*CURRENT AFFAIRS (23:12:2015)

1).Ministry of External Affairs announced that Gujarat will host 13th
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) from 7to9Jan2015
-It will mark the 100th year of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from
South Africa

2).National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on 19dec2014 rlsd
Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households for the Crop Year 2012-13
-The survey was between Jan2013 & Dec2013

3).Kiyaa, claimed to be India's first branded fashion doll, was
launched today in a marketplace dominated by heavyweights such as
Barbie, Bratz and Daisy

4).Tamil director K.Balachander (84), considered guru to legendary
actors Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, died in Chennai

5).The Govt constituted a committee to look into various grievances
relating to the 1984 anti- Sikh riots, Chairman is Justice G.P.Mathur

6).RBI licensed Ford Credit India to operate as a Non- banking
financial company (NBFC)
-It's is a subsidiary of Ford Motor Credit Company

7).The book titled "Why I Assassinated Gandhi" written by Nathuram
Godse and Gopal Godse was in news in third week of Dec2014

8).The US President Barack Obama on 19 December 2014 signed the annual
defence budget National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) for the
fiscal year 2015.

9).Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany an agreement to hold
new round of peace talks on Ukraine.
-The peace talks are the latest attempt to the conflict that has badly
strained the ties between Russia and West

10).For the first time, Pakistan & Russia have signed an energy deal
worth $1.7 billion to lay a gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahore