*CURRENT AFFAIRS (19:12:2014)

1).The Lok Sabha on 18dec2014 passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment)
Bill, 2014 to legalize e-rickshaws by bringing them under the ambit of
the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

2).Government decides to pay 8.75% interest on PF for 2014-15
-The rate same previous 2013-14, when it was raised from 8.5% in 2012-13 fiscal

3).India's first warship "Barracuda" export to Mauritius
-Defence shipbuilder, Garden Reach Shipyard & Engineers (GRSE) hand
over to Mauritius a 1,300-tonne offshore patrol vessel

4).NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, which is carrying out a
new mission has made its first exoplanet discovery a 'super- Earth'
located 180 light- years from Earth.

5).Veteran Gandhian and freedom fighter Chunibhai Vaidya passed away
on 19dec2014 at Ahmedabad, Gujarat following brief illness. He was 97

6).The United States President Barack Obama on 18dec2014 signed
Ukraine Freedom Support Bill, 2014 passed by the US Congress for more
sanctions on Russia

7).Noted Pakistan-born poetess Imtiaz Dharker was awarded the Queen's
Gold Medal for Poetry 2014 for her latest poetry "Collection Over the
Moon"

8).The United Nations sent a team of international experts to help
Bangladesh in cleaning up the Sundarbans oil spill
-It's belonging to the UNDAC

9).The US Senate unanimously passed a resolution recognising Kailash
Satyarthi & Malala Yousafzai are joint winners of Nobel Peace 2014 as
symbol of peace