MONTHLY ISSUE - DECEMBER - 2016 CurrVanik’s ent Affairs Banking | Railway | Insurance | SSC | UPSC | OPSC | PSU et for IBPS-PO (Main) Two Practice S -Clerk (Prelim) Vanik’s Question Hub et for IBPS & RRB Practice S Vanik’s Practice Set -2016 Practice Set for CHSL Vanik’s Extra Dose Vanik’s Knowledge Garden VANIK'S PAGE IMPORTANT BOOK & AUTHOR 1. Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night –Salman Rushddi 2. The Red Sari –Javier Moro 3. Neither a Hawk nor a dove –Khurshid M Kasuari 4. Faces and Places Professor –Deepak Nayyar 5. Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Meira Kumar 6. Farishta –Kapil Isapuari 7. Super Economies –Raghav Bahal 8. China :Confucius in the Shadow –Poonam Surie 9. My country My Life - L.K.Advani 10. Joseph Anton - Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography) 11. The Sahara Testaments - Tade Ipadeola 12. Narendra Modi: A Political Biography - Andy Marino 13. My Unforgettable Memories - Mamata Banerjee 14. Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri - Dr R L Bhat 15. Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan - Daman Singh 16. The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001- 2014 - Carlotta Gall 17. Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership - Pavan Choudary 18. Walking With Giants - G. Ramachandran(former Finance Secretary ) 19. Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths - PC Parakh 20. The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh - Sanjaya Baru 21. God of Antarctica - 13 year old Yashwardhan Shukla 22. My Years with Rajiv and Sonia - R.D.Pradhan 23. Khushwantnama -The Lessons of My Life - Khushwant singh 24. Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age - Alexander Bard 25. One Life is Not Enough - Natwar Singh 26. The Lives of Others - Neel Mukherjee 27. My Music My Life - Pt Ravi Shankar 28. I am Malala - Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb 29. A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power - Bette Dam 30. True Colours — Adam Gilchrist 31. Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? - Faraz Ahmad 32. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 33. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri 34. And then One Day: A Memoir - Nasiruddin Shah (Autobiography) 35. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri 36. Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri 37. Truth Always Prevails - Sadruddin Hashwani 38. Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder 39. Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) - Mary Kom 40. Enoch, I am a British Indian - Sarinder Joshua 41. Duroch ModiNomics - Sameer Kochar 42. Public Issues Before Parliament - Vijay Darda 43. Water, Peace and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis - Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar 44. Awakening India’s Social Conscience - Dr. Narendra Jadhav 45. Munger through the Ages - Late DP Yadav 46. Akbar – The Aesthete - Dr. Indu Anand 47. Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar Message from Director Vanik Publications Dear Students, EDITOR Sincerity and commitment are the pillars to success in Competitive Mr. Pramod Padhi Exams as well as in life. 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CONTENTS Topics Page No Events of the Month 3 International news 10 National news 13 Bilateral 18 Economy and Banking 20 Award and Honour 27 Book and Author 29 Person in news 29 Places in news 32 Sports 33 Science and Technology 36 Environment and Ecology 37 Defence 38 Recent Summit in News 39 Committee and its Function 40 Date and Observation 42 International and National institution 43 State news 44 Recent government devlopement and scheme 47 Miscellaneous 48 Vanik Question Hub 200 MCQ on Current Affairs - 51 100 MCQ on SSC/Railway - 60 40 MCQ on Computer - 64 20 Special MCQ on Banking - 66 Practice Set Vanik Extra Dose IBPS-PO (Main-1) - 68 Who’s Who - 130 IBPS-PO (Main-2) - 84 Abbreviation - 136 IBPS-Clerk (Prelim) - 101 Word of the Month - 137 RRB-Clerk (Prelim) - 108 One Liner - 138 SSC-CHSL-2016 - 121 MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2016 EVENTS OF THE MONTH Russia 8TH BRICS SUMMIT Capital: Moscow Currency: Russian ruble The 2016 BRICS summit was the 8th annual BRICS summit, President: Vladimir Putin an international relations conference attended by the heads Prime minister: Dmitry Medvedev of country or heads of government of the five member Represented by Vladimir Putin countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The China summit was held from 15 to 16 October 2016 at the Taj Exotica Capital: Beijing hotel in Benaulim, Goa, India. India PM Narendra Modi hold Currency: Renminbi (yuan) the chair. President: Xi Jinping Events Represented by Xi Jinping The first BRICS film festival(five-day) was held at India New Delhi from 2 September to 6 September 2016 Capital: New Delhi which screened four films each from the participating Currency: Rupees nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South President: Pranab Mukherjee Africa. Represented by P.M. Narendra Modi The environment ministers of BRICS nations held a Besides, first-ever BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summit was meeting on 16th September 2016 in Goa, they agreed also held on side-lines of 2016 BRICS Summit. Leaders from on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and both forums planned to jointly explore possibilities of announced the setting up of a joint working group expanding ties between them on issues such as terrorism, institutionalizing their mutual cooperation on economy, trade and connectivity. BIMSTEC stands for Bay environment related issues. of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and The agriculture ministers of BRICS nations held a Economic Cooperation. BIMSTEC member countries are meeting on 23rd September 2016 in New Delhi. Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan The first trade fair of the BRICS countries, was held and Nepal. at Pragati Maidan exhibition ground, New Delhi from Representatives of the BIMSTEC states in attendance 12 to 14 October. Bangladesh - Sheikh Hasina, Prime minister The first BRICS U-17 Football Cup was held at Goa Bhutan – Tshering Tobgay, Prime minister from 5th to 15th October, 2016. Myanmar – Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor 4th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Nepal – Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Prime minister Ministerial Meeting was held atJaipur, Rajasthan on Sri Lanka – Maithripala Sirisena, President 8 October, 2016 to strengthen the collaboration Thailand – Virasakdi Futrakul, Vice-Minister amongst the BRICS countries in the areas of Science, Key Highlights of Goa Declaration Technology and Innovation (STI).Theme – Building, BRICS nations condemns terrorism in all its forms Responsive Inclusive and Collective Solutions. India and stressed that there can be no justification for hosted the 1st BRICS Young Scientists Conclave at such acts. Bengaluru and Hampi. International terrorism, especially the Islamic State MEMBER OF BRICS (IS) is an unprecedented threat to international peace Brazil and security. Capital : Brasília BRICS nations reaffirmed the commitment to Currency: Brazilian real increase effectiveness of the UN counter terrorism President: Michel Temer framework. Represented by Michel Temer Need for adaptation of Comprehensive Convention South Africa on International Terrorism (CCIT) in the UN General Capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein Assembly. Currency: South African rand Urgent need to reforms of the United Nations, President: Jacob Zuma including UN Security Council, to increase Represented by Jacob Zuma representation of developing countries. 3 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016 Resolution of civil war in Syria, in accordance with institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or the “legitimate aspirations of the people of Syria” scientific advances. and action against U.N.-designated terrorist groups 6 Categories : like IS and Jabhat al-Nusra. Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Economy, Literature and All nations must counter radicalism and block Peace sources of financing international