*CURRENT AFFAIRS (18:12:2014)

1).Academician and
journalist Ghanta Chakrapani was on 17dec2014
appointed as the first
Chairman of the
Telangana State Public
Service Commission
(TSPSC).
-He will hold the
TSPSC office for six
years.

2).The 630- tonne GSLV Mark-III and standing 43.43-metre tall is the
heaviest rocket launched by ISRO on 18dec from Satish Dhawan Space
Centre at Sriharikota (AP)

3).Kieron Pollard smashed six sixes in an over in a trial game for the
Big Bash team Adelaide Strikers.
He thus joined of 5 players
-Sir Garfield Sobers (1968),
-Ravi J. Shastri (1985),
-Herschelle Gibbs (2007),
-Yuvraj Singh (2007)
and
Jordan Clark (2013)

4).Tashi Malik and Nungshi Malik from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, became
the world's first twin and sibling to climb the highest peaks of the
seven continents

5).Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has decided to adopt Karnali
group panchayat villages in Gujarat's Vadodara district as part of the
'Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna', a senior official has said.

6).Thrissur-based Esaf Microfinance has been shortlisted for the
European Microfinance Award 2014 for its 'clean energy for the poor'
initiative.