1. The Union Road Transport and Highways (RTH) ministry has approved road construction of 6,418 km under Special Accelerated Road Development Project-North East for implementation of Phase A and the Arunachal Pradesh package of roads and highways.
2. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the government will not compromise on fiscal consolidation, and will contain fiscal deficit and bring it down to 3 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) by the financial year 2016-17.
3. India's exports grew by 5.86 per cent in November to USD 24.6 billion, while imports dipped to the lowest level in more than two and a half years, helping narrow the trade deficit.
4. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were named "Asians of the Year" for 2013 by Singapore's Straits Times, which urged them to reach out to each other to avert a conflict.
5. First Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre of India's maiden mission to Mars was carried out successfully by ISRO scientists on spacecraft.
6. Nearly 230 million children under the age of five around the world have never had their birth registered, which often means they will be barred from education, health care and social security, the UN children's agency said.
7. In a blow to gay rights activists, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with upto life imprisonment.
8. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist who fearlessly took on the Taliban, has been conferred the 2013 UN Human Rights Prize.
9. The Reserve Bank said India's economy would grow about 5 per cent in this financial year while the current account deficit would be below 3 per cent of GDP.
10. Railways have carried 677.56 million tonnes (MT) of freight traffic during April-November, registering a growth of 4.72 per cent from the same period last year.
2. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the government will not compromise on fiscal consolidation, and will contain fiscal deficit and bring it down to 3 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) by the financial year 2016-17.
3. India's exports grew by 5.86 per cent in November to USD 24.6 billion, while imports dipped to the lowest level in more than two and a half years, helping narrow the trade deficit.
4. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were named "Asians of the Year" for 2013 by Singapore's Straits Times, which urged them to reach out to each other to avert a conflict.
5. First Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre of India's maiden mission to Mars was carried out successfully by ISRO scientists on spacecraft.
6. Nearly 230 million children under the age of five around the world have never had their birth registered, which often means they will be barred from education, health care and social security, the UN children's agency said.
7. In a blow to gay rights activists, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with upto life imprisonment.
8. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist who fearlessly took on the Taliban, has been conferred the 2013 UN Human Rights Prize.
9. The Reserve Bank said India's economy would grow about 5 per cent in this financial year while the current account deficit would be below 3 per cent of GDP.
10. Railways have carried 677.56 million tonnes (MT) of freight traffic during April-November, registering a growth of 4.72 per cent from the same period last year.
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