www.study4u.in: Weekly Current Affairs December (Week II)

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Banking and Financial Awareness:

●India International Exchange (India INX) has received approval from SEBI for the listing of debt securities.
●RBI Imposes Restrictions on Corporation Bank for its Bad Loans Crosses 10%.
●RBI Imposes Rs 3 crore Penalty on IndusInd Bank for break rules on income classification norms.
●SBI Starts State Bank Rewards Scheme.
●RBI Raises FPI Limit Rs 6,400 crore in Central Government Securities (G-Secs) and Rs 5,800 crore in State development loans (SDLs).
●ADB Lowers India’s GDP forecast for FY18 to 6.7%.
●WPI Inflation at 8-month High of 3.93% in November.

●Uma Shankar Appointed RBI Executive Director.
●Rahul Gandhi Elected Indian National Congress President.
●Nakul Chopra Elected as BARC India Chairman.
●Pradeep Singh Kharola Takes Over as Air India CMD.
●Dhammapiya from Tripura has been elected as the new secretary general of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC).

●Various MoUs Signed between India and Morocco, for corporation in road transport, water resources and the marine sector, enhanced cooperation in healthcare.
●Finance Minister Holds 5th Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting.
●Russia-India-China Foreign Ministers Meet Begins in Delhi.
●14th Inclusive Finance India Summit Begins in New Delhi.
●ASEAN–India Connectivity Summit held in New Delhi.
●4th India-Australia-Japan Trilateral Dialogue Held in New Delhi.
●India Signs Loan Agreement with World Bank for $250 Million for SANKALP Project.
●7th International Ground Water Conference held in New Delhi.

●New Delhi Hosts ICOMOS at 19th Triennial General Assembly. The Theme of ICOMOS is "Heritage and Democracy".
●The 14th Inclusive Finance India Summit began in New Delhi.
●Global Prosperity Index: India Ranks 100.
●India ranks 109th in mobile internet speed by Ookla.
●Govt. Launches Door-to-door Campaign against T.B.
●India to Host 3rd Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of AIIB.
●Railways have introduced Indian Railways E-Procurement System (IREPS), an online bill tracking system for vendors and contractors.

●Maruti Suzuki Replaces SBI as 6th Most Valuable Indian Firm.
●OBOPAY Gets Pre-Paid Instrument Licence from RBI.
●Ministry Launched First NIC-CERT a setup of National Informatics Centre to prevent and predict cyber-attacks on government utilities in New Delhi.
●ISRO is developing small satellite launch vehicles to launch low-cost small satellites.

●INS Kalvari: First Scorpene-class submarines inducted in Indian Navy.
●PM Narendra Modi Inducts Scorpene-Class Submarine Kalvari into Indian Navy.
●Exercise Ekuverin 2017: India-Maldives bilateral military exercise held in Belagavi.

●Rajasthan Becomes First State to Offer e-mail IDs in Hindi.
●Jammu and Kashmir govt. launches Saubhagya Scheme.
●ADB approved USD 346 million to Karnataka to upgradation project of highways to the state government.
●Bihar Government launches Safe City Surveillance scheme for Women Safety.
●Adivasi Mahotsav 2017: Tribal Festival organised in Chhattisgarh.
●India’s first Electronic Manufacturing Cluster set up in Andhra Pradesh.

●Roger Federer named BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.
●India to Host 2021 Champions Trophy, 2023 World Cup.
●India Becomes 1st Ever Team to Register Hundred 300+ ODI Totals.
●India Beat Germany, Win Bronze at Hockey World League Final.
●Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu Win bronze Medals at Asian Championships.
●Australia Beat Argentina to Win Gold in Hockey World League Final.
●Indian Golfer Shubhankar Sharma claimed his maiden European Tour victory in the Joburg Open, in South Africa.
●BCCI Lifts Ban on Rajasthan Cricket Association.