The document summarizes current events from India and around the world from December 2nd. Some key points include: India being admitted as the 42nd member of the Wassenaar Arrangement; Kacheguda Railway Station in Hyderabad becoming India's first fully energy efficient station; and Cristiano Ronaldo winning his fifth Ballon d'Or award. The document also mentions events related to the environment, business, culture and sports from both India and globally.

1. Current Affairs
December 2
Anirudh Reddy

2. India

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

7. India’s ‘first’ mobile food testing laboratory
 in Goa
 on-the-spot food safety tests

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.

13. World

14. TIME magazine - Person of the Year
 abuse ‘silence breakers’
 sexual assault and harassment
 #MeToo
 2nd - President Trump
 3rd - Chinese President Xi Jinping

15. World’s largest automated container
terminal
 Shanghai Yangshan Deep Water Port

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.

18. Technology & science

19. world’s biggest lithium-ion battery
 by Tesla Inc
 In Australia
 energy generated by the Hornsdale Wind Farm

20. New form of matter
 ‘excitonium’
 is made up of excitons
 University of California and University of Illinois

21. India’s first Electronic Manufacturing
Cluster (EMC)
 Andhra Pradesh
 for manufacturing mobiles and allied products.

22. Shazam
 Apple acquired
 music recognition app
 $400 million

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

26. Environment

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

32. PEOPLE IN NEWS

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

34. Yeraringan Award
 Prof. M.S. Swaminathan

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.

37. Merriam-Webster’s Word of the year 2017
 Feminism

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

40. SPORTS

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

43. International Tennis Federation (ITF) world
champions
 Rafael Nadal, Garbine Muguruza


44. Hockey World League
 Australia won gold
 Argentina – Silver
 India – Bronze
 Odisha

45. Diego Maradona
 statue unveiled in Kolkata
 Argentina

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
 1987, 1996 and 2011

48. DEFENCE