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Current Affairs and GK updates for December 19,2013

Published on Thursday, December 19, 2013
Sahitya Akademy Awards 2013 Declared
  • A prize money of Rs. 1,00,000 is given to the winners of 24 languages it supports 
  • Some famous winners of 2013: Javed Akhtar (Urdu), Subodh Sarkar (Bengali), Radha Kant Thakur (Sanskrit), Mridula Garg (Hindi), Manmohan (Punjabi) 
  • Awards will be given in Sahitya Akademy Function in New Delhi on 11th March 2014
151 book released 
  • It’s a pictorial book about the journey of Lt. Commander Abhilash Tomy who is the First Indian to complete a solo nonstop circumnavigation of world in 151 days.
December 19: 53 rd Liberation Day of Daman and Diu

Six day tiger census in Karnataka got completed

Anna Hazare ends 9 day fast, as Lokpal Bill passed
  • He was fasting continuously in Ralegan Siddhi
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs dead
  • He was a part of Glasglow London Mail Train Robbery which occurred on 8 th August’ 1963
RBI’s third quarter review of Monetary Policy done
  • No Change in key rates
  • RBI adopts a wait and watch policy
Former Indian Captain, Kapil Dev gets C.K. Nayudu Award
  • He will get a cheque of Rs. 25 Lakh along with a trophy
  • Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu was the first captain of Indian Test Cricket Team
  • In 1994 Lala Amarnath was the first to get C.K. Nayudu Award
  • Last year in 2012 Sunil Gavaskar was honoured with C.K. Nayudu Award
India vs South Africa 1 st Test
  • India 255/5 after stumps on Day 1
  • Virat Kohli hits his 5 th Test Hundred
  • Batted at No. 4 (Sachin Tendulkar’s spot) and hit century. It took 3 years for a No. 4 batter to hit century
  • In 2011 Sachin hits a century in Cape Town, scored 146 vs South Africa
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