MANDY GREWAL TORRETNS

GK Power Capsule OCTOBER 2014 (The Hindu Review)

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1.

Continuing the effort to fight persisting

inflation and inflationary pressures, the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram
Rajan maintained the policy rates at the current
levels in 4th Monetary Policy. The RBI also
retained the growth projection for the current
fiscal at 5.5 per cent.

RepoRate
8% (Unchanged)
Rev. Repo
7%
(Unchanged)
CRR
4%
(Unchanged)
SLR
22% (Unchanged)
MSF
9%
(Unchanged)
Bank Rate
9%
(Unchanged)
2. Rajiv Mehrishi took charge as Union Finance
Secretary. He succeeded Arvind Mayaram.
3. Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) candidate Devendra
Gangadharrao Fadnavis sworn-in as the Chief
Minister of Maharashtra. He is the first BJP
candidate to become CM of Maharashtra.
4. First-time legislator from BJP Manohar Lal
Khattar, 61, is the 21st Chief Minister of Haryana.
5. Vice President of Zambia Guy Scott was
appointed as acting President by the Zambia
government.
6. Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar was elected
Vice-President of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union
in Macau.
7. Surya Prakash was appointed as the Chairman
of Prasar Bharti Board for a term of three years.
8. The former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh was
designated as the head of Future Earth
Engagement Committee, a global research
platform panel on sustainable development.
9. Union
Government
appointed
US-based
economist Arvind Subramanian as Chief
Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Union Finance
Ministry for three years.
10. Khaled Bahah was appointed as Prime Minister of
Yemen.

for UNICEF in South Asia. Aamir Khan will focus

on supporting child nutrition to end stunting
across the region.

12. Kalpana Morparia was appointed as first woman

director of Hindustan Unilever Limited.
13. Union Ministry of Civil Aviation approved the
appointment of Cramer Ball as Chief Executive
Officer of Jet Airways.
14. President Pranab Mukherjee authorised Vigilance
Commissioner Rajiv to act as chief of Central
Vigilance Commission until the appointment of
the Central Vigilance Commissioner.
15. Justice H L Dattu was sworn-in as the 42nd Chief
Justice of India. He succeeded Chief Justice RM
Lodha.

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16. Malala Yousafzai won the 2014 Worlds

Children Prize after a global vote involving
millions of children.
17. Malala Yousafzai was conferred with the 2014
Liberty Medal at the National Constitution
Centre in Philadelphia.

18. Congolese
gynecologist
Denis
Mukwege
Mukengere won the prestigious Sakharov human
rights prize 2014.
19. Australian author Richard Flanagan won Man
Booker Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow
Road to the Deep North. This was the first year
that the Man Booker prize was open to all authors
writing in English, regardless of nationality.
20. All India National Unity Council honoured poetdiplomat Abhay K with Asia-Pacific Excellence
Award.
21. Noted lyricist Sameer was honoured with the
National Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13.
22. The UK government announced the inaugural
Dadabhai Naoroji Awards to honour individuals
who have worked to strengthen the UK-India
relationship over the years.
23. Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank
of India was conferred with Euromoneys
Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014 in
Washington.
24. Indian-origin Singaporean poet and writer KTM
Iqbal was named for the 2014 Cultural Medallion,
the highest cultural award of Singapore.
25. An eminent Indian scientist Dr Sanjaya Rajaram
received the World Food Prize 2014 for his
scientific research that led to a prodigious
increase in world wheat production.
26. French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014
Nobel Prize for Economics. Jean Tirole was
awarded for his analysis of market power and
regulation.
27. French author Patrick Modiano won the Nobel
Prize for literature for the year 2014. The Nobel
Prize for Literature is granted by the Swedish
Academy.

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28. Pakistani child education activist Malala

Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist
Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize
2014.
29. Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights
activist born in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. His
organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan has
been active in the Indian movement against child
labour.
30. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil,
education activist who is known for her activism
for right to education for women.
31. Eric Betzig, Stefan W Hell and William E.
Moerner won the 2014 Nobel Prize for
Chemistry for the development of super-resolved
fluorescence microscopy.
32. Three
Japanese-born
researchers
Isamu
Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura
won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. They were
honoured for inventing efficient blue LightEmitting Diodes (LED) lamps that worked as a
bright and energy-saving white light sources.
33. Saiyid Hamid was conferred with Sir Ross
Masood Lifetime Achievement Award 2014 for
Excellence in Leadership, Education, community
& Public Service.
34. The Nobel Assembly decided to award the 2014
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to John
OKeefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.
The award was given for their discoveries of cells
that constitute a GPS in the brain.
35. The President of India Pranab Mukherjee
presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National
Award 2014 to Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu
Pillai.
36. Former New York Mayor and philanthropist
billionaire Michael Rubens Bloomberg was
granted an honorary knighthood from Queen
Elizabeth II in Britain.
37. Anoop Jain won 2014 Waislitz Global Citizen
Award.
38. Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan received
Global Diversity Award 2014 at the Britains
House of Commons.
39. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan was
recently in news as he was summoned by a US
Federal Court in Los Angeles for allegedly

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instigating violence against the Sikh community

during the November 1984 riots.
40. Manjul Bhargava was recently in news because
he won the Fields Medal awards for the year
2014. The Fields Medal is also known as the
Nobel Prize of Mathematics.
41. Google CEO Larry Page appointed Sundar Pichai
as new Product Chief of Google.
42. Alan Eustace, a senior Google vice-president
broke the world altitude record for highest freefall parachute jump from an altitude of 135908feet. Eustace broke the world altitude record of
parachute jump set by Austrian Felix
Baumgartner.
43. Five year old Indian boy Harshit Saumitra
became the youngest person to reach the Everest
Base Camp.
44. Sadiq, a 10-year old terminally ill boy became
Hyderabad Police Commissioner for a day.
45. J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
was found guilty in the disproportionate assets
case by the Special Court in Bangalore. The Court
pronounced a jail term of 4 years and fined 100
crore rupees to her in 18-year-old 66.65 crore
rupees disproportionate assets case.
46. Warren M Anderson, the former Chairman of
Union Carbide Corporation who was blamed for
the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy died.
47. South Africa's football captain and goalkeeper
Senzo Meyiwa died after being shot.
48. Noted freedom fighter Jagdish Sharan Pande died
after prolonged illness.
49. Founder of social site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg
arrived in New Delhi on a two day visit.
50. President Pranab Mukherjee became the first
Indian head of state to visit Norway and first
president to cross the Arctic Circle.
51. India became the worlds fourth largest steel
producer by delivering 62.41 Million Tonnes
(MT) output from January 2014 to September
2014. India was preceded by China, Japan and the
United States.
52. ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan announced that
the Indian space agency will launch GSLV MarkIII within next 45 days.
53. Fourth International Counter-Piracy Conference
was held in Dubai. The theme of the Conference

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was Securing State Recovery: Sustaining

Momentum at Sea, Confronting Instability Land.
54. President Pranab Mukherjee released a
commemorative postage stamp on Sri Lankan
Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala.
55. Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa flagged
off Yal Devi Express from Palai after 25 years. The
train will be extended to Jaffna. The India Railway
Construction International has now completed
the restoration of the railway lines from Palai to
Jaffna.

56. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the

countrymen over radio for the first time in his
programme Mann Ki Baat.
57. Tropical Storm Trudy struck Mexico.
58. Hudhud
is
a
cyclone
which
struck
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Hudhud name
derives from the Hoopoe bird, a colorful bird
found across Afro-Eurasia suggested by Oman.
59. The Antares, an unmanned cargo rocket carrying
supplies to the International Space Station
exploded just seconds after the launch.
60. A stampede occurred at Gandhi Maidan in Patna
during the Ram Leela ceremony on 3 October
2014. In the stampede at least 32 people were
killed and about 15 were injured.
61. The novel Half Girlfriend authored by Chetan
Bhagat was released.
62. Biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal was
released. The biography is titled Iqbal: The Life of
a Poet, Philosopher and Politician. The biography
is written by Zafar Anjum, the editor of Kitaab.
63. The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a novel of
Australian author Richard Flanagan. The book
was in news after it won the 2014 Man Booker
Prize.
64. The book on Rajesh Khanna Dark Star: The
Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna was released.
The book was written by Gautam Chintamani.
65. A book titled Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar
authored by writer-journalist Dilip DSouza was
released on 15 October 2014. The book has been

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published by Random House India and books

forward has been written by Harsha Bhogle.
66. The Vice President of India M Hamid Ansari
released a book entitled Untold Story of the
Indian Public Sector authored by Dr UD Choubey,
the Director General of SCOPE (Standing
Conference of Public Enterprises).
67. A book titled A Man and A Motorcycle, How
Hamid Karzai Came to Power written by Bette
Dam was launched.
68. Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah released his
autobiography And then One Day: A Memoir.
69. Union Government constituted Vishwanathan
committee to provide Bankruptcy code for small
and medium enterprises (SMEs).
70. NR Madhava Menon committee submitted its
report. The committee was appointed by
Supreme Court to frame guidelines to regulate
expenditure and contents of advertisements paid
out of tax payers' money.
71. Rashtriya Ekta Diwas was observed to
commemorate the 139th birth anniversary of
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The decision to
observe 31 October as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or
National Integration Day was taken by the Union
Government.
72. Finance minister Arun Jaitley blamed high
income tax refunds for the high fiscal deficit of
the Centre that touched 83 per cent of the full
year target in just six months.
73. K V Chowdary was appointed by the Government
as an Advisor to the Special Investigation Team
that is probing black money cases. The SIT is
headed by retired Supreme Court Judge M B Shah
with Vice-Chairman Justice (retd) Arijit Pasayat.
74. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said economic
growth this fiscal could be in the range of 5.5% to
5.9%.
75. The Narendra Modi government has issued a set
of austerity measures, including bans on first
class air travel and hosting conferences in five
star hotels, and a bar on reviving posts that have
been vacant for more than a year, with the stated
objective of cutting down non-plan spend by up
to 10 per cent.
76. The Federal Reserve ended its monthly bond
purchase program.

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77. Narendra Modi government relaxed rules for FDI

in the construction sector by reducing minimum
built-up area as well as capital requirement and
easing the exit norms. Cabinet decided to reduce
the minimum floor area to 20,000 sq mt from the
earlier 50,000 sq mt. It also brought down the
minimum capital requirement to USD 5 million
from USD 10 million.
78. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
raised the minimum support price (MSP) of
wheat, the most important winter crop, by just
3.6%, or R 50, to R1,450 per quintal.
79. India ranked a dismal 142 among the 189
countries surveyed for the latest (2015) World
Banks Ease of Doing Business report, down two
places from its position last year. Singapore
retained the top slot for the ninth year in a row.
80. High leverage in the Indian corporate sector
could prevent any meaningful recovery in asset
quality at lenders over the next 12-18 months,
Moody's Investors Service said, maintaining its
"negative" outlook on the country's banking
sector.
81. The unearthing of capital flight of "black" money
Indians have allegedly stashed away in Swiss
banks could add USD 30 billion to the country's
forex reserves, says a Bank of America Merrill
Lynch report.
82. The Centre placed list of around 627 names of
Indians having accounts in foreign banks before
Supreme Court in the black money case. The
court left it on the Special Investigation Team
(SIT) to carry out necessary investigation. A
bench led by Chief Justice H L Dattu asked the SIT
to verify the list given by the government and
submit a status report by end of November.
83. A US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) team
would arrive next month to carry out a fresh
audit of India's aviation safety mechanism, which
was downgraded almost a year ago.
84. India has performed poorly in removing genderbased disparities, ranking 114 out of 142
countries in World Economic Forum's 2014
gender gap index.
85. Telecom giant SoftBank has pledged an
investment of $10 billion (over Rs 60,000 crore)
in India's IT and communications space.

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86. Narendra Modi government named three

Pradip Burman, formerly of Dabur group, Goabased mining firm Timblo Pvt Ltd and its five
directors and Rajkot-based bullion trader Pankaj
Chimanlal Lodhiya against whom prosecution
has been launched.
87. A significant oil discovery has been made near
Ahmedabad in the Cambay basin that may be the
biggest onland find this year.

88. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a tea party

for all NDA MPs, the first such event after the BJPled alliance stormed to power in May.
89. In a complete U-turn from its earlier stand, the
Home Ministry has come out in full support of the
Aadhaar scheme saying it will facilitate "anytime,
anywhere, anyhow" authentication to its
beneficiaries.
90. Clocking the slowest compounded annual growth
rate (CAGR) of about 6.9% in terms of gross
state domestic product (GSDP), Uttar Pradesh is
the lowest among the traditional BIMARU states
(Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and UP) in
this regard during the past nine years, that is,

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during 2004-05 and 2012-13, according to an

Assocham study. Bihar has ranked on top among
the BIMARU states registering highest growth
rate of 9.3% in GSDP during the aforesaid nine
year period followed by Madhya Pradesh (8.8%)
and Rajasthan (8.2%) even as Indias overall
gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 8% during
2004-05 and 2012-13, said a study titled
Analysis of BIMARU states, conducted by
Assocham.
91. India has opted to buy Israel's Spike anti-tank
guided missile. India will buy at least 8,000 Spike
missiles and more than 300 launchers in a deal
worth 32 billion rupees ($525 million).
92. The Narendra Modi government is aiming to
improve India's ranking in ease of doing business
index to 50th position in the next two years from
the current 134th.
93. Unfazed by China's objections to development of
border areas, Government announced setting up
of 54 new border outposts and a Rs 175 crore
package for beefing up the infrastructure along
the border in Arunachal Pradesh.
94. China's economy is likely to grow by 7.4 percent
this year, slightly below the government's target,
and expand 7 percent in 2015.
95. The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to
develop Allahabad as an integrated industrial
township, on the lines of Noida and Greater
Noida.
96. Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS)
has launched a mobile app on Android platform
for train enquiry.
97. The Narendra Modi government has decided to
create a fund starting with Rs 930 Cr to help
Indian industry acquire cutting-edge technology
in the capital goods sector and finance new
production units of capital-intensive heavy
equipment.
98. The government proposes to implement the
Goods and Services Tax (GST) from April 1, 2016.
99. Airports at Delhi and Mumbai would be
developed as 'seamless hubs' by the 27-member
airline grouping Star Alliance and work on it may
start next year itself.
100. State-owned Air India will get around Rs
3,000 crore more in the later part of this fiscal
from the Government towards capital infusion.

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101. India is poised to become a USD two trillion

economy this year, while its GDP size would cross
another milestone of USD three trillion after five
years in 2019, according to IMF's latest world
economic outlook. India's ranking would also
improve to seventh largest economy in the world,
while measured on "current prices" basis in US
dollar, in 2019 from its tenth position currently.
102. Prime Minister unveiled half a dozen schemes
including a unified web portal where employers
can submit a single compliance report for 16
labour laws, a new labour inspection scheme,
Unique Account Number facility for EPFO
members, a new skill development and
apprenticeship scheme and a revampedRashtriya
.Swasthya Bima Yojana
103. The number of hungry people has declined in
India with its score on the Global Hunger Index
improving to 55th position in 2014 due to
progress made in addressing underweight in
children, says a report.
104. The government deferred the country-wide
rollout of the National Food Security Act, 2013, by
another six months, to the first week of April
2015, because of states inability to create
requisite
infrastructure
and
identify
beneficiaries. Eleven states and Union Territories
Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya
Pradesh,
Bihar,
Chhattisgarh,
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi and Chandigarh
have so far implemented the Act, some fully and
others partially.
105. The government is expediting the work to
replace Wholesale Price Index (WPI), used for
capturing price movements to decide on policy
measures, with a more effective and
comprehensive Producers Price Index (PPI) by
the next fiscal.
106. India will retain its top spot with $71 billion
in remittances this year, the World Bank has said.
107. IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned that the
global economy could be sinking into a prolonged
period of "mediocre" growth which could
endanger efforts to bring down unemployment
worldwide.
108. Finance Ministry said 5.29 crore bank
accounts have been opened and 1.78 crore RuPay

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debit cards have been issued so far under the Jan

Dhan Yojana.
109. Indian Railways is going to increase the taktal
fares of most popular trains. Half of the tatkal
tickets will be sold as per the dynamic pricing,
that is, depending upon the seat availability and
the demand.

110. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed

the Unique Identification Authority of India
(UIDAI) to ensure universal coverage under
Aadhaar by June 2015. The current Aadhaar
enrolment is about 68 crore.
111. O. Panneerselvam will be the next Chief
Minister of Tamil Nadu.
112. Facebook plans to start testing its Internetcarrying solar-powered drones in 2015, with the
ultimate aim of getting two-thirds of the global
population online.
113. Ashraf Ghanis government will sign a longdelayed deal to allow some U.S. troops to stay in
Afghanistan into next year.
114. In his maiden visit to India, after taking over
as the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, announced
that the company would offer commercial cloud
services Azure and Office 365 in the country
from local data centres.
115. Pakistan has decided to introduce electronic
voting machines (EVMs) in two years before the
next general elections due in 2018.
116. The Competition Commission of India (CCI)
imposed Rs.2.83 crore penalty on Super Cassettes
Industries, known as T-Series, for unfair
business practices with regard to licensing of
Bollywood music to private FM radio stations.
117. The Chief Executive of e-commerce major
Amazon, Jeffrey P Bezos, called on Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. Mr. Bezos have been visiting
Indian cities this week.
118. Canada has decided to sign a contract with
Antrix, the Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO)s commercial arm, for the launch of its
satellite. Canada announced that Antrix would be
given the contract for the July 2015 launch of its

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M3M (Maritime Monitoring and Messaging

Micro-Satellite) communications satellite.
119. Eight new polio cases have surfaced in
Pakistan, taking the number of those affected by
the crippling disease this year to 202, surpassing
the previous high of 199 cases recorded in 2000,
officials said.
120. Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has
been honoured with Global Diversity Award
2014 by British parliament for his contribution to
cinema.

121. Days after it published an offensive cartoon

mocking Indias successful Mars mission, The
New York Times apologized, saying it was not
trying to impugn India.
122. The country will have state-of-the-art
virology diagnostic laboratories operational in
120 districts by 2015.
123. The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has
upheld the Securities and Exchange Board of
Indias order against Angel Broking in case
related to violations of stock broker norms and
fraudulent dealings in shares of Sterling Green
Woods.
124. Kerala would become the first State to have
high-speed Internet connecting all the panchayats
in the State by March next year.
125. Queen Elizabeth II has honoured campaigning
actress Angelina Jolie in a Buckingham Palace
ceremony.
126. China and Russia have begun implementing
their $400 billion mega-gas deal a strategic
project that would allow Moscow to lower its
dependence on the European market. Russias
eastward shift is anchored by the agreement to
supply China 38 billion cubic meters of gas every
year for 30 years. Gas flows will commence in
2018.
127. Lawmakers in France, the worlds most
nuclear-dependent country, voted to cut reliance
on the energy source from more than 75 per cent
to 50 per cent within a decade.

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128. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a

blueprint for the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
(SAGY) on Jayaprakash Narayans birth
anniversary. The scheme encourages Members of
Parliament from both Houses to identify and
develop one village from their constituency as a
model village by 2016, and two more by 2019,
covering over 2,500 villages of the 6 lakh villages
country-wide. Under SAGY, Lok Sabha MPs can
select any village with a population of 3,0005,000 in plains and 1,000-3,000 in hilly areas in
their constituencies besides their own
village. MPs are expected to facilitate a village
development plan, motivate villagers to take up
activities and use the Rs.5-crore MPLAD fund.
129. A Supreme Court-appointed committee led by
Chief Justice of India (retired) R.M. Lodha on the
catastrophic floods in Jammu and Kashmir
details the failures of the State government.
130. SEBI imposed a ban on realty major DLF and
its top executives from accessing the capital
markets for three years, for suppressing
information in its initial public offering (IPO)
prospectus and for sham transactions.
131. India bans the import of animal-tested
cosmetics.
132. An inspector Shakti Devi with the Jammu and
Kashmir Police has bagged the International
Female Police Peacekeeper Award 2014
instituted by the U.N. for her exceptional
achievements while serving with the U.N.
mission in Afghanistan.
133. Wholesale price inflation dropped to a near
five-year low in September to 2.38 per cent,
helped by moderation in food and fuel prices.
134. The BBCs website was blocked in China,
hours after a video of Hong Kong police beating
and kicking a pro-democracy protester began
circulating online.
135. The Department of Telecom has set a target
date of March 31, 2015, to implement the full
mobile number portability.
136. PSLV-C26 lobbed the 1,425 kg Indian
Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1C)
satellite into its precise orbit. Mission was ISROs
twenty-seventh consecutively successful PSLV
flight.

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137. India first long-range sub-sonic cruise

missile, Nirbhay (fearless), was test-fired for a
range of over 1,000 km from the Integrated Test
Range wheeler Island, Orissa.
138. The Reserve Bank of India has signed a pact
with the Central Bank of Kenya for exchange of
information and supervisory cooperation.
139. Africas most populous nation Nigeria was
declared officially Ebola free.
140. India received the most number of votes in
the Asia-Pacific group of the U.N. Human Rights
Council, winning a second consecutive two-year
term at the world body. 162 of 190 countries
voted for India. Three other countries including
Indonesia, Bangladesh and Qatar were elected.
141. The Central Government ordered merger of
the scam-hit firm NSEL with its holding company
Financial Technologies India Ltd (FTIL).
142. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a
package of Rs. 745 crore for the reconstruction of
flood-ravaged houses and hospitals in Jammu and
Kashmir.
143. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB), launched by China, with an authorised
capital of $100 billion, is expected to be formally
established by the end of 2015. Beijingheadquartered has 21 nation members Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India,
Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia,
Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines,
Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan
and Vietnam.
144. European Union leaders have reached a deal
on a comprehensive package of climate targets,
including a binding 40 per cent reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions from the level of 1990
by 2030.
145. U.K. engineering group Penspen has been
awarded a contract to carry out a technical
feasibility study for the proposed 1,820-km
pipeline
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-PakistanIndia (TAPI) natural gas pipeline.
146. Election Commission announced that Jammu
and Kashmir, along with Jharkhand, will go to the
polls in five phases on November 25, and
December 2, 9, 14 and 20.
147. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC)
meeting, chaired by Defence Minister Mr. Arun

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Jaitley, cleared deals worth Rs. 78,000 crore and

made allotments amounting to Rs. 47,000 crore
for the three services.
148. GSAT-16, the next national communications
satellite, reached French Guiana this week and is
on its way to the space port near Kourou ahead of
an early December flight, European launch
service company Arianespace has said. The
3,150-kg satellite is scheduled to be flown on an
Ariane-5 launcher numbered Flight VA221.

149. Vishal Bhardwajs Haider a modern-day

adaptation of Hamlet won the Peoples Choice
Award in the Mondo Genre (world genre) at the
ninth edition of the Rome Film Festival.
150. P. Sainath (for his reporting in TheHindu ), Al
Jazeera English, USA Today and Global Post were
among the winners of the World Media Summit
(WMS) Global Awards for Excellence, 2014.

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