Friday, 22 December 2017

CURRENT AFFAIRS 21ST DECEMBER 2017...COMPRESSED

1. The Reserve Bank of India placed Bank of India under the Prompt Corrective Action Framework, consequent to the onsite inspection under the Risk-Based Supervision Model carried out for the year ended March 2017. This is the first time that the central bank has invoked PCA for a large bank of the size of BoI.

2. The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi approved the Ministry of Railways' transformative initiative to set up India's first ever National Rail and Transport University (NRTU) in Vadodara, Gujarat to skill its human resources and build capability.

3. Delhi emerged as one of the most expensive premium office locations in the world. Ranked 7th in the list, rent of Delhi’s premium office location is higher than San Francisco and Dubai, according to the latest report by JLL India, a real estate services firm. Mumbai is at 16th position in the list.

4. Lionel Messi, the star forward of Barcelona, has received La Liga’s top scorer and best player awards for the 2016-2017 football season.

5. Indian Affairs Odisha Environment Congress 2017 kicked off with an aim to foster ‘Sustainable River Basin Management’. OEC-2017 kicked off at Regional Museum of Natural History in Odisha.

6. A new LIGO gravitational wave detector to measure ripples in
the fabric of space and time is set to be built in India by 2025,
in collaboration with universities from across the globe.

7. IGNOU to launch world’s first sand art certificate
course in March, 2018:

8. IMF approves $2 billion loan instalment for Egypt.

9. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh launched a mobile app
to check unauthorised construction, and also unveiled a new
web portal of the housing department for online issuance of
change of land use.
While the app will enable quick action to stop any ongoing
illegal construction, the web portal will facilitate easy land use
change and help citizens track any such change.
The android-based App, known as PUDA-UCIC.

10. Telecom operator Aircel will shut operations in six circles,
including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, from
January 30.

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