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CA Capsule For IBPS Mains V
Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains SRI LAKSHMI NARASIMHA ACADEMY BANK PO / CLERK YEAR BOOK 2015 NATIONAL 1. First yoga day observed in 192 countries except Strife torn Yeman on June 24, 2015. The day also observed in over 44 Islamic nations. The event at Rajpath established two Guinness records awarded to Ministry Of Ayush received by Ayush minister Shripad Yesso Naik. Largest yoga class having 35985 people. Citizens for 84 nations participated. June 21 as the international day of Yoga. 2. Union government launched augmented reality application “Sakaar”. Launched by union minister of state Dr. Jitendra Singh. To highlight the achievements of the department of space. 3. Union government announced Rs. 1500 crore Nuclear Insurance pool. 4. NCRPB gave its nod to inclusion of three new districts. Presided by Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu. Three districts are Jind and Karal in Haryana, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. 5. India’s first state of the art tier I oil spoil response centre inaugurated. 6. “Khoya Paya” web portal launched. Citizen based website to share information on missing and found children. Launched of June 2, 2015 by Union Minister of women and child development. The government also run another portal “Track Child” which belongs to ministry of Home Affairs. www.lnacademy.in 7. Arun Jeitley Finance Minister inaugurated the new bank note paper mill at Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh on May 30 2015. 8. Vijay Kelkar panel constituted to review PPP infrastructure development. PPP – Public Private Partnership. Members – C.S. Rajan Chief secretary, SB Nayar CMD, Shekar Shah Director General,. 9. Prime minister launched DD Kisan channel. It is exclusively for formers.’ Launched on May 26, 2015. 10. Golden jubilee celebration of India’s Historic climb of Mount Everest inaugurated. Function held at Rashtrpati Bhavan on May 20, 2015. Inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee. Organised by Indian Mountaineering foundation (IMF). 11. Union government sanctioned 30 cold chain project. Sanctioned on May 18, 2015. Total investment is Rs. 724.9 crore. This will help to reduce the wastage of food. 12. IMD and POSOCO signed MoU to increase the efficiency of power sector. POSOCO – Power System Operation Corporation. IMD – India Meteorological Department. 13. Road measurement and Data acquisition system launched. Launched by Union road and transport minster Nitin Gadkari on May 15, 2015 A vehicle equipped with modern Gadgets which includes advances technology Funded by World bank and National highways authority of India (NHAI) 14. National emergency response system for saving women in Distress. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Introduce on May 15, 2015. To make immediate response to any call by a women in distress anywhere. 15. Justice AP Shah Committee formed to look the issue of MAT and FIIs. MAT – Minimum Alternate Tax, FII – Foreign Institutional Investor. 16. Prime minister released commemorative coin on swami Chinmayanandha saraswathi. To mark the birth centenary of swamy chinmayanandha on May 8 2015. 17. National e-governance plan 2.0 approved. PM Modi gave its approval to approach key component of eKranti. E-kranti – National e-governance plan. Launched on March 25, 2015. To ensure optimum usage of core information and communication technology. 18. Handicrafts and Carpet sector skill council launched. Launched by Rajiv Pratap Rudy – Union Minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship. It will promote skill development among artisans, craft persons. 19. Two major highway project in the North East dedicated to the nation. 20. India’s health care portal inaugurated. Inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 23, 2015. Named as SAAARC Trade Mart. Commenced at ITPO Pragati Maidan Delhi. Developed by department of commerce. 21. Information and broad cast ministry got ISO 9001 – 2008 certification. 22. Union government constituted Task Force on interlinking of rivers. www.lnacademy.in 23. Union government changed name of “Visa On Arrival” scheme to “e-Tourist Visa”. 24. FM transmission of Vivdh Bharath launched. Launched by information and broadcasting ministry Arun Jitley on April 14, 2015. 25. Environment ministry colour coded industries on the basis of pollution potential. Announced by environmental minister Prakash Javadekar on April 7, 2015. It is classified under red, orange and green. 26. “Give It Up” movements launched. Launched by union minister of petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan. Launched in Karnataka on March 4, 2105. Appeals rich people to voluntarily give up their subsidy amount on LPG gas. 27. Platform “PRAGATI” launched for redressal of grievances. Launched by PM Modi on March 25, 2015. PRAGATI – Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation. 28. Green India Mission covered with MGNREGA. MGNREGA – Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. 29. Digital Gender Atlas for advancing girls education. Unveiled by School of Education and Literacy on March 9, 2015. It is web based tool developed to identify low performing girls. 30. “Shipping Samvad” website launched. Launched by Union ministry of shipping and road transport. 31. Indian Army signed MoU with State Bank of India. It is signed on February 23, 2015. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Number of free or concessional services like free draft, free cheque books. Free fund transfer, free ATM cards. Personal Accident Insurance (PAI) enhancement. The Nepal Express remittance scheme which enables fund transfer to Nepal. 32. Portal “Madad” launched. Launched by External Minister Sushma Swaraj on February 21 2015. Aims to file consular grievance online for abroad living Indian citizen. 33. India signed Loan agreement with Asian Development Bank (ADB). Signed worth 50 million $ on February 20, 2015. Aims to build up the capacity of power generation and distribution system. 34. Single window e-biz portal launched. Launched by finance minister Arun Jaitley on February 19, 2015. Portal name – www.ebiz.gov.in. To facilitate “Ease of doing business”. 35. Indian airports ranked best by Airport Council international. Best Airport - Delhi Airport. Declared by Airport Council International (ACI). 36. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Bombay high court Museum. On February 14, 2015, part of 150th year of occasion. 37. 66th republic day celebration on January 26th 2015. Chief Guest – US President Barak Hussein Obama. Concluded on January 29th 2015. 38. High level committee for reconstructing of FCI submitted its report. Chaired by Shanta Kumar. www.lnacademy.in 39. Government launched monitoring system for skill development scheme. Launched by housing and urban poverty alleviation minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on January 20, 2015. It enables real time and regular monitoring of the progress under some component. 40. Idukki district of Kerala became the first district with rural broadband network. Commissioned by union minister of IT and communication Ravi Shankar. 41. Prime minister released coin in honour of Jamsetji Tata. Released on January 6, 2015. To commemorate of his 175th birth anniversary in New Delhi. 42. Government launched subsidised LPG cylinder scheme for BPL families. 43. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Aravind Panagaria as vice chairman of NITI Ayog. 44. India designated as Chair to the 9th meeting of the IRENA. IRENA – International Renewable Energy Agency. Held on June 10, 2015 at Abu Dhabi. 45. Union cabinet approved Rs. 6000 crore interest free loan for sugar mills. 46. 2000 crore rupees approved for Namami Gange Programme. 47. India has slipped 140th rank in state of the world mother’s report 2015. 48. India ranked 13th in generating power form nuclear sources. 49. India is the 5th biggest producer of ewaste in the world. 50. India placed 101th place in low social progress group. 51. Indian railways renamed as Haridwar mail as Yoga express. 52. Mobile app for paper less unreserved tickets launched. Launched by railway minister Suresh Prabhu on April 22, 2015. Named as “utsonmobile”. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 53. E-samiksha to monitor rail projects launched.’ 54. India’s first CNG train flagged off on January 13, 2015 between Rewari and Rohtak. INTERNATIONAL 1. Plan to cut greenhouse gas emission by 30% by 2030. Announced by Candaian prime minister on May 15, 2015. 2. China flagged of new cargo train to Europe. 3. Largest Chinese embassy opened in Pakistan. 4. First maritime silk road cruise ship launched. 5. Islamic state demolished ancient Hatra site in northern Iraq. 6. Australian PM Tony Abbott visited Iraq on January 4, 2015. 7. Ireland is the first country to legalise same sex marriage. 8. Japan’s Maglev trains breaks world record (600 kmph). 9. Japan holds first security talks with China after four years. 10. Muhammadu Buhari won presidential election in Nigeria. 11. Chinese president announced Infra project in Pakistan. 12. Pakistan and Russia agreed to hold first ever joint military exercise. 13. Sri Lanka inked six pacts with Pakistan. 14. World’s largest flag unfurled at Ong Jmel.(Tunisia) 15. Construction of first nuclear power plant started on April 14, 2015 at Turkey. 16. Britain celebrated 800 years of Magna Carta. Magna Carta Latin word in which English means Great Charter. It is the most important document of England signed on June 15, 2015. th 17. 68 world Healthy Assembly session commenced at Geneva on May 18, 2015. 18. WTO accepted Seychelles as its 161st member. www.lnacademy.in 19. Third UN world conference on Disaster Risk Reduction at Sendai city on March 14. 20. The USA removed Cuba from list of state sponsors of terrorism. 21. Pakistan has emerged as the world’s 8th most dangerous country. 22. India came into 117th rank out of 158 countries in Global Happiness Index. 23. India has ranked 78th in the world in Talent Competitiveness Index 2014. 24. Bangladesh cabinet approved revised trade agreement with India. 25. India and Belarus inked 6 agreement on June 3, 2015. Avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal avoidance. Cooperation in the field of standardisation and information support. To enhance bilateral ties. 26. First translated version of Bhagavad Gita made Debut in China on June 17, 2015. 27. India on May 6, 2015 signed an agreement with Iran for the development of Chababhar Port. 28. Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave approval for signing shipping agreement between India and Jordan on April 22, 2015. 29. A MoU signed between India and Kyrgyzstan on March 17, 2015 to strengthen bilateral cooperation. 30. First Indo-Nepal friendship Motor rally concluded on February 27, 2015. 31. India came forward to fund pancheshwar Multi-purpose project in Nepal. 32. India and Netherland singed an MoU for development of vaccines. 33. North Korean foreign minister Ri Su Yong visited India on April 13, 2015. 34. Six pacts signed to boost trade and investment between India and Qatar on March 25. 35. 11 agreements signed for higher academic cooperation between India and Russia on May 8, 2015. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 36. BHEL India and Russian firm INTMA signed MoU to set power plant in Kazakhstan. 37. SAARC Yatra competed by Foreign secretary Jaishankar held from March 14, 2015. During this Yatra he visited four countries Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan. 38. MoU signed between India and Seychelles on renewable energy cooperation. 39. India inked pact with Sri Lanka on February 16, 2015. 40. India and Sweden inked six pacts on June 1, 2015. 41. India and Tanzania signed agreement for cooperation in various fields. 42. India elected as four key Subsidiary bodies of UN ECOSOC. 43. Deal with USA to increase defence cooperation. 44. India emerged fourth largest supplier of generic medicines to the USA. 45. MoU of cooperation signed for transportation between India and USA. 46. India and USA finished their first ever bilateral dialogue on UN February 19, 2015. 47. India and Vietnam signed a joint vision statement on defence cooperation on May 25. 48. World bank approved 250 Million $ loan for Jhelum and Tawi flood recovery in J&K. 49. India inked pact with world bank for 400 Million $ aid for TN urbanisation project. 50. 8 Million $ loan agreement signed with world bank on February 13, 2015. Assistance for Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to climate change project. 51. Online visa pilot programme for Indians. Launched on January 12, 2015. To apply online for travel to Australia. 52. Bangladesh cabinet approved revised trade agreement with India. www.lnacademy.in 53. India and Bangladesh inaugurated third border Haat in Srinagar-Purba on the Tripura-Bangladesh border on January 13, 2015. 54. India and Belarus inked 6 agreements. On June 3, 2015 in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee during two nation meet. Avoidance of taxation and the prevention of Fiscal evasion. To enhance bilateral ties. 55. First translated version of Bhagvad Gita made Debut in China. On June 17, 2015. Translated by Prof. Wang Zhu Cheng and Ling Hai of Zhejiang University. 56. European union lift the ban on import of mangoes from India. 57. Pact signed with Iran to develop chabahar port on May 6, 2015. Port is located in SistanBalochistan. 58. India and Japan signed an action agenda for boosting investment and trade promotion. 59. Agreement between India and Jordan to strengthen cooperation. 60. A MoU signed between India and Kyrgyzstan on March 17 to strengthen bilateral cooperation. 61. First Indo-Nepal friendship Motor Rally concluded. Flagged off at Puri, Odisha on Februrary 27, 2015 and concluded at Lawns of India gate on March 8, 2015. 62. India to provide $69 million for Goitre control in Nepal. To launch the Iodine deficiency disorder control programme for goitre control. 63. India came forward to fund Pancheshwar multi purpose project in Nepal. On Nepal Mahakali river worth Rs. 1500 crore for countering the Kheri floods. 64. India and Netherland signed MoU for development of Vaccines. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 65. North Korean foreign minister Ri Su Yong visited India on April 13, 2015. 66. India and Qatar signed six pacts to boost trade and investment. 67. Eleven agreement signed for Higher academic cooperation between India and Russia. 68. BHEL India and Russian firm signed MoU to set power plant in Kazakhstan. 69. SAARC yatra completed by foreign secretary of India. Foreign secretary S. Jaishankar completed his SAARC Yatra of four nations. During Yatra he visited four countries Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan. 70. India and Seychelles signed MoU between on renewable energy cooperation. 71. India and Spain have signed an agreement on mutual protection in defence. 72. India inked nuclear pact with Sri Lanka. 73. India and Sweden inked six agreement. 74. Agreement signed between Indian and Tanzania for cooperation in various fields. 75. India lost poultry case against USA at WTO. 76. India elected to four subsidiary bodies of UN ECOSOC. 77. Deal to increase defence cooperation between India and USA. 78. India emerged fourth largest suppliers of generic medicines to the USA. 79. SUMMITS AND MEETINGS 1. 41st G-7 summit hosted on June 7-8, 2015 at Gemany. www.lnacademy.in 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 13th United Nations congress on crime prevention and criminal justice observed at Doha, Qatar from April 12 to 19 2015. 5th general assembly of IRENA has concluded at Abu Dhabi on January 18, 2015. IRENA – International Renewable Energy Agency. First China-CELAC Forum ministerial meeting concluded in Beiijing on January 2015. 10th India-Australia foreign ministers framework dialogue held on April 14, 2015. Sushma Swaraj talks with Julie Bishop. th 5 Indo-Myanmar joint trade committee meeting held on February 17, 2015 in Nay Pyi Taw. 5th SAARC health ministers meeting held at New Delhi on April 8, 2015. SAARC – South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation. First ever bilateral dialogue on United Nations on February 19, 2015. 9. BANKING AND ECONOMY 1. World Bank approved $200 million loan for Jhelum and Twai flood recovery project in J&K. 2. FDI service sector grown by 46% in 2014-15 and reached 3.2 billion $. 3. LIC got clearance to do business in Bangladesh. 4. Government made PAN mandatory for central excise registration. 5. 17 mega food park sanctioned. 6. Union government allowed investment of 5% of EPFO corpus in stock market. 7. EPFO suspended Rs. 1000 minimum monthly pension shceme. 8. Ajay shankar committee to cut multiple permission for investors. 9. New foreign trade polity 2015-20 released. 10. Government of India approved 10 FDI proposals. 11. NPCI linked 15 crore bank accounts with Aadhaar number. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains NPCI – National Payment corporation of India 12. Union cabinet approved a hike in share capital of the NMDFC. NMDFC – National Minorities Development and finance corporation. 13. Puri got 22.54 crore rupee for HRIDAY. HRIDAY – National Heritage development and augmentation Yojana. 14. HDFC bank launched paperless instant loan plan. On June 18, 2015 Named as GoDigital. 15. Bahrti AXA launched smart traveller. It offers global coverage for students. 16. SBI loans available online. 17. ICICI bank launched voice password facility. 18. SBI inked pct with Amazon for payment commerce solutions. 19. ICICI bank inaugurated its first branch in China. 20. SBI launched contact less Debit and Credit cards with 1 lakh rupee fraud cover. Named as sbiINTOUCH on May 15, 2015. 21. SBI launched RuPay platinum debit card. 22. Dena bank singed MoU with LIC. 23. ICICI bank launched NFC enabled payment service Tap n Pay. NFC – Near Field Communication. 24. Kotak Mahindra bank got CCI nod to buy ING Vysya Bank. CCI – Competition Commission of India. 25. ICICI bank launched India’s first digital bank. 26. Union government decided to infuse Rs. 6990 crore in public sector banks. 27. Kotak Mahindra and ING Vysya merger got shareholders Nod. 28. Bank associations and Union forms joint panel. www.lnacademy.in 29. ICICI bank launched India’s first contact less Credit and Debit cards. 30. ICICI bank launched digital village project in Gujrat. ICICI – Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India. 31. Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited launched pan India roaming scheme. 32. Telangana government signed MoU with Google. 33. Vedanta launched Khushi campaign. 34. Apple became the first company to reach a market value of $170 Billion. 35. Vistara airlines started its first domestic flights. 36. Toyota remains top in global vehicle sales in 2014. 37. RBI allowed NRI to invest chit funds. 38. Prepaid payments investment for mass transport system. 39. Currency swap pact with Sri Lanka. 40. RBI signed an MoU with Brazil’s central bank. 41. RBI allowed bank notes to and from Nepal and Bhutan. 42. RBI signed an MoU with European Central Bank (ECB) for cooperation in central banking. 43. RBI doubled forex remittance limit. 44. RBI signed an agreement with the USA. 45. RBI eased KYC norms for NBFCs. KYC – Know Your Customer. NBFC – Non Banking Financial Companies. AGREEMTNS / TIE-UP 1. Adani, Reliance signed MoU for power generation in Bangladesh. To set up 4600 MW power plant. 2. SBI signed loan pact with European Bank. 3. Arcelor Mittal, signed pact with SAIL to set up steel plant in India. 4. GMR infra, GIIC inked MoU for Kakinada SEZ. GIIC – Guizhou international investment corporation. 5. World’s largest Islamic clothing company to partner Snapdeal & set up store on their portal. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 6. MIDC, SIDBI signed agreement to finance MSME’s. MIDC – Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation. MSME – Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. SIDBI – Small Industries Development bank of India. 7. Indian Army signed MoU on defence salary package. With Bank of Baroda. 8. Reliance Jio signed pact with”Huawei” for 4G devices. Around 5000 towns and cities accounting for over 90% of urban and over 215000 villages. 9. Numaligarh refinery inked MoU with Bangladesh petroleum corporation. 10. Bank of Baroda tied with UAE exchange for instant money transfer. 11. NIELIT signed pact with Snapdeal. NIELIT – National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology. 12. Paytm joined hands with NCTI to promote Indian MSME’s. NCTI – National Center for Trade Information. 13. Godrej nature’s basket tied up with Amazon for selling products online. 14. LIC and Dena Bank inked MoU to roll out PMJBY. PMJBY – Pradhan Mantri Jeevanjyoti Bima Yojana. Insurance coverage Rs. 2 lakh upto. Age group of 18-50 years. Nominal premium is Rs. 330 per annum. 15. Agreement signed for commercialising ayurvedic medicines. Signed by NRDC. NRDC – National Research Development Corporation. 16. Bharati Airtel tied up with China mobile to jointly foster 4G growth. 17. Tata power signed an MoU with Siberian coal energy company. Tata and SUEK will cooperate. www.lnacademy.in Power generates totally 8621 MW power. 18. MSME ministry RSETI joined hand to provide Loan linkages. Signed with Khadi & village industries commission. RSETI – Rural Self Employment Training Industries. 19. Tie up between Facebook and Reliance communication. 20. Gujrat Handloom Corporation inked MoU with eBay. 21. Bupa to increase stake in Indian insurance joint venture. Bupa – UK based health care company. 22. IIT and ONGC inked MoU to develop technologies to enhance oil exploration. ONGC – Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. 23. Norms for international financial service centres.(IFSC) Approved by SEBI. SEBI – Securities Exchange Board of India. Aim to ease the setting the setting up of stock exchange and capital market. 24. Guidelines for Municipal bodies. SEBI paved the way for municipal bonds for 100 smart cities and other urban programmes. 25. Easier norms proposed for domestic mutual fund by SEBI to manage offshore pooled issues. REPORTS / INDICES 1. Credit Suisse emerging customer score card 2015 released. Consumer optimism. India moved to top from fourth in last year list. India followed by Brazil and Indonesia. 2. UN world economic situation and prospects 2015 report. India’s economy in 2014 is 5.4% and 2013 – 5.0%, 2015 – 5.9% and expected in 2016 – 6.3% Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1. China made world’s first electric passenger plane. Passenger aircraft BXIE. 2. ISRO’s GAGAN will provide Navigational support in railways. GAGAN is an indigenous navigational guide system. Signal broadcasted by two satellite GSAT8 and GSAT10. 3. Google launched special search mode for slower 2G phone network for India & Brazil. 4. China developed first facial recognition ATM. 5. World’s first artificial molecular pump developed. 6. Microsoft launched Edu-Cloud to make learning fun. 7. India’s first PROVs successfully operationalised. PROV – Polar Remotely Operated Vehicle. 8. World’s first 3D printed Jet engine. 9. NTPC introduced mobile science labs for underprivileged students. NTPC – National Thermal Power Corporation. 10. World’s first solar powered aircraft landed in Ahmedabad. 11. Work began on India’s first light water reactor. 12. Novel computer software developed. 13. Programme of launching PSLV flights cleared. PSLV – Polar Satellite Launch Vechicle. 14. Largest Asteroid impact Area ever found. 15. Three super earths orbiting nearby star discovered. 16. Indigenous cryogenic engine tested successfully. 17. Fourth navigation satellite IRNSS-1D launched successfully. Launched by ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation. IRNSS – Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. www.lnacademy.in 18. ISRO is planning to collaborate with other space agencies. 19. 27 Indian satellites currently operational. 20. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched. 21. Britain’s infamous Beagle 2 space craft found in Mars. 22. India set to make the IRIS of biggest telescope ever. IRIS – Interface Region Imagine Spectrograph. 23. NASA’s 10 engine electric plane completed flight test. 24. Mercury probe ended its 11 years of life. 25. Evidence of Nitrogen on Mars. 26. First 3D printed copper rocket engine part developed. DEFENCE AND SECURITY 1. India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier undocked. INS-Vikrant on June 9, 2015. 2. IAF Jet landed successfully on Yamuna expressway. 3. 10th Aero India show 2015. Inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Began at Bangaluru on February 18, 2015. 4. HAL signed contract with Indian air force. HAL – Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. 5. DRDO successfully tested Tejas-PV1 aircraft. 6. Pinaka Mark II Rocket developed. Advanced version of the indigenously rocket. Test fired on May 30, 2015. Range is 55 km. 7. Astra Visual range air-to-air missile. Test fired on March 19, 2015. 8. Agni-III India test fired and nuclear capable. Range over 300 km. Test fired on April 16, 2015. Rail mobile system capable missile. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 9. Dhanush India test fired nuclear capable Surface-to-surface missile. Test fired on April 9, 2015. 10. Prithvi II India test fired Surface-to-surface Range 350 km Test fired on February 19, 2015. 11. Agni – 5 India’s largest range ballistic missile. Test fired on January 31, 2015. Range 5000 km. 12. BrahMos Supersonic cruise missile. Test fired on February 14, 2015. Range 290 km ARMED FORCE EXERCISES 1. SIMBEX-15 Four day bilateral novel exercise India and Singapore conducted from May 23-26, 2015. 2. VARUNA-15 Fourteenth edition of IndoFrench naval exercise named VARUNA. Held at Goa on May 2, 2015. 3. TROPEX-2015 Indian Navy conducted its theatre level readiness and operational exercise on February 27, 2015. Around 50 ships and submarine participated along with 70 aircrafts from the three naval commands. 4. AKRAMAN-II Bhatinda based Chetak Corps a part of South Western command based. At Rajasthan on April 26, 2015. 5. SURYA KIRAN VIII 8th India-Nepal combined exercise conducted from February 23 to March 7, 2015 Aims to create a greater understanding between Indian and Nepalese Army www.lnacademy.in 6. Anti-submarine warfare ship “INSKavaratti” launched. Launched on May 19, 2015. Commissioned by Indian Navy. The second and third ship named “Kadmatt” and “Kiltan” are scheduled to be delivered between 2015-2017. 7. Missile Akash inducted into Indian Army Supersonic surface-to-air missile. Introduced on May 5, 2015. Range 25 km. 8. Stealth destroyer of Indian Navy launched. 9. Indian Navy commissioned three immediate support vessels at Eastern command. 10. Coast guard fast vessel “Anagh” & interceptor boats commissioned. 11. Patrolling ship “Amogh” commissioned. MISSILE TEST NATIONS FIRED BY OTHER 1. China conducted fourth test of “Wu-14” strike vessel. 2. North Korea successfully test fired underwater ballistic missile. 3. Pakistan successfully test fired a laser guided missile. 4. Pakistan successfully test fired nuclear capable “Shaheen-III” ballistic missile. 5. Pakistan successfully test fired new stealth cruise missile. AGRICULTURE, ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENT AND 1. India got richer by 349 new species in last one year. 2. A new species of Fish discovered in Western Ghats. 3. Driest place on Earth found in Atacama Desert. 4. World’s first warm blooded fish found. 5. Lion census 2015 – 523. 6. India joined hands with Bangladesh to protect spectacled langur. 7. Rajaji national park notified as Rajaji Tiger Reserve”. It is in Uttarkhand. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 8. Tiger census 2014-15 released – 1706 in 2011 and 2226 in 2014. 9. Summit on future energy held in Abu Dhabi. 10. Subramaninam committee recommended single window system. 11. State environment and Forest ministry conference held on April 7, 2015 at New Delhi. SPORTS 1. Stuttgart open 2015. Rafael Nadal, Spanish top win the title. 2. French Open 2015 It was the 114th edition of the French open It took at Stade Roland Garros form May 24 to June 7, 2015. Men’s singe – stanislas Wwrinka (Switzerland) won defeating by Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Women’s single – Serena Williams (USA) won defeating Lucie Safarova (Czechoslovakia) Men’s Double – pair of Ivan Dodig (Croatia) and Marcelo Melo (Brazil). Mixed Double – pair of Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) and Lucie Safarova (Czechoslovakia) 3. Asian junior championship Y Pranjala Indian won the Asian Junior Tennis title. 4. WTA Family circle cup 2015 Sania Mirza became the first female form India achieved world number one ranking. 5. Miami open 2015 Men’s Single - Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Women’s Single - Serna Willaims (USA) Men’s Double – Bob Bryan (USA) and Mike Bryan (USA) Women’s Double – Sania Mirza (India) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 6. Indian wells open 2015 www.lnacademy.in Novak Djokovic (Switzerland) – 50th tour level title on March 22, 2015. Simona Halep (Romania) – 3rd title 7. Argentina open 2015 Rafael Nadal (Spain) 8. Australian open 2015 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Serena Williams (USA) Simone Boleli and Fabio Fogini (Italian pair) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) and Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) Leander Paes (india) 9. Italian Open 2015 o Maria Sharapova (Russia) – women’s single o Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – men’s single o Pablo Cuevas (Uruguay) and David Marrero (Spain) – Men’s double. o Timea Babos (Italy) and Kristina Mladenovic (France) – women’s double 10. ATP world championship o Andy Murray – his first title of 2015. 11. Cricket Indian premier league (IPL)-8 Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai Super Kings Awardees at IPL-8 Player of the match – Andre Russell (KKR) Orange cap – Daivd Warner (Sunrises Hyderabad) Purple cap – Dwayne Bravo (CSK) Emerging player of the session – Shreyas Iyer (Delhi Daredevils) Most valuable player – Andre Russell (KKR) Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy Gujrat won their second trophy. Irani cup 2014-15 Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Ranji Trophy champion Karnataka retained the cup. Ranji trophy 2014-15 Karnataka won 7 ranji trophy won by Karnataka. 5th senior national championship 2015. o Railway sports promotion board won (RSPB) FOOTBALL 1. FIFA Under 20 world Cup 2015 o Serbia won this cup 2. UEFA Europa League 2015 o Sevilla won the title. 3. 2015 UEFA champions league o Barcelona FC won the cup. 4. Spanish League o Barcelona won its 23rd title for fifth time BADMINTON 1. Australian open super series 2015. o Chen Long (Spain) 2. Indian open super series 2015 o Saina Nehwal form India o Srikanth Kidambi (India) o Japanese pair Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi o China’s pair Chai Biao and Hong wei o Chinese pair – Yixin Bao and Cheng Liu. 3. Swiss open grand prix gold 2015 o Kidambi Srikanth (India) o Sun Yu (China) o Cai Yun and Lu Kai (Chinese pair) o Bao Yixin and Tang Yuanting (Chinese pair) o LU kai and Huang Yaqiong (China) 4. All England Championship o Carolina Marin from spain won this title. o Chen Long from China o Carolina Marin became the first player from Spanish to win prestigious title. www.lnacademy.in o Saina Nehwal is the first Indian woman to reach upto finals in England Series. 5. Syed Modi grand prix gold 2015 o Saina nehwal (India) o Parupalli Kashyap (India) CHESS 1. Shamkir tournament o Vishwanathan Anand second in Shamkir tournament. 2. World woman champions o Dronavalli Harika Grandmaster won the medal. o Harika defeated by Muzychuk from Ukraine placed Chess Indian Bronze Mariya BOXING 1. AIBA women’s junior/youth world championship 2015 o Held at Taippei 2015 on May 23. o Russia clinched four gold medals. 2. International championship o Indian boxing team bagged four gold, one silver and two bronze medals. o Indian boxer L.Devendro Singh beat Philippines Boxer Moreno Aldren. WRESSTLING 1. Asian championship 2015 o Held at Doha (Qatar) on May 17,2015. o Lalitha – bronze medal in 55 kg. o Narsingh Pancham Yadav – bronze medal in 74 kg. o Vinesh – silver medal in 48 kg o Geeta Phogat – bronze in 58 kg. SHOOTING – ISSF World Cup 1. Gagan Narang form India won the bronze medal in 50 m rifle prone. 2. He is the third Indian shooter to make the Rio cut after Jitu Rai and Apurvi Chandela. ARCHERY World Cup Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains o Deepika Kumari ace Indian archer clinched bronze medal by defeating Chang Hye Jin. o She was the first and only Indian who made it to the last four in the individual. o International cricketer of the year – Kumar Sangakkara. o Domestic cricketer of the year – R. Vinay Kumar o Indian cricketer of the year – Ajinkya Bravo o T20 player of the year – Dwayne Bravo o International batsman of the year – Hashim Amla o International bowler of the year – Rangana Herath o Popular choice award – Kieron Pollard o Special award – Rohit Sharma o Young player of the year – Deepak Hooda. 14. Cricket South Africa announced new T20 tournament. 15. Three Indian race walkers qualified for Rio Olympics – khushbir kaur, manish rawat and Sandeep kumar 16. MS Dhoni became the first Indian skipper to register 100 ODI wins. 17. Anil Kumble inducted in ICC hall of fame. 18. Bradman Young cricketer of the year award 2015 announced. o Sean Abbott wins this award. 19. AB De Villiers scored fastest ODI century. 20. Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFA Ballon d’or award. HOCKEY o World Hockey League – India defeated Poland. o Hockey India League – India won all the six matches played over. SPORTS PERSONALITIES 1. Former Pakistan bateman Zaheer Abbas was confirmed as ICC president on June 25. 2. West Indies legend Sir Wesley Hall, a former fast bowler who played 48 tests from 1958-69 and took 192 wickets. 3. Sepp Blatter resigned as Federation International de Football Association president on June2. 4. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the only Indian cricketer found a place I the Forbes magazine’s 100 highest paid athletes in the world. 5. Gurpreet Singh secured India a fifth quota place in shooting for the Rio Olympic. 6. Abhinav Bindra became the fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place on May 28. 7. Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal regained the number one spot in the latest BWF world ranking. 8. Former South Africa arm fast bowler Allan Donald has resigned from the position of country’s bowling coach. 9. Apurvi Chandela an Indian shooter qualified next year Olympic games in Rio de janeiro. 10. Datuk Nicol David Malaysia’s squash player set a new world record on February 1. 11. Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman inducted in BCCI’s advisory panel. 12. Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOP) introduced. 13. CEAT cricketer awards 2014-15 www.lnacademy.in 35th National Games Ran k 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 State Kerala Andaman Nciobar Madhya Pradesh Maharash tra Services SCB Services SCB Tripura Madhya Pradesh Gol d 6 5 Solv er 2 1 Bron ze 0 0 Tot al 8 6 5 1 0 6 5 1 0 6 5 0 1 6 5 0 0 5 5 4 0 1 0 2 5 7 Current Affairs Capsule 9 Service SCB Maharash tra 10 IBPS V Mains 4 1 1 6 4 1 0 5 STATE ANDHRA PRADESH Accident insurance scheme for Transport Drivers. - Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY). - Insurance Coverage 3 lakh Government signed pact for LED lights. New capital is named Amaravati. MoU with Singapore to promote Ease of Doing business. Pact with ICRISAT to boost sustainable farming. - ICRISAT – International Corp Research Institute for Semi Arid Trophics. ASSAM State assembly demanded continuation of special category status. State recognised as best e-panchayat state. First goods train flagged off. Budget 2015-16 announced. BIHAR BHEL commissioned Thermal power unit. Centenary celebration of Patna high court. 35% seats reserved for women in non gazetted government jobs. Government decided to give free education CHHATTISGARH BHEL commissioned 600 MW thermal unit. State awarded for renewable power development. Budget 2015-16 announced. DELHI www.lnacademy.in India got first green police station at New Delhi’s Maurice Nagar. Delhi Metro got first driver less train. Government approved mandatory GPS in public transport. NGT bills Delhi households for a cleaner Yamuna. NGT – National Green Tribunal NGT ordered ban on all vehicles over 10 years old. Government banned all forms of chewable Tabacco. India’s first e-Ration card service launched. GUJRAT Government initiate Sloth Habitat project. OIL commissioned 54 MW wind energy project. OIL – Oil India Limited. State government launched industrial tourism to showcase development. India’s first IFSC became operational at GIFT city. IFSC – International Financial Service Centre. GIFT city near Gandhi Nagar. State leads in implementation of Swachh Bharat mission. Controversial anti terror bill passed in Assembly. 7th vibrant Gujrat summit held. On January 11, 2015. Taluka planning Atlas project launched. Gujrat technical university launched eRaksha centre to fight cybercrime. UN chief inaugurated Gujrat’s second canal-top solar power project. UN secretary general – Ban Ki Moon Prime minister inaugurated Dandi Kutir Museum. New industry policy for 2015 aanounced. HARYANA Cash reward under inter caste marriage scheme. Work on Saraswati revival project launched. New sports policy unveiled. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Aapki Beti Humari Beti scheme launched. Scheme for girl child. Introduced on the occasion of women’s day March 8. SC and BPL families will be eligible to receive Rs. 21000. Solar subsidy reduced up to 15%. HIMACHAL PRADESH Satellite tracking system to check forest fires. States MLA’s got smart phones App to work smartly. JAMMU AND KASHMIR Union government announced packages for J&K in Flood hit area. Three day Sindhu festival inaugurated in Leh Budget 2015-16 announced. JHARKHAND State government banned sale of Thermocol plates. NTPC signed pact for patratu power station. NTPC – National Thermal Power Corporation. High court bench opened at Dumka. KERALA Kerala tourism won Golden Gate award. Project to help people overcome substance launched. Named as Subodham. MADHYA PRADESH Two thermal power units inaugurated. On March 5, 2015. Owned by Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited. Plant located near Dongaliya village in Khandwa. State got the tenth national award for Excellence in MGNREGA. MAHARASHTRA Cabinet approved policy on renewable energy. www.lnacademy.in Maharashtra invoked MCOCA against five for the first time. MCOCA – Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. Swachhata Saptapadi scheme launched. At Mumbai on May 29, 2015. Linking of the grant received by the municipal councils and corporations from 14th finance commission State cabinet gave nod to night shift for women worker. State government banned digging of Borewell deeper than 200 feet. Government to rename Chowpatty. Bhagyashree scheme launched. For girl child on March 8, 2015. Replaced Sukanya scheme. Government will deposit the amount of Rs. 21200 in bank for girl child below the poverty level. State government targets 14400 MW power generation by 2019. Union government reconstituted SEACII. SEAC – State Expert Appraisal Committee. MoU signed with L&T for CCTV based surveillance. State government declared Chandrapur as Dry district. MEGHALAYA Meghalaya achieved 100% inclusion in Jan Dhan Yojana. More than 5.53 Lakh households have been covered with 1.55 Lakh new bank accounts. Aahar scheme launched. On the occasion of state foundation day April 1. Launched in Berhampur, Sambalpur, Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack and Rourkela. Odisha owned IDCO signed MoU with IRE. IDCO – Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation. PUNJAB 2015-16 to be observed as Year of Development for Punjab. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Government to became first to issue soil health cards to farmers. E stamping project launched. RAJASTHAN Jaipur got its first Metro train. Flagged on June 3, 2015 from Manasarovar to Chandpole. Deal signed to counter malnourishment. Between Rajasthan Government and GAIN. GAIN – Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. Cow Urine refinery opened in Jalore. Law enacted to ban camel slaughter. Assembly passed bill on Eligibility for Punchayat polls. MoU signed with Adani group for solar plants. www.lnacademy.in Minimum of Rs. 1000 and Maximum of Rs. 150000. WEST BENGAL Nadia district from West Bengal bagged UN public service award. Declared as a first open defecation free district. Kolkata became the first Wi-Fi enabled metro city of India. PERSON’S IN NEWS TAMIL NADU Migrant resource centre launched in Chennai. Union government gave nod to Neutrino project in Tamil Nadu. Approved on January 6, 2015. Jointly supported by DAE (Department of Atomic Energy) and DST (Department of Science & Technology) TRIPURA Second border haat opened. Government decided to withdraw AFSPA. AFSPA – Armed Force Special Power Act. First Kisan call centre of North East India opened at Tripura UTTAR PRADESH Budget 2015-16 announced. Sukanya Samridhi Yojana begun in Jaunpur. Launched By PM Modi on January 22, 2015. Aimed address the dipping child sex ratio and empower the girl child in India. Can open account in Post office. Under the age of 10 years can open account Manabi Bandopadhyay – first transgender principal of krishnagar women’s college Ramachandra Guha – selected for Japan’s prestigious Fukuoka prize. Shivani Agarwal and Maharaja Pandit – prestigious Radcliff fellowship of Harvard Universiy. Vankadarath Saritha – first women bus driver in Delhi Transport corporation. Arundhati Bhattacharya – world’s 100 most powerful women. Pingali Venkayya – honoured by All India Radio (AIR). CNR Rao – conferred with Japan’s highest civilian award Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. Mohamad Morsi – he has been sentenced to death on May 16, 2015. Sivanadane Mandjiny – Indian American, named as UNC board of governors 2015 award for excellence in teaching. Gopinath Pillai – honoured with outstanding service award by University of Singapore. Sharmina Singh – Indian American woman, board of director of corporation for national and community service. Malala Yousafzai – the youngest noble prize winner and girl education campaigner. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Adonis – Paris based Syrian Lebanese Arab Poet, chosen for this year Kumaran Asan world prize. Murty S Kambhampati – Indian American, selected for a prestigious US presidential award for excellence in the field of Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. (PESMEM) Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – elected as president of Britain’s of Britain royal society. Mohammed Nasheed – sentence 13 years jail under anti terrorism laws. Srivari Chandrasekar – senior scientist appointed as the director of the CSIR Indian institute of Chemical Technology (IICT). KV Chowdary – former chairman of Central Board of Direct Tax(CBDT) appointed as new central vigilance commissioner (CVC) Vijay Sharma – appointed as the new chief information commissioner (CIC) RC Tayal – appointed as chief of the elite counter terror force National Security Guard(NSG) Syed Asif Ibrahim – appointed as special envoy for counter terrorism and extremism in national security. Meena Hemachandran – appointed as the executive director of the RBI. Prdeep Kumar Sinha – appointed as cabinet secretary of the union government. Selvin Christopher – appointed as the chief defence research and development organisation(DRDO). G Mohan Kumar – new defence secretary with a fixed two year tenure. www.lnacademy.in V shanmugam - appointed as the governor of Meghalaya. JP Rajkhowa - appointed as governor of Arunachal Pradesh Tathagata Roy - appointed as governor of Tripura Syed Ahed - appointed as governor of Manipur. Droupadi Murmu - appointed as governor of Jharkhand. Achal Kumar Jyoti - appointed as election commissioner of India. Neeraj Kumar - appointed as chief advisor of board of control cricket in India’s Anti Corruption & security unit. Mohan Kumar - appointed as next ambassador to France. Dr. Naushad Forbes - appointed as president of Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) Dr. Nasim Zaidi - appointed as next chief election commissioner of April 8 SPS Cheema - appointed as flag officer commanding in chief of the western naval command. Nitish Kumar – appointed as chief minister of Bihar Tapan Mishra - appointed as the chief of Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) Arvind Kejriwal - appointed as chief minister pf New Delhi. Shekhar Sen- appointed as the new chairmen of the Sangeet natak Akademi. Saraswathi Menon- appointed on advisory panel to review UN piece building architecture. Bibek Debroy - appointed as member national institution for transforming India. Arvind panagariya - appointed as first vice chairman of the newly created National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Ayog. RK Srivastava - appointed as chairman of Airport Authority of India. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Mognes Lykketoft - appointed as president of the UN general assembly. Parvinder Singh batch appointed as mayor of Britain’s Wokingham Borough council. Harbhajan Kaur – first Asian women elected as Mayor of Ealing council. KV Kamnath - appointed as head of new development bank of BRICS. Raja Rajeshwari – sworn in as a criminal court judge in New York. Juha sipla – won Finland general eletion Pedro Bellido – seventh prime minister of Peru. Robert Mugabe – appointed as 13th chairman of African Union. Modibo Keita - appointed as prime minister of mali. DATES AND DAYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Jan 04 Jan 12 Jan 15 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 30 Feb 04 Feb 06 Feb 13 Feb 20 Feb 21 13 Mar 03 14 Mar 08 15 Mar 20 16 Mar 20 17 Mar 21 18 Mar 22 Louis Braille Day National youth day Army day National voters day Republic day victims of Holocaust Martyrs day World cancer day Zero tolerance of female day World radio day World social justice day International mother language day World wildlife day International womens day www.lnacademy.in 19 Mar 24 20 Mar 24 21 Apr 02 22 Apr 07 23 Apr 18 24 Apr 22 25 Apr 25 26 May 01 27 May 03 28 May 08 29 May 10 30 May 11 31 May 12 32 May 17 33 May 18 34 May 19 35 May 21 36 May 23 37 May 30 38 June 01 39 June 05 40 June 12 41 June 14 42 June 25 43 June 26 World meteorological day World tuberculosis day World autism awareness day World health day Day for monuments and sites World earth day World malaria day International workers day World press freedom day Red cross day World migratory day National technology day International nurse day Telecommunication day World museum day Bhasha Shahid Diwas Anti terrorism day World turtle day Goa day Global day of parents World environmental day World day against child labour World blood donor day World vitiligo day Day for against drug abuse International day of happiness World sparrow day Elimination of discrimination day World water day AWARDS AND HONOURS Space pioneer award – team of MARS mission. Vikram Sarabhai memorial award – MYS Prasad. Presidential award for classical Tamil Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Tolkappiyar award – R. Krishnamurthi Young Scholar Award – Sathish, R. Venkatesan, B. Jaiganesh Jnanipath award – eminent Marathi literature Bhalchandra Nemade. Sathiya Shiromani Samman – Hindi Poet - Gopal Das Neeraj, Hindi literature – Uday Pratap Singh Saraswathi Samman – M Veerappa Moily. Yesh Bharati Samman – Vinod Mehta Khuushwant Singh memorial prize – Arundhati Subramaniyan Sahitya akademi award – Prabhu Nath Dwivedi Sant namdev national award – Parkesh Singh Badal Gandhi peace prize – ISRO Sangeet natk akademi fellowship and awards – R. Jnakiraman, S. Sathyu, Vijay Kichlu and Tulsidas Borker. 16th IIFA award Best film – queen Best director – Rajkumar Hirani Best actor in a leading role – Shahid Kapoor Best actress in a leading role – Kangana Ranaut Best actor in supporting role – Ritesh Deshmukh Best actress in supporting role – Tabu Male Debutant star – Tiger Shroff Female debutant star – Kriti Sanon Best performance in comic role – varun Dhawan Best performance in negative role – Kay Kay menon Best story – Vikas Bahl Outstanding achievement in international cinema – Subash Ghai Entertainer of the year – Deepika padukona Best music direction – Shankaran Best lyrics – Manoj Muntashri Best male playback singer – ankit Tiwari Best female playback singer – kanika Kapoor Best dialogue – Abhijat Joshi Best Editing – anurug Kashyap www.lnacademy.in Dinanath MAngeshkar award – Anil Kapoor Dadasaheb phalke award – Shashi Kapoor Florence Nightingale award – Pranab Mukherjee. Prime minister award – income tax department. Major dhyan chand lifetime achievement award – Balbir Singh Senior. Ashok chakra – manoj Mukundh Varadarajan, Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh Padma awards Announced at the occasion of Republic day every year. 9 padma vibhusan, 20 padma bhushan, 75 padma Shri awards Padma vibhusan awardees LK Advani Amithabh Bhachchan Prakash Singh Badal D Veerendra Heggade Mlaur Ramaswamy Srinivasan Kottayan Venugopal Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan Mohamad Yusuf Khan Jagadguru Ramanandacharya swami Padma Bhusan Awardees Jhannu Barua Vijay Bhatkar Swapan Dasgupta Swami Satyamitranand Giri Gopalaswamy Subhash C Keshyap Gokulotsavji Maharaj Ambrish Mithal Sudha Ragunath Harish salve Ashok seth Rajat sharma Satpal Shivkumara swami Kharag Singh valdiya Manjul Bhargava Bill gates Melinda gates Saichiro Misumi David Frawley National award for e-governance – Jammu and Kashmir Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Dadashaheb Palke film award – shah Rukh Khan Harivarashnam award – SP Balasubramaniyam American chemical society award – purnendu dasgupta Man international booker prize – Laszlo Krasznahorkai Martin lutherking award – frank islam 87th academic award Best picture – birdman Best actor – Eddie Rdmayne Best actress – julianne Moore Best supporting actor – JK Simmons Best supporting actress – Patricia Arqette. Best director – alejandro Gonzalez Best editing – whilplash Best cinematography – birdman Bet foreign language film – Ida Best documentary film – citizen four Best documentary short subject – veternas press Best animated film – Big Hero 6 57th grammy award – rickey kej and wouter kellermanalbum. 72nd golden globe award Best motion picture – drama boyhood Best motion picture musical/comedy – the grand budapet hotel Best director in motion picture – drama boyhood. Best actor in motion picture – drama Eddie readmayne. Pravasi Bharatiya samman – hamid Ansari Whitley award – Dr. Ananda Kumar Asian bankers achievement award – Bharatiya mahila Bank (BMB) Pulitzer award – post and courier (the south Carolina based news paper) Miss India award – Aditya arya International award for women’s empowerment – Bangladesh New south wales women of the year 2015 – Minoti Apte. Miss universe – Paulina Vega PRIME MINISTER’S FOREIGN VISIT Bangladesh www.lnacademy.in On June 6 & 7 . 22 agreements South Korea May 18 & 19. 7 agreements Mongolia May 16-18 13 agreements China May 14-16 24 agreements Canada April 14-16 Germany April 12-14 France April 9-12 20 agreements Singapore March 29 Sri Lanka March 13-14 2 agreements Mauritius March 11-13 Seychelles March 10-11 Australia November 16-20 For G-20 summit Myanmar November 11-13 For ASEAN and East Asia Summit USA September 26-30 Japan August 30-September 3, Nepal August 4-September 4 PROGRAMMES, PROJECTS SCHEMES 100 smart cities scheme. Estimation – 48000 crore. UP – 13 cities Tamil Nadu – 12 cities Maharashtra – 10 cities Gujrat and Karnataka – 6 cities AMRUT SCHEME AND Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) June 25 Rs. 50000 crore 54 cities in UP have been identified under AMRUT scheme. In Tamil Nadu 33 cities. 37, 31 and 21 cities also have been identified in Maharashtra, Gujrat and Karnataka. URBAN HOUSING MISSION Launched by Modi On June 25 Named as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY) Will ensure every urban poor is enabled to own house. Worth Rs. 4 lakh crore Ranging from 1 to 2.30 lakh per house JAL KRANTI ABHIYAN Launched by Uma Bharati Union minster for water resource. On June 5. Under the campaign a village with acute water scarcity will be selected. UTSAD SCHEME Launched by Najma Heptullah a welfare scheme. Linked with clean India. Seeks help weaver and artisans connect with buyer all over the world. Allocating 17 crore Rupees. NEW SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEMES Launched by prime minister On May 9 Linked with bank account The schemes are Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Beema Yojana (PMJJBY) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) Atal Pension Yojana (APY) PMSBY - one year accidental scheme Death cum disability cover is 2 lakh Age group – 18-70 years PMJJBY – coverage 2 lakh Age group – 18-50 years FAME INDIA SCHEME www.lnacademy.in FAME – Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and electric vehicles. Support to hybrid or electric vehicle market development Proposed to next 6 years NATIONAL SUPER COMPUTING MISSION Visionary programme to enable India to leapfrog the computing power. Started jointly by Department of Science and Technology (DST) PHARMA JAN SAMADHAN SCHEME Union government released compendium of ceiling prices of essential medicine 2015. PRIME MINISTER MUDRA YOJANA MUDRA – Micro Units Development and Refinance agency. To provide credit to small entrepreneurs. Ranging 5.77 crore small business unit. Initially named as Shishu Loan coverage Rs. Rs. 50000 Kishor – cover above Rs. 5000 and upto 5 Lakh Tarun – 5 lakh and up to 10 lakh. PRADHAN MANTRI KAUSHAL VIKAS Named as PMKVY. To provide skill training to class 10 and 12 drop outs. Aimed to cover about 24 Lakh people Implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) THE PHARMA JAN SAMADHAN SCHEME Web enabled system for redressal of consumer grivances. Created by National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) NATIONAL ELECTROL ROLL PURIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAMME Named as NERPAP. Objective to bring totally error free authenticated electoral roll SOIL HEALTH CARD SCHEME To check deteriorating soil quality and spruce up farm productivity. SUKANYA SAMRIDHI YOJANA Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Sukanya Samridhi Yojana under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP). Accounts started for girl child in post office and banks. Age must be under 10 years. Minimum amount is Rs. 1000 and maximum is Rs. 150000. Interest is 9.1% After 18 years they can eligible to operate the account. Girl child can withdraw 50% of amount. SCHEME TO SUPPORT SC ENTERPRISES Scheme named as Venture Capital Fund for scheduled Castes Entrepreneurs. Started with the capital of Rs. 200 crore. Loan avail up to Rs. 15 crore SUBSIDISED 5 KG LPG CYLINDER SCHEME For below poverty line people. Launched part of the oil companies. DOMESTICEFFICIENT LIGHTING PROGRAMME Launched by PM Modi. Conservation of energy through use of LED bulbs. Described LED as Prakash Path. MISSION INDRADHANUSH Launched bt union ministry of health and family. To achieve full immunisation coverage for all children by 2020. Aims to cover all those children who are vaccinated or partially vaccinated. SWACHH BHARAT KOSH A fund that will be utilised to build toilets in schools. Set up by ministry of finance. KISAN VIKAS PATRA SCHEME To encourage people to save more and keep them off fraudulent scheme. And also help the government to mobilise funds for financing developmental plans. JEEVAN PRAMAAN Aadhar based digital life certificate for pensioners. VANBANDHU KALYAN YOJANA To allot Rs. 10 crore to each block with a tribal population of over 33%. PUNARJAGRAN www.lnacademy.in A mass awakening campaign Youth participation in Nation Development across India. Launched in four districts Tamil Nadu, Leh in J&K, Okha in Gujrat and Roing in Arunachal Pradesh. SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN National compaign to clean streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. Covers 4041 statutory towns. Started at 150th birth anniversary of Mahathama Gandhi. Cost over Rs. 62000 crore. SWACHH UDYAMI YOJANA Provides financial assistance to safai, Karamchairs and identified manual Scavenges for construction. DEENDAYAL UPADHAYA GRAMEEN KAUSHALYA YOJANA Central rural skill programme. Aims to train 10 Lakh rural youths by the end of 12th five year plan. MAKE IN INIDA Launched at Vigyan Bhavan. Zero Defect; Zero Effect. NATONAL AYUSH MISSION Aimed at addressing the gaps in health services particularly in vulnerable and far-off areas of India. Renamed as Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH). PRADHAN MANTI JAN DHAN YOJANA (PMJDY) Seeks to provide platform for district benefits transfer . Opening of 7.5 crore bank account by January 26, 2015. In one week 18096130 bank accounts were opened. DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA ANTYODAYA YOJANA Named as DAY. The government has decided to extend coverage of cities and town to all the 4041 stattory. VAN BANDHU KALYAN YOJANA\ Development of tribals has been launched by Union government. Establishment of ashram school in tribal areas. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains AROGYA GRAM YOJANA Identify thousands villages in J&K for growth of aromatic plants with active participation of local farmers and owners. E-RICKSHAW SEVA SCHEME The battery operated vehicle will have seating capacity of four persons excluding drivers. PASHMINA PROMOTION PROGRAMME Aimed at increasing pashmina wood production up to 65 tonnes. SWAVALAMBAN ABHIYAN Launched seven schemes under this. www.lnacademy.in FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER BANKING AND ECONOMY NEWS 1. Axis bank launched the first multicurrency contact less card service in India. 2. Odisha cabinet gave nod to new industrial policy resolution (IPR) 2015. Scheme name – SCRIPTS (state capital region improvement of power system) Purpose – to avail quality and the uninterrupted power to the consumer in Bhubaneshwar and Cuttack. 3. IRDAI allows banks to tie up with insurers. (new Bancassurance model). IRDAI – Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) 4. Central government has revised the National Solar Mission target. Change – to achieve the 1,00,000 MW target to setup distributed rooftop solar project. 5. India signs financing agreement with World Bank for NCRMP project. NCRMP – National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project. 6. NT Attorney General John Elferink has announced the government to set up anti-corruption body. 7. Tatas to increase AirAsia India stake to 41%. 8. Government appoints senior lawyer Arun P Sathe on SEBI’s board raises eyebrows. SEBI – Securities Exchange Board of India. 9. More Taiwanese companies plan to invest in India. 10. India set to turn a big buyer of airplanes. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 11. Wonderla Holidays is planning to invest Rs. 300 crore in TN to set up its largest amusement park in South India. 12. Reliance communications simplifies tariff plans in Gujrat. 13. RBI notified interest subvention scheme (ISS) 2015 – 16 to provide interest concession of 2% on short term corp upto 3 lakh rupees. 14. State Bank of Hyderabad plans to switch over to solar system. Inaugurated by Managing director Santanu Mukherjee as part of independence day. 15. CCEA has approved 300 crore to save standing kharif agricultural and horticultural corp. 16. Government selects private sector professionals to head BoB and Canara bank. 17. Union government unveils Indradhanush Misson for public sector banks. Seven shades – appointments, de stressing, PSB’s, capitalisation, empowerment, framework of accountability and governance reform. To achieve the objective of economic growth. Appointments: selection of nonexecutive chairman and appointing MD and CEO of two PSB’s as early as possible. Bank Board Bureau (BBB) – A body of eminent professionals to within 6 months. Capitalisation: infuse Rs. 25,000 crore rupee of capital into debt laden banks in the fiscal. De-stressing: to develop vibrant debt market for PSB’s to reduce lending pressure. Accountability: to streamline vigilance process for quick action. Governance reforms: next Gyan sangam will be held from January 14 to 16 2016. www.lnacademy.in 18. Union government to form Bank Board Bureau. (BBB). Functioning form next financial year. To replace existing system appointment board led by RBI governor. It has eminent professionals. Six member body – at least 3 former bankers, 2 professionals and secretory. To give advice to PSB to raise funds through innovative financial methods. Guide banks on mergers and consolidations. 19. HDFC to sell its 9% stake in HDFC life to JV partner standard life for Rs. 1700 crore. 20. Birla corp to acquire Lafarge’s two Indian units for rs.5000 crore. 21. Housing.com acquired Bengaluru based HomeBuy360. 22. RBI suspended licence of seven nonbanking finance companies (NBFC) Licence suspended – religare finance, artisans micro finance, eden trade & commerce, RCS parivar finance, Nott investments, Dewra stocks & securities, Swetasree finance. 23. ICICI bank launched locker facility named ‘Smart Vault’. MD & CEO – Chanda Kochhar. 24. State Bank of India launches mobile wallet app ‘Buddy’. 25. Union government advanced Budget 2016 – 17 preparations by over two months. 26. Finance minister launches two funds for promoting MSME and start ups. India aspiration Fund (IAF) and SIDBI Make in India Loan for Enterprises Development Bank of India (SMILE) 27. LIC launches maiden unit linked insurance plan (ULIP) 28. BSE sets up new system for reporting suspicious trades. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 29. Finance Minister Digital banking to bring more money in tax net. 30. Bank of Maharashtra may sell NPA clean balance sheet. 31. RBI granted ‘in-principal’ approval to 11 payment banks applicants. 32. SM Khan headed team constituted to assess situation in FTII by union government. FTTI – film and television institute of India. 33. R Gandhi panel recommended conversion of UCB’s into regular banks. UCB – urban cooperative banks. Headed by RBI deputy governor R Gandhi. 34. Government issues norms for selection of MD’s and CEO’s of smaller PSU banks. Headed by Bank of baroda and Canara bank. 35. Union government to sell 10% stake in IOC. IOC – Indian oil corporation. 36. Uber cabs tied up with Bharathi Airtel to set up WiFi hotspot in each of its cabs. 37. Infosys launched three new services Aikido. Ki service – large scale modular service to help renew enterprise landscapes. Includes knowledge based IT strategy, knowledge curation service. To help enterprises renew their mainframe application. Do service – Do refers the service offering on design thinking. For finding, understanding and defining the problems that are important. Ai service – it refers to platform and platform as a service to build intelligent solution. Includes Infosys automation platform and other offering service. 38. A P Shah committee recommends MAT relief to FII’s. www.lnacademy.in Issue of levying MAT on capital gains made by FII’s. Other members – A P Shah, Dr. Girish Ahuja, Dr. Ashok Lahiri. 39. Bandhan financial services started operations as scheduled commercial banks. 40. NITI Aayog decided to set up expert group to draft model land leasing law. Vice chairman - Aravind Panagariya. 41. Government Apollo hospital partner to launch new health service. Service name – SEHAT – Social Endeavour for Health and Telemedicine. 42. RBI okays re appointment of Rana Kapoor as YES bank MD, CEO. 43. payU India ties up with redBus to attract customers to use its wallet payU money. 44. Airtel acquires Augere to strengthen 4G footprint. 45. Kazakhastan to host first nuclear fuel bank. 46. SEBI to receive surveillance systems to have fast track enforcement. SEBI – stock exchange board of India. 47. Indian bank launches IndPay mobile app service. Unveiled by MD and CEO M. K jain. It aims to help bank’s customers. 48. Reliance communication ltd tied up with Jasper to offer internet services in India. 49. HDFC has launched ‘Dhachayat’. It is an educational film to raise awareness on the dangers of borrowing money from unorganised source. 50. HDFC bank ties with Snapdeal for cobranded credit cards. 51. Bharathi Airtel acquired YTS solutions for mobile payment solutions. 52. Snapdeal launches snapdeal instant to make instant delivery of packages. 53. IDFC bank to start operations from October. 54. Murugappa group signed agreement with Orango corp to form joint venture. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 55. BSNL proposal to hive its tower into a new company got approval. 56. Bharathi Airtel launched 4G services in 296 towns across India. 57. SBI life insurance launched smart humsafar plan. 58. RBI relaxes branch authorisation policy to allow banks to merge or close branches in urban areas. 59. Snapdeal tied up with department store chain shoppers stop ltd. 60. Government to impose 10% import duty on wheat. 61. BHU signs MOU with Kyoto. BHU – Banaras Hindu University. 62. Thomas cook Ltd acquires Kuoni’s travel business. 63. Foxconn to invest $5 billion in Maharashtra. 64. Suraksha bandhan drive launched to facilitate enrolment under social security schemes. Purpose – participating banks and insurance companies to facilitate enrolment under social security schemes. 65. Xiaomi ties up with Foxconn to set up facility in Andra Pradesh through “Make in India” initiatives. 66. Telecom minster launched mobile app “Disha” to aid digital literacy in Bihar. 67. ICICI bank launches ‘Saral Rural Housing Loan’ scheme for weaker sections. 68. Google unveils restructuring under new parent company Alphabet Inc. 69. NABARD accredited by UN’s green climate fund as national implementing entity. NABARD – National bank for agriculture and rural development. 70. India sings financing agreement with World Bank for NCRMP project. NCRMP – National cyclone risk mitigation project. 71. Uninor signed woth Rs. 1200 cr contract with Huawei for modernising its network. www.lnacademy.in 72. RBI declared SBI and ICICI bank as domestic systematically important banks. 73. CSO releases estimates of GDP for AprilJune quarter of 2015-16. CSO – Central Statistical Office. GDP – Gross Domestic Product. 74. Snap deal acquires Silicon Valley startup reduce data. 75. NSE to have MOU with Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) to facilitate cooperation between two exchanges. 76. Forward markets commissions to be merged with SEBI with effect from 28 Sept 2015. 77. ICICI Lombard in bancassurance tie up with Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB). 78. RBI proposed marginal cost of funds methodology to calculate base rate. Aimed at bringing uniformity among Bank rate. Effect from 1 April 2016. 79. RBI to issue Rs. 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war. 80. ONGC buys 15% stake in Russia’s second largest oil field from Rosneft. 81. Commemorative coins of Rs. 125, Rs. 10 released in honour of former president S. Radhakrishnan. 82. SEBI notified SEBI regulations 2015. 83. Visa to test new mobile payment service app mVisa in smart phones. Banks are Axis bank, HDFC, ICICI and SBI. 84. Kanpur zoological park receives ISO certificate 14001:2004. 85. SBI life insurance launched smart humsafar plan. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 86. RBI allows banks to merge shift or close branches in urban areas. 87. Rupee reference rate against USD sets by RBI. 88. Sahara India’s para banking licence scrapped by RBI. 89. Doha bank tied up with reliance ADA group to generate business opportunities. 90. BSNL to upgrade broadband speed to minimum 2mbps at no additional cost. www.lnacademy.in Micro private Ltd, Equitas Microfin private Ltd, ESAF micro fiancé Private Ltd, Janalakshmi financial service, RGVN micro finance private Ltd, suryoday micro finance Ltd, Ujjivan financial service, Utkarsh micro finance. 103. Sun Pharma entered into an agreement to acquire InSite vision. 104. Blackstone group LP acquired UK’s Serco group Plc. 105. Apus group tied up with moile advertising network InMobi. 91. MCX Ltd, lamSME of India signed MOU to unveil benefits of commodity price risk. 106. Bharat Dynamics ties up with ECIL. 92. Current a/c deficit narrows to 1.2% of GDP in April-June. 107. Google and Tata trust announced the launch of Android developer Nanodegress programme. 93. Dr Reddy’s laboratories signed pact with US firm PanTheryx. 94. SunEdison Inc, Tamil Nadu government signed MOU to develop 2-GW projects. 95. Indian bankers top fortune’s most powerful women list. 96. Bankers Chanda Kochhar and Arundhati Bhattacharya have been ranked top. 97. Andhra bank launches its 2600th bank branch and 3000th ATM branch. 98. SBI cards launches credit card for online shopping. 99. RBI and National Rastra Bank ink MOU for supervisory information exchange. 100. Frecharge partners Yes bank, Fino paytech to launch wallet solution. 101. Paytm introduces cashless payments in educational institutions. 102. RBI approves 10 entities to set up small finance banks. The ten entities are – Au Financiers India Ltd, Capital local area bank, Disha It is a scholarship programme to educate Indian students in Android development. 108. MUDRA credit th September 28 2015. camp on 109. RBI relaxed change in ownership norms of borrowing entities. 110. Uninnor re branded as Telenor India. 111. SEBI fined PACL Limited 7260 crore rupees for illegal raising of funds. 112. ADB lowered India’s growth forecast for 2016 from 7.8% to 7.4%. 113. Qualcomm announced investment of 150 Million US dollar for Indian start ups. 114. RBI Governor has surprised with 50 basis point cut. 115. Reliance defence inks strategic partnership MoU with Emirates defence industries co. 116. NDTV signed 100 crore rupees deal with Taboola. Current Affairs Capsule 117. IBPS V Mains Google has morphed into Alphabet Inc. ICICI brings in card less M-Visa 119. India’s foreign reserves plunges by over 2 billion $. UCO bank registered highest (NPA) Growth of eight core sector Sectors – coal, crude oil, refinery products, natural gas, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity. World Bank released global of the global populations in 2015. management national Watershed project Neeranchal. CCEA– The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs. Implemented at the nine levels at nine states. Aims at achieving the major objectives of the watershed component. 124. relaxed tied up with online. Dell Inc acquired EMC Corporation for 67 billion US dollars. 132. RBI formed financial inclusion fund with 2000 crore rupees corpus. 133. First time in eight years fiscal Announced by CGA. CGA – Controller General of Accounts. Infosys announced to acquire Noah Consulting for 70 million US dollars. 135. Bank of Baroda first PSU bank to join chilr platform. 136. Reliance AMC to acquire Goldman sachs AMC for Rs. 243 crore. 137. Narendra Modi inaugurated IDFC bank branch in New Delhi. FPI Operations started from October 1. investment in government securities. FPI Granted universal banking license by – Foreign Portfolio Investment. RBI on July. 125. RBI Housing Facebook to sell its affordable homes 134. CCEA approved World Bank assisted Tata balance turned surplus in August 2015. poverty projections for 2015. To fall 10% 123. YES Bank gets RBI nod for mutual fund, AMC Trustee Company. 131. increased by 2.6% in August 2015. 122. 129. 130. increase in gross Non Performing Assets. 121. To provide books to needy children in the USA and Canada. 118. 120. www.lnacademy.in norms of China introduces the first phase of China international payment system. 126. Tata power launched LED tube light scheme in Mumbai. 127. Future group partners Patanjali Ayurveda. 128. 138. MoU RBI and central bank of UAE ink for supervisory information exchange. 139. Western digital to buy SanDisk for 19 billion US dollar. 140. RBI Partnership between Wipro and implementing Frist Book. Announced in Washington. scheme 2015. issued of gold direction on monetisation Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 141. NDRF ties up with 30 PSU’s to jointly tackle emergencies. NDRF – National Disaster Response Force. 142. TATA Trust and Harvard University had a collaboration. 143. ABIL, Versace to develop new project in South Mumbai. 144. Department of Heavy Industries drafted National policy on capital goods. 145. Financial power of health institutions enhanced to 5 lakh rupee per patient under Rashtrya Arogya Nidhi (RAN). Central government health scheme. 146. FII’s/RFPI’s can now invest up to 74% in DEN Networks Limited – RBI. FII – Foreign Institutional Investors. RFPI – Registered Foreign Portfolios Investors. 147. Yes Bank advances after operationalised IFSC banking unit in GIFT city. 148. RBI, Bangladesh Bank ink MoU on information exchange. 149. Reliance industries first corporate to sign revised listing pact with BSE. 150. IBM and TASK signed MoU to ensure cloud technology in Telangana colleges. 151. NITI Aayog panel on innovation submitted its report recommending private funding for R&D. 152. India replaced China to emerge as biggest gold consumer in worldThomson Reuters. 153. Exim Bank announced setting up of project development firm KPDC in Africa. 154. World Bank doing business report released 2016. Top ten economics – New Zealand, Denmark, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, UK, US, Sweden, Norway and Finland. www.lnacademy.in 155. RBI allows Indian corporate to issue offshore denominated bonds outside India. 156. Shaktikanta Das nominated on RBI central board of director. 157. HCL technologies acquired CRM services firm power project for 299 crore. 158. Facebook and BSNL partnered to set up 100 WiFi hospitals in rural India. 159. Reliance communication to merge Sistema Shyam Tele with itself. 160. MTS India merged with Reliance communication. 161. Eight core industries of IIP grew by 3.2% in September 2015. Fastest in 4 months. 162. RBI notified operational guidelines of sovereign gold bonds 201516. 163. RBI Imposed Rs. One crore penalty on Dhanlaxmi bank. 164. CCEA hiked minimum support prices for Rabi Corps of 2015-16 season. CCEA – The Cabinet committee on Economic Affairs. 165. RBI issued uniform guideline on internet banking for cooperative banks. 166. FIPB clears four FDI proposals woth Rs. 384 Crore. FIPB – Foreign Investment Promotion Board. 167. Union government signed Loan agreement with Asian Development Bank (ADB). 168. Indiabulls Housing finance Ltd (IHFL) has acquired 40% stake in OakNorth bank of the UK. 169. SBI has announced partnership deal with Emirates NBD. 170. TATA and Intel launched centre for excellence for IoT in Hyderabad. IoT – Internet of Things. 171. CCEA approved disinvestment of 10% paid up equality capital in Coal India Ltd. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 172. Technology acquisition and development fund under national manufacturing policy launched. 173. India ratified article of agreement of the Asian Infrastructure investment bank. 174. CCI imposed penalties on 3 Airlines for concerted action in fixing fuel sub charge. CCI – Competition Commission of India. 175. Axis Mutual Fund launches children’s gift fund. 176. World bank and AP ink $75 M credit deal for rural project. 177. ICICI bank Canada launches student programme. 178. Nokia, Alctel-Lucent name new India. MEA heads. 179. Thomos cook India signs with OYO rooms. 180. India, UK announced commercial deal worth 9 billion pounds. 181. TCS and Intel launched centre of excellence for IoT in Hyderabad. 182. Marriott international to acquire starwood hotels & resorts worldwide. 183. ADB pledges $120 million loan to finance India, Bangladesh electricity link under SASEC programme. SASEC – South Asia Sub regional Economic Co operation. 184. Walmart offers entrepreneur development programme for women. 185. Rattan TATA invests in Singapore data start up. 186. IT dept launches PAN based management system. 187. SEBI signed MoU with Bangladesh securities and exchange commission on bilateral cooperation. 188. Foodpanda ties up with IRCTC. IRCTC – Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation. 189. RBI granted in principal approval to NPCI to function as the www.lnacademy.in central unit for Bharat bill payment system. NPCI – National Payment Corporation of India. 190. RBI approved in principal approval to three applicants for setting up TReDS. TReDS – Trade Receivable Discounting System. The organisations which got permissions are – NSE strategic investment corporation limited (NSICL), Small industries development bank of India (SIDBI) and Mumbai Mynd solutions pvt Ltd. 191. India to touch 1$ billion equity fund for renewable energy. 192. HSBC to shut down private banking business in India. 193. Government extends Rupay insurance cover period. 194. Canara bank started its CSR drive. CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility. V. Sivakumar ministry of health launch this camp. 195. RBI permitted foreign portfolio investor to buy defaulted bonds. 196. Union government approved 3120 crore rupees investment for infra boost in 102 AMRUT cities. Approved by ministry of urban development on November 26. AMRUT – Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. 197. Bill Gates breakthrough energy coalition formed to reduce demand for fossil fules. Launched by 28 global business leaders at the United Nations climate change conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris, France. 198. Axis bank launches country’s first display variant debit card. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 199. Indian economy grew by 7.4% in Q2 of FY 2015-16. Announced by CSO – Central Statistical Office. 200. Tata sons Ltd tied up with industrial & commercial Bank of China Limited. 201. RBI bars 56 NBFC’s from conducting business. NBFC – Non Banking finance companies. 202. RBI announced revised priority sector lending norms for regional rural banks. 203. ICBC to become Tata group’s strategic banking partner. ICBC – Industrial and Commercial bank of China Ltd. 204. ADB released Asian Economic integration report 2015. ADB – Asian Development Bank. 205. Luxembourg become the 10th country to ratify AoA of Asian infrastructure investment bank. AoA – Artivles of Agreement. 206. Hetero became the first Indian company to receive DGCI’s approval for hepatitis C drug. DGCI – Drug Controller General of India. 207. Tata trusts partnered with khan academy for free online education. 208. Global financial integrity released the global illicit financial flows report 2015. India at fourth place. Top five – China, Russia, Mexico, India and Malaysia. 209. Mahindra group acquired Italian auto design firm pininfarina. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLGY 1. NTPC signed to MOU with NSDF. NTPC - National Thermal Power Corporation. NSDF – National Skill Development Fund. www.lnacademy.in First MOU – to provide skill training to 5000 youth and women across 22 locations. Second MOU – to train over 25000 candidates in services and manufacturing sector. 2. A young Jupiter exoplanet discovered. 3. Russian tie up to boost ISRO’s semi cryogenic launcher plan. Purpose – for new generation rockets PSLV and GSLV. 4. Samsung unveils wider Galaxy S6 edge, Note phablet. 5. Researcher discover evidence of ancient lakes on Mars. 6. NASA spacecraft LADEE found presence of neon gas in moon’s atmosphere. 7. ISRO successfully launches GSLV-D6 carrying GSAT-6 satelite. GSLV-D6 – Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehice. 8. NASA enhanced collision avoidance system to avoid traffic jams between satellites orbiting Mars. 9. SHEFROL – an Eco-friendly way of treating water. 10. China is building world’s biggest radio telescope. 11. The super earths found 21 light years from earth. 12. ISRO launches 9 nano/micro American satellites during 2105 – 16. 13. Asia’s biggest MSAT inaugurated at Udaipur solar observatory in Rajasthan. ISRO director – Deviprasad Karnik. MSAT – multi application solar telescope. 14. NASA signed 490 million US dollar contract with Russia for international space station travel. 15. Globalsat for DRR will be renamed after Abdul Kalam. Globalsat – global satellite. 16. Microsoft introduces translator app 17. ISRO commissions titanium sponge plant in Kerala. 18. Goa government launches SOS app. 19. ISRO commissions Titanium sponge plant in Chavara Kerala. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 20. NASA’s SERVIR-Mekong project to help monitor environment in Southeast Asia. 21. NASA and ISRO jointly working on NISAR mission. NISAR – NASA-ISRO Aperture Radar. www.lnacademy.in 35. British researcher developed mobile app ASCmel.T to help people with Autism. 36. North Korean soldier’s paradise in massive anniversary celebration. 37. NASA released plan outlining next steps Synthetic in the journey to Mars with an aim to establish colonies by 2030. 22. INS vajrakosh commissioned by defence minister at Karwar in Karnataka. Defence Minister – Manohar Parikar. 38. DRDO Missile complex renamed as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam missile complex. 39. India, US and Japan navis kick off 2015 23. NASA may launch its Mars sample return mission by 2022. Malabar Naval exercise. 40. China 24. China launches newly developed smaller version Long March-6 carrie rocket. 25. Rehearsal of Chang’e-5 lunar mission conducted in China. 26. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) on 24th September 2015 successfully completed one year of mission life around Mars. 27. Google teamed up with Indian Railways to provide free Wi Fi at 400 stations. 28. India’s first dedicated satellite for astronomy research ASTROSAT launched by ISRO on September 28 2015. 29. INS Kochi commissioned by Indian Navy. 30. India – Sri Lanka joint military exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 begins in Pune. 31. Strong evidence of liquid water on Mars NASA released. 32. China launched 20th satellite for its BeiDou navigation system. 33. INS Sahyadri entered Da Nang Port in Vietnam. 34. INS Astradharani commissioned into Indian Navy. launches new commissioned satellite for HK firm. 41. China launched third mapping satellite of Tianhui-1 series. 42. Bangaluru based Saankhya developed “Pruthiv” chip to power white-fi devices. 43. Syria to launch manned moon missions by 2029. 44. China’s first lunar rover Yutu sets record longest stay on Moon. 45. ICGS Arinjay commissioned in Kochi. ICGS – An Indian Coast Guard Ship. 46. Brahmos missile test fired from Indian Navy’s stealth destroyer INS Kochi. 47. Nepal and US armies launched joint military training balance nail 16-01. 48. Indian Army successfully test fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in Rajasthan. 49. Nuclear capable surface to surface Agni IV missile successfully test fired. 50. India’s GSAT 15 communication satellite launched successfully. 51. Tianhe-2 is the world powerful duper computer for the sixth consecutive time 52. Kosmos 2510 the first satellite of EKS (Tundra) system launched by Russia. 53. Maareech an advanced Torpedo defence system handed over to Indian Navy. 54. Naval Ship Vishwakarma commissioned at Vishakhapatnam. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 55. Chinese Tianhe – 2 retained its position as world most powerful super computer. 56. Ford tested driverless cars using LiDAR technology. 57. Supersonic intercopter AAD Missile successfully launched. AAD – Advanced Air Defence. At Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. 58. India successfully test fired nuclear capable Prithiv II missile. 59. Nuclear capable Dhanush missile successfully test fired from Warship Subhadra. 60. Japan successfully launches its first commercial staelite. Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying Canadian TELSTAR 12V communicationa and broadcasting satellite. 61. Interceptor boat ICGS C-422 commissioned into Indian coast Guard service. Commissioned at Karaikal port in Tamil Nadu. 62. India-Israel co developed LRSAM missile successfully tested. LRSAM – Long Range Surface to Air missile. Test fired from first time from an Israel Naval platform. Trail test undertaken by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Also called as Barak 18 missile. 63. India successfully test fired Agni-I missile. Range is 700 km. Surface to surface missile. 64. GRSE handed over ASW corvette “Kadmatt” to Indian Navy. GRSE – Garden Reach Shipbuilder and engineering Limited. At Kolkata on 26th November. It is 109 metre long. 65. Navy inducts decoy system Maareech. www.lnacademy.in 66. GAIL, ISRO launch satellite based portal to monitor pupelines. 67. Chinese first electricity powered aircraft RX1E approved for production. 68. GAIL launched Bhuvan-GAIL portal for satellite monitoring of pipelines. 69. IISc Bangalore bagged solar panel research and development contract from US military. IIS – Indian Institute of Science. 70. Indo-Russia bilateral naval exercise Indra Navy-15 begins in Visakhapatnam. Commenced on December 7, 2015. 71. India launched I-LTEO programme to monitor 8 different biomes. I-LTEO – Indian Lone Term Ecological Observations. 72. Atomic energy amendment bill 2015 introduced in Lok Sabha. 73. GRSE launches fifth ship of Indian Navy’s LCU MK IV project. GRSE – Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. 74. Atlas V rocket lifted off with Cygnus Cargo spaceship to ISS. ISS – International Space Station. 75. Cochin shipyard launches fast patrol vessels for coast guard. 76. YES bank announced to mobilise $5 billion for climate action by 2020. 77. Portal to get SME’s to get bank loan. 78. World bank approves 1.5 billion US dollar loan to support clean India campaign. EULOGIES 1. The founder of Hero cycle Om Prakash Munjal passes away. 2. Malayalam Actor Paravoor Bharathan died. 3. India’s first lady Surva Mukherjee passed away. Wife of President Pranab Mukherjee. She was vocalist of Rabindra sangeeth. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 4. Uttar Pradesh Minister Chitranjan Swarup passed away. 5. Eminent Sanskrit scholar and Indologist NR Varhadpande passes away. 6. Former Australian cricketer Arthur Morris passes away. 7. Veteran journalist Pranab Kumar Borah passed away. 8. Eminent Kannada writer Dr. MM Kalburgi shot dead in Dharwad. 9. Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Wolf Sacks died. 10. US country singer Lynn Anderson passes away. 11. Former MP minister Jagannath Singh passed away. 12. British singer Cilla Black passes away. 13. World war II hero Colonel Harwant Singh passed away. 14. Fashion designer Arnold Scaasi passed away. 15. Hollywood actor George Cole passes away. 16. Anti thalidomide hero frances Oldham Kelsey dies. 17. Tendong Oldham Kelsey, the anti thalidomide candian doctor died. 18. Poet, freedom fighter Kayyara Kinhanna Rai passes away. 19. Veteran Marathi stage actor Bhalchandra Pendharkar died. 20. Master horror cinema Wes Craven died. 21. World’s shortest person Chandra Bahadur Dies dies at 75. 22. Bollywood music composer Aadesh Shrivastava dead. 23. Hollywood actor George Cole passes away. 24. Fashion designer Arnold Scaasi passed away. 25. Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy Iyer passes away. 26. Hollywood actoe John P Connell died. 27. Former Member of Parliament Balkrishna Wasnik died. 28. Classical dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabama passes away. 29. Brain Close former England and Yorkshire dies aged 84. www.lnacademy.in 30. Pulitzer prize winner playwrite Frank D Gilroy died. 31. Veteran Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passes away. 32. Malayalam playback singer Radhika Thailak died. 33. Novelist Jackie Collins passes away. 34. BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya passes away. 35. Veteran Leftist Sadhan Gupta died. 36. Renowned traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta Swami Dayanand Saraswathi died. 37. Base ball legend Yogi Berra died. 38. Former England fast bowler Frank Tyson died. 39. Manipur governor Syed Ahmed died. 40. Renowned Telugu cinema producer Edida Nageswara Rao passes away. 41. Renowned Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell died. 42. Veteran music director Ravindra Jain passed away. 43. Renowned Carnatic Flautist Natesan Ramani died. 44. Former British finance minister Geoffrey Howe died. 45. Admiral Radhakrishnan Hariram Tahiliani passes away. 46. Renowned Egyptian writer Gamal al Ghitani dies. 47. Veteran Kannada fil maker KSL Swamy passes away. 48. Renowned marine biologist Syed Zahoor Qasim died. 49. Bollywood singer Labh Januja died. 50. Renowned Hollywood actress Maureen O Hara passes away. 51. Bengali actor Pijush Ganguly passes away. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 52. Hero motors Brijmohan Lall Munjal, doyen of India’s two wheeler industry passes away. 53. Former West Bengal assembly speaker Hashim Abdul Halim died. 54. Eminent archaeologist V N Misra passed away. 55. Tollywood comedian Kondavalasa Lakshman Rao passed away. 56. Colin Welland the writer of Oscar winning chariots of Fire died at 81. 57. French intellectual Rene Girard passed away. 58. India’s Former ambassador to Nepal Bimal Prasad dead. 59. NRI industrialist Swraj Paul’s son Anged Paul died. 60. Rhythm and Blues legend Allen Toussaint died. 61. Former Israel president Yitzhak Navon died. 62. RAW former chief Sankaran Nair died. 63. Indian red cross society secretary general SP Agarwal died. 64. VHP leader Ashok Singhal died (Vishwa Hindu Parisad) 65. Children book writer Kamala Laxman dead. 66. Saeed Jaffrey passes away. (Veteran actor) 67. RK Trivedi the former Gujrat Governor and CEC died. CEC – Chief Election Commissioner. 68. Senior journalist Hemendra Narain died. 69. Writer, Journalist Mahip Singh passes away. 70. Noted labour economist T.S. Papola passes away. 71. Sitting Rajya Sabha MP from Nagaland Khekiho Zhimomi passed away. 72. Noted Indian Origin business man Banwari Lal Mittal died. 73. Distinguished football administrator TR Govindarajan died. www.lnacademy.in 74. Russian film maker Eldar Ryazanov died. 75. Australian football icon Joe Marston died. 76. Eminent Japanese historian Noboru Karashima passed away. 77. Noted litteratuer Surendra Upadhyay passed away. 78. Industrialist MAM Ramaswamy died. 79. Sarangi maestro Ustad Sabri Khan passed away. Renowned Sarangi player 80. Koodaiyatam artist Margi Sathi passed away. 81. Renowned agro-economist Sharad Joshi passes away. AWARDS AND HONOURS 1. PAHAL scheme enters into Guinness book of world record. PAHAL – Pratyaksha Hasstaantarit Laabh. 2. Veerappa Moily conferred with saraswathi Sammaan award 2014. Purpose – for Kannada poem Ramayana Mahanveshanam. 3. Sania mirza became second tennis player to be recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. 4. The chief of Sabar Dairy was re-elected as the chairman of the GCMMF. GCMMF - Gujrat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation. 5. President Pranab Mukherjee approved 67 Gallantry Award. 6. Mustansir Barma won 2015 Gujar Mal Modi Award for innovative science and technology. 7. Awardees of khel Ratna and Arjuna awards Sania Mirza – Tennis – Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2015. Nabib subedar Sandeep Kumar – archery – Arjuna Award 2015. MR Poovamma – athletics Arjuna Award 2015. Kidambi Srikanth Nammalwar – Badminton - Arjuna Award 2015. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Mandeep Jangra – Boxing Arjuna Award 2015. Rohit Sharma – Cricket - Arjuna Award 2015. Dipa Karmkar – Gymnastic Arjuna Award 2015. Sreejesh PR – Hockey - Arjuna Award 2015. Manjeet Chhillar – Kabaddi Arjuna Award 2015. Abhilasha Shashikant Mhatre – Kabaddi - Arjuna Award 2015. Sawarn Singh – Rowing - Arjuna Award 2015. Anup Kumar Yama – Roller Skating - Arjuna Award 2015. Jitu rai – Shooting - Arjuna Award 2015. S Sathish Kumar – weight lifting - Arjuna Award 2015. Bajrang – Wrestling - Arjuna Award 2015. Babita Kumari – Wrestling Arjuna Award 2015. Yamanm Sanathoi Devi – Wushu - Arjuna Award 2015. Sharath M Gayakwad – Para Swimming - Arjuna Award 2015. 8. TPP Nair, SP Misra, Romeo James recommended for 2015 Dhyan Chand award. Selection committee headed by former Indian hockey captain Zafar Iqbal. TPP Nair – former captain of the Indian volleyball team. SP Misra – former captain of Davis cup. Romeo James – former goal keeper of Indian hockey team. 9. Debut novelist Zia Haider Rahman won the James Tait Black award 2015. For his novel in the light of what we know. 10. Historian Babasaheb Purandare conferred with Maharastra Bhusan award 2015. 11. Syrian woman journalist Zaina Erhaim wins 2015 peter mackler award. www.lnacademy.in 12. Government announces Dronacharya, Dhyan chand, Rashtriya Khel protsahan puruskar award 2015 received from President Psranab Mukerjee. Dronacharya awards 2015 Naval Singh – Athletics para sports coach. Anoop Singh - wrestling coach. Harbans Singh – Athletics coach. Swatantar Raj Singh – Boxing coach. Nihar Ameen – swimming coach. Dhyan Chand awards 2015 Romeo James – Hockey. Shiv Prakash Mishra – tennis. P.P Nair – volleyball Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2015 Directorate general of military training (DGMT) – for identifying and nurturing young talents in sports. Coal India Ltd (CIL) – for encouraging sports through corporate social responsibility. Haryana state police – for employing sportsperson and sports welfare measures. Sports coaching foundation (SCF) – for developing of sports. 13. Scientist Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta to receive inaugural Sunhak peace prize. 14. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi wins USA best player in Europe award. 15. Mountaineer Jot Singh awarded Tenzing Norgay national award 16. Rajendra singh conferred with 2015 stockholm water prize. 17. Tamil Nadu government instituted youth award in name of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Consists of 8 gram gold and 5 lakh rupee cash. Given from 2105 on every Independence day. Given to a person who works with exceptional merit in science, humanities and student welfare. Celebrated as a youth revival day. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 18. Hindi litterateur Kashinath Singh chosen for Bharath Literacy award 2014. 19. Mathematician Amalendu Krishna won 2015 Ramanujan prize. 20. Ex-Jalore EO Rajan chosen for election commission’s award. 21. NDDB wins award for geographical info system. 22. Zhamma Nemtsova awarded with Poland’s solidarity prize 2015. 23. Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar to be honoured with PATWA award. PATWA – pacific area travel writers association. 24. Indian professor conferred with Germany’s highest civilian award honour. Indian sociobiologist Raghavendra Gadagkar. Germany’s highest civilian award – the cross of order of the merit. 25. Kashmir Valley flood coverage nominated for Emmy award. 26. Raghavendra Gadagkar awarded with germany’s cross of order of the merit. 27. Ajeet Kumar Saroj, Varanasi jail inmate awarded with IGNOU gold medal. 28. Kerala government announces state film awards 2104. Winners – best actor award – Nivin pauly. (Bangalore days and 1983). Sundev nair – My life partner. Best actress – Nasriya Naseem for her performance in the film “Om shanthi Hosana’ and ‘Bangalore days’. Best director – snalkumar Sasidharan for his film OraalPokkam. 29. Facebook awarded $21 million to indian app developer under FBStart initiatives. 30. India wins UNESCO award for conserving Sree Vadakkunnathan temple in Kerala. 31. Haryana government wins Skoch order of merit national award for implementing e-Governance IT. Announced by Manohar Lal Khattar. www.lnacademy.in 32. Puducherry government announced annual teacher’s day award. Winners of Best teacher’s award 33. Dr. Radha Krishnan award – primary level winners – R. Siva Kumar and G. Krishnamoorthy. Secondary level winners – R. Kulasekaran, NM Saminathan. 34. Chief Minister special award – best language teacher award – K. Thamban. Women’s teachers: M. Sandacpumary, R. Anitha, Arutchelvi, R. Vijayarani, Padmavathy. 35. The education minister’s award – Soundarapandiyan, K. Latha, V. Rajaram, P. Kandipan, Thiru. Vi. Ka, K. Sitharthan from pudhucherry. S. Ravindran from Karaikal, K. RadhaKrishnan from Mahe, GV Surya Narayana from Yanam. 36. Zhanna Nemtsova awarded with Poland’s Solidarity award. 37. Goa tourism minister Dilip Parulekar to be announced with PATWA award. 38. Black mamba Anti-Poaching unit (APU) of South Africa selected for UNEP championship of the Earth award. UNEP – Union Nations Environment Programme. 39. Acclaimed writer Jhumpa Lahiri awarded with 2014 national humanities medal by white house. 40. Anupam Kher conferred with Honoured Guest of Taxes award. 41. Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy conferred with royal Aeronautical society silver medal. 42. Hormusji N Cama elected as chairman of press trust of India. 43. Anupam Kher honoured with certificate of recognition in US. He has received this legislature for his dedication to helping Kashmir Hindu community. 44. Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hassina wins UN award for climate change. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 45. Indian American Swetha Prabakaran selected for championship of change award in US. 46. British Indian Sunjeev Sahota shortlisted for Man booker award 2015. 47. National geographic society selected for UNEP champions of the Earth Award in science. It is one of the global non-profit member organisation. 48. Natura Brasil elected for 2015 UNEP champions of the earth award in entrepreneurial vision category. 49. Tambul Leaf Plates conferred with SEED special recognition award in Nairobi, Kenya. 50. Ajinkya Rahane honoured with life membership by CCI. CCI – Cricket Club of India. 51. Afghan refugee teacher Aqeela Asifi named for 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee award. UNHCR – Union High Commissioner for refugees. 52. Chanderpaul receives Icon Award. He is a veteran test cricket player from Sri Lanka. 53. Union government presented Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar and National safety awards 2013. This year 28 Vishwakarma Rasshtriya Puraskar were shared by 132 individuals. 54. Urdu scholar Shamim Hanfi awarded with Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award. 55. Game of thrones won 12 awards at 67th primetime Emmy awards. Game of Thrones – Famous American fantasy drama television series. 56. National tourism award 2013 -14 presented. Presented by President Pranab Mukherjee. Best state – Gujrat. Best Heritage city – Gwallor in Madhya Pradesh. www.lnacademy.in Best civic management of a tourism destination – Municipal council of Maheshwar. Best film promotion friendly state – Gujrat. Award of most innovative use of information technology – department of tourism of Kerala. Best tourism film – the great backwaters of Kerala. Award of best tourism promotion publicity – Tourism Corporation of Gujrat. M/s Kuoni travels India Pvt Ltd Gurgaon got first prize for best inbound tour operators. M/s Trail Blazer tours India Pvt Ltd – first prize in the category of earning foreign exchange. M/s Eco Mobility ad Hospitality Pvt Ltd – first prize for tourist transport operator. M/s Snow Leopard adventure Pvt Ltd – best adventure tour operator. 57. EPF won skoch award for smart governance initiatives. 58. Indhra Nooyi and Shobana Bhartia awarded as 2015 global leadership award. 59. Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai of Odisha won community impact award at google science fair. 60. Lucknow based CSIR-CIMAP won CSIR award for S&T innovations for Rural development 2014. CSIR-CIMAP – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Central Institute of Medical and Aromatic Plants. 61. Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman won 2015 SASTRA Ramanujam prize. 62. Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with pride of Britain award. 63. M.R. Poovamma and Babita Kumari conferred with Arjuna Award 2015. 64. Indian American Kartik chandran has won prestigious accolade for his work. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 65. Tamil Nadu government increased MSP for paddy corp. MSP – Minimum Support Price. 66. World Heart Day 2015 celebrated with them creating heart healthy environment on Sept 29. 67. Ministry of railways launched Indian railways knowledge portal. 68. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for www.lnacademy.in 71. Forbes India leadership awards 2015 presented in Mumbai. bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati of Ola. in different fields services. Gopal of Molecular bio physics. year – Godrej consumer product Ltd of excellence in Genomics international. and Amul. Chemical sciences – Dr. D. Srinivasa Dr. Pradyut Ghosh – Department of Earth, sciences ocean – Dr. and Best CEO – Private sector – CP Gurnani Tech Mahindras. Yogesh Moreshwar. Best CEO – Public sector – Arundhati Bhattacharya SBI Atmosphere, planetary Best CEO – Multinational company – Uday Shankar star India Ltd. Inorganic chemistry. Conscious capitalist company for the Dr. Rajeev Kumar Varshney of centre Reddy Division of organic chemistry. Entrepreneur with social impact – Samit Ghosh and Ujjivan financial are Biological science Dr. Balasubramaniyan Nextgen entrepreneur for the year – Siddhartha Lal – Eicher Motors Ltd. science and technology 2015 announced. Awardees Outstanding start-up for the year – Engineering science – Dr. Yogesh Life time achievement award – RC Bhargava of Maruthi Suzuki India. Moreshwar Joshi Department of Chem Eng. Entrepreneur for the year – Uday Kotak of Kotak Mahindra bank. Mathematical science – Dr. K Sandeep. Dr. Ritabrata Mathematics Munshi Tata school Institute 69. Laureates of 2015 Right Livelihood awards announced. of of Established in 1980 by German Swedish philanthropist. Technology. Medical science – Dr. Vidita Ashok. Physical Science – Dr. Bedangadas offering practical and exemplary answers Mohanty. to the most urgent challenges facing Dr. Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh. today. 69. Ratsn Tata honoured by UK city of Coventry. 70. Zenia Bhumgara of India conferred with Merlin award by international magician assocaiation. Given to honour and support those 70. Neutrino scientist win noble prize for Physics. Japan’s Takaaki Kajita and Canada’s Arthur B. McDonald. 71. Three scientist share Nobel Prize for medicine for work on parasitic Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains www.lnacademy.in disease. Shared by Ireland’s William 84. Arun Jaitley had chosen Finance Cambell, Japan’s Satoshi Omura Minister of the year, Asia by and China’s YouYou. emerging markets. 72. Shashi lifetime Kapoor honoured achievement with award 85. Veteran at 86. Al-Quds Corporation Award for won Skoch effective I.V. Saso honoured with J.C. Daniel award. Jagran fest. 73. Trichy filmmaker University conferred Honorary Doctorate on President solid Pranab Mukherjee. management. 87. Prasoon Joshi gets award (Maharaja 74. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize Sayajirao Bhasha Samman award. in Literarture. 14th women to win the Given to his outstanding contribution literature prize. in promoting Hindi. In the memory 75. 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: of Bank of Baroda founder. Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and 88. Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi Aziz Sancar. conferred Harvard University 2015 76. Nobel peace prize 2015 awarded to Humanitarian of the year award. Tunisian mediator group. 89. Noted criminologist K Chokalingam 77. Music composer AR Rahman named won paul H Appleby award. as cultural ambassador of Seychelles. 78. AR Rahman chosen for 90. President gives away Sangeet Natak 2015 Akademi awards fellowship. Leading Haridaynath Mangeskar Award. musicologist S R Janakiraman Noted Svetlana film mker M S Sathyu, Musician – Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize Vijay Kumar Kichlu and Tulsidas in Literature. Vasant 79. Belarusian author 80. Indian firm Nualgi won popular choice award at climate change. Iqbal Ahmed Khan, Nath Neralkar, 81. Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Angus Deaton. 82. Kailash Satyarthi selected for 2015 Harvard Humanitarian of the year award. 83. Jamaican writer Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker prize for Fiction. Artist – Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Nayan Ghosh, Ronu Majumdar. Folk singer – Adbul Rshid Hafiz from Jammu and Kashmir 91. Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe awarded as 2015 Confucius peace prize by China. 92. Nandakumara, Sivanesan honoured in UK with lifetime achievement award & Sangeet Acharya ratna Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 93. Indian-American farmer Anitha Adalja to be honoured for exemplary agriculture work. 94. Angry Indian Goddesses bagged people’s choice award at Rome film festival. 95. A R Rahman received Haridaynath Mangeshkar award. 96. Raif Badwani wins EU’s Sakharov prize 2015. 97. Activist Bindeshwar Pathak selected for New York global leaders dialogue Humanitarian award. 98. Saudi blogger Rail Badawi awarded 2015 Sakharov prize for freedom of thought. 99. Khel Ratna to be conferred posthumously on former footballer Late Rm Bahadur Chetri. 100. Priyanka Chopra bags people’s choice award nomination. 101. AIR programme on child labour bagged top prize at ABU prizes. 102. The Legatum prosperity index released 2015. India ranked 99 out of 142. 103. Veteran actor Vikram Gokhale honoured with Vishnudas Bhave award. 104. Santoor Maestro Pt. Shiv kumar Sharma honoured with kala shikhar award. 105. Abraham M Keita from Liberia won 2015 international children’s peace prize. 106. Sameer Panda led Indian team won NASA award for Burst Prevention and Puncture curative technology. 107. University of East London awarded honorary doctorate to Ashok Amirtraj. 108. UNHCR chosen for Indira Gandhi Prize for peace disarmament and development for 2015. UNHCR – United Nations High Commission for Refugees. www.lnacademy.in 109. Kiren Rijiju conferred with disaster risk reduction Asia champion honour by UN. 110. Names of 2015 presidential medal of freedom recipient announced. List includes the name of American professionals baseball catcher, manager and coach Yogi Berra and American director, producer and screen writer Steven Spielberg. 17 individuals come from the field of music, politics, sports, public health and space travel. 111. Marathi Actor Prashant Damle selected for Dinanath Mangeshkar award. 112. Kuldip Nayar honoured with Ramnath Geonka lifetime achievement award. 113. Infosys Science foundation announced winners of Infosys prize 2015. 114. UNESCO Fellini medal to be awarded at IFFI for the first time International film festival of India. 115. Hinduja brotehrs received life time achievement award at Asian Business leadership forum 2015. 116. Dr Abdul Kalam IGNITE award presented by President Pranab Mukherjee. 40 school students of 27 districts from 18 states. 117. Adidas India’s Pulin kumar won prestigious INBA award. INBA – Indian National Bar Association. 118. Delhi development authority awarded with E-India award. 119. Renowned violinist L Subramanian to be honoured with ITC sangeet samman. 120. Embrace of the Serpent bagged golden peacock award for best film at IFFI 2015. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 121. Robert Lewandowski awarded with four Guinness world record certificates for scoring five goals in nine minutes. 122. India’s Kartik Sawhney and Neha Swain won 2016 queen’s young leaders award. 123. Mahela Jayawardene awarded honorary lifetime membership of MCC. 124. Insian-American entrepreneur Frank Islam to be honoured with Uttar Pradesh Ratna Award. 125. Chen Long and Carolina Marin bagged 2015 BWF player of the year 2015 award 126. Tech Mahindra bags Forbes top 100 middle east global meets local 2015 award. 127. West Bengal government honoured Bappi Lahiri and Kumar Sanu with Lifetime achievement awards. 128. Indian origin writer J M Sail won 2015 South East Asian write award for Singapore. 129. Dilip Kumar gets Padma vibushan award. 130. Salman Rushide honoured with mailer prize for lifetime achievement. 131. Wipro won 2015 Aegis Graham Bell award for innovation in IoT. 132. Naseeruddin Shah receives lifetime achievement award at DIFF. DIFF – Dubai International Film Festival. www.lnacademy.in 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. NATIONAL 1. India Slovak Republic ink MOU on technical cooperation in railways sector. Who – union ministry of railways and the ministry of transport construction and regional development of the Solvak Republic. Purpose – infrastructure building, station development, 8. modernisation of rolling stock, signalling and telecom. Air Pegasus will operate passenger flight service between Mangaluru and Bengaluru. High court introduces biometric attendance system for staff. Tamil Nadu ahead in mother child health. Assam passed witch Hunting bill 2015. To eliminate rising cases of superstition leading to murder. Indian railways singed four MOU with Union Ministeries of power and new renewable energy. Implementation of electricity and energy efficiency project. Cooperation and construction of transmission lines. Facilitating and sharing of information. Exchange of scientific and technological information and data. Operation and maintenance of renewable energy. Implementation of renewable energy project at different Indian railways. Cooperation in implementation of energy conservation project. Replacement with energy efficient equipment and technology. APCCIF called upon its members to join the online campaign. APCCIF – Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry federation. Online campaign – www.change.org and www.avaaz.org Purpose – to rollout of goods and service tax (GST) YouTube channel of the Home Ministry was launched by Kiran Rijiju. Minister of state for home Kiran Rijiju. Purpose – to disseminate the information through video. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 69th 9. Nation celebrated Independence Day. 10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Iran foreign minister Javad Zarif. 11. Prime Minister Modi announced a new campaign ‘Start – up India; Stand – up India’. Announced on 69th Independence Day. Purpose – to promote bank finance for start-ups. To boost entrepreneurship among the youth and create employment in india. To provide finance to at least one Dalit or Adivasi and at least one woman entrepreneur Other announcement: government will rename present agricultural ministry as ‘Agriculture and formers welfare Ministry. To replace the current practice of interview based selection with online merit based recruitment for low skilled government jobs. 12. Gujrat government declares ban on use of plastic. 13. Kerala state declares state as digital state during Independence Day speech by CM Oommen Chandy. 14. Press information Bureau (PIB) launches its blog. Purpose – to facilitate qualitative flow of information to the concerned stake holders. 15. Taj Mahal first monument to get a twitter handle.. Launched by Utter Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on eve of 69th Independence day in Lucknow. 16. India’s biggest AYUSH hospital to come up in New Delhi. AYUSH – Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy. 17. India Bangladesh ink MOU to fight fake currency. www.lnacademy.in To menace of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) smuggling. MOU signed at a maiden meeting of the joint task force on fake currency notes(JTFFC) 18. MHA to setup pan India National fingerprint database. 19. Odisha government approves state region improvement of power system scheme. (SCRIPTS) Highlights: to provide 24×7 quality power supply. Implemented by Odisha Power Transmission Corporation limited (OPTCL). To promote renovation, modernisation and expansion of the existing transmission. Main theme is to provide uninterrupted, reliable and stable power supply. 20. Odisha government approved Fisheries policy 2015. Purpose – To increase productivity and production of fish. 21. Telangana government launched Grama Jyothi schemes across the state. Purpose – to aim at comprehensive development of rural areas allowing planning. 22. Kerala government signed MOU with Adani group for development of Vizhinjam Port. Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport near Kovalam beach. MOU signed by Kerala principal secretary James Varghese Initiated first by late Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran 25 years ago in 1991. Highlights – proposal for usage of foreign ships. Expected to start from November 2015. Total cost Rs. 4089 crore 23. Delhi government announced city Taxi schems. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 24. Kochi airport becomes world’s first to operate on solar power. Inaugurated by Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy. 12 MW solar plant comprising 46150 solar panels laid across 45 acres. 25. Tata trusts to develop 264 villages in Vijayawada under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). 26. Himachal to make Sanskrit mandatory in government schools. 27. UNP led UNFGG coalition won the Sri Lanka parliamentary elections 2015. UNFGG – United National Front for Good Governance 28. Bengaluru tops the list of city with highest cybercrime. The city of Hyderabad is second 29. Bangladesh became first city to receive funds from UN for solar home systems 30. YouTube tied up with Whistling Woods international to set up YouTube space. 31. Prasar Bharti, digital television Russia inked MOU. Purpose – for cooperation to set up the stage for new media era. 32. World humanitarian day observed on August 19. Theme – inspiring the world’s humanity. 33. Pakistan and Russia signed defence agreement. Signed in Rawalpindi. Sale of four Mi – 35 helicopter. 34. Union government issued final notification demarcating ESZ around Okhla bird sanctuary. ESZ – Eco sensitive zone. 35. Haryana, Maryland agreed to cooperate in bio technology life science. Agreed by Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Governor of Maryland Boyd K. Rutherford. 36. Government approves pact between India and Seychelles to curb black money. 37. Hundustan Unilever Su pharma industries and Tata consultancy service www.lnacademy.in among world top 100 innovative companies. Hundustan unilever ranked 41. TCS at 64 and sun pharma at 71. 38. Himachal Pradesh government launched RISHTA project. RISHTA – Rajiv Gandhi Illuminating Scheme for Hill Town Advancement. An efficient smart LED based street lighting project. Also known as centralised control and monitoring system (CCMS). Total of 63484 street lights replaced with LED. 39. Union governemetn launched web portal Vidya Lakshmi for students seeking educational loans. 40. Union cabinet approved signing of MOU between India and Australia on education and research. Expansion of Australia and India education. Strengthening of the policy dialogue and exchange in area of mutual benefit. It will support mobility. Supporting and organising professional development programmes for experts. Encouraging twinning arrangements between institutions. Sharing best practice education materials. Supporting skill development through joint conferences, seminors. Developing bilateral programmes between institutions. 41. Dadra and Nagar Haveli value added tax (Amendment) regulation act 2015. Its promulgation was approved by the cabinet. 42. Lahore high court banned film ‘Phantom’ from release in Pakistan. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 43. Minority ministry launches online application management system for ‘Nai Roshi’. Launched by union minster Dr. Najma Heptulla. For Nai roshni scheme. 44. Rajasthan government joins hands with future group to modernise public distribution system. 45. Pondicherry CM N. Rangasamy launched free laptop scheme. 46. Government frames policy schemes for e marketing of handloom products. 47. UNFCCC, MSSRF to work for conservation of coastal resources of Andhra Pradesh. UNFCCC – united nations framework convention on climate change. MSSRF – MS swaminathan research foundation. 48. Palmyra’e temple of Baalshamin destroyed by ISIS militnts. 49. Union government released postal stamp on emperor Ashoka. Released by union telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. 50. Tata Trust ink MOU with Andhra Pradesh government to develop 264 smart villages. 51. PM inaugurates birth centenary celebration of Rani Gaidinliu. Rani Gaidinliu – freedom fighter. He also circulated of 100 rupees and 5 rupees coin of Rani Gaidnliu. 52. Rajasthan government approved Arogya Rajasthan campaign. Cabinet chaired by CM Vasundhara Raje. Three months campaign to collect and compile health data of the rural population. 53. India Australia ink MOU on cooperation in the field of education, training and research. Signed by human resource development Smriti Irani. www.lnacademy.in Signed after the third meet of the AIEC – Australia India Education council. 54. India to implement Sendai framework for Disaster Reduction 2015 – 2030. 55. War museums at Jaisalmer, Laungewala stations inaugurated. 56. SAI launched school sports promotion foundation. SAI – sports authority of India. 57. Rajasthan government and FCEL inked agreement to launch Annapurna Bhandar Yojana. FCEL – future consumer enterprise Ltd. 58. India Seychelles signed MOU to improve bilateral relations. Signed by Indian PM Narendra Modi and Seychelles president James Michel. Five agreements signed. Air service agremment. To provide one Dornier Maritime Aircraft. MOU between Indian council of agricultural research. (ICAR) Protocol on framework of cooperation in the field of blue economy. 59. 105 year old Urdu copy of Ramacharitmanas written by shiv brat lal found. 60. Union government cleared 4 months extension for 7th pay commission. 61. Government releases smart cities list. 13 from UP, 12 from Tamil Nadu and 3 from Bihar included. 62. NDMC decides to remane Aurangzeb road as APJ Abdul Kalam road. NDMC – New Delhi Municipal Council 63. Union government gives nod to 6 new SEZ proposal. HCL IT city in Lucknow UP. LOMA IT Park in Mumbai. North Mumbai international commodity township in Thane Maharashtra. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 64. Union government launches E-Payment module to deposit compensatory levies into CAMPA funds. CAMPA – Compensatory Afforestation management Planning Authority. 65. NTPC sets a record in single day power generation. NTPC – national thermal power corporation. Record generation of electricity on August 27, 2015. 66. India losses solar case against US at WTO. WTO – world trade organisation. 67. PM Narendra Modi pays tribute to Dhyan Chand on National sports day. On his 110th birth anniversary. 68. PM Nrendra Modi gifted Pradhan Mandhri Suraksha Bima Yojana to 51000 sisters. 69. 21st edition of Delhi Book fair begins. Launched in Pragathi Maidan, Delhi. 70. India to remain fastest growing major economy for second quarter. 71. The housing ministry has identified 305 cities to start building houses for poor people. Scheme name – Housing for all. 72. PM Modi released digitally restored recording of epic ‘Ramacharitmanas’. 73. Union government launches SAHAJ scheme for online of new LPG connection. Scheme purpose – to apply new LPG connections. 74. Manipur legislative assembly passes protection of Manipur people bill 2015. 75. USITC extended anti-dumping duty on Indian preserved mushrooms for 5 years. 76. Tripura decided to implement national food security act. Effects from September 1,2015. 77. Law commission of India submitted report on early childhood development and legal entitlements. 78. NITI Aayog launched second version of India energy security scenarios 2047. www.lnacademy.in 79. Union government approved signing agreement between India and Afganistan. Highlights – service of judicial orders. Taking of evidence through request. Execution of judgement. 80. Union canbinet approved amendment in the central list of other backward class. 81. Union government approved amendment to the Arbitration and conciliation bill, 2015. 82. Union cabinet approved Mutual Legal assistance treaty in civil and commercial matters with Oman. 83. Kolkata port adjudged as the best Major port of 2014-15. 84. Union government formulated Draft Rules for Mass Emission standards for Bio Diesel fuelled vehicles. 85. Maharashtra government announced construction of 800 km Nagpur Mumbai expressway. 86. 1974 Land border agreement between India and Bangladesh came into effect. 87. Sri Lankan government decided to renovate temples destroyed in Nepal quake. 88. Union government announced Census data on highest educational level attained. 89. India’s first harbour defence system commissioned in Kochi. IUHDSS – integrated underwater harbour and surveillance system. 90. Thomas cook India ltd buys Sri Lankan firm Luxe asia pvt ltd. 91. Cyclone Koman makes landfall in Bangladesh. 92. India to host second forum for India Pacific Islands cooperation (FIPIC) Venue - Jaipur. 93. First national handloom day observed on August 7 2015. 94. Tiju Thomas initiative emerged as UAE’s first and biggest donor registry. Tiju Thomas – Indian diplomat with Indian consulate in Dubai. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 95. India to produce at least dozen billionaires among start ups by 2020: ASSOCHAM. 96. The new simplified “guidelines governing adoption of children 2015” effects from August 1. 97. Afghanistan banned mourning ceremonies for deceased Taliban leader Omar. 98. 193 UN members reached agreement on sustainable development agenda. Agreements outlines 17 goals with 169 specific targets on issues on poverty. The document called ‘Transforming our World’ The 2030 agenda for sustainable development. Goals – End poverty, achieve food security, ensure healthy lives, promote lifelong learning, achieve gender equality, empower all women, sustainable management of water, sustainable economic growth, reduce inequality, ensure sustainable consumption, take urgent action to combat climate change, conserve and sustainably use of the oceans, protect terrestrial ecosystem, promote peaceful. 99. Delhi police launched operation Shishtachar to teach lesson to eve teaser. 100. Union government signed historic peace accord with NSCN (I-M) NSCN-IM – Nationalist socialist council of Nagaland. 101. Haryana government to honour victims of emergency 1975 with Tarma Patra. 102. Rural development minister launched ‘SAMANVAY’ for gram panchayats. Launched by Rural development minister – Chaudhary Birender Aim to help MP’s in utilising relevant schemes 103. Delhi government decided to have tram network in Old Delhi. www.lnacademy.in 104. Maharastra government increased the retirement age of medical officers from 58 to 60. 105. Uttar Pradesh government decided to rename UPTU as APJ Abdul Kalam technical university. UPTC – UP technical university. 106. Two films Masaan and Jaanisaar made tax free in UP. 107. Bihar legislative assembly passed the Bihar public grievance redresssal bill 2015. 108. Government to set up 15,000 km of NH at Rs. 1.9 Lakh cr. Minister of road transport – Pon Radhakrishnan. NHAI – National Highways Authority of India. 109. Union government approved direct release of wages into banks accounts MNREGA workers. MGNREGA – mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act 110. Union government deferred proposed talk between the chief negotiator on India and EU BTIA. 111. India Moambique signed MOU to boost ties in renewable energy. 112. Forbes released the world’s highest paid actors 2015 list. Top position – Robert Downey Jr.stood. Second place – Jackie John Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan stood at seventh place. 113. FICCI, ILO signed MOU to establish national coordination centre for SCORE training service. SCORE – national coordination centre for sustaining competitive and responsible enterprises. 114. Haryana’s CM Manohar Lal launched ‘Thari Pension’ scheme. Launched in Chandigarh. 115. Lok sabha passes Delhi high court amendment ill 2015. 116. Delhi government reconstituted Urdu academy. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 117. India and Myanmar linked agreement to set up CESDT in Myanmar. CESDT – centre of excellence inn software development and training. Purpose – to set up financial support through ASEAN India cooperation fund. 48th ASEAN foreign minister meet held in Kuala Lumpur. ASEAN – Association of southeast Asian nations. 118. Southern state to set up Interstate coordination council to resolve forest related issues. 119. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated first National handloom day. 120. Lok sbha passed negotiable instrument bill 2015. 121. Government to allow Aadhaar enrolment of NRI, POI and OIC’s. 122. Azim Premi and Shiv Nadar top 20 Billionaires in the world. 123. India extended anti dumping duty on vitamin C imports from china. 124. Mysuru of Karnataka topped in swatch bharath. 125. NIDM signs MOU with JNU set up centre for excellence in Disaster management. NIDM – national institute of disaster management. JNU – Jawaharlal Nehru University. 126. Maharashtra government declares Thane creek area as ‘Flamingo sanctuary’. 127. DRDO developed poly herbal medicine to treat Leucoderm. 128. Government approved to set up SPV to clean Yamuna. SPV - special purpose vehicle. 129. BHEL commissioned 500 mw unit of Vidhyachal super thermal power station. 130. DRDO transfers technology to L&T to develp Lakshaya. DRDO – defence research and development organisation. www.lnacademy.in 131. Tendong Lho rum Faat annual festival of ethnic Lepcha tribe of Sikkim celebrated. 132. Tripura Legislative assembly passed a resolution against death penalty. 133. Union government launched school nursery yojana to bring students closer to nature. Theme – to plant a tree for sustainable future and to make nation clean. First phase to cover 1000 schools and extended upto 10000 in 2016. 134. Param Tyag Chakra initiative launched to honour families of martyrs. 135. World Bio Fuel day – August 10 136. Amitabh Bachchan accepted the proposal to be Maharashtra’s tiger ambassador. 137. BHEL commissioned 500 MW thermal unit at Vindhyachal STPS. STPS – super thermal power station. 138. Kochi first to join world tourism cities federation (WTCF) council. 139. India’s social security pact with Canada comes into force. 140. Union government launches new train service in Northeast. 141. Government to set up of all India institute of Ayurveda. 142. Posco joint venture with Uttam steel to set up steel plant in Maharashtra. 143. Union cabinet approves MOU between India Nepal for constructing petroleum pipe line. 144. Coca cola India signs Sourav Ganguly for 3 years as social ambassador. 145. Government sanctioned 1500 mw ultra-mega solar power park for Andhra Predesh in Kadappa district. 146. Union cabinet approves spectrum sharing guidelines. TRAI – Telecom regulatory authority of India. 147. 100 richest people in technology released by Forbes. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Oracle CEO Ellison Ceded Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Facebook co-founder Mark Zukarberg. Google co-founder Larry Page. Another google co-founder Sergey Brin. Microsoft CEO Steve Balmar Dell CEO and chairman Michael Dell 148. Maharashtra government constituted cabinet sub panel to tackle impending draught crisis. 149. Delhi government constituted panel to probe CNG fitness scam. 150. Uttar Pradesh government approved new guidelines for Begum Akhtar Award. 151. Award annually awarded on singers of ghazal, dadra and thumri. 152. Union government releases Rs. 2000 crore for employee’s pension scheme. 153. Islamic state (IS) militant group has destroyed part of historical temple of Bel. 154. Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley renamed as Denali. 155. Union government recognizes Yoga as sports discipline. 156. West central railways becomes first zone to eliminate unnamed level crossing. 157. HIV prevention drug PrEP showed positive results. PrEP – Pro-exposure prophylaxis. 158. Union government launched Indian wind resource as an online GIS tool. 159. Over 3 trillion trees currently thrive on earth study. 160. PHDCCI on September 2 2015 launched Intellectual Property Rights Facilitation centre (IPFC) for MSME. PHDCCI – PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is a New Delhi based multi-state agency. www.lnacademy.in Objectives – to enable MIMEs, to provide service such as IP protection, IP awareness and training, to hand hold MSME for identifying IP, to provide MSME, to create delivery mechanism. 161. Fourth India – Bhutan development cooperation talks for the 11th five year plan held in Delhi. 162. Railway ministry launched three IT initiatives developed by CRIS. Launched by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar. CRIS – centre for railway information system. Paperless unreserved ticketing through mobile phones between Delhi and Palwal station. Currency coin cum card operated automatic ticket vending mechine. Mobile application for freight operations (PARICHALLAN). 163. India partnered with UN’s better than cash alliance to speed up PMJDY programme. 164. Swachhata Sangraam Abhiyaan was launched in Indore district of MP. Aim to make the entire city to make open defection free. 165. Allahabad HC ensures flag hoisting ceremony of national flag in Madarsas on August 15 and January 26. 166. Bihar to give 2% reservation to grand children of freedom fighters in government jobs. 167. Union government approved policy for Marginal fields of ONGC and OIL. ONGC – oil and natural gas corporation. OIL – oil india Limited 168. Union government decided to exempt FII and FPI from paying MAT. FII – Foreign Institutional Investors. FIP – Foreign Portfolio Investors. MAT - Minimum Alternate Tax. 169. Punjab government establishes special MGNREGA cell. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 170. Union government cancels registration of green peace India. NGO –Non Government organisation. 171. R. Sampantham became the first tamilian to lead opposition in Sri Lankan parliament in 32 years. 172. Maharashtra government approved ordinance to amend MPDA act 1981. MPDA – Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act 1981. 173. Haryana government inaugurated Sakhi, one step center for women in distress. 174. Union ministry of youth affairs and sports recognise yoga as sports discipline. 175. Government to develop Bodh Gaya as spiritual capital. 176. Maharashtra to train 55,000 employees under KRA programme. KRA – Key Result Area. (to enhance their performance and bring them on par in competence) 177. PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Badarpur Faridabad Metro. 178. ‘e- Pragati’ to pave way for digital AP. 179. Union government gives nod to one rank one pension scheme. (OROP) 180. Bala thiripura sundari temple renovated under India-Nepal economic programme inaugurated. 181. Arun Jetley launched digital version of Mahatma Gandhi’s collected work. 182. Himachal Pradesh organised organic fair and food festival to boost organic farming. 183. Haryana assembly passes panchayat raj amendment bill 2015. 184. First ever census on India’s Leopard presented. Presented by tiger census Yadvendradev V Jhala. Availability of around 7910 Leopard across India. www.lnacademy.in 185. Andhra Pradesh government launched e pragati project to provide integrated one governance. Purpose – to provide integrated one governance. Major component – AP fibre grid, AP state data, e highway, people hub, lab hub, dial AP, e learning platform, social management system, mSeva, e agri market. 186. Union government approved Soverign gold bond sceme to reduce dependence on physical gold. 187. Union government approved introduction of gold monetization schemes. 188. BSE has highest number of listed companies in the world: WFE. 189. Haryana banned manufacture, storage, sale of gukta, pan masala in the state. 190. Tamil Nadu government launched Amma baby care kit scheme. 191. Jharkhand government approved the formation of anti-terrorism squade in state. 192. Pakistan SC ordered adoption of Urdu as official language. 193. Union government inaugurated new production facility for producing prosthetic system. 194. India Pakistan agree to maintain peace along border after DG level talks. (Director Geeneral). 195. Union government extends eTourist visa scheme to 37 more countries. 196. Rajasthan first state to submit annual state plan action under AMRUT. AMRUT – Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. Coverage in water connections and urban transport to all urban households. 197. Indra Nooyi second powerful woman in 2015 fortune’s list. 198. Topped by general motors CEO Mary Barra. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 199. National highway to grow by 50,000 km in 6 months. 200. National web portal for apprenticeship training launched. Launched by HRD minister Smirti Irani. Opportunities provided to higher secondary pass vocational students, diploma holders and graduates. 201. Union government gives nod to constitution of 21st law commission of India. 202. Narendra Modi has become the first political leader to have mobile app. Named as Narendra Modi mobile app. To know his day to day activities. 203. Union government approved the purchase of armed missile drones from Isreal. 204. Global investor meet held in TamilNadu. Held on 10 September 2015. Inaugurated by Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha. Investment committed over two lakh 42 thousand crore. 98 MOU signed. 90% investment on manufacturing and energy sector. Mahindra & Mahindra invest 2000 crore rupees in the state. Yamaha will set up third plant in TN. 205. India, Indonesia signed pact to cooperate on criminal matters. 206. DGFT launched online certificate programme Niryat Bandhu @ your desktop. DGFR – The Directorate General of Foreign Trade. Online certificate programme in export and import business. DFGT collaborated with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) This will enable to learn essentials of import and export business. The session followed by online question and answer. Digital library resource available. www.lnacademy.in First course begin with 60 participants. It comprises 20 sessions of 2 hours each. 207. World suicide prevention day observed on September 10 2015. 208. Theme of the day is Preventing Suicide. 209. Telangana Language Day observed to commemorate birth anniversary of Kaloji Narayana Rao. 210. Union government approved national offshore wind energy policy 2105. 211. Level and Trends in child mortality report released 2105. 212. Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation established by chief minister J. Jayalalitha. To connect 12525 villages with optic fibre network. Specially designed wheel chairs given to 911 differently abled person. Internet protocol television (IPTV) to all household make use of internet service provider (ISP) 213. The DMRC will execute the Vijayawada metro rail project. Objectives – to improve connectivity in Amaravathi and surrounding areas. Having two corridors at a estimated cost of 6769 crore. 214. Indian railways partnered with Google to provide free Wi-Fi services under project Nilgiri. 215. IIT – Delhi and IISc figured in the top 200 world university ranking. IISc – Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. IIT - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. 216. Godavari and Krishna rivers to be formally linked today. 217. Gujrat tops in ease of doing business in India – world bank report. 218. 200 people in Sastamnada village pledge organs for donation in Kerala. 219. IFC’s Suryoday in rural Rajasthan. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Aims to provide safe, affordable and quality solar lights with limited or no access to electricity. 220. International day for the preservation of the Ozone layer observed on September 16. 221. It is the 21st international day for the ozone preservation. 222. Union government approved Shyama Prasad Mukherji urban mission for overall development of rural areas. Aims to bid to transform rural areas to electronically, socially and physically sustainable spaces. 223. Only Marathi speaking people to get auto rickshaw permit in the state – Maharashtra government. 224. Delhi government approved victim compensation scheme. 225. It enhanced the upper limit of compensation to rape victim to 5 Lakh. 226. For acid attack it is 7 Lakh rupee. 227. Shauryanjali Exhibition in 1965 Indo Pak war inaugurated. It has been celebrate for the victory of India over Pakistan and remembers the Indian soldiers. 228. India and Sri Lanka shared four agreement to ensure peace and stability in the region. Agreement signed during the visit of Ranil Wickramesinghe to India fro September 14 to 16. The four agreements are – exchange of letters on orbit frequency coordination. Regarding supply of medical equipments. Letters on establishments of emergency ambulance service in Sri Lanka. Regarding renewed India’s grant assistance. 229. Pentagon established first ever country special cell IRRC to speed up defence ties with India. IRRC – India Rapid Reaction Cell. www.lnacademy.in 230. UN government formed Mihir Shah Committee on reconstructing water agencies. 231. Government to provide additional 50 days work to former under MGNREGA in draught hit areas. 232. PM Modi launches IPDS in Varanasi to ensure continuous power supply to every house. IPDS – Integrated Power Development Schemes. 233. Union ministry of health and family welfare bans sale of Dicolofenac in multidose vial. 234. Metro Man E. Sreedharan to serve UN high level advisory group on sustainable transport. 235. India, Laos ink two Mou’s to strengthen bilateral ties. It is signed in presence of Indian vice president hamid Ansari and his counterpart president of Lao Choummaly. 236. Union government launches PMKKKY for mining affected people. PMKKKY – Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana It is the new scheme meant to provide for the welfare of people and areas affected by mining. 237. Perumanna Grama Panchayat becomes the first panchayat in Kerala to declare a water policy. 238. Madhya Pradesh government launched M-Shiksha Mitra mobile app for teachers. They are the first state to develop such mobile app for teachers. Developed by NIC that carries several facilities can be downloaded from google play. 239. Union finance minister launched NXT Digital Headend in the sky platform. 240. EPFO increased maximum insurance coverage over to 6 Lakh rupee. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 241. Nepal approves new constitutions. 242. Union cabinet approves Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission for rural development. 243. South Indian Fertilisers has planned to set up Kissan Kendra’s and agri super markets across Kerala. 244. Indian railways developed prototype of hybrid vacuum toilet. 245. SC stayed implementation of Haryana Panchayat Raj amendment bill act 2015. 246. 8th edition of global innovation index 2015 released. 247. Godavari, Krishna Rivers formally linked at Ibrahimpatnam Ferry village in Andhra Pradesh. 248. International day of democracy observed with the theme of space for civil society on 15 September 2015. 249. Two Indian coast guard ships Apoorva and C-421 commissioned. 250. Cow declared as a national animal of Nepal. 251. Election commission releases NOTA symbol for all polls. NOTA – None Of The Above. Announced on 18th September 2015. Effects from 11th October 2015. Designed by National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Aims to enable electors who don’t wish to vote any of the candidates. 252. International day of peace observed globally on 21st September. Theme – Peace dignity for all 253. CANBANK Venture Capital Fund (CVCFL) was on 21st September 2015 appointed as the implementation agency of the Electronic Development Fund (EDF) policy. 254. MoU for Swavlamban Health insurance scheme disabled person signed. It aims to provide an affordable health insurance scheme. www.lnacademy.in Features: comprehensive cover to PWD beneficiary for spouse and two children. It has single premium across age bond. Beneficiary aged between 18 to 65 years with family income less than 300000. Also provides health insurance cover up to 200000 rupees. 255. Rajasthan government passed Rajasthan Vexation Litigation prevention Bill 2015. 256. SC issued notice to Telangana government on omission of 26 castes from state BC list. 257. EMI-EMC & NFTR test facilities inaugurated at BEL – Ghaziabad. EMI – Electronic Magnetic Interference. EMC – Electro Magnetic Compatibility. NFTR – Near Field Test Range 258. Jammu and Kashmir government banned sale of Ambuja cement. 259. Nepal adopted first democratically framed constitution. 260. 8th index global innovation index 2015 released. Switzerland, UK, Sweden, Netherland and US are five most innovative nations. India’s rank has slipped further to 81 in the list compared to 76 in 2014. 261. Union home minister released a graphic booklet on Sardar Post. Union home minister – Rajnath Singh. 262. Mukesh Ambani India’s richest person for 9th consecutive year: Forbes list. 263. Union government gives nod to IAF’s integrated air command and control system. IAF – India Air Force. 264. Marathi film “Court” selected as India’s official entry to Oscars. 265. Union cabinet gives nod to amend MoU on Indo-German partnership in higher education. 266. Union government give nod to set up India sign language research and training centre. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 267. Indian tribal women Permila Trikey won first discrimination based case in United Kingdom. 268. Ministry of External Affairs appointed envoys for Pakistan, China, UK and other countries. 269. Maharashtra electricity regulatory commission issued notification for solar PV net metering. 270. Marathi film court picked as India’s official entry to 88th Oscar awards by Oscar selection Jury. 271. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ireland on 23rd September 2015. First prime minister to visit Ireland in 59 years. 272. Conference on contemporary relevance of Bhagvad Gita held in UK. Organised by Indian Council of Cultural relations (ICCR) and High Commission of India. 273. UNGA adopted transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. 274. Haryana government increased pension amount for world war soliders.(increases 1500 Rs) 275. UNDP to provide support for Arunachal vision 2030. UNDP – United Nation Development Program. 276. Union government released National health profile 2015. 277. Telangana – Chhattisgarh inked power supply pact to buy 1000 MW power. 278. Odisha government decided to implement 5 sub schemes for transgender. 279. Haryana government to develop gurgoan as smart city. 280. Union cabinet approved to set up of Indian sign language research and training centre. (ISLRTC). 281. World Rhino day observed across the world on 22nd September. www.lnacademy.in 282. CCEA approved 1575 crore rupee road project in Odisha. CCEA – Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs. 283. Millennium development goals: Delhi state report 2014 released. 284. Union cabinet approved signing of joint declaration of intent between India and Germany. 285. UN broad band commission released state of broad band report 2015. 286. World Tourism day observed on September 27. 287. Theme of the day – one billion tourist, one billion opportunities. 288. Union government formed B.S Baswan committee to revisit civil service examination pattern. 289. Ministry of Railways launched Indian railways knowledge portal. Launched by railway minister Suresh Prabakar. Launched through video conference at Vadodara. 290. India signed 123.51 Million dollar loan agreement with Asian Development Banks. 291. Union government appointed four brand ambassadors for digital India Project. Satwat Jagani - IIT JEE topper 2015 student. Krati Tiwari – IIT JEE girl topper 2015 student. Ankit Fadia – Author and Ethical Hacker. Pranav Mistry – Samsung USA computer scientist. 292. Union government unveils green highway policy 2015. 293. Data on FDI in first half released by financial times, London. China to emerge most favoured destination to FDI. 294. The minister of social justice and empowerment launched accessible India campaign. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Launched by Chand Geholt on Sept 24, 2015. Aims to increase accessibility of the physical environment in the country. 295. International Translation Day observed on September 30, 2015. 296. Theme of the day is the changing face of translation and interpreting. 297. Maharashtra government declared 2017 as visit Maharashtra year to promote tourism. 298. NLC set up its first 10 MW solar power plant. 299. Union ministry of Tourism launched new initiatives on world tourism day. 300. World tourism day celebrated on Sept 27. 301. India to chair G20 2018 and Delhi could be the host. 302. Turkey will hand over the next India nationally submitted determined its intended contributions (INDCs). 311. ADB will help to finance of increasing transmission electricity link capacity between India of and Bangladesh. 312. Union government launches second phase of Mission Indradhanush. Mission depicts 7 colours of the rainbow. Aims to cover all those children by 2020 who are either unvaccinated or are partially vaccinated. 313. Amo doli programme launched by Odisha government in naxal-affected pregnant women from inaccessible areas to reach nearest hospital. China will host in 2017 and Germany is going to chair it. 304. 310. Rayagada district. To help patients and year 2016. 303. www.lnacademy.in government Odisha launched citizen portal to launch police complaints. Launched by released Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. Portal commemorative postal stamp on Dr. which enables the citizens to lodge their Ambedkar. complaints online to police through 305. Union 314. Union government notified Mid- Day Meal rules-2015. 306. proposed 4 point peace initiatives with in Changla near Pengong Lake in India. Ladakh. Pradesh Nawaz DRDO sets up world’s highest terrestrial research centre. Established Uttar PM 315. Sharif 307. Pakistan online. decided to 316. Ministry if commerce and implement national food security act Industry 2013 in three phases. healthcare India 2015. Summit aims at 308. Union government reduced domestic natural gas price by 18% to 3.81 US dollar. 309. E-FIR from India. Central government launched in KISAN project and Hailstorm App for Odisha. Inaugurated by Chief Minister corp damage. KISAN – C (K)orp Naveen Patnaik. launched advantage promoting healthcare services exports 317. system inaugurated Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains www.lnacademy.in Insurance using Space technology And CSR work. CSR – Corporate Social geoiNformatics. Projects aim to get Responsibility. timely and precise data on corp yield. 327. WWF report Hidden Himalayas: Study will be carried out in Haryana, Asia’s wonderland released. WWF – Karnataka, World Wide Fund. Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. 318. 328. Telangana government Andhra Pradesh government launched e-Pragati Project. announced 50% subsidy on purchase of Launched on October 9 2015 and called seeds. by APSEA. APSEA –Andhra Pradesh 319. SC refuses to allow voluntary use of Adhaar card for welfare schemes. 320. Union government approved State Enterprise Architecture. Now alternatively called by e-Pragati. The Launched by state CM N Chandra protocol on double taxation avoidance Babu with Israel and Vietnam. Visakapatnam 321. Union government approved to 329. Naidu. Kerala Function held government at launched set up of three AIIMS under Pradhan operation Valsalya to track missing Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. children. The Launched on October 9 AIIMS – All India Institute of Medical 2015, Science. 322. Union 330. cabinet approved construction of National War Memorial in Delhi. 323. Union government launches corp damage. 331. PM lays foundation stone of 4th in Mumbai. 332. Mission Abaas launched in Odisha to provide affordable houses to Utkal Alumina international Ltd starts a project “Saksham” to empower rural women. 325. Rajasthan start up policy 2015. terminal of Jawaharlal Nehru port Trust KISAN project and Hailstorm App for 324. Rajasthan government unveiled urban poor. 333. Union cabinet give nod to RCE for Kaladan multi model modal project India’s GDP to grow 7.5% in 2015. UNCTAD. UNCTAD – United in Myanmar. RCE – Revised Cost 334. Estimates. Estimate of Rs. Nations Conference on Trade and 2904.04 crore. Chaired by PM Narendra Development. Modi. GDP–Gross Domestic Product. 326. High level Anil Baijal panel suggested Uniform Tax Treatment for 335. Union cabinet approved MoU with Mozambique for cooperation in renewable energy. Current Affairs Capsule 336. IBPS V Mains Uttar Pradesh government www.lnacademy.in 347. Civil aviation minister launched mobile app mSehat for health inaugurates international civil helicopter workers. To record maternal and infant conclave 2015. data in real time. 337. 348. Delhi government launched Bill Banvao, Inaam Pao scheme. To Mumbai metro users can recharge their smartcards on Paytm. 349. Government flags off science encourage people to receive or demand express special train on climate change. proper bills for purchase. It will run till 7th May 2016. 338. Green India Mission plans approved for 4 states. Four states – Kerala, Manipur, Jharkhand. Mizoram Approved by and – NEC National Executive Council. 339. 350. SC allows use of Aadhar card for all central and state welfare schemes. 351. Rameshwaram birth place of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam included as 498th town under AMRUT. Declared by Urban India climbs 16 laces in WEF’s Development minister Venkaiah Naidu 55th on Oct 15. AMRUT Atal Mission for global competitiveness index. position among 140 economics in the Rejuvenation World Economic Forum (WEF). Transformation. 340. India funded 5 million US $ grant to Palestine as Budgetary assistance. 341. Union government approved performance linked payment for CIL officers. 342. Union cabinet approved MoU between ITA in Taipei TECC in India. 343. Rajasthan government signed 27 MoUs under Housing for All scheme. 344. Ministry of shipping launched a 352. and Urban SC declared National Judicial appointment commission (NJAC) government modified unconstitutional. 353. Union National Blood Policy, 2002 towards better blood utilisation. 354. Swadhar Greh scheme approved by Haryana government for women in distress. 355. PM Modi and President Pranab programme to develop 78 Lighthouses as Mukherjee to launch one stop research tourism centres. funding mechanism “IMPRINT”. 345. Tamil Nadu government banned drug Ketroprofen to save vultures. 346. Gujrat proposed 15475 crore rupees AMRUT plan to ensure basic infrastructure in 31 million cities. 356. Konkan railways to set up a tunnel technology institute at Margao in Goa. 357. Aditya Birla group launched fashion portal abof.com. Current Affairs Capsule 358. IBPS V Mains Union cabinet approved treaty between India and Maldives on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. 359. Union cabinet approved maritime transport. Ministry of information and accreditation committee. UP government announced Rs. awardees. Maharashtra Indian government mountaineers climbed untouched mountain peak named it after Haryana government announced 371. Doordarshan emerges (BARC). India’s first double Goa Ministry of Railways flagged off Vigithon to fight against corruption. 374. Haryana to commission 215 new power sub-station in three years. 375. Andhra Pradesh signed two with Japan for Arjun Vajpai and Bhupesh Kumar development of the state. created history. They have climbed up 6180 metres. start up Abra. Narendra Modi lays new capital city Amaravati. Government divides Maharashtra and Gujrat Naval areas into two separate headquarters. 367. PM Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of Shri Venkateshwara mobile and Electronic manufacturing Hub. At Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh. 368. Haryana government announced for Scheduled Castes. 377. foundation stone for Andhra Pradesh 366. 376. to open Sanskrit university at Mundri Rata Tata invests in virtual cash PM decker Shatabdi train to run between Mumbai, memorandums 365. most Broadcast Audience Research Council APJ Abdul Kalam. Two mountaineers 364. approved new integrated licensing policy 2015. 373. announced 14708 villages as drought hit. 363. minister induction of women as IAF fighter pilots. 372. 50000 monthly pension to yash Bharti 362. Defence watched Hindi channel. Released by broadcasting reconstituted central press 361. 369. 370. agreement between India and Egypt on 360. www.lnacademy.in Union government cleared first batch of AMRUT projects for 89 cities worth 2786 crore rupees. Inidan railwasy developed warning system for unmanned level crossing. 378. Government appoints five members committee to review research grants offered by UGC. 379. Madhya Pradesh government announces 33% quota for women in government jobs. 380. India ranked 130th place in ease of doing business – World Bank Report. 381. Union government constituted RV Eswar committee to simplify the Income Tax Act 1961. 382. Union finance ministry launched E-Ashyog pilot project to facilitate Taxpayers. 383. Amaravati Next milestones in India’s urbanisation. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 384. Dinesh, Yekona open cast mine projects of western coalfields inaugurated in Nagpur. 385. Indian immunological Ltd opened 250 crore rupees multi purpose facility near Hyderabad. 386. Ministry of civil aviation released revised draft National Aviation policy. 387. WCD ministry launched initiatives to spread to spread awareness about Beti Bacho Padhao scheme. Scheme launched in partnership with Celltick Mobile India Pvt Ltd. 388. Defence acquisition council cleared military projects worth over 12000 crore. 389. Project Loon in India – Google government working on balloon internet project. 390. Punjab to set up bio ethanol refinery. 391. SC issued notice to union government over improper implementation of MGNREGA. 392. Vikalp scheme launched for confirmed accommodation to waitlisted passenger in alternate trains. 393. MHRD constituted TSR Subramanian committee to draft New education policy. 394. Maharashtra government approves APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna. 395. Mysuru railway station became the first blind friendly station in India. 396. Assam government hiked daily minimum wages of worker in various sector. 397. Odisha government banned fishing to protect Olive ridley turtle. 398. Union cabinet gives nod to UDAY scheme for financial reconstructing package for power DISCOMs UDAY – Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna. www.lnacademy.in 399. PM Narendra Modi launched three gold related schemes. Schemes are – gold monetization scheme, Sovereign gold bond scheme, Indian gold coins. 400. PM Narendra Modi launched research project imprint India. 401. Union cabinet constituted empowered committee to approve schemes under Nirbhaya Fund. 402. MP government proposed 1656 crore rupees AMRUT action plan. AMRUT – Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. 403. Phase – I of T-Hub inaugurated in IIIT Hyderabad. IIIT – International Institute for Information Technology. 404. Indian Railways signed MoU with Odisha for implementation of railways projects. 405. Dr. T K Vishwanathan committee on Bankruptacy Law Reforms submitted its report. 406. Justice MB Shah headed SIT on black money submitted its third report. 407. Union cabinet decided to impose 0.5% Swachh Bharat Cess on all services. 408. Rajasthan government launched the Agro-Processing and AgroMarketing promotion policy. 409. From 07-11-15 trucks passing through Delhi to pay “green tax”. 410. Supreme court upheld Kerala government ban on online lotteries. 411. Prof Ashok Misra headed the committee of Eminent persons CEP on JEE submitted its report. 412. Union government launched EPrthshala, Saransh, shaala Siddhi portals. 413. SBI’s Arundhati Bhattacharya most powerful woman in Indian Business: Fortune India. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 414. India re elected to UN commission on international trade law. 415. Ministry of Railways issued letter of award to GE global sourcing India Pvt Ltd. To set up Diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra, Saran district Bihar. 416. Ministry of Defence launched Army cloud, Data centre and digi locker for the Indian Army. 417. Union government launched EPathshala, Saransh, Shaala Siddhi portals. Portal were launched during the edNEXT, the national conference on ICT in school education that was held at New Delhi. 418. Union government issued notification for implementing of OROP. OROP – One Rank One Pension. 419. Grand alliance won the 2015 assembly elections of Bihar with two third majority. 420. Jayant Sinha is planning to meet chief executive of state run banks every 45 days. 421. Ministry of railways issued letter of award to GE global sourcing India Pvt Ltd. 422. Defence minister commissioned India’s coast guard offshore patrol vessel “Samarth”. 423. Annual Hundred drums wangala festival begins in Meghalaya. 424. President approved Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan bill. 425. 7th central pay commission submitted its report, recommended 23.55% hike 426. CCEA approved extension of Indian development and Economic assistance scheme. CCEA – The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affair. 427. Mobile app to locate e-Toilet. www.lnacademy.in 428. Union government approved signing of Tripartite agreement on IBSA fund for poverty allevation. IBSA – India Brazil and South Africa. 429. Indian resource panel (InRP) on resource efficiency constituted. 430. Union cabinet approved German as additional language in Kendriya Vidyalayas. 431. Delhi government approved Jan Lokpal Bill 2015. Headed by CM Arvind Kejriwal. 432. PM Narendra Modi concluded his two day tour to UK and Turkey. 433. Foundation stone of first mega food park of Telangana laid. 434. Intel’s “Ek kadam Unnati ki Aur” begins in Telangana village. 435. Delhi to host first international Qawwali festival 2016. 436. PRASAD and Swadesh Darshan schemes launched by Ministry of tourism. PRASAD – National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive. Aimed at developing world class tourism related infrastructure. 437. Governing council of NIIF constituted under the chairmanship of finance minister. NIIF – National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. 438. AMRUT action plans for 81 cities approved with total project outlay of 5748 crore. 439. First AMRIT outlet opened at AIIMS Delhi for selling affordable drugs. AMRUT – Affordable Medicine and Reliable Implants for Treatment. 440. Jharkhand government introduced mobile governance. Introduced by Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 16th During the occasion of foundation day of the state. 441. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates 35th IITF in New Delhi. 442. PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Ambedkar memorial at London. 443. Rajasthan government signed 295 MoU’s attracting 3.3 Lakh crore rupees investment. 444. Rajasthan, South Australia singed Sister-State agreement. 445. AAI signed MoU with IL&FS to bolster overseas expansion. AAI – Airport Authority of India. 446. Allahabad HC asked UP government to stop sale and use of Chinese Manjha. 447. Sri Lankan president presented cabinet paper to abolish executive presidency. 448. IEP released global terrorism index 2015. IEP – Institute of Economics and Peace. 449. CCEA approved four rail line project worth 8351 crore rupees. 450. Uttar Pradesh government declared 50 districts as drought hit. 451. Union cabinet approved setting up of national resource facility for Biomedical research. 452. UN released report on impacts of Biodegradable plastics on marine environment. 453. IAMAI released internet in India 2015 report. IAMAI – Internet and Mobile Association of India. 454. India and Bangladesh agreed to cooperate on intelligence sharing and border security. 455. Delhi government appointed Chetan Sanghi panel recommended suspension of DDCA. DDCA – Delhi and District Cricket Association. www.lnacademy.in 456. India and Bangladesh signed draft MoU on passenger and cruise vessel movement. 457. Andhra Pradesh government decided to waive off 110 crore loans of over 25000 weavers. 458. Odisha implemented national food security act 2013 in 14 districts. 459. India and Bangladesh signed SOP operationalise agreement on coastal shipping. 460. Union government declared NSCN-K as terrorist organisation under UAPA, 1967. 461. Francois Hollande to be chief guest at 2016 Republic Day celebrations. 462. Swachh Delhi Abhiyan launched in Delhi. 463. UP government Clean up, Green up initiative earns in Guinness book. 464. Mahatma Gandhi international centre inaugurated in Matale by Sri Lankan president. 465. Blue revolution with an outlay of 3000 crore rupees proposed. Undertaken by National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) 466. Urban development minister launched portal for small traders e-lala. 467. Nithish Kumar announces liquor ban in Bihar from April 1, 2016. 468. Union government has reduced the deadline for completion of PMGSY. PMGSY – Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. 469. Karnataka launches Tourist Mitras. 470. Union government announced 10 new and revised schemes for disabled persons under the national trust. List of schemes – DISHA – Early inventions and school readiness scheme. SAMARTH – Respite care scheme. GHARAUNDA – Group home for audits scheme. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains NIRAMAYA – health insurance scheme. SAHYOGI – caregiver training scheme. GYAN PRABHA – educational support system. PRERNA – marketing assistance scheme. SAMBHAV – aids and assisted devices scheme. BADHTE KADAM – awareness and community interaction scheme. 471. Ministry of Railways, TERI university signed MoU to set up Railway chair on sustainable mobility. 472. Urban development minister launched portal for small traders e-lala. 473. HRD department sets up exclusive panel on Sanskrit promotion. 474. Telangana government declared 231 mandals as drought hit. 475. Hyundai launched traffic safety campaign. 476. Union government roll out BSV norms from April 1, 2019. BSV – Bharat state V. 477. NHAI approves pilot project for developing greenbelt along national highway. NHAI – National Highway Authority of India. Varanasi to Kanyakumari. 478. CBDT sings 11 more unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements. (APA) CBDT – Central Board of Taxes. APA signed between the tax payer and the central tax authority. 479. Delhi government introduced working journalist bill, 2015. 480. 2015 likely to be the warmest year on record – WMO WMO – world meteorological organisation. 481. Union government approved signing of MoU between India and Iran on visa facilitation. www.lnacademy.in 482. Union government approved setting up of 6 new IIT’s. Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Jammu, Kerala and Karnataka. 483. Union government approved DTAC agreement with Japan. DTAC – Double Taxation Avoidance Convention 484. Union government launches GIAN scheme to boost higher education. GIAN – Global initiative for Academic Networks. 485. President gave nod to factories amendment bill 2015, to allow women to work in night shifts. 486. Union government approved MoU with Israel on water resource management and development cooperation. 487. Labour laws bill 2015 received presidential assent. (Gujrat amendament) 488. Delhi assembly passed three major education bills. 489. Jharkhand government declared entire state as drought hit. 490. ITU released measuring the information society report 2015. India ranked 131 out of 167. 491. Uttar Pradesh government launches first international festival on Birds. Inaugurated by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav at the national Chambal sanctuary (NCS). 492. Centre to support rural entrepreneurs under MUDRA. MUDRA – Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency. 493. Himachal Pradesh became first state to launch Rotavirus vaccination project. 494. Lok sabha passed bill to establish BIS as national standards body. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains BIS – Bureau of Indian standards. 495. NTC signed integrity pact with transparency international India. NTC –National Textile India. 496. Union government launched accessible India campaign for differently abled. Also called as Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan. Aims at enabling person with disabilities. 497. Delhi government passed MLA of Delhi amendment bill 2015. For salaries, allowance, pension etc. 498. Union government approved introduction of regional centre for Biotechnology bill 2015 in parliament. 499. 2016 – UK and India year of education, research and innovation launched. 500. Centre set up SETU to support start up business 501. MSDE and DHI signed MoU for skill development in manufacturing sector. MSDE – Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. DHI – Department of Heavy Industry. Focused on capital goods and automotive sector. 502. Karnataka govt signs EoI with Reitzel group. EoI – Expression of Interest. 503. Maharashtra become the first state to allow MLA’s raise online question. 504. Smart city Kochi to open next month. 505. Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand join UDAY scheme to bolster discoms. UDAY – Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana) www.lnacademy.in 506. Ministry of railways flagged off first double decker Goa-Mumbai train. 507. Commemorative coins of Rs. 125, Rs. 10 released in honour of Babasaheb Bhim Rao Amedkar. 508. Indian government approved 4000 crore rupees proposal for shipbuilding industry 509. Union government and NTC signed MoU for establishing a technology centre at Kanpur. NTC – National Textile Corporation. 510. ONGC joined world bank’s zero routine flaring by 2030 initiative. ONGC – Oil and Gas Corporation Limited. 511. Rajya Sabha passed negotiable instrument amendment bill 2015. 512. Arvind Subramanian led panel recommended standard rate for GST at 17-18%. 513. Maharashtra government constituted a task force for setting up an IFSC in Mumbai. IFSC – International Financial Service Centre. 514. United nations human development report 2015 released. 515. Operation Smile-II to start from 1 January 2016. 516. NDC bans registration of new diesel run vehicle in Delhi. 517. Union government inks MoU for establishing IIIt’s at Ranchi Nagpur and Pune. 518. Brihanmumbai municipal corporation approved smart city proposal for Maharashtra. APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS 1. President appoints Om Prakash Rawat as election commissioner. 2. Deputy Chief Minister Simon Corbell to retire at 2016 ACT election. 3. Ch. Gandhi has been unanimously reelected general secretary of HMS AP state counsil. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains HMS – Hind Mazdoor Sabha. 4. Sanjay Jalona appointed as MD and CEO of L&T Infotech. 5. Acharya Dev Vrat sworn in as Governor of Himachal Pradesh. 6. Jayant Patel appointed as acting Chief justice of Gujrat high court. 7. Ajit Seth to head public enterprises selection board. Ajit Seth – former cabinet secretary He replaces Atul Chaturvedi IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh 8. IDBI appointed Kishore Piraji Kharat as its MD and CEO. IDBI – Industrial Development Bank of India. 9. Sachin Tendulkar to be Maharashtra’s tiger ambassador. 10. Sebastian Coe is the president of the world athletics governing body. 11. AFI chief Sumariwalla elected IAAF council member. 12. Karnal Singh assigned additional charge of director of enforcement directorate. 13. Ashwani Lohani a tourism veteran to steer Air India as CMD. 14. Australian government appoints Adam Gilchrist ambassador to India for education. 15. Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as prime minister of Sri Lanka. 16. Greek PM Axles Tsipras resigned and called for snap polls. 17. Ashwani Lohani appointed as CMD of Air India Limited. 18. Noted academician Amitabh Matto appointed as advisor to J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. 19. Amol Plaekar appointed as chairman of India’s Oscar jury. 20. Justice M L Tahaliyani sworn in as Lokayukta of Maharashtra. Administered the oath of office by the governor Vidyassagar Rao. 21. Girish Sahni assumed charge as Director General of CSIR. www.lnacademy.in CSIR – Council of scientific and industrial research. 22. Ananth Padmanaban appointed as CEO of HarperCollins India. 23. Indian American Vince Chhabria appointed as a full time federal judge by Obama. 24. Novak Djokovic new UNICEF goodwill ambassador. 25. Dilip Vengsarkar elected president of cricket statisticians body. 26. Greece’s caretaker government sworn in with first female prime minister. Vassiliki Thanou country’s first female prime minister in Greece. 27. Gilette India appoints AI Rajwani as managing director. 28. Rajiv Mehrishi appointed as Union Home secretaty. 29. Rajiv Mangla appointed as CTO of Snapdeal. CTO – chief technology officer. 30. Kandakatla Manohar appointed as director of NIMS. NIMS – Nizams institute of medical science. Folgar appointed as MD, CEO of Merccedes Benz India. LIC chief SK Roy elected chairman of apex body of insurers. Lt Gen MMS rai takes over as a new vice chief of Army staff. Ganga Ram Agarwal appointed as new railway board secretary. Iqbal Ahmed Ansari appointed as acting chief justice of Patna high court. Bharathi Airtel names Nilanjan Roy as global chief financial officer. Amitava Gjosh appointed as vice president engineering of Snapdeal. Indian American Atul Keshap appointed as US ambassador to Sri Lanka Maldives. Rekha Menon appointed as Accenture India chairman. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Ram Nath Kovind, Acharya Dev Vrat appointed as Bihar HP governors. Amrit Lugun appointed as Ambassador of republic of the sudan. Sundar Pichai named as CEO of restructured Google. Sanjay Jalona appointed as MD and CEO for L&T infotech. Acharya Dev sworn as 27th governor of Himachal Pradesh. Sudhakar Shetty elected as president of Gymnastic federation of India. 31. Folgar appointed as MD, CEO of Merccedes Benz India. 32. LIC chief SK Roy elected chairman of apex body of insurers. 33. Lt Gen MMS rai takes over as a new vice chief of Army staff. 34. Ganga Ram Agarwal appointed as new railway board secretary. 35. Iqbal Ahmed Ansari appointed as acting chief justice of Patna high court. 36. Bharathi Airtel names Nilanjan Roy as global chief financial officer. 37. Amitava Gjosh appointed as vice president engineering of Snapdeal. 38. Indian American Atul Keshap appointed as US ambassador to Sri Lanka Maldives. 39. Rekha Menon appointed as Accenture India chairman. 40. Ram Nath Kovind, Acharya Dev Vrat appointed as Bihar HP governors. 41. Amrit Lugun appointed as Ambassador of republic of the sudan. 42. Sundar Pichai named as CEO of restructured Google. 43. Sanjay Jalona appointed as MD and CEO for L&T infotech. 44. Acharya Dev sworn as 27th governor of Himachal Pradesh. 45. Sudhakar Shetty elected as president of Gymnastic federation of India. 46. L C Goyal appointed as CMD of India Trade Promotion organisation. 47. AK Jha appointed as Interim CMD of NTPC limited. www.lnacademy.in NTPC – National Thermal Power Corporation. 48. ABB elevates India head Bazmi Husain as global chief technology officer. 49. Dinesh Kumar Likhi took charge as CMD of Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd. 50. Marvan Atapattu resigned as head coach of Sri Lanka cricket team. 51. Vinod Dasari appointed as president of society of Indian automobile manufacturer. 52. Raghav Chandra took charge as the chairman of NHAI. NHAI – National Highway Authority Of India. 53. Ratan P Watal took charge as union finance secretary. 54. Manish Sisodia got additional charge of Law ministry of Delhi. 55. Atul Keshap appointed as Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Maldives. 56. Soumya Swaminathan appointed as DG of ICMR. ICMR – Indian Council of Medical Research. 57. Rajiv Kumar Nagpal appointed as the next ambassador of India to Iceland. 58. Satender Kumar appointed as the next ambassador of India to republic of Suiname. 59. Sanjay Rana appointed as the next ambassador of India to the republic of Azerbaijan. 60. J. Manjula appointed as a new director general of DRDO. DRDO – Defence Research and Development Organisation. 61. Agriculture expert Ramesh Chand appointed as new member of the Niti Ayog. 62. Brij Raj Sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. 63. Rakesh Sharma appointed as MD and CEO of Canara Bank. 64. Shashidhar Sinha new head of ABC. 65. Indian American Jagdeep Grewal chosen as postmaster for Sacramento. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 66. Professor Kumkum Dhar appointed as vice chancellor of Bhatkhande music institute. 67. Prabhat Singh takes over as MD & CEO of Petronet LNG. 68. Malcolm turnbull is sworn in as Australia’s new prime minister. 69. Indian origin lawmakers Seema Malhotra, Lisa Nandy appointed as shadow cabinet in UK. 70. Jermy Corbyn elected as leader of Labour Party in UK. 71. Krishnan Balakrishnan new CFO of GoAir. CFO – Chief Financial Officer. 72. Mahesh Rangarajan resigned ass director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. 73. National Athletic coach Nikolai Snesarev resigned. 74. Vikram Pawah appointed as Managing director of Harley Davidson’s India operations 75. Egypt’s president Abdul Fattah has sworn in as a new governor of Egypt. 76. Richie Richardson appointed to Elite panel of ICC match referees. 77. West Bengal governor KN Ttipathi got additional charge of governor of Tripura. 78. Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly appointed president of cricket association of Bengal. 79. Aravind Panagariya replaces Suresh Prabhu G20 sherpa. 80. Zyan Khan elected as president of federation of motor sports club of India. 81. Filmmaker Rahul rawail resigned from Oscar selection jury. 82. Abdul Bari Siddiqui elected Bihar cricket association president. 83. Stuti Narain Kacker appointed chairperson of national commission for protection of child rights. 84. S.K Sharma appointed as chairman of Bhakra Beas management board. www.lnacademy.in 85. Matthias Muller appointed as CEO of Volkswagen. 86. Shivender Mohan Singh resigned as executive vice chairman of Fortis Healthcare Ltd. 87. Rear Admiral Sanjay Mahindru took charge as flag officer submarines. 88. Martin Winterkorn resigned as chief executive officer of Volkswagen. 89. Michel Kafando reinstated as president of Burkina Faso. 90. Alexis Tsipras sworn in as PM of Greece for second time in 8 months. 91. Cisco’s executive chairman John T chambers elected chairman of India Business council. 92. Zayn Khan appointed as president of federation of Motor sports club. 93. PV Chandran elected president of Indian Newspaper society for 2015 – 16. 94. Praveen Dixit appointed as Maharashtra DGP. 95. Sportzlive appointed as official partner for second Indian badminton league 2016. 96. Jayant Prasad appointed as director general of Institute of Defence studies and analyses. 97. V. Shanmuganathan sworn in as 17th Governor of Manipur. 98. Dr. Anup K Pujari has been given additional charge of CMD of SAIL. AIL – Steel Authority Of India Ltd. 99. Sarath Kumar Acharya assumed office as CMD of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd. 100. Jack Dorsey appointed as permanent CEO of Twitter. 101. Mahindra intertrade appoints Sumit Issar as MD. 102. Flipkart appointed Sriram Venkataraman as chief financial officer. Current Affairs Capsule 103. IBPS V Mains Ashish Bahuguna gave additional www.lnacademy.in 118. Alkesh Sharma appointed as charge of chief executive officer of CEO and MD of Delhi Mumbai corridor FSSAI. FSSAI – Food Safety and development corp. standards Authority of India. 104. Shashank Manohar 119. elected unopposed by BCCI president. 105. IPCC. IPCC – Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change. 106. Inter-Governmental Panel for climate change. 107. announced his retirement. 108. Ashok Vemuri resigned CEO of Sekhar chairman appointed Atomic as Energy Jioji Konrote lected as Fiji’s president. 111. KP Sharma Oli elected as the Tapan Ray appointed to Board of Reliance power appointed N Venugopala as CEO. 114. P S Jayakumar takes over as MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda. 115. Infosys appoints Ranganath D Mavinakere as new CFO. 116. Omid Kordestani appointed as executive chairman of twitter. 117. HPCL CMD. HPCL – Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd. Nepal elects first women as parliament speaker Lawmaker Onsari 123. AMFI elects Leo Puri as Chief. Kundhavi Kadiresan appointed as FAO as assistant director general. Fund in India. 124. Baichung Bhutia appointed as 125. Housing.com appointed Mani 126. Snap deal appointed Anup Vikal as CFO. Securities and Exchange Board of India. 113. M.K. Sharma appointed as new Rangarajan as CFO. prime minister of Nepal. 112. as AIFF’s advisor. Commission. 110. appointed AMFI – The Association for Mutual Babu of Chandak Gharti. IGate Corporation. 109. GR DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostic. 122. DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman Sharad director of CDFD. CDFD – Centre for 121. Housing Lee elected as the head of appointed Mehrotra as India CEO. 120. Housing elected as chairman of Telenor 127. Justin Trudeau elected as selected as Canada’s new PM. 128. Reva Khetrapal Lokayukta of Delhi. 129. AB de Villiers named new brand ambassador of MRF. 130. VK Malhotra appointed as head of all India council of sports. 131. Justice Vaiphei appointed as acting chief justice of the Gauhati high court. Current Affairs Capsule 132. IBPS V Mains Indian origin Ashok Alexander Sridharan sworn in as mayor of Bonn in Germany. 133. Alok Rawat becomes the first male member of national commission for women. 134. US president designated Brett McGurk as Envoy to US led coalition fighting ISIS 135. Suresh Arora appointed as DGP of Punjab. 136. Sekhar Basu took over as chairman of AEC and secretary of DAE. EC – Atomic Energy Commission. DAE – Department of Atomic Energy. 137. Bidhya Devi elected as first female president of Nepal. 138. Najib Shah appointed as chairman of CBEC. CBEC – Central Board of Exercise and Customs. 139. Barclays names former banker JP Morgan as new boss. 140. Citi Bank appointed Samiran Chakraborty as chief economist for India. 141. P K Gupta elevated as SBI Managing director. 142. Guatemala elected comedian Jimmy Morales as the president. 143. Blackberry appoints Narendra Nayak as managing director of India opeations. 144. John Magufuli elected as president of Tanzania. 145. Paul Ryan elected as 54th speaker of US house of representative. 146. Sanjeev Mohanty appointed as CEO and MD Jabong. 147. Lionel Messi appointed as global brand ambassador of Tata Motors. 148. Ex-Cabinnet Secy to head panel on new education policy. www.lnacademy.in 149. AK Jha takes over as CMD of Mahandi Coalfields Ltd. 150. Deepak Singhal appointed as executive director of RBI. 151. Air Marshal Virender Mohan Khanna took over as maintenance Head of IAF. 152. Justice T S Thakur will be the next chief Justice of India. 153. Suresh N Patel appointed as MD and CEO of Andhra Bank. 154. Ravi Kumar Sreedharan appointed as Unisys Corporation India. 155. Captain Krishna Swaminathan took over charge of command of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya. 156. Tanzania’s first female vice president Samia Suluhu sworn in. 157. Navtej Singh Sarna appointed as Indian High Commissioner to United Kingdom. 158. V Sivaramakrishnan appointed as MD of Oxford University press India. 159. Indian born harjit Sajjan sworn in as defence minister of Canada. 160. Flipkart appointed Surojit Chatterjee as Head of consumer experience and growth. 161. N Srinivasan removed as ICC chairman. 162. Justice AP Shah appointed as the ethics officer (ombudsman) at BCCI. 163. Richard Proud chaired independent commission on doping in sports submitted its report to WADA. 164. Indian origin barrister Kalyani Kaul sworn in as circuit judge in UK. 165. Subir Golarn appointed as IMF’s executive director. 166. RBI governor Raghuram Rajan elected as vice chairman on BIS board. BIS – Bank for International Settlements. 167. Subir Gokran appointed as IMF’s executive director. 168. Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar chief minister. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 169. V Raja is MD of Philips India. 170. Vijay Keshav Gokhale appointed as India’s ambassador to China. 171. Standard Chartered names Zarin Daruwala as new India CEO. 172. Syed Akbaruddin appointed as next permanent representative of India to UN. 173. Harshavardhan Neotia elected as president of FICCI. FICCI – Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 174. Prithvi Raj elected to board of governors of world water council. 175. Swati Dandekar appointed Executive director to Asian Development Bank by Obama. 176. Arun Kumar Kapoor appointed CEO of Dish TV. 177. Sunil Kanoria appointed as president of ASSOCHAM ASSOCHAM – Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India. 178. Anuj Boddy George appointed chairperson of Target Olympic Podium scheme. 179. Rishi Gour appointed as country president of Sodexo India on site service. 180. Michael Keating appointed as special representative for Somalia and head of UNSOM. UNSOM – United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia. 181. Argentina president elect Macri promises an end to divisive politics. 182. Mahesh Gupta takes over as PHDCCI president. PHDCCI – PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 183. Dubai bank Mashreq appoints new retail bank head. 184. P Uday Bhaskar appointed as chairman of Andhra Pradesh public service commission. www.lnacademy.in 185. Partricia Scotland appointed as secretary general of commonwealth of nations. 186. Dhoni become brand ambassador for Dubai based company. 187. Som Subroto appointed as head of retail banking in Dubai based Mashreq’s banking group. 188. Anil Khanna re elected as president of Asian tennis federation. 189. Congress MLA Sadanand Singh took oath as pro-tem speaker of Bihar assembly. 190. Rajiv Bansal appointed as CFO of Olacabs. 191. Justice Triath Singh Thakur sworn as 43rd chief justice of India. 192. Indian American Dr. Vijay M Rao named as chairperson of RSNA. RSNA – Radiological Society of North America. 193. Vijay Kumar Choudary elected as Bihar assembly speaker. 194. Sir venkatraman Ramakrishnan assumed presidency of the Royal society. 195. Roch Marc Christin Kabore elected president of Burkina Faso. 196. Kheer Kazem appointed as general motors India head. 197. Latvia’s prime minister Laimdota Straujuma resigned. 198. Ola appointed joy Bandekar as corporate president. 199. Union government appointed L Nrasimha Reddy to head judicial committee on OROP. 200. Indian origin politician Pravin Gordhan becomes South Africa’s finance minister. 201. Saudi voters elected women candidates for first time in Municipal council polls. 202. Mumbai police commissioner Ahmed Javed appointed as ambassador of Saudi arabia. 203. Prakash Kumar Singh is new SAIL chirman. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains SAIL – Steel Authority of India Limited. 204. Kapil chopra to head world tourism council. 205. Uday Kumar to take over as MD and CEO of metropolitan stock exchange. 206. ABB india appoints Sanjeev Sharma as MD. 207. Supreme court appointed Virendar Singh as Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh. SPORTS 1. Warner named Australian test vicecaptain. 2. Kyrgios will play in Davis Cup semifinal Masur. 3. World badminton championship Sung ends Sindhu’s run 4. India defeat Spain 4 – 2 in European Hockey tour. 5. Sri Lanka beat India by 63 runs in first test. 6. Anoop, Naval and three recommended for Dronacharya Award. Wrestling coach – Anoop Singh. Papalympics coach – Naval Singh. Anoop and Naval were recommended on the basis of current performance (2011 – 14) Nihar Amin (swimming) S. R. Singh (boxing) Harbans Singh (athletics) They are considered for Life Achievement Category. 7. Abhishek verma wins gold medal in Archery world cup. 8. Rahene becomes first fielder in test cricket history to take up 8 catches on August 14 Sri Lanka Test. 9. Badminton world championship 2015: Saina Nehwal wins silver medal. 10. Andy Murray won rogers cup masters tournament. 11. Bangladesh lifted South Asian Football Federation U-16 title. www.lnacademy.in SAFF - South Asian Football Federation 12. Aditi Chauhan became India’s first woman to play in English league football. 13. Back as world no 1 Saina Nehwal signs Rs. 25 crore deal. 14. Golfer Aditi Ashok first Indian to win Ladies British amateur stroke play championship. 15. Serena Williams won Cincinnati Masters woman’s single title for second time. 16. Rogar Federer won Cincinnati masters men’s single tennis for seven times. 17. Usman bolt wins world 100 m title at wold athletics championship. 18. Pro kabaddi league 2015 – U Mumba wins championship. 19. Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara retired from iinternational cricket. 20. England won Ashes test series 3-2. 21. Jamaican Shelly Ann Fraser retained women’s 100 m gold at world championship in Athletics. 22. Rajpur to host 2105 FIH hockey world league final. 23. Vikas Gowda enters discus final at world Athletics championship. 24. Usain Bolt beats Justin gatlin in world championship 200m final. 25. India women’s hockey team books 2016 Rio Olympics berth. 26. National sports awards for 2014 – 15 presented. 27. OP Jaisha sets new marathon national record at world Athletic championship. 28. 2015 world athletics championship Bolt, Jamaica triumph in 400m final. 29. India’s Anil wins gold medal in Cadet wrestling world championship. 30. Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba won women’s marathon at world athletics championship. 31. Fifteenth IAAF world championship in Athletics concluded in Beijing. 32. AB de Villiers broke record of Saurav Ganguly of fastest 8000 ODI runs. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 33. 14 year old Lucknow boy Prabhroop Sekhon won two gold at special Olympic world games. Where – Los Angeles, USA. 300m and 500m roller skating. Student of ASHA School in Lucknow. One among the 241 participants. 34. Indian women team wins silver in world Archery championship. Rajat Chauhan 35. Victorian open WSA; Joshna Chinappa won squash title 36. Copenhagen Archery championships: indian women’s recurve team clinched silver medal. 37. Dipa Karmakar won bronze medal at 6th senior ART Gymnastics Asian championship. 38. Sjostrom breaks women’s 100m butterfly record. 39. Delhi’s specially abled athletes wins 7 medals at summer games. 40. August edition of FIFA world ranking released. Belgium first place, Argentina second place and Germany moved third. 41. Indian Athletes won 173 medals at the special Olympic. 42. India boycotts 61st commonwealth parliamentary conference to be held in Islamabad. 43. India static 156th in FIFA. 44. BCCI announced Ad-Hoc committee for cricket administration in Bihar and UttarKhand. 45. Hockey India suspended Gurbaj Singh for 9 months. 46. India tops in Asian youth chess championship with 17 medals. 5 gold, 5 silver and 7 bronze. 47. Pankaj Advani bags 13th world snooker championship. 48. Los Angles to be US Bidder to host Olympic 2024. 49. Durban in South Africa confirmed as 2022 commonwealth games host. 50. Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympic games scrapped amid plagiarism accusation. www.lnacademy.in It was based around the letter T and a red circle representing a beating heart. 51. Australian cricketer Shane Watson announces his retirement from test cricket. 52. Indian Boxer Vikas Krishna wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia championship. 53. Lewis Hamilton wins 2015 Italian grand prix of formulae one. 54. Weightlifter Deepak Lather wins gold medal in fifth youth commonwealth games. 55. Apurvi Chandela bags silver at ISSF world cup final. 56. Anirban Lahiri became the first Indian golfer to qualify for president cup. 57. Indian women cricket team winning against Newzeland series. 58. Leander Paes, Martina Hingis won US open mixed doubles title 2015. 59. Indian golfer Aditi Ashok claims Singha Thailand Amateur title. 60. Abitha Mary Manuel and Anamika Das bagged bronze medal in 2015 CYG. 61. Winners of 2015 US open titles of tennis. It was the overall 135 th edition of the US open. Women’s single – Italy’s Flavia Pennetta Men’s double – French pair of Pierre Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut. Women’s double – Sania Mirza (India) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland) Mixed double title – Leanser Paes (India) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland) Mens single – Roger Federer. 62. India Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav has secured quota for India in the 2016 Olympic. 63. Hangzhou to host 2022 Asian Games. 64. American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr announced retirement after defeating Andre Berto. 65. Skeet shooter Mairaj Khan books for Olympic quota. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 66. Manpreet Kaur breaks national shot put record on road to Rio Olympics. 67. India ranked 22nd in Asian football technical ranking released by AFC. 68. Hangzhou city of China chosen to host 2022 Asian games. 69. 5 cities officially named s candidates to host 2024 summer Olympics. Five cities – Los Angles, Hamburg, Paris, Rome and Budapest. 70. India cements won Moin-ud Dowlah gold cup tournament 2015 – 16. 71. Shot putte Manpreet kaur shattered 18 year old nation record. 72. Mariko Kipchumba of Kenya won 2015 Beijing international Marathon. 73. Ajay Jayaram wins silver medal in 2015 Korea open badminton tournament. 74. Sebastian Vettal wins 2015 Singapore grand prix of formula one. 75. Indian air force won 2015 Baba farid gold cup hockey title. 76. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won Ghangzhou open women’s double title. 77. Lewis Hamilton wins 2015 Japanese grand prix title of Formula one. 78. Pankaj Advani wins 2015 IBSF world Billiards championship. 79. Abhinav Bindra wins gold in Asian Air Gun championship. 80. India’s Gurpreet Singh wins silver medal at 2015 Asian Air gun championship. 81. Heena Sidhu wins gold medal at Asian air gun championship. 82. ICC women’s test cricket ranking announced. Australia ranked no 1. India bagged fourth position. 83. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Wuhan open title. 84. Venus Williams wins Wuhan open title. 85. Jorden Spieth voted as PGA tour player of the year. 86. China won 2015 FIBA Asian basketball championship. www.lnacademy.in 87. Portugal’s Pinto won Asia’s premier mountain biking race. 88. Cyclist Deborah Herold became the first ever Indian to win 5 medal at Taiwan Cup. 89. Sergey Karjakin wins 2015 world cup chess championship. 90. South Africa won three matches against India in T-20. 91. Russia retained 2015 women’s European volleyball championship. 92. NCC National games declared open. – NCC National Credit Corp. Inaugurated by Director General of NCC Aniruddha Chakravarthy. Aims to identify sports persons in the cadets. 93. Raif Badawi, James Fenton shared 2015 PEN pinter prize. 94. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won Women’s double title of China open. 95. Hamilton wins Russian grand prix closes in on F1 world title. 96. Novak Djokivic defeated Rafael Nadal to win 2015 China open men’s singles title. 97. Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram won 2015 Dutch open men’s single title. 98. Punjab National bank won Beighton cup of Hockey. 99. India won four match Men’s Hockey test series against New Zealand by 2-1 margin. 100. Spaniard Garbine Muguruza won women’s single title of China open. 101. Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo wins record fourth Golden boot. Current Affairs Capsule 102. IBPS V Mains Shweta Rathore became first www.lnacademy.in 118. Abhishek Verma became the first Indian female bodybuilder to win silver Indian to win silver medal in Archery in Asian body building championship. world cup final. 103. Indian fast cricket bowler Zaheer Khan retired from international cricket. 104. Vivo assigned the title sponsorship of India Premier League. 105. National cadet corps national games 2015 concluded. 106. Saketh Myneni of India won 2015 Vietnam open tennis trophy. 107. Novak Djokovic won 2015 Shanghai Rolex Masters tennis title. 108. Indian Shuttler PV Sindhu defeated by Li Xuerui in 2015 Denmark open final. 109. FIFA suspended Kuwait football association. 110. Yuki Bhambri is first Indian to enter top 100 since 2010. 111. Anirban Lahiri wins Asian tour golfer of the month award. 112. Shewag retired from all forms of international cricket IPL. 113. Himachal Pradesh to host India’s first paragliding world cup. 114. First world indigenous games begin in Palmas, Brazil. 115. Saina Nehwal lost world’s No 1 ranking to Carolina Marin. 116. Jacques Kallis appointed as Head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders. 117. Seong Jin Cho of South Korea won 17th international Frederic Chopin Piano competition held at Poland. 119. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won 2015 formula one United States grand prix title. 120. South Africa clinched first ever bilateral ODI series in India. 121. Hockey India signed three years partnership with sports Authority of India. 122. Sylvie Lucas appointed as chair of the IGN on UNSC reforms. IGN – Inter Governmental Negotiation. UNSC – United Nation Security Council. 123. Jammu & Kashmir to host South Asian Rugby 7’s Championship in 2016. 124. IOC allowed refugees to compete in Olympics for the first time. IOC – International Olympic Committee. 125. Hashim Amla becomes fastest to score 6000 ODI runs breaks Virat Kohli’s record. 126. Deepika Kumari won silver medal in Archery world cup final 127. Amit Kumar won silver in men’s club throw F51 event of IPC athletic world championship. 128. Mana Patel, Virdhawal won best swimmers award in 69th senior national aquatic championship. 129. Nico Rosberg wins Mexican grand prix. 130. New Zealand All blacks run over Australia to win record third Rugby world cup. 131. Sania and Hingis pair in final extends streak to 21 games. 132. Roger Federer won 2015 swiss indoors men’s single title by defeating Rafael Nadal. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 133. Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik announces his retirement from test cricket. 134. Inzamam to be Afghanistan coach for two years. 135. Shiva Thapa rnked world no 2 boxing. 136. 2015 paragliding world cup concluded. (PWC) Held at Bir village at Himachal Pradesh. Concluded at 31 October 2015. 137. Shekhar Kapur to head jury and Anil Kapoor to be chief guest at IFFI 2015. 138. Ashwin fastest Indian to reach 150 test wickets. 139. Michael Payne became the first female jockey to win Melbourne cup. 140. Jitu Rai won silver in 13th Asian shooting championship. 141. FIFA world ranking 2015 – Belgium is topped. Top ten countries are – Belgium, Germany, Argentina, Portugal, Chile, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, England and Austria. 142. Heena Sindhu won gold in 13th Asian Shooting championship. 143. Off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became fastest Indian to reach 150 test wickets. 144. Odisha’s Barabati stadium excluded from BCCI new test venue. 145. BCCI announced monetary benefits for former players. 146. Srishti Pandey won Indiana FIDE rating chess tournament. 147. Indian cyclist won five medals on the opening day of Track Asia cup. 148. Czech Republic defeated Russia to retain Fed Cup. 149. FIFA banned Nepal football chief Ganesh Thapa for 10 years of corruption. 150. Siril Verma clinched silver at world junior badminton championship. www.lnacademy.in 151. Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson retired form international cricket. 152. Saina nehwal wins silver medal at 2015 China open. 153. Nico Rosberg beat Lewis Hamilton to win Brazilan Grand Prix. 154. Xuerui Li defeated Saina Nehwal to clinch women’s single title at china open superseries. 155. Djokovic became the first player to win ATP world tour finals for 4th consecutive time. 156. India juniors won 8th men’s junior Asia hockey by defeating Pakistan. 157. Pankaj Advani clinches 15th world title. 158. Great Britain defeated Belgium to win 2015 Davis cup tennis title. Defeating at 3-1 at Ghent in Belgium. 159. ICC suspended West Indies spinner Sunil Narine for illegal bowling action. 160. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg won 2015 formula 1 Abu Dhabi grand prix. 161. BBIN friendship motor car rally flagged off from Silchar. BBIN – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal. Jointly organised by the union ministry of road and transport. It is 19 days rally that culminate at Kolkata on December 2, 2015. 162. Sindhu seizes Macau open title for third time. 163. World Robot Olympiad 2015 held at Doha. (WRO) 2016 session held at Delhi. 164. Australia and New Zealand started playing the historic first day night test at Adelaide Oval. 165. Ethiopian Birhanu Legese, Kenyan Cynthia Limo won Delhi half marathon. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 166. India defeated Bangaldesh to win under 19 tri series cricket title. 167. P V Sindhu won Macau open grand prix gold badminton tournament for third consecutive time. 168. ICC appointed four female umpire for ICC women’s world twenty 20 qualifier. New Zealand’s Kathleen Cross, Australia’s Claire Polosak, England’s Sue Redfern and West Indie’s Jacqueline Williams. 169. India’s Thakur Anoop Singh won gold medal in world bodybuilding and physique championship. 170. November 2015 edition of FIFA world ranking announced. Top ten teams – Belgium, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Chile, Brazil, Portugal, Columbia, England and Austria. 171. Pune, Rajkot became the interim IPL franchises to replace CSK and RR. 172. Australia defeated Belgium to win hockey world league final. 173. Rohit Sharma became co-owner of UP warriors pro wrestling league. 174. Maharashtra won wheelchair basketball championship. 175. India won four matches test series against South Africa 3-0. 176. Anirban Lahiri wins order of Merit crown of Asian tour. 177. Moscow and Logo of 2016 South Asian games unveiled. 178. Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara won singles title at world Dubai super series finals. 179. Vijay Kumar won gold medal in th the 59 National shooting championship. 180. Elizabeth Susan Koshey clinched gold in 59th national shooting championship. 181. Indian cyclist Deborah Herold became the world no 4 cyclist. www.lnacademy.in 182. Apurvi Chandela, Chain Singh won gold medal at 59th national shooting championship. INTERNATIONAL 1. Concerns Japan is remilitarising on 70th anniversary of World War II surrender. 2. Indonesian court overturns school abuse conviction. 3. Greek government wins approval for third bailout deal. 4. Magnitude 4 quake strikes off Quennsland coast. 5. Nigeria gives military three months to end Boko Haram attacks. 6. Low and no interest loans offered to low income earners in Adelaide’s North. 7. PM Modi greets Pakistan on Independence Day. 8. India has stood as beacon for the world – john Kerry US secretry. 9. Government approves MOU between India and America to establish the PACEsetter fund. 10. India Israel to sign MOU on waste mangemnt. Water conservation, water use efficifency, waste water tratement. 11. United states India cyber dialogue held in Washington, DC. To increase global security and promote the digital economy. 12. China, Pakistan signed deals worth 1.6 billion US dollar to implement CPEC. To implement China – Pakistan economic corridor. Launched by Chinese president Xi Jinping. 51 agreements were signed. 13. Piku declared best film at the Indian Film Fest of Melbourne 2015. 14. Hero cycles acquires leading UK based company Avocet sports. 15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Arab Emirates. Important events held during this visits – to allot land for construction of a temple. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains Visited the historic Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. This is third largest Mosque. The other two Mosque – Mecca and Madina. He visited Masdar city, a zero carbon city. Interacted with Indian workers at ICAD Residential Labour Camping, Abu Dhabi To set up e-migrant portal to help Indian migrant workers and an online platform ‘MADAD’ to assist them. Also announced various new schemes for the welfare of Indian diaspora living UAE. 16. India, UAE released joint statement to take bilateral relations to higher level. Major issues on which two leaders agreed on – evaluate Indian and UAE relationship. Coordinate efforts to counter radicalization and misuse of religion by groups. Denounce and oppose terrorism. Work together for antiterrorism. Strengthen cooperation in law enforcement, anti-money laundering, drug trafficking. Promote cooperation in cyber security, prevention on use of cyber for terrorism. Cooperate to strengthen maritime security. Cooperate in manufacture of defence equipment. Work together to promote peace, reconciliation, stability, inclusiveness. To promote adherence to the principles of sovereignty. Establish strategic security dialogue between the two nations. Establishment of India UAE infrastructure investment fund. Promote strategic partnership in the energy sector. www.lnacademy.in Promote trade between the two countries. Strengthen cooperation between UAE to set up Indian universities. Promote cooperation in space and launch of satellites. Cooperate in peaceful uses of nuclear energy. 17. The white house appointed its first transgender staff Raffi Freedman Gurspan. 18. The world’s photography day observed on August 19. 19. US launches biggest NATO airborne drills since cold war in Europe. 20. DJB commissioned first ever Hydro power plant at China. 21. UK to fund Kolkata’s climate action programme. 22. The Washington based centre for global development (CGD) released a report on the future of tropical deforestation from 2016 – 2050. 23. BRIDGE programme of Australia extended to include Navodaya schools. BRIDGE – Building Regional Intercultural Dialouge and growing engagement programme. 24. India Egypt signed two MOU to deepen bilateral cooperation. Singed during the visit of Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs Minister. MOU on cooperation in the field of tourism. MOU on scientific and technical cooperation. 25. Pakisthan bas Islamic State militant group. 26. US designated Aziz Haqqani as global terrorist. 27. Serbia and Kosovo agreed to implement 2013 Brussels agreement. 28. Three Indians were named as fellows of American society for metals (ASM) 29. India UK Bilateral Air exercise Indradhanush concluded. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 30. Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical telescope being constructed in China. 31. 70th Hiroshima day observed to commemorate dropping of Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 32. Egypt unveiled new suez canal expansion. Expansion of the Ballah Bypass from 61 metre to 312 metres. Suez canel – Artificial water way in Egypt. 33. TurkmenGaz lead the consortium for the TAPI natural gas pipeline. 34. China, Pakistan signed deals worth 1.6 billion US dollars to implement CPEC. 35. CPEC – china Pakistan economic corridor. 36. Tejinder Pal Singh named as Australian of the day by common wealth bank. 37. Second Australia India defence minister dialogue concluded in Delhi. 38. Russia rejected French proposal to limit veto power of UNSC’s permanent members. 39. Canada entered first technical recession in six years. 40. India emerged as 8th largest tourism market for Australia. 41. India Australia agree to deepen bilateral Defence partnership. 42. China held victory day parade to commemorate WW-II victory over Japan. 43. G20, OECD announce new corporate governance code. 44. China, Pakistan launch joint ‘Shaheen (Eagle) – 4’ Air Drill. 45. G20 launches W-20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth. 46. Egypt launches Suez Canel expansion. 47. Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar are top 20 tech Billionaires in the world. 48. International Literacy day 2015 celebrated across the world on August 8. 49. North, South Korea agreed to resume family reunions. 50. Fall out and slow down of Chinese economy. www.lnacademy.in 51. Queen Elizabeth II became longest reigning UK monarch. 52. In recently concluded 2015 Singapore general election PAP led by PM Lee Hsien Loong. PAP – People’s Action Party. 53. Seven Indians featured in the Forbes Asia’s list of Philanthropists. Infosys co founder – Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, Nandan Nilkeni and SD Shibulal. 54. Mount Aso, the largest volcano of Japan erupted. 55. Spicejet became first ever airline to make night landing port at Blair’s Veer Savarkar airport. 56. Ashok Alexander sridharan who won recently mayoral election in German city of Boon. 57. United Nation emphasis on September 16 marked as the international day of democracy. 58. World’s longest continental volcanic chain discovered in Australia. 59. UN adopted resolution on 9th December as International Genocide Commemoration day. 60. India, Cambodia ink 2 MoU’s for bilateral cooperation in Tourism, Mekong Ganga project. 61. Pakistan to generate 40000 MW nuclear power as part of Nuclear energy vision 2050. 62. UNICEF unveiled assembly of youth digital installation at the UN headquarters in New Delhi. 63. Mission 2022 launched by Indian Dispora in United States. 64. First Indo-Africa ICT Expo launched in Nairobi. 65. Wipro has selected as member of Dow Jones sustainability world index. 66. Plestinian flag hoisted at UN headquarters for the first time. 67. Russian parliament gave green signal to Putin to use troops in Syria. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 68. Global competitiveness report 2015 - 16 released by world economic forum.Switzerland tops in this report. training. Cooperation in food security. 72. US, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim compared to 71st rank in 2014-15. partnership agreements. it is signed signed Trans-Pacific Australia, Brnei, Canada, Malaysia, Highlights: World trade will grow by Mexico, Newzeland, Peru, Singapore and 2.8%in 2015 against 2.4% in 2014. In Vietnam. 3.9% Forecast for growth in Asian imports in 2015 is pegged 2.6% down 73. Islamic States destroyed Arch of Triumph in Palmyra. 74. Israel barred Palestinians from entering Jerusalem’s old city. from 5.1%. 70. Narendra Modi inaugurated Country’s first solar powered district court. In Khunti at Jharkand. 75. Malaysia ordered shut down of schools due to choking smog. 76. India, Germany signed 125 million Euros 71. India and Germany signed 18 MoU. loan agreement to fund two projects Promotion of German as a foreign under Green Energy corridor. Two language in India. projects are Himachal Pradesh and Promotion of modern Indian language Andhra Pradesh. 77. IMF released World Economic Outlook in German. Cooperation in the field of advanced countries 2016 world trade is expected to grow by India jumped 16 ranks to 55th place 69. WTO released 2015 annual report. www.lnacademy.in Summary record of development October 2015 update. IMF International cooperation. Monitory Fund. Report shows that Indo-German solar energy partnership. global growth for 2015 at 3.1% which is Security cooperation. 0.3% lowered than in 2014. India’s Aviation security. growth is expected to strengthen from Disaster management. 7.3% 2015 and 7.5% in 2016. Agricultural studies. Extension of Indo –German science and 78. Joint declaration of the heads of the countries released. It was held at Sochi, technology centre. Partnership in higher education. Development in the field of railways. Cooperation in the field Russia. 79. CGPCS reconfigured privacy high risk of manufacturing. Set up fast track system for German firm in India. migration authorities of the BRICS area in the Indian Ocean. CGPCS – The Contact Group on Privacy off the Coast of Somalia. 80. Forbes released. Asia’s richest families list Current Affairs Capsule 81. German IBPS V Mains chancellor Angela Merkel visited India. www.lnacademy.in 93. Malaysia proposed to invest 30 billion US dollars for urban development in India 82. India, Ecuador ink protocol to establish Ecuador joint economic and Trade 94. International religious freedom report 2014 released. committee. It will be held once in every 95. Australian government re approved two years. First meet is proposed to be Carmichael coal mine project to be built held early next year in India. by Adani group. 83. India, Jordon inked six MoU to enhance cooperation. 96. India, Israel signed 10 MoU’s to enhance bilateral cooperation. 84. Pranab Mukherjee becomes first Indian 97. India among top ten investors in the USA president to address Israeli parliament in 2015. Released by Baker & McKenzie. Knesset. 98. Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and 85. Portugal became the first European country to sign the MoU on establishment of Nalanda University. Portugal became the 17th country overall. Fourth outside the East Asia summit to do so. members of UNSC. 99. NATO station on Brhamaputra in Tibet. Express” bus ahead of Modi’s November visit. military exercise Atlantic Treaty Organisation Melbourne Mercer global pension index report 2015 released. 101. 87. Indian diaspora in UK launches “Modi launched Trident Juncture in Italy. NATO – North 100. 86. China operationalises Zam Hydropower 88. Iran’s Uruguay elected as non permanent Urvashi Rautela crowned Miss Diva 2015. 102. UN releases the world’s women 2015: trends and statistics report. parlement approved Vienna agreement on Iran Nuclear Programme. 89. US University honoured Tibetan PM Sangay with presidential medal for promoting peace. 90. Presdent Pranab Mukherjee visited Jardan. 91. China, Indonesia signed 5.5 billion US 103. Russia and US signed deal to avoid clashes between their air force over Syrian skies. 104. UNESCO released gender and education all 2000-2015 report. 105. WHO released global status report on road safety 2015? 106. Japan offers soft loan to India for dollars deal to build high speed railway bullet train project. (15 billion dollars) in Indonesia. Mumbai to Ahmadabad high speed rail 92. Pakistan, Russia signed agreement to build 1100 km gas pipeline. corridor along with technology. Current Affairs Capsule 107. Grant IBPS V Mains agreement on gas interconnector between Poland and Lithuania signed. 108. Hurricane Patricia struck Mexico’s pacific coast. 109. China planned to form JV to develop overseas market for third generation nuclear reactor Hualong 1. 110. Britain signed strategic investment agreement for building three nuclear plants with China. 111. Russia to permanently station military unit in the Arctic by 2018. 112. Pakistan Nuclear forces 2015 report released by Bulletin of atomic scientist. World’s fifth largest nuclear weapon state next to the USA, Russia, France and China. 113. China made copying in exams a crime punishable up to seven years. 114. Asia Pacific region is the most disaster phone part of the world says UN report. 115. India and France ink MoU on preserving written Heritage at National Library in Kolkata. 116. 191 UNGA members voted a resolution condemning US embargo on Cuba. UNGA – United Nations General Assembly. 117. Nepal signed MoU with China to ease fuel crisis. 118. Internet freedom is partly free in India- FOTN 2015 report. FOTN – Freedom On The Net. Top three countries – Iceland, Estonia and Canada. Bottom three – Syria, Iran and china www.lnacademy.in 119. Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated gmaes secretariat of 12th SAF games in Shilong. 120. Law and Justice Party won Poland’s parliamentary elections 2015. 121. EU, Balkan leaders agreed on 17 point plan to manage inflow of migrants. 122. China abandons its decade’s old one child policy. 123. BRICS nations signed Moscow declaration for supporting multilateral science project. 124. World tuberculosis report 2015 released WHO. 125. Punjabi became the third most common language in parliament of Canada. 126. Ruling Justice and development party (AKP) won majority in parliamentary elections of Turkey. 127. UNGA disarmament committee adopts draft resolution backing abolition of nuclear arms. UNGA – United Nations General Assembly. 128. Tropical cyclone Chapala hits Yemen triggering heavy floods. 129. India and Indonesia signed MoU on energy culture exchange. 130. Cabinet approved MoU between India and Belgium. 131. Forbes list of world’s most powerful people 2015 releases. World’s most 73 people list released. Topped by Russian President Vladmir Putin for the third year in the row. Rank 2 belongs to German chancellor Angels Merkel and third rank goes to US president Barack Obama. 132. Maldives parliament voted to impeach vice president Ahmed Adeeb. 133. Romania Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 134. Financial secrecy index 2015 released; India moderately secretive. 135. Maldives declared state emergency for 30 days. 136. WHO officially declares Sierra Leone Ebola-Free. 137. Belgium court orders Facebook to stop tracking non members. 138. Cyclone Megh struck Yemeni Island of Socotra. 139. India inked MoU’s with six countries in the international civil aviation negotiations. Countries are Finland, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 140. Terrorist attack in Paris. 141. India and UK announced commercial deal worth 9 billion pounds. 142. IEA released world energy outlook 2015. IEA – International Energy Agency. 143. Opposition Croatian Democratic union led by HDZ party won parliamentary elections of Croatia. 144. World economic forum released global gender gap report 2015. Top five countries – Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Ireland. India has 139th rank. 145. 2017 announced India-UK year of culture. 146. Terrorist attack in Paris 100 kills. 147. Egypt, Russia deal to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt. 148. WADA suspended Russian AntiDoping agency for non compliance. WADA – World Anti-Doping Agency. 149. India and Vietnam inked MoU for cooperation in the field of Animal Health. 150. Bangladesh government blocked social media platform on security grounds. www.lnacademy.in 151. India and China deepens defence ties maintain peace at LAC. 152. India Australia completed formalities for civil nuclear pact. 153. ASEAN leaders sign declaration for launching ASEAN Economic community. 154. Russia inks deal to build Egypt’s first Nuclear plant at Dabaa. 155. Operation inherent resolve to tackle ISIS. 156. India and Singapore signed 10 agreements on mutual co operation 157. China building world’s largest cloning factory. 158. 20th Anniversary of Dayton peace Accord observed. 159. Saudi Arabia women to vote and contest in Municipal elections for the first time. 160. IMF approved China’s Yuan as Elite reserves currency. 161. World leaders launched mission innovation for accelerating clean energy revolution. Launched by 20 participating countries including India at the United Nations climate change conference 2015. 162. Wealth X released world’s 20 most generous people list. Microsoft co founder Bill Gates was adjudged as the top philanthropist in the world. List of 20 most generous people – top five Bill gates, warren buffett, George soros, azim premji and Charles francis. 163. Brazil entered longest recession since 1930s. 164. India, France launched international solar Alliance. 165. UN chief launched Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape initiative to build climate resilience. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 166. UN agencies released report on prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Asia pacific region. 167. Union government approved rehabilitation package for Bangladesh enclaves. 168. Russia WADA agreed on roadmap to reform Russian Anti Doping agency. WADA – World Anti Doping Agency. 169. German cabinet approved military to fight ISIS in Syria. 170. Union government launched IPV injection as part of global polio endgame strategy. 171. Paris pact on water and climate change adaption announced. 172. Youtube opens first video production studio in India. 173. TIME magazine named German chancellor Merkel as 2015 “person of the Year”. 174. New Zealand formally become member of AIIB. AIIB – Asian infrastructure investment bank. 175. Beijing issued first-ever Red alert on air pollution. 176. Singapore replaced Mauritius as top source of FDI into India. 177. NRDC enters into pact with CSIR-IICT. NRDC – National Research Development Corporation. 178. UN security council adopted resolution on youth, peace and security. 179. UNCTAD released handbook of statistics 2015. UNCTAD – United Nations conference on trade and development. 180. Opposition democratic unity roundtable won 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election. 181. Storm Desmond force thousands to flee from home in UK www.lnacademy.in 182. India received first consignment of uranium from Canada. 183. GIFT city phase II work launched. GIFT – Gujrat International Finance Tec-City. 184. COP 21 under UNFCCC adopted Paris agreement on climate change. UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 185. Loser, the biggest Tibetian festival began in Ladakh region. 186. Construction work of TAPI gas pipeline started. TAPI – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India. 187. UNESCO designated Varanasi and Jaipur as member of creative cities network. UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. 188. India-Japan sings deals on bullet train, defence, civil nuclear energy. 189. India and Japan signed protocol to amend double taxation avoidance pact. 190. Myanmar launched its first UNESCO biosphere reserves inle Lake. 191. Modi and Shinzo Abe to visit Varanasi on December 12. 192. India and South Korea ink MoU on taxation treaty. 193. World first dengue vaccine Dengvaxia approved for use in Mexico. 194. Myanmar inaugurated Yangon Stock exchange. SUMMITS 1. Second round of foreign office consultations between India and Paraguay hed Purpose – to strengthen the cooperation between two countries. 2. Secomd forum for India pacific islands cooperation (FIPIC) held in Jaipur. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 3. SAARC countries conference on Disaster mitigation begins in New Delhi. SAARC – South Asian Association on Regional Cooperation. Two day conference. 4. Eleventh session of India UAE joint commission meet concluded. 5. G20 finance minister and central bank governors meet held in Turkey. 6. The sixth Indo Maldives joint military exercise begins in Thiruvananthapuram. 7. Seventh session of India-Belarus intergovernmental commission held in Minsk. 8. AUSINDEX15 first Australia and India maritime exercise begins in Visakapatnam. 9. Tenth world Hindi conference begins in Bhopal Madya Pradesh. 10. India Maldives joint Military training exercise EKUVERIN 2015 held in Kerala. 11. Meeting of Like Minded Developing countries (LMDC’s) on climate change held in Delhi. 12. 4th meeting of India Kuwait joint working group on Hydrocarbons held in Delhi. 13. India – US ministerial energy dialogue 2015 held on 21st September at Washington. 14. Korea Caravan 2015 organised by Korea - Andhra Pradesh forum held in Vshakhapatnam. 15. 24th Vyaas Samman conferred on eminent Hindi writer Dr. kamal Ksihore Goenka. 16. First India US strategic and commercial dialogue held in Washington. 17. 9th Regional Pravasi Bharathiya Diwas (RPBD) to be held in Los Angles. 18. Consultative workshop on climate change mitigation in urban sector held in Delhi. 19. 17th All India govt whips conference held in Visakhapatnam. www.lnacademy.in 20. First ever US India Japan Trilateral Ministerial dialogue held at New York on Sept 29. 21. 21st meeting of the western zonial council held at Panaji. 22. Next meet to be held at Mumbai. 23. Leader’s summit on peacekeeping held at the UN headquarters in New Yark. 24. 26th edition of CORPAT between India and Indonesia began in Andaman Sea. 25. Indo-China joint military exercise HandIn-Hand 2015 held at Kunming Military Academy China. 26. 2016 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) conference to be held at Delhi. 27. 2015 Annual meetings of World Bank group and IMF held in Peru. 28. 5th meeting of India-Maldives joint commission held in Maldives. 29. India Sri Lanka joint exercise Mitra Shakti 2015 culminated. 30. PM Narendra Modi says India proud to host India-Africa Summit. Four day summit beginning on October 26. 31. Global Maternal Newborn health conference 2015 held in Mexico City 32. Fourth edition India and Sri Lanka bilateral naval exercise SLINEX-15 begins in Sri Lanka. 33. Third India and South Africa forum summit begins in New Delhi. 34. India-Africa forum summit 2015 held at New Delhi. 35. First international film festival for the person with disabilities to be held at New Delhi. 36. National Tribal crafts mela Aadishilp 2015 begins in New Delhi. 37. India in Shanghai cultural week inaugurated at Shanghai. 38. 21st INCOFYRA to be organised in Bengaluru in 2016. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains INCOFYRA – International Conference on Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications. 39. Presidents of China and Taiwan shake hands in first ever meeting. 40. Conference of power, New renewable energy and Mines minister of states & UT’s concluded. Conference to adopt Mission mode for electrifying remaining villages by March 2017 under Deendayal Upadhyaya Grameen Jyoti Yojana. th 41. 12 ASEM foreign ministerial meet held in Luxemburg. ASEM – Asian Europe Foreign Minister. rd 42. 23 APEC Economic leader’s summit held at Manila. (Phillipines) APEC – Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. Chaired by Philippines president Benigno S. Aquino. 43. Global cancer summit on November 1820. 44. Delhi to host the first international Qwwali festival 2016. 45. 2015 G 20 summit held at Antalya, Turkey. 46. 2015 Valletta summit on Migration concluded. 47. Second world congress on Disaster management concluded at Vishakhapatnam. 48. ISB to host Angel summit in Hyderabad on November 28. ISB – Indian School of Business. 49. Tenth East Asia summit held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 50. Three days Mayyazhi Mahotsavam kicked off in Mahe, Pondicherry. Started on November 29, 2015. Being organised jointly by the department of Tourism. 51. South Asia annual disaster management exercise 2015 concluded. Named as SAADMEx. www.lnacademy.in Concluded on November 26. 52. First India international science festival began at IIT Delhi. 53. US and India business meet. Interactive session will hold by Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC). Session addressed by Ron Somers Founder & CEO India first group of US. Begin at December 4, 2015. 54. Biz Bridge meet in Kolkata. 55. India-Pakistan agreed to replace 8-point composite dialogue with 10-point comprehensive bilateral dialogue. 56. Culture minister Mahesh Sharma inaugurates India-Laos conference in Delhi. 57. 14th meeting of heads of government of SCO member states concluded in Zhengzhou , China. BOOKS AND AUTHORS 1. The Kumbh Mela – mapping the ephemeral megacity authored by Tarun Khanna. Released by Akhilesh Yadav Uttar Pradesh chief minister. 2. Book titled Mrs Funnybones authored by Twinkle Khanna released. 3. Making India Awesome authored by Chetan Bhagat released. 4. Igniting minds Kalam’s book fly off the shelves. 5. Book titled Globalistaion, Democratization and Distributive justice presented to Hamid Ansari 6. The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharath Kumar released. 7. 30 women in power: Their voices, Their stories by Naina Lal Kidwai. 8. To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 story by Jairam Ramesh. 9. Indian central Asia relations authored by Amiya Chandra. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 10. Vice president Hamid Ansari releases book by Jamia faculty. Book entitled “Feminist”. 11. Two Years Eight Months written by Salman Rushdie released. 12. Hungry Bengal: War, Famine, Riots and the end of empire authored by Janam Mukherjee. 13. Ruled or Misruled: Story and Destiny of Bihar authored by Santosh Singh www.lnacademy.in 2. World vegetarian day observed globally on October 1, 2015. 3. Several addition day of vegetarian significance. September 27 Vegetarian Day. October 2 – World farm animal day. Francis of Assisi. released. 14. The courage to Act –A Memoir of a crisis and its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernake released. birth anniversary of Smita Patil. October 1-7 – international vegetarian week. 16. The book titled A Brief Incandescence by Maithili Rao launched. Launched by 60th October 4 – Hug a Non Meat eater day. 15. The Clinton’s War on Women authored by Roger Stone and Robert Marrow. October 4 – The fest day of St. October 16 – United Nations world food day. 4. International day of Non Violence observed on October 2. 17. The book titled Dreaming Big: my 5. World Habitat Day observed on October journey to connect India by Sam Pitroda. 2015. Observed first Monday of October. 18. Interlinking of Indian rivers authored by Radha Kant Bharati released 19. Rebooting India authored by Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah released. 20. UNCHR released study titled I am Here, I belong: the urgent Need to End Childhood Statelessness. 21. What happened to Netahi? Authored by former journalist Anuj Dhar releases. 22. Sharad Pawar’s autobiography on My Terms released. Released by Narendra Modi. Released on 75th birthday of pawar. To generate awareness about the state of IMPORTANT DAYS human settlement and the future of cities. 6. National Anti-Drug addiction day observed on October 2. Observed to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. 7. World Egg day observed on October 9 2015. Celebrated every year on second Friday of October. Aims to give a unique opportunity to propagate the nutrition. 8. World Post Day observed globally on 1. International day of Older Persons October 9 2015. Theme –Post claim their observed across 1 October 2015. Theme place in the changing communication – Sustainability and age inclusiveness in landscape. the urban environment. 9. World sight day is observed on October 8 with theme Eye Care for all. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 10. Air Force day observed across India on October 8, 2015. It is 83rd celebration of the day that began in 1932. It was marked with celebrations at the Hindon Air Force station in Ghaziabad. 11. Fourth international day of the girl child observed across the world. Theme is the Power of adolescent girl: Vision for 2030. Observed on October 11. 12. International day for the Eradication of poverty observed globally. On October 17th. Theme – Building a sustainable future. 13. World food day observed globally. On 16th October 2015. Theme – social protection and agriculture. 14. Global iodine deficiency disorder prevention day observed on October 21. 15. World statistics day observed across the world on October 20 2015. 16. World Polio day observed globally on October 24, 2015. Established by Rotary International over a decade ago. 17. National Unity day observed across India on October 31. On this occasion of 140th anniversary of Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Meghalaya governor V Shanmuganathan too flagged off the run for unity. 18. World Science day for peace and development 2015 is observed. Theme – sustainable future. Observed on November 10. 19. World toilet day observed on 19 November with the theme of Sanitation and Nutrition. 20. World Health Organisation (WHO) launched Antibiotic awareness week www.lnacademy.in with the theme of Antibiotics: handle with care. 21. International day of tolerance observed across the world. On November 6, 2015. Aim to educate people 22. World pneumonia day observed with the theme Every Breath Counts: stop Pneumonia now. November 12th. 23. Children day observed across November 14th. 24. National Milk Day observed on November 26, 2015. 25. International day for the elimination of violence against women observed on 25, November 2015. Aim to raise awareness about violence against women. 26. Constitution day observed on November 26, 2015. 27. International day of the Abolition of Slavery observed globally. On December 2nd 2015, 28. International day for persons with disabilities observed with theme inclusion matters. 29. World Aids day observed across the world. Observed across Deember 1, 2015. Theme – Getting to zero, end AIDS by 2030. th 30. 44 Navy day observed on 4th December 2015. 31. International volunteer day observed globally. On December 2015. Theme – the world is changing. Are you? Volunteer! 32. Human rights day celebrated globally. 10th December. Aims to promote and raise awareness of the two convenants. 33. International day of commemorative and dignity of victims of crime of Genocide observed. Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains On December 2015. 34. Armed force flag day observed across India. 7th December 2015. 9th HEADQUARTERS OF NATIONALIZED BANKS Allahabad Bank Kolkata Bank of Bank of Maharashtra Pune Canara Bank Central Bank of India Mumbai Corporation Bank Mangalore Dena Bank Mumbai www.lnacademy.in UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade & Development ) WHO (World Health Geneva Org) ILO ( International Geneva Labour Org) WMO (World Geneva Meteorological Org) India Mumbai Bangalore World Intellectual Geneva Property Org International Standards Geneva Org. IMF (International Washington DC Monetary Fund) World Bank India Bank Chennai Indian Overseas Bank Chennai Oriental Bank of Commerce New Delhi Punjab National Bank New Delhi State Bank Of India Mumbai UCO bank Kolkata Union Bank of India Mumbai United Bank of India Kolkata Vijaya Bank Bangalore Andhra Bank Hyderabad Bank Of Baroda Vadodra STATIC GK CAPSULE Washington DC UNESCO ( united Paris Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Org) OECD (Org. for Paris Economic Cooperation and Dev.) UNIDO (United Vienna Nations Industrial Dev. Org) IAEA ( International Vienna Atomic Energy Agency ) OPEC ( Organization of Vienna Petroleum Exporting Countries) Amnesty International UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS International Organizations Geneva Headquarters Commonwealth Nations London of London UNO (United Nations Org ) New York IM ( International London Maritime Organization) UNICEF New York ICJ ( International Court The Hague of Justice) Current Affairs Capsule FAO (Food Agricultural Organization ) IBPS V Mains www.lnacademy.in and Rome Wanakbori TPS – Gujarat NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN INDIA : NATO ( North Atlantic Brussels Treaty Organization ) Transparency International Berlin SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Coop.) Kathmandu ASEAN (Association of Singapore South East Asian Nations) Organization of Islamic Jeddah Cooperation THERMAL POWER PLANTS (TPS) IN INDIA Narora atomic power plant – Narora, up Rajasthan atomic power plant: Rawatbhatta, Rajasthan ( India & Candada) Tarapur atomic power plant – Maharashtra ( India & US) Kakarpar atomic power plant – Gujarat Madras atomic power plant - Tamil Nadu Kaiga atomic poer plant – Karnataka Kundankullam : in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu ( India & Russia ) Jaitapur Nuclear Power plant – Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra ( India & France ) Mundra TPS, Kutch, Gujarat Vindhyachal TPS, Singrauli, Pradesh Talcher Super TPS, Angul Odisha Kaziranga Wildlife sanctuary – Assam Sipat TPS, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh Manas Wildlife Sanctuary – Assam Korba Super TPS, Chhattisgarh Gir National Park & Wildlife sanctuary – Gujarat Rihand TPS, Sonebhadra, Uttar Pradesh Sundarbans National Park – west Bengal Jharsuguda TPS, Odisha Tiroda TPS, Maharashtra Periyar National Sanctuary Kerala Anpara TPS - Uttar Predesh Kanha National Park- Madhya Pradesh Barauni TPP – Bihar Bellary TPP - Karnataka Bandhavgarh National Park – Madhya Pradesh Durgapur TPP - West Bengal Ranthambore National Park & Wildlife sanctuary - Rajasthan Sikka TPS - Gujarat Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary – rajasthan Satpura TPS – Madhya Pradesh Tal Chappar wildlife sanctuary - Rajasthan Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station UP Chilka Lake Bird sanctuary – Odissa Madhya IMPORTANT WILDLIFE SANCTUARY IN INDIA park and Wildlife Current Affairs Capsule Nandankanan Zoo – Odissa Corbett National park - Uttrakhand IBPS V Mains BOOKS & AUTHORS 1. Transcendence : My spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji written by Abdul Kalam 2. Book titled Modi - Incredible emergence of a star in Chinese language written by Tarum Vijay. 3. Education of Muslims: An Islamic Perspective of Knowledge and Education Indian Context edited by professor JSA Rajput. 4. Pakistan’s Ex-Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri penned ‘Neither a Hawk nor a Dove’. 5. Former Lok Sanha Speaker Meira Kumar’s book entitled “ Indian parliamentary Diplomacy - Speaker’s perspective “ was released. 6. PM Narendra Modi launched Born Again on the Mountain by Arunima Sinha www.lnacademy.in The Indira Gandhi Years, published by Rupa. 13. Biography My Name is Abu salem released written by S Hussain Zaidi and published by penguin. 14. ‘playing it My Way’: Author -Sachin Tendulkar & Boria Majumdar 15. “Half Girlfriend” Bhagat written by Chetan 16. “ The Narrow Road to the Deep North” authored by Richard Flanagan 17. “ Untold Story of Indian public sector” authored by Dr UD Choubey, 18. “ Final Test : Exit Sachin Tendulkar” authored by Dilip D’Souza 19. “ A Man and a Motorcycle, How Hamid karzai Came to power”: written by Bette Dam 20. And Then One Day: Naseeruddin shah’s autobiography 21. God of Antarctica yashwardhan shukla: written by 7. Prince of Gujarat : The Extraordinary Story of Prince gopaldas Desai authored by Rajmohan Gandhi. 22. “ One Life is Not Enough” : written by Kunwar NatwarSingh 8. Rajdeep sardesai penned the book titled 2014 : The Election That Changed. 23. A book “ Munger through the Ages” authored by late Devendra Prasad Yadav 9. Book titled Letters for a Nation written by Jawaharlal Nehru & Madhav Khosla was published by Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books. 10. Next China –India War-World’s First Water War-authored by General S. padmanabhan released. 11. The book titled Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 authored by Sandeep Unnithan. 12. President of India pranab Mukherjee penned a book titled The Dramatic Decade: 24. The Lives of others” a novel written by : Neel Mukherjee 25. The Substance and the Shadow : written by Uday Tara Nayar, a former journalist. 26. Blood Feud written by Edward Klein 27. A Bad Character : authored by Deepti Kapoor 28. The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous Khuswant singh 29. Train To Pakistan - Khuswant Singh Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains 30. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions - Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. www.lnacademy.in CHIEF MINISTERS OF INDIA 2015 1. Andhra Pradesh - N. Chandrababu naidu 2. Arunachal Pradesh - Shri Nabam Tuki 3. Assam - shri Tarun Gogoi DAYS 1. World Heritage Day was observed across the world on 18 April 2015. 2. World Haemophilia Day was observed globally on 17 April 2015 with theme Building a family of support. 4. Bihqar – shri Nitish Kumar 5. Chhattisgarh - Dr, Raman Singh 6. West Bengal - Km. Mamta Benerji 7. Goa – Laxmikant Parsekar 3. International Mother Earth day was observed globally on 22 April 2015 with the theme It’s our turn to lead. 8. Gujarat -Smt. Anandiben Patel 4. National Panchayati Raj Day was observed across India on 24 April 2015 10. Himachal Pradesh - Shri virbhadra Singh 5. World Malaria Day (WMD) was observed on 25 April 2015. The theme for the 2013 -2015 campaign is Invest in the future. Defeat malaria. 12. Jharkhand - Raghuvar Das 9. Haryana - Manohar Lal Khattar 11. Jammu& Kashmir Sayeed - Mufti Mohammad 13. Karnataka - Shri Siddaramaiah 14. Kerala - Shri Oommen Chandi th 6. 14 June : world Blood Donor Day 7. Kerala Government declares June 22 as ‘Snake Bird Day’. 8. India set for World Yoga Day on 21 June 2015. 9. World Press Freedom Day is annually observed on May 3 to inform the international community that freedom of the press and freedom of expression are fundamental human rights. 10. Russia celebrates victory day on 9th May. 15. Madhya Pradesh – Shri shivraj Singh Chouhan 16. Maharashtra - Devendra Fandnavis 17. Manipur - Shri Okram Ibobi Singh 18. Meghalaya - Dr. Mukul Sangma 19. Mizoram - Shri Pu Laithnhawla 20. Nagaland - Shri. T R Zeliang 21. Odisha - Shri Naveen Patnaik 22. Tripura – Shri Manik sarkar 11. Every year, ‘national Technology Day’ is observed across India on May 11. 23. Punjab - Shri Parkash singh Badal 12. The United Nations (UN) observed the International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD) on 22 May 2015. The theme was Biodiversity for Sustainable Development. 25. Sikkim - Shri Pawan Kumar chamling 24. Rajasthan - Smt. Vasudhara Raje 26. Tamil Nadu – Selvi J. Jayalalithaa 27. Telangana - K Narasimhan Chandrasekhar Rao Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains www.lnacademy.in 28. Uttar Pradesh - shri Akhilesh Yadav Southeast Asia, which was formed on 8 August 1967 29. Uttarakhand – Shri Harish Rawat Headquarter Jakarta, Indonesia member – 10 member countries ( India is not the member of ASEAN) IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS : 1. United Nation (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 Octobe 1945 to promote international co-operation. Headquarter – New York, Head – Bank Ki-moon Member – South Sudan new member country. Total – 193 members 2. WTO (World Trade Org.) – Yemen new member country. Total -160 members. Headquarter - Geneva, Switzerland, Head – Roberto Azevedo 3. World Bank - The world Bank Is a United Nations international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. Headquarter - Washington D.C ( United States ) president – Jim Yong Kim Member - South Sudan New member country. Total 188 members 4. IMF - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1994 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. Headquarter Washington DC. ( United States President – Christine lagarde) Members – South Sudan New member country. Total - 188 members 5. European Union _ Croatia new member country Total – 28 member countries. Headquarter Brussels, Belgium President of the European Commission: Jean Claude Juncker 6. ASEAN - Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a political and economic organization of ten countries located in 7. APEC Asia – Pacific Economic Cooperation - is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member economics that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia – Pacific region. It was established in 1989 Headquarter - Singapore member -21 8. OPEC (Organization Of the petroleum Exporting Countries) is an international organization and economic cartel whose mission is to coordinate the policies of the producing countries./ Headquarter - Vienna, Austria, member 12 member countries. President -Diezani Alison - Madueke 9. NATO (North Organization) Atlantic Treaty NATO’s essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. Headquarter - Brussels, Belgium member – 28 Member Countries 10. SAARC (South Asian Association of Regional Co-Operation ) an economic and geopolitical organization eight countries that are primarily located in South Asia or the Indian subcontinent. Headquarter - Kathmandu, member Countries. Nepal - 8 Secretary –General : Arjun Bahadur Thapa 11. ICJ ( International Court of Justice) is the primary judicial branch of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Its main functions are to settle legal disputes submitted to it by states and to provide advisory opinions on Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains legal questions submitted to it duly authorized international branches, agencies, and the UN General Assembly. Headquarter The Hague , Netherlands. 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States Dollar Uruguayan Uruguay Montevideo Dollar Venezuelan Venezuela Caracas Bolivar Yugoslavia Belgrade Yugoslav Dinar Zimbabwean Zimbabwe Harare dollar Zambian Zambia Lusaka Kwacha Current Affairs Capsule IBPS V Mains LIST OF LATEST SCHEMES AND APPS BY BANKS - 2015 Airtel money – AXIS BANK+AIRTEL Asha Home loan – AXIS BANK BOUTIQUE FINANCING SCHEME – SBI Branch on Wheel – ICICI Bank in Odisha Chillar – Hdfc Bank China’s first online Banking “webank” – Tancet Holdings DDA Housing Scheme 2014 – HDFC Bank Digital Banking “POCKET” – ICICI Digital Village Project in Akodara Village of Gujarat – ICICI eforex – SBI E-KYC – SBI EMI ON DEBIT CARD – ICICI BANK E-Wallet – IRCTC Facebook-based funds transfer platform “KayPay” – Kotak Mahindra Bank First home grown INDEX “COMPOSITE INDEX” – SBI I-Mobile app for windows phone – ICICI India’s first” transparent credit card “in association with American Express – ICICI India’s first credit card exclusively for GOLF LOVERS – RBL Bank Instant money transfer – BOI Instant Money Transfer (IMT) – Bank of India Kisan card – AXIS BANK Maha Millionaire”, “Maha Lakhpati” – Bank of Maharashtra M-Pesa – ICICI+Vodafone M-Wallet – Canara Bank State Bank Freedom App – State Bank of India Student Travel Card – ICICI TAB BANKING FACILITY – SBI Tap and pay – ICICI Twitter Handle account – SBI Video conferencing – Indusuld & federal bank Youth for India – SBI www.lnacademy.in