Page-3 of Current Affairs - December, 2011
Constitution (113th) Amendment Bill gets President’s Assent
Constitution (113th) Amendment Bill pertains to change of the entry of Oriya Language to Odiya in the 8th Schedule of Constitution of India. President Pratibha Patil has given her assent to the Orissa (the Alteration of Name) Bill and the ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Meghalaya: Wangala dance festival
The Hundred Drums or Wangala Festival of the tribal Garos began at Asanang village in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district in the second week of December . The Wangala is the most important post-harvest festival of the Garos and is ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Jammu & Kashmir: Jhiri Mela
Famous Jhiri Mela commenced near village Kalyanpur in the Kanhachak area in Jammu on occasion of Gurupurab, the birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. The fair is held to commemorate the martyrdom of the Baba Jitto, who fought against exploitation ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Madhya Pradesh: CBI Bhopal targets Facebook to take help from netizens
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has joined social networking site Facebook, popularly known as FB to get help from netizens in cracking cases. CBI’s Bhopal unit became the first unit to go online on Facebook. The agency has plans ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Kerala: Study on Kudumbashree released
Titled “Engendering Power Spaces for Deepening Democracy: Study of Kudumbashree in three Panchayats in Kerala”, the study on Kudumbashree, the model poverty alleviation programme of Kerala, conducted by the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The study was conducted ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Nagaland : Highest grant for RMSA
Nagaland has been allocated the highest amount of Rs 8325.97 Lakh, excluding balance of previous years, among the eight North Eastern states by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) for implementation of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Kerala: First Nokkukooli-Free’ place→Trivandrum
Nokku kooli refers to an unofficial labor norm in Kerala under which wages are paid to trade union activists for allowing investors/builders to unload materials using machines or their own labor. The unhealthy practice of demanding money for allowing others ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Uttar Pradesh Nargis Yadav: The 7 Billionth Baby
Nargis Yadav of Dauraha village near Lucknow was declared the symbolic seven billionth resident of the world recently. It was not possible for anyone to claim that one child is the seven billionth baby, so United National Population Fund had ..