Current Affairs 21st December 2016 | General Awareness 21st December 2016

Decks cleared for Class X Boards

Board exams for Class X are set to become compulsory

• Board exams for Class X are set to become compulsory for all Central Board of Secondary Education students from 2018 as the CBSE’s governing body “unanimously approved” a proposal in this regard.
• Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has in the past favoured making Board exam compulsory for CBSE students as is the practice in all state boards.

Prakash Javadekar

Human Resource Development Minister.

Cashless banks attacked in western UP

Two banks in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli were attacked

• At least two banks in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli were attacked with stones by angry villagers for lack of cash.
• In Muzaffarnagar, the incident took place at the State Bank of India branch in Kakroli village.

Attack

Mainly due to cash crunch.

No questions will be asked on one-time deposits, says Jaitley

RBI had said deposits above Rs. 5,000 would face queries

A day after the Reserve Bank of India introduced new caveats for deposits of demonetised high-value currency notes worth Rs 5,000 or more till December 30, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley clarified that no questions would be asked on deposits of any quantity as long as they were made in one go.

Axis Bank fraud

Found around Rs. 60 crore unauthorized deposit in 20 fake accounts.

Next year on, medical admission from NEET

To make admissions from NEET rank list next year onwards

Admissions to medical, Ayush, agriculture, veterinary, fisheries and forestry courses would be made from the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) rank list from the academic year 2017-18 onwards.

NEET list

Admissions to MBBS and BDS must be made from here.

Did not wish for demonetisation, says Naidu

‘Could solve August crisis but not demonetisation crisis’

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who heads a panel set up by the NDA government to look into issues arising from demonetisation, admitted that there was no solution to the problems even 40 days after the announcement of the move.

N. Chandrababu Naidu

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and also heads a panel.

Zuckerberg employs ‘software butler’

Artificial Intelligence-imbued program, named Jarvis

• Mark Zuckerberg’s artificial intelligence-imbued ‘software butler’ — named Jarvis — is now in service, and even plays with his family.
• Mr. Zuckerberg took on the personal project this year, devoting about 100 hours to make a system inspired by the Iron Man film character Jarvis as a virtual assistant to help manage his household.

Jarvis

It is not a physical robot, but an application.

Loan breather for farmers

Additional two months to repay their crop loans

In a bid to provide relief to farmers hit by cash crunch, the government gave them an additional two months to repay their crop loans due in November-December period and said that prompt repayment would be eligible for the extra 3 per cent interest subsidy.

60 days

Relaxation period to pay back loans.

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