Current Affairs 02 December 2016 | General Awareness 02 December 2016

Opposition to seek President’s intervention on I-T Amendment Bill issue

Opposition parties have been protesting against demonetization

Opposition parties which have been protesting against demonetisation and decided to approach President Pranab Mukherjee on the Income Tax Amendment Bill to seek his intervention, alleging that the measure was hurriedly passed in Lok Sabha without following the rules.

Ghulam Nabi Azad

Chamber of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha.

Day after Rahul’s Twitter account hacked, Congress party’s account also hacked

Some messages laden with profanities were posted online.

A day after the hacking of Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account, the official Twitter account of Indian National Congress was also hacked with the party saying some messages laden with expletives and profanities were posted online

Ravi Shankar Prasad

IT Minister of India.

Haryana board makes Aadhaar mandatory for Class 10 and 12

Board of School Education Haryana has made it mandatory

• Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) has made it mandatory for students of Class 10 and 12 to have Aadhaar card while applying for the 2017 examination.
• The use of Aadhaar will prevent forgery of certificates and impersonation cases, and ensure that the candidates’ details are complete and accurate

Benefits to avoid

• Forgery of certificates
• Impersonation cases

Trump offers to help Pakistan

Calls PM Sharif a ‘terrific guy’

• U.S. president Donald Trump offered to help , solve Pakistan’s problems and praised prime minister Nawaz Sharif as a “terrific guy” in the first call between the two men
• Historical allies in the region, Islamabad and Washington have seen relations sour in recent years over U.S. accusations that Pakistan shelters Islamist militants, a charge denied by the South Asian nation.

Banning Muslims

Trump announced about the entry into US

Wild silk protein helps in faster, scar-free healing of wounds

Wound-healing nanofibrous mat for fast healing

• Indian researchers have developed a wound-healing nanofibrous mat that interacts with the body to help it heal faster and without scarring.
• The mat is made of a non-protein polymer (PVA) mixed with silk protein and coated with an antibiotic and epidermal growth factor.

silk mats

• mulberry
• non-mulberry

ISRO to launch 83 satellites in one go in Jan.

80 of them are foreign

• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch 83 satellites, 80 of them are foreign, in one go in January.
• The 80 satellites. weighing 500 kg, belong to Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland and the U.S.

The three Indian satellites are

• Cartosat-2 series
• INS-IA
• INS-1B

Tami Nadu: 17 killed in factory blast

Happened in factory manufacturing industrial explosive products

• At least 17 people were feared dead in a blast that occurred at a factory manufacturing industrial explosive products near Trichy.
• The collapse of a part of the two-storey factory unit immediately after the blast trapped many inside.

2004 Kumbakonam School fire

A total of 94 students of the primary School were burnt to death.

Yoga on UNESCO cultural heritage list

Yoga got global recognition

• Yoga as an “ancient Indian practice” got global recognition as it was inscribed on UNESCO’s representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
• India’s proposal to inscribe yoga on the list was unanimously supported by all the 24 members of the panel, which included Turkey, Cuba, Afghanistan, Korea and Palestine.

UNESCO

The Belgian beer was also added on the list.

Lodha reforms looms large on BCCI’s agenda

Supreme Court appoints of GK Pillai as observer

• Despite the Lodha Panel seeking directions from Supreme Court for the appointment of GK Pillai as observer, the BCCI has managed to keep its flock together.
• The meeting is a little different from a special general body, because only Full Members are invited. But the outcome is unlikely to be different.

Anurag Thakur

BCCI president

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