Books and Authors This Month Feb 2015-One Liner Current Affairs Feb 2015

Books and Authors This Month-Feb 2015

1.       The Spirit of Indian Paintings; Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100-1900 – B. N. Goswamy

2.       Wild Fire: The Spenders of India’s Animal Kingdom – Valmik Thaper

3.       Ecosystem Management: Towards merging theory and practice – Dhrubjyoti Ghosh

4.       Wandering in Many Worlds – V. R. Krsihna Ayer

5.       Thirsty Cities – M Dinesh Kumar

6.       India-US Partenership – P P Shukla

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Acronyms This Month Feb 2015-One Liner Current Affairs Feb 2015

Acronyms This Month Feb 2015

One Liner Current Affairs Feb 2015

1.       TII – Transparency International India

2.       PHFI – Public Health Foundation of India

3.       PET – People for Ethical Treatment of Animals

4.       NGT – National Green Tribunal

5.       INDCs – Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

6.       GTO – Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit

7.       GST – Goods and Service Tax

8.       CPI – Corruption Perception Index

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World This Month Feb 2015 - One Liner Current Affairs Feb 2015

World This Month-Feb 2015

One Liner Current Affairs Feb 2015

1.       Amid Ukraine Crisis, Russia Drops Gas Pipeline to Europe.

2.       India votes Against UNGA Resolution on nuclear weapons.

3.       NASA launches Orion, a Prelude to Deep Space travel on Dec 5, 2014.

4.       Australia tightens Immigration laws on Dec 5, 2014.

5.       US House Approves Budget Bill, Averts Govt. Shutdown on Dec 11, 2014.

6.       UN Climate Summit Talks (COP 20) conclude in Lima, Peru on Dec 14, 2014.

7.       US President Obama Signs Defence Budget $1 Billion to Pakistan on Dec 19, 2014.

8.       UK to have 1^st Military base in Middle East Since 1971

9.       US and Cuba to revive Diplomatic Relationsship

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One Liner Current Affairs Feb 2015

1.       India and the US have set up an ISRO-NASA joint working group to explore the possibility of enhancing cooperation for the study of Mars, the Government said on Dec 3, 2014.

2.       India tested indigenously developed nuclear tipped intermediate ballistic missile, Agni-IV from the Wheeler Island of the Odisha Coast on Dec 2, 2014.

3.       India’s Communication satellite GSAT-16 was successfully launched on Dec 7, 2014.

4.       Attempt to suicide is no longer a crime. The Government on Dec 10, 2014 said that it will remove section 309 from the Indian Penal Code(IPC).

5.       The oil ministry has for the first time implemented a 27% quota for OBC in allotment of petrol pumps. The Saudi Arabia Government has approved an agreement for recruitment of Indian domestic workers including maids, media reported.

6.       India, Russia summit materialized in the second week of Dec, 2014.

7.       India successfully tested its most powerful satellite launch vehicle that can put heavier payloads into space, on Dec 18,2014.

8.       The Government approved an ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act to remove barriers in a range of sectors like power, housing and defence to kick start stalled projects, on Dec 29, 2014.    

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Economic News This Month-Jan 2015

Economic News This Month-Jan 2015

1.       India’s GDP Growth Slows to 5.3% in Second Quarter of 2014-15

2.       The cabinet Committee on Economic affairs has approved the Minimum Support Prices(MSPs) for Rabi Crops of 2014-15 season to be marketed in 2015-16.

3.       India ranked 142^nd in World Bank’s ease of doing Business report

4.       India home to 11^th Largest population of Ultra-rich people

5.       Eight core industries Register 4% growths in H1 of 2014-15

6.       Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramdev Jayate Scheme launched

7.       Bangalore City Railway station becomes the first station in India to have WiFi facility

8.       Six Indian Infra Projects in World’s 100 Most innovative list

9.       Uttar Pradesh registers Lowest CAGR among BIMARU States in 9 years as per ASSOCHAM

10.   India’s External Debt Touches all-time high of USD 450.13 billion end Jun 2014

11.   All Central Universities to implement Credit Transfer Scheme by 2015-16

12.   Five Global banks fined $3.4 billions for foreign Exchange Market rigging

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Science and technology This Month-Jan 2015

Science and Technology This Month-Jan 2015

1.       The Caribbean has lost at least half of its coral reefs since 1970s, says a new report of the United Nations Environment Programme. 

2.       NASA has fitted a 17-tonne telescope with an effective diameter of eight feet on a modified Boeing-747 jetliner that the US Space Agency is using as a flying observatory to study the stars.

3.       Sample crops like wheat when grown in high concentration of CO2, have less proteins and iron, but contain higher lead, researchers have found.

4.       American Scientists have identified the largest flying bird known to have ever lived-an extinct giant with a wingspan up to 24 foot more than twice the size of the largest living flying bird.

5.       If you are a shift worker, donating blood could be an easy way to reduce the risk of heart disease, say a research conducted by Australian Scientists.

6.       Scientists of the Yale University have used an arthritis drug to grow successfully a full head of hair on a 25 year old man suffering from a non-curable disease that left him without any hair on the body.

7.       A team of researchers from Australian Astronomical Observatory has been studying the Umbrella Galaxy and they have found that it is eating a smaller galaxy.

8.       In search of Aliens, the astronomers have found a new Earth-like frozen planet in a binary system located 3,000 light years away. 

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News Updates This Month-Jan 2015

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Appointments

1.       Senior IAS officer Alok Kumar has been taken over as Secretary Of Central Vigilance Commission(CVC), country’s top anti-corruption body.

2.       Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar has taken over as the Head of the Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI)

3.       The Former Supreme Court Judge Chandramauli Kumar Prasad has been selected to be the next Chairman of the Press Council of India.

Deaths - 

1.       Veteran actor of Indian Cinema Sadashiv Amrapurkar, died in Mumbai on Nov 3, 2014. He was 65.

2.       Marxist Communist Party(CPM) founder leader M V Raghavan died on Nov 9, 2014 after prolonged illness.

3.       M S S Pandian, an eminent social scientist passed away in New Delhi on Nov 10, 2014. He was 53.

4.       Senior Congress Leader and Former Union Minister Murli Deora passed away on Nov 24, 2014 after prolonged illness. He was 77.

5.       Legendary Kathak Dancer Sitara Devi died in Mumbai on Nov 25, 2014. She was 94.

Resignation –

1.       Us Defence Secretary Chuck Hugel resigned in the last week of Nov 2014.

Defence –

1.       China has developed a highly accurate home made laser defence weapon system capable of shooting down small scade drones flying at low altitude.

Environment –

1.       Air pollution seems to have a direct negative impact on grain production in India, a study warned on Nov 3, 2014. Upto the 90% of the decrease in potential food production seems linked to smog, made of black carbon and other pollutants.

2.       The Defence Terrain Research Laboratory (DTRL) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an early warning system through sensors to map the triggers which can lead to landslides and other natural calamities.

Archaeology –

1.       More than two decades after they were unearthed in South Delhi, a large hoard of 287 coins medieval coins has been acknowledged as holding the key to an unbroken numismatic narrative of the reigns of North Indian rulers spread over four centuries.

Crime –

1.       Research in eight urban cities across the world has found that Delhi has a very low crime rate compared to New York and Istanbul.

Space –

1.       China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation displayed the machine and the technological hardware set up at air show at Zhuai.

Misc News –

1.       A husband may have to pay monthly advance to his estranged wife from the day she applied for maintenance and not always from the date of court order, the Supreme Court has held.

2.       A nesting site of the extremely rare white-bellied heron has been discovered in  remote part of the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh.

3.       Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Nov 7, 2014 launched his ambitious model village project in Uttar Pradesh’s Jayapur village in Varanasi.

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