Current Affairs December 2017

1. Current Affairs
December 3 (16-31)
Anirudh Reddy

2. India

3. India’s first social audit law
 Meghalaya
 social audit of government programs and Schemes
 to bring in corrections in the ongoing schemes
 gives people a direct say in how the money should be spent

4. Vijay Diwas – December 16
 India’s victory over Pakistan in 1971
 India and Bangladesh celebrate Vijay Diwas

5. International herbal fair
 Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

6. Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme
 Telangana
 Godavari River
 Got environment clearance for construction
 Godavari – 2nd longest : Dakshina Ganga
 Source - Triambakeshwar, Maharashtra
 Pranhita, Indravati, Sabari, Manjira, Manair
 Dowleswaram Barrage was built by Sir Arthur Cotton in 1852
 Sriram Sagar Dam, proposed Polavaram project

7. DARPAN - Digital Advancement of Rural
Post Office for A New India
 for Financial Inclusion of Rural Population
 Banking @ postoffice

8. Iranshah Udvada Utsav
 a Parsi cultural festival
 in Gujarat

9. Miscellaneous
 PM Modi inaugurates 60-Megawatt Tuirial Hydro power Project in Aizawl, Mizoram
 Gita Research Institute to be set up in Mathura, UP
 Andhra Pradesh introduced pension scheme for transgenders. Kerala and Odisha
already have a scheme
 Losar Festival celebrated in Ladakh
 Orange Festival of Music and Adventure celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh
 India’s first AC suburban local train in Mumbai
 Delhi Metro’s Magenta line – (Botanical Garden-Kalkaji section)
 Telangana becomes first state to offer free power to farmers 24 hours a day

10. World

11. World Migration Report(2018)
 by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
 US is the most favourite destination for international migrants
 UAE is the most preferred destination for Indian international migrants
 Indian Diaspora, the largest in the world
 Mexico
 Russia

12. Technology & science

13. Fibergrid project
 By Alphabet X
 For Andhra Pradesh Govt.
 high speed internet

14. LIGO
 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
 A new LIGO will be built in India by 2025
 Will be world’s third LIGO

15. Bruce McCandless
 first to spacewalk without tethers

16. first plane to be made in the country for
commercial flights
 Dornier 228
 Made by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)

17. Mars village
 preparation for Mars Exploration Mission
 Qinghai Province, China
 simulating the environmental conditions on Mars

18. gold reference standard
 India’s first home-grown high purity gold reference standard
 Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND-4201)

19. Environment

20. world’s first camel hospital
 Dubai

21. India’s First Runway on ‘Sea Bridge’
 At Agatti Ariport, Lakshadweep.
 extending the existing runway by building on the beach and shallow sea.

22. World’s Longest Glass Bridge
 Hebei Province of China
 Length is 488 meters, and the width is 2 meters
 connects two mountain peaks in Hunyagu in Pingshan County

23. Mission Seven Summits
 IAF
 to fly the Indian flag and the IAF flag on the highest peaks in every continent.
 Last - Mt Vinson in Antarctica
 led by Capt RC Tripathi.

24. Bangladesh’s first eco-friendly thermal
plant
 with ultra-modern clean coal technology
 By china

25. PEOPLE IN NEWS

26. Sahitya Akademi awards 2017
 Mamang Dai - The Black Hill, in English
 Ramesh Kuntal Megh - Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar, in Hindi.

27. India’s Most Valuable Celebrity Brands
 ‘Rise of the Millennials: India’s Most Valuable Celebrity Brands’ report for 2017
 published by Duff & Phelps
 Virat Kohli
 Shah Rukh, Deepika Padukone, Akshay Kumar and Ranveer Singh

28. world’s first-ever female ambassador to
Saudi Arabia
 Belgium
 Dominique Mineur

29. Sudarsan Pattnaik
 created world’s biggest sand Santa face at Puri beach

30. SKOCH Awards
 TSRTC gets two awards
 one award for ‘Vajra Services’, an intercity travel facility
 Other for TSRTC’s initiative for providing employment to the children of medically
unfit employees

31.  Kumi Naidoo appointed as next secretary general of Amnesty International. To
take over charge from Indian ,Salil Shetty
 National Farmers’ Day (Kisan Diwas) – December 23
 Good Governance Day – December 25
 Book : ‘The Way I See It’ - selected works of Gauri Lankesh -

32. SPORTS

33. World Record for sailing around the World
 Francois Gabart – France
 42 days and 16 hours

34. BBC overseas sports personality of the year
2017
 Roger Federer
 His 4th time

35. BBC Team of the Year Award 2017
 England’s women cricket team
 BBC Sports Personality of the Year -- Mo Farah

36. First four day Cricket test match
 South Africa won over Zimbabwe

37. Common Wealth Games
 2018 – Australia
 2022 – Birmingham
 2014 -Glasgow, Scotland

38. FIFA Club World Cup 2017
 UAE
 Real Madrid

39. T10 League
 Kerala Kings first champions
 Sharjah Cricket Stadium

40. DEFENCE

41. Naseem Al Bahr
 Indian Navy naval exercise with Oman Navy
 conducted off the coast of Oman

42. “EKUVERIN”
 Indo-Maldives military exercise
 Belagavi, Karnataka
 Capital – Male
 Currency – Maldivian rufiyaa
 Current President – Abdulla Yameen