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Currnt Affair Oct-Dec (New) ® National Education Tour International Education Awards Science & Technology Awards Sports CURRENT AFFAIRS Major Events from October to December 2019 Amit Shah flags off Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat Express Ayodhya Verdict: Entire disputed site goes to Hindus for O c t 0 3 , 2 0 1 9 : Ram Mandir, Muslims to get 5 acres of alternate land U n i o n H o m e Nov 09, 2019: The Supreme Court of India finally delivered M i n i s t e r A m i t a judgement in the Ram Janambhumi-Babri Masjid Shah flagged off dispute, which is considered to be one of the most Delhi-Katra Vande c o n t r o v e r s i a l a n d Bharat Express enduring issues in the f r o m t h e N e w legal history of India. Delhi Railway Station. The first commercial run of the train T h e A p e x c o u r t will start from 5th October, 2019. Delhi-Katra Vande ordered the disputed Bharat Express is a big gift for Jammu and Kashmir’s land (2.77 acres) to be development and for promoting religious tourism. This is handed over to a trust (to be created by the Government the second Vande Bharat Express. The first one runs of India) to build the Ram temple and alternate 5 acres of between Delhi and Varanasi. land to the Sunni Waqf Board for the purpose of building a Railways launches new online facilities for passengers to mosque. register complaints Lt Col Jyoti Sharma appointed as Army's first female JAG Oct 11, 2019: The Indian Railways has launched a website officer and mobile app that allow passengers to register their Nov 14, 2019: In what can be called a proud moment for complaints online. Union Minister Nityanand Rai launched the nation, Lieutenant Colonel Jyoti Sharma has been the website: www.railways.delhipolice.gov.in and the appointed as the Indian Army's first woman Judge mobile app ‘Sahyatri’. This will facilitate the railway police Advocate General officer to be deployed on a foreign in addressing complaints of passengers all over India and mission. Lieutenant Colonel Jyoti will be appointed as the crime detection by integrating the criminal database military legal expert with the Government of Seychelles. online. Her key role will comprise of updating the officials of the Braj Raj Sharma appointed as SSC Chairman Government of Seychelles on the matters of defence and military acts. Oct 23, 2019: The central government has appointed Braj Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde sworn in as 47th CJI, Raj Sharma as the Chairman of succeeds Gogoi the Staff Selection Commission Nov 18, 2019: Justice Sharad Arvind (SSC). He will replace Pankaj Bobde was administered oath as the K u m a r , w h o h a s b e e n 47th Chief Justice of India by appointed as the CEO of President Ram Nath Kovind. Justice Unique Identification Authority Bobde (63) has succeeded Justice o f I n d i a ( U I D A I ) . T h e Ranjan Gogoi. Justice Bobde will have appointment was approved by the Appointments a tenure of around 17 months and Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). would demit office on April 23, 2021. Sports Minister lauds CBSE for organizing Fitness Week in Uddhav Thackeray sworn in as Maharashtra Chief schools Minister Nov 08, 2019: In a step aimed to inculcate the habit of Nov 28, 2019: Shiv Sena leader Uddhav fitness among school children, the Central Board of Thackeray took oath as Maharashtra’s Secondary Education (CBSE) will be observing Fitness new Chief Minister in front of a packed Week in the second and third week of November, as part of Shivaji Park, the iconic ground where his the Fit India Movement. Lauding the initiative, Kiren Rijiju, father late Bal Thackeray was cremated. Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, said that he is Mr. Thackeray was sworn in by Governor very happy to know about the development and asserted Bhagat Singh Koshyari along with six that the Fit India Movement is the need of the hour. He Cabinet ministers — two each from the also said, "We must make every effort to inculcate fitness Sena, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). habits in Indians from an early age.” 2 Soma Roy Burman appointed new Controller General of Senior diplomat Harsh Vardhan Shringla appointed Accounts Foreign Secretary Dec 01, 2019: The government has appointed Soma Roy Dec 23, 2019: India’s ambassador to the US, Burman, a 1986-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service Harsh Vardhan Shringla, was named by the Officer, as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA). government as the next foreign secretary Burman is the 24th CGA and is the seventh woman to hold and he will take over from incumbent Vijay this position. Gokhale in January. Shringla, who took over CBSE introduces Artificial Intelligence as subject in as the envoy in Washington in January, is a schools career diplomat who was a front runner for the top post for several months. Dec 05, 2019: In order to enhance multidisciplinary approach in teaching-learning and to sensitize the new PM Modi launches Atal Bhujal Yojana generation, Artificial Intelligence has been introduced as a Dec 25, 2019: Prime Minister Narendra subject in class IX from the session 2019-20 in the schools Modi flagged off the 'Atal Bhujal affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education Yojana', a scheme aimed at improving (CBSE). A twelve hours ‘Inspire’ module on Artificial groundwater management through Intelligence has also been announced, which schools can community participation, on the take up with the students of class VIII. The study material occasion of 95th birth anniversary of for teaching Artificial Intelligence in classes VIII and IX has former prime minister Atal Bihari already been provided to schools through CBSE’s website Vajpayee. (http://cbseacademic.nic.in/ai.html). India’s first university for transgender community to Parliament passes Citizenship Amendment Bill come up in UP’s Kushinagar Dec 26, 2019: The country’s first university for transgender community will be opened in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district to facilitate its members to study right from class one to PG, and even do research and get PhD degree. The university, which will come up in Fazilnagar block of Kushinagar district, is being built by the Akhil Bhartiya Kinnar Siksha Seva Trust (All-India Transgender Education Service Trust). All railways recruits to be inducted through UPSC: Chairman Dec 26, 2019: All new recruits in railways will be inducted through the UPSC civil services exam under five specialities, Railway Board Chairman V.K. Yadav announced days after the Cabinet approved the merger of Dec 11, 2019: The Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship its eight services into one - the Indian Railway Amendment Bill (CAB) that seeks to give citizenship to Management Service (IRMS). refugees from the Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh and Zoroastrian communities fleeing religious persecution General Bipin Rawat named as the country's first Chief of from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The Bill was Defence Staff passed by 311-80 votes with zero abstentions, after the Dec 30, 2019: Army Chief General opposition put up a spirited attack against it. Bipin Rawat has been appointed as the India marks National Mathematics Day on December 22 new Chief of Defence Staff by the government. With him being the CDS, Dec 22, 2019: National Mathematics Day in India is smooth coordination among the army, celebrated on December 22 every year. It commemorates air force and navy is expected, as tri- the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian services agencies on cyber and space mathematician who made significant contributions to came up during his tenure as the Army Chief. several fields of mathematics. 3 Palestine issues commemorative stamp to honour anticipated $10 billion cloud contract for Pentagon to Gandhi on 150th birth anniversary Microsoft. Known as the Joint Enterprise Defence Oct 02, 2019: Palestine released a Infrastructure (JEDI), it will support Department of commemorative postage stamp on Defence business and mission operations. The expected Mahatma Gandhi, honouring his ‘legacy and completion date of the project is October 24, 2029. values’, to mark the 150th birth anniversary Scientists around the world declare climate emergency of the world leader on October 2. Nov 05, 2019: More than 11,000 scientists China unveils DF-41 intercontinental-range ballistic around the world have declared a climate missile emergency, warning of "untold suffering" Oct 02, 2019: China unveiled the without urgent action. The declaration is D o n g f e n g - 4 1 ( D F - 4 1 ) based on analysis of more than 40 years of publicly intercontinental-range ballistic available data covering a range of measures from energy missile, touted to be the most use to deforestation and carbon emissions. powerful missile on the planet at the Scientists from the University of Sydney, Australia, Oregon National Day parade, as China State University and Tufts University in the US and the observed its 70th anniversary of Communist rule. DF-41 University of Cape Town in South Africa are joined in the has a range of up to 9,320 miles (15,000 kilometers), more warning by 11,000 signatories from 153 countries than any missile on Earth. including the UK. The missile is capable of carrying 10 independently Sheikh Khalifa re-elected UAE President for another five targeted nuclear warheads and could theoretically, hit the years United States in 30 minutes, according to the Missile Nov 07, 2019: Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and Nahyan has been re-elected as the President International Studies.
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