Takam Pario elected as the new Chief Minister of Arunachal National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). Pradesh. 27. Jagdish Singh Khehar will be next (44th) Chief Justice of India. 55. US Electoral College formally elected Donald Trump as He will succeed TS Thakur. President. He secured the 270 votes needed to formalise his 28. MSMEfocused financing firm Vistaar Financial Services victory. Under US law, electors must formally vote for the 1 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING president and vice president before they can lead the country. 9. Bharat Earth Movers Limited Ltd (BEML) won ‘CII National 56. US President elect Donald Trump named Thomas Bossert as Quality 2016 Award', jointly instituted by Confederation of Indian His Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Industries (CII) and Export Import Bank (EXIM). 57. US President elect Donald Trump picked ExxonMobil CEO Rex 10. British Multimedia artist Helen Marten won Turner Prize Tillerson as USA's Secretary of State. (Britain’s top award for contemporary art). Marten also earlier 58. US based soft drink maker Coca-Cola named James Quincey as won inaugural Hepworth Prize. new CEO. Muhtar Kent stepped down as CEO but will continue to 11. Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (Tamil Nadu) selected be chairman of board. for Digital India Silver Award by Ministry of Electronics and 59. Uttar Pradesh government appointed Deepak Agarwal as CEO Information Technology, in Most Innovative Citizen Engagement of Noida Authority. category. 60. V G Kannan appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 12. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos honoured with Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). Lampara peace prize or Catholic Nobel for his efforts to reach 61. V.K. Sasikala appointed general secretary of Tamilnadu's FARC deal and establish Peace in his Nation. Polictical Party AIDMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra 13. Corporation Bank won ‘Best MSME Bank Award 2016’ and Kazhagam). Vijaya Bank won ‘Best Bank for SME Lending award’ by Assocham. 62. VK Sharma is appointed as Chairman of Life Insurance 14. Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar honored with Golden Jubilee Lifetime Corporaion of India (LIC) for 5 years. Achievement Award by Sports Journalists’ Association of Mumbai 63. Vijay Sazawal, Indian American expert on India US civil nuclear (SJAM). deal has been reappointed to Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory 15. Dec 1 Raising day of Border Security Force. It was raised on Committee (CINTAC) of US Department of Commerce. Dec 1, 1965. 64. Vinod Vashisht appointd as Director General of National 16. Defence PSU BEML conferred with CEPM Fellowship Award Cadet Corps (NCC). 2016 for its commitment in transforming and driving 65. Viral V Acharya is appointed as new Deputy Governor of organisational capabilities through humancentric approach. Reserve Bank of India (RBI). 17. Hindi writers Shraddha and Ghyansham Kumar Devansh - He will fill post that fell vacant after Urjit Patel being mde made chosen for Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award for 2016. RBI Governor. Shraddha was chosen for her short story Hawa Mein Phadphadati - Other 3 Deputy Governors of RBI are S S Mundra, R Gandhi and Chitthi and Devansh for his poem Akash Mein Deh. Bharatiya N S Vishwanathan. Jananpith Navlekhan award is given by Bharatiya Jnanpith trust to young authors in Hindi for their first creations. Awards 18. IAAF World Athlete of the Year Awards 2016 1. Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank won two awards for inclusive - Male - Usain Bolt (Jamaica). Awarded for sixth time. insurance from Skoch Group for 2016 life insurance and micro - Female Almaz Ayana (Ethiopia). insurance sectors. Corporation Bank also won SKOCH silver award - Other Awards for being top channel partner of LIC of India for past three years. - Rising Star - Canada's Andre De Grasse (Male), Belgium's - To ensure greater participation in financial inclusion in rural Nafissatou Thiam (Female). areas, Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB) Launched Bank - President’s Award - Tegla Loroupe. Sakhi Scheme as to promote cashless transaction. - Women in Athletics - Polyxeni Argeitaki (Greece) 2. Priyanka Chopra Ranked 55th in IMDb's most popular 19. India's Srinidhi Shetty won Miss Supranational 2016 title held celebrities’ list. She is only Indian in List, which is Topped by in Poland. Algerian Artist Sofia Boutella. Priyanka also became first Indian to 20. Indian filmmaker Onir's documentary Raising The Bar won be appointed as global ambassador of the hair care brand Award of Recognition at Hollywood International Independent Pantene. Documentary Awards. 3. 23rd Star Screen Awards, hosted by Salman Khan and Shah 21. Indian music Director A.R. Rahman nominated for Academy Rukh Khan Awards (89th Oscars Awards) for his composition of title track of - Shoojit Sircar Directed Pink won four awards Best Film, Best 'Pele: Birth of a Legend'. He has been nominated in Best Original Actor (Amitabh Bachchan), Best Editing Aditya Bannerji, Best Score and Best Original Song Categories. Dialogue Ritesh Shah. - Rahman has won an Oscar for his music 'Slumdog Millionaire' in 4. Actor Shahrukh Khan conferred honorary doctorate (honorary 2009 (Song Jai Ho). PhD) at 6th convocation of Maulana Azad National Urdu 22. Indian origin British chemistry professor and DNA expert at University in Hyderabad. Cambridge University Shankar Balasubramanian received 5. Amrican Singer Katy Perry honoured with Audrey Hepburn Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for their contributions. Humanitarian Award for her work as UNICEF Goodwill 23. Indian physicst Kavita Sanghvi named among top 50 Ambassador. shortlisted for Global Teacher Prize 2017 by Varkey Foundation. 6. Autobiography of Indian Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar Playing it 24. Jeje Lalpekhlua named as 2016 All India Football Federation my way won Crossword Book of the Year Award in Autobiography (AIFF) Player of the Year. category. 25. Kaisa Matomaki (Finland) and Maksym Radziwill (Canada) 7. Badminton Player PV Sindhu won Badminton World Federation jointly won 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan award, for their (BWF) 2016's Most Improved Player of Year award in Dubai collaborative work on short intervals in number theory in 8. Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh chosen for prestigious Jnanpith Mathematics. It was announced during International Conference Award for 2016. He is 52nd Overall and 6th Bengali recipient of on Number Theory at SASTRA University at Kumbakonam (Tamil this honour. Nadu). Kaisa Matomaki is first woman to receive this prize since it 2 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING began in 2005. - Short stories - Chahatrapal (Dogri), Shyan Darihare (Maithili), 26. Kolkata City (West Bengal) won C40 Award for best solid Moirangthem Rajen (Manipuri), Asaram Lomate (Marathi), waste management improvement project of 2016 during C40 Paramita Satpathy (Odia), Bulaki Sharma (Rajasthani) Mayors Summit in Mexico City. Vannadhasan (Tamil). 27. La La Land (Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling) chosen as - Poetry - Jnan Pujari (Assamese), Anju (Bodo), Kamal Vora Best film in 2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards. (Gujarati), Prabha Varma (Malayalam), Sitanath Acharya 28. Lord's Cricket Ground's top 20 players 2016 List (Sanskrit), Gobinda Chandra Majhi (Santhali), Nand Javeri (Sindhi) - Indian Player Virat Kohli is ranked at top, Followed by Jonny and Papineni Sivasankar (Telugu). Bairstow (England), Ravichandran Ashwin (India) and Rangana 36. Scottish tennis player Andy Murray won BBC sports Herath (Sri Lanka). personality of Year 2016 Award. He became first person to win it 29. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare won gold in the Web 3 times. Ratna category at 2016 Digital India awards. 37. Stephanie del Valle of Puerto Rico named as winner of Miss 30. Noted Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori will be honoured with World 2016 beauty Pageant held in USA. First runner-up was Gangadhar National Award for 2015 by Sambalpur University Yaritza Miguelina Reyes Ramirez of Dominican Republic, followed (Odisha). by Natasha Mannuela of Indonesia. 31. Portugese Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo won 2016 FIFA Ballon 38. Tata Sons interim Chairman Ratan Tata presented with d’Or Award (world’s best football player). He won it for fourth ‘Global Agriculture Leadership Award 2016’ of Indian Council of time (Earlier in 2008, 2013 and 2014). Food and Agriculture (ICFA). 32. Rajasthan Patrika's Varun Bhatt and The Week have been 39. Three Indianorigin teenagers Shriya and Adhya (Twins) and jointly awarded International Press Institute’s (IPI) India Award Vineet Edupuganti won scholarship of USD 1 lakh for their for Excellence in Journalism 2016. innovative research in 17th annual Siemens Math, Science and 33. Rajasthani litterateur Satya Narayan chosen for 26th Bihari Technology Competition. Puraskar 2016 by K K Birla Foundation, for his Hindi book Yeh Ek 40. UAE based Indian environmental activist Kehkashan Basu won Dunia. 2016 prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize. 34. SIESSri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati National Eminence 41. US President Elect Donald Trump has been named as TIME's Awarda 2016 Person of The Year 2016. Although indian Prime Minister - Science & Technology - A S Kiran Kumar (ISRO chairman). Narendra Modi won online reader’s poll for TIME magazine’s - Public Leadership - Devendra Fadnavis (Mahrashtra Chief Person of Year 2016 with 18% votes. Minister) 42. US Secretary of State John Kerry has been has been awarded - Social Thinkers, Philosophers and Pravachana Karthas - Kamala Officer of the Legion of Honour, highest French civilian honour. Murthy (Hari Katha exponent) 43. USA Magazine Esquire named Indian Actors Deepika - International - John Marr (UK Based scholar in Sanskrit, Tamil Padukone and Ranveer Singh as International women and man of and Telugu) the year 2016, respectively. 35. Sahitya Academy Awards 2016 44. Vijaya Bank named as Best Bank for SME Lending at 4th SMEs - 24 poets and authors will be conferred 2016 Sahitya Akademi Excellence Awards by Associate Chambers of Commerce and Awards 8 poetry, 7 short stories, 5 novels, 2 criticism books and 1 Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). book each of essays and play. Winners are 45. e-Com Firm Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal - Play - Swarajbir (Punjabi). have been named as Asian of the Year 2016 by Singapore based - Essay - Nrisinghaprasad Bhaduri (Bengali). newspaper The Straits Times as part of a group called the The - Criticism - Aziz Hajini (Kashmiri) and Nizam Siddiqui (Urdu). Disruptors.

Books 1. Book Betiyan by Kiran Chopra (Founder of Varishth Nagrik Kesari Club), has been released. 2. Book Courts of India Past to Present has been released. It is compiled by Supreme Court Editorial Committee headed by SA Bobde. 3. Book Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder has been authored by Vimal Mohan, Digvijay Singh Deo and Dipa Karmakar’s coach Bishweshwar Nandi. 4. Book Emperor Chandragupta, authored by Adity Kay has been released. 5. Book I am a troll, authored by Swati Chaturvedi has been released. 6. Book India US Relations in the Age of Uncertainty: An uneasy courtship, authored by BM Jain has been launched. 7. Book Many Everest : An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dream into Reality, by Ravindra Kumar. He is a 2011 batch IAS officer and Mount Everest climber. 8. Book The Other One Percent: Indians in America, authored by Sanjoy Chakravorty and Devesh Kapur has been released. 9. Book Watership Sown has been authored by Richard Adams. 10. Online book retailer Amazon named Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as bestselling book of 2016, written by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. - It says that number of forest fires have touched 24,817 in 2016 Committees from 15,937 fires in 2015. It shows rise of 55% in past year. 1. According to report by Committee on Science and Technology - Recommendations Include Forming National policy on managing headed by Renuka Choudhary, there is alarming rise in forest fires forest fires, largescale incentives and programmes (including across India. under MNREGA) to collect pines for use as fuel, and other incineration. 3 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 2. Committee on Digital Payments under Chairmanship of Ratan - Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal launched 'AtalAmrit Abhiyan' P. Watal (Principal Advisor IN NITI Aayog) submitted its Report to Scheme across State, as a health assurance scheme which will Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. give comprehensive coverage for six diseases and cover all 3. Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) constituted a individuals in eligible families with annual income below Rs 5 committee to fight against online piracy. Committee will be lakh. chaired by Ajit Mohan (Hotstar). - JUTE - SMART portal Launched to facilitate purchase of Jute bags 4. Ministry of Law and Justice constituted Committee to review from Jute Industry by State Procurement Agencies. institutionalisation of arbitration mechanism in India, under B N 17. Dec 3 - Birth Anniversary of Dr. Rajendra Prasad (First Srikrishna. President of India). 5. Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice asked 18. Dec 3 - United Nations' International Day of Persons with for transparency in appointment process on SC Judges. Disabilities. 2016 theme is Achieving 17 goals for the future we Committee was headed by Deputy Leader of Opposition (Rajya want. Sabha), Anand Sharma. 19. Dec 4 - 45th Indian Navy Day. 6. Water Resources Ministry reconstituted a committee meant to 20. Dec 5 - United Nations (UN) International Volunteer Day. assist Krishna River Management Board (KRMB). New committee 2016 theme is Global Applause give volunteers a hand. will be headed by A.K. Bajaj, former chairman of the Central 21. Dec 5 - World Soil Day. 2016 theme is Soils and pulses, a Water Commission (CWC). symbiosis for life. 7. government formed committee to look into all the strategic 22. Dec 6 - Death Anniversary of B R Ambedkar, framer of Indian aspects of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan. It will be Constitution. Government will observe B R Ambedkar's birth headed by Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Nripendra Mishra. anniversary (April 14) as Water Day. 23. Dec 7 - Armed Forces Flag Day. Days 24. Dec 7 - UN International Civil Aviation Day. 2016 Theme is 1. 11 Dec.: International Mountain Day. 2016 theme is Mountain Working together to ensure no country is left behind. Cultures: Celebrating diversity and strengthening identity 25. Dec 9 - International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD). 2016 Theme 2. Dec 1 Statehood day of Northeastern state of Nagaland. is United against corruption for development, peace and security. Hornbill Festival began in Naga Heritage village of Kisama on this - On this occasion, Kerala government launched two mobile occasion. applications Arising Kerala and Whistle Now. 3. Dec 1 World AIDS Day. 2016 theme is Hands up for #HIV prevention. Defence 4. Dec 10 UN Human Rights Day. 2016 Theme is Stand up for 1. 2016 Indra NAVY joint naval exercise between India and Russia someone’s rights today. will be held in December 2016 in Visakhapatnam. 5. Dec 12 WHO's Universal Health Coverage Day. 2. 7th India Maldives Joint Army Exercise EKUVERIN 2016 held in 6. Dec 14 National Energy Conservation Day. Maldives. - NTPC approved replacing around 11,000 MW of its old, 3. Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) delivered 20th Fast Patrol Vessel inefficient thermal power plants with new plants in about five (FPV) ICGS AYUSH to Indian Coast Guard. years, with investment of 50,000 crores. 4. Defence and Research Development Organization (DRDO) - Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New successfully flight tested Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW). and Renewable Energy and Mines Piyush Goyal gave away SAAW is a 120 kilogram class smart weapon, capable of engaging National Energy Conservation Awards for 201516. Out of total ground targets with high precision up to a range of 100 kms. 156 Awardees, Railways won highest (27) awards. 5. For the first time, Elite counterterror force of India National 7. Dec 16 - Vijay Diwas. It marks India's Huge military victory over Security Guards (NSG) will participate in Republic Day Pakistan in 1971 during Bangladesh Liberation War. celebrations on January 26, 2017. 8. Dec 18 - International Migrants Day. 6. India UK Joint Naval Exercise KONKAN 16 started in Mumbai. It 9. Dec 19, 2016 - 55th liberation Day of State of Goa. will be held in 2 phaes. 10. Dec 2 - National Pollution Control Day (NPCD). 7. India successfully test fired long range intercontinental surface 11. Dec 2 - UN International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. to surface nuclear capable ballistic 3 stage missile Agni5. 12. Dec 20 - United Nations International Human Solidarity Day. - Agni 5 can hit targets within range of 5000 kilometres with 13. Dec 22 - National Mathematics Day. In 2016, It marks 129th nuclear warhead carrying capacity of more than 1 tonne. Birth Anniversary of great Indian Mathematician Srinivasa 8. Indian Navy’s eight landing craft utility (LCU) L58 launched by Ramanujan. Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) in Kolkata. It 14. Dec 23 - Kisan Diwas (Farmer's Day).It marks birth anniversary is last vessel in series of eight ships of LCU MKIV project. of fifth prime minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh. 9. Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) become first force in world to 15. Dec 24 - National Consumer Day. It marks Dec 24, 1986 when induct yaks for strategically pivotal logistic support duties. Yaks Consumer Protection Act received assent of the President. 2016 are commonly referred as the ‘ships of the cold deserts’. theme is Alternate Consumer Disputes Redressal. 10. Long range nuclear capable subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay - On This occasion, Government launched ‘Smart Consumer’ testfired, ending up in a failure. 3 of its 4 tests so far have not mobile App and an ‘Online Consumer Mediation Centre (OCMC)’ been successful. Nirbhay is a long range missile (700 1000 KM). to provide speedy redressal of consumer grievances. Helpline - It is a terrain hugging missile which keeps on encircling the area 14404 was also launched for consumer related grievances. of its target for several minutes and then hits accurately. It is 16. Dec 25 - Good Governance Day. It Marks Birth Anniversary of difficult to detect by enemy’s radars. It is considered as India’s Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. answer to US’s Tomahawk and Pakistan’s Babur missile. 4 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 11. Supreme Court directed that Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel 14. Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd (CMPDI), cannot sport a beard on religious grounds. And that this ruling consultancy arm of Coal India signed MOU with investment does not violate Fundamental rights of Air Force Personnel as banker SBI Capital Markets. Indian Citizen. 15. Cyber security agency CERT in cautioned against skimming and malware attacks on micro ATMs and Point of Sale (POS) Economy terminals. Digital payments have seen huge surge after 1. Government allowed NABARD to disburse loan of Rs. 21,000.00 demonetisation. Potential threats are crore in form of concessional refinance to State Cooperative - Skimming - Theft of card data using a small electronic device Banks on behalf of District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) in fitted in POS machine. order to enable them to meet crop loan requirements of farmers, - Social engineering attack - Fraudster poses as a member of staff particularly after Demonetization. and can steal user's data. - It is part of a fund namely Short Term Cooperative Rural Credit 16. Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) revised (Refinance) (STCRC) Fund in National Bank for Agriculture & Rural North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIP) Development (NABARD) for providing concessional short term 2007, for mandatory disbursal of subsidies payable to all refinance to Cooperative Banks, with size 45000 Crores for 2016- industrial units in northeast through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) 17. mechanism by Chief Controller of Accounts (Industry). 2. 3.6 Crore Farmers (26.5 % of farmer population in India) have 17. Ecommerce Firm PayTm announced Each one, teach one been provided Crop Insurance under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima campaign to encorage users to teach others to use Paytm, with Yojana (PMFBY) launched in 2016. Sum insured is of Rs. 141339 several prizes including 1 Crore Rs. crores. 18. Edible oil firm Ruchi Soya Industries in association with State 3. AU Financiers (India) became 7th Entity (and only nonbanking Bank of India (SBI) launched an initiative to provide banking finance company (NBFC)) to receive final licence from Reserve assistance to farmers. Bank of India (RBI) to start a small finance bank. 19. Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) lowered 4. According to a United Nations Economic and Social interest rate on provident fund deposits to 8.65% for the current Commission for Asia and the Pacific’s (ESCAP) report, India’s fiscal, from 8.8% in 201516. economic growth will be 7.6 % in 2017. 20. Federal Bank tied up with Spice Digital for cash management 5. Allahabad Bank merged its wholly owned subsidiary All-Bank services through bank’s e-collection facility. 20,000 retail outlets Finance (ABFL) with itself. of Spice Digital can now remit its cash collection at Federal Bank 6. Andhra Pradesh Government launched AP Purse mobile branches. application to promote digital transactions. It features 13 mobile 21. Government announced package of incentives for promotion banking and 10 mobile wallet options, helping people can pay of digital and cashless economy their bills and carry out their cashless transactions. - Petroleum companies will offer a discount of 0.75% on diesel 7. Asian Development Bank (ADB) lowered its growth forecast for and petrol on digital payments. Indian economy to 7.0%, from 7.4% earlier. Growth forecast for - .5% discount for buying monthly seasonal tickets in Suburban 2016 is 7.8%. railway networks through digital payment. 8. Bank of Baroda and Heritage Foods Ltd signed MOU to provide - Passengers will get 10 lakh rupees free accident insurance cover dairy loans to Farmers through BOB branches across country. on booking of Railway ticket through online mode. 9. Bank of Baroda launched agricultural investment credit scheme - Payments through digital mode for railways catering, for farmers of Rajasthan. accommodation, retiring room will also attract 5% discount. 10. Bank of Maharashtra adopted Malangaon Village in Sangli - People will be get 10% discount on General Insurance and 8% district of Maharashtra, to make it completely cashless. discount on new life Insurance policies of PSUs purchased online. 11. Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) approved - Discount of 10% will be available to users for payment of toll at Exiting 7 Loss Making Central PSUs (sale of 100 % of Government Toll Plazas on National Highways. Equity), including Scooters India, Pawan Hans and Hindustan - NABARD will extend financial support of 228 Crores to eligible Newsprint Limited. Government will also sell 26% stake in Bharat banks for deployment of two Point of Sale (PoS) devices each in 1 Earth Movers Ltd, reducing its stake in BEML from 54% to 28 %. Lakh villages with population of less than 10,000. 12. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) extended last date for - NABARD will also support Rural Regional Banks (RRBs) and availing the Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme to January 31, Cooperative Banks to issue Rupay Kisan Cards to over 4 crore 32 2017. lakh Kisan Credit Card (KCC) holders to enable them to make - Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme provides for waiving digital transactions. interest and penalties if the principal amount involved in - Merchants will not over 100 rupees monthly rental for PoS retrospective tax cases is paid. It aims at releasing about Rs. 5.16 terminals, Micro ATMs. lakh crore, which is locked in about 2.6 lakh pending direct tax - No service service charge on digital transactions upto INR 2000. cases. - All state Government Departments will make Electronic - Under it, a disputed tax amount of up to Rs 10 lakh and the Payments to suppliers, contractors or institutions, on orders penalty will be forgone. However, in cases where the disputed tax exceeds Rs 5000 amount is above Rs 10 lakh, a penalty of 25% will be levied. 22. Government approved Ordinance to penalise persons holding 13. Central Government provided Special Assistance of Rs. 450 banned 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. Possession of demonetized crores to Telengana state for 2016-17. notes will attract a monetary fine of 10,000 rupees or five times the cash held, whichever is higher.

5 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 23. Government approved ordinance to allow states and under Ajay Tyagi. FDMC will Standardise data from all financial industries to pay workers’ wages digitally (through direct bank sector regulators in a single database and provide analytical transfer or cheque). insights based on the data to ensure stability in economy. - It proposes changes to Section 6 of Payment of Wages Act 1936, 29. Government provided additional grace period of 60 days to that states that all payment of wages should be in cash. farmers, whose crop loan dues fall due between 1st November, - It will allow industries to pay wages to workers earning up to Rs. 2016 and 31st December, 2016 Following demonetization of Bank 18,000 month, without taking their explicit consent as required Notes. under Payment of Wages Act 1936. - Government provides crop loans at subvented rates of interest 24. Government issued funds over30 crores for 21 states and @ 7 % per annum. On prompt repayment in first year, farmers union territories under Solar Cities Development Programme. are eligible for further subsidized rate of Interest of 4 % per 25. Government launched Aadhaar Payment App to simplify annum. digital transactions by doing away with need of carrying plastic 30. Government removed minimum export price (MEP) USD 360 cards and point of sale machines. Two sides to this Aadhaar per tonne on potato. Payment app are consumer app and merchant app. - Minimum Export Rate(MEP) is rate below which no trader is - Consumer front Here, App is just like any mobile wallet which allowed to export, meant to restrict exports and improve will be used to transfer money. Customer needs to enter Aadhar domestic supply. number into app, select bank through which the transaction will 31. Government will amend Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 to take place and then the biometric scan will work as a password extinguish (stop) validity of old Rs 500 and Rs 1000. for authentication. 32. Government will roll out Public Financial Management System - Merchant Front Merchants require two things to use this app (PFMS) from April 2017, along with Goods and Services Tax (GST). Android smartphone and fingerprint scanner. It will allow government to monitor over than Rs.1 lakh crore of - This app can also be used by a person to make payments idle funds lying with it under various heads. Once government without any phone. It has been developed by IDFC Bank along access these funds through PFMS, it need does not need to with UIDAI and National Payments Corporation of India. borrow that amount. 26. Government launched Integrated Voice Response System 33. Government will soon launch tollfree helpline number ‘14444’ (IVRS) system in a bid to tackle the call drop menace, with short to promote digital payments. code 1955 being allotted for same. 34. Gujarat Government issued state's Aerospace and Defence 27. Government launched Lucky Grahak Yojana to encourage Policy 2016 to attract investment in aerospace and defence. It consumers and Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana to encourage merchants entitles several facilities including 100% reimbursement on stamp for transition to digital payments, launched by NITI (National duty and registration charges paid for purchase, lease or Institution for Transforming India) Aayog. mortgage of land meant for setting up facility in Aerospace and - National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) will be Defence. implementing agency. 35. HDFC received permission from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to - Transactions using USSD, UPI, RuPay and AEPS will only be raise Rs. 3,000 crore by issuing ‘masala bonds’, after it exhausted covered under these schemes. a Rs. 5,000 crore limit to issue these bonds. - Digital payments made through credit cards and ewallets won’t - Through ‘masala bond’ route, an Indian company raises money be covered. overseas denominated in Indian rupees. - Incentives will be restricted to transactions within the range of 36. Home Ministry cancelled licences of 20 thousand NGOs for Rs 50 and Rs 3000. violating various provisions of Foreign Contribution Regulation - Winners shall be identified through a random draw of eligible Act (FCRA) banning these NGOs from receiving foreign funds. Transaction IDs. 37. ICICI Bank launched EazyPay mobile application for merchants - Lucky Grahak Yojana that allows allinone acceptance payments platform. It has all - Consumers making payment through digital mode will get digital wallets, QR code, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and chance to win minimum Rs 1000 each every day or Rs 1 lakh per credit & debit cards modes of payments. week. 38. In 201516, India received maximum Foreign Direct Investment - 15,000 winners will get cashback prizes of Rs 1000 each every (FDI) inflows from Singapore ($13.69 Billion) followed by day starting on 25 December 2016 (Christmas) and ending on 14 Mauritius, USA, he Netherlands and Japan. It is stated in a report April 2017 (Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanthi). by PHDCCI and KPMG. - There will be weekly awards worth Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10,000 and Rs 39. In order to absorb extra liquidity, Reserve Bank sharply raised 5,000 for 7000 people. On last day of scheme mega prize winner Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) ceiling to Rs 6 lakh crore from award of Rs 1 Crore will be announced. Rs 30,000 crores. - Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana 40. In order to promote cashless transactions, Government - This scheme is for prmoting merchants to have POS (Point of directed banks to install one million (10 Lakh) new PoS (Point of Sale) machines for undertaking cashless transactions. Sale) terminals by 31st March 2017. - Merchants doing business using POS are eligible to win Rs.50000 41. India Signed Grant Agreement with IBRD (International Bank per week from 25 December 2016 to 14 April 2017. for Reconstruction and Development) for USD 5.19 million for - 3 Mega Prizes for merchants will be of Rs 50 lakhs, 25 lakh, 12 Additional Financing for Financing Energy Efficiency at MSMEs lakh for digital transactions between 8 November 2016 to 13 Project Programmatic Framework for Energy Efficiency. April 2017, to be announced on 14 April 2017. 42. India received over US $310.26 billion US Foreign Direct 28. Government proposed setting up Financial Data Management Investment (FDI) between April 2000 and September 2016, Centre (FDMC) based on recommendation of a committee set up crossing USD 300 Billion Milestone. 6 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING - 33% of FDI came through Mauritius route. Other big investors 54. RBL Bank launched 'Aadhaar Payment Bridge System' (APBS) are from Singapore, US, UK and Netherlands. for small ticket microfinance loan disbursements. - Sector wise Services sector received max 18% of FDI inflows. 55. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that Foreign exchange 43. Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) announced discount of reserves of India has declined by 887.2 million dollars to 362.987 0.75 % on petrol and diesel fuel purchases, if paid through digital billion dollars due to fall in foreign currency assets. means. 56. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) capped Merchant Discount Rates 44. Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and (MDR) for debit card transactions up to Rs. 1,000 at 0.25% and for Hindustan Petroleum signed pact to build India's biggest oil transactions above Rs. 1,000 and up to Rs. 2,000 at 0.5% in order refinery at a cost of $30 billion In Maharashtra, with capacity to incentivise greater adoption of digital payment methods. RBI 60million tonne a year. IOC will hold 50 % stake with BPCL and also asked banks and prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers HPCL holding 25 % each. not to levy any charges for transactions upto Rs. 1000 settled 45. Indian Railways tiedup with State Bank of India (SBI) to install using Immediate Payment Service (USSD) based *99# and Unified 10000 Point of Sale (POS) machines at Public Reservation System Payment Interface (UPI) systems. (PRS) counters of Railways. 57. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) opened a banking ombudsman 46. Indian ecommerce Firm Paytm launched toll-free number office in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. It is third ombudsman office in 180018001234 to enable transaction through mobile phones North India after Kanpur and Chandigarh. With this, the total without internet connection. numbers of RBI ombudsman offices are increased to 17. 47. MMTC(Metals and Minerals Trading gold Corporation) tied up 58. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) opposed a move to establish a with State Bank of India (SBI) to sell government minted Indian separate entity to regulate payments and settlements, as Gold Coin(24 Karat), which will be available in denominations of recommended by Ratan Watal Committee for Digital Payments. 5gm, 10gm and 20 gm bar. - One of committee’s recommendations was to make regulation 48. MoU signed between NTPC and National Aluminium Company of retail payments independent from function of RBI, by Limited (NALCO) for setting up a Joint Venture (JV) Company to establishing separate Payments Regulatory Board (PRB) and RBI’s establish a 2400 MW coal based power project in Dhenkanal regulation must be kept only for SIPS (systemically important (Odisha). payment system). 49. Mobile wallet firm MobiKwik received approval from RBI to - RBI says that globally, both SIPS and retail payment systems are set up a Bharat Bill Payments Operating Unit (BBPOU). MobiKwik under central bank for a variety of reasons including issues of will be integrated in Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) by interconnectivity between systems and the role of central bank as National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), to offer lender of last resort (LOLR). interoperable and accessible bill payment service to customers 59. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) provided borrowers 90 days for through a network of agents. repayment of housing, car, farm and other loans worth up to 1 50. PM Modi announced key welfare measures crore rupees, for dues payable between 1st November and 31st - Housing - Under Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana (PMAY), poor December 2016. and middle class in cities will get 4% exemption on interest for 60. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue 500 rupee banknotes in home loans up to Rs 9 lakh and 3% exemption for home loans up Mahatma Gandhi New series with inset letter E having star mark to Rs 12 lakh. 33% more houses will be built in villages. in number panel. This will be for the first time star banknotes in - Farmers - 3 crore Kisan credit cards will be converted into RuPay 500 rupees denomination will be issued. cards in 3 months. 20,000 crores will be added to fund under 61. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue new currency notes of NABARD, meant for giving loans to cooperative banks and rupees 20 and 50 denominations in Mahatma Gandhi Series2005. societies at low interest rate. All old notes of these denominations will continue to be legal - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) - Credit tender. guarantee for small businesses is doubled to Rs 2 crore. 62. Reserve Bank of India authorised Receivables Exchange of Banks will raise cash credit limit for small business to 25% from India (RXIL) (promoted by Sidbi and NSE) to launch India's first 20%. Banks will also increase working capital loans from 20% of trade receivables exchange platform for MSMEs, buyers and turnover to 30% for digitally transactions. financiers. - Women and elderly - Pregnant women in above 650 rural 63. Reserve Bank of India announced it has issued currency notes districts will get Rs 6,000 in bank accounts to meet medical worth over Rs 4.27 lakh crores through banks and ATMs after expenses and reduce child, woman mortality. Senior citizens will demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes. get guarantee of 8% interest rate on deposits up to Rs 7.5 lakh for 64. Reserve bank of India (RBI) kept monetary policy rates 10 years. unchanged in its fifth bimonthly review for 201617. 51. PM Narendra Modi launched UPI based mobile payment - Repo Rate - 6.25% application called BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) at Digi Dhan - Reverse Repo 5.75% Mela in New Delhi, BHIM is rebranded version of UPI (Unified - Bank Rate 6.75% Payment Interface) and USSD (Unstructured Supplementary - CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio) 4% Service Data) for simpler digital payments without cash. - SLR(Statutory Liquidity ratio) 20.75% 52. Private insurer HDFC Life forayed into micro-insurance 65. South Indian Bank introduced NRIfocused mobile banking segment by launching two products, Jeevan Suraksha & Credit application SIB Mirror+. Suraksha. 66. Special Assistance Amount released to states (from Demand 53. Private sector's Lakshmi Vilas Bank launched QIP (Qualified No.32 of Union Budget) institutional placement) to raise over Rs 600 crore by issuing 4.25 - Bihar - 200 Crores crore shares in domestic or international markets. - Odisha - 368 Crores 7 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING - J & K - 314 Crores - Sittwe port is starting point for Kaladan Multi Modal Transit - Tamilnadu - 200 Crores (Tirupur Dyeing Industry) Transport Project in Myanmar. Once shipments arrive at Sittwe 67. State Bank of India (SBI) adopted Shirki village in Maharashtra port from Kolkata, they will be transferred to smaller freight for driving the Aadhaarbased merchant payment initiative. carriers which would sail upstream into Mizoram. 68. State Bank of India (SBI) launched State Bank MobiCash - It will Provide alternative route to India to ship goods to Mobile Wallet, in association with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited northeastern States, which currently depend on thick Siliguri (BSNL). Mobi Cash will allow smartphone users to deposit cash corridor sandwiched between Bhutan and Bangladesh (also called through BSNL retail outlets and withdraw funds from their Chicken's Neck of India). account. 7. According to Forbes magazine's Report 69. State Bank of India and real estate portal magicbricks.com - India has surpassed United Kingdom to become world’s sixth- tiedupto to provide SBI's online home loanapproval solutions largest economy in GDP terms, for the first time. It is mainly due easily to potential propety buyers. to Consistent (Around 7 % Growth) in India's GDP and Britain 70. Tata Steel acquired 100% equity in Odisha based Brahmani Facing Slow growth (1-2%) after BREXIT Issues. River Pellets (BRPL) for Rs 900 crores. - India’s economy now stands behind United States, China, Japan, 71. United Bank of India adopted Patunagar and Sachindranagar Germany and France. Villages in Tripura state, to turn them completely cashless. 8. According to IHS Jane’s Defence Budgets report 2016 72. YES Bank Partnered with Cab aggregator Ola and ecommerce - India surpassed Russia, France, Japan and Saudi Arabia to Firm Grofers, to provide cash on demand to customers. become world’s fourth largest defence spender. India spent 50.67 73. Yes Bank launched SIM se PAY service that allows any account Billion USD on defence in 2016 (up from 46.6 Billion USD in 2015). holder to do money transfers, pay utility bills and other mobile - Top 3 United States (662 Billion USD), China (192 Billion USD), banking services, without need for smart phones or internet, UK (53.81 Billion USD). based on simsleeve technology. In Arunachal Pradesh, State 9. According to report Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Cooperative Apex Bank launched Mobile Banking Service named Nations 20082015 by Congressional Research Service (CRS) India SIMsePaY, aimed at helping bank customers in cash crunch is second largest purchaser of arms among developing nations problem. after Saudi Arabia. Between 2008 and 2015, India purchased 74. ecommerce Firm Paytm launched 100member 'merchant defence equipments worth 34 billion USD, second after Saudi helpdesk', aimed at educating merchants on digital payments Arabia’s 93.5 billion USD. across country. 10. According to study by Pew Research Centre - Hindus are best educated of all religious groups in North International America and Europe. 96% of Hindus in US have college degrees 1. 2016 Empathy Global Index 2016. It ranks 170 Top Companies compared to 36% for Christians. - On Other scale, Jews are Most educated among all religious in world in terms of Empathy ( ). त group in world, with average of 13.4 years of schooling. Hindus - Top 3 Emphatic Companies Facebook (1), Alphabet (2), Linkedin and Muslims have the fewest years of formal schooling, with an (3) average of 5.6 years. - 9 Indian companies are ranked among bottom 10 among 170 11. American ecommerce Firm Amazon got US patent for a flying companies. warehouse that will enable Amazon's drones to deliver products 2. 2016 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) by Sydney based thinktank to customers’ doorsteps, known as Airborne fulfillment center Institute for Economics & Peace (AFC). - India is ranked 8th among 163 countries in list of most impacted 12. An pr report Trends in International Mathematics and Science nations by terrorism. 6 out of top 10 nations are Asian. Study (TIMSS) by International Association for the Evaluation of - Iraq is worst hit by terror in 2015, followed by Afghanistan and Educational Achievement, Singapore students are world’s best in Nigeria. Pakistan was ranked fourth. Mathematics and Science. - Economic loss from terrorism is $635 billion over 16 years from 13. Approved MOUs 2000 to 2015. - Amending agreement with Tajikistan for avoidance of double 3. 2016 World Power Language Index (PLI) by World Economic taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on Forum (WEF) income. - English is ranked as most powerful languages in world. Over - MOU with Kyrgyzstan on cooperation in agriculture and food 6,000 languages spoken in world. related industry, Tourism. - Top 10 - English (1st), Mandarin (2nd), French (3rd), Spanish - MOU between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and (4th), Arabic (5th), Russian (6th), German (7th), Japanese (8th), United States Geological Survey (USGS) for Cooperation in Portuguese (9th) and Hindi (10th). exchange and use of US Land Remote Sensing Satellite Data. 4. Black List named A biopic of American Artist Madonna, named - Renewal of MoU between Institute of Chartered Accountants of Blond Ambition (written by Elyse Hollander) as most admired India (ICAI) and College of Banking and Financial Studies, Oman. unproduced film script currently in Hollywood. - MoU between Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and Food 5. A Powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck off coast of and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to improve effectiveness of Sumatra (Indonesia). rural development programmes. 6. A deep water port built in Myanmar’s Sittwe by India is will be - Revised Air Services Agreement with Nigeria started soon. It will open Kolkata Mizoram 14. Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) trade route via Myanmar. signed MoU with UK based Motivation Charitable trust to produce affordable wheel chairs in India. 8 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 15. Assam Government inaugurated a Solar Battery Station at 30. China operationalized world’s longest bullet train line 2252 Bindhakata Tengapukhuri village in Dibrugarh (Assam), which will km Shanghai Kunming line. It links country’s prosperous eastern help in fulfilling power requirements of 4 villages of area. coast to the less developed southwestern part of the country. 16. Bank of England issued new 5 Euro Note that contains 31. China passed a new law to levy environment tax on polluters, controversial substance tallow, derived from animal fat. especially on heavy industries. Tax rate will be 1.2 yuan ($0.17) 17. Canada government agreed on a national carbon pricing plan per unit of atmospheric pollution, 1.4 yuan per unit of water with its provinces. pollution, 5 yuan per tonne of coal waste and 1,000 yuan per 18. Capgemini Consulting’s Digital Transformation Institute' tonne of hazardous waste. Research 32. China successfully launched Fengyun4 satellite, first of its new - India is at Top in Asia and 3rd Globally, In terms of Innovation. generation weather satellites into geostationary orbit. It is also Bengaluru (called Silicon Valley of the east), is 5th largest hub at China’s first quantitative remote sensing satellite in highest orbit. global level. 9 new innovation centres were opened in India in 33. China will build a $1.5billion power line across Pakistan to 2016, leading the total number of innovation centres to 25. enable transmission of 4,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity from - US is at top with 146 centres, followed by Britain (29) and India north to south Pakistan. is third (24 centres). 34. China administered special territory of Hong Kong will 19. Cheng Wei, Cofounder and CEO of China’s largest ridesharing withdraw visa free facility for Indians from January 23, 2017, in service provider Didi Chuxing (Didi) is named as Forbes Asia’s view of preventing rising illegal immigration of Indian asylum Businessman of the Year for 2016. seekers. 20. China Launched latest version of its fifth generation stealth 35. Chinese e-retail Firm Alibaba opened its first office in India in fighter jet J31 (renamed as FC31 Gyrfalcon). Mumbai. 21. China and Pakistan launched direct rail and sea freight service 36. Colombia’s Congress passed law granting amnesty (excusing) with first cargo train departing from China's Yunnan province. to Marxist FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebels 22. China announced ban on all ivory trade and processing as part of historic peace deal reached between rebels and activities by end of 2017. The move follows a resolution at the Government. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) 37. Cuban government signed deal with Google to provide faster in South Africa in October 2016 that was backed by China. access to Google’s data. It will allow Google to install servers in 23. China commissioned its Heaviest (seven-tonne) helicopter Cuba, to store most popular data for giving quick access. AC352. Meant for civil search and rescue operations specially. 38. Earthquake of magnitude 7.4 hit coast of Fukushima (Japan), 24. China has provided 15.80 billion Rupees to Nepal for post- triggering light tsunami waves. quake reconstruction activities. 39. Economic Times Asian Business Leaders ’ Conclave 2016 held 25. China launched a new cargo service linking Tibet and Nepal as in Kualalampur (Malaysia. part of its One Belt and One Road (OBOR) initiative, to boost 40. European Union (EU) and Cuba signed deal to normalise ties. trade with South Asian neighbours. Cuba was previously the only Latin American country not to have 26. China launched global carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring a cooperation deal with EU. satellite TanSat, to understand effects of climate change. China 41. European Union (EU) approved Microsoft’s USD 26 billion became 3rd country after Japan and United States to have its acquisition of LinkedIn Corporation. own satellite to monitor greenhouse gases (GHGs). 42. European Union extended sanctions on Russia for another six 27. China launched its first fully-owned overseas satellite ground months, that were put of Russia after it annexed Ukraine’s Black station located about 200 kms north of the Arctic Circle in Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014. Sweden. It will enable it to collect satellite data anywhere on 43. European Union signed agreement with Mali to return back Earth at fastest speed in world. It is known as China Remote its migrants who reached Europe and whose asylum requests Sensing Satellite North Pole Ground Station. were refused. - Using best and most sensitive signal receiving devices ever built 44. Expedia ‘Vacation Deprivation report 2016 ranked India as 4th by China, It has can download speed of 6 Gigabits (billions of bits) most vacation deprived country. per second. - In India, 63% take fewer days of the vacations that they get. - This facility in Sweden can download data from satellites - Top 3 Spain (68%), UAE (68%), Malaysia (67%) and South Korea orbiting Earth in less than 3.5 hours, compared to domestic (64%). ground stations located in other part of world which require 7 45. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Home Manager AI hours. Shorter time is because satellites orbiting North Pole are System Jarvis, that he hs deployed in his house. It is voiced by able to pass about 12 times each day around Earth while those Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman. Zuckerberg developed Jarvis satellites flying over China can orbit Earth only about 5 times each as part of his personal challenge for 2016. day. 46. Facebook’s virtual reality focused division Oculus acquired 28. China launched two high resolution remote sensing satellites eye-tracking technology startup Denmark based The Eye Tribe. SuperView1 01 and 02 to get commercial images at 0.5meter 47. Forbes' Most Powerful People List 2016 resolution. . iT It is part of China's plans to form a BeiDou network - Indian PM Narendra Modi ranked 9th among 74 people in List. consisting of constellation of 35 satellites for global navigation Other Indians in list are Mukesh Ambani (38) and Satya Nadella services by 2020. (51). 29. China opened Beipanjiang towering bridge hanging 565 - Top 10 metres (1,854 feet) above a gorge in southwestern China to - Vladimir Putin - President of Russia traffic. It is claimed to be the world’s highest bridge. - Donald Trump - President of US - Angela Merkel - Chancellor of Germany 9 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING - Xi Jinping - President of China 61. India eased Visa Procurement Process for Bangladeshi visitors - Pope Francis - Pope of Roman Catholic Church, Vatican City to India. - Janet Yellen - Chairperson of US Federal Reserve 62. India has been designated as a major defence partner of the - Bill Gates - Chairman of Bill & Melinda Foundation United States, putting India on par with closest allies of USA. - Larry Page - Founder of Google Agreement was reached during US Secretary of Defence Ashton - Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of India Carter's visit to India. - Mark Zuckerberg - Cofounder of Facebook 63. India offered tsunami early warning system to South China 48. France became first country to use drones for national mail Sea (SCS) countries like Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines. service. 64. India signed MoU with Bhutan for providing technical 49. French Government will levy terror tax on property insurance cooperation in infrastructure engineering in green and policies of French citizens to help finance a fund for victims of the sustainable construction in Bhutan. extremist attacks that have recently hit France. 65. India will contribute $5 lakh to United Nations’ Central 50. Germany Based Delivery Hero acquired competitor Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for 201617. CERF allocates Foodpanda (HQ Germany) for an undisclosed amount. approx. 45 crore US Dollars annually for humanitarian operations 51. Global Wage Report 201617 released by International Labour in about 50 countries. So far India has contributed 60 Lakh Dollars Organisation (ILO) to the fund. - India has huge gender pay gap (30 %). In India, women formed 66. India will establish a Center of Excellence in Information 60% of the lowest paid wage labour, but only 15% of the highest Technology at Egypt’s oldest and prestigious AlAzhar University. wage earners. 67. India will export additional 240 MW of electricity to Nepal, to - Singapore is among lowest gender wage gap at 3%. Among lessen power shortage of Nepal. It will be done through NTPC major economies, South Korea only fared worse than India, with Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN). a gap of 37%. 68. India-Nepal Folk Crafts Festival (INCF2016) held in Kathmandu 52. Global Wind Power Installed Capacity index by Global Wind (Nepal). Energy Council (GWEC) 69. India’s largest LNG importer Petronet signed MoU with - India ranked 4th with installed wind power generation capacity Bangladesh's Petrobangla to set up $950 million liquefied natural of 25,088 MW in 2015. India has achieved the largest ever wind gas import project of 7.5 million tonnes a year in Bangladesh. power capacity addition of 3,423 MW in 201516, exceeding the 70. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry approved target by 44%. names for elements 113(Nihonium), 115(Moscovium), - Top 5 China (145362 MW), US (74471 MW), Germany (44947 117(Tennessine) and 118(Oganesson). MW), India (25088 MW), Spain (23025 MW). - Nihonium (Nh 113) becme first ever element to be discovered 53. Global e commerce firm Amazon launched its global startup by an Asian country (Japan). program ‘Launchpad’ in India, enabling Indian startups to sell 71. Iran passed a landmark bill of rights, guaranteeing freedom of products overseas. Amazon Launchpad was started in 2015 and speech, protest, fair trials and privacy. Note that Iran is helps startups to sell, market, and delivers their products to gain considered one of biggest human rights violator with an more visibility. unprecedented number of executions in past three decades. 54. Google parent Company Alphabet is named as Company Of 72. Iran signed agreement to buy 80 planes from US firm The Year by Fortune magazine in its annual Blue Ribbon ranking. aerospace Boeing. 55. Gotthard Base Tunnel (Switzerland) began commercial rail 73. Iran signed agreement to buy Airbus to acquire 100 jetliners. services as world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel with 74. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a solid length of 57 kilometers, overtaking Japan’s Seikan tunnel (53.9 fuel rocket named Epsilon2, carrying a satellite (elliptical) for KMs). GBT is first flat lowlevel route through Alps Mountains and studying radiation belts around the earth. is situated 2.3 km deep. 75. Japan Complained against India at World Trade Organisation 56. Government has extended e-Tourist Visa facility to citizens of (WTO) against certain measures taken by India on imports of 173 161 countries. iron and steel products. India imposed minimum import price 57. Government ratified International Solar Alliance (ISA) (MIP) on imports of certain iron and steel products in February Framework Agreement, that was opened for signature during 2016 for six months and later extended twice for 2 months to 22nd Conference of Parties (CoP) meeting United Nations overcome issue of cheap imports of commodities hurting Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at domestic industry. Marrakesh (Morocco). 76. Japan approved 5.13 trillion yen ($43.6 billion) defence - ISA was jointly by Indian PM Narendra Modi and French spending for fiscal year starting April 2017. It is Japan’s highest President François Hollande in November 2015 in Paris, during annual defence budget announced so far. 21st CoP meet. of UNFCCC. Till now, 25 nations have signed 77. Japan space agency (JAXA) launched a Kounotori 6 (HTV6) Framework Agreement. spacecraft, carrying a large space junk collector. Space junk 58. Haryana Government banned carrying arms at wedding collector (electromagnetic tether) will perform Kounotori ceremonies, in view of security concerns. Integrated Tether Experiments (KITE) to study possibility of 59. India International Institute of Democracy and Election getting rid of space junk (debris) left into orbit by earlier space Management (IIIDEM) Delhi conducted training on Election exploration missions. Management of SAARC Countries. 78. Japan surpassed China to emerge as largest foreign US debt 60. India and ASEAN Group have set a target of trading at 100 owner, with holding of US debt $1.13 trillion (compared to billion dollar to be achieved by 2020 (Up from currently $57 China's $1.12 trillion). Billion). 10 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 79. Mahindra Agri Solutions acquired Netherlands based OFD needed sponsor's permission to switch jobs or leave country. It Holding BV for 5 million euros. was compared to modern-day slavery. 80. Merriam Webster's dictionary named surreal as its Word of 97. Russia expelled 35 American diplomats from country, in Year 2016. answer to USA earlier expelling 35 Russian Diplomats. 81. NASA launched constellation of eight mini-satellites as part 98. Russian Tu154 Plane planed on its way to Syria with 92 people Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) into space onboard crashed into Black Sea. to improve hurricane forecasting. 99. Russian Unmanned cargo spacecraft Progress MS04 crashed 82. National Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank will be shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan. merged to creare biggest bank of all Gulf Nations, with an asset of 100. Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov killed by a $ 178 billion. It will be called NBAD. gunman in a Ankara Museum, during an exhibition. 83. National library of United Kingdom will digitise 4000 early 101. Scientists from University of Waterloo in Canada discovered printed Bengali books, as part of UK-India Year of Culture plans world’s first polluted river, contaminated about 7,000 years ago for 2017 and wider project titled ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’. by Neolithic humans who may have been producing copper 84. Nepal rejected India’s ‘open sky’ proposal, meant to allow metals from ores. It is now a dry riverbed in Wadi Faynan region unlimited flights between two countries. Nepal stated that it was of southern Jordan. not ready for agreement as of now. Currently, airlines of both 102. Scientists named newly discovered pink and yellow coral nations are allowed to operate only 30000 seats from each side. reef fish in Hawaii as Tosanoides obama, in honour of outgoing 85. Nepal will hold its first ever joint military exercise named US President Barack Obama. Pratikar1 with China in February 2017. 103. South American economic bloc Mercosur suspended 86. Netherland based KPMG and Microsoft signed a Internet of Venezuela's membership, after venezuela failed to adopt certain Things (IoT) Advisory partnership to accelerate digital standards and rules required for membership of the bloc. transformation of large and midmarket enterprises in India. 104. Spanish city Palma de Mallorc changed its name for third 87. New Approved MOUs time in a decade, now to Palma. - Vietnam - Information Technology (IT) 105. Sri Lanka unveiled world's tallest artificial Christmas tree - Afghanistan - Peaceful Uses of Outer Space with Height of 73meters (238foot) in capital Colombo. - Thailand - Controlling narcotic drugs and psychotropic 106. Super Typhoon Nockten made landfall on eastern province substances of Philippines, Known in the Philippine as Nina. - United Kingdom - Intellectual Property and Ease of Doing 107. Tasmania based Women's Legal Service in collaboration with Business in India TRS Law Offices (India) launched a website 88. New Development Bank (NDB) approved $75 million (525 (www.Girlsgottaknow.In) for women in India to educate them Million Yuan) loan for Shanghai Lingang Distributed Solar Power about their legal rights. Project in China, with maturity length of 17 years. The project is a 108. Team messenger App Flock launched world’s first chat solar photovoltaic power plant with total capacity of 100 MW. operating system “FlockOS”. It allows developers to build 89. OAG's 2016 Megahubs Index Report customized apps, bots and integrations on Flock. - Chicago Airport (USA) is most connected. The Indira Gandhi 109. Times Higher Education’s (THE) BRICS and Emerging International Airport in New Delhi is 22nd most connected airport Economies University Rankings 2017 (Top 300 BRICS Universities) in world, while Mumbai Airport is ranked 28th. - Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore became first Indian 90. Oil-producing nations struck a deal to cut output along with institute to be placed in the top 15 universities. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). It is - India has 27 universities Universities in List, Second only to china meant to reduce global oversupply of crude oil by approx 2%. (52 universities). - OPEC - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has - Indian institutes in the top 100 rank include 13 member nations and it was founded in 1960. It is The INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE 14 headquartered since 1965 in Vienna. 13 OPEC members account IIT BOMBAY 26 for 42 % of global oil production and have 73 % of world's oil IIT DELHI & IIT KANPUR 32 reserves. IIT MADRAS 35 - Members - Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, IIT ROORKEE 62 Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and IIT KHARAPUR 71 Venezuela JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 99 91. Pakistan Army test fired enhanced version of an indigenously 110. To help kids get familler with technical skills at an early age, designed Babur cruise missile. (700 KM). Disney launched ‘Hour of Code’ campaign in India. Under this, 92. Pakistan inaugurated China backed 340 MW ChashmaIII disney will teach computer programming to school children Nuclear power plant in Punjab Province. through its free online tutorials. 93. Pakistan lifted an undeclared ban on import of ginned cotton 111. To tackle the world’s worst inflation, Venezuelan from India. Government announced demonetisation of Bolivar Fuerte 100 94. Pakistan removed an undeclared ban on import of ginned banknotes. Venezuelan Government announced the same and cotton from India. gave 10 days time for exchanging old notes at central bank of 95. Pakistan’s Senate approved withdraw high denomination Rs country. 5,000 currency notes to curb flow of black money in country. 112. Two Indian origin person named in Forbes’ 2nd list of 96. Qatar announced end of controversial kafala labour system, wealthiest entrepreneurs under age of 40. that required all foreign workers to have a local sponsor. Workers - Vivek Ramaswamy - 24th with net worth of $600 million and Apoorva Mehta 31st with $360 million worth. 11 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING - List topped by Facebook founder Mark Zuckeberg. 121. United Nations officially apologized for its role in 2010 113. UK and Argentina signed deal to identify 123 Argentine cholera outbreak in Carribea Nation Haiti. soldiers who died in 1982 Falkland island conflict. In 1982 - It has been believed to be bought by Nepali soldiers on a UN Falkland Islands conflict, British Personnel recaptured its overseas Peacekeeping mission. Since then, cholera outbreak in Haiti has territory in South Atlantic after it was invaded by Argentina. claimed over 10000 lives 114. UN Security Council adopted a Frenchdrafted resolution to 122. Viola Desmond became first woman to appear on face of a quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo (Syria) to monitor $10 Canadian banknote. evacuations of civilians who remain in city terrorised by ISIS. 123. West Bengal government announced to set up special panel 115. UNESCO accorded world heritage status to Brazilian city of to stop child trafficking. Rio de Janeiro (nicknamed Marvelous City). It has been registered 124. World Bank Group halted processes initiated by India and as Carioca Landscapes between Mountain and Sea. Pakistan to save Indus Water Treaty. India had earlier planned to 116. US Federal Reserve raised benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, construct Kishanganga and Ratle hydroelectric power plants on for second time in a decade and first in 2016. Indus River System in Jammu Kashmir. - US Federal Reserve is chaired by Janet Yellen. 125. World Bank cancelled $100 million loan to Pakistan, meant 117. US President Barack Obama approved USD 618 billion for a natural gas efficiency project. It was cancelled as gas defence budget for 2017. He also signed National Defence distribution company responsible for project failed to make any Authorisation Act (NDAA) 2017 that recognises India as America’s progress in achieving its developmental objectives. major defence partner. 126. World's largest nonpermanent indoor ice rink (2,700 square 118. Ukraine nationalised country’s largest bank Private Bank in meters), opened in Paris (France). an attempt to avert a financial meltdown. 127. World’s first solar road opened in small French village of 119. United Nations Security Council (UNSC) extended its TourouvreauPerche in Normandy. This 1 K long solar road is made peacekeeping mission in South Sudan for a year till December with 30,000 square feet of solar panels. 2017. So far, UN has 14,000 peacekeepers serving in South Sudan. 120. United Nations Security Council (UNSC) given one year extension to the Peacekeeping mission of South Sudan. Meetings 1. 1st IndiaChina thinktank forum held in New Delhi with Theme was Towards a Closer India-China Developmental Partnership. 2. 2016 World Bhojpuri Conference held in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh). 3. 27th meeting of Southern Zonal Council held at Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. 4. 28th State Information Ministers Conference (SIMCON) 2016 organised by Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in New Delhi. 5. 5th India Arab Partnership Conference held in Muscat (Oman), with Theme Partnership towards innovation and cooperation in IT. 6. 6th Heart of AsiaIstanbul Process of Aghanistan conference held in Amritsar (Punjab (India)), inaugurated jointly by PM Narendra Modi and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Theme was Addressing Challenges, Achieving Prosperity. 7. 6th Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD) held in New Delhi with theme Emerging Urban Forms Policy Reforms and Governance Structures in the Context of New Urban Agenda. Next APMCHUD Conference will be hosted by Iran in 2018. 8. 6th Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD) held in New Delhi, inaugurated by Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu. 9. 6th BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting held in Delhi. 10. 7th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) held in Kolkata (West Bengal). It was organised by the World Ayurveda Foundation with the support of the Ministry of AYUSH. Theme was strengthening the Ayurveda Ecosystem. 11. 9th World Confluence of Humanity, Power and Spirituality held in New Delhi. 12. Laureates and Leaders Summit for Children held in New Delhi. 13. India will host 5th Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCSS) in 2017. Previous Conferences 2011 UK, 2012 Hungary, 2013 South Korea, 2015 Netherlands. 14. India-UK Conference on Ease of Doing Business held in New Delhi. 15. International Civil Aviation Negotiations (ICAN) 2016 held in Nassau (Bahamas). India signed MOUs with several nations including Open Skies agreement with six countries Jamaica, Guyana, Czech Republic, Finland, Spain and Sri Lanka. - An Open skies Agreement allows unlimited number of flights to six metro airports namely Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai from participating nation. 16. Meeting of BRICS Heads of Revenue and Experts on Tax Matters held at Mumbai. During this meet, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries agreed to share tax information automatically, to ensure fairness of international tax system. 2. Ministry of Women and Child Development launched ‘EBOX’ National portalto register complaints of child sexual abuse. 1. World Bank study Utility Scale DSM Opportunities and Business 3. 10days Tripitak Sutrapath Mahotasava has started at Bodhgaya Models in India has pegged India’s Energy Efficiency Market at Rs. in Bihar. 1.6 Lakh Crores. Ministry of Power has fixed energy savings 4. 21st International Film Festival of Kerala held in targets for XII Plan period (201217) as 60.5 BU (billion units) Thiruvananthapuram. through various energy efficiency interventions. 5. 24th National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC) held in Pune (Maharashtra).

12 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 6. 6,117 Kuchipudi dancers have set a new Guinness World 23. Assam's Hailakandi became 1st district to pay cashless Record by performing together in a single event in Vijayawada transactions wages after it paid wages to tea garden workers district of Andhra Pradesh. Guinness World Record updated for through individual bank accounts. 12minute “Jayamu Jayamu” item as ‘Largest Kuchipudi dance’ 24. Augmented reality Game Pokemon Go entered Indian market, performance. 2016 in partnership with telecom operator Reliance Jio. 7. 8th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit will be held in Gandhinagar 25. BHEL commissioned first unit of the 4x30 MW Pulichintala from January 10th 13th 2017 with theme Sustainable Economic Hydroelectric project (HEP) in Telangana. and Social Development. 26. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) commissioned second 600 8. Swasthya Raksha Programme launched by AYUSH Ministry to MW unit of Singareni Thermal Power Project in Adilabad District promote health and health education in villages. of Telangana. 9. Thal Favang Kut festival organised by state Government of 27. Bihar Government approved 50% reservation in all judicial Mizoram. It is a postharvest festival which is celebrated after services for aspirants belonging to Extremely Backward Classes harvesting the paddy. (EBCs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs) 10. Actor Hrithik Roshan has recently launched Braille Tactile and Scheduled Tribes (STs). children’s book series Tactabet. 28. Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) and 11. Allahabad High Court ruled that practice of triple talaq Kerala Police organized 45th All India Police Science Congress in (Talaqebidat) among Muslims is unconstitutional and violates Thiruvananthapuram. rights of women as stated in constitution. High Court also stated 29. Cabinet approved draft Major Port Authorities Bill 2016, that No Personal Law Board is above Constitution, referring to All aimed to replace Major Port Trusts Act 1963. The bill aims to India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). empower 12 major ports to perform with greater efficiency on 12. American ecommerce Firm Amazon introduced Its Prime account of full autonomy in decision making. Features Include Video Service in India, to provide users access to collection of - Compactness Number of sections reduced 65, from 134. adfree new releases including Bollywood and Hollywood movies. - Board of Port Authority will be delegated full powers to enter It will pose competition to other online streaming services like into contracts, planning and development, fixing of tariff. Size of Netflix and Hotstar. Board of Port Authority is reduced to 11 members. Board will 13. Amul, a Milk Products brand under Kaira District Cooperative include representatives of respective state governments, Milk Producers’ Union will invest 200 crore rupees for a Ministers along with a member representing employees of Major ‘Centralised Milk Processing Plant’ at Sankrail Food Park in Ports Authority. Howrah in West Bengal. - Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) has been given powers 14. Andhra Pradesh Government allotted 1473 Acres land for to fix tariff which will act as a reference tariff for purposes of construction of nuclear power plant at Kovvada. This 6600 MW bidding for PPP projects. Nuclear Power Project will be executed at estimated cost of Rs - Independent Review Board is proposed to carry out residual 60000 crores. function of the erstwhile TAMP for major ports, including looking 15. Andhra Pradesh Government launched website of state's into disputes between ports and PPP concessionaires. Economic Development Board (APEDB), aiming to provide 30. Campaign 100 Million for 100 Million Campaign organized by repository of knowledge on investing in Andhra Pradesh. Nobel peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, 16. Annual Reading Trends Report 2016 by Amazon has ranked on occasion 0f 81st birthday of President of India Pranab Delhi as country’s most well read city in fourth consecutive year. Mukherjee. Aim is to mobilise 100 million youth and children for Bengaluru and Mumbai taking second and third spot. 100 million underprivileged children across world. 17. Apple’s Taiwanese partner Wistron will set up manufacturing 31. Central Board of Secondary Exams (CBSE) decided that Class X unit in Bengaluru for manufacturing Apple iPhones, from April Board exams will be compulsory from academic session 201718, 2017. against current option system for CBSE students to choose either 18. Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) found ancient camping Board exam or a school based examination. site used by prehistoric man, at an altitude of 4,200 metres in 32. Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh Launched country’s first Nubra Valley, Ladakh. cashless bazaar in capital Raipur. It has over 900 shops that 19. As per Data by Delhi Government, New Delhi has highest provide customers the facilities of cashless payments using increase in per capita income among all states and Union Cashless systems. Chhattisgarh is leading in in training its people territories. Per capita income of New Delhi is Rs 2,80,142 during in digital transactions, with having trained over 5 lac people in 201516, Followed by Chandigarh (2,42,386) and Sikkim (Rs cashless payments. 2,27,465). Note that National Average stands at Rs 93,293. 33. Cyclone Vardah struck coastal areas of Tamil Nadu and 20. As per report by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Andhra Pradesh. It is 3rd cyclonic storm of season after Cyclone Industry of India (Assocham) and Deloitte, India's internet Kyant and Nada. population will increase from current 34.3 crore to 60 crore users 34. Delhi High Court removed ban imposed on 344 fixed dose by 2020. combination (FDC) drugs by Central Government over fears that 21. Assam Government launched a health insurance scheme ‘ they are potential health and safety hazards. Ban was imposed AtalAmrit Abhiyan’, to provide coverage against several critical based on recommendations of Kokate committee. illnesses. Families with annual income under Rs 5 lakh are eligible 35. Delhi government reduced fares of Delhi Transport to avail benefit. Corporation (DTC) and cluster buses by 75%, to encourage more 22. Assam government launched ‘Sustainable Action for Climate people to opt for public transport. Further, DTC bus travel is Resilient Development in Majuli’ (SACReD, Majuli) to make river made completely free for students till age 21 years. island Majuli country’s first ever Carbon Neutral district by 2020. 13 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 36. Department of Posts brought out a Special Cover on freedom request and signal that they are safe to their contacts by denying fighter Gaya Prasad Katiyar, eight Commemorative Postage location data request. Stamps on Personalities Series: Bihar & a stamp on Hardayal 52. Google partnered with Ministry of Consumer Affairs to launch Municipal Heritage Public Library. nationwide Digitally Safe Consumer campaign to raise awareness 37. Department of Telecom (DoT) will soon launch ‘Tarang among consumers about online safety and better protect Sanchar’ portal that will let users check radiation compliance consumer interest online. status of mobile towers and transmitters across country. 53. Government approved Including Irular community (including 38. Dhasai village in Thane district became first cashless village in Villi and Vettaikaran) in Scheduled Tribes list. It is Puducherry's Maharashtra. first Scheduled Tribes. 39. Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) recommended 54. Government approved Pune Metro Rail Project Phase 1, onetime licensing for manufacture and sales of drugs, to promote covering length of 31.254 km in 2 corridors . Corridor 1 (Pimpri ease of doing business in Pharmaceutical sector by removing Chinchwad Municipal Corporation to Swargate} an Corriodor2 need to renewal of licences for each formulation which takes (Vanaz to Ramwadi). Cost of project is 11420 crores. around 3 years. 55. Government approved formation of a new service Indian 40. ESIC (Employee's State Insurance Corporation) enhanced Enterprise Development Service (IEDS), Under Ministry of Micro, Ceiling on Medical Expenditure from Rs. 2150 to Rs. 3000 per Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME). It is meant to help in Insured Person with sub ceiling of Rs. 1250 for “Administration” achieving vision of “Startup India”, “Standup India” and “Make in and Rs. 1750 for “Other. To enhance number of Registered India”. Cadre Review of Indian Telecommunications Service was Employers / Employees, a new enrollment Scheme has been also approved. approved for three months 1st January to 31st March, 2017. 56. Government approved redesignation of Delhi-Mumbai 41. Enforcement Directorate summoned AirAsia India to Industrial Corridor Project Implementation Trust Fund (DMICPTF) investigate airline’s alleged violation of Foreign Exchange as National Industrial Corridor Development & Implementation Management Act (FEMA) regulations. Trust (NICDIT). NICDIT will be apex body to oversee integrated 42. Environment Ministry approved Rs. 40 crore proposal of development of all industrial corridors across India. It will Puducherry government to treat water from Ouster lake, a major implement all 5 proposed industrial corridors, covering 15 States. water body in puducherry. 57. Government launched Swachh Swasth Sarvatra initiative to 43. First Digi Dhan mela in country held in Gurugram (Haryana), strengthen health centres in 708 open defecation free (ODF) to promote digital and cashless transactions. blocks across country. 44. First Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) held on banks of river 58. Government met 1.5crore target for LPG connections that Mandovi in Panaji (Goa). were to be added under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) 45. First ever International Gita Mahotsav2016 held in in FY 201617. Kurukshetra (Haryana). - Since launch of PMUY, LPG coverage across the country 46. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) banned increased to 70% from 61% earlier. use of newspapers for wrapping and packing of food items. - Top five States - Uttar Pradesh (46 lakh), West Bengal (19 lakh), - This is first time in recent years FSSAI has issued new rule Bihar (19 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (17 lakh) and Rajasthan (14 related to packaging of food items. So far, it had focused on lakh). setting standards for packaged food. 59. Government reduced registration fees for Hindus and other - Use of newspapers for wrapping and packing of food items is minority community people of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh very common in India and it may cause serious health concerns as Indian citizens from Rs 15000 to Rs 100. due t contaminated food items by newspaper ink. - For minority community from countries other than Mentioned 47. Forbes India Celebrity 100 List 2016 three, fees will be Rs 10000 for registration in India and Rs 15000 - Top 5 in Income Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Virat Kohli, if they are registered elsewhere. Akshay Kumar , MS Dhoni 60. Government released 1982 crores multipurpose Polavaram - Top 3 in Fame Virat Kohli, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan. irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh, being funded through 48. Foundation Stone for first Second Generation (2G) Ethanol NABARD under Prime Minister Krishi Sinchayee Yojana. Biorefinery in India laid at village Tarkhanwala in Bathinda 61. Government sanctioned over Rs 30 crore for solar cities (Punjab). It will be done at investment of Rs 600 crores by programme, aimed at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL). 62. Government will launch toll-free number ‘1955’ for taking 49. Germany will provide 1 Billion Euro Loan to India for feedback on call drops from telecom subscribers. strenthening India's IntraState and InterState transmission 63. Government will set up 50 Biotech Laboratories in Senior utilities. Secondary Schools of Arunachal Pradesh, under scheme Biotech 50. Goa Government launched Yuva Sanchar Yojana, for Labs in Senior Secondary Schools (BLISS). It will be done at approx providing Free Talktime and Internet Data to youth in state. cost of 75 to 100 crores. Under this, free 100 minutes talk time and 3 GB Internet data 64. Government will set up a single permanent Tribunal to with a SIM card (every month) will be given to youths aged adjudicate all interstate river water disputes, to be headed by a between 16-30 years. Goa government tied up with Vodafone for retired Supreme Court judge. this scheme. 65. Government will soon set up toll free number 10588 to 51. Google launched personal safety app Trusted Contacts, to give provide relevant information and guidance directly to pregnant your nearest location to selected contacts. Concerned contacts women, under Mother and Child Tracking Facilitation Centre can request location data to users and User may respond to (MCTFC) in New Delhi.

14 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 66. Government will soon start water route between Delhi to 2050, universal lower secondary education (Grades VI VIII in case Agra on Yamuna River, as a less costly means of transportation. of India) by 2060 and universal upper secondary education 67. Govt. of India tied up with Intel to conduct research work on (Grades IXXII in case of India) by 2085. Water and Air Quality Monitoring (WAQM) initiative. It will - Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act consider proposals from academic institutions in area of such 2009 provides for free and universal elementary education and online monitoring systems and provide grant in aid support to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is key vehicle to implement RTE Act. selected projects. - Gross Enrolment Ratio in India 68. Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani launched India’s first laser - Primary 100.08% technology based advanced AVMS RTO check-post at Shamlaji of - Upper primary 91.24% Aravalli district in Gujarat. - Elementary 97% 69. Gujarat Government announced Biotechnology Policy 2016 to - Secondary 78.51% establish Gujarat as a preferred destination for manufacturing of - Higher secondary 54.21% biotechnology products. It aims to take annual turnover of - Secondary and Higher secondary enrolments are taken care biotechnology products to Rs 15,000 crore from current f Rs under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan. 4,500 crore turn over within 3 years. 83. In wake of rising prices and concerns about wheat crop in 70. Gujarat government banned hookah bars made Liquor Laws 201617, Government waived import duty on wheat to 0 % (from Tougher with penalty of 5 Lakh Rupees and jail term of upto 10 10 %) for indefinite period. years for those involved in purchase, sale and transportation of 84. India International Science festival (IISF) held at CSIR National liquor. Physical Laboratory (NPL) in New Delhi with theme Science for the 71. Gurugram (Haryana) Government will get India's First masses. Caterpillar Train (CTrain). 85. India's National High Speed Rail Corporation and Japan - C Train is a new concept for urban mass transit solution. It has International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on 21 signed a been designed by an Indian Railway officer Ashwani Upadhyaya Memorandum for General Consultancy for smooth which had won a global award at the MIT in USA. implementation of Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Railway 72. Haryana Government connected 100 villages in state with Project. WiFi services. It also renamed all common service centres (CSC) 86. Indian Air Force (IAF’s) Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) at and Edisha centres as ‘Atal Seva Kendras’. Tuting in Arunachal Pradesh become functional. It will facilitate 73. Haryana Government inaugurated State's First Digital air connectivity with rest of the country and give a fillip to Investigation, Training and Analysis Centre (DIATC) at Gurugram. tourism in state. It is set up in collaboration with National Technical Research 87. Indian Army launched a-Veterans Outreach App, to reach out Organisation (NTRO). to its ex-servicemen. 74. Haryana Govt signed MoU with Andhra Pradesh to assist it in 88. Indian Army partnered with Indian Institute of Technology creating a centralized data base of population to ensure effective (IIT) Gandhinagar to set up a research and development (R&D) implementation of welfare programmes. cell at IIT Gandhinagar campus. 75. Haryana became first state to launch Mahila Police Volunteer 89. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) signed MoU with (MPV) initiative for safety of women, aimed at bridging gap Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for cooperation in between Police and Civil society for safety of women. zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, nutrition and pesticide 76. Haryana government issued petro cards to drivers in state for residues. cashless payments for fuel, administered by Indian Oil and Bharat 90. Indian Railways announced 10% rebate for vacant berths after Petroleum. finalisation of reservation charts. Discount will be based on basic 77. Haryana government launched Immunization Incentives and fare of last ticket sold. Information Programme to increase immunization rates of 91. Indian Railways announced that reservation of rail tickets for children under 1 years age. senior citizens will be directly linked to Aadhaar or Unique 78. Haryana government launched scheme to promote solar Identification (UID) cards from 1 April 2017 onwards, making water pumping systems among farmers for irrigation purposes. Aadhaar mandatory for availing concessions. Under this, 90 % cost of installation would be borne by State and 92. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed agreement Centre government as subsidy. Government will install 3050 solar with 6 companies to deliver India's first industry built water pumps of 2 and 5 horse power in state. satellite by late 2017. Currently, ISAC assembles India's satellites 79. Health Ministry and All India Institute Of Medical Science for communication, remote sensing and navigation. It is for the (AIIMS) will set up a National Death Registry encompassing data first time that ISRO outsourced the construction of entire about deaths and their causes in all hospitals across country. It satellite. Consortium is led by Alpha Design Technologies P Ltd, a will help in having better understanding of disease outbreaks and defence manufacturing contractor. optimizing healthcare facilities. 93. Indian actor Anupam Kher’s 500th film ‘The Big Sick’ has been 80. Himachal Pradesh Raj Bhawan In Shimla adopted cashless / selected for world premier at Sundance Film Festival to be held in cheque payments to ensure all transactions are made online. USA in January 2017. 81. Himachal Pradesh became 6th state to achieve 100% Aadhar 94. India’s 2nd centre of excellence for sericulture will be saturation. Other states are Delhi, Telangana, Haryana, Punjab launched in Bengaluru (Karnataka ). India’s first such centre was and Chandigarh. Himachal Pradesh also opened its first Cyber set up in Ranchi (Jharkhand). India currently imports approx 4,000 Crime Police Station in Shimla. metric tonnes of high quality raw silk from China. 82. In it’s Global Education Monitoring Report 2016, UNESCO claimed that India will achieve universal primary education by 15 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 95. India’s first transgender school inaugurated in Kochi (Kerala), 113. Maharashtra government sanctioned 2 crore rupees for aiming to provide transgenders security, salvation and districtlevel sports complexes, to be disbursed by Sports training sustainability. department of every district. 96. J& K CM Mehbooba Mufti launched School Management 114. Manipur CM Okram Ibobi Singh inaugurated 2 new districts Information System (SMIS), to provide a complete database of all Pherzawl and Noney, Taking total number of districts in State to government schools across state. 11. 97. Judima Festival held at Haflong in Assam, aiming to establish 115. Microsoft launched its first fullscale Cybersecurity only hill station of Assam, Haflong into the tourism map of Engagement Centre (CSEC) in India (New Delhi). It is Microsoft’s Northeast. seventh Cyber security Centre in the world and will function as a 98. Karnataka Government Siddaramaiah formally launched satellite to its Redmond Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). state’s first air ambulance H130 helicopters in Bengaluru, with 116. Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Venkaiah Naidu emergency number 155350. announced 90% subsidy for North Eastern States and 75% subsidy 99. Karnataka Government removed restrictions related to for other States in setting up of Community Radio Stations. A Females working in Night Shifts, allowing women to work in night New dedicated Doordarshan channel Arun Prabha will also be shifts in all sectors in a bid to provide equal opportunities for launched in January 2017. women. 117. Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin 100. Karnataka state Road Transport corporation (KSRTC) Gadkari laid foundation stones for 17 road projects in Jiribam and launched 25 biodiesel buses, To reduce pollution caused by diesel Imphal (Manipur). Overall cost is approx 1152 Crores. buses. These ecofriendly buses eject 6070% less emissions than 118. Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, diesel buses. Ravishankar Prasad launched TV channel DigiShala to promote 101. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated 3rd KochiMuziris cashless transactions, under Digidhan campaign. NITI Aayog will Biennale (KMB), Titled Forming in the pupil of an eye. 90 Days also provide Rs. 5 lakh for every district in India to encourage long festival will have artists from 31 nations participating. digital payment system. 102. Kerala Government approached Central Government for 119. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) eased up rules for Getting allowing use of antlers (extensions of deer’s skull) of spotted deer Passport, by eending Passport Rules 1980 and sambar of Ayurveda medicines. - Birth certificate is no longer mandatory . Applicants can submit 103. Kerala Government launched Haritha Keralam Mission for PAN Card, birth certificate, voter id, Aadhaar, driving licence. creating new sustainable development perspectives in the state. - Applicant of online passport application will only need to 104. Kurukshetra University (Haryan) signed MoU with 3 foreign provide name of only one parent and not both or of legal Universities in field of higher education Renmin University of guardian. This will enable single parents to apply for passports for China, S. Toraighrov Pavlodar State University Kazakhstan and their children. Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute Kazakhstan. - Married applicants will not be required to provide any marriage 105. Lanura in Budgam district became first village to become certificate. cashless in state of Jammu and Kashmir. - Holy men can now apply for a passport with the name of their 106. Madhya Pradesh Government launched 5 months long spiritual guru, instead of biological parents. They need to have an Narmada Seva Yatra to turn Narmada river pollution free. It will ID Proof with name of guru against column for parent’s name. cover more than 1900 kilometres in 16 districts and create 120. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) launched a Twitter Seva as awareness about conservation of river. live customer service resolution platform. 107. Madhya Pradesh Government launched Nagar Uday Abhiyan 121. Ministry of Human Resource Development will open a new in 378 urban bodies across state, aiming to improve services Regional Institute of Education at Nellore (Andhra Pradesh). provided to citizens. 122. Ministry of Minority Affairs launched website 108. Madhya Pradesh Govt. organised India’s first and biggest www.haj.gov.in, related to Haj Matters. It will provide all crop insurance claim distribution programme under Prime necessary information relating to Haj management and will also Minister Crop Insurance Scheme in Ujjain district. Insurance facilitate making online application for Haj pilgrimage. claims worth Rs 4,416 crore were distributed to 20.4 lakh farmers 123. Ministry of Textiles will establish a Bunkar MitraHandloom of state. Helpline Centre to answer professional queries of weavers, 109. Madhya Pradesh will develop 1100 ‘climate-smart’ villages initially in 7 languages English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada with an aim to prepare farmers to manage the climate change Bengali and Assamese. risks timely and ensure good productivity. 124. Ministry of Textiles will organize first ever Investors Summit 110. Madras High Court banned all unauthorised Sharia courts in for North Eastern States at Shillong (Meghalaya) in Jan 2017. mosques across Tamil Nadu, saying centres of worship were only 125. Ministry of Tribal Affairs will launch National Resource to be used for religious purposes. Centre (NRC) for Tribal Livelihood issues in Bhubaneswar 111. Maharashtra Government will create separate Ministry for (Odisha), in name of Vanjeevan. It will be launched in Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Including Vimukta Jati and collaboration with UNDP and National Scheduled Tribes Finance Nomadic Tribes (VJNT), Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and and Development Corporation (NSTFDC). Special Backward Classes (SBCs). Maharashtra CM Devendra 126. Ministry of Water Resources announced roadmap for early Fadnavis also launched Transform Maharashtra initiative in IIT completion of 99 identified projects under Prime Minister Krishi Bombay’s Mood Indigo festival. Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) and Accelerated Irrigation Benefits 112. Maharashtra forest department will launch a statewide 24×7 Programme (AIBP). helpline for registering complaints or getting information about - Prime Minister Krishi Sinchayee Yojana was approved in July issues related to forests and wildlife from January 2017. 2015 with outlay of 50000 crores, with aim of improving water 16 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING usage efficiency. It is now aimed to be completed by Dec 2019 143. PM Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of Chardham (Compared to April 2020 earlier). Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojna, which includes developing 900 km of - Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme was launched in national highways in Uttarakhand at total cost of Rs. 12000 199697 to provide Central Loan Assistance (CLA) to states for crores. executing irrigation projects. 144. PM Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of first ever 127. Mori village under in East Godavari district named First “Indian Institute of Skills” in India at Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh). It Digital Village of Andhra Pradesh. was conceptualized by PM during his visit to Singapore’s Institute 128. NIT Agartala signed 3 MoUs with ONGC and NEEPCO of Technical Education. busines, for collaborative research in oil sectors and imparting 145. PM Narendra Modi launched National Apprenticeship training and conducting short term courses. Promotion Scheme (NAPS) in Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh). It aims to 129. NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog provide apprenticeship training to over 50 lakh youngsters to along with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare rolled out create more jobs. It has budgetary outlay of Rs 10000 crores. He Performance on Health Outcomes index, to rank States on the also laid foundation stone of Madan Mohan Malviya Cancer basis of their performance on measurable health indicators. Centre in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh). Rankings Data shall be made available by NITI Aayog in Sep 2017, 146. Piyush Goyal (Minister of State(IC) for Power, Coal, New & after due consideration. Renewable Energy and Mines) launched Coal Mitra Web Portal, 130. National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) approved Ken-Betwa designed to bring flexibility in Utilization of Domestic Coal by Interlinking of rivers (ILR) project. transferring reserves to more cost efficient State/Centre owned - It received clearance of Cabinet in July 2014 but work could not or Private sector generating stations, leading to lower generation begin as mandatory clearance from NBWL was stuck due to costs and ultimately lesser cost of electricity for the consumers. objections from environmentalists. 147. Power Ministry will soon launch mobile application GARVII 131. National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed Rajasthan to provide real time data of all six lakh villages of the country, government to cancel allotments of salt pans in Sambhar Salt aimed at ensuring transparency in implementation of rural Lake. electrification programme. 132. National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed ban on burning of 148. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated 77th session of waste in open places Imposong fine of Rs 5000 on simple burning Indian History Congress (IHC) at University of Kerala in and Rs 25000 for Bulk Waste Burning. Besides, NGT also imposed Thiruvananthapuram. fine of Rs 50000 on Airlines whose aircrafts leave Human waste in 149. Puducherry Government implemented f 3% reservation for air. differently abled persons in government jobs in Union Territory. 133. Nedumkayam colony in Karulazhi panchayat in Malapuram 150. Punjab Government launched India’s first amphibious bus District of Kerala became first fullydigital tribal colony in country. project named Harike Cruis, that travels on land and as well as in 134. New Wagah Like Border viewing point will be opened near water. It has been imported from Swedish automobile company Suigam in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district. Scania. Route of bus includes 13 km ride from Amritsar to Harike 135. Noted television journalist Arnab Goswami announced wetlands. launch of his new venture Republic, to be launched from 151. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu launched website 26012017. of National Rail Plan 2030 (NRP2030) ON url 136. Odisha Government launched Biju Sishu Surakshya Yojana to www.nationalrailplan.in. nurture orphan and HIV infected children residing in different 152. Rajasthan Government launched Annapurna Rasoi Scheme child care institutions and orphanages. to provide quality meal at cheap price to poor and needy on lines 137. Odisha Government launched Durgama Anchalare Malaria with Tamil Nadu Government’s Amma canteens. Tagline for Nirakaran (malaria control in inaccessible areas) DAMAN, a new scheme is: “Sabke liye bhojan, sabke liye sammaan (Food for all, malaria control programme for five years. respect for all)”. Food under this scheme will be provided at 138. Odisha Government named Rs 7600 crore Mega Lift subsidized rates, breakfast at Rs 5 per plate and lunch/dinner at Irrigation Scheme after freedom fighter Parbati Giri. Rs 8 per plate. 139. Odisha Government will build 2000 kilometers additional 153. Rajasthan High Court scrapped Rajasthan Special Backward concrete roads in rural areas by March 2017, under Gopabandhu Classes (SBC) Reservation Act 2015 that provided 5% quota to five Grameen Yojana (GGY). communities, including Gujjars in jobs and education. - Odisha Government added 25 lakh new beneficiaries under 154. Rajasthan government launched mobile App LeZgo, to Mamata Yojana and transferred Rs 1,100 crore to their bank provide latest information about tourist attractions in Rajasthan accounts, on occasion of 5th Anniversary of Mamata Yojana. (Ajmer and Pushkar Initially). 140. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will set up a new 155. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) Hyderabad basin in Agartala by end of 2017 , to explore oil and gas in achieved carbon neutral status. It is first in Asia Pacific NorthEast region. region in 515 million passengers per annum category to attain 141. P M Narendra Modi inaugurated India's Largest cheese plant this status. Earlier, Delhi Airport had become first airport in Asia of Banaskantha Cooperative Milk Producers Union (Banas Dairy) Pacific to achieve carbon neutral status among all categories. in Gujarat. 156. Rajya Sabha passed Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 142. PM Narendra Modi laid foundation stone for grand 2014 (repealing Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunity memorial of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995 being built by state government in Arabian Sea, off Mumbai - The bill covers huge spectrum of issues faced by Persons with coast. It will cost approx 3600 crores, will be a 192metretall Disabilities and complies with UN Convention on Rights of statue of Shivaji. 17 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING Persons with Disabilities, to which India became a signatory in Act 2002 was not valid in respect of residents of J & K as it 2007. collides with Transfer of Property Act of Jammu & Kashmir, 1920. - Features of bill Include 167. Supreme Court ruled that horse racing is not animal cruelty - Definition of disability It defines to include 19 conditions as and It is different from Jallikattu (Tamilnadu), which has several disable and Min 40 % disability is required to be classified as one. measures to torture bulls. - Rights of Equality for persons with disabilities. - It was announced by SC on a petition challenging a Rajasthan - Education, skill development and Employment At least 5% seats High Court’s order banning horce races in Rajasthan. in higher education and 5% vacancies must be reserved in 168. Telangana’s Ibrahimpur becomes first cashless village in government jobs for PWDs. south India. - Legal Capacity Disabled persons have the equal right to own and 169. Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and inherit movable and immovable property, as well as control their Empowerment released first issue of National Newspaper financial affairs in par with others. dedicated to Senior Citizen, 'Saanjhi Saanjh', edited by J.V - Guardianship District court may order guardianship to disable Manisha Bajaj. person if person is unable of taking care of himself. 170. To boost Swachh Bharat mission, government will deploy - National and State Commissions for persons with disabilities will around 600 young professionals in each district of country as Zila be established by central and state governments respectively, Swachh Bharat Preraks (ZSBPs). along with advisory boards. 171. Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram launched Stanpan Suraksha 157. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari mobile app to promote breastfeeding and keep a tab on inaugurated Sagar-mala Development Company’s (SDC) office in inappropriate promotion of baby food items. New Delhi. SDC will identify portled development projects under 172. Tripura government adopted for cashless payment in all Sagar-mala programme. public transactions, starting from 1 January 2017. 158. Shripad Yesso Naik (Minister of State for AYUSH (IC)) 173. UP Ecotourism organized international festival on birds at inaugurated North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda & Homoeopathy National Chambal Sanctuary in Agra, as World’s largest bird (NEIAH) at Shillong in Meghalaya. festival. 159. Sikkim Named India’s first fully organic state by converting 174. Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated power around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land into sustainable projects worth over 52,000 crore across, Including 3 thermal cultivation. power plants with capacity of 33,000 MW were also inaugurated. 160. Social Networking Service Twitter and ICICI Bank partnered 175. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav laid foundation to enable customers with direct online response to their queries stone of Film, Television and Liberal Arts Institute in state capital and feedback in realtime @ICICIBank_Care. Lucknow. 161. Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) launched tender of 176. Uttar Pradesh government approved including 17 Other 1000 MW capacity for development of gridconnected Backward Classes (OBCs) in Scheduled Class (SC) list. rooftop solar capacity for Government Departments. 177. Uttar Pradesh government tied up with Tata Trusts to - It is a step towards fulfilment of the Government of India’s leverage digital platforms to strengthen the public distribution target for installation of 40 GW rooftop solar power plants by the system (PDS) in state. year 2022. 178. Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat unveiled statue of renowned 162. Sports Ministry de-recognised yoga as ‘priority sport’, stating Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar in Haridwar. that it will not be possible to conduct competitions in Yoga. Yoga Thiruvalluvar is believed to have lived between 3rd Century BC will now come under prerogative of Ministry of AYUSH. and 1st Century BC. 163. Supreme Court approved Government’s Graded Response 179. Uttarakhand High Court directed state government to Action Plan to tackle pollution in Delhi-NCR. Enforcement of impose ban on sale and consumption of liquor in three districts action plan will be under orders of Environment Pollution Rudraprayag, Chamoli, and Uttarkashi. (Control and Prevention) Authority (EPCA). 180. VIT University (Vellore Tamilnadu) became India’s first 164. Supreme Court ordered Union and State Governments to academic institution to be certified with QS 4star rating. remove all liquor shops located 500 metres or less from national 181. Vijayawada became first Parliamentary constituency in India and state highways. to have health insurance for all citizens. It consists of 265 villages 165. Supreme Court ordered that income earned by erstwhile in Andhra Pradesh. Swastha Kutambham health insurance rulers of a princely state by renting out their residential palace is scheme by Andhra Pradesh Government in association with Tata not taxable. Their income being exempted under Section 10(19A) Trusts covers health for all in rural areas. of IT Act, 1961. 182. Women and Child Development Ministry tied up with India 166. Supreme Court ruled that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral Post and SBI for offering more payment options to buyers and part of India and did not enjoy sovereign status, either under its simplify shipping of products bought fromMahila Ehaat online constitution or that of India. It affirmed that J&K’s constitution marketing platform for women entrepreneurs. was subordinate to the Indian Constitution and its permanent 183. World Bank approved nearly Rs 1,560 crores (235 Million residents were Indian citizens. USD) for Bihar Rural Roads Project. Project consists constructing - SC made this observation while hearing on appeal filed by State 2,500 km of rural roads in Bihar under Mukhiya Mantri Gram Bank of India (SBI) and other banks over the issue of recovery of Sampark Yojana (MMGSY). loans under Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets 184. ‘Performance on Health Outcomes’ index launched by NITI and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002. Aayog to capture annual incremental improvements by States, - SBI and other banks had appealed against Jammu and Kashmir rather than focus on historical achievements. High Court verdict given in July 2015. J&K HC held that SARFAESI 18 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING Persons 22. Israel's Minister for Science, Technology and Space Ofir Akunis 1. Actor Salman Khan launched his mobile app Being in Touch. visited India. 2. Almazbek Atambaev, President of Kyrgyzstan Visited India. 23. Jayaben Desai, Gujarati activist who led a campaign against Signed Agreements are low pay for women workers at a UK factory in the 1970s has been - Cooperation in Tourism, youth exchange, Youth development, named in BBC’s most influential women of the past 70 years list. information on training programmes of diplomats, Agriculture 24. Legendary British horse jockey Walter Swinburn passed away. and Food Industry, Broadcasting and exchange of audiovisual 25. Lubomir Zaoralek, Foreign Minister of Czech Republic Visited programmes. India. 3. American Surgeon Henry Heimlich passed away, famous for 26. Mahinder Pal Singh became first Sikh cricketer in Pakistan to creating technique to save choking victims. join national academy. 4. Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa passed away, at the 27. New Zealand prime minister John Key resigned. age of 68 years. 28. Nobel Prize Winner American Economics Thomas Schelling - Jayalalithaa was among renowned political personalities and passed away. was a top film actress of Tamil Cinema in 1960s and 1970s. She 29. Noted British singer George Michael passed away. was famously known as Puratchi Thalaivi Amma (revolutionary 30. Noted Former international hockey umpire Phulel Singh leader) or Amma. Sujlana passed away. - O. Panneerselvam has been appointed as Chief Minister of 31. Noted Kannada actor Chetan Ramarao passed away. Tamilnadu (3rd time), following Jayalalithaa's Demise. 32. Noted Malayalam actor Jagannatha Varma passed away. 5. Chief of Indian Navy, Sunil Lanba visited Japan. 33. Noted Tamil poet and activist Makkal Pavalar Inkulab passed 6. Coartist of national emblem ‘Lion Capital of Ashoka’ Dinanath away. Bhargava passed away. 34. Noted Tamilndau Film and Political Personality Srinivasa Iyer 7. CocaCola India signed Actor Ranveer Singh as brand (Cho Ramaswamy) passed Away. ambassador for Beverage Brabd Thums Up. 35. Noted Water Conservation Activist Anupam Mishra passed 8. Cyrus Mistry has been removed as Director of Tata Indstries. away, known for his books such as Aaj Bhi Khare Hain Taalab and He was earlier removed as Chairman of Tata Group. Rajasthan Ki Rajat Boondein. 9. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar arrived visited Mauritius. 36. Noted economist and former member of erstwhile Planning 10. Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung submitted his Commission, Saumitra Chaudhuri passed away. resignation to Central Government. 37. Noted journalist Cho S Ramaswamy passed away. 11. Director General of Bangladesh Coast Guard Aurangzeb 38. Obituiaries Chowdhury visited India. - Shriram Gojamgunde Marathi Cinema. 12. Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan (Central Asia) visited - Makkal Pavalar Inkulab Tamil Poet. India. Notable Points 39. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) declared - MOU for Broadcasting in Exchange of Audio Visual Programs. actor Sunny Leone as PETA’s Person of the Year, for her - Cooperation in exchange of financial intelligence related to commitment for promoting rescue of homeless dogs and cats. money laundering, related crimes and financing of terrorism. 40. President of Indonesia Joko Widodo Visited India. 3 MOUs - Protocol amending Agreement for the avoidance of double were signed in areas including fishing, standardization, youth taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect tom taxes affairs and sports. on income. 41. Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Abdullah - Announcement of initiation of Bilateral investment treaty. Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani visited India. MOU Signed 13. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj named among 15 - Exemption from visa requirement for holders of diplomatic, Foreign Policy Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. List special and official passports. also includes philanthropist couple Anupama and Vineet Nayar. - Technical Cooperation in cyber space and combating cyber 14. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj named among top crime. 100 global thinker by US based Foreign Policy magazine, under - India will train Qatar police for handling the security during the Decisionmakers category. FIFA World Cup 2022 scheduled to be held in Qatar. 15. Former Actor and Now Rajya Sabha MP, Mithun Chakraborty 42. Tata Motors appointed Actor Akshay Kumar as brand resigned due to health issues. ambassador for commercial vehicle Business Unit. 16. Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and BJP leader 43. Tesla and SpaceX Founder Elon Musk named most admired Sunderlal Patwa passed away. leader in technology, in a survey conducted by VC firm First 17. Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Round Capital involving over 700 startup founders. Amazon’s Jeff Wickremanayake passed away. Bezos is 2nd, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg 3rd. 18. Former US astronaut John Glenn passed away. He was first 44. UP's noted Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi passed away. American to orbit Earth. He circled earth thrice in 1962 aboard 45. US Astronomer Vera Rubin passed away. She was known for Friendship 7 space capsule. her pioneering work on galaxy rotation, that led to theory of dark 19. Hollywood actress Carrie Fisher passed away, known for her matter. role in Star Wars and her autobiography The Princess Diarist. 46. Vietnam Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich visited India. India 20. Hrithik Roshan became highest advance taxpaying actor after agreed to train Vietnam’s Sukhoi30 fighter pilots, boosting paying advance tax of Rs 80 crore till December, followed by growing defence ties between both countries. Civil Nuclear Aamir Khan (74 crore), Ranbir Kapoor (37 crore). Cooperation Agreement was also signed between India and 21. Indian former international table tennis player Prafulla Vietnam. Haldankar passed away. 19 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING Science 1. A team of international astronomers discovered Vela super cluster, biggest super galaxy cluster discovered so far. 2. American scientists of US National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering successfully tracked human thought by imaging rapidly fluctuating brain activity, using fast functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI). 3. Canadian Scientists developed first functional pacemaker cells using human pluripotent stem cells that can regulate heart beats with electrical impulses paving way for alternate biological pacemaker therapy. Pluripotent stem cells have potential to differentiate into more than 200 different cell types that make up every tissue and organ in the body. 4. Harvard University (USA) researchers have built world’s smallest radio receiver, made out of atomic scale defects in pink diamonds. 5. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched remote sensing satellite Resourcesat2A using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C36. - Resourcesat2A is a follow on mission to its predecessor remote sensing satellites Resourcesat1 and Resourcesat2, launched in 2003 and 2011 respectively. - It weighs 1,235 kg and mission life of Resourcesat2A is five years. 6. Indian private aerospace starup Team Indus partnered with Japanese Hakuto to carry its four wheeled lunar rover to the Moon’s surface. TeamIndus’s 600 kg spacecraft will be launched on ISRO’s PSLV rocket on December 28, 2017. Now, Team Indus’s spacecraft will also carry Hakuto’s 4 kg robotic rover. 7. Researchers discovered a new fish species which has become 8000 times more resilient to toxic waste compared with normal fish, named Atlantic killifish. It lives in heavily polluted East Coast estuaries of USA such as Elizabeth River in Virginia and Newark Bay in New Jersey. 8. Researchers discovered hot atomic hydrogen atoms in thermosphere (upper layer of earth’s atmosphere). It changes current understanding of the distribution of hot atomic hydrogen and its interaction with other atmospheric constituents. 9. Researchers from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) discovered that bismuth semimetal in bulk form becomes a superconductor when temperature is lowered to 273 degree C. It acts as superconductor at temperature three times higher than theoretical prediction. This discovery challenges conventional understanding of superconductivity based on Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer (BCS) theory. 10. Researchers from USA developed first vaccine for Chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific Eilat virus. 11. Russian Scientists developed a new low-cost method for producing high quality nuclear fuel using electricity. It is alternative novel method that forms the basis of powder metallurgy and involves electric pulse sintering under pressure. 12. Scientist from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for the first time detected traces of ammonia in upper troposphere, lowest atmospheric layer of Earth. Ammonia (NH3) was released into atmosphere as agricultural emission from livestock farming and fertilisation in order of 33 pptv (33 ammonia molecules per trillion air molecules), above Southeast China and North India. 13. Scientists at Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Spain) identified a specific protein called CD36 which is responsible for spreading cancer. CD36 is found in cell membranes of tumour cells and are dependent on fatty acids. 14. Scientists discovered 163 new species in ecologically diverse Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand), including 3 mammals, 9 amphibians, 11 fish, 14 reptiles and 143 plants. It Hasn been revealed by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report. 15. Scientists for first time discovered molten jet stream within Earth’s molten iron core using latest data obtained from three European satellites called Swarm (launched in 2013 for studying Earth’s magnetic field). This data will help create an sharpest ‘xray’ view of Earth. - Molten jet stream is an accelerating band of molten iron circling the North Pole. It just like the jet stream in atmosphere and moves about 40 km per year, currently in westward direction. - This data clarifies that changes in magnetic field are actually being caused by the molten jet stream. 16. Scientists from India found a huge ‘dead zone’ of an estimated 60,000 square kilometres in Bay of Bengal, that supports microbial processes that remove vast amount of nitrogen from the ocean. - Dead Zone is an area in water body that contains little or no oxygen (or they are hypoxic) in bottom and near bottom water. They occur naturally or can also be induced by human activities. 17. UK researchers found that stem cells harvested from pregnant woman’s amniotic fluid can be used to strengthen weak bones. Amniotic fluid is the protective fluid that surrounds baby in the uterus and helps it to develop inside the mother’s womb. 18. UK researchers identified Hafnium carbide (HfC) and Tantalum carbide (TaC) as world’s most heat resistant material. Researchers found that TaC melted at 3,768 degrees Celsius, and HfC melted at 3,958 degrees Celsius. 19. US scientists developed a bacteria powered battery (bio-battery) on a single sheet of paper, capable of powering disposable electronics (Papertronics). - Researchers laid ribbon of silver nitrate on a piece of chromatography paper. - On top, they placed thin layer of wax to create a cathode (positive electrode). On other side , reservoir out of a conductive polymer was made which acts an anode (negative electrode). When paper is folded so that the cathode and anode come into contact, it is powered by the bacterial metabolism. 20. USA Scientists (University of WisconsinMadison) created a nano ceramic material that can used for safer and cheaper nuclear reactors, made of aluminium oxide nanoceramic coating. It can withstand high temperatures, the harsh effects of radiation and also becomes tougher under radiation. Panel Incuded Indian Scientist Kumar Sridharan. 20 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 21. USA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch RestoreL Spacecraft in 2020. It will be able to repair satellites currently in orbit. In this regard, NASA has given $127 million contract to California based satellite company Space Systems/Loral. 22. University of Toronto (Canada) scientists discovered oldest water sample dating back to about 2 billion years in a Canadian Mine. It is 500 million years more ancient than previous oldest samples. 23. Winter Fog Experiment (WIFEX) 201617 inaugurated by Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) New Delhi. Aim is better understanding of fog life cycle and improve capability in fog prediction. 24. World Health Organization (WHO) reported that new vaccine for Ebola (Developed in Canada) will be 100% effective. It is now over taken by pharmaceutical giant Merck. 25. World’s first cloned goat bearing superfine Cashmere wool born in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Sports 1. 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia announced retirement from tennis. 2. 16yearold shooter From Gujarat, claimed gold medal in junior men’s 50M Rifle Prone event at National Shooting Championship in Pune. Notable point is that he equalled score (209.5) of H Junghaenel of Germany who won gold medal in men’s 50m Rifle Prone event at Rio Olympics 2016. 3. AB De Villiers stepped down from South Africa's Test Cricket captaincy. Faf du Plessis has been named to take over the role. 4. AllIndia Football Federation won Asian Football Council's Developing Member Association of Year Award in Abu Dhabi. 5. Andy Murray (UK) and Angelique Kerber (Germany) were named ITF (International Tennis Federation) World Champions of 2016 in Male and Female Categories Respectively. It is 9th title for Andy Murray. 6. Argentina women’s hockey team defeated Netherlands to win women’s Hockey Junior World Cup 2016 in Santiago (Chile). 7. Argentina won FIFA ‘Team of the Year’ title after finishing top of the FIFA rankings of 2016 with 1,634 points. Brazil is second with 1,544 points 8. Atletico De Kolkata FC won 3rd Indian Super League (ISL) football tournament. It is second title for Atletico De Kolkata FC. In final they defeated Kerala Blasters. 9. Azhar Ali became first Pakistan batsman to score a double century in a Test in Australia. 10. Bank of Baroda (BoB) became first Indian company to sign up as a national supporter of 2017 FIFA Under17 World Cup to be hosted by India in October 2017. 11. Basketball player LeBron James (USA) chosen as Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year. 12. Cricket Australia (CA) named Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli as captain of board’s One-Day International (ODI) Team of Year. Jasprit Bumrah is another Indian named in team. 13. Cricketer Virat Kohli named India's Sportsperson of the Year 2016 in a poll conducted by India Today.He was followed by Badminton Player PV Sindhu. 14. First elite men’s senior national boxing tournament started at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati (Assam). 15. Former American basketball player Michael Jordan is named as highest paid athlete of all times by Forbes, with $1.7 billion total wealth. He if followed by Golfer Tiger Woods ($1.67 billion). 16. Formula One racer Nico Rosberg (Germany) announced retirement. He has recently won F1 World championship 2016. 17. Gujarat's Samit Gohel broke 117yearold record of Highest score in firstclass cricket by scoring 359 not out during Ranji Trophy match against Odisha. 18. ICC granted Shaheed Vijay Singh Parthik (SVSP) Sports Stadium in Greater Noida approval for conducting International cricket matches. 19. India Winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan won gold medal at Asian Luge Championships held at Nagano in Japan. 20. India bronze medal at women’s U18 Asia Cup hockey held in Bangkok (Thailand) by defeating South Korea. 21. India won 2016 Asian Cricket Council Under19 Asia Cup title by defeating Sri Lanka in Colombo (Sri Lanka). 22. India won 2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup, defeating Belgium. It was hosted by India in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh). 23. India's Smriti Mandhana named in International Cricket Council (ICC’s) Women’s Team of Year 2016. This is for the first time ICC has named a women’s team of the year. 24. Indian Billairds layer Pankaj Advani won his 11th World Billiards (150Up format) Championships title after defeating Peter Gilchrist of Singapore In Bengaluru. Note that Peter Gilchrist defeated Sourav Kothari to win Long Up title. 25. Indian Cricketer Karun Nair scored triple century in 5th Test Match Against England played in Chennai (Tamilnadu). 26. Indian Golfer Mukesh Kumar became oldest golfer to win an Asian Tour title after winning Panasonic Open India at Delhi Golf Club (DGC). 27. Indian Golfer Mukesh Kumar became oldest golfer to win an Asian Tour title at age of 51 years, after he won 2016 Panasonic Open India golf title in Delhi. 28. Indian Iqbal Sayed became first Indian to win medal (Silver) at Mr Olympia amateur event in Hong Kong in Classic Bodybuilding category. 29. Indian Olympic Association Approved Meghalaya as host of 2022 National Games. Upcoming National Games - 2017 Goa (36th) - 2018 Uttarakhand - 2019 Andhra Pradesh - 2022 Meghalaya 21 COMPLETE SUCCESS BANK PO/CLERICAL COACHING 30. Indian Professional Boxer Vijender Singh defeated Francis Cheka (Tanzania) to retain WBOAsia Pacific Super Middleweight title. 31. Indian Women’s cricket team won 2016 Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup cricket tournament, defeating Pakistan. It was hosted by Thailand. 32. Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin named ICC Cricketer of Year 2016 and ICC Test cricketer of Year 2016. He became second Indian player after Rahul Dravid to bag two prestigious prizes in same year. Ashwin was named recipient of Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the year 2016. - Virat Kohli named captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Year. - MisbahUlHaq became First Pakistani to win ICC Spirit of Cricket Award. - Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin occupy top two spots in ICC Test bowling Rankings. - New Zealand cricketer Suzannah Wilson Bates became first woman cricketer to win both ICC Women’s ODI and T20I Player of the Year awards. 33. Indian tennis player Somdev Kishore Devvarman announced his retirement. 34. Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won $10000 ITF Hong Kong F4 Futures Title, defeating Shintaro Imai of Japan. 35. India’s Arjun Bhati secured first position in Kids Golf World Championship 2016 held in Malaysia defeating South Africa’s Methu Denish. 36. India’s largest indoor sports arena will come up in New Town area of Kolkata (West Bengal), on 10 acres land and accommodation of 15400 people. 37. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) removed Sochi (Russia) as host host of 2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships, accusing Russia of statesponsored doping. 38. International Boxing Association (AIBA) granted full membership to the recently formed Boxing Federation of India (BFI). With this, India’s return to international boxing fold is complete after it was suspended for four years over issues of less management. 39. International Olympic Committee granted provisional recognition to cheerleading and martial art of muaythai as Olympic sports. Governing body for each sport will now receive $25,000 annually from IOC. 40. Kush Bhagat won 3 gold medals in 1st Western Asia Youth Chess Championships in UAE. 41. Lionel Messi (Aergentina) voted as World’s Best Playmaker for second consecutive year, as announced by International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). 42. Next Women’s Hockey World Cup will be held in July 2018 in London (England). 43. Noted British road and track racing cyclist Bradley Wiggins announced retirement. He has won several international tours including 8 Olympic medals. 44. Pakistan got approval to host its first Davis Cup tennis Match after 12 years. It was deprived of hosting matches in view of security fears.Match will be against Iran in Islamabad in February 2017. 45. Pankaj Advani won National title in 6red Snooker (shorter format), defeating Ishpreet Chadha. 46. Portugese Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo won Best Player of the Year and Goodwill Award at 7th Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai. Besides, Real Madrid Club’s president Florentino Pérez, coach Fernando Santos and the Club Itself, won awards in their respective categories. 47. Rio Olympian Sathish Sivalingam won gold for 6th consecutive year in men's 77 kg category in 69th men's and 32nd women's Senior National Weightlifting Championship in Tamilnadu. 48. Sardar Patel Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad (Motera Stadium) wlll become world’s largest seating capacity cricket stadium after renovation work by Larsen and Turbo (L&T). Its capacity will be enhanced to 1.1 lakh people from 54000 currently, leaving behind Melbourne Cricket Ground's capacity of 1 lakh people. 49. Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal won 2016 Mubadala World Tennis Championship title in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Defeating David Goffin. 50. Sports Ministry derecognised Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on issue of nominating scam tainted Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Chautala as its life presidents. As a matter of protest, Narinder Batra also earlier resigned as associate vicepresident of Indian Olympic Association. Suresh Kalmadi had chosen to refuse appointment but Abhay Singh Chautala accepted the Offer. 51. Young Indian racer Jehan Daruvala signed Agreement with top team Carlin for 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship.

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