 INS KALPENI – latest fast attack craft (FAC) inducted by Indian Navy at the

Southern Naval Command, Kochi.

 Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill – Passed by the parliament on Oct,5 2010
to check the complaints against judges of Supreme Courts and High Courts and
investigate regarding it.
 Indonesian President – Susilo Bambung Yudhoyano will be the chief guest for the
Republic Day parade at Delhi in 2011.
 The first state to set up Lokayukta – Orissa.
 Lok Pal Bill draft finalized – PM and his ministerial colleagues, MPs all come under
purview.
 Lok Pal Bill exempted members : - President, Vice President, Speaker and Deputy
Speaker of Lok Sabha, Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, sitting judges of SC and
HC, CAG of India, Attorney-General, Chief Election Commissioner and other
Election Commissioners, Chairman and Members of the National Commission for
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Chairman and members of the Union
Public Service Commission are exempted from this .
 Rustom – 1: A medium altitude and long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) developed by the bengalooru based Aeronatical Developmnet Establishment
(ADE) was successfully test flown at Bengalooru.
 Two UAV developed previously by ADE are Lakshya and Nishant.
 India signed Social Security Agreement (SSA) with South Korea.
 Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana – A new scheme targeted at improving the
health of expectant mothers and ensuring proper nutrition for newborns.
 NIMHANS – National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences – Banglore.
 5th East Asia Summit and 17th ASEAN Summit – Hanoi, Vietnam.
 South Korea became the ninth country to sign an agreement on civil nuclear
cooperation with India after India’s Nuclear Supplier’s Group Waiver in 2008.
 National Voter’s Day – January 25th.
 Largest tunnel railway link due on 2017 – Gotthard Railway Link between Zurich
and Milan through Alps.
 Samudra Prahari – first ever pollution control warship for India arrived at Karwar
from Mumbai.
 Global Hunger Index 2010 – India 67th among 84 countries.
 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) – meeting was held in
Nagoya, Japan. 193 members of UNCBD participated to work out strategies to
prevent the mass extinction of species of plants and animals.

Books and Authors

 Conversations with Myself – Nelson Mandela.

 The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargas Llosa – (2010 nobel laureate for literature).
 Harmony – Prince Charles.

 December 1 – World AIDS Day.

 December 3 – World Handicapped Day.
 December 4 – Navy Day.
 December 10 – World Human Rights Day.

 Kalaikunda Air Force Station (West Bengal): A joint exercise by the Indian Air Force
(IAF) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the United Kingdom was held at the
Kalaikunda Air Force station in West Bengal’s Paschim Midnapur District in October
2010. The exercise was named “Indradhanush”.
 President of Mozambique – Armando Emilio Guebuza. India and Mozambique
signed 3 agreements besides agreeing upon a credit line of $ 500 million for
infrastructure projects in Mozambique.
 New Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) – K.Vijay Kumar.
 Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration
Academia and Mangement – Aruna Roy.
 Winner of Korean Grand Prix 2010 – Fernando Alonso.
 Best Athlete of 19th Commonwealth Games – Trecia Smith – a triple jumper from
Jamaica.
 G20 SEOUL SUMMIT 2010 – South Korea. Also, South Korea is the first non-G8
country to host a G20 leader’s summit and first in Asia. The theme of the summit will
be “G-20’s Role in the Post-Crisis World.”
 First Judge to be impeached in Indian History- Justice Soumitra Sen of the
Calcutta High Court. He is to be removed for misappropriation of large sums of
 money and making false statements about it. Only person to have been initiated for a
removal by the Parliament before was SC Judge V Ramaswami but he was not
impeached.
 President of World Squash Federation – N.Ramachandran.
 PM of Iraq – Nouri Maliki.
 President of Iraq – Jalal Talabani.
 Ambassador of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 – Sachin Tendulkar.
 Koro – A tibeto-burman hidden language spoken by only 1200 people has been
discovered by researchers in a remote corner of Arunachal Pradesh, the home to
diverse ethnic tribes and the cauldron of language diversity.
 Haryana becomes the first state to use treated seed (free from diseases).
 Three Indian art forms on UNESCO’s heritage list – The UNESCO inscribes three
Indian performing –art forms, the Mudiyettu – a ritual theatre of Kerala; the Chhau
Dance – a tradition from eastern India ; and the Kalbelia folk songs and dances of
Rajasthan.
 Tiger Summit 2010 – St. Petersburg, Russia. 13 Countries participating in this
summit owing to double the tiger population by 2022. The countries are Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal,
Thailand, Vietnam.
 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit 2010 – Dushanbe,
Tajikistan.
 Winner of Ryder Cup (Golf) 2010 – Europe.
 India’s Largest trade partner – United Arab Emirates(UAE).
 India ranks 119th among 169 nations in Human Development Index 2010. (China is
89th). Life expectancy at birth is 64.4 years. The number of years a person has spent in
school is a dismal 4.4 years for India as compared to global average of 7.4 and 4.6 for
South Asia. But over 30 years beginning 1980, India’s HDI value has increased from
0.320 to 0.519, an increase of 62%. In the same period, life expectancy at birth
increased almost 9%, mean years of schooling by close to three years, and expected
years of schooling by four years and per capita GNI by 254%.
 Time magazine’s list of 25 most powerful women of the century ranked Indira
Gandhi at 9th most powerful woman of the century. Jane Addams – an outspoken
 advocate for woman’s suffrage and also the first American woman to win the Nobel
Peace Prize tops the list.
 CM of Andhra Pradesh – Kiran Kumar Reddy.
 CAPART – Council for Advancement of People Action and Rural Technology. It
facilitates an institutional social meeting space for Government and social society.
Chairperson of CAPART – Agatha Sangma(Union Min. of State for Rural
Development).
 New IB Chief – Nehchal Sandhu.
 Zari craft of Surat gets Geographical Indication (GI) status. GI of goods refers to the
geographical indication referring to a place of origin of that product, which attributes
it the quality, reputation and distinctiveness.
 New Director of CBI – Amar Pratap Singh (A.P.Singh).
 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration, 2009 -Music maestro A.R. Rahman
and Chhattisgarh-based Ramakrishna Mission have been given the award for their
services in promoting and preserving national integration in India.
 A genome is the full complement of an organism's DNA, complex molecules that
direct the formation and function of all living organisms. Longest genome in the
world – Paris japonica – a white flower which has a genetic code 50 times longer
than that of a human being and edges out its nearest competitor, the marbled lungfish.
 FGFA – Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft.