Daily Current Affairs Updates

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved introduction of Amended Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (ATUFS) for technology upgradation of the textiles industry.

The Union Cabinet has given its approval to sign Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia.

Eminent Marathi poet Mangesh Padgaonkar passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra on after a brief illness. He was 86.

• Current Affairs weekly bullets is the collections of weekly current affairs in the form of bullet points so you can grab it in easily. Here, we have brought the bullet points of current affairs from 15th to 21st December, 2015.

• Navy successfully launches long-range air defence missile Barak NG.
• IIT faculty to move TRAI against Free Basics.
• Cabinet nod to Indo-Australian nuclear deal.

The Indo-Australian civil nuclear cooperation agreement, which came into force, received the stamp of approval of the Union Cabinet.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is extending by a week, to January 7, the last date for receiving comments on its paper on differential data pricing — a key aspect of the raging debate on net neutrality.

Atleast 40 faculty members from the IITs at Mumbai, Delhi, Khargapur and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have, as of Wednesday, signed the petition lambasting Free Basics — a Facebook initiative to offer free access to a few sites—as ‘misleading’and ‘flawed.’ They will be submitting the petition to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

Dr. Reddy̢۪s Laboratories re-launched Esomeprazole Magnesium Delayed-Release capsules in the U.S. market after changing the capsule̢۪s colour.

Way2SMS, free SMS service provider, said it has rebranded itself as Way2 and is foraying into short news service to reflect both the evolution of the company as well as its vision for the future.

Israel̢۪s top court slashed former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert̢۪s prison sentence from six years to 18 months after overturning the main count in his 2014 bribery conviction.

LR-SAM, also known as Barak NG (next generation), is being co-developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The missile will be manufactured by Bharat Dynamics Limited.