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MONTHLY ISSUE - DECEMBER - 2015 CurrVanik’s ent Affairs Banking | Railway | Insurance | SSC | UPSC | OPSC | PSU Vanik’s Page 200 Updated MCQs y) reliminar 100 One Liners or IBPS-Clerk (P ractice Set f Two P -Clerk (Main) 40 MCQs on Computers e Set for IBPS Two Practic e Set for CHSL 100 GK for SSC & Railway One Practic Vanik’s Knowledge Garden Leading Institute for Banking, Railway & SSC P u b l i c a t i o n s VANIK'S PAGE COUNTRY, CAPITAL & CURRENCY BOOKS AUTHOR S BOOK S AUTHOR S A Bend in the River V.S. Naipul Death of a patriot R.E. Haring ton A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipul Decline and fall of a Edward Gibbon Roman Empir e A million Mutinies now William Shakespear e Diplomacy Henry Kissing er A passage to England Nirad C.Choudhari Discovery of India Jawahar lal Nehru A passage to India E.M Foster Divine lif e Swami Sivananda A prisoner’s scrap Book L.K.Advani Family matter s Rohinton Mis try A suitable Boy Vikram Seth Final Days .The Bob Woodward and carl Berns tein A thousand Days Arthur M Schlesigner Freedom Revolution Thomas Carlyle Alls Well that Ends Well William Shakespear e Freedom at midnigh t Larry collines and Dominique Lapierr e Amar Kosh Amar Singh Gardener Rabindranath Tag ore An American Dilema Gunner Myrdal Ghasiram Kotw al Vijay tendulk ar An Areas of Darkness V.SNaupul Gitanjali Rabindranath Tag ore An Autobiography Jawahar lal Nehru Good time Bad Time Harod Ev ans An Equal Music Vikram Seth Half a lif e V.S.Naipul An Idealistic view of life Dr.S.Radhakrishanan Halme t W.Shakespear e Anandmath Bikram Chandra Harry poter and the J.K.Rowling Chaterjee Goblet of pow er As you like it William Shakespear e Hindu view of life Dr .S. Radhakrishan Autobiography of an Nirad C.Choudhuri Hinduism Nirad .C.Charudhry Unknown Indian Bharat Bharati Maithali Saran Gupt a How to know God Deepak Chopr a Business the speed of Bill Gates Hullabaloo in gua va Keeran Desai Thought Byzantium W.B Yeats India Discover ed K eay Pilgrimage Chitra Rabindranath Tagor e India Divided Rajendra Prassad City of Joy Dominique lapierr e India of our Dreams M.V.Kama th Coolie Mulkraj Anand India wins Freedom Abul Kalam Az ad Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagor e India;s Priceless N.A.Palkiv ala heritag e Crime and Punishmen t Feodor Dostoyevsky Indian Philosoph y Dr.Radhakrishnan Cry , the Beloved country Alan Paton Kalpana Chawla-A-Lif e Anil Padmanabhan Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler Kamasutr a Vatsyay ana Das Kapital Karl Marx Kashmir : A Tragedy of Tavleen Singh Error s Death in Venice Thomas Mann Kidnapped Robert Louils Stevension Death of city Amrita Pritam Ladies couple Anita Nair MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2015 VANIK’S MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2015 B – 61 A & B, Saheed Nagar & Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar 1 Leading Institute for Banking, Railway & SSC Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. 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CONTENTS Topics Page No Events of the Month 4 International news 10 National news 13 Bilateral 16 Economy and Banking 17 Award and Honour 20 Book and Author 21 Person in news 22 Places in news 23 Sports 23 Science and Technology 25 Environment and Ecology 26 Defence 27 Recent Summit in News 28 Committee and its Function 28 International and National institution 29 Recent visit and visitor 30 Date and Observation 30 State news 31 Recent government devlopement and scheme 32 200 MCQ current affairs 34 40 MCQ of Computer 43 Abbreviation 44 Descriptive English 45 Word of the Month 46 Banking Terminology 46 Miscellaneous G.K. for SSC and Railway 48 Practice Set : IBPS-Clerk-Preliminary 52 IBPS-Clerk-Main 60 Previous year question for CHSL 71 Who’s Who? 79 One Liner 81 MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2015 EVENTS OF THE MONTH framework for strategic cooperation was also approved in INDIA-AFRICA FORUM SUMMIT the leaders. He indicated that India is willing to develop African agriculture, health care and Indian and African 2015 traditional knowledge on medicines. The India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) is a celebration of the close partnership between Africa and India. It is an ROADMAP FOR INDIA AHEAD OF acknowledgement of our shared history as well as our future PARIS CLIMATE TALKS prospects. From our struggle against colonialism and From Lima, the capital of Peru, to Paris, what will be India’s apartheid, we have emerged to jointly accept the challenges role in the global debate on climate change and emissions? of a globalizing world. Even as we combat with common Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Environment and threats - the threat from international terrorism; the scourge Forests, addressing the first meeting of the environment of poverty, disease, illiteracy and hunger; the challenge of ministers of BRICS nations in Moscow, had said that India, climate change - and collectively promote the socio-economic by launching various campaigns like — ‘Fresh Air, My advancement of all our people, we believe that India and Birthright,’ ‘Save Water, Save Energy,’ ‘Grow More Plants,’ Africa traverse the same path, share the same values and and ‘Urban Green’ — wants to lead the developing nations cherish the same dreams. with greater stress on need-based consumption. The Paris A vibrant India and a resurgent Africa have a vision of a talks on climate change will unfold this in December and it is close partnership. A partnership that is anchored in the time to prepare well and do our homework, before India moves principles of equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit.This to the negotiating table. Without sound preparation we will vision takes us beyond our strong bilateral relationships, fumble in Paris. The US and China, the world’s biggest our close ties with regional economic communities and aims emitters of greenhouse gases, have agreed to cut emissions to develop a new paradigm of cooperation which takes into — the US by 26-28 per cent in 2025 over its 2005 levels. account Africa’s own aspirations for pan-African institutions China will peak its emissions by 2030 and then, start cutting, and development programmes. but in the meantime, it has committed to produce some 1,000 The fourth edition of the four day IAFS summit which took gigawatts of carbon-free energy. The European Union also place during 26th-29th October 2015 enabled consultations proposes to raise its share of renewable sources by 27 per at the highest political level between the heads of government cent in total consumption by 2030. of 54 nations across Africa and the Indian government to In Brisbane, during the G20 Summit, US President Barack give a new thrust to our age-old partnership. It provides an Obama had said, “If China and the US can agree on this, we opportunity to not only reflect on the past, but to define the can get this done,” and announced a US $3 billion fund for road ahead in tune with the times we live in. climate mitigation to the UN-backed Climate Mitigation Fund. At the end of the 4 days biggest diplomatic gathering in These voluntary assurances do not unambiguously show India in 30 years attended by 2 kings, 26 Presidents, 6 Vice- the contours of a roadmap for climate mitigation with no Presidents, 7 Prime Minister & Chairperson of the African penalties for missed targets. Disturbingly, Russia, Australia, Union Commission. Indian PM Modi made a determined Canada and Japan are doing far less than they had earlier attempt to expand India’s trade footprint in the massive promised, especially going by the original Kyoto Protocol. African market by gift wrapping for the continent an The 26 to 28 per cent reduction in emissions over 2005, which additional $ 10 billion on soft loans, $ 600 million in grants the US has promised, too is less than the 30 per cent promised and 50000 student scholarships. at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, where both Obama and the Modi has made a major push for Indian companies through Chinese President were present in addition to leaders from lines of credit and foreign links. Besides an India-Africa Europe. China is allowed unlimited emissions until 2030, B – 61 A & B, Saheed Nagar & Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar 4 Leading Institute for Banking, Railway & SSC Ph.