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