Weekly GK Bites: 15th Dec 2016 to 25th Dec 2016

Miss Puerto Rico crowned Miss World 2016.
Justice JS Khehar to be the 1st Sikh Chief Justice of India.
Bipin Rawat named new Army chief, Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa new IAF head.
Rajiv Jain to be new Intelligce Bureau chief, Anil Dhasmana to head RAW.
Punit Goenka honoured with Business Today 'Best CEO Award'.
Barcelona's Lionel Messi to be awarded as 2016's FIFA Best Player of the Year award.
China bans sharing user-generated content on social media.
China launched a global carbon dioxide monitoring satellite to understand climate change.
Japan successfully launches solid fuel rocket "Epsilon-2"
Bangalore based Team Indus and Japan’s Hakuto combine for Moon mission
Dictionary Merriam-Webster has named "surreal" as its word of the year.
The world's first solar road opens in France.
Google in collabration with Railtel Completes The Target Of 100 Free WiFi Railway Stations, Newest One In Ooty.
Mary Kom and Vikas Krishan to get awards at AIBA 70th anniversary for their extra ordinary performance.
Girija Vaidyanathan's appointment as new chief secretary of Tamil Nadu.
Delhi named India's most well-read city of 2016 by Amazon.
PM Narendra Modi Will Lay Foundation For Rs. 3,600 Crore Shivaji Memorial in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai coast.
The Punjab government has finally notified the "Sunam’s railway station" to be named after martyr Udham Singh.
Ravichandran Ashwin named ICC Cricketer of the Year.
Virat Kohli named captain of ICC ODI Team of the Year.
Misbah-Ul-Haq wins ICC Spirit of Cricket Award.
South Africa's de Kock named ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year.
Argentina win FIFA Team of the Year title.
Jeje Lalpekhlua was named 2016's AIFF Player of the Year.
Sunny Leone to receive PETA's Person of the Year award.
Indian wins gold medal at "Asian Luge Championships" held in Japan.
American Tourister appoints Kohli as its brand ambassador.
Roger Federer named 2016's 'Most Stylish Man' by GQ, a leading men's magazine.
Sangita Kumari clinch bronze medal at fourth Women’s Under-18 Asia Cup hockey tournament.
The Indian Under-19 cricket team clinched U-19 Asia Cup Title defeating Srilanka.
National Mathematics Day celebrated on December 22 to pay tribute to S Ramanujan and celebrate his birth anniversary.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu launches Google Toilet Locator app as part of the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' to help people locate the nearest toilet.
Kochi's Sahaj International School will become India's first transgender school.
Mumbai airport first in India to introduce self bag-drop facility.
Bharatanatyam guru K. Kalyana Sundaram eceives Nadhabrahmam title award.
V K Sharma appointed as Chief of LIC for 5 years.
Saurabh Varma appointed as CEO of Publicis Communications' India.
Founder of Sulabh International, Bindeshwar Pathak, has been nominated as a Member of the Central Authority of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).
Himachal Pradesh 6th state to attain 100% Aadhaar coverage.
"The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill - 2016" passed by Parliament of India.
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana comes into effect from 17 December 2016 to notified along with other provisions of Taxation Laws.
RBI lowers charges on debit card payments to promote digital transactions by 0.25% to Maximum of 1%.
India crowned "Junior Hockey World champions"in Lucknow defeating belgium.
India, Tajikistan sign four aggrement to limit terror-funding.
"Henry Heimlich" the Developer of life saving technique dies.
The island of Bali named most popular year-end destination in Asia.
India's first Beer Mile festival to be held in Bengaluru.
Jodhpur listed in top 10 preferred tourist places for 2017 according to 'TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards for Destinations on the Rise'.
The 42nd annual cake show organised by the National Consumer Fair began in Bengaluru.
5th edition of India's "International Clown Festival" begins at Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Vadodara.
Real Madrid crowned Club World Cup champions.
Priyanka Chopra has been ranked 55th on IMDb's most popular celebrities' list.
Priyanka chosen as Assam's tourism ambassador for 2 years
Priyanka 1st Indian to be choosen as Pantene's global ambassador.
Paris opens 'world's largest non-permanent indoor ice rink'.
Indian boxer Vijender Singh retained his WBO Super Middleweight Asia-Pacific title.
Union minister for Textiles Smriti Irani is set to launch India's second centre of excellence for sericulture in Bengaluru. First center at Ranchi.
The Centre has selected 3 states namely Amritsar, Ludhiana and Jalandhar for launching the 'Lucky Grahak Yojana' and 'Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana' to promote digital payments in Punjab.
India's boxing fed gets permanent membership in world.
Govt launches GARV-II app for tracking rural electrification on real time basis.
SBI launches digital wallet "MobiCash" in alliance with BSNL
ANDY MURRAY named as BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards 2016.
Mumbai's Elphinstone Road station to be renamed as "Prabhadevi".
Bollywood actor Govinda inaugurated the Jaipur Wax Museum at Nahargarh Fort.
Maharashtra forest department will launch a state-wide call centre facility 24x7. Toll Free No.1926.
India's First Nepali transgender model to walk the ramp at Lakmé Fashion Week.
Kapil Sharma ranked 11th in Forbes India Celebrity 100 list.
Salman Khan tops 2016 Forbes India Celebrity 100 List.
India appointed "Vijay Sazawal’s" to Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee Head.
UK (Britain) becomes first country to approve three-parent babies.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz joins Trump's advisory team.
Gujarat-born activist Jayaben Desai has been included in BBC's most influential women of the past 70 years list.
NITI Aayog announces daily, weekly, and mega-awards on digital transactions to promote cashless payments.
Card Manufacturer "Hyundai India" wins Indian Manufacturer of the Year award.
New Zealand women's team captain Suzie Bates became the first female cricketer to win both ICC's ODI and T20I Player of the Year awards.
UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav laid the foundation stone of the 15-km-long metro link from Noida’s Sector 71 to Greater Noida’s Knowledge Park-V.
US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Peter Navarro, economist and author of 'Death by China', to head the newly-formed White House National Trade Council.