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Know well about NATO in a clear way

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded on 4th April 1949 in Washington D. C.  For Security against Soviet Union United States, Canada and several Western European nations collectively created NATO.  NATO is also called as North Atlantic Alliance that is an intergovernmental military alliance based on north Atlantic Treaty.  NATO however was not only created for security against Soviet Union but it was having other powerful facts like making strong North American Presence on the continent for forbidding the revival of nationalist in Europe, deterring Soviet expansionism, and encouraging European political integration. NATO NATO has headquarters in Brussels, Belgium including membership with 28 other countries.  NATO was originally started with 12 nation states. It later expanded with 16 more members from 18 February 1952 till 1 April.  Out of 28 member states 25 are European countries, 2 are from North America and 1 is from Eurasia. Franc...

Current Affairs for January 10, 11 - 2016

Indian army asked civilians to avoid wearing ARMY PATTERN dresses and shopkeepers to refrain from selling combat clothes in order to prevent terror attacks. SANIA MIRZA-MARTINA HINGIS won Brisbane international open women doubles 2016.It marks the sixth consecutive win of the INDO-SWISS PAIR. 11TH WORLD HINDI DAY was observed across the world on January 10 to spread the greatness of Hindi. Gujarat chief minister ANANDIBEN PATEL inaugurated the 28th edition of INTERNATIOANL KITE FESTIVAL at SABARMATHI river front in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. ISRO conceives two space industry enclaves for launchers at sriharikota and a smaller one at Bangalore. The spacecraft campus signal expected to increase privatization of the nation’s space program over the next five years. INDIAN AIR FORCE plans to equip its Mi-17 helicopters with small arms fire detection system (SAFD) that will warn aircrew about the range, angle and direction of incoming hostile gunfire from the ground during combat oper...

Current Affairs for January 9, 2016

AZIM PREMJI tops philanthropic list for the 3rd consecutive year in 2015 according to the rankings of HURUN INDIA PHILANTHROPY list released by the Hurun research institute. The proposed MUMBAI-AHMEDABAD BULLET TRAIN is likely to cost 10000 crores more than the estimated 98000 crores. This project will jointly be implemented by state government of Maharashtra, Gujarat & Ministry of railways. DRDO successfully test fired new ammunition designed for MAIN BATTLE TANK (MBT) ARJUN. The technical trails were conducted at CHANDIPUR, ODISHA. The state government of MAHARASHTRA laid down norms for erecting memorials of national leaders, freedom fighters, saints, politicians and historical personalities. RBI governor RAGHURAM RAJAN was conferred with the CENTRAL BANKER OF THE YEAR AWARD (Global and Asia pacific)-2016.   KAILASH SATYARTI authored the book, AZAD BACHPAN KI OR which was released by Supreme Court justice DEEPAK MISHRA. QUIKR officially announced the acquisiti...

Current Affairs January 8, 2016

India’s first edition of world music festival to be held at Udaipur, Rajasthan by February . The HERO INDIAN OPEN to be hosted by Delhi GOLF CLUB from March 17-20. AMITABH KHANT was appointed as the CEO of NITI AAYO. DEVENDAR KUMAR SIKRI, an ex-IAS officer was appointed as the chairman of COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA. BHARTI AIRTEL appoints RAKESH BHARTI MITTAL as non executive director. Indian shutter, SIRIL VERMA ranked no.1 junior badminton player according to BADMINTON WORLD FEDERATION RANKINGS. INS KADMATT has been commissioned into the INDIAN NAVY by chief of the naval staff Admiral R.K.DHOWAN at naval dockyard, Vishakhapatnam. This anti-submarine warfare has been indigenously designed by DIRECTORATE OF NAVAL DESIGN (DND). To facilitate safe and accurate inland waterway, Union government launched India’s first RIVER INFORMATION SYSTEM (RIS) being implemented by Inland waterway authority of India (IWAI). Ministry of Indian affairs (MOIA) to be merged with Ministry of...

Current Affairs January 7, 2016

Indo-china joint training exercise SHAKTHI 2016, starts Jan 6-16, 2016.It is the 7th edition in the series with prime focus on counter terrorism operations in semi urban areas. Indian shooter APOORVI CHANDELA sets a world record winning gold at the Swedish grand prix air rifle championship. Former Indian wicket keeper SYED KIRMANI was conferred C.K NAYDU LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. VIRAT KOHLI conferred with POLLY UMIRGAR TROPHY also the title International cricketer of the year. Union government approved 33% representation of women in central armed police forces (CAPF). KAKATIYA THERMAL PLANT-600mw commissioned in bhoopalapally in Warangal district, telengana by CM K.CHANRASEKHARA RAO. INDIA resumed bus services after a gap of 27 years with NEPAL in the wake of Indo-Nepal trade and transit treaty. BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Council) join hands in CLEAN GANGA MISSION to evacuate industrial wastes from the national river using MEMBRANE BASED WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM which rem...