HIGHLIGHTS OF DECEMBER CURRENT AFFAIRS 2015


  • December 2015 one liner for exam

  • 8th edition of Indo-Russia Bilateral Naval Exercise (INDRA NAVY- 15) held at Visakhapatanam.

  • 20th Avadh Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships 2015, Indian Mens' team claim Gold and Womens' team won Silver medal.

  • 4,030 People of Chengannur (a villiage in Kerala) have set a new Guinness World Record by forming the Largest Human ? Christmas? Tree.

  • 5-time world champion MC Mary Kom wins bronze in International Boxing Association's Olympic Test event,Rio de Janeiro.

  • A Parliamentary panel has suggested the Central government to increase the strength of women personnel in the Delhi Police force to 33% from the existing 9.27%.

  • After weeks of negosations in Paris , acoalition of nearly 200 countries has agreed t o a landmark climate change pact.

  • All central government ministries and their Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) were told to dispense with the requirement of interviews for selections at junior level posts within next two days, however, they may continue with skill or physical test.

  • All England and World champion Carolina Marin beats India ace Saina Nehwal to win the Female Player of the Year award from BWF president Poul-Erik Hoyer in Dubai.

  • American professional tennis player Serena Williams was honored as SI's Sportsperson of the Year 2015

  • Andhra Pradesh became the first state of India to join the Union Government’s Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY).

  • Australia has won the 2014-15 Men’s Hockey World League Final by defeating Belgium.

  • Bombay High Court has acquitted bollywood actor Salman Khan in the 2002 hitand-run case, and quashed his conviction and 5-year sentence.

  • Brazil has entered longest recession since 1930 BSNL slashes mobile rates by up to 80% for the first two months under a scheme for new customers.

  • BWF Superseries Finals 2015 Men's Singles Winner - Kento Momota (Japan), Women's Singles Winner - Nozomi Okuhara (Japan).

  • China has hosted 1st BRICS media summit at Beijing.

  • China officially abandoned its controversial one child policy, allowing couples to have a second child amid deepening demographic crisis of shrinking workforce and ageing population in the world's second largest economy.

  • China successfully launched its “most sophisticated” observation satellite, Gaofen- 4, as part of the country’s high-definition earth observation project.

  • China's first manned electric aircraft has been given a licence for producti

  • Delhi Govt decides that from 1st of Jan 2016, private vehicles with odd number plates & even number plates are to allowed on alternate days only.

  • Delhi recorded its most polluted day of the year on 23rd December 2015. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Islamabad to attend Heart of Asia Conference.

  • Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced that they will give away 99% of their shares in the company to good causes as they announced the birth of their daughter Max.

  • For the first time women of Saudi Arabia are allowed to vote and contest polls in the kingdom.

  • Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has been awarded honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in recognition of his "stellar career".

  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel was named as Time Magazine Person of the Year 2015.

  • Giving a boost to women empowerment, Sikkim government is set to have one all-women Police Station each in all the four districts.

  • Goa has been featured in the lists of top 10 Best Winter Locations of World.

  • Haryana Government has decided to fix a minimum educational qualification for aspirant of contesting Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections by amending state's Municipal Corporation Act.

  • Health Minister J P Nadda announced 4 new IT-based initiatives for citizen-centric health [Kilkari, Mobile Academy, RNTCP and MCessation]

  • In a sign of increasing trustworthiness, US has updated Gas-turbine technology transfer policy with India.

  • In it's 5th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy review, the Reserve Bank kept the key policy rates

  • In order to encourage innovators in India in the area of Payment and Settlement System, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced “Payment System Innovation Awards”.

  • India’s largest lender State Bank of India is going to issue EMV chip and pin based debit cards to its new customers to ensure enhanced secure transactions.

  • India’s second lunar probe Chandrayaan II will land on moon in 2017 and the country’s first solar mission Aditya L1 is likely to be launched in 2019.

  • Indian Batsman Ajinkya Rahane becomes fifth Indian batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Test match.

  • The United States has lifted a 40-year-old ban on export of Oil.

  • The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 percent, its first increase since 2006.

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