December 2009 Current Affairs: In this chapter, information has been given about the latest current affairs based on India and the world in the month of December 2009 from the point of view of upcoming competitive examinations. Here you can find various fields of India and the world like: Appointments, Resignations, Sports and Sportsmen, Politics, Awards and Honors, Important Days, Deaths, Reports, Business, Planning, Politics, Education, Books and Authors, Economy, Accidents, Science, Technology You can get general knowledge about important current affairs related to geography, records, settlement, convention and entertainment etc.

31 December 2009 | Resignations Current Affairs
Welcoming the fresh initiative of the Centre to find a solution to the decades-old problem, 13 Congress ministers from Telangana have withdrawn their resignations.
30 December 2009 | Appointments Current Affairs
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader K G Bopaiah was elected as the speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. The elections were held after Jagadish Shettar stepped down the post to be sworn in as a cabinet minister in the B S Yeddyurappa government.
29 December 2009 | Collaboration Current Affairs
India and Russia are to invest $600 million to set up a joint venture to produce a medium lift transport aircraft for their armed forces.
28 December 2009 | Indian Current Affairs
A fleet of 10 helicopters will be pressed into service to assist the over 80,000 heavily armed central paramilitary troops as part of an elaborate anti-Naxal offensive across the country.
27 December 2009 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has politely turned down India's request for extradition of terror suspect David Headley to India on the ground he will have to first undergo a sentence which could be imposed on him in the US for the offences committed if convicted.
26 December 2009 | Politics Current Affairs
Andhra Pradesh Governor N D Tiwari, Congress said he had taken the 'appropriate decision' of quitting and acting on 'moral principles', a contention ridiculed by the Bharatiya Janata Party as a bid to make a 'virtue' out of it.
25 December 2009 | Appointments Current Affairs
The United States Senate has approved the nomination of Rajiv Shah to head the US Agency for International Development, making him the highest ranking Indian-American in the administration.
24 December 2009 | Person Current Affairs
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao rejected the Centre's reported move to go for a second State Reorganisation Commission on Telangana statehood issue and expressed helplessness if the agitation for the separate state took a violent turn.
23 December 2009 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
India's only aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, will have a special guest President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.
22 December 2009 | Indian Current Affairs
All 28 Indian crew members onboard a crippled bulk cargo freighter, which was stranded in mid-sea, left for their destination of Portland after the vessel's engine was repaired.
21 December 2009 | World Current Affairs
Former prime minister of Britain Winston Churchill has unfinished business at the Bangalore Club. A ledger entry, which is part of the Club World Book, which was released as part of the 125th anniversary celebrations of the Club states that Churchill owes Rs 13 in unpaid bills to the club.
20 December 2009 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
A deer park, housing bear, hyena, birds and snakes besides chital deer, was set on fire in Jhargram a day after the gunning down of four persons and torching of tankers and sponge iron units as the orgy of Maoist-backed violence hit  Bengal's troubled West Midnapore district.
19 December 2009 | Politics Current Affairs
Gujarat government moved the controversial 'The Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009' in the state assembly which will make voting compulsory in all local body elections of the state.
18 December 2009 | Indian Current Affairs
Tamil Nadu was the first state to show the way for the welfare of the mentally disabled in the country. Now Tirunelveli, a city corporation in the southern part of the state, has won acclaim from President Pratibha Patil for its work in the field.
17 December 2009 | World Current Affairs
A two-member team of the National Investigation Agency arrived in Kozhikode late to conduct probe into the 2006 blast at two bus stations in the city, reportedly masterminded by LeT terror suspect T Nazir.
16 December 2009 | Resignations Current Affairs
In a sudden development, senior Parliamentarian Jaswant Singh has resigned as chairman of the prestigious Public Accounts Committee, which he had refused to quit when he had a bitter parting of ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party four months ago.
15 December 2009 | Person Current Affairs
An Indian-American man has been sentenced by a US court to 12 years in jail and ordered to pay $68 million for his involvement in an elaborate internet scam that obtained a whopping $200 million by illegally selling addictive medicines to cyber customers and drug users.
14 December 2009 | Accidents Current Affairs
At least 21 people, including a woman and child, were killed and over 30 injured when a private bus collided with a trailer in Howrah district on Sunday.
13 December 2009 | Science Current Affairs
India successfully test fired its nuclear-capable ballistic missile 'Dhanush', with a range of 350 kilometers, from a naval ship off the Orissa coast.The single-stage ship-based missile was flight-tested at around 11.30 am and the trial was successful
12 December 2009 | World Current Affairs
The Border Security Force has apprehended a Pakistani youth, who had crossed over to India, and handed him over to Pakistani Rangers at Octroi post in Jammu division, paramilitary officials said on Saturday.
11 December 2009 | World Current Affairs
A group of US nationals arrested in Pakistan over alleged terrorist links will not be deported until security agencies verify that they had not violated local laws, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday.
10 December 2009 | World Current Affairs
The United Kingdom's Department for International Development launched its biggest civil society project on Thursday to mark World Human Rights Day. 
9 December 2009 | World Current Affairs
Pakistan has become the second country in South Asia after India to have inducted the sophisticated surveillance aircraft, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) in its Air Force.
8 December 2009 | Indian Current Affairs
Hoping to take Bharatanatyam and yoga to places they have never been, India is planning to come up with at least eight new cultural centres in different parts of the world to use its soft power to spread its influence in regions of interest.
7 December 2009 | World Current Affairs
US special forces will soon launch new operations to hunt world's most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden who the Americans believe is holed up in rugged terrain along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
6 December 2009 | Collaboration Current Affairs
India and Russia have reached a broad agreement to break the logjam over the protracted price renegotiation over the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier and the two sides are expected to sign a landmark civil nuclear pact during summit talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday.
5 December 2009 | Summit Current Affairs
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the Copenhagen Summit on climate change on December 18, reflecting the seriousness attached by India to the meet where it is expected to play a crucial role.
4 December 2009 | Indian Current Affairs
India has launched a major offensive codenamed 'Operation Green Hunt' against Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh.
3 December 2009 | Collaboration Current Affairs
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed US President Barack Obama's new Af-Pak strategy, in particular the initiative to boost 'civilian efforts' to make Afghan institutions stronger and entrust more responsibilities to domestic authorities.
2 December 2009 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
As United States President Barack Obama announced a new Afghan-Pakistan strategy, the US said its 'core goal' is disrupting, dismantling and defeating terror networks in those two countries, an aspiration shared with India.
1 December 2009 | Obituaries Current Affairs
Rajasthan Governor S K Singh, a former Foreign Secretary, died in New Delhi on Tuesday after a prolonged illness.

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