Current Affairs 07th December 2016 | General Awareness 07th December 2016

JAYALALITHAA NO MORE

Her body was being taken to ‘Veda Nilayam’, her residence in Poes Garden

• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is no more. Seventy-four days after being admitted to hospital here, the general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam passed away at 11.30 p.m.
• She did not respond to emergency life support treatment administered after she suffered a cardiac arrest a day earlier.

Latest works

Amma unavagam

Amma water

Amma salt

UDF satyagraha in Delhi on Dec. 14

MPs and MLAs will stage a satyagraha in New Delhi

MPs and MLAs belonging to the Opposition United Democratic Front will stage a satyagraha in New Delhi on December 14 to “highlight the issues faced by the common man as a consequence of demonetisation” and in protest against the cutback on Kerala’s share of public distribution system rice quota.

Founder

K. Karunakaran in 1971.

OPS is Chief Minister for the third time

O. Panneerselvam sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

• Amidst a pall of gloom following Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s death, senior AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam was elected the leader of the Legislature Party shortly after Monday midnight and sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
• As Jayalalithaa’s trusted man, Mr. Panneerselvam had stepped into her shoes for two brief periods — during after she was unseated by the courts.

Periods in OPS sworn in as CM

2001-02

2014-15

Two Axis Bank managers held.

Laundering Rs. 40 cr in Delhi.

• The Enforcement Directorate has busted a network of jewellers, working in collusion with bank officials, to enable the purchase of gold for demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes.
• The unaccounted money was laundered through various operators, including a Chartered Accountant, using the bank accounts of several shell companies.

Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Enforcement Directorate registered a case.

Nod for uranium exploration proposal in Amrabad tiger reserve

Amrabad Tiger Reserve cleared by the Telangana State Board for Wildlife.

A proposal for uranium exploration in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve has been cleared by the Telangana State Board for Wildlife, paving the way for mining of the subterranean element used in nuclear reactors and in production of nuclear weapons.

Upcoming projects

• Andhra Pradesh
• Jharkhand

Two landmines detected in Visakha Agency

Planted by the banned CPI (Maoist) near Kumada village

The district police have detected two heavily loaded improvised explosive devices (landmines) planted by the banned CPI (Maoist) near Kumada village under the Kumada Gram Panchayat in the Munchingput mandal in the Visakha Agency.

Moists group

PWG (People’s War Group).

MCC (Maoist Communist Centre).

Helen Marten wins Turner prize

Judges praises 31 year old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize

• Helen Marten has sealed her position as one of the U.K.’s most exciting young artists after being named the winner of the 2016 Turner prize, her second big award in the space of a month.
• The 31-year-old artist, who was born in Macclesfield, was presented with her £25,000 prize by the writer Ben Okri at a ceremony at London’s Tate Britain gallery.

Helen Marten

Won the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.

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