December Current affairs for SSB Aspirants

Dec 2014 Current affairs updates

On 30th November 2014, Noted Indian Shuttler P V Sindhu clinched Macau Grand Prix Gold trophy for second successive year. USD 120,000 Macau Grand Prix Gold trophy was bagged by P V Sindhu after defeating Kim Hyo Min of Korea in the women's singles finals.
Two-time World Championship bronze medallist P V Sindhu have rank World No. 11. P V Sindhu defeated Kim by 21-12 21-17 in match of 45 minutes at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion. 
On 29th November 2014, First passenger train from Meghalaya was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This train is scheduled to run between Mendipathar to Guwahati.
Apart from this PM Modi also laid the foundation stone of a board gauge railway line from Bhairabi to Sairang in Mizoram.

 Among the Important Sports Current Affairs on 30th November 2014, Former Indian football captain Baichung Bhutia was conferred with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Hall of Fame Award thus he became first Indian footballer to be conferred with this award. He received this award from FIFA president Sepp Blatter in Philippines at ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of AFC. Baichung who plays as a striker has earned big name and fame in Indian Football, he has played total 107 matches and has scored total 42 goals.

On 28th November 2014, Team of American geologists named Bridgmanite as the most abundant mineral on earth. 
Bridgmanite was named in the honour of physicist Percy Bridgman who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his fundamental contributions to high-pressure physics in the year 1946. 
Among the important Sports Current Affairs, On 30th November 2014, Mascot for the 2016 European football championship was named as Super Victor. The name for the cartoon character boy dressed as a footballer in blue and white with a red cape and number 16 jersey was preferred to Driblou and Goalix.
Euro 2016 is scheduled to take place in France from 10th June 2016 to 10th July 2016.
On 2nd December 2014, Nuclear capable AGNI IV missile was test fired from Integrated Test Range in Wheeler Island, Odisha by Strategic Force Command 
(SFC) of Indian Army. It was the fourth successful trial in a series. Missile carrying one tonne war head splashed down near its pre-designated target point in Indian Ocean.
Among the important appointments on  2nd December 2014, Senior IPS officer Anil Kumar Sinha was appointed as new CBI Director. Eariler at the time of appointment he was serving as a Special Director in CBI. On 4th December 2014, 43rd Navy Day was observed in India. The President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi commended dedication of Indian Navy to protect the maritime interests of nation. Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha and  Army Chief Lt. General Dalbir Singh Suhag also paid tributes to martyrs of INS Sindhurakshak at the Amar Jawan Jyoti in New Delhi on this day.
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Chief of Naval is Admiral Robin K Dhowan.

On 5th December 2014, First World Soil Day was observed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UNFAO along with Global Soil Parternership (GSP) declared the year of 2015 as UN International Year of Soils on the eve of first World Soil day. \

Among the important Sports Current Affairs, On 7th December 2014 Indian Blind Cricket team won the fourth edition of the Blind Cricket World Cup at the final held at Wally Wilson Cricket Ground in Cape Town, South Africa

On 3rd December 2014, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji was awarded Swiss Ambassador's Award in Mumbai for this inspirational and socially responsible leadership.\

On 8th December 2014, Revised Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy in Railways Infrastructure and Defence sectors was notified by Reserve Bank of India. As per revised norms notified by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in August 2014, foreign investment ceiling in defence sector was increased to 49 percent and in rail infrastructure it was permitted 100 percent.

On 9th December 2014, US Senate confirmed the nomination of Indian-American Richard Rahul Verma as the next US Ambassador to India and with this he became the first Indian Americanto to be the US Ambassador to India.