Important Current Affairs of December 3, 2015

Important Current Affairs of 3^rd December 2015

• Tata Group on 2 December 2015 announced the signing up an alliance with a Chinese bank named Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC)  to provide it with a host of banking services.
• Brickwork’s fourth edition of a nationwide multi-state research to analyze finances of all the Indian states was released on 1 December 2015. This report rated Maharashtra as the biggest economy within India at Rs 16.87 lakh crore in terms of gross state domestic product (GSDP). It is followed by Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
• The three fastest-growing states were Bihar at 17.06 per cent, MP (16.86%) and Goa (16.43%). The laggards were Telangana at 5.3%, Punjab (10.16%), Rajasthan (11%).
• According to that report India’s GDP growth rate at 7.3% in 2015 exceeded that of China, which grew at 6.9%.
• Automobile company Tata Motors has unveiled its new car ‘Zica’ on 2 December 2015.
• Aiming to improve the quality of higher education through international collaboration ministry of HRD has launched a scheme named GIAN on 1^st December 2015.
• GIAN: Global Initiative of Academics Network.
• The international day for abolition of slavery has been observed on 2^nd December. This day been adopted by United Nations for the prevention of human trafficking and of the exploitation of human beings and the others. This day was first observed in 1986.
• Theme of the Year 2015: Women and Slavery.
• 2^nd December has been observed as the National Pollution Control Day. This day in India is observed to honor and remember those thousands persons who lost their life in the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, which took place on the night of 2^nd December 1984.
• German cabinet has approved the plans to commit around 1,200 soldiers to support the international coalition against the Islamic state in Syria.
• Indian government has approved the setting up of six new IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Jammu, Kerala and Karnataka.
• Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has been awarded with e- India award for adopting technology to serve public better and for using resources efficiently through mobile applications.