H. O.: Belghoria

Achievement

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  Important Days of December
  

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  AIFF AWARDS 2016
  

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  Sahitya Akademi Awards 2016
  

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  India England Test Series 2016
  

First Englishman to cross 11,000 runs: Alastair Cook (5th test)

Karun Nair became the second India to score a triple century after Virender Sehwag and only the third man in the game's history to convert a maiden Test ton into a triple.

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  Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, 2016
  

the Taxation Laws (Second Amendment) Act, 2016 commenced on 17th December, 2016 and shall remain open for

declarations up to 31st March, 2017.

The salient features of the Scheme are as under:

1. Declaration under the Scheme can be made by any person in respect of undisclosed income in the form of cash or deposits in an account with bank or post office or specified entity.

2. Tax @30% of the undisclosed income, surcharge @33% of tax and penalty @10% of such income is payable besides mandatory deposit of

25% of the undisclosed income in Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit Scheme, 2016. The deposits are interest free and have a lock-in period

of four years.

3. The income declared under the Scheme shall not be included in the total income of the declarant under the Income-tax Act for any assessment

year.

4. The declarations made under the Scheme shall not be admissible as evidence under any Act (eg. Central Excise Act, Wealth-tax Act,

Non declaration of undisclosed cash or deposit in accounts under the Scheme will render such undisclosed income liable to tax, surcharge

and cess totaling to 77.25% of such income, if declared in the return of income. In case the same is not shown in the return of income a further penalty @10% of tax shall also be levied followed by prosecution. It may be noted that the provisions for levy of penalty for misreporting of income @200% of tax payable under section 270A of the Income-tax Act have not been amended and shall continue to apply with respect to cases falling under the said section.

The Taxation Laws (Second Amendment) Act, 2016 has also amended the penalty provisions in respect of search and seizure cases. The existing slab for penalty of 10%, 20% & 60% of income levied under SECTION 271AAB has been rationalised to 30% of income, if the income is admitted and taxes are paid. Otherwise a penalty @60% of income shall be levied.

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  100 million for 100 million
  

Aim of the campaign: To mobilise 100 million youth and children for 100 million underprivileged children across the world, to end child labour, child slavery, violence against children and promote the right of every child to be safe, free, and educated, over the next 5 years.

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  Launch of RESOURCESAT-2A
  

Like its predecessors RESOURCESAT-1 and 2, RESOURCESAT-2A has a unique 3-Tier imaging system with Advanced Wide Field Sensor

(AWiFS), Linear Imaging Self Scanner-3 (LISS-3) and Linear Imaging Self Scanner-4 (LISS-4) CAMERAS. The AWiFS provides images with

a sampling of 56 metres, a swath of 740 km and a revisit of 5 days whereas the LISS-3 provides 23.5 metre sampled images with 141 km swath

and a resistivity of 24 days. LISS-4 provides 5.8 metre sampled images with 70 km swath and a revisit of 5 days.

The data sent by RESOURCESAT-2A will be useful for agricultural applications like crop area and crop production estimation, drought monitoring, soil mapping, cropping system analysis and farm advisories GENERATION.

This is the launch vehicle's 38th flight (37th consecutively successful mission). The total number of satellites launched by PSLV is 122 (43 Indian and remaining 79 from abroad.

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  Amritsar Declaration
  

Recognized that terrorism is the gravest challenge that the Heart of Asia region and the rest of the international community faces. It recognized

the necessity of taking serious measures to address recruitment of youth to extremist and terrorist networks.

It undertook to develop a regional approach to counter radicalization by tasking relevant experts from the fields of security, education and

local governance to meet in the first half of 2017 to identify key areas to be addressed for developing this regional approach and provide

recommendations to be presented to the Senior Officials Meeting of the HoA-IP in the first half of 2017 for further action on this critical issue.

It expressed concern about the increase in production and cultivation of opium in Afghanistan, the volume of drug trafficking and demand

in the HoA Region and beyond. In this regard, it recognised that it was essential to integrate a comprehensive approach in addressing the drug problem of Afghanistan and the HoA region.

It urged all Afghan Taliban groups and all other armed groups to enter into peace talks with the Government of Afghanistan and also urged

all those countries in the region and beyond who have leverages and influence to help bring the Taliban to the negotiation TABLE.