1) India launched International Solar Alliance
a) At the CoP21 Climate Conference in Paris, India launched an International Solar Alliance (ISA). ISA invited all the countries located fully of partly between tropics of Cancer & Capricorn to join.
b) ISA will function to reduce the cost of finance & technology needed to reply solar power as well as
c) This alliance will also pursue cooperation in
d) ISA will function from the National Institute of Solar Energy in India at Gurgaon.
2. Veteran Russian
a) One of the famous
b) His popular comedy movies during
c) Carnival Night (1956), Irony of Fate, The Garage & Office Romance are few of his most popular comedy films.
3. Bharti Airtel to invest Rs. 60,000 crore in ‘Project Leap’
a) India’s foremost telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has announced to invest Rs. 60,000 crore under it’s ambitious programme called ‘Project Leap’.
b) The object of this programme is to provide good quality of voice and data services. Airtel will deploy over 70,000 base stations in the current fiscal under this programme.
c) Over the period of next three years, more than 1,60,000 base stations will be set up nationwide.
4. Mission Innovation launched in Paris convention for clean energy revolution
a) Mission Innovation was launched on 30th November by world leaders to accelerate clean energy revolution in Paris convention. Total 20 participating countries launched this mission at United Nations Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris-Le Bourget.
b) Primary Objective of this mission is to double the clean energy research and development funding by 2020 of member countries.
c) Mission Innovation stands to provide affordable clean energy to everyone around the world.
d) Participating countries pledged to work with existing international institutions and to cooperate each other to help governments, private investors, and technology innovators.
e) This mutual collaboration will cover areas such as data sharing, technology and analysis to promote the commercialization and to propagate clean energy technology around the world.
5. President Pranab Mukherjee presents
a) On 30th
b) This award is is given to the winner of
c) With
6. China’s Yuan is enlisted as Elite Reserve Currency by IMF
a) China’s national currency Yuan is included in Elite Reserve Currency Basket by International Monetary Fund (IMF).
b) During the IMF’s executive board’s five yearly of the basket of currencies Yuan was added to the list. After the inclusion, Yuan will be a freely usable currency which will be added in SDR (Spacial Drawing Right) basket. It will be the fifth currency in SDR basket after US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen & British Pound.
c) The new SDR basket will be launched on 1st
d) This decision will make a way for
7. IPV injection launched by Union government
a) Union Government launched the injectable Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) as a part of its commitment to Global polio endgame strategy.
b) Union Health minister & Family Welfare JP Nadda launched IPV injection in New Delhi. This launch is a part of India’s inversion immunisation programme to fight against polio in the country.
c) The first phase will be introduced in six states. They are Assam, Gujarat, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh. This injection will be given to children below one year age with the third dose of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV).
d) Both IPV & OPV will strengthen children’s immune system and will provide double protection against polio.
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