Current Affairs 17th December 2016

Current Affairs 17th December 2016

• India’s first residential transgender school to come up in Kochi
• Punjab to provide free LPG to BPL families missed in SECC 2011
• Haryana becomes first state to launch Mahila Police Volunteer initiative
• Majuli set to become country’s first ever carbon neutral district
• PM Modi describes schemes for digital payments as strategic push towards cashless transactions
• Raj CM Vasundhara Raje launches Annapurna Rasoi Yojna

• Indian-American woman elected as Mayor of Californian city
• India tops Asia in innovation chart
• 5th Edition of India-Arab partnership conference held in Muscat, Oman
• Trump picks David Friedman as US envoy to Israel

• Andhra Pradesh records 5% more growth than all India rate
• Paytm launches ‘Each one, teach one’ to increase digital inclusion
• India, ASEAN set target of $100 billion trade to be achieved by 2020

• Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed named UN’s Deputy Secretary-General
• Govt appoints Sunil Arora as IICA Director General

• The First Indian Cricketer to Make It to ICC’s Women’s Team of the Year 2016
• ICFA presents ‘Global Agriculture Leadership Award 2016’ to Ratan Tata

• Veteran Hollywood actor Bernard Fox dies at 89