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approximately 61 per cent of cargo traffic.
68. The Income Tax department is set to launch over
100 fresh prosecution complaints for wilful
evasion of taxes against those entities and
individuals whose names have figured in the HSBC,
Geneva black money bank accounts list.
69. Foreign direct investment in India almost doubled
to USD 2.16 billion in December 2014, compared to
USD 1.10 billion in the same month of 2013.
During the April-December period of current fiscal,
FDI rose by 27 per cent to USD 21.04 billion as
against USD 16.56 billion in the same period last
fiscal. Amongst the top 10 sectors, telecom
received the maximum FDI of USD 2.67 billion in
the nine-month period. India received maximum
FDI from Mauritius at USD 5.89 billion, followed by
Singapore.
70. Environmental damage in the climate change-hit
islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290
crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank
report.
71. Indias high air pollution, ranked by the World
Health Organisation among the worst in the world,
is adversely impacting the lifespans of its citizens,
reducing Indian lives by over three years, a new
study has said.
72. Government-owned power companies are guilty of
operating the most polluting coal-based power
plants in the country, as a substantial number of
such units are old and operate on outdated
technologies, a report on environment rating of
thermal power plants released by Center for
Science and Environment (CSE) said.
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92. Delhi
elhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been
made a member of the Governing Council of newly
newlyformed NITI Aayog. Kejriwal has come in place of
national capital territorys Lieutenant Governor
Najeeb Jung.
93. The 14th Finance Commission recommended a
fiscal deficit
icit target of 3.6% of gross domestic
product or GDP in 2015-16
16 and 3% in the
subsequent years on the back of a likely pick
pick-up in
economic growth.
94. The 14th Finance Commission has recommended a
record increase of 10 per cent in the devolution of
the divisible
le pool of resources to states. The states
share will now be 42 per cent of the entire kitty as
compared to 32 per cent previously.
95. Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh of the 57 Battalion of the
Rashtriya Rifles will be posthumously awarded the
Ashok Chakra, the countrys
rys highest peacetime
military decoration.
96. India and the U.S. have made swift progress on
their agreement to develop Ajmer, Allahabad and
Visakhapatnam as smart cities by setting up task
forces for each city, chosen for its significance to
tourism and trade.
97. After launching the Make in India initiative aimed
at the manufacturing industry, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is set to initiate a big push for the
services sector in April.
98. Dubai has soared ahead of Londons Heathrow,
riding a boom in long-haul flights
lights between Asia
and the West to become the worlds top
international travel hub.
99. The Reserve Bank of India said that it had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding on Supervisory
Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory
Information with Banco Central do Brasil on
December 26, 2014.
100. Government has appointed S. Jaishankar as the
new Foreign Secretary, replacing Sujatha Singh.
101. Supreme Court directed the Internet search
engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft (Bing) to
neither advertise nor sponsor pre
pre-natal sex
determination advertisements.
102. The Maharashtra government has dispatched a
letter of intent to the Indian High Commission in
U.K., formally setting in motion the process to
purchase the London house where Babasaheb
Ambedkar lived when he was studying at
a the
London School of Economics.
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113. The central bank doubled the amount of foreign
exchange that an individual can remit in a year
under a scheme that allows asset purchase outside
India. An individual can now remit up to $250,000
a year under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme.
114. Britain became the first country in the world to
allow the creation of babies with DNA from three
people after MPs voted for the controversial
procedure.
115. Supreme Court ruled that the election of a
returned candidate will be held as null and void if
he fails to disclose complete and full details of his
criminal antecedents at the time of his nomination.
116. Bhalchandra Nemade, whose Kosala (Cocoon)
published in 1963 transformed the Marathi novel,
has been selected for the 50th Jnanpith Award for
2014.
117. Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare started
protest against Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation
and Resettlement Act, 2013.
118. The BRICS grouping, comprising Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South Africa, is discussing a green
fund under the New Development Bank to
undertake green projects and develop green
technologies for sustainable development.
119. A new record was set when Delhi registered a
voter turnout of 67.08 per cent in the elections to
the 6th Delhi Legislative Assembly.
120. LCA-NP2, the fighter version of the Light Combat
Aircraft Tejas being made for the Navy, flew for the
first time.
121. YouTube will remain blocked in Pakistan
indefinitely.
122. U.S. suppliers of nuclear reactors and parts will not
be directly liable in case of a nuclear accident, nor
can they be sued by Indian nuclear operators
unless the contract they sign clearly states it, the
government said. Government has assured the U.S.
and other suppliers that their liability would be
paid out of an insurance pool of approximately
$250 million (Rs.1,500 crore), to be funded equally
by the government and the government-owned
insurance companies.
123. North Korea test fired five short-range missiles
into the sea off its east coast.
124. The Central Statistics Office said that India is set to
grow 7.4 per cent and cross the $2.1-trillion mark
this year against 6.9 per cent in 2013-14.
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