2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS-DECEMBER

December 2014

• Seventyone percent polling in phase II of assembly polls in J&K .it is 65 per cent in Jharkhand.
• Twentyone are killed in four separate militant attacks in the Kashmir valley.
• The shiv sena joins the Devendra Fadnavis cabinet in Maharashtra.
• Over 30,000 people come together in Chennai to create the world’s largest human formation of a national  flag a Guinness world record .
• Russia accepts Indias’s offer to make light-utility helicopters jointly.seven pacts signed after Modi-Putin talks in Newdelhi.
• Andhra Pradesh and Singapore sign to build capital city.
• T.V gopalakrishnan is presented the sangita kalanidhi M.S Subbulakshmi award by the ISRO chairman K.Radhakrishnan
• Tamil writer poomani is choosen for the Sahitya Akademi award for 2014 for his novel Angnaadi.
• The SASTRA-Ramanujam Award 2014 is conferred on professor James Maynard of Oxford university,in kumbakonam.
• A Boeing aircraft completes the worlds first flight using ‘green diesel’ a sustainable biofuel made from vegetable oils ,waste Cooking oil.
• Prime minister Narendra modi is named ‘Asian of the year’ by Singapore press holdings limited ,publisher of The Straits Times’.
• ISRO’s communication satellite GSAT-16 is launched on board an Arianspace rocket from kourou,French  Guiana.
• India’s kailash satyarthi and pakistani’s malala yousafzai are jointly presented the nobel peace prize for 2014 at a function in islo.
• At least 149 people ,including 132 school children are killed and 250 injured after Taliban militants attacks the Army public school in Peshawar,Pakistan.
• Tashi malik and Nungshi malik from Dehradun scale Mount Vinson ,Antartica’s  highest mountain,becoming worlds first twins to do so.
• An Air Asia plane from Indonesia with 162 on board  goes missing  en route to Singapore.