• Kondane cave art depicts myth and daily life Stone age culture evidences in Kerala
• Buddhist inscription found in Gadag district Ancient temples in Mandya district unearthed
• UNESCO ‘Award of Excellence’ 2015 for the remarkable conservation efforts of the majestic Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple in Kerala.
• HRIDAY PRASAD
• Jallikattu
• Bodhgaya to be developed as spiritual capital International yoga day
• National Unity Day (Rashtriya Ekta Diwas) was observed on 31 October 2015 to commemorate the Sardar Vallabhai Patel’s birth anniversary.
• Centre for World Natural Heritage Management and Training for Asia-Pacific region to be setup in Dehradun IS damages ancient Temple of Bel in Syria’s Palmyra
• Haryana government to constitute board to preserve Saraswati Heritage Area Santhara
• Chettinad Cotton Saree gets Indian Handloom tag Sahapedia

Festivals in news:Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016

• Millennium’s first Nabakalebar Rath Yatra in Puri
• Sinhastha Kumbh Mela
• Hundred Drums Wangala Festival at Asanang in West Garo Hills
• ‘Festival of Flowers’ (Bathukamma) in Telangana
• Odisha celebrated the agrarian festival of Nuakhai
• Tendong Lho Rum Faat Festival of ethnic Lepcha tribe of Sikkim celebrated
• Losar festival beings in Ladakh region of J&K
• Traditional Chapchar Kut festival celebrated across Mizoram
• Sajibu Cheiraoba festival celebrated in Manipur with religious fervor
• Celebration of weeklong Ladakh Festival begins at Leh
• Medaram Sammakka Sarakka
• Myoko festival
• Chinakkathoor Pooram

Awards in news:Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016

• Noted artist Sayed Haider Raza conferred with France’s de la Lgiond Honneur
• Kerala Tourism gets PATA Award
• Ramachandra Guha chosen for Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015
• Kerala Tourism’s Muziris Heritage Project wins 2015 PATA Award

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• Green Climate fund
• International symposium on Antarctic Earth sciences
• USA unveils clean power plan
• Climate change – effect on Antarctic ice – sheet
• CoP 21 draft : ‘Paris Agreement
• International solar alliance (ISA)
• EI – Nino and warm winter
• Climate engineering solutions (geo-engineering or climate intervention)
• India INDC
• World Bank launches ambitious Climate Change Action Plan
• CO2 levels hit record high – WMO
• Earth Hour
• Blue Carbon
• Indian model to aid future IPCC reports
• About Like – Minded Developing Countries (LMDC)
• Climate special science express
• Carbon tax
• Green bond market
• Meaning of green finance
• IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) – Red list
• ESZ around okhla bird sanctuary notified
• Thane creek declared as flamingo sanctuary by Maharashtra government
• Kikiki Huna (A genus of fairyfly, know from Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Trinidad world smallest insect)
• Sikkim declared as Organic state: about organic farming
• Depletion of Kudremukh National Park
• Kasturiranjan report on western Ghats
• National mission for a green India
• Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill 2015
• Agasthyamala biosphere reserve among 20 UNESCO world biosphere reserve
• Vulnerability of tea industry with reference to the climate change
• NGT asks centre & states to protect wetlands
• Loss of polar bear habitat
• Artificial breeding of Great Indian Bustard
• First ever leopard census in India
• Yellow – throated bulbul under Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species
• Doyand lake – Nagaland attract amur falcorn
• Biodiversity database for Urban-India
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• Diclofenac and Vulture extinction
• India’s forest & tree cover increased by 5, 081 Sq km: ISFR 2015
• Wildlife Rescue Centre
• MoEFCC declares Wild pig as vermin for year in Uttarakhand
• Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation
• South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network
• Global Tiger population increased for the first time in 100 years by 22%: WWF & GT
• World’s first White Tiger Safari opens in Madhya Pradesh
• India’s first Dolphin Community Reserve will be established in West Bengal
• NWAF (National Wildlife Action Plan) Draft unvieled
• Coconut Tree removed from Goa Preservation of Trees Act
• Centre for World Natural Heritage Management and Training
• school Nursery Yojana
• Increasing no. of migrating birds in coringa sanctuary
• Constitution on biodiversity finance initiative begins
• Bharat stage VI norms by 2020
• Policy on promotion of city compost
• IMD SAMAR –Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016
• Air pollution in Indian cities
• Flex fuel policy of Government to curb pollution worry automakers
• New E-waste management Rules 2016
• New plastic waste management Rules 2016
• Solid waste management rules
• Red alert on pollution declared in Beijing
• National Air Quality Indices
• Four Colour Classification Scheme for industries based on Pollution Index
• Union Government notifies stricter standards for Coal Based Thermal Power Plants
• Paper waste turned into non-toxic green Aerogel
• Impact of use of firewood for cooking in rural areas
• About Particulate Matter
• Environmental impacts of fly-ash
• Polluters pay model
• E-vehicles to curb pollution
• The Public Liability Insurance (PLI) Act, 1991
• National off-shore wind energy policy
• NGT and its different orders for conservation of Environment
• India and Sendai agreement for disaster reduction
• Environmental crime in India
• Indian long term ecological observatories (I-LTEO)
• National renewable energy bill 2015
• Project Green Ports launched” by Ministry of Shipping
• TSR Subramanian report
• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
• India to join International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES)
• Initiatives under Namami Gange programme
• Antarctica influencing weather in tropics
• Deep sea planktons as effective carbon sinks
• Ballast water bringing invasive species to Indian coasts: Scientists
• Indian ocean warming and its consequences
• Revised standards for CETPs to minimize water pollution
• IPBES Report On Pollinator

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• Fertiliser subsidy
• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
• Krishi kalyan cess
•  e-NAM
• Model Act for farm land lease by NITI Ayog
• National Energy Efficient Agriculture Pumps Programme.
• MGNREGA
• Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
• Concept of Modern Terminal Markets
• New Urea Policy announced
• Initiatives for development of fertilizers

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Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016

• Maharashtra factories (Amendment) Bill, 2015
• real estate (regulation and development bill),2016
• Bureau of Indian standards bill, 2015 4. Negotiable instruments (Amendment) ordinance, 2015
• Arbitration and conciliation bill, 2015
• Consumer Protection Bill, 2015
• The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015
• Indian Trusts (Amendment), Bill 2015
• Labour Laws (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2015
• The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015
• The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015
• The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2015

• INDIA-SRI LANKA JOINT TRAINING EXERCISE “MITRA SHAKTI- 2015”
• INDO-CHINA JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE HAND-IN-HAND 2015
• INDIA-INDONESIA MARITIME EXERCISE
• Indo- China hand in hand 2015
• Indo, US, Japan Malabar exercise
• Indo- Russia Indra 2015
• ‘Sahayog-Kaijin 2016’- Indo- Japan joint coast guard exercise
• Indio- France military exercise Shakti 2016
• India-Mongolia joint military training Exercise ‘Nomadic Elephant – 2016’
• Naval Exercise IBSAMAR 2016 between India, South Africa, Brazil
• India Thailand Cobra Gold 2016
• YudhAbhyas: India-US Joint Military Training Exercise
• Mitrashakti 2015 – joint military exercise between india and srilanka
• ‘Sahayog – Kaijin 2016’
• IBSAMAR-2016
• Ausindex15
• Slinex 15
• Kuverin 2015- joint military exercise of india& Maldives
• Joint military exercises conducted by India- suryakiran(indo-nepal)
• ‘SundarbanMaithri’ in sunderbans
• Indo-Seychelles Joint Training ‘Ex Lamitye’
• Multinational Field Training Exercise (FTX) – Exercise FORCE 18, involving ASEAN Plus countries
• South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise” (SAADMEx) – 2015
• IAF’s annual exercise, Exercise Livewire

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• NEPAL ADOPTS FIRST DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION
• NDB
• INDIA RE-ELECTED AS MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL MARITIME COUNCIL
• AFGHANISATAN JOINS WTO
• India and Pak become members of SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO)
• ECI Hosts Executive Board Meeting of Association of World Election Bodies (A-Web)
• Marshall Islands sue Britain, India and Pakistan over nuclear weapons.
• India, Pakistan reject call to give up nuclear weapons
• Indian Ocean has to remain a zone of peace: Ajit Doval
• Indian N-facilities under IAEA Safety Umbrella
• Palestine submit documents to join ICC
• Nepal to join Silk Road Economic Belt through Tibet
• Collapse of Oil Economies may Affect India
• Htinkyaw : 1st elected president of Myanmar
• Salma Dam Project in Afghanistan
• Border haat opens in Sipahijala district of Tripura
• Raxaul-Amlekhgunj oil pipeline
• Agartala-Akhaura railway link Project
• CPEC project
• P8I maritime surveillance aircraft deployed by India to Seychelles
• TAPI pipeline construction begins
• E-tourist visa to Chinese nationals
• The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) created

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Top 500 Current Affairs Topics List Prelims Pdf 2016

• Sunita Viswanath honoured with Champion of Change
• Great immigrants award 2015 in US
• Darshan Jain receives US Presidential Award
• Swati Dandekar appointed as US Director of ADB
• Rakesh K. Jain selected for National Medal of Science-2015
• Australia’s highest civilian award for 3 PIOs
• Harpal Singh Kumar knighted
• Non-NATO ally status to Tunisia
• Pakistan becomes associate member of CERN
• Moscow declaration by BRICS
• UNESCO – New world heritage sites BY UNESCO
• UNESCO World Heritage Site Status for Meiji Period Sites of Japan
• Sylvie Lucas appointed as Chair of IGN of UNSC Reforms
• India to join the International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy Systems
  India collaborates with Japan on Andamans project
• India and the U.S. have agreed “in principle” on a logistics support agreement