December 2014 Events - II week (Dec 09-15, 2014)

Events of Dec Second Week (09 – 15, 2014)
9-Dec-14	The Reserve Bank of India notified revised Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy in Railways Infrastructure and Defence sectors.
	Chairman of Wipro Azim Premji was awarded Swiss Ambassador's Award in Mumbai.
	Subramanian Committee on Leveraging the Post Office Network submitted its report to the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
	China rejected UN mediation to resolve South China Sea dispute
	Indian Cricket Team for Blind Wins the Blind Cricket World Cup, 2014 in South Africa
	An advanced version of the indigenously developed Pinaka Mark-II rocket was successfully test-fired from a defence base in Odisha using a multi-barrel launcher.
	Bangladesh’s Foreign Office has said that, Bhutan and not India was the first to recognise Bangladesh as an independent nation. This announcement puts an end to decades old speculation on the issue.
	Ministry of Railways inaugurated Wi-Fi broadband services at New Delhi railway station
10-Dec-14	Union Cabinet approved the scheme for setting up 25 solar parks each with a capacity of 500 MW and above and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects in various parts of the country
	The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), has approved the creation of the intra state transmission system in Tamil Nadu.  The total cost of the project is Rs.1593 crore.
	Decriminalisation of Section 309
	Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has launched a programme called "Unnat Bharat Abhiyan" with an aim to connect institutions of higher education, including Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) etc
	India has developed its own student assessment survey systems called the National Assessment Surveys (NAS), which are independently conducted by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) across the country on the latest international Item Response Theory (IRT) methodology.
	"Ebola Fighters" is named as Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year 2014’
	Finance Minister announces Rs. 11000 crore CST  (Central Sales Tax) compensation to States
	The trial run of the much awaited Guwahati - Dhaka bus service flagged off
	Lankan President offers prayers at Tirumala; Tamil Organisations protested the visit.
	India's Ruhi Singh won Miss Universal Peace & Humanity 2014
11-Dec-14	UN declares June 21 as "International Day of Yoga"
	Tamil Nadu government announces a 15% hike in electricity tariff
	RBI said that Indian economy to grow by 5.5% in 2014-15 and by 6.5% in 2015-16
	The report of "LuxLeaks" triggers European Union
	India last among BRICS in Web Index Ranking
	Foxconn to shut down its Chennai Plant
	India and Russia signed 20 agreements during the 15th India-Russia Annual Summit held in New Delhi.
12-Dec-14	Maharashtra government declared Dahi Handi as adventurous sport
	Asha Bhosle awarded DIFF Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
	ICICI Bank launched India’s first transparent credit card in association with American Express
	Google announced to shut down its news linking services in Spain
	Madras HC has directed the Union and State governments to submit, the steps to taken to check drunk driving
	US upset at India-Russia deals
	INS Circars celebrates platinum jubilee
13-Dec-14	Bangladesh launched an intensified manual campaign to clean up seepage following a huge oil spill in 34,000 hectares at the Sunderbans that threatened the world’s largest mangrove forest.
	IS twitter (Mehdi Masroor) held in Bengaluru
	Dineshwar Sharma is appointed as new IB Chief (from Jan 01, 2015)
	Haryana Govt has decided to set up Kalpana Chawla Medical University at Karnal.
14-Dec-14	Ms. Rolene Strauss of South Africa was crowned Miss World 2014 at the final of the beauty pageant held in London, UK.
	Germany won men's Hockey Champions Trophy for the year 2014
	Miss World honoured Aishwarya Rai for charitable work. She was honoured with a special award at the Miss World 2014 ceremony in London.
	Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that drug addiction is a psycho-socio-medical problem. Modi said that the problems of drug addiction is based on “3D formula” viz. Darkness, Destruction, and Devastation.
	Mauritius President named veteran politician Sir Anerood Jugnauth as PM
	Shnizo Abe re-elected as Japan Prime Minister
15-Dec-14	India's Viswanathan Anand wins London Classic 2014
	Fuel prices slashed by Rs. 2
	Hostage drama in Sydney; 3 people killed;
	Meenakshi temple website hacked
	Ms. Maleeha Lodhi appointed as Pakistan Envoy to UN

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