NATIONAL UPDATES:
1.
MLAs of Arunachal Pradesh Assembly passed resolution to remove Speaker
NabamRebia.
2.
A P Shah Committee to look into ONGC, RIL dispute on KG gas fields: Union
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas appointed a single-member committee to
look into the dispute between Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
and Reliance Industries Ltd on Krishna Godavari gas fields.The committee
will be headed by the Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India
Justice (retd.) A P Shah.
3. CII-ITC Sustainability Awards
2015 for Excellence in Sustainable Business conferred: The
awards conferred in New Delhi are part of the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for
Sustainable Development’s efforts to create awareness, promote policy and
practices, and create capacity to mainstream sustainability practices.
4. NSE launches three new group
indices: The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has
launched three separate indices on three corporate houses viz. Tata, Aditya
Birla and Mahindra Group. The first of its kind three separate indices based on
corporate houses have been designed to reflect the performance of companies
belonging to the respective corporate group.
5. R K Mathur appointed as CIC: Former
Defence Secretary R K Mathur has been appointed as Chief Information
Commissioner (CIC), breaking away from the convention of appointing the head
from among the serving Information Commissioners.
INTERNATIONAL
UPDATES:
1.
American University announces APJ Abdul Kalam Fellowship for Indian student: The
University of South Florida (USF) has announced a postgraduate fellowship in
the name of former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to support accomplished and
talented Indian students looking to study abroad.
2.
International Migrants Day observed across the world on 18th
December 2015: The year 2015 will be remembered as
a year of human suffering and migrant tragedies.
3.
Indian-origin official Sanjay Pradhan to lead Open Government Partnership: The
Open Government Partnership (OGP) selected the Indian-origin World Bank
official Sanjay Pradhan to lead the organisation. Open Government Partnership
is an international organisation promoting multilateral initiative. It was
formally launched when the 8 founding governments (Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico,
Norway, Philippines, South Africa, UK and USA) endorsed the Open Government
Declaration, and announced their country action plans.
4.
WTO approved Afghanistan’s membership terms to join as 163rd member: World Trade
Organisation unanimously approved Afghanistan’s WTO membership at the WTO’s 10th
Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi.
OTHER UPDATES:
FINANCE/BANKING:
1. RBI released final guidelines of
Marginal Cost of Funds Methodology to calculate Interest Rates: The
new methodology is aimed at bringing uniformity among BRs of banks so that they
will be more sensitive to any changes in policy rates of RBI like CRR, SLR, etc.
SPORTS:
2.
Rory Mcllory wins European Tour Player of the Year Award 2015: He has won the award for the third time in
the past four seasons.
AWARDS:
3.
Sahitya Akademi Awards announced for the Year 2015: Among
the winning books are six poetry collections, six books of short stories and
four novels, besides two books each of essays and criticism. The awards were
recommended by distinguished jury members representing 23 Indian languages and
approved by the Executive Board of the Akademi, under its President Vishwanath
Prasad Tiwari.
4.
President Pranab Mukherjee earns Garwood Award for Outstanding Global
Leadership in Open Innovation: He received the
award from UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business at RashtrapatiBhawan. Prof.
Solomon Darwin, Executive Director Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation
presented the award to the President.
OBITUARIES:
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