The document provides a summary of current affairs from December 1st including: - The screening of India's first 3D Sanskrit film at IFFI Goa. - Winners of the IFFI 2017 awards including Best Film and Best Actors. - Details about the Hornbill Festival in Nagaland which aims to protect Naga culture. - Crime statistics in India with Uttar Pradesh reporting the most IPC crimes. - The launch of Trump Tower in Kolkata and Ikea's first store in India in Hyderabad.

1. Current Affairs
December 1
Anirudh Reddy

2. India

3. World’s First 3D Sanskrit Film
 Anurakthi
 Screened at 2017 IFFI Goa
 directed by Asokan PK
 the traditional art form of Kerala, Koodiyattam.

4. IFFI 2017 – Awards Winners List
 Best Film - 120 Beats Per Minute by Robin Campillo
 Indian Film Personality of the Year - Amitabh Bachchan
 Best Female Actor - Parvathy for Take Off
 Best Male Actor - Nahuel Pérez Biscayart for 120 Beats Per Minute
 Best Director - Vivian Qu for Angels Wear White
 Lifetime Achievement Award - Atom Egoyan

5. Hornbill Festival
 NAGALAND
 The aim of the festival is to revive and protect the rich culture of Nagaland and
display its extravaganza and traditions.
 .Naga jolokia, called King Chilli one of the hottest chilli peppers of the world.

6. Crime in India 2016- Statistics
 Uttar Pradesh accounted for 9.5% of total IPC crimes reported in India.
 Madhya Pradesh (8.9%),
 Maharashtra (8.8%) and
 Kerala (8.7).
 From perspective of cities, Delhi City accounted for 38.8% of total IPC crimes
followed by
 Bengaluru (8.9%) and
 Mumbai (7.7%).

7. Trump Tower launched in Kolkata
 India already has Trump-branded project in Pune partnering Panchshil Realty.
 It tied up with Lodha group in 2014 for housing project in Mumbai

8. Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd
 Ikea
 Hej HOME’ in India at Hyderabad
 first store in the India at Hyderabad
 1,000 seat restaurant

9. Skill India + Airbnb
 provide hospitality skills training to hospitality entrepreneurs in India

10. Constitution Day – November 26, 2017
 also known as Samvidhan Divas
 commemorate the adoption of Constitution of India
 also celebrated as the National Law Day.

11. most visited place of the world
 Golden Temple
 by ‘World Book of Records’ (WBR)

12. Kapu Reservation Bill
 Passes by Andhra Pradesh
 5% reservation in education and employment to Kapu Community in Andhra
Pradesh
 total reservation in Andhra Pradesh has reached 55 per cent

13. Deen Dayal Divyangajan Sahajya Scheme
 every differently abled person would be entitled to a one-time grant of Rs 5000 for
their treatment.

14. world’s first Information Technology (IT) Campus
for Persons with Disabilities (PWD)
 Hyderabad

15. National Capital Region
 Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli District included
 NCR - coordinated planning region

16. Axis Bank - first bank to take membership of a
commodity exchange
 September 2017, Reserve Bank of India allowed banks wishing to undertake
commodities derivatives
 Axis Securities, a subsidiary of Axis Bank,
 has become the first-ever broking arm of a bank to take membership of a
commodity exchange
 by registering itself with NCDEX (National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange).

17.  Kerala raises minimum liquor drinking age to 23 from 21

18. World

19. Donald Trump’s latest travel ban
 travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and two other countries
 Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus North Korea and Venezuela.
 US Supreme Court allows full enforcement

20. Technology & science

21. World’s first AI Politician
 Named as SAM
 New Zealand
 an answer a person’s queries regarding local issues such as policies around
housing, education and immigration.

22. Voyager
 fired up after 37 years without use
 1977 – launched
 Purpose – To study the outer Solar System
 Distinction – farthest spacecraft from Earth as well as only human-made object in
interstellar space
 Voyager Golden Records??
 sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth

23. Coinome
 cryptocurrency exchange
 BillDesk-owned Hatio Innovations

24. virtual currency, ‘Petro’
 Venezuela
 Government will issue Petro cryptocoins
 creation of a “blockchain” observatory in Venezuela
 Capital – Caracas
 Currency – Bolivar fuerte

25. Environment

26. first state in India to setup green university
 West Bengal
 Dedicated to environmental studies

27. India’s largest floating solar power plant
 Kerala - Banasura Sagar reservoir in Wayanad
 floating solar plants have higher efficiency compared to ground-mounted
installations as water provides moderating effect on panel temperature

28. PEOPLE IN NEWS

29. 3rd ICCR distinguished Indologist Award
 Professor Hiroshi Marui of Japan
 exemplary contribution to Indology.
 had spent over 40 years working on Indian philosophy and Buddhist studies.

30. Infosys -CEO and Managing Director
 Salil S. Parekh

31. English novel ‘Two’
 Gulzar
 examines the status of refugees after the Partition

32. Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
 opens in Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi.

33. 2017 International Children’s Peace Prize.
 Mohamad Al Jounde, a 16-year old Syrian teenage
 for building refugee school in Lebanon

34. Cambridge dictionary’s ‘word of the year
2017’
 Populism
 political ideas and activities that are intended to get the support of ordinary people
by giving them what they want

35.  International Day for the Abolition of Slavery – December 2
 International Day of Persons with Disabilities – December 3

36.  Pradeep Singh Kharola as Air India CMD
 NK Singh appointed as Chairman of 15th Finance Commission
 Article 280 of Indian Constitution, Finance Commission is required to make
recommendations on the distribution of the net proceeds of taxes between the
Centre and the states.
 Magazine publisher and broadcast company Meredith Corp. acquires Time Inc.
 first woman Secretary General of Lok Sabha -Snehlata Shrivastava

37.  UN (United Nations) Environment’s Goodwill Ambassador for India- Dia Mirza
 UN Environment Global Goodwill Ambassador - Ellie Goulding
 First Sikh woman Mayor in US -Preet Didbal
 Ravi Bhalla is another Sikh Mayor in US. He was elected as mayor of Hoboken, New
Jersey in November 2017.

38. SPORTS

39. Golden Shoe
 Lionel Messi
 4th time
 Awarded by European Sports Media

40. Davis Cup
 Tennis
 Won by France – beat Belgium
 France’s Lucas Pouille beat Belgium’s Steve Darcis

42. Asian Luge Championships
 Shiva Keshavan wins gold

43. Russia banned from 2018 Winter Olympics
 For state-sponsored doping
 clean Russian athletes will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag
 Pyeongchang County, South Korea

44. fastest bowler to gain 300 Test wicket
 Ravichandran Ashwin – in 54 tests
 broke the record of Australian legend Dennis Lillee
 Muttiah Muralitharan – 800 wickets
 Shane Warne – 708 wickets
 Anil Kumble – 619 wickets
 Glenn McGrath – 563 wickets

45. IBSF World Snooker Championship
 Pankaj Advani

46. DEFENCE

47. Hwasong-15
 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)
 North Korea

48. Ajeya Warrior 2017
 Indo – UK Joint Army Exercise
 Bikaner, Rajasthan