Current Affairs 15th December, 2015

New Appointments/Resignations

Coast Guard DIG Loshali sacked over Pakistani boat blow-up claim

Coast Guard DIG B.K. Loshali has been sacked following a Board of Inquiry over his comments that contradicted the government’s stand on the sinking of a Pakistan fishing boat in 2014. . . . . Read More

Justice Narasimha Reddy to head committee on OROP

Justice (Retd) L. Narasimha Reddy, former chief justice of Patna High Court, will head the judicial committee, which will look into the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for the ex-servicemenâ€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦.Read More

International

Saudi voters elect 20 women candidates for the first time

Saudi voters have elected 20 women for local government seats, according to results, a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country’s historyâ€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦Read More

Death

Benedict Anderson, noted for book on nationalism, dies at 79

Benedict Anderson, a Cornell University scholar who became one of the most influential voices in the fields of nationalism and Southeast Asian studies, died on Sunday in Indonesia. He was 79. â€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦.Read More

Sports:

Samuels banned from bowling for 12 months

West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has been banned from bowling for 12 months by the International Cricket Council after undergoing testing on his actionâ€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦Read More

Vijay Kumar pips Gurpreet to win gold

Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar, with a score of 588, pipped Gurpreet Singh by two points to win the centre fire pistol gold in the 59th National shooting championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad. Vijay finished strongly by shooting 296 in the rapid fire section of the centre fire pistol event, after having shot 292 in the precision stageâ€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦..Read More

Special

Winners and losers in the Paris climate pact

The climate deal adopted in suburban Paris was the culmination of four years of negotiations on how to get nearly all countries to jointly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet. â€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦Ã¢€Â¦Read More

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