Current Affairs 17th and 18th December 2016 | General Awareness 17th and 18th December 2016

Cubbon Park to get a gate displaying its name

Cubbon Park will finally get two prominent name boards

• After 146 years, Cubbon Park will finally get two prominent name boards.
• Authorities will be erecting iron gates at two of the seven entrances with the name emblazoned on them.

New name

Sri Chamarajendra Udyanavanakke Suswaagatha.

Modi-Rahul meet breaks Opposition unity

Decision ahead of meet with President sparks political fury

• The winter session of Parliament ended on a sour note for the Opposition as the unity its members had so carefully crafted broke.
• This happened as a majority of the 16 parties, scheduled to meet President Pranab Mukherjee together on the demonetisation issue

Parties which skipped the meeting

• The Communist Party of India (Marxist),
• The Communist Party of India,
• The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).

Ready to intervene in scribes-lawyers row: Governor

P. Sadasivam wants journalists to refrain from sensationalising news

• Governor P. Sathasivam has said that he is ready to intervene again in solving the ongoing stand-off between lawyers and journalists while reminding that they have a significant role to play in democracy.
• In his inaugural address at the golden jubilee celebrations of the laying of the foundation stone of the Ernakulam Press Club.

P.S. John Endowment award

P.V. Maneesh, NSG commando.

Students deliberately held back to improve pass percentage: Survey

Pass % in Class X and Class XII in government schools remains near the 90%

To ensure that the pass percentage in Class X and Class XII in government schools remains near the 90 per cent mark, a large number of students are deliberately held back in Class IX and Class XI, a report by the Praja Foundation has found.

Nitai Mehta

Founder and Managing Trustee of Praja Foundation.

Centre promises law against ‘honour’ killing

Investigative units to deal with crimes against women.

The Central government informed the Madras High Court that a proposal for a standalone legislation to combat ‘honour’ killing is pending with the legislative department and it is proposed to have consultation with the States on the issue.

Rameshwar Oraon

Chairperson of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.

Digital payments made after November 8 can prove lucky

 

Rs. 1,000 in a cash-back incentive under a lucky draw scheme

Fifteen lakh citizens opting to make cashless payments for transactions between Rs. 50 and Rs. 3,000 through Rupay cards, Unified Payment Interface, the Aadhaar-enabled payment systems and USSD, will get Rs. 1,000 in a cash-back incentive under a lucky draw scheme announced by the Centre .

Lucky draw scheme

• Lucky Grahak Yojana
• Digi-Dhan Vyapari Yojana.

Amarinder, Bhattal in first Cong list for Punjab

First list of 61 candidates for the upcoming Assembly released.

The Congress party on Thursday released its first list of 61 candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in Punjab, fielding State unit chief Amarinder Singh, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi and Sunil Jakhar.

Parkash Singh Badal

Punjab Chief Minister.

 

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