TNPSC BITS. The Former Indian Captains Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni won Test matches as Captains in England and South Africa but not in Australia.

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1 December 16 TNPSC BITS Manika Batra wn the 'Breakthrugh Table Tennis Star' award at the prestigius Internatinal Table Tennis Federatin (ITTF) Star Awards in Inchen, Suth Krea. With this, she became the 1 st Indian Table Tennis player t be decrated with this award. NITI Aayg in partnership with a Singapre based AI start-up Perlin launches AI 4 All Glbal Hackathn t develp AI (Artificial Intelligence) Applicatins t make significant psitive scial and ecnmic impact in India. The Indian Skipper Virat Khli became the first Indian captain t win a Test in Suth Africa, England and Australia after defeating Australia by 31 runs in the First Test Match f the Fur Match Test Series at Adelaide. The Frmer Indian Captains Rahul Dravid and MS Dhni wn Test matches as Captains in England and Suth Africa but nt in Australia. Gvernment raises NPS cntributin NATIONAL The Unin Cabinet has decided t raise the cntributin f Central Gvernment t Natinal Pensin System (NPS) crpus f its emplyees frm 10% t 14%. This will increase in eventual accumulated crpus f all central gvernment emplyees cvered by the NPS. The Gvernment als has decided t make the NPS fully tax free, making it n par with the Prvident Fund Scheme. Ex Aviaindra 2018 The service specific exercise AVIAINDRA between the Indian Air Frce and the Russian Federatin Aerspace Frce (RFSAF) was held at the Air Frce Statin Jdhpur, Rajasthan. The aim f this exercise is fcused twards anti-terrrist peratins in bi-lateral scenari.

2 The inaugural IAF-RFSAF Ex AVIAINDRA was cnducted in The exercise is unique wherein the freign participant des nt bring its air assets. The EX AVIAINDRA-2018 is the 2nd in the series f bilateral jint exercise, which is planned in tw phases between India and Russia. First ever Agriculture Exprt Plicy 2018 The Unin Cabinet has apprved the first ever Agriculture Exprt Plicy, 2018 with the aim t duble farmer s incme by It has als apprved the prpsal fr the establishment f Mnitring Framewrk at Centre with the Ministry f Cmmerce as the ndal Department t versee the implementatin f Agriculture Exprt Plicy. The Cmmerce Ministry has frmulated the India's 1st ever Agricultural Exprt Plicy with a fcused plan t bst India's agricultural exprts t USD 60 billin by As per the plicy, a crpus f USD 1 billin has been created t bst 12 champin sectrs in services. The recmmendatins in the Agriculture Exprt Plicy have been rganised in tw categries Strategic and Operatinal. UN Migratin Deal 2018 INTERNATIONAL The Glbal Cmpact fr Safe, Orderly and Regular Migratin was adpted by 164 natins including India at Intergvernmental Cnference. The Cnference was held under the auspices f the United Natins General Assembly (UNGA) at Marrakesh, Mrcc. The Cnference was hsted by the Gvernment f Mrcc. It is the first intergvernmental agreement t cver wide-ranging dimensins f internatinal migratin.

3 It was agreed upn by all the UN member states but the United States ppsed it. It is a nn-legally binding and c-perative framewrk fully respecting the svereignty f all States. Kazakhstan pens cnsulate in Gujarat Kazakhstan pened a cnsulate in Gujarat t further the business partnership. The Hnrary cnsulate will be headed by the businessman and Managing Directr f the cmpany Chandan Steel Limited, Dilip Chandan. The cnsulate was inaugurated n the eve f the 27th Anniversary f the Independence Day f the Republic f Kazakhstan. CROSS BOW-18 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The Indian Air Frce (IAF) successfully cncluded cmbined guided weapns firing f Surface-t-Air Missiles frm the Air Frce Statin at Suryalanka in Andhra Pradesh. It has cnducted as part f a first-f-its-kind tw-day exercise cdenamed- CROSS BOW 18. The exercise was carried ut fr 3 days during the day and night in an integrated netwrked envirnment. In the exercise, successful firing f 4 different classes f missiles, like Akash, Spyder, OSA-AK-M and IGLA, tk place. Glbal Nutritin Reprt 2018 ENVIRONMENT The WHO's (Wrld Health Organizatin) Glbal Nutritin Reprt 2018, which has been released recently pints ut a wide variatin in the stunting levels in different parts f the cuntry. Nearly ne-third f the Wrld's millin stunted children (wh have lw height fr age) under the age f 5, live in India.

4 Glbally millin children under five years are stunted and 50.5 millin are wasted. With 46.6 millin children wh are stunted, India tps the list f cuntries fllwed by Nigeria (13.9 millin) and Pakistan (10.7 millin). With 25.5 millin children wh are wasted (lw weight fr height), India tps the list fllwed by Nigeria (3.4 millin) and Indnesia (3.3 millin). Mre than half f the wrld's children impacted by wasting (26.9 millin) live in Suth Asia. 3 millin Children in the wrld ver are verweight, while 38.9 % f adults are verweight r bese. One third f all wmen f reprductive age have anaemia. Wmen als have a higher prevalence f besity than men. Glbal Nutritin Reprt The Glbal Nutritin Reprt is the wrld s leading reprt n the state f glbal nutritin. The Glbal Nutritin Reprt came int existence fllwing the first Nutritin fr Grwth Initiative Summit (N4G) in STATES Shi Ymi - 23rd district f Arunachal Pradesh Shi Ymi frmally became the 23rd district f Arunachal Pradesh after it was fficially inaugurated by its Chief Minister Pema Khandu. It was created by bifurcating the West Siang district with its headquarters at Tat. Tw mre districts Pakke-Kesang and Lepa Rada will be frmally inaugurated in the state, taking the ttal t 25. PERSONALITIES, AWARDS AND EVENTS Securities Appellate Tribunal Presiding Officer Justice Tarun Agarwala, the retired Chief Justice f the Meghalaya High Curt, has been appinted as the presiding fficer in the Securities Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai.

5 He will remain the presiding fficer fr a perid f five years r till the age f 70 years, whichever is earlier. Securities Appellate Tribunal The Securities Appellate Tribunal is a statutry bdy. It is established under the prvisins f Sectin 15K f the Securities and Exchange Bard f India (SEBI) Act, The tribunal is t hear and dispse f appeals against rders passed by the SEBI r by an adjudicating fficer under the Act Mister Supranatinal Ga's Prathamesh Maulingkar has created histry by becming the first Asian/Indian t win the Mister Supranatinal title He wn this cveted title after defeating 37 candidates in the 3rd editin f the cmpetitin held in Krynica-Zdrj, Pland. He was fllwed by Mr. Pland at 2nd psitin and Mr. Brazil at 3rd psitin. Mr. Brazil was als crwned with Mr. Ppularity sash. China's richest man - Xu Jiayin MISCELLANEOUS Evergrande Grup wner Xu Jiayin has becme the richest persn in China with a $36.7 billin net wrth, vertaking Alibaba c-funder Jack Ma.

6 The Frbes "real-time ranking" f the wrld's billinaires places Xu at number 20, ne spt ahead f Jack Ma and tw ahead f Huateng