tnpsc current affairs december – Dec. 22, 2016

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www.tnpsc.academy – tnpsc current affairs december in English – Dec. 22, 2016 (22/12/2016)

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Topic : History – Awards and Honours

Sahitya Akademi Award – Vannadasan

Tamil novelist and short story writer Vannadasan has been selected for this year’s Sahitya Akademi Award for his short story collection Oru Siru Isai.

About him :

Vannadasan writes poetry under the pseudonym Kalyanji and he is also a brilliant line drawing artist.

He better known for his writing for shunning negativity.

Topic : Political Science – Govt., welfare oriented schemes and their utilities

National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS)

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) at Kanpur.

The scheme is involving incentivizing employers in sharing 25% of total cost of stipend paid to the apprentices.

In order to make employers actively participate in apprenticeship training, for the first-time Govt. of India has come forward to incentivize the employers.

Topic : History – India and its Neighbours

Pratikar – 1

First ever joint military exercise between Nepal and China is named as “Pratikar – 1”, to training Nepali forces in dealing with hostage scenarios.

Topic : Political Science – General Administration

Coal Mitra

The government has launched a Web portal for flexibility in Utilization of Domestic Coal.

It has been designed to bring about flexibility in Utilization of Domestic Coal by transferring the reserves to more cost efficient State/Centre owned or Private sector generating stations, leading to lower generation costs and ultimately lesser cost of electricity for the consumers.

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Topic : History – Awards and Honours

Mary kom and Vikas honoured at AIBA gala

At the International Boxing Association’s 70^th anniversary gala in Montreux, Switzerland, five time world champion and Olympic bronze medallist Mary kom and former Asian Games Gold medallist Vikas Krishnan was presented the AIBA Legends award and APB (AIBA Pro Boxing) Best Boxer trophy respectively.

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Topic : History – Sports

Kids Golf World Championship

A 12 year old Arjun Bhati from India won the Kids Golf World Championship title against the South Africa’s Methu Denish.

In this competition about 21 countries had participated.

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