South Indian Temple has brought back its strict dress norms | Current Affair Recap | December 2016
- The country that was recently removed from the South America’s trade group Mercosur is ?
Venezuela
- The theme of the 2016 World Soil Day is ?
Soils and pulses, a symbiosis for life
- This
nation’s Prime Minister announced his surprise resignation on 5
December 2016, unwilling to sit through his fourth consecutive term in
office ?
New Zealand
- This district in Assam is the first to pay wages to tea garden workers through bank accounts ?
Hailakandi
- A 10,500 year-old camping site has been discovered by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in ?
Ladakh
- India on 3 December 2016 signed four agreements to boost the bilateral relations between the two nations ?
Qatar
- The
6th Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process
(HoA-IP) concluded on 4 December 2016 after adopting ?
the Amritsar
Declaration
- Phulel Singh Sujlana, who passed away recently, was the former international umpire of ?
Hockey
- The Abhiyan that was launched by Union IT Minister Ravishankar Prasad to enable every citizen, small traders and merchants to adopt digital payments in their everyday financial transactions is ?
Digidhan Abhiyan
- The two day India-UK Conference on Ease of Doing Business was jointly inaugurated on 9 December 2016 in ?
New Delhi
- Reserve Bank has directed all Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) to upload the Know Your Customer or KYC data pertaining to new individual accounts opened on or after January 1, with ?
Central KYC Records Registry
- The Assam government has mooted allocating at least 5 percent of development funds of every department for tea garden areas from ?
The next annual state budget
- The Rajasthan High Court has struck down Special Backward Classes reservation given to ?
Gujjars and five other communities of the state
- The UN General Assembly has demanded an immediate ceasefire in Syria and urgent aid deliveries in a resolution adopted by a strong majority as Syrian forces launched another assault on ?
Aleppo
- A Japanese capsule blasted off with much-needed supplies for the International Space Station, a week after ?
a Russian shipment was destroyed shortly after liftoff
- India was recently designated as a Major Defence Partner of the United States during the visit of US Secretary of Defence to New Delhi. The US Secretary of Defence is ?
Ashton Carter
- The first American astronaut to Orbit Earth who passed away recently is ?
John Glenn
- The Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan recently launched Haritha Keralam Mission to ?
make the state clean, protect its water sources and soil
- He was recently appointed as the Chief Justice of Pakistan ?
Justice Saqib Nisar
- The theme of the 2016 International Anti-Corruption Day is ?
United against corruption for development, peace and security
- Most powerful language as per the 2016 World Power Language Index ?
English
- Bank that was considered as the Best Bank for SME Lending by Assocham ?
Vijaya Bank
- State that launched the Purse mobile app to promote digital transactions ?
Andhra Pradesh
- Person named as the Asian of the Year 2016 by The Straits Times ?
Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
- Indian organisation that announced to provide financial support to eligible banks for deployment of 2 POS devices each in 1 Lakh villages with population of less than 10000 ?
NABARD
- This Indian Airlines faces a summoning from the Enforcement Directorate for violating FEMA regulations ?
Air Asia India
- This South Indian Temple has brought back its strict dress norms ?
Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple
- This president faces an impeachment vote ?
Park Geun-hye
- This country was denied $100 million loan from the World Bank ?
Pakistan
- This Indian State’s High Court has ordered a liquor and tobacco ban in three of its districts ?
Uttarakhand
- The court that declared the process of Triple Talaq as unconstitutional is ?
Allahabad High Court
- Arunachal Pradesh State Co-operative Apex Bank 2016 launched Mobile Banking Service named SIMsePaY in collaboration with ?
Yes Bank Ltd.
- He was named as Person of the Year 2016 by Time magazine ?
US President-elect Donald Trump
- Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-661 crashed with 47 people, including five crew members and 42 passengers, on board into a mountain near the town of ?
Havelian, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
- Armed Forces Flag Day is celebrated in India on ?
7 December