Current Affairs, December 2014 31st December: * President Pranab Mukherjee approves the system of national body to appoint judges, which will start a process of selection of judges for the High Courts and the Supreme Court by making politicians and citizens a part of that process. * President Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dr Krishan Kant Paul as Governor of Meghalaya, Aziz Qureshi as Governor for Uttarakhand and Keshari Nath Tripathi as the Governor of West Bengal. 30th December: * Indian Test Cricket team Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirment from Test cricket. * Indonesian rescue teams found dead bodies from the debris of the AirAsia plane QZ 8501 which was missing from last Sunday. * A CBI court in Mumbai drops charges against BJP president Amit Shah in both the fake encounter cases of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati. 29th December: * The cabinet has cleared emergency executive order to ease land-acquisition rules in sectors like power, housing and defence to kick-start hundreds of billions of dollars in stalled projects, though investments are unlikely to flow in immediately. 28th December: * AirAsia Flight QZ8501 left from Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore with 155 passengers onboard goes missing after air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane. * BJP leader Raghubar Das has been sworn in as the first non-tribal chief minister of Jharkhand. 27th December: * Bihar Assembly Speaker disqualified four legislators belonging to the Janata Dal (United) for anti-party activities. 26th December: * BJP leader Raghubar Das elected as the next chief minister of Jharkhand who will be first non-tribal leader in the state to hold the post. * Indian army starts Operation All Out against the Bodo militants in Assam. 25th December: * Christmas is celebrated all over the world. * Indian Government today celebrated as the Good Governance Day on the birthday occasion of Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 24th December: * Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and freedom fighter Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumously) will be awarded the Bharat Ratna. 23rd December: * BJP becomes the single largest party in Jharkhand assembly election after winning 42 of 81 seats. * In Jammu and Kashmir assembly election, PDP wins 28 seats while BJP wins 25 seats of the total 87 seats. * 70 people killed by militants in 4 different attacks in Assam. * India exported its first locally build warship CGS Barracuda offshore patrol vessel (OPV) to Mauritius. * The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted additional six months (till June 30, 2015) for exchanging currency notes printed before 2005. * Veteran Tamil filmmaker K. Balachander died in Chennai at the age of 84. 22nd December: * The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced Sachin Tendulkar as the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Ambassador. 21st December: * Real Madrid wins the Club World Cup for the first time by beating San Lorenzo 2-0. January 2015 cooming soon...... #shakeel
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:59:05 +0000
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