RAJRAS NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS FAST REVISION MODULE NOV 2015 – NOV 2016 Current Affairs RajRAS INDEX INDEX NOVEMBER 2016 ..................................................................................................................................... 3 OCTOBER 2016 ...................................................................................................................................... 17 SEPTEMBER 2016 .................................................................................................................................. 73 AUGUST 2016 ........................................................................................................................................ 87 JULY 2016 ............................................................................................................................................ 113 JUNE 2016 ........................................................................................................................................... 152 MAY2016 ............................................................................................................................................. 166 APRIL 2016 .......................................................................................................................................... 185 MARCH 2016 ....................................................................................................................................... 205 FEBRUARY 2016 ................................................................................................................................... 220 JANUARY 2016 .................................................................................................................................... 232 DECEMBER 2015 ................................................................................................................................. 248 NOVEMBER 2015 ................................................................................................................................. 261 2 Current Affairs RajRAS NOVEMBER 2016 NOVEMBER 2016 November 2016: Important Days November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (IDEVAW) • Significance: Seeks to raise awareness about violence against women and girls, end the violence against the women. • 2016 Theme: “Orange the World – raise funds to end violence against women”. The orange colour in the theme symbolizes a better future to women and girls all over the globe without the pervasive human rights violation which affects 1 in 3 women and girls all over the globe. November 19: World Toilet Day • Significance: Raise awareness and inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. • 2016 Theme: “Toilets and jobs”. It focuses on how sanitation or the lack of it, can impact on livelihoods. November 16: International Day for Tolerance • Significance: Seeks to educate masses about the need for tolerance in society and help them understand the negative effects of intolerance. November 12: World Pneumonia Day • Significance: Generate awareness about the ‘pneumonia’ disease. • 2016 Theme: Keep the Promise, Stop Pneumonia Now. November 10: World Science Day for Peace & Development: • Significance: To raise awareness of benefits of science in our daily life. 3 Current Affairs RajRAS NOVEMBER 2016 • Theme 2016: “Celebrating Science Centres and Science Museums”. It highlights the importance of science centres and museums for capacity building and to send strong messages about the importance of science for sustainable development. November 5: World Tsunami Awareness Day • Importance : In December 2015, the UN General Assembly designated 5 November as World Tsunami Awareness Day, in order to raise tsunami awareness and share innovative approaches to risk reduction. • Why 5 Nov: The date for the annual celebration was chosen in honour of the Japanese story of “Inamura-no-hi”, meaning the “burning of the rice sheaves”. During a 1854 earthquake, a farmer saw the tide receding, a sign of a looming tsunami. He set fire to his entire harvest to warn villagers, who fled to high ground. Afterwards, he built an embankment and planted trees as a buffer against future waves. • Theme 2016: The debut World Tsunami Awareness Day focuses on education and evacuation drills. Current Affairs November 2016: News Snippets National Current Affairs November: • Andhra Pradesh Government has launched the ‘Smart Water Distribution Monitoring’ web interface. The monitoring portal is a part of ourvmc.org from where it can be accessed. Using this portal people can check the status of drinking water in the water tanks nearby. • The Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) won the prestigious 2016 Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance. • India’s longest expressway connecting Agra and Lucknow was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav at Bangarmau in Unnao district of UP. • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has formed Special Task Force under SS Mundra, Deputy Governor, RBI, to speed up the process of recalibration of automated teller machines (ATM) to dispense the new denomination notes. 4 Current Affairs RajRAS NOVEMBER 2016 • The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for the first time has deployed a team of women commandos in anti-Naxal operations in Jharkhand. The 135 women commandos belonging to the 232 battalion’s Delta company have started carrying out anti-Naxal operations. • The Supreme Court ordered search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing to immediately stop displaying advertisements relating to pre-natal sex determination tests. It also directed the Union government to constitute a nodal agency to monitor and trigger search engines to crack down on online pre-natal sex determination advertisements. • Union textile Minister Smriti Irani launched a scheme of ‘Pehchan’ identity cards to artisans in Ahmedabad. • Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has extended the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh, which are Tirap, Changlang and Longding. They have been “disturbed area” under Section 3 of the AFSPA. o While NSCN-IM has signed agreement with India for peaceful negotiation of their demand of Greater Nagaland other organization such as NSCN-K continue to use violence as means to fulfill their demands, against Indian state. • Chhattisgarh Government has launched Lakshya Bhagirathi campaign to complete the irrigation projects that could not be completed. • The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched Healthy India Initiative magazine and No More Tension mobile App. o Healthy India Magazine be a quarterly magazine. It will cater to health related information and raise awareness about healthy living. o No More Tension App will help users to manage stress and will also provide information regarding stress, symptoms and its management. • Entry to Indian Citizen in Bengaluru Airport only through Aadhar Card. • National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has commissioned a 50 MW Wind Power Plant in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. o Mini Ratna Category- I o Established: 1975 with Headquarters in Faridabad, Haryana. • The government is developing a national data registry (NDR) that will require all agencies— state, private and academic — that collect and store geospatial data to provide details of the data they store. 5 Current Affairs RajRAS NOVEMBER 2016 • Maharashtra became the first state in the country to have a cyber-police station in each district to take on cyber criminals. • The Union Government announced that the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 which ensures supply of subsidized food-grains has been implemented across the country. As a result, 81.34 crore persons will get subsidized wheat at Rs. 2 per kg and rice at Rs. 3 per kg. The subsidy implication of about Rs. 1,40,700 crore per year. • The first titanium production project of India has started its test production Ganjam district of Odisha.The raw material ilmenite would be procured from Odisha Sands Complex (OSCOM), a unit of Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL). • Kerala has become the third Open Defecation Free state in the country after Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) (Gramin). • Prime Minister Modi launched the Saur Sujala Yojana in Chhattisgarh, that would provide solar powered irrigation pumps to farmers at a subsidized price. • 1st November is the day of formation of Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Haryana. o Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh: 1956 o Punjab & Haryana: 1966 o Chhattisgarh: 2000 • The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has enabled online submission of applications by the urban poor for affordable houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(Urban) from tomorrow. A MOU was signed today by the Ministry of HUPA and Common Services Centre e-Governance Services India Limited of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, in the presence of respective ministers Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu and Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad. • Construction major Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) became India’s first firm to get debt recast under RBI’s new Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A). Read about: S4A. • The Union Government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have inked a $500-million loan agreement to build a 9.8 km long road bridge across the Ganga River in Bihar. It will be country’s longest river bridge and shall provide better connectivity between North and South Bihar and