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1. Zoramthanga To Be Sworn In As Mizoram Chief Minister
In Mizoram, the new government of Mizo National
Front (MNF), headed by Mr. Zoramthanga will be sworn in on 15th December. It
was decided at a meeting between Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan and a
delegation of the MNF party led by Zoramthanga at Raj Bhavan in Aizawl.
2. Japan chose Disaster as symbol for 2018
Japan selected the Chinese character for ‘disaster’
as its ‘defining symbol’ for 2018. The country selected it as it was hit by
deadly floods, earthquakes, and storms. The event was organized by the Japan
Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. Japanese TV stations broadcast the annual
announcement live, with Seihan Mori, master of the ancient Kiyomizu temple in
Kyoto, writing the character on a huge white panel with an ink-soaked
calligraphy brush. At the end of every year, the general public votes for
the Chinese character they think embodies the key news and events of the
previous 12 months. A total of 20,858 people out of 1,93,214 chose the character
‘disaster’.
3. NGT appointed committee to look into hazardous units in Sarita Vihar
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed a joint
committee to look into a plea alleging operation of hazardous industries in south-east
Delhi’s Sarita Vihar. The instructions came after a plea moved by the
Aali Vihar Vikas Manch, which alleged that hazardous dyeing units were
operating in Bhim Colony, Aali Vihar, and Sarita Vihar. A Bench headed by
NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel appointed a joint committee
comprising representatives from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the
Delhi Pollution Control Committee and Sub-Divisional Magistrate of South-East
district, to take action. The Bench made this decision as it observed at least
50 factories are causing air, water, and noise pollution in the area and also
choking the water-flow systems. If the drains get choked, the water spills out
onto the roads. The hazardous chemicals are highly affecting the water quality.
4. Route Mobile Collaborates With Oracle Marketing Cloud
Route Mobile Limited (Route Mobile), a
cloud-communication platform service provider and a member of Oracle Partner
Network (OPN) announced the collaboration with Oracle Marketing Cloud, part of
Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud Suite, which empowers organizations to
take a smarter approach to customer experience management and business
transformation initiatives.
5. SriLankas former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe won the vote of confidence in the House
Sri Lanka’s former Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremesinghe won the vote of confidence from a majority of Sri Lankan
parliamentarians, including 14 from the opposition Tamil National Alliance
(TNA), as their preferred candidate to serve in the post. He received 117 votes
in favour in the 225-member legislative body. The motion which was moved
by Sajith Premadasa, deputy leader of Mr.Wickremesinghe’s United National Party
(UNP), sought to demonstrate the support that the deposed leader has in the
House.
6. EU Ambassador Opens Indias first CoE at MAHE
India’s first Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
established by the European Union was inaugurated at the Department of European
Studies (DES) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal by Ambassador of
the European Union (EU) to India and Bhutan, Tomasz Kozlowski. The award comes
with a grant of €1,00,000 to pursue India-EU interdisciplinary studies in
culture, literature, education and society.
7. Bombay HC imposed Rs.1 lakh penalty on the State government
The Bombay High Court imposed Rs.1 lakh penalty on
the State government for not coming up with a new building for the district and
sessions court in Sangli, a city in Sangli district, Maharashtra, despite many
extensions. The court, in 2015, had made a proposal for the construction of a
new building consisting of two wings. Earlier, the State had said that work at
A wing would be completed by August 31, 2017. The court had also directed the
State to ensure that B wing was readied on or before December 31 so that the
functioning of the court can commence there from January 1, 2019. The Court
would have been justified in issuing a notice of contempt to the State for
breach of the undertakings. The order said that the Rs.1 lakh will be utilized
for setting up a permanent fund for providing legal aid to poor and needy
litigants or holding legal literacy camps in villages.
8. Kamal Nath To Be New Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
Congress party chosen MP statue unit president Kamal
Nath as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. He will replace outgoing Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. A one-line resolution has been passed at the
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting in Bhopal to choose the Madhya Pradesh
chief minister.
9. Anti corruption campaigners condemns Britain for not suspending golden visa scheme
Anti-corruption campaigners have condemned the
British Home Office’s decision to backtrack on plans to suspend a golden visa
scheme for wealthy investors. This is just days after the government has
announced the suspension. The British Home Office had said that it was planning
to suspend the Tier-1 (investor) visa scheme that enables its holders to gain a
swifter route to settlement in the U.K. until new safeguarding rules were
brought in in 2019. Transparency International reported that the Tier-1
(investor) visa scheme is mainly used by Russian, Chinese and Indian nationals.
In India, 82 have applied for an investor visa through this route between 2008
and March 2018. Tier-1 (investor) visa scheme:
♦ The scheme is open to those who invest at least £2
million in the U.K. government, shares or businesses
♦ It offers a faster route to settlement in the
country
♦ For people who invest over £10 million can apply
to settle after two years
♦ For people who invest over £5 million can apply to
settle in three years
10. Climate Change Performance Index: Sweden tops in the Ranking, India at 11th position
The Climate Change Performance Index was released on
the sidelines of COP24 Un Summit in Katowice, Poland. U.S. dropped from 56th to
59th place due to high emissions and poor ratings for the federal government’s
policies. The bottom 5 consisted of: Saudi Arabia (60), US (59), Iran (58),
Korea (57), Chinese Taipei (56).
11. Manika Batra was awarded ITTF Breakthrough Star Award 2018
Manika Batra, India’s star paddler, was awarded the
International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) Breakthrough Star Award 2018
during a ceremony at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. In the Commonwealth Games
2018 at Gold Coast, Manika won four medals including a historic women’s singles
gold, team gold, women’s doubles silver (with Mouma Das) and mixed doubles
bronze (with G.Sathiyan). She had also bagged the bronze in mixed doubles (with
A. Sharath Kamal) at the 2018 Asian Games.
12. HAL developed Light Utility Helicopter achieves important milestone of flying at 6 km altitude
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) indigenously
developed Light Utility Helicopter achieved important milestone of flying at 6
Km altitude in Bengaluru. It is 3-ton class new generation helicopter designed
and developed by indigenously Rotary Wing Research and Design Center (RWRDC) of
HAL. It will replace ageing fleet of Cheetah and Chetak helicopters used by
Indian Armed Forces.
13. NASAs InSight spacecraft snaps its first selfie from Mars
NASA’s InSight spacecraft has used a camera on its robotic
arm to take its first selfie, a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same
imaging process used by Curiosity rover mission, in which many overlapping
pictures are taken and later stitched together. Visible in the selfie is the
lander’s solar panel and its entire deck, including its science instruments. In
the coming days, the scientists and engineers will be deciding where in this
workspace the spacecraft's instruments should be placed. They will then command
InSight's robotic arm to carefully set the seismometer, called the Seismic
Experiment for Interior Structure, or SEIS, and heat-flow probe, known as
the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, or HP3, in the chosen locations.
Both work best on level ground, and engineers want to avoid setting them on
rocks larger than about a half-inch (1.3 cm). The Interior Exploration using
Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is a
robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars.
14. CAG Rajiv Mehrishi appointed as Vice-Chair of UN Panel of Auditors till 2020
Comptroller and Auditor General Rajiv Mehrishi
became the Vice-Chair of the UN Panel of Auditors for a term of 2 years ending
on June 30, 2020. The decision was taken in the panel’s annual meeting in New
York which was held from 3 to 4 December 2018. The panel is currently chaired
by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the UK and consists of External
Auditors of the United Nations and its agencies. Presently, the panel consists
of 11 countries — India, Germany, Chile, Canada, France, Italy, the
Philippines, Ghana, Indonesia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
15. TN government has declared four districts as severely affected by Cyclone Gaja
The Tamil Nadu State government has declared four
districts, Nagapattinam, Pudukkottai, Thanjavur and Tiruvarur, as districts
severely affected by Cyclone Gaja. This is to seek a relaxation of the rules
for implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
(MGNREGS). As per the MGNREGS, the man-days can only be 100. But by declaring
the districts as severely affected by the cyclone, a relaxation can be sought
of the rule and increase the man days by another 50. Few other benefits can
also be availed from the Centre. Besides the four districts, Kodaikanal taluk
of Dindigul district has been declared severely affected by the cyclone. So
far, the State has released Rs.1,171 crore towards relief operations in the
wake of Cyclone Gaja.
16. Mary Kom honoured with Meethoileima title
She was honored by Chief minister N.Biren Singh who
also handed over a cheque of Ten lakh rupees. The Chief Minister declared that
the Imphal West DC Road towards Game Village will be named as MC Mary Kom Road.
17. ADB retains India FY19 growth forecast at 7.3% despite downside risks
Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its supplement
report “Asian Development Outlook (2018)” retained India’s FY19 growth forecast
at 7.3% and 7.6% in FY20 despite downside risks posed by stress in the
non-banking sector, limited fiscal space as well as escalating trade tensions.
The country’s GDP growth moderated to 7.1 percent in the second quarter of
2018-19 from 8.2 percent in the first quarter, averaging 7.6 percent growth in
the first half. India is maintaining growth momentum on rebounding exports and
higher industrial and agricultural output.
18. Meghalaya HC asked the Centre to allow minorities into India
The Meghalaya High Court asked the Centre to bring
in a law to let people of religious and ethnic minority communities from
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan to be given citizenship without any
cut-off year or any questions asked. This is after a writ petition filed by
Amon Rana, an Army recruit, who was denied domicile certificate by the
Meghalaya government. Justice S.R.Sen said that the Centre should have a law
allowing Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians, Khasis, Jaintias
and Garos from neighboring countries to live in India with full dignity without
making any cut-off year and be given citizenship without any question or
production of any documents. He also said that such people may be allowed to come
at any point of time to settle in India and the government may provide
rehabilitation properly and declare them citizens of India.
19. Indian Navy launched DSRV system at Mumbai
The Indian Navy launched its first non-tethered Deep
Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) system at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. The
DSRV is used to rescue crew members from submarines stranded underwater in the
high seas. The cost of one system is Rs.1,000 crore. In March 2016, the Indian
Navy had signed a Rs.2,000 crore contract with the U.K.-based James Fisher
Defence (JFD) for two submarine rescue systems as well as maintenance for 25
years. Admiral Lanba said the second system would be inducted in April and would
be based at the Eastern Naval Command in Vishakapatnam. Deep Submergence Rescue
Vehicle (DSRV) system:
♦ The flyaway Deep Sea Submarine Rescue System can
be operated in very rough conditions with a wave height of 4 to 6 metres
♦ It can be operated at a depth of 650 meters with
12-14 hours endurance time
♦ It can rescue 14 people at a time
♦ It is also equipped with a decompression chamber
that can accommodate submariners and a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), which
can be used to beam images and provide immediate assistance
20. India signed the 30-member Trans Regional Maritime Network pact in Rome, Italy
India signed an ascension pact to the 30-member
Trans-Regional Maritime Network (T-RMN) at Italian Naval Headquarters in Rome,
Italy. The T-RMN consists of 30-member countries and is led by Italy.
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