Current Updates ______________________ • Following PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Nepal for the Saarc summit, the government is mulling a proposal to provide leave travel concession for government employees to four countries -Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka to boost tourism in the neighbourhood. • Indian American novelist Akhil Sharma’s second book “Family Life“ is among the New York Times Book Review’s 10 best books of 2014. • The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Coal Mines Bill, 2014, taking the government a step closer to auctioning the 204 mining blocks cancelled by the Supreme Court in September. • Bengal transport and sports minister Madan Mitra -a key member of Mamata Banerjee’s inner circle -was arrested by CBI on Friday after his very first questioning in the Saradha scam. The government on Friday said it had dropped amendments to the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 proposed by the National Commission for Women (NCW). • INDS (intended nationally determined contribution) will become the basis of global climate deal in COP 21 in Paris late next year. • Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday announced yoga would be included as an integral part of the school curri culum in the state. • The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday released the provisional squads of 12 teams for the next year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. • Pakistan Hockey team enter champion Trophy Final beat India after 16 years. • Mehdi Masroor Biswas, a 24-year-old executive in a multinational company , was arrested on Saturday on charges of being the key voice of global jihadi group ISIS on Twitter. • Dineshwar Sharma, was on Saturday appointed as the new chief of the agency. He will take charge from current IB chief SA Ibrahim on January 1, 2014. • India will launch the advanced Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-MIII) on December 10 from Sriharikota. • The govt plan to pass the insurance Bill next week. It is eager to pass the key reform bill which aims to increase foreign equity in the insurance sector from 26 to 49% and had brought the legislation in the previous budget session of parliament. • Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi made a strong pitch for a complete ban on every kind of labour activity for children up to 14 years of age on his return to India after receiving the peace prize. • A toll free call centre will soon swing into operation to help defence pensioners in getting revised pensions. • India’s first indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant is now finally all set to make its maiden foray into the wide open sea. • The first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet by the ESA’s Philae spacecraft has been named the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for 2014. • Google is all set to enter the International Space Station (ISS) for a flatworm study next week. • Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced his resignation on Sunday. South Africa’s Rolene Strauss was crowned Miss World 2014 in London on Sunday. • According to US Energy Information Administration, Saudi Arabia has the world’s largest proved oil reserves of 267 billion barrels and India is the world’s seventh largest petroleum consumer and its daily consumption ranging be tween 2-4 million barrels. • A cafe in Sydney early Tuesday, ending a 16-hour siege by an Iran-born gunman who had held 17 hostages, including two people of Indian origin.Though the Indians survived the ordeal, three people -the gunman and two of the hostages -were killed. • The Anil Ambani controlled Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) is selling off most of its multiplex business known as Big Cinemas to south-India based Carnival Cinemas for about Rs 700 crore. • AISHWARYA RAI was felicitated on Sunday by the Miss World organisation at the 64th edition of the international beauty pageant for her commitment to “beauty with a purpose“. • The iconic Taj Mahal and Humayun’s Tomb will become the first Indian monuments to have e-ticketing entry system by the end. • Mahela Jayawardene will retire after the 2015 World Cup, former Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene on Monday revealed on social media that the seventh and final ODI against England on Tuesday will be his last on home turf. •
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:55:54 +0000
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