*CURRENT AFFAIRS (10:12:2014)

1).World's longest train journey was completed on 9.12.2014 a train
covering record 13,052 km
-The train named 'Yixinou' had started its journey from Chinese city
of Yiwu to reached Spanish capital Madrid

2).State Bank of India has become the first in India to have developed
its own economic index on lines of HSBC India Services Purchasing
Managers' Index (PMI) and HSBC India Manufacturing PMI

3).The Lok Sabha on 9.12.2014 passed the Payments and Settlement
Systems (Amendment) Bill

4).Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child
rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace
Prize awards

5).Richard Rahul Verma is the new US Ambassador to India

6).India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has got an order from the
Indian Army to supply 4,141 units of its sports utility vehicle Gypsy

7).India beat Netherlands after 18 years to win it's first game of
Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Bhubaneswar

8).Time magazine named as its "Person of the Year 2014" the Medics
treating the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 6,300 people,
paying tribute to their courage and mercy
-Fergus on Protest ers are at 2nd, Russia n Presid ent Vladim ir Putin at 3rd,
-Mahatma Gandhi featured as Times Person of the year 1930
-Facebook CEO Features as Times Person of the year 2010
-Barack Obama featured fro 2008 and 2012
-World Wide Web featured for the year 2006
-2013 winner - Pope Francis

9).The Cabinet cleared a parliamentary committee's recommendations for
a composite cap of 49% on (FI) foreign investment in insurance

10).Attempt to suicide will soon be not a punishable offence with
Indian government deciding to delete Section 309 of the Indian Penal
Code

11).Freedom fighter, scholar and first Governor General of India
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari's (Rajaji) 136th birth anniversary on 10th
Dec