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Current Affairs of December 2013:
National and International Current Affairs and Events of December 2013:
NATIONAL
| Who has received TRAINAIR PLUS accreditation certificate and membership plaque by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) | Airport Authority of India (AAI) |
| Who has sworn in as the youngest Chief Minister of Delhi | Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party |
| The Union Home Minister who was named as the Person of the Year by PETA – India for his role in animal protection | Shashi Tharoor |
| This Bollywood actor died due to heart attack in Dubai | Farooq Sheikh |
| Who has been appointed as new head of National Security Guard (NSG) | J.N.Chaudhary |
| Who has been appointed as new chief of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) | Arvind Ranjan |
| Pension proposal of employees of which public sector company who joined from the Department of Telecom got approved by the Cabinet | MTNL |
| The Union Cabinet approved the constitutional status to | Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) |
| Winner of 34th National Archery Championship | Deepika Kumari |
| Who has been appointed as new Environment and Forests Minister | M. Veerappa Moily |
| Who took charge as the President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) | Sidharth Birla |
| Winner of men’s and women’s titles at the 78th Senior National Badminton Championship at New Delhi | Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu |
| Which airport received the Sword of Honour award for safety management in London | Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Hyderabad |
| Which nuclear capable ballistic missile was successfully test-fired from the Wheeler Island of Odisha Coast | Agni-III |
| Kisan Diwas was observed on | 23 December |
| Fourth Indian bowler to claim 300 wickets in Test Cricket | Zaheer Khan |
| Who was transferred to India’s Permanent Mission in United Nations in New York to provide her diplomatic immunity | Devyani Khobragade |
| Minorities Rights Day was observed on | 18 December |
| Who was selected for the BCCI’s prestigious Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for the year 2013 | Kapil Dev |
| Which Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha | Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill 2013 |
| New Chief of Air Staff | Air Chief Marshall Arup Raha |
| National Consumers Right Day observed on | 24 December |
| Which country was defeated by India in the final to win the Kabaddi World Cup | Pakistan |
| The new Chairman, Chief of Staffs Committee | General Bikram Singh |
| This cricketer was awarded Emerging Cricketer of the Year trophy at the ICC Annual awards | Cheteshwar Pujara |
| Which country was defeated by India in the final to win the Women's Kabaddi World Cup | New Zealand |
| Autobiography of Olympic medal-winning boxer M C Kom | Unbreakable |
| Homosexuality is an offence, this verdict was given by | Supreme Court |
| New Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo India | Shivakumar |
| Which has replaced Sahara India as the new Official Sponsor of Indian Cricket | Star India |
| Which party won Assembly Elections 2013 in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh | BJP |
| 8th Asia Gas Partnership Summit was held at | New Delhi |
| Who was appointed as new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India. | Sushma Singh |
| India will host Under-17 FIFA World Cup in | 2017 |
| Which cricketer won the International Cricket Council (ICC) People’s Choice Award for the year 2013 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
INTERNATIONAL
| The country which has adopted a resolution that eases the one child policy of the country | China |
| Youngest person to reach the summit of Aconcagua, the highest mountain of America | Tyler Armstrong |
| Inventor of AK47 weapon died at the of 94 | Mikhail Kalashnikov |
| Developer of Chickenpox vaccine died at the age of 85 | Dr. Michiaki Takahashi |
| Who was elected as the German chancellor for third term by the German Parliament- Bundestag | Angela Merkel |
| The application launched by Microsoft for the safety of the women mobile (windows) users | Guardian |
| Time’s Person of the Year | Pope Francis |
| Antarctica hits coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth | - 94.7 C |
| First country in the world to legalise marijuana for recreational use | Uruguay |
| Who was crowned Miss Earth 2013 at the Versailles Palace, Philippines | Alyz Henrich, Venezuela |
| Which country was elected to UN Security Council as a Non-Permanent Member | Jordan |
| 9th WTO Ministerial Conference concluded at | Bali, Indonesia |
| The anti-apartheid revolutionary of South Africa died at the age of 95 | Nelson Mandela |
| The official 2014 FIFA World Cup match ball was unveiled by manufacturers Adidas | Brazuka |
| ICC cricketer of the year (Sir Garfield Sobers) | Michael Clarke (Australia) |
| ICC test cricketer of the year | Michael Clarke (Australia) |
| ICC ODI cricketer of the year | Kumar Sangakara (Sri Lanka) |
