This Committee was headed by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi . 

• The committee noted that the GDP calculation doesn’t measure the depletion of natural resources . 

• The Committee strongly recommends the government to have mechanisms by coming up with new measures of GDP estimation and statistical measurement of other socio-economic factors.

U.S President Donald Trump nominated Indian-American Neomi Rao to replace Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on 13th November, 2018. 

* The powerful US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit is considered next to the US Supreme Court. 

* She is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School.

Anupam Kher resigned as the chairman of top film school Film And Television Institute Of India (FTII) on 31 October, 2018. 

* The Film and Television Institute of India is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. 

* It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile Prabhat Film Company in Pune.

The 32nd edition of India-Indonesia coordinated patrol (IND-INDO CORPAT) is being held in Belawan, Indonesia from 11 - 27 October 2018. 

• Under it, ships and aircraft from both countries will undertake patrolling on respective sides of 236 nautical miles long International Maritime Boundary Line.

The Malaysian government has announced in October 2018, its decision to abolish the death penalty for all crimes has given a ray of hope for anti-capital punishment campaigners in the region. 

• Executions are currently mandatory for murder, kidnapping, possession of firearms and drug trafficking, among other crimes, and is carried out by hanging a legacy of British colonial rule. 

• The government decided to scrap capital punishment because the Malaysian public had shown they were against the death penalty.

The Baglihar Hydro-Power Project is located on Chenab river. 

• It is located in the Doda district of Jammu & Kashmir. 

• This project was conceived in 1992 and approved in 1996. 

• The construction of Power project began in 1999. 

• Several time Pakistan has claimed that that design parameters of Bagliharproject violated the Indus Water Treaty of 1960.

• At the request of Gopal Krishna Gokhle ,conveyed to him by C.F.Andrews , Mahatma Gandhi came back to India in 1915.
• Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian Activist who was the leader of the indian independence movement against British Rule.
• He brought an international reputation as a leading indian nationalist,theorist and community organizer.

Rajya Sabha can authorise the Parliament to create new All-India Services for both the centre and states. 

• Article 312 provides for the creation of All India Services. 

• An All India Service is different from both the Central and the State Services.

• Most plants need fertilizer to grow and blossom, and nitrogen is a key nutrient. Commercial fertilizers typically contain a mix of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, with nitrogen being responsible for foliage growth. This makes nitrogen especially important for leafy plants and lawns. 

• The main use of calcium cyanamide is in agriculture as a fertilizer. In contact with water, it decomposes and liberates ammonia: CaCN₂ + 3 H₂O → 2 NH₃ + CaCO₃ . 

• Calcium cyanamide is also used as a wire-fed alloy in steelmaking

Christianreligion is mainly divided into two streams , Catholic and Protestant. 

• The Catholic Church, which claims 1.2 billion members more than half of all Christians around the world. 

• The Protestant ,which claims 37% billion members more than half of all Christians around the world.