MONTHLY ISSUE DECEMBER - 2018 Vanik’s Current Affairs Banking | Railway | Insurance | SSC | UPSC | OPSC | PSU PHYSICS PEACE CHEMISTRY NOBEL PRIZE ECONOMIC SCIENCE 2018 4 NO. OF PRACTICE SET IBPS-CLERK (Prelim) Set-1 IBPS-CLERK (Prelim) Set-2 IBPS-PO (Main) SSC-CGL (Tier-I) PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE Advt. VA N I K S A H E E D N A G A R C E N T R E VA N I K C U T TA C K C E N T R E VANIK ACHARYA VIHAR CENTRE Centralized A/C Counseling Central A/C Classroom Fully Wi-Fi Enabled Lab Interview Grooming Session Food Court WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN VANIK INSTITUTE FOR “BANKING, RAILWAY AND SSC” 1. BEST FACULTY OF INDIA FOR CLASSES COMPARE TO ALL OTHER INSTITUTE. 18. Weekly Current Affairs handout separately. 2. Highest no of Classes from basic to advance level. 19. Weekly newspaper reading classes. 3. Highest no of hours in every subject for better understanding. Total hours for 20. One month free online test (MTD – Banking Test & Discussion) and six month banking - 450+HRS (6 MONTHS DAILY 2 HRS CLASS) AND SSC - 750+ HRS (6 free practice test (TBT, SBT, MCT, FPT & PPT) MONTH DAILY 4 HRS CLASS) 21. Two month free online test (MTD, VTD) and six month free practice test (TBT, SBT, MCT, FPT & PPT) 4. Separate vocabulary class (1000 - BANKING AND 2000 WORDS - SSC) (Weekly 22. Interview classes , mock interview with video recording and analysis Once) 23. Personal development and group discussion class 5. Special class for upcoming exams. 24. LARGEST ONLINE TEST PLATFORM (VOTE - VANIK ONLINE TEST AND 6. Separate traditional GK class for easy remember GK in the class itself. EXPLANATION ) Separately for Bank PO, Bank Clerk, SSC & Railway 7. Time to Time motivational class and classes how to crack the exam by our experts. 25. Weekly 3 online mock test of upcoming exams with discussion (MTD- MOCK TEST 8. 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CONTENT Page Economy & Banking Page Page Page International National 11 News 14 News 16 Page Page Page Bilateral State News Award and 17 18 19 Honour Page Person in Page Places in Page Sports 21 News 24 News 25 Page Science & Page Environment Page 27 Technology & Ecology 29Defence Page Page Page 31 Committee 32 Summit 33Book & Author Page Page 33 Miscellaneous 34 VANIK QUESTION HUB Page 150 MCQ on Page 100 MCQ on Page 40 MCQ on Page 20 Special MCQ 36 Current Affairs 42 SSC/Railway 46 Computer 46 on Banking PRACTICE SET VANIK EXTRA DOSE Page Page Page 100 Who’s Who 106 Abbreviation 108 One Liner MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2018 MAJOR ISSUES OF THE MONTH NOBEL PRIZE On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prize distribution was first done on 1901. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Nobel Prize Winners 2018 S. Field Description Winner No For their discovery of cancer therapy by James P. Allison(USA), 1. Physiology or Medicine inhibition of negative immune regulation Tasuku Honjo(Japan) For their method of generating high- Gérard Mourou(France), 2. Physics intensity, ultra-short optical pulses in the Arthur Ashkin(USA), field of laser physics Donna Strickland(Canada) For control of evolution and used it for George Smith (USA), 3. Chemistry purposes that bring the greatest benefit to Frances Arnold (USA), humankind. Greg Winter (UK) 4. Literature This year no Nobel Prize for Literature Denis Mukwege For their efforts to end the use of sexual (Democratic Republic of the 5. Peace violence as a weapon of war and armed Congo), conflict. Nadia Murad (Germany) For work on climate change, and the William Nordhaus (US) 6. Economic Sciences endogenous growth theory Paul Romer(US) Fun Facts About the Nobel Prize Sir William Lawrence Bragg, one of the youngest Physics Nobel prize winner at the age of 25 was awarded his winning medal along with his father. The Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, however, if a person is awarded a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize may still be presented. Frederick Sanger has been awarded the Nobel prize twice for Chemistry. Le Duc Tho was selected for the Nobel Prize for Peace, which he declined later.