3. Centre for floriculture
India-Israel
Thally in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu
similar centre specialising in vegetables @ Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
4. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of
Humanity.
Kumbh Mela
held in Allahabad, Haridwar, Ujjain and Nasik
the art of ‘pizzaiuolo’ - Naples
oral traditions,
social practices,
performing arts,
rituals,
traditional craftsmanship knowledge
5. India’s ‘first’ energy-efficient railway station
Kacheguda Railway Station in Hyderabad
attained the 100 percent energy-efficient status
LED lights
energy efficient inverter type AC
6. Wassenaar Arrangement
India admitted as its 42nd Member
Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use
Goods and Technologies
Recently – admission to - Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
Still not yet - NSG
8. India International Exchange (India INX)
Bombay Stock Exchange’s subsidiary
located at IFSC, GIFT city
will be able to issue Eurobonds, masala bonds and foreign currency bonds
9. M - cap
Maruti Suzuki became India’s sixth most valued firm
10. Serendipity Arts Festival
Goa
2nd edition
does not focus on a single art form
craft, music, theatre, culinary arts, visual arts and photography
11. Miscellaneous
U.P. becomes first State to endorse Centre’s triple talaq draft bill
Government ropes in ICICI Bank to enable cashless payments on e-NAM
International Civil Aviation Day – December 7
International Anti-Corruption Day – December 9
World Human Rights Day – December 10
Naval Maritime Aircraft Museum in Visakhapatnam - Tupolev-142M
Australia legalises same-sex marriage
India declared free from Trachoma - a bacterial infection of eye
12. Miscellaneous
World Conference on Vedas, “Vishwa Ved Sammelan”, at the Indira Gandhi
National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) in New Delhi.
14. TIME magazine - Person of the Year
abuse ‘silence breakers’
sexual assault and harassment
#MeToo
2nd - President Trump
3rd - Chinese President Xi Jinping
16. Office Space Across the World 2017
By Cushman & Wakefield
Delhi-NCR - 84th most expensive - USD 5392 (over Rs 3.5 lakh) per workstation
Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), Mumbai -163rd
1st - Hong Kong - USD 27,431 per workstation
2nd London
3rd Tokyo
17. Global Prosperity Index
by Legatum Institute
measures economic and social wellbeing
India – 100th
1 Norway
2 New Zealand
3 Finland
nine broad pillars of prosperity Economic Quality, Business Environment,
Governance, Education, Health, Safety & Security, Personal Freedom, Social Capital
and Natural Environment.
23. e-mail IDs in Hindi
Rajasthan has become the first state in India
name@rajasthan.bharat (in Devanagari script)
24. first country to end national radio
broadcasts on FM
Norway
switchover to digital radio
Currency - Norwegian krone
25. South Korea bans its banks from dealing in Bitcoin – already a ban on ICO
Urban Genie’ app - Telangana government - to find trained and certified
technicians and workers
Disney to buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion
27. World’s heaviest bony fish
Mola alexandrini (bump-head sunfish)
discovered in Japan
2,300 kilograms
28. global cities in UN list to successfully
manage solid waste
Alappuzha, also called Aleppey – Kerala
Osaka in Japan, Ljubljana in Slovenia, Penang in Malaysia and Cajica in Colombia
29. Cyclone Ockhi
Operation Synergy – Rescue mission
by the Navy, the Air Force, Coast Guard and states fisheries department
rescued 252 fishermen stranded in the seas
30. World’s Biggest Floating Solar Project
Anhui, China
150-megawatt project
Indias largest floating solar power plant in Wayanad, Kerala
31. river linking project
Narmada River with Parvati River
Madhya Pradesh approves Rs 7546 crore
33. 27th Vyas Samman
Hindi writer Mamta Kalia
novel “Dukkham Sukkham”
Instituted by – K K Birla Foundation
First Awarded in – 1991
Awarded to/for – an Indian citizen in recognition for an outstanding work of Hindi
literature, published in the last 10 years
35. ‘Pioneer of DNA fingerprinting’
Lalji Singh
‘father of DNA fingerprinting in India’,
founder of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
36. Mother Teresa Memorial award for social
justice 2017
Priyanka Chopra
lending her support to social causes,
such as her recent visit to Syria, where she met and interacted with refugee
children.
38. Oxford Dictionaries -Word of the Year
2017
‘Youthquake’
“series of radical political and cultural upheavals occurring among students and
young people in the 1960s”
39. Forbes - Highest-Paid Athlete of All Time
Michael Jordan - $1.7 billion in the bank
Tiger Woods / Arnold Palmer/ Jack Nicklaus
2017 Forbes’ list of world’s highest-paid athletes:
1 – Cristiano Ronaldo
2 – LeBron James
3 – Lionel Messi
41. Mujeeb Zadran
first 21st century born male cricketer
Afghanistan
India to host Afghanistan’s first-ever Test match: BCCI
first 21st century born to play –
Gaby Lewis
Ireland women’s all-rounder
42. Ballon d’Or Award
Cristiano Ronaldo wins his fifth
award was by magazine France Football
46. Rohit Sharma
three double centuries in ODIs
Rest of the world has – 4
Sachin, Shewag, Martin Guptil, Chirs Gayle
first player to score a double century in ODI's is ?
Belinda Clark -
47. Cricket world cup
India to host 2023 World Cup & Champions Trophy in 2021
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