Current Affairs 23rd December 2016 | General Awareness 23rd December 2016.

Get cash delivered at home

Snapdeal launched ‘Cash@Home’

• Online marketplace, Snapdeal launched ‘Cash@Home’ service in the city and Gurugram. It allows users to order Rs. 2,000 cash and get it delivered at their doorstep the next day.
• Snapdeal will use the cash it receives through Cash on Delivery to operate this facility.

Snapdeal

B2C marketplace, based in New Delhi, India

Vizag emerges as model city in sanitation

 

Its ward-to-ward approach to end ODF figures in Centre’s documents

• WSUP Country Director Akhilesh Gautam said that under the USAID-sponsored Water and Sanitation for Urban Poor Advisory.
• Visakhapatnam will be made a model city so that other cities learn from its experience and emulate its achievements.

Visakhapatnam

Only city in the country to have been selected for partnership through WSUP.

Kovvada N-plant: State allots land to NPCIL

Cost of 1,473.16 acres to be fixed by Revenue Department

• In a major step towards construction of the atomic power plant at Kovvada in the district, the Andhra Pradesh government issued an order ,giving advance possession of land under its control to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).
• The NPCIL will take possession of 1,473.16 acres from the government and pay for it as per the value fixed by the Revenue Department.

Kovvada Atomic Power Project

6,600 MW nuclear power station.

Amarinder hits out at SAD

Accusing it of making personal and baseless attacks

• Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh launched a scathing criticism of the State’s ruling Shiromani Akali Dal alliance.
• Accusing it of making personal and baseless attacks on him and his party because it was facing imminent electoral defeat in the upcoming Assembly elections.

Amarinder Singh

Punjab Congress president.

Ashwin wins Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the year

Third Indian player ever to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

• Ravichandran Ashwin has become only the third Indian player ever to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named the ICC Cricketer of the Year besides the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year.
• The other two Indians who won the Award earlier were Rahul Dravid in 2004 and Sachin Tendulkar in 2010

Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

• Rahul Dravid in 2004
• Sachin Tendulkar in 2010

  Ebola vaccine may be up to 100% effective: WHO

  

  Vaccine could become available in 2018
  

• World Health Organization has expressed confidence that a prototype vaccine for Ebola may be 100 per cent effective in protecting against the deadly virus Ebola.
• It said the vaccine could become available in 2018 under a fast-track approval process.

Ebola

First identified in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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