General Awareness 03rd December 2016 | Current Affairs 03rd December 2016

UAE-based Indian girl wins Children’s Peace Prize 2016

For climate justice and combating environmental degradation

• A 16-year-old Indian environmental activist based in the UAE has won this year’s prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize for her fight for climate justice and combating environmental degradation.
• After receiving the prize, Basu said she would “keep campaigning to encourage children and adults to create a more sustainable future.

Kehkashan Basu

Presented the award by Bangladesh’s Nobel peace.

CBI director Anil Sinha retires

Asthana takes over him.

• CBI Director Anil Sinha retired from the post handing over the baton to his second-in-command, Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana, as the government did not name any full-time chief.
• Asthana, a Gujarat-cadre officer of 1984-batch, got elevated as the second-in-command in CBI two days ago when Special Director R.K. Dutta, who was among the frontrunners for the top post, was shifted to the Home Ministry as a Special Secretary.

Famous cases managed by Anil Sinha

• Sheena Bora murder case
• Vijay Mallya loan default case.

Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

 

State-level dilution may give leeway to realtors.

• The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation issued the draft rules under RERA in June this year.
• While the Union government was forced to strengthen its rules issued under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA) following much pressure from citizen groups, the dilution of the rules to give leeway to builders has started at the level of various states.

Venkaiah Naidu

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

Swiss Leaks: Foreign assets of Punjab Cong. President

Income Tax moves court to prosecute Amarinder Singh for ‘foreign assets’

THE Income Tax Department has moved a Ludhiana court with a prosecution complaint against former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for being an alleged beneficiary of foreign assets which were traced due to details emerging from the probe into Indians holding HSBC Geneva bank accounts.

628 HSBC accounts

The no of Swiss Leaks cases on receipt of details.

Concerns of co-op banks appear genuine: SC

Centre to look into the issues raised by the financial institutions

Noting that concerns raised by co-operative banks on demonetisation appear “genuine,” the Supreme Court asked the Centre to look into the issues raised by the financial institutions which largely cater to agrarian and semi-rural population across the country.

T.S. Thakur

Chief Justice of India.

Chinese firm starts building full-sized Titanic replica

Expecting its release by 2018

• Construction on the world’s first full-sized Titanic replica has started in China, a country with a well-documented fascination with the tale of the ill-fated ocean liner.
• The 300-metre vessel being built by the shipbuilding company Wuchuan Group will be completed at the end of 2018 and will remain permanently docked as a tourist attraction in landlocked Sichuan province.

1912

Titanic sank in this year.

Modi, Ghani to discuss terror, defence

Meet of Indian and Afghan President

Terrorism, trade and defence assistance will be on the top of the agenda as Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani here this weekend, which will also see a fresh focus on India’s plans to develop the Chabahar port in Iran for trade to Afghanistan.

Chabahar port

Located in southeastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman.

Mamata threatens legal action

Army personnel had been deployed without the permission of State Govt.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said Army personnel had been deployed in several districts of the State like Murshidabad, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, North 24 Paragans, Burdwan, Howrah and Hooghly without permission of the State government.

Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister.

World’s sole Sanskrit daily struggles to stay afloat

Due to costs rise and advertisement revenue shrinks

• India’s ‘sole surviving Sanskrit daily,’ Sudharma, with its mix of political, civic, sports and culture coverage is waging a struggle to stay afloat as costs rise and advertisement revenue shrinks.
• Reaching 3,000 print subscribers by post, the two-pager with a 47-year publishing history also has a ten-year old electronic paper version that reaches 1.5 lakh readers internationally, but fetches no revenues.

Sudharma

Started in the year 1970 in Mysore.

45.36 crore Indians are internal migrants

Around 70 per cent, are females.

• 45.36 crore Indians (37 per cent) in India are migrants — now settled in a place different from their previous residence, new Census 2011 data released reveal. In 2001, the figure stood at 31.45 crore.
• Most of the migrants, around 70 per cent, are females.

17.84%

India population is equivalent to the total world population.

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