Current Affairs 2015

Qatar has agreed to lower the price of gas it sells to India on a long-term contract by about USD 6 billion to reflect the slump in global energy rates and also waived the Rs 12,000-crore penalty for ‘short-lifting’ in 2015.

State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commissioned a 660 MW unit of Prayagraj Super Thermal Power Project at Bara town in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh.

Union Government has unveiled National Biotechnology Development Strategy (NBDS) 2015-2020 to establish India as a world-class bio-manufacturing hub.

The Union Cabinet has approved the construction of 69 Bridges including Approach Roads on the Tamu-Kyigone-Kalewa (TKK) road section of the Trilateral Highway in Myanmar.

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).