[CA] Sunday Bytes [Dec 11,2016]

   President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee presented the second ICCR ‘Distinguished Indologist’ Award to Prof. Yu Long Yu of the People’s Republic of China

   Hornbill Festival started on Nagaland Statehood Day (Dec 01) at the Naga Heritage village Kisama

   Norway’s Magnus Carlsen beats his Russian challenger Sergei Karyakin to defend his World Chess Championship (held in New York); it is his third world chess championship for Carlsen

   TeamIndus, a Bengaluru based aerospace company has said it will send a spacecraft to the moon on Dec 28, 2017 aboard on ISRO rocket

   21st National Youth Festival will be held in Rohtak, Haryana from 12th January to 16th January, 2017.

   UK scientists gave green signal to the use of “three-parent baby” fertility treatments, thus becoming the first in the world to officially introduce the procedures.

   United Nations formally apologized for its role in the Haiti’s cholera epidemic

   Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana won the IAAF Athletes of the Year for Male and Female respectively

   Petrotech 2016 main Conference was inaugurated (on Dec 05, 2016) in New Delhi by Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi with the theme "Hydrocarbons to fuel the future - Choices & Challenges"

   "Amritsar Declaration" was adopted at the 6th Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia- Istanbul Process on Afghanistan  held in Amritsar