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1. The autobiography of India’s batting legend Sachin Tendulkar “Playing it my way” has won the prestigious Crossword Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography category.

2. A 1946 picture of Mahatma Gandhi with his Charkha (spinning wheel) in theforeground is among the 100 most influential images of all time, according to a compilation by Time magazine of “images that changed the world.”

3. Four leading India-born CEOs, including Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Mastercard’s Ajay Banga, who delivered big in taking their companies ahead, have featured in Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year list topped by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

4. Former law firm receptionist Susan Kiefel has been appointed as Australia’s first woman Chief Justice of Australia by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

5. Senior IAS officer M. M. Kutty has been appointed the Delhi Chief Secretary.

6. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has inaugurated India’s first and Asia’s longest bicycle highway between Agra and Etawah in UP.

7. Scientists from Israel have created the world’s first ‘water-wave laser’ that emits a beam through the interaction of light and water waves.

8. TeamIndus, a private aerospace starup company is planning to send a spacecraft to the moon aboard an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket on December 28, 2017.

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10. Magnus Carlsen has won the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York City, USA. Carlsen defeated Sergey Karjakin to retain the World Chess Champion title.

11. The Supreme Court has ordered cinema halls to mandatorily play the national anthem before every screening and all those present in cinema halls have to “stand up to show respect.”

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12. Private sector RBL Bank has launched Aadhaar Payment Bridge System (APBS) for small ticket micro-finance loan disbursements.

13. According to the ‘Global Enabling Trade Report 2016’ of World Economic Forum (WEF), India has improved its ranking by four places to 102nd position among 136 economies in terms of enabling cross border trade, with Singapore leading the list.

14. The Union Government has given senior IPS officer Rakesh Asthana additional charge of the post of Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

15. The Border Security Force (BSF), the biggest border guarding force in the world celebrated its 51st Anniversary of Raising Day.

16. International Day of Persons with Disabilities being observed on 03rd December 2016. Disability Day is a day that has been promoted by the United Nations since 1992.

17. Emirates launched the world's shortest scheduled service on an Airbus A380, flying it from Dubai to Doha within 80 minutes.

18. The All-India Football Federation won the Asian Football Council's Developing Member Association of the Year Award in Abu Dhabi.

19. Singer Katy Perry was honoured with the 'Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award' for her work as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador at a UNICEF event in New York on 1st December.

20. The 7th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) was held from December 2 to 4, 2016 at Science City in Kolkata, West Bengal.

21. India women’s cricket team won the Asia Cup T20 after beating arch-rivals Pakistan in the final of the regional tournament by 17 runs.

22. The Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram launched ‘Stanpan Suraksha’ mobile application to promote breastfeeding and keep a tab on “inappropriate” promotion of baby food items.


23. US President-elect Donald Trump has named General Motors CEO Mary Barra to his economic and job-creation panel.

24. Universal Studios Hollywood has been named the Best Attraction in the World by ticket selling site 'AttractionTix'. The winners of the 2016 'Worldwide Attraction Awards' were announced across 19 different categories.

25. Sprint king Usain Bolt from Jamaica has been awarded the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year award in male category for sixth time.

26. The sixth 'Heart of Asia' ministerial conference has kicked off in Amritsar, Punjab from 03rd December 2016 to discuss peace, cooperation and economic development in Afghanistan.

27. AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam (65) was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu following death of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

28. E-commerce major Amazon has launched its global startup program 'Launchpad' in India. An online portal featuring over 400 products from different startups including 25 Indian startups

29. India has received over US $300 billion US Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) milestone between April 2000 and September 2016.

30. India internet user is expected to almost double to 600 million users by 2020 from approximately 343 million users currently according to an The Associate Chambers of Commerce of India (ASSOCHAM)- Deloitte joint study.

31. Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has announced top level changes by appointing Sunil Taldar as CEO & Director of its DTH arm Airtel Digital TV and moving incumbent Shashi Arora as MD & CEO of Airtel Payments Bank.

32. Yappily is India's first online flea market, which lets a buyer and seller interact and transacts in 10 seconds literally.


33. Supreme Court judge Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar will be the next Chief Justice of India (CJI).

34. India’s largest public sector trading body MMTC(Metals and Minerals Trading gold Corporation) has tied-up with the State Bank of India (SBI) to sell government-minted Indian Gold Coin(24 Karat) which will be available in denominations of 5gm, 10gm and 20 gm bar.

35. President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the first ever International Gita Mahotsav in Kurukshetra, Haryana today.

36. France PM, Manuel Valls, has resigned from Prime minister shaft and to declare himself a candidate for the presidency.

37. The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has launched Winter Fog Experiment (WIFEX 2016-17) to study presence of extended periods of fog in northern parts of the country.

38. The TIME magazine has named US President-elect Donald Trump as Person of the Year 2016 and called him the President of the 'Divided States of America'.

39. Bharat Earth Movers Limited Ltd (BEML) has bagged the ‘CII National Quality 2016 Award’. The award has been jointly instituted by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and Export-Import Bank (EXIM).

40. The Union Cabinet has approved the development of Phase – 1 of the Pune Metro Rail Corridor Project.

41. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has authorised the Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL), promoted by Sidbi and NSE, to launch the country's first trade receivables exchange platform for MSMEs, buyers and financiers.

42. In order to further boost its growing defence ties with Vietnam, India has agreed to train the southeast nation’s Sukhoi-30 fighter pilots.

43. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has named Hindi language ranked 10th in the top 10 most powerful languages on the planet.


44. India and the United States vowed to expand the bilateral defence cooperation. Outgoing American defence secretary Ashton Carter met his counterpart Manohar Parrikar in New Delhi for the record breaking seventh time.

45. Former basketball player Michael Jordan has been named the highest-paid athlete of all time by Forbes, with $1.7 billion in earnings.

46. Karnataka Bank Ltd has bagged the ‘Best MSME Bank Award (private sector)2016’ instituted by Assocham. Union Minister of State for MSME Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary handed over the award.

47. Microsoft has introduced business solutions from its partner ecosystem to meet the business needs of small and medium businesses across Kerala.

48. Justice Mian Saqib Nisar will take charge as chief justice of the apex court,Pakistan on December 31.

49. The Women and Child Development Ministry has tied up with India Post and SBI. This will offer more payment options to buyers and simplify shipping of products bought from "Mahila E-haat", an online marketing platform for women entrepreneurs.

50. According to the 2016 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) India was ranked 7th among 163 countries in the list of most impacted by terrorism in 2015.

51. Amazon, which started as an online book retailer, has announced Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as the best-selling book of 2016.

52. The board of directors of IDFC Bank has approved the appointment of Veena Mankar as Non-Executive Chairperson, with effect from December 9, 2016, up to July 26, 2018.

53. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has launched a website of National Rail Plan, 2030 (NRP-2030) on December 8, 2016 Rail Bhawan, New Delhi, to develop the Indian Railways in terms of service in travelling and freight across the country.


54. Stockholders of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank on December 8, 2016, approved to merge into the biggest bank of all Gulf Countries with an asset of $ 178 billion.

55. Captain of the senior National Men’s Hockey Team and one of the finest hockey goal-PR keeper in the world, PR Sreejesh has been roped in as the Goalkeeping Mentor of the India Under-21 Hockey Team from December 8, 2016.

56. The famed Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) has started regular commercial rail service in Switzerland. The first regular train to use GBT ferried passenger from Zurich to Lugano.

57. Pranab Mukherjee has launched a campaign, on his 81st birthday, to end child labour, child slavery and violence against children. He launched the '100 Million for 100 Million Campaign' organised by The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation.

58. The First India-China Think-Tanks Forum which started on December 9, 2016, concluded in New Delhi on December 10, 2016.

59. Madhya Pradesh Government has launched five months long Narmada SevaYatra to turn the Narmada river pollution free. It was launched by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at Amarkantak.

60. Virat Kohli became the first Indian to score three double hundreds in a year,playing against England on 11th December 2016.

61. Mumbai's Iqbal Sayed, who works as a civil engineer with Reliance Infrastructure and Mumbai Metro, became the first Indian to win a medal atthe Mr Olympia event, after securing a silver medal in the event.

62. Senior Indian Revenue Service officer Rajendra Kumar has been appointed as the new Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy making body for the Income Tax Department.

63. Director Onir’s documentary is elated after his documentary, Raising the Barhas won the Award Of Recognition at Australian film festival. The documentary is based on children who have Down syndrome. The filmmaker won at the Hollywood Independent Documentary Awards.


64. Goa CM Laxmikant Parsekar on 12 December 2016 clarified that the state could have only one official language "Konkani". Konkani has played a majorrole in giving Goa its identity.

65. Punjab Government has launched country’s first amphibious bus project at the Harike wetland near Amritsar.

66. Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo (31) from Portugal has won the prestigious 2016 FIFA Ballon d’ Award. He has earned this title of world’s best football player for fourth time.

67. Paolo Gentiloni has been named as Italy's new Prime Minister following reformist leader Matteo Renzi's resignation in the wake of a crushing referendum defeat.

68. China has launched the first of its new generation weather satellites Fengyun-4. The New technology on the satellite will improve the accuracy of weather forecasts -just in time for the winter season.

69. Governing National Party’s Bill English sworn in as new Prime Minister of NewZeland.

70. Pulkit Trivedi was appointed as industry director of Facebook’s-commerce, retail, travel and financial services verticals.

71. The ninth edition of exercise INDRA NAVY, an annual bilateral maritime exercise between Indian Navy and Russian Navy began in the Bay of Bengal.

72. India has outshone Russia, France, Japan and Saudi Arabia in the defence budget and has become world’s 4th largest defence spender.

73. Chapecoense goalkeeper Danilo, who died in the Colombian plane crash, has been posthumously named as Brazil’s player of the year on 12 December 2016.

74. Priyanka Chopra has been announced as the UNICEF Global Goodwill Ambassador to promote child rights at the UNICEF 70th anniversary event.


75. Lt. Gen. Naveed Mukhtar has been appointed as the new Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

76. Two Indian-origin men Vivek Ramaswamy and Apoorva Mehta have figured in Forbes magazine’s second annual list of wealthiest entrepreneurs under the age of 40.

77. Briton Andy Murray and Germany's Angelique Kerber were named ITF World Champions on 13th December 2016.

78. Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has been named as one of 15 Foreign Policy Global Thinkers. She has named in the decision-makers category for fashioning a novel brand of Twitter diplomacy.

79. Cuban government has signed a deal with Internet giant Google to provide faster access to Google’s data.

80. Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has inaugurated the third edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) at an inaugural event in Parade Ground, Fort Kochi on 13 December 2016.

81. The book titled "Many Everests" An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dream into Reality’ is penned by Ravindra Kumar.

82. Rio Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu has won the Badminton World Federation (BWF) 2016 Most Improved Player of the Year award at the Players’ in Dubai.

83. The Union government has formed a high-level inter-ministerial task force to look into all the strategic aspects of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan.

84. The Union AYUSH Ministry has launched ‘Swasthya Raksha Programme’ to promote health and health education in villages.

85. A 2,700-square-meter skating space, which is being considered the world's largest non-permanent indoor ice rink, recently opened at the Grand Palais in Paris, France.


86. The Himachal Pradesh has achieved 100 percent Aadhar saturation on the basis of population of year 2015. With this, Himachal Pradesh has become the sixth State/UT in the Country.

87. The world’s first cloned goat bearing superfine Cashmere wool was born in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

88. The NASA has successfully launched constellation of eight mini-satellites as part Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) into space to improve hurricane forecasting.

89. India went on to capture a third consecutive Youth Asia Cup.90. Grammy Winner British pop star George Michael died.91. AIR will start Punjabi Radio Service for punjabies who lives in Pakistan.92. Trump's announcement to end its disputed charitable trust93. UNSC resolution against Israel, the US has used the veto appeal.94. Wadia also removed from the post of director of Tata Chemicals.95. Williamson's record, became the fastest player in 4000 who scored kiwi.

96. 5 of the most powerful nuclear missile test fire successful: 20 minutes can be reduced to 4000 range from China, Italy, India.

97. End military intervention in politics in China, Xi decided to hold.

98. Chhattisgarh become cashless state government gave the order to keep the machine.

99. China has sent warships to South China Sea; Test the collision of US fighter jets.

100. After World Test Virat place in 11, was the captain

101. “NITI Aayog launches the National Index of Performance on Health Outcomes”

102. Lt Gen Vinod Vashisht is the new DG of NCC.


103. Karnatak Vikas Grameen Bank Launches 'Bank Sakhi' scheme.

104. PM lays foundation stone of Char Dham highway development project in Dehradun.

105. The Union Government has appointed Viral V Acharya (42) as new Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

106. Haryana Government has decided to set up a pilot corridor for an innovative concept of 'Caterpillar Train' that will fly over city’s traffic, in Gurgaon city.

107. Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has launched Nagar UdayAbhiyan rallies across the state.

108. Pune based public sector lender Bank of Maharashtra, has helped to make the village of Malangaon, in Sangli district, Maharashtra, a completelycashless village.

109. Eminent Rajasthani litterateur Dr Satya Narayan was chosen for the 26th Bihari Puraskar 2016 by the K K Birla Foundation.

110. India has signed an agreement with Bhutan for assistance in green and sustainable construction of infrastructure in the Himalayan kingdom.

111. A team of international astronomers has discovered Vela super cluster, one of the biggest super galaxy clusters near the Milky Way.

112. Former home secretary Anil Baijal was appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi by the President Pranab Mukherjee on December 29, replacing Najeeb Jung who resigned on December 23.

113. Former Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie has been named as an assistant coach for Australia's Twenty20 campaign against Sri Lanka in February.

114. China Wednesday successfully launched a pair of high-resolution remote sensing satellites to get commercial images.


115. “Transformer of Modern Physics and Astronomy Vera Rubin has passed away”. She has passed away at the age of 88 Years.

116. The Union Government launched an initiative, Swachh Swasth Sarvatra, on December 29, 2016, to strengthen health centers in open defecation-free blocks.

117. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a cheese plant of Banaskantha Cooperative Milk Producers Union (Banas Dairy) at Deesa in Gujarat.

118. Pulkit Trivedi was appointed as industry director of Facebook’s-commerce, retail, travel and financial services verticals. Previously, he was working for Google India as Head of Industry, since April 2012.

119. According to data released by the Ministry for Petroleum & Natural Gas on December 29, 2016, Government has achieved its target of providing 1.5 crore free LPG connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) to the BPL households in only 8 months.

120. The State Government of Andhra Pradesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Railways on December 30, 2016, for setting up a Joint Venture for taking up major Rail Projects in the state.

121. Finance minister Arun Jaitley in budget speech 2016-17 had announced setting up of Financial Data Management Centre under the aegis of the Financial Stability And Development Council (FSDC) to facilitate integrated data aggregation and analysis in the financial sector.

122. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has designated veteran leftist Sorin Grindeanu as the new Romanian head of government.

123. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched UPI based mobile payment application called BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money).


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