Missed any news updates? Fed up with long paragraphs? Here we have wrapped up the weekly news at a Glance:

NEWS:

• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa passed away due to sudden cardiac arrest, she is well known for her astonishing schemes like ‘Cradle to baby scheme’. Lovingly called as ‘Amma’, she entered politics in the 1980s under the guidance of her mentor MGR Ramachandran.
• Following Amma’s demise, her loyalist Paneerselvam is unanimously elected as the 19th CM of Tamil Nadu.
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the release of 20, 50 and new 100 rupee notes very soon, the upcoming 20 and 50 notes carries incumbent RBI Governer, Urjit Patel’s signature and ‘L’ sign on both panels. The statement later added the releasing of plastic notes for the long lasting validity and decreasing the chances of duplication.
• 1.64 Crore undisclosed amount is traced down in Jan Dhan Accounts, Income Tax Department limits the Jan Dhan deposits to Rs 50,000.
• Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the former head of Air force, retired air chief marshal S.P. Tyagi. He has been the center of allegations of impropriety in the 560 million-euro deal to buy the helicopters from Augusta Westland.
• Supreme Court modified the National Anthem rule in Theatres, by exempting physically disabled people. The statement adds that additional guidelines will be given to those people.
• December 4th, 9th, and 10th were declared as Navi day, International Anti-Corruption day and Human rights day respectively.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the online electoral poll as ‘TIME Magazine’s Person of the year’, meanwhile, Just in President of America, Donald Trump won the title of ‘Person of the year’.
• India stood at 7th position in Terrorism impacted countries, 289 terrorism related deaths were noted down in 2015, according to a survey conducted by GTI, 2016.
• Supreme Court passed a bill on the discrimination against disabled people slamming with 2 years in jail and Rs 5 Lakh as fine. Earlier, it was 6 months-2 years in jail and Rs 10,000 to Rs 5 Lakh rupees fine.
• Cabinet passed the bill granting Rs 1009 crores to Election Commission’s appeal for new EVMs.
• NITI Aayog gives significant preference to ‘Digital Payments’.

BUSINESS:

• Considering the issues faced by common man, Govt relieved people from paying service tax in all kinds of card payments.

The further guidelines include:

• Rs 10 Lakhs insurance cover on booking of Railway tickets through online mode.
• 0.5% discount for those who buy monthly seasonal tickets
• 0.75% discount on Petrol and Diesel through card payments
• Government’s revenue collection in ‘April-Nov’ saw indirect tax mop up growing at an impressive 26.2% , meanwhile, direct tax up to 15.12%.
• PayTm CEO, Vijay Shekhar raised Rs 325 Crore by selling 1% of his stake in One97 Communications, its parent company.
• Prominent private banks, Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) and Yes Bank roped in a deal with Ola cabs by providing mobile ATMs across the cities. IOB dealt with 10 cars meanwhile, Yes Bank did carry with providences in 30 cities, throughout India.
• The United States based e-com giant, Amazon introduced its ‘Amazon-Launchpad’ to encourage the startups and small scale businesses in India, by providing marketing facilities, a platform to sell and distribution.
• Vijaya Bank bagged the SME Award-2016, for its prestigious services to MSME sectors.
• Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal were selected as the Asians of the year-2016, earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi bagged this title in 2014.
• Coco Cola stated that its current CEO Muhtar Kent will be replaced by president James Quincey, who has been working for Coco Cola for 20 years.
• IOC, BPCL, and HPCL signed up a deal in operating a 60 million tonnes mega Refinery Plant with IOC holding 50% of the stake and BPCL, HPCL each holding 25%.
• Bharti Airtel announced Sunil Taladar as its new CEO & Director, DTH. Former CEO, Shashi Arora is promoted as MD & CEO for Airtel Payments Bank.

SPORTS

• Indian Women’s Team bagged the Asian cup in T-20 series dismissing Pakistan aggressively. Team India scored 121 runs losing 5 wickets, meanwhile Pakistani team turned back after scoring 104/6. This victory acclaimed team India with no loss in 2016 and consecutive win in Asian trophy.

• Team India’s ODI skipper, Virat Kohli played a historical innings against England hitting 235 runs in 4th Test Match against England.
• The popular Basket Ball player Micheal Jordan is recognized as the highest paid athlete of all time by ‘Forbes’. Golf supremo Tiger Woods bagged the second place. It is estimated that Jordan has earned nearly $1.7 billion from 1985 (his debut), most of his earnings came from branding the popular brands like Nike.
• Ace Indian bowler, Ravichandran Ashwin clinched 7th position with 239 wickets overtaking Jawagal Srinath after dismissing English Moeen Ali in the Fourth test.
• Rio Silver medalist, P V Sindhu jumped to 7th place by playing some good game in BWF Championship. Saina Nehwal bettered her place by placing her selves back in top 10. Meanwhile, Srikanth slipped two places, standing now at 13th place.
• Jamaican runner, Usain Bolt is selected as the athlete of the year by IAAF, he will be laurelled with the medal in Gala ceremony, Monaco.
• Spanish soccer player, defender Dominguez declared his retirement from Soccer due to his health problems. This Spaniard made his debut in 2007.

MOVIES:

• Bollywood Badshah’s upcoming ‘Raees’ trailer is released, went viral on the YouTube with its promising screenplay.
• Tollywood actor, Ram Charan’s ‘Dhruva’ is released and is critically acclaimed as a qualitative remake.
• Megastar Chiranjeevi’s most awaited teaser of upcoming 150th film ‘Khaidi No.150’, is released.
• Courtroom drama “Pink” swept the Star Screen Awards with Amitabh Bachchan bagging Best Actor award for the film. Alia Bhatt bagged the Best Actress award for her spellbound performance in “Udta Punjab”. Meanwhile, the Lifetime Achievement Award was handed over to yesteryear Bollywood diva Rekha.
• Fans’ heartthrob duo ‘Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma’ might be getting married very soon, actress Anushka addressed media.
• Shahrukh-Alia’s Dear Zindagi maintains its stable performance at box office ticking Rs 60 Crore.
• The popular ‘Kahani’ movie’s sequel ‘Kahaani-2’ starring Vidya Balan is released and the movie garnered some average reviews for its slow-paced second half, the weekend collections merely touched Rs 16.97 Crores.
• Gifted Bollywood singer, Arijit Singh shocked his fans on his announcement on retirement.

VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

• Popular Indian Podcast channel ‘AIB’ released its troll video on Demonetization, the video quickly went viral on YouTube and Twitter handles earning both praises and criticism from AAP & Congress leaders.

• ‘Virat Kohli- Anushka Sharma’s dance video in Yuvraj’s wedding went viral on all social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
• A Pakistani twitter user @beckitter’s tweets on her uncle meeting Deepika Padukone confused Netizens, however, there is no authenticated proof and Deepika’s reply.
• Pakistani famous ‘Chaiwala’ song went viral on YouTube, the song itself depicted the story of Arshad Khan, his journey from being a Chaiwala to a prominent model.
• CM Arvind Kejriwal’s twisting tweet on demise CM of Tamil Nadu drew some negative impact on him slamming his tweet as a cheap trick to portray ‘Amma’ as an AAP ambassador.
• Arvind Kejriwal’s tweet on Winter roped in some funny retweets depicting him as ‘Muffler man’.
• Kejriwal’s entitling of Modi as ‘Sasta PM’, dragged him back into the troll zone again.
• Twitterati slammed the Cabinet Minister, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore for his shocking statements on Bollywood as ‘Black money free’ industry.