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m ySINCE 1993 India’s Premier Banking / SSC Institute

Economy

The central bank will initiate the process for

cancellation of CoR against such NBFCs.

NBFCs primarily engaged in lending against gold

jewellery, will have to maintain a minimum Tier I

capital (or equity capital) of 12 per cent effective

from Apr 1, 2015 as against existing requirement of

10 per cent.

NBFCs have to raise the Tier I capital to 8.5 per cent

by end of Mar 2016 and 10 per cent by Mar 31, 2017.

In the interest of harmonisation, the asset

classification norms for NBFCs-ND-SI and NBFCs-

D will be brought in line with that of banks At present, an asset is classified as non-performing

asset when it has remained overdue for a period of

six months or more for loans; and overdue for twelve

months or more in case of lease rental and hire

purchase instalments, as compared to 90 days for

banks.

NBFCs-ND with an asset size of less than Rs 500 cr

shall not be subjected to any regulation either

prudential or conduct of business regulations if they

have not accessed any public funds and do not

have a customer interface.

Aiming to leverage technology to provide cost-effective

and innovative solutions, the govt is planning to equipIndia Post to handle not only savings and insurance

services, but also payments and data registration. With

the world’s largest postal network, India Post has about

1.55 lakh post offices spread across the country. On an

average, a post office serves an area of 21.21 sq km and

a population of 7,175 people. Former Cabinet Secretary

TSR Subramanian is the Chairman of the Task Force.

Automobile Tata Motors on 19 Nov celebrated 60 years of truck

manufacturing at its first manufacturing and engineering

facility in Jamshedpur. Set up in 1945, Tata Motors

Jamshedpur started with manufacturing steam

locomotives, later foraying into truck manufacturing,

bringing global trucking technology to India in 1954.

Banking Tightening norms for non-banking financial companies

(NBFCs), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised thecapital adequacy requirement and the net owned fund

limit, among others, with an objective to mitigate risks in

the sector.

Highlights

With a view to streamlining the regulations for the

sector, the RBI also revoked temporary suspension

on issuance of Certificate of Registration (CoR) to

companies that want to conduct business of non-

banking financial institution (NBFI).

The RBI has raised the limit for NBFCs to maintain

the net owned fund (NOF) requirement by 2017 to

Rs 2 cr.

At present, the NOF requirement is at Rs 25 lakh.

In a phased manner, the NBFCs would be required

to raise it to Rs 1 cr by Mar 2016, and to further

double it to Rs 2 cr by 2017.

NBFCs failing to achieve the prescribed ceiling

within the stipulated time period shall not be eligible

to hold the CoR (Certificate of Registration) as

NBFCs.

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Nearly three months after financial inclusion mission

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was launched by Prime

Minister Narendra Modi on Aug 29, the target of opening75.16 mn bank accounts for the un-banked has been met.

This is a notable achievement as it comes two months

ahead of the target of Jan 26, 2015. According to the

latest data available with the finance ministry, State Bank

of India tops the list with 13.4 mn accounts opened across

its branches till Nov 15. Bank of Baroda, which opened

4.04 mn accounts, came in second, closely followed by

Canara Bank with 3.92 mn bank accounts.

Among private lenders, HDFC Bank stood on top

with 600,000 accounts followed by ICICI Bank that

opened 490,000 accounts. Jammu & Kashmir Bank came

next with 270,000 accounts and Axis Bank opened 190,000.

Federal Bank opened 130,000 accounts as of Nov 15 this

year.

Highlights

The plan envisages universal access to banking

facilities with at least one basic banking account for

every household, apart from access to credit,

insurance and pension facility.

This plan offers a RuPay debit card with in-built

accident insurance cover of Rs 100,000.

Under this scheme, upon opening a bank account,

holders are eligible for an overdraft facility of Rs

2,000 each, which can be extended to Rs 5,000 based

on credit and transaction history of account holders. Those opening accounts before Jan 26, 2015, will

get Rs 30,000 life insurance cover from Life

Insurance Corporation of India.

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA)

and US-Exim Bank on 19 Nov signed a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) on cooperation on clean energy

investment. US-Exim Bank will provide USD 1 bn for

medium and long-term loans to finance US technologies,

products and services utilised during commercial

development activities within the clean-energy sector

by IREDA.

The govt needs to infuse as much as Rs 2.4 lakh cr into

state-owned banks by end-Mar 2019 to meet differentkinds of capital requirements, including Basel III,

provisioning for asset quality, and additional risks. Indian

govt’s holding in state-run banks ranges from 56.26 per

cent to 88.63 per cent, and one of the options to generate

capital is to lower stakes in banks. According to the

Banking Regulation Act, govt holding in state-run banks

cannot fall below 51 per cent.

The Rajasthan High Court has barred the credit co-

operative societies from carrying out banking business

without licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).The court has also prohibited these societies from

carrying out banking activities like ATM and loaning.

The petitioner had objected to these societies

“functioning parallel to banks in violation of co-operative

laws, which permit them to accept limited deposits of

members with an objective of financial independence.

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)has

cleared the long- pending proposal of HDFC Bank to

hike foreign holding in the bank to 74 per cent.

Telecom giant SoftBank has pledged an investment of

$10 bn (over Rs 60,000 cr) in India’s IT and

communications space, one of the biggest investment

commitments from a Japanese firm after Prime Minister

Narendra Modi’s visit to that country.

The World Bank in its “India Development Update”

released recently has said that India’s economic growth

is expected to rise to 5.6 per cent in FY15, followed by

further acceleration to 6.4 per cent and 7 per cent in FY

2016 and FY 2017, identifying the goods and services tax

(GST) as the most important economic reform that the

new govt should undertake to attain faster growth.

In a bid to encourage the habit of small savings among

citizens, Union govt re-launched the once-successful

Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) on 18 Nov.

Highlights Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley re-launched

the Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) in New Delhi on 18 Nov.

The re-launched KVP will be available to the

investors in the denominations of Rs 1000, Rs 5000,

Rs 10,000 and Rs 50,000.

There will be no upper ceiling on investment.

The certificates can be issued in single or joint

names and can be transferred from one person to

any other person/persons, multiple times.

The facility of transfer from one post office to

another anywhere in India and of nomination will

be available.

The certificate can also be pledged as security toavail loans from the banks and in other cases where

security is required to be deposited.

Initially the certificates will be sold through post

offices, but the same will soon be made available to

the investing public through designated branches

of nationalised banks.

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Energy

The Bombay High Court has quashed the IT department’sRs 18,000-cr tax order against oil major Shell India. The

judgement comes in the wake of two similar transfer

pricing cases, which were ruled in favour of the Indian

subsidiary of Vodafone, in which the I-T department had

sought adjustments of over Rs 4,500 cr.

The major disputes so far

Leighton India Contractors: Tax authorities slapped

a notice on the company for subscribing to the

shares of its Indian arm; it was a Rs 900-cr transfer-

pricing dispute.

IBM: The US technology major was asked to pay

Rs 5,753 cr as income tax for under-reporting revenue

for 2008-09. Nokia: Received a Rs 13,000-cr tax demand for

transfer-pricing violations. The company has since

moved court and shut its Chennai unit.

Cairn India: Cairn Energy transferred shares of

Jersey-based Cairn India Holding to Cairn India in

2006. The share transfer in India was valued at about

Rs 26,000 cr. Authorities claimed this led to capital

gains for Cairn UK Holdings taxable in India. The

matter is still under consideration.

The Coal Minstry on 18 Nov released draft guidelines

for allocation of 74 coal blocks. The Central Govt plans

to conduct two-stage bidding under the Coal Mines

Special Provisions Ordinance. Qualified bidder in stage

one would be asked to put in financial bid under an

electronic auctioning process. The bidding would be

open to specified end-use projects in power, steel and

iron, and cement sectors.

Manufacturing The Steel and Mines Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

has said that India is expected to become the second

largest producer of crude steel in the world soon.

Currently, India is the 4th largest producer.

The steel sector contributes nearly two per cent of

the country’s GDP and employs over 6 lakh people.

Power JSW Energy, controlled by billionaire Sajjan Jindal, has

acquired two of Jaiprakash Power Ventures’ hydro

power plants, with a combined capacity of 1,391 mw, for

Rs 9,700 cr.

investor can, if he so desires, encash his certificates

after the lock-in period of 2 years and 6 months and

thereafter in any block of six months on pre-determined maturity value.

The investment made in the certificate will double

in 100 months.

The KVP was launched by the Govt on 1st Apr,

1988. The scheme provided facility of unlimited

investment by way of purchase of certificates from

post offices in various denominations.

The maturity period of the scheme when launched

was 5 ½ years and the money invested doubled on

maturity.

The scheme was very popular among the investors

and the percentage share of gross collections

secured in KVP was in the range of 9 % to 29 %

against the total collections received under all

National Savings Schemes in the country.

The infrastructure conglomerate Adani Enterprise has

signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a

loan of up to $1 bn from State Bank of India (SBI) to build

a $7-bn coal mine, rail and port project, which it aims to

build by the end of 2017.

Capital Market

The board of Securities and Exchange Board of India

(Sebi) on 19 Nov cleared big bang market reforms

including repealing of the two-decade-old insider tradingrules with new prohibition of insider trading (PIT)

regulations and amending the delisting regulations.

The delisting timeline has been reduced to almost

half from the existing 137 days to just 76 days. The

delisting shall be considered successful only when the

shareholding of promoter together with shares tendered

by public shareholders reaches 90 per cent of total share

capital.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has

withdrawn the recognition granted to Delhi Stock

Exchange (DSE) upon finding ‘serious’ irregularities at

the functioning of the exchange.

Corporate The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a Rs 660-

cr show-cause notice to consumer electronics major

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Taxation

The govt has raised excise duty on petrol and diesel byRs 1.50 a litre each to help it achieve the fiscal deficit

target for this year.

Telecom

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the

defence ministry have finally resolved the contentious

issue of swapping spectrum for commercial use. The

Communications and Information Technology Minister

Ravi Shankar Prasad met newly appointed defence

minister Manohar Parrikar and the two reached an

agreement on the matter. Defence Ministry would give

15 MHz of spectrum in the 2,100 band (which is currently

used for 3G) and, in return, it would get a similar amountin the 1,900 band, which is with the DoT. With this

understanding, telecom firms, who feared shortage of

spectrum would lead to competition and high prices, can

breathe easy. The unders tanding between the two

ministries comes a few days after Telecom Regulatory

Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman Rahul Khullar said

the tussle between the Defence Ministry and the DoT

had to be resolved politically.

Trade The govt plans to replace bilateral investment protection

treaties (BIPTs) with a new pact that seeks to plug

loopholes and enhance legal protection of foreign

investors in India as well as Indian investments abroad.

The Finance Ministry is moving Cabinet with a draft of a

new agreement called the Bilateral Investment Treaty

(BIT), saying there is a need to revisit existing BIPPAs

as they do not take into account the socio-economic

objectives of govt policy.

India and the US have resolved differences over public

stockholding of foodgrains as the US has agreed to an

indefinite “peace clause” pending a permanent settlement.

This development will make possible the most significant

global deal, trade facilitation agreement (TFA), at World

Trade Organization (WTO) since the 1990s.

The 34th edition ofIndia International Trade Fair (IITF)

began at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on 14 Nov and

ended on 27 Nov. It was inaugurated by President Pranab

Mukherjee. This year the theme of the fair is Women

Entrepreneurs. Over 6500 exhibitors from 25 countries,

including China, Germany and Japan, are participating in

the annual event. Thailand is the focus country while

South Africa will be the partner country in the fair. This

year, Delhi is participating as a focus state.

China and Australia sealed a landmark free-tradeagreement on 17 Nov more than a decade in the making.

The pact will significantly expand ties between the

world’s second-largest economy and one of

Washington’s closest allies in Asia. The deal, which

Australia called the best ever between Beijing and a

Western country, will open up Chinese markets to

Australian farm exporters and the services sector while

easing curbs on Chinese investment in resource-rich

Australia.

Others The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and

Development (OECD) has said that India’s economy will

accelerate in 2015 but will fail to attain the heady growth

rates of the past decade without sweeping structural

reforms. In a country survey, the Paris-based think tank

forecast that Asia’s third-largest economy would grow

by 6.6 per cent in 2015, up from its last forecast of 5.7 per

cent growth in May, and the growth would edge higher

to 6.8 per cent in 2016.

Higher prison term and hefty penalty of Rs five lakh, 20

times higher than the existing fine for violating terms of

mineral excavations, are among the proposals contained

in the draft Bill to amend the 57-year-old Act governing

India’s mineral sector.Highlights

The proposed Mines and Minerals (Development

and Regulation) (Amendment) Bill, 2014 seeks to

make illegal mining of notified minerals as a

cognisable offence.

It is silent on 26 per cent profit-sharing clause by

the mining companies with the project-affected

people in the lapsed MMDR Bill.

Provided that where the contravention of the

provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (1A) of

Section 4 is in relation to a notified mineral,

punishment shall be imprisonment for a term which

may extend to five years or with fine, which mayextend to five lakh rupees or with both.

In the case of a continuing contravention, with

additional fine which may extend to fifty thousand

rupees for every day , during which such

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The purpose of the new Bill is to make the

concession regime more investor-friendly by

simplifying procedures. The new Bill seeks to bring comprehensive

amendments to the MMDR Act 1957, and proposes

to increase efficiency by allowing transfer of

reconnaissance and prospecting licences and

associated data without restrictions.

The bill, if passed in Parliament, would amend the

1957 Act under the same name.

Driven by softening prices of fuel and food items, the

Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation cooled to a five-

year low of 1.77 per cent in Oct. This raises hopes of

rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Dec to

boost economic growth.

Six infrastructure projects in Delhi and Gujarat figure

among the 100 most innovative infrastructure

investments in the world. The KPMG International’s

Infrastructure 100: World Markets Report has selected

six Indian projects. These are Delhi Metro, Yamuna

Expressway and Interceptor Sewage System (the three

are in Delhi), Gujarat International Finance Tec-City

(GIFT), Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project and Narmada

Canal Solar Project (the three are in Gujarat).

The G20 has cited India among other countries for launch

of major investment initiatives and for having asustainable growth. A Brisbane Action plan released as

part of the G20 communique also said that the state of

the global economy calls for a comprehensive and

coherent policy response that restores near-term demand,

removes medium-term supply constraints and builds

consumer and business confidence.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money

has decided to create a rich national database where

multiple agencies probing tax and financial crimes will

pool in vital classified information to be shared for

seamless investigation.

Japan’s economy unexpectedly slipped into recession

in the third quarter, setting the stage for Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe to delay an unpopular sales tax hike and call

a snap election half-way through his term. The Gross

domestic product (GDP) fell at an annualised 1.6 per

cent pace in Jul-Sep, after it plunged 7.3 per cent in the

second quarter following a r ise in the national sales tax,

which clobbered consumer spending.

Centre With a view to uplifting rural India, the govt is set to

launch a new programme, the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan.

The programme is being launched in collaboration with

the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the

National Institutes of Technology (NITs) across the

country. Although the programme is an initiative of the

Ministry of Human Resource Development, it will be

coordinated and steered by IIT Delhi.

The programme will involve engaging withcommunities around each institute and for their

upliftment. Each IIT will identify 10 villages in its

neighbourhood and work out technologies to solve the

most pressing issues of the region. Different teams from

these institutes will visit the villages, identify problems

and then aim to find financially-viable schemes. The

programme, with the help of IITs, NITs and other “leading

technical institutions”, will prepare a roadmap for holistic

rural development. A date for the launch is yet to be

finalised.

For the benefit of lakhs of households, the Central Govt

has launched a modified Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG

(DBTL) scheme in 54 districts in 11 states, including all

in Kerala starting Nov 15, 2014.

In these districts LPG consumers will be able to get

cash subsidy amount transferred into their accounts to

buy Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders at market

price. Every time they book a cylinder the govt will

transfer Rs 568 to the customers’ bank account so thatthe money would be there in the account before gas

reaches their homes. Each household is entitled to get

12 subsidised cylinders a year. So those who have

already exhausted the quota will not get any subsidy

this year. This scheme will be implemented in the rest of

India on Jan 1, 2015. Post implementation of this scheme,

India’s LPG subsidy burden of Rs 48,000 cr is expected

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the production stock and the entire launch activities

were carried out by Strategic Force Command

(SFC) and monitored by scientists of DefenceResearch and Development Organisation (DRDO)

as part of training exercise.

It was inducted into the SFC in 2003 and is the first

missile to be developed by DRDO under India’s

prestigious Integrated Guided Missile Development

Program (IGMDP) and is now a proven technology.

Such training launches clearly indicate India’s

operational readiness to meet any eventuality and

also establishes the reliability of this deterrent

component of India’s strategic arsenal. India on 18

Nov successfully test-f ired its indigenously

developed surface-to-air ‘Akash’ missile from a test

range in Odisha as part of user trial by the Air Force.

Highlights

The missile is a medium-range surface-to-air anti-

aircraft defence system with a strike range of 25

km.

It can carry a warhead of 60 kg.

It has the capability to target aircraft up to 30 km

away and is packed with a battery that can track and

attack several targets simultaneously.

With its capability to neutralise aerial targets like

fighter jets, cruise missiles and air-to-surface

missiles, defence experts compare ‘Akash’ to the

similar weapons of many other advanced countries. It has been developed by Defence Research and

Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of the

Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.

While the Air Force version has already been

inducted, the Army version is in the final stage of

induction.

The fourth India-China joint training exerciseHand-in-

Hand 2014 was held in Pune from 17 Nov to 25 Nov.

Defence projects worth a whopping Rs 80,000 cr were on

Oct 25, 2014 cleared by the govt which decided that six

submarines will be made indigenously and over 8,000

Israeli antitank guided missiles and 12 upgraded Dornier

surveillance aircraft will be purchased. The Central Govt has granted approval to four out of the

14 identified strategic rail lines. The building of the lines

will be commissioned only after the survey, which acts

as a blueprint. The four rail lines which have been

identified are along the China border. They are in

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh and

J&K . The identified lines are Missamari-Tawang (378

to come down by 15 per cent.

The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), which runs

500 Central Schools across the country, has decided tooffer German as a “foreign language” instead of third

language.

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister has

given its approval for Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project

Phase-1 covering a length of 35.96 km at a total project

cost of Rs 10,773 cr. The Ahmedabad Metropolitan Area,

which has a population of 6.3 mn, will be benefited.

States The Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill,

which makes voting in municipal corporation,

municipality, and panchayat polls compulsory, was finally

approved by the Gujarat governor OP Kohli, paving the

way for it to become law.

Taking a cue from the Polavaram Project Authority, the

Centre is considering creating a special purpose vehicle

for implementing the Ken-Betwa River Linking Project.

Touted as the first project to be taken up under the NDA

govt’s ambitious plan to interlink rivers of the country,

the project envisages diversion of surplus water from

the Ken basin to the water-deficit Betwa basin.

Justice Nanavati Commission on 18 Nov submitted more

than 2,000 pages final report on the 2002 Gujarat riots

to state Chief Minister Anandiben Patel. The commission

members – Retd Supreme Court Justice GT Nanavati andRetd High Court Justice Akshay Mehta – submitted the

report to CM.

Bamboo-based industry in Assam and North-East is up

for a major transformation as Assam will soon have the

country’s first state-of-the-art Bamboo Technology Park

to boost bamboo cultivation in the state and the region.

Defence India has successfully test-fired its Prithvi-II surface-to-

surface missile from a test range at Chandipur near

Balasore as part of a user trial by Army.

Highlights

The indigenously developed nuclear-capable

missile has a strike range of 350 km.

The state-of-the-art missile is capable of carrying

500 kg to 1000 kg of warheads.

It is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines and

uses advanced inertial guidance system with

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km) in Assam-Arunachal Pradesh, North Lakhimpur-

Along-Silapathar (248 km) in Assam, Murkongselek-

Pasighat-Tezu-Parashuram Kund-Rupai (256 km) inAssam-Arunachal Pradesh and Bilaspur-Mandi-Manali-

Leh (498 km) in Himachal Pradesh-J&K. The rail lines are

expected to be used by the Armed Forces for transporting

supplies for the Army and troops movement.

The Director General for Aeronautics from DRDO K

Tamilmani has indicated that Final Operational

Clearance (FOC) for indigenous Light Combat Aircraft

(LCA) Tejas will be given in Jun next year. The HAL

Tejas is a single-seat, single-engine, multi-role light

fighter developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

(HAL) for India.

India and Israel successfully test-fired on 10 Nov a long-

range surface to air missile (LR SAM) jointly developed

by them, marking a milestone in bilateral cooperation in

developing advanced weapon systems.

The final version of the two-seater trainer jet Tejas (PV-

6) made its maiden flight on 9 Nov, in a milestone for

India’s overall indigenous Light Combat Aircraft

programme.

Judiciary The Supreme Court has permitted Non-Resident Indians

(NRIs) to cast their votes through Electronic Voting

Machines (EVMs).

The Centre has named 627 Indians holding illegal bank accounts abroad in a sealed cover to the Supreme Court,

which had rapped the govt for not revealing all the

information in the case earlier.

The Bombay high court has stayed implementation of

the controversial decision of the erstwhile Congress-

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) govt in Maharashtra

to provide reservation to Marathas in govt jobs and

educational institutions announced ahead of the state

Assembly elections.

Five armymen, including two officers, were sentenced to

life for gunning down three youths and labelling them as

militants in 2010. The incident came to light on Apr 30,

2010 when bodies of three youths were shown by Armyas militants who were trying to sneak into the Valley

from higher reaches of Machil in North Kashmir with

arms and ammunition.

The Supreme Court-appointedMudgal Committee has

cleared N Srinivasan, the president of the Board of

Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), of allegations of

match-fixing, paving a way for a possible return by him

to the top post in Indian cricket. The report of the

committee, headed by former judge Mukul Mudgal and

publicised in full for the first time on 17 Nov, also absolvedSrinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan of charges

of match-fixing although it did find him, and Rajasthan

Royals co-owner Raj Kundra, guilty of betting in last

year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament. That

raises questions about the future of Chennai Super Kings,

the team owned by Srinivasan’s India Cements Ltd, and

Rajasthan Royals.

Others The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will

launch Aditya in 2017, its first satellite aimed at studying

the sun.

PM Narendra Modi has announced that the PIO

(Persons of Indian Origin) and OCI (Overseas Citizen

of India) status would be merged ahead of the Pravasi

Bhartiya Divas to be held from Jan 7 in Ahmedabad.

The Law Commission of India has recommended the

repeal of 30 more laws in its fourth report under the

banner of ‘The Legal Enactments: Simplification and

Streamlining’, submitted to the Law Ministry on 14 Nov.

For the first time in the country’s history, a special squad

of women troops has been deployed deep inside jungles

to undertake active and prolonged operations against

Naxalites. With the induction of these Central Reserve

Police Force (CRPF) commandos in their trademark camouflaged ‘Khaki’ uniform, India has become one of

those few countries to deploy women personnel in live

combat situations in one of the most violent and high

threat theatres of conflict.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj revealed that

India is the third largest passport issuing country after

China and the US. India accounts for 14 per cent of

passport issuance across the world. She said India was

attaining one cr mark in issuance of passport during

2014.

The former Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan

outlined the broad contours of India’s new thrust against

tuberculosis (TB), and stressed that he was determinedto take the country substantially down the road to

elimination of the disease by 2020. Underlining the plans

of the Indian govt to eliminate tuberculosis from the

country, he announced ‘TB-Mission 2020’.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment

Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers in around 477

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after introduction of Very Small Aperture Terminal

(VSAT) connectivity by the end of 2014.

After the Supreme Court asked the National GreenTribunal (NGT) to shut down polluting industries on

the banks of river Ganga, the tribunal issued directions

to the Central and State pollution boards to act against

such industries. The tribunal asked the Central Pollution

Control Board (CPCB) to place on its website the criteria

for defining an industry as ‘seriously polluting’ and ‘not

so seriously polluting’ and to categorise them as red,

green and orange, depending on the pollutants

discharged.

The TSR Subramanian committee, constituted about

three months ago to review laws related to environment

and forest protection, has recommended some big-ticket

changes to the rules and legislation. These include a

complete overhaul of certain laws, special fast-track

dispensation for power, mining and linear projects, self-

certification of compliance by industry and diluting the

powers of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

The govt has allocated Rs 5,000 under AYUSH Mission

for promoting traditional methods of treatment in the

country. Through the mission, the govt will provide

assistance to States in strengthening infrastructure for

promoting Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha andHomeopathy, which together forms AYUSH.

The Centre has set up a review committee to look into

restructuring of the All India Council of Technical

Education (AICTE) to enable it to address the challenges

arising in the wake of growing complexities and the

expansion in technical education sector. The four-member

committee will be headed by former Education Secretary

MK Kaw.

The Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh

launched National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)’s,

Golden Jubilee Year Celebrations at Anand in Gujarat.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that India’s milk

production had touched 137-mn-tonne mark from 20 mn

tonnes in 1951. This has resulted in rise of per capita milk

availability from 120 gram to 300 grams. India has been

the largest milk-producing nation of the world since 1998.

Operation Flood, the world’s largest food and

development programme, formulated and implemented

by NDDB, resulted in phenomenal growth of dairy sector

in India.

In an overwhelming response to Prime Minister Narendra

Modi’s call for commemorating an International Day of

Yoga, about 130 countries have joined as co-sponsors

to an India-led UN General Assembly resolution

recognising yoga’s benefits. The resolution would also

proclaim Jun 21 as the ‘International Day of Yoga’.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced its

first-ever guidelines for indoor air pollution related to

cooking, heating and lighting, a problem estimated to

kill more than four mn people per year.

With an aim to end child labour and encourage children

to go to school, Child Rights and You (CRY) has

launched ‘Project Unlearn’ on the eve of Children’s Day

(14 Nov).

China presented its best face at APEC summit by lifting

ban on social networking websites like Facebook and

Twitter for the first time and even allowing web search of

the Dalai Lama at the conference venue.

China and Myanmar signed deals worth $7.8 bn for

energy, agriculture, telecommunications, infrastructure

and finance during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit

to the Southeast Asian country. The deals made include

an agreement to build natural-gas power plants as well

as $300 mn in small-scale loans for agriculture. China

and Myanmar also agreed to set up an electricity

cooperation committee, with the aim of keeping energy

projects on track.

China has warned that it will firmly oppose any

exploration activity in South China Sea if it undermines

its “sovereignty and interests”, immediately after India

inked a pact with Vietnam for exploration in two

additional oil and gas blocks in the resource-rich area.

Vietnam offered additional blocks for oil exploration

during the current visit by Vietnamese Prime Minister

Nguyen Tan Dung to New Delhi. China refers to Spartly

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atolls as Nansha islands. China’s claims of sovereignty

to almost all of the South China Sea put it on collision

course with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Bruneiand Taiwan.

India was re-elected by the UN General Assembly

(UNGA) to a three-year term on theEconomic and Social

Council (EcoSoc). The UN Charter gives the EcoSoc a

broad mandate covering human rights and economic,

social, cultural, educational and health matters. The

54-member body is empowered to make

recommendations on these subjects to the UNGA and

member states and convene conferences. It also

cooperates with non-governmental social, cultural,

developmental and religious organisations and gives

selected ones a consultative status. Pakistan was also

among the 18 countries elected to the EcoSoc.

India has dropped down two places to stand at 142nd

out of 189 countries ranked by the World Bank for ease

of doing business. Singapore stood first overall for the

ninth year in succession, and is followed by New Zealand,

Hong Kong, Denmark, and South Korea.

Fresh from its success in injecting a spacecraft into the

orbit of Mars, India has signed a pact with Mexico for

cooperation in remote sensing, satellite communication

and areas related to the peaceful use of outer space.

Mitsubishi Aircraft has rolled out Japan’s first commercial

jet in half a century, amid doubts it can attain an ambition

to sell more than 2,000 aircraft in a competitive marketsegment.

In a three-page statement issued at the end of G20 Summit

in Brisbane, Australia, on 16 Nov, the world leaders,

including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US

President Barack Obama, said, “Raising global growth

to deliver better living standards and quality jobs for

people across the world is our highest priority.”

Highlights

They vowed to boost global GDP by over USD 2 tn

over next five years by investing in infrastructure

and increasing trade, aimed at boosting the global

recovery amid geopolitical tensions.

The G20 leaders agreed to set up a GlobalInfrastructure Hub with a four-year mandate to

contribute to developing a knowledge-sharing

platform and network between govts, the private

sector, development banks and other international

organisations.

They also welcomed the launch of the World Bank

Group’sGlobal Infrastructure Facility (GIF).

The leaders agreed to reduce the gap in participation

rates between men and women by 25 per cent by

2025, aimed at bringing more than 100 mn womeninto the labour force.

They committed to take strong practical measures

to reduce the global average cost of transferring

remittances to five per cent and to enhance financial

inclusion as a priority.

The leaders endorsed the 2015-16 G20 Anti-

Corruption Action Plan that will support growth

and resilience.

They vowed to work together to adopt successfully

a protocol that is applicable to all parties at the 21st

Conference of the Parties in Paris in 2015.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have pledged to begin a new

era of economic cooperation. The newly elected Afghan

President Ashraf Ghani made Pakistan his first overseas

destination and said that his three days of talks with Pak

leaders has ended 13 years of differences.

On Nov 12, the European Space Agency (ESA)’s

spacecraft Rosetta’s Philae Lander successfully landed

on the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-

Gerasimenko.

At the close of PM Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to

Australia, New Delhi and Canberra announced a new

“Framework for Security Cooperation” that will guide

close collaboration in defence, counter-terrorism, cyber

security and maritime security. During the visit to NewDelhi in Sep by the Australian PM Tony Abbott, the two

countries announced they would hold their first bilateral

maritime exercise in 2015, which is likely to extend into

joint training on a regular basis. The Indian Navy is keen

on making this a sophisticated exercise that coordinates

combat drills instead of a non-controversial, ceremonial

one.

Israel and India have signed a series of defence and

technology deals in recent time that have underscored

their burgeoning commercial and political relationship.

India is now the largest buyer of Israeli military

equipment, while Israel is India’s largest customer after

Russia. In the first nine months of 2014, bilateral tradereached $3.4 bn, on target for a record this year. India is

steadily catching up with China as it buys more Israeli

defence and cyber-security technology, an area where

China is limited since the United States frowns on Israel

dealing too freely with Beijing in defence matters.

The Sri Lankan Govt on 19 Nov released the five Indian

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Appointed Surya Prakash: The govt has appointed him as the

chairman of Prasar Bharti..

E Sreedharan: He has been appointed as one-man

committee by the Ministry of Railways to suggest a

“proper system and procedure to ensure proper

accountability and transparency” at General Manager

level and other functionaries level for taking all

commercial decisions.

N Gopalaswami: The Union Ministry of Culture has

named him as the Chairman of the governing board of

the Kalakshetra Foundation.

Persons in News

India’s Pacific Ocean outreach gained traction on 19 Nov

with the announcement of a slew of Lines of Credit and

development assistance totalling USD 80 mn for Fijiand a visa-on-arrival for all the 14 island countries in

the region during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit

to Fijian capital Suva.

Highlights

PM Modi held talks with his Fijian counterpart

Frank Bainimirama and announced a USD one mn

Special Adaptation Fund for the Pacific nations and

a proposal to develop Pan Pacific Islands Project

for tele-medicine and tele-education.

His trip is the first by an Indian premier to Fiji in 33

years after Indira Gandhi in 1981.

India and Fiji agreed to expand their security anddefence cooperation during Modi’s day-long visit

to the country, which is considered as a hub in the

Pacific Ocean region.

Modi also addressed a meeting of leaders of 12

Pacific Ocean countries.

He also addressed the Fijian National University,

the first by a world leader.

The decision to an increase in Grant-in-Aid to Pacific

Island Countries from USD 125,000 annually to USD

200,000 to each Pacific Island country was taken.

Bainimarama was sworn in as Prime Minister on Sep

22 after the first parliamentary elections in the Pacific

nation since he seized power in a coup in 2006. Seeking stronger engagement with Fiji, India will

give a lines of credit of USD 70 mn for a co-

generation power plant, USD 5 mn for upgrading

the sugar industry, besides a USD 5-mn fund to

develop its small business and villages.

India will set up a Parliament library, and double the

scholarships and training slots for Fijians.

Out of the 849,000 population in Fiji, 37 per cent

people are of Indian-origin. Many Indians arrived

in Fiji as indentured labour in the 19th century. Modi also addressed Fijian parliament, the first by a

foreign leader, after parliamentary elections, during

which he said that India was prepared to work with

Fiji to build a “Digital Fiji”.

PM Modi proposed a Forum for India Pacific

Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) to be held on a regular

basis and invited the Pacific Island leaders for next

meeting in New Delhi in 2015.

A new global study by London-based Institute for

Economics and Peace has ranked Pakistan third on the

Global Terrorism Index list. The report said Iraq was the

country hit hardest by terrorism, with 2,492 attacks that

killed more than 6,300 people. It was followed by

Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Nigeria and Syria in

fourth and fifth place respectively.

The top world leaders at the APEC summit agreed to

work towards possible adoption of a “historic” free-trade

deal proposed by China, in a victory for the Communist

giant as it strives for a bigger role in formulating global

trade policy. The 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

(APEC) summit was virtually deadlocked over US-China

differences on different free trade area arrangements.

While Xi pushed hard for Free-Trade Area of the Asia

Pacific (FTAAP), Obama stuck to Trans Pacific

Partnership (TPP), which US is firming with 12 countriesexcluding China.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has launched a global campaign

to end the often deadly practice of female genital

mutilation (FGM) within a generation.

Libya’s internationally recognised parliament has

rejected the ruling of a Supreme Court of the country to

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Jairam Ramesh: The former Union Minister has been

designated to chair a global research platform panel on

sustainable development called ‘Future EarthEngagement Committee,’ instituted by an alliance of

organisations including the UNEP, the UNESCO and the

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

Michel Kafando: The veteran diplomat has been chosen

as interim president in the west African countryBurkina

Faso.

Hasmukh Adhia: The Gujarat-cadre IAS has been

appointed as Financial Services Secretary.

Died Oscar de la Renta: The legendary fashion designer who

shaped the wardrobe of socialites and film stars in USand elsewhere for four decades, died at the age of 82.

Jagdish Sharan Pande: The prominent freedom fighter

passed away in Almora, Uttarakhand at age 95. He was a

part of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj.

Sadashiv Amrapurkar: The veteran Bollywood actor

who essayed villainous and comic roles with equal ease

and gave powerful performances in Ardhsatya and

Sadak , died in Mumbai after battling lung infection. He

had won two Filmfare awards. He was last seen on the

big screen in 2012 film Bombay Talkies.

Warren Anderson: The former Union Carbide chief,

wanted in India in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas

tragedy which claimed over 3,000 lives in one of theworld’s most lethal industrial accidents, died in the US

state of Florida aged 92.

MV Raghavan: The Marxist Communist Party (CMP)

founder leader, a prominent figure in Kerala politics for

decades, died after prolonged illness.

Elected Dilma Rousseff: Brazil’s incumbent president has won

a second term, defeating her opposition rival Aecio Neves

with a narrow margin in an election that largely split the

country between the poor north and wealthier south.

She is the first woman president of the world’s seventh-

largest economy.

Jawhar Sircar: The Prasar Bharati CEO has been elected

vice-president of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)

in Macau.

Haribhau Bagde: Senior BJP legislator has been

unanimously elected as the Speaker of the Maharashtra

Assembly.

Devendra Fadnavis: He has been sworn in as the new

Maharashtra chief minister and also is BJP’s first chief

minister in the state.

Manohar Lal Khattar: He was administered the oath of office as Haryana’s first chief minister from the

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by the governor Kaptan

Singh Solanki.

Laxmikant Parsekar: He has been sworn in as the new

Chief Minister of Goa along with nine other Ministers.

Francis D’Souza was sworn in as Goa’s Deputy Chief

Minister.

Felicitated Dalbir Singh Suhag: The Indian Army Chief has been

conferred the title of honorary rank of General of Nepal

Army by President Ram Baran Yadav.

Killed

Christophe de Margerie: The CEO of leading oil giant

Total was killed in an airplane collision with a snow

plough at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport.

Suspended Lee Chong Wei: Badminton’s governing body

Badminton World Federation (BWF) has confirmed that

the world number one has been suspended due to an

apparent anti-doping regulation violation. The

badminton body has identified him for the first time after

weeks of reports naming the Malaysian star. He isMalaysia’s most prominent male athlete.

Visited Nikki Haley: The South Carolina Governor visited India

on a ten-day visit starting from her home state Punjab.

She was born in Punjab as Nimrata Nikki Randhawa and

is the second Indian-American governor in the US after

Bobby Jindal.

RK Dhowan: The Navy Chief Admiral handed over the

second Indian Fast Attack Craft (FAC) INS Tarasa to

Seychelles during his four-day visit to the country.

Pranab Mukherjee: Aiming to further consolidate ties

with Bhutan, President visited the Himalayan countryon a two-day state visit, the first by any Indian head of

state in 26 years.

Others Farhan Akhtar: The Bollywood actor-director has

become the first man in UN Women’s history to be

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Missouri: Emergency was declared in the American State

ahead of grand jury’s decision in the fatal shooting of anunarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who was killed

by a white police officer.

Barwala (Hisar): Clashes erupted at the ashram of

controversial self-styled godmanRampal here in Haryana

on 18 Nov as the Haryana govt was racing against time

to get hold of the so-called godman to meet the deadline

set by Punjab and Haryana High Court. As many as six

people, including five women and one child, died in the

clashes which ended with the arrest of Rampal.

Goa: The favourite tourist destination hosted the eleven-

day 45th edition ofInternational Film Festival of India

(IFFI). Amitabh Bachchan was the chief guest of the

opening function. Nay Pyi Taw: The Myanmar’s capital hosted two

summits, the East Asia Summit and ASEAN Summit in

the month of November. The 9th East Asia Summit was

held here on 13 Nov 2014.

Beijing: China hosted the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic

Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit in its capital on

10-11 Nov 2014.

Brisbane: The Australian city hosted the G20 Summit

on 15 and 16 Nov at its Convention and ExhibitionCentre.

Kathmandu: The international conference on the theme

“Mountain People Adapting to Change” was held from

Nov 9 to 12 here.

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his Lok

Sabha constituency for the first time after assuming

charge. He also formally adopted a village in his

constituency name Jayapur, about 30 kilometres from

the ancient temple under his “Saansad Adarsh Gram

Yojana” (MPs’ model village scheme).

Nigeria: At least 47 people, most of them students, have

been killed and 79 injured after an explosion ripped

through a secondary school in northeast part of thecountry, as students gathered for morning assembly

before classes began.

Bilaspur: As many as 13 women died and several

hospitalised during a recent sterilisation drive here on 8

Nov in the Central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Four

health officials, including Chief Medical Health Officer

of the district, have been suspended.

Places in News

Pritam Munde: The second daughter of late BJP leader

Gopinath Munde scripted Lok Sabha history, winning

the Beed seat in Maharashtra in a bypoll by a recordmargin of nearly seven lakh votes.

Ganpatrao Deshmukh: The longest-serving MLA in

Maharashtra created record by winning the 11th time in

recent assembly elections. He represented Sangola seat

in Solapur district and had in 2009 become the second

legislator in India after DMK Chief M Karunanidhi to

have won 10 elections. The Peasants and Workers Party

(PWP) politician has represented Sangola for a record 54

years.

Virat Kohli: The star batsman has become the quickest

cricketer in history to reach 6000 One-Day

International (ODI) run mark .

Mitchell Johnson: The Australian fast bowler has won

the top individual honour, ICC cricketer of the year

award, in the International Cricket Council’s annual

awards for 2014. He has also been chosen as the Test

cricketer of the year award for 2014.

Sachin Tendulkar: The legendary Indian cricketer has

added another feather to his cap when he entered the

Bradman Hall of Fame. Narendra Modi: The Indian PM has made his debut

among the world’s most powerful people, ranked 15th

on the Forbes list, topped by Russian President Vladimir

Putin, who pipped his US counterpart Barack Obama for

a second year.

Rohit Sharma: He has scripted history by notching up

the highest-ever individual score in ODIs, scoring a

breathtaking 264 against Sri Lanka in the fourth match

at iconic Eden Garden in Kolkata. Rohit not only

surpassed Virender Sehwag’s top score of 219 but also

became the only player in world cricket to score two

double tons.

Barack Obama: The government has invited him to be

the chief guest for the Republic Day cermony in 2015

and he has accepted the invitation.

Ranjit Sinha: The Supreme Court removed the Central

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Sports

Badminton Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal clinched the USD

700,000 China Open Super Series Premier tournament

after beating young Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the

summit clash in Fuzhou (China).

Young Indian shuttler K Srikanth clinched his maidenSuper Series title after defeating two-time Olympic

champion Lin Dan of China in the men’s singles events

of the USD 700,000 China Open Super Series Premier

in Fuzhou (China).

Boxing The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has

accepted Boxing India (BI) as one of its permanent

members. The decision was taken at AIBA’s quadrennial

congress in Jeju Islands, Korea.

Cricket

Virat Kohli’s superb ton in the final ODI against Sri Lanka

helped India whitewash the tourists 5-0.

Golf Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri notched up his second title

of the year, lifting the Venetian Macau Open with a

sparkling final round of the five-under 66.

Hockey With India’s men’s hockey team winning the fourth and

final Test against Australia by a 3-1 margin, it also clinched

the four-match series by 3-1.

Motorsports Pole sitter Raj Bharath of India led for most part of the

race, but GP3 driver Ryan Cullen of Great Britain edged

him out for the prime position on the podium in the

opening race in the second round of the MRF Challenge

at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Tennis Zimbabwean national Cara Black and Indian Sania Mirza

won the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore Doubles

title. They defeated the defending champions Peng Shuai

and Hsieh Su-wei.

The 33-year-old defeated Simona Halep and secured the

WTA women’s singles title for the third consecutive time.

This feat is achieved for the first time a player since

Monica Seles in 1990-92.

World number one Novak Djokovic was crowned

champion of this year’s ATP World Tour finals after Roger

Federer withdrew from the title clash due to a back injury.

Russia’s Marina Melnikova defeated Tadeja Majeric of

Slovakia in straight sets to win the singles title in the

USD 25,000, CCI-ITF Women’s tennis tournament held

in Mumbai.

Sonepur: The world-famous cattle fair kicked off in

Bihar’s Saran district on 5 Nov.

Wagah: On 2 Nov 2014, a suicide bombing following the

daily parade took place at Wagah border in Pakistan,

killing at least 61 people, including 10 women, eight

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Awards Indian-American student Neha Gupta won the 2014

International Children’s Peace Prize Award for her

exceptional work to raise money for underprivileged

children around the world.

Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar has been chosen

for this year’s Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement

Award. This is the highest award for cricket in India

given by the BCCI.

President Pranab Mukherjee on 19 Nov conferred the

Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Awards to 69

personnel, including volunteers, in various categories

for the year 2013-14. The awards were given to them for their commendable social work for the community through

National Service Scheme.

The awards were instituted by Ministry of Youth

Affairs and Sports to recognise voluntary service

rendered by volunteers, programme officers and NSS

units and others.

Famed Hollywood actress Meryl Streep, music icon

Stevie Wonder and journalist Tom Brokaw are among

the 19 Americans who received Presidential Medal of

Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honour for their

“extraordinary contributions”.

Winners

Alvin Ailey (posthumous), James Chaney

(posthumous), Andrew Goodman (posthumous),

Michael Schwerner (posthumous), Isabel Allende,

Tom Brokaw, Mildred Dresselhaus, John Dingell,

Ethel Kennedy, Suzan Harjo, Abner Mikva, Patsy

Takemoto Mink, Edward Roybal (posthumous),

Charles Sifford, Robert Solow, Stephen Sondheim,

Meryl Streep, Marlo Thomas and Stevie Wonder.

ICC Annual Awards 2014

Awards list

ICC Cricketer of the Year: Mitchell Johnson

Test Cricketer of the Year: Mitchell Johnson

Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year: Sarah Taylor

ODI Cricketer of the Year: AB de Villiers

Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Gary Ballance

Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year: Preston

Mommsen

T20 International Performance of the Year: Aaron Finch

T20I Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Meg Lanning

Spirit of Cricket Award: Katherine Brunt

Umpire of the Year: Richard Kettleborough

LG People’s Choice: Bhuvneshwar Kumar

ICC Test Team of the Year

David Warner, Kane Williamson, Kumar Sangakkara, AB

de Villiers (wk), Joe Root, Angelo Mathews (capt),

Mitchell Johnson, Stuart Broad, Dale Steyn, Rangana

Herath, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor (12th man)

ICC ODI Team of the YearMohammad Hafeez, Quinton de Kock, Virat Kohli, George

Bailey, AB de Villiers, MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Dwayne Bravo,

James Faulkner, Dale Steyn, Mohammed Shami, Ajantha

Mendis, Rohit Sharma (12th man)

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