Sunday 20 December 2015

World this Week: 7 December-13 December 2015

7 December 2015
• India won four-match Test series against South Africa, 3-0
• Chen Long and Carolina Marin bagged 2015 BWF Player of the Year Awards
• Latvia’s Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma resigned
• Beijing issued first-ever Red Alert on Air Pollution
• India launched I-LTEO programme to monitor 8 different biomes

8 December 2015
• Luxembourg became the 10th country to ratify AoA of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
• US House passed Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act of 2015
• UNCTAD released Handbook of Statistics 2015
• ADB released Asian Economic Integration Report 2015
• Global Financial Integrity released the Global Illicit Financial Flows Report 2015

9 December 2015
• World’s first dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, approved for use in Mexico
• TIME Magazine named German Chancellor Merkel as 2015 ‘Person of the Year’
• Mahela Jayawardene awarded honorary lifetime membership of MCC
• UN agencies launched $1.98 billion Sahel humanitarian appeal for 2016
• UNCAT called on China to halt oppression of Human Rights Activists
• Myanmar inaugurated Yangon Stock Exchange
• India-Pakistan agreed to replace 8-point Composite Dialogue with 10-point Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue
• UN Security Council adopted Resolution on Youth, Peace and Security
• 2016: UK-INDIA Year of Education, Research and Innovation launched
• IISc Bangalore bagged solar panel research and development contract from US Military
• International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of Victims of Crime of Genocide observed
• International Anti-Corruption Day observed across the world

10 December 2015
• International Cricket Council announced OPPO as Global Partner
• Human Rights Day observed across the world
• India’s Kartik Sawhney and Neha Swain won 2016 Queen's Young Leaders Award
• Mauricio Macri Blanco sworn in as President of Argentina
• Salman Rushdie honoured with Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement

11 December 2015
• Elizabeth Susan Koshy clinched gold in 59th National Shooting Championships
• Indian cyclist Deborah Herold became World No. 4 Cyclist
• India and Japan signed protocol to amend double taxation avoidance pact
• Myanmar launched its first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Inle Lake
• Alibaba agreed to buy 112-year old newspaper South China Morning Post of Hong Kong
• Indian-origin writer J M Sali won 2015 South East Asian Write Award for Singapore

12 December 2015 
• India and Japan inked three agreements for cooperation in Railway Sector
• India and Japan exchanged 16 documents; Reached Agreement on Civil Nuclear Energy
• COP 21 under UNFCCC adopted Paris Agreement on Climate Change

13 December 2015
• Mascot and Logo of 2016 South Asian Games unveiled
• Japan's Nozomi Okuhara, Kento Momota won singles titles at World Dubai Superseries Finals
• Saudi voters elected women candidates for first time in Municipal council polls
• Construction work of TAPI Gas Pipeline started

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