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Title Page Number Important Days 3 Sports 5 Obituaries 12 Ranking 14 Banking and Finance 22 Business and Economy 30 Acquisition and Mergers 31 Books and Authors 31 Appointments 33 Awards 37 Science and Technology 45 International Affairs 48 National Affairs 51 `
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Important Days National Important Days Date Day Theme 56th Raising Day of the Border Security - December 1 Force. 58th Statehood day of Nagaland. - Raise awareness about the importance of pollution December 2 National Pollution Control Day. control measures and to educate people on how to prevent pollution. Indian Navy Combat Ready, December 4 Indian Navy day. Credible & Cohesive. December 6 Mahaparinirvana Diwas. - December 7 Armed Forces Flag Day. - 260th edition the Raising day of Army - December 8 Service Corps. 53rd Submarine Day. - December 14 National Energy Conservation Day. - December 16 50th Vijay Diwas. - December 18 National Minority Rights Day. December 19 60th Goa Liberation Day. - December 22 National Mathematics Day. - ‘Kisan Diwas’ or December 23 - National Farmers day. New features of Consumer December 24 National Consumer Rights Day. Protection Act, 2019 December 25 Good Governance Day. -
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International Important Days
Date Day Theme Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: December 1 World AIDS Day. Resilience and Impact. The International Day for the Abolition - December 2 of Slavery. World Computer Literacy Day. - Building back better towards a The International Day of Persons with disability inclusive, accessible December 3 Disabilities. and sustainable post-Covid 19 world. Keep soil alive, protect soil December 5 World Soil Day. biodiversity. International Volunteer Day for Together We Can December 5 Economic and Social Development. Through Volunteering. Advancing innovation for global December 7 International Day of Civil Aviation aviation development. December 9 International Anti-Corruption Day Recover with Integrity. International Day of Commemoration December 9 and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime - of Genocide. Recover Better - Stand Up for December 10 Human Rights Day. Human Rights. International Mountain Day. Mountain Biodiversity. December 11 UNICEF Day. - Health for all: protect everyone. To end this crisis and build a December 12 Universal Health Coverage Day. safer and health systems that protect us all now. December 12 International Day of Neutrality. - International Day to End Violence December 17 - Against Sex Workers December 18 International Migrants Day Reimagining Human Mobility December 18 World Arabic Language Day December 20 International Human Solidarity Day - 1st International Day of Epidemic December 27 - Preparedness
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Sports Retirement Cricket ❖ Corey Anderson - New Zealand all-rounder. ❖ Parthiv Patel - Former India wicketkeeper. ❖ Mohammad Amir – Pacer. Basketball ❖ Andrew Bogut - Australian basketball great. Banned or Suspended Badminton ❖ Kate Foo Kune - Four-time African badminton champion - ban for two years in a doping case. ❖ Nikita Khakimov - Russian doubles badminton player - five-year ban after being found guilty of offences relating to “betting, wagering and irregular match results”. Basket Ball ❖ Satnam Singh Bhamara - 2-year ban for doping.
Tennis ❖ Enrique Lopez Perez - Eight years for his involvement in match-fixing activities. ❖ Mostafa Hatem - Egyptian tennis player - two years as part of a match-fixing case. ❖ Dagmara Baskova - Slovakian tennis player - 12 years for match-fixing offenses.
Football ❖ Kieran Trippier - Atletico Madrid and England defender - 10 weeks and fined 70,000 pounds ($94,052.00) following a breach of betting rules. ❖ Edinson Cavani - Three games - Using a Spanish term for Black people.
Athlete ❖ Marina Arzamasova – Belarus - Former 800 metres world champion - Four years for an Anti- Doping Rule Violation.
Grand Prix FIA Formula 2 race - Sakhir Grand Prix Rank Person Country 1 Jehan Daruvala India 2 YukiTsunoda Japan 3 Dan Ticktum UK
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FIA Formula 1 race - Sakhir Grand Prix Rank Person Country Company 1 Sergio Pérez Mexico Racing Point 2 Esteban Ocon France Renault 3 Lance Stroll Canada Racing Point
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Winner Name Car Country 1 Max Verstappen Red Bull Belgium 2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes Finland 3 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes UK
Sports Events ❖ 2030 Asian Games – Qatar. ❖ 2034 Asian Games – Saudi Arabia. ❖ 2022 World Cup - Qatar. ❖ The International Cricket Council - The schedule for the 2022 ICC Women’s World Cup - This Match held in New Zealand - Start Date: 4 March 2022 - End Date: 3 April 2022. ❖ Odisha - 2023 FIH Men’s Hockey WC . ❖ FIFA - extend 7-team Club World Cup to 2021 – Japan. ❖ 2021 World Indoor Championships – Postponed to March 2023 – Host in China - Belgrade in Serbia is the scheduled 2022 host. ❖ India - The AFC Asian Cup 2027. ❖ FIFA men's U-20 World Cup 2023 – Indonesia. ❖ FIFA men's U-17 World Cup 2023 – Peru.
Others Cricket ❖ Virat Kholi - The fastest cricketer to score 12,000 ODI runs, breaking a record held by legendary compatriot Sachin Tendulkar. ❖ West Indies - Marylebone Cricket Club’s Spirit of Cricket award. ❖ Australia - Win T20I of three-match series in Sydney against India. ❖ The BCCI - Start domestic season with the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy from January 10 to 31 in six different states. ❖ BCCI - Approve 10 Team IPL from 2022 at 89th BCCI Annual General Meeting in Ahmedabad. ❖ Ravindra Jadeja - The third Indian cricketer - feature in 50 or more games for the country across all three formats -- Tests, ODIs and T20Is.
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Basketball ❖ Suyash Mehta - First-ever full time Indian-origin referee.
Football ❖ France's Stephanie Frappart - The first female official to take charge of a men's Champions League game. ❖ The Bureau of the FIFA Council - Cancel the 2021 edition of the men's U-20 World Cup due to COVID-19.
Weightlifting ❖ Sneha Soren - Weightlifter - The prestigious ‘Ekalavya Puraskar’ for her contribution to the game.
Badminton ❖ Rutaparna Panda - Badminton player - The prestigious ‘Ekalavya Puraskar’ for her contribution to the game.
Tennis ❖ ITF women's tennis tournament - India's Ankita Raina and Ekaterine Gorgodze of Georgia won the doubles title - Slovenia's Kaja Juvan and Bolsova Zadoinov of Spain (Defeat).
Golf ❖ A Lim Kim - won the 75th United States Women’s Open in Golf Tournament.
Athlete ❖ Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis - Swedish pole vaulter - Male athlete of the year. ❖ Yulimar Rojas - Venezuelan triple jumper - The women's title at athletics' annual awards ceremony. ❖ Breakdancing – Officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games
Shooting ❖ Ahmed Esmat - Former African champion of Egypt – win the 10m air pistol event at the 6th edition of the International Online Shooting Championship (IOSC).
Wrestling ❖ India's Anshu Malik - Silver medal in the 57kg category of women's wrestling at the Individual World Cup in Serbia.
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Boxing Cologne Boxing World Cup in Germany Gold Medal ❖ Amit Panghal (men's 52kg), Simranjit Kaur (women's 60kg) and Manisha Moun (women's 57kg).
Silver Medal ❖ Satish Kumar (men’s +91kg).
Bronze Medal ❖ Sonia Lather (women's 57kg), Pooja Rani (women's 75kg) Gaurav Solanki (men's 57kg) and Mohamed Hussamudin (men's 57kg).
Hockey ❖ Namita Toppo - India women’s hockey team player - the prestigious ‘Ekalavya Puraskar’ for her contribution to the game.
Others ❖ India - $1 million to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) towards its scientific research budget to ensure an atmosphere of Clean Sport. ❖ The sixth edition of the Asian Beach Games - Sanya, China - postpone for a second time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Awards FIFA Awards Award Name Player Men’s Player Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich) Women’s Player Lucy Bronze (England/Lyon) Women’s Coach Sarina Wiegman (The Netherlands) Men’s Coach Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool) Women’s Goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi (France/Lyon) Men’s Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer (Germany/Bayern Munich) FIFA Puskás Award Son Heung-Min (Tottenham vs Burnley) FIFA Fair Play Award Italy's Mattia Agnese FIFA Fan Award Marivaldo Francisco da Silva
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ATP tour awards presented by FedEx Title Player Name Player of the Year Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award Rafael Nadal (Spain) Comeback Player of the Year Vasek Pospisil (Canada) Newcomer of the Year Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) Most Improved Player Andrey Rublev (Russia) Coach of the Year Fernando Vicente (coached Andrey Rublev) Doubles Team of the Year Mate Pavic and Bruno Soares Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award Frances Tiafoe(USA) Tim Gullikson Career Coach Award Bob Brett(Australia) Fans’ Favourite (Singles) Roger Federer(Switzerland) Fans’ Favourite (Doubles) Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award Kevin Mitchell
ICC Awards Men’s Test (Team of the Decade) Alastair Cook England David Warner Australia Kane Williamson New Zealand Virat Kohli (C) India Steve Smith Australia Kumar Sangakkara (WK) Srilanka Ben Stokes England R. Ashwin Indian Dale Steyn South Africa Stuart Broad England James Anderson England
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Men’s ODI (Team of the Decade) Rohit Sharma India David Warner Australia Virat Kohli India AB DE Villiers South Africa Shakib AL Hasan Bangladesh MS Dhoni (WK) ( C ) India Ben Stokes England Mitchell Starc Australia Trent Boult New Zealand Imran Tahir Pakistan Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka
Men’s T20I (Team of the Decade) Rohit Sharma India Chris Gayle West Indies Aaron Finch Australia Virat Kohli India AB De Villiers South Africa Glenn Maxwell Australia MS Dhoni (WK) ( C ) India Kieron Pollard West Indies Rashid Khan Afganistan Jasprit Bumrah India Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka
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Women’s T20I (Team of the Decade) Alyssa Healy (WK) Australia Sophie Devine New Zealand Suzie Bates New Zealand Meg Lanning ( C ) Australia Harmanpreet Kaur India Stafanie Taylor Jamaica Deandra Dottin Barbados Ellyse Perry Australia Anya Shrubsole England Megan Schutt Australia Poonam Yadav India
Award Player Name Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Virat Kohli Cricketer of the Decade Rachael Heyhoe - Flint Award for ICC Ellyse Perry Female Cricketer of the Decade ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Decade Steve Smith ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Decade Virat Kohli ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Decade Ellyse Perry ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade Rashid Khan ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Ellyse Perry Decade
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OBITUARY Actor ❖ Hugh Keays-Byrne - Veteran actor. ❖ Ravi Patwardhan – Marathi Actor. ❖ Divya Bhatnagar - Popular TV actor. ❖ Jeremy Bulloch - UK actor.
Film Maker/ Producer ❖ Kim Ki-duk - South Korean director.
Writer/Author ❖ Alison Lurie - the Pulitzer Prize (1985) winning novelist. ❖ Madhukar Gangadhar – Hindi Writer. ❖ Udyavara Madhava Acharya - Well-known poet, short story writer, choreographer, director, and theatre artist. ❖ UA Khader – Malayalam Author. ❖ John le Carre - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" author. ❖ Chandra Kiran Rathi – Hindi writer. ❖ Madhav Govind Vaidya - Veteran journalist, ex-legislator, senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue and its first spokesperson. ❖ Sugathakumari - Renowned Malayalam poet and activist. ❖ Shamsur Rahman Faruqi - Legendary Urdu poet and critic.
Musician ❖ Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan - singer, Song Writer. ❖ K.T. Oslin - Country singer. ❖ Shantanu Mohapatra – Odia Music Director.
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Politician ❖ Nomula Narasimhaiah - The ruling TRS MLA in Telangana. ❖ Abhay Bhardwaj - Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat. ❖ Satpal Gosain - Senior BJP leader and former Punjab health minister. ❖ Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali - Former Pakistan Prime Minister. ❖ Valery Giscard d'Estaing - Former President of France. ❖ Dineshwar Sharma - Administrator of Lakshadweep. ❖ Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri - Former deputy speaker of Uttarakhand Assembly and Congress leader. ❖ Kamatham Ram Reddy - TRS leader and former Minister. ❖ Laxman Singh - Former Uttar Pradesh minister. ❖ Vishnu Savra - Former Tribal minister and senior BJP leader. ❖ Ambrose Dlamini - Eswatini Prime Minister. ❖ Pierre Buyoya - Former President of East African nation of Burundi. ❖ Mohan Rawale - Five-time Shiv Sena MP from Mumbai. ❖ Motilal Vohra - Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister.
Sports ❖ Rafer Johnson - The decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics. ❖ Dennis Ralston - Five-time Grand Slam doubles champion – Tennis. ❖ Alejandro Sabella - The coach who took Argentina to the World Cup final in 2014 – Football. ❖ Paolo Rossi - The hero of Italy's 1982 World Cup-winning campaign – Football. ❖ Alex Olmedo - Won the Wimbledon and Australian Championships singles titles in 1959 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987. ❖ D. Ethiraj - Former India football player and member of the 1962 Asian Games gold medal- winning team. ❖ Eric Freeman - Former Australia Test all-rounder. ❖ Anurita Saini - Former Indian women’s hockey player. ❖ John Edrich - England’s former “fearless” opening batsman. ❖ K.C. Jones - Former Boston Celtics player and coach - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1989. ❖ Robin Jackman - Former England fast bowler and commentator. ❖ VA Ibrahim - Former national high-jumper and G V Raja Award winner. ❖ John F Reid – Cricketer. ❖ Nikhil Nandy – Footballer - Former Blue Tigers' Olympian - Santosh Trophy in 1955. ❖ Michael Kondo - India’s 1975 hockey World Cup-winning and 1972 Olympics bronze winning team member.
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Others ❖ S. Ramakrishnan - Former Director of Indian Space Research Organisation’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) - Padma Shri in 2003. ❖ Mahashay Dharampal Gulati - Popularly known as the “Spice King” - Padma Bhushan(2019). ❖ Chanchal Mitral - Noted mountaineer and veteran adventurer. ❖ Dr Rashid Ahmed Mahmood - Prominent Indian-origin apartheid-era activist. ❖ Justice Ghanshyam Udhwani - Sitting judge of Gujarat High Court. ❖ Chuck Yeager - The Pilot. ❖ Astad Deboo - Contemporary Indian dancer. ❖ Vidyavachaspati Bannanje Govindacharya - Sanskrit scholar - Padmashri(2009). ❖ Vice Admiral Srikant - The Navy’s most senior submariner. ❖ Roddam Narasimha - Eminent aerospace scientist and Padma Vibhushan awardee(2013). ❖ R N Shetty – Eminent businessman and philanthropist. ❖ Karima Baloch – Activist. ❖ Yasala Balaiah - Renowned Batik artist. ❖ Tho. Paramasivan - Tamil scholar, folklorist and anthropologist. ❖ Sunil Kothari - Dance historian and critic - Padma Shri (2001). ❖ Vikram Lall - Noted architect who designed the iconic Buddha Smriti Park in Patna. ❖ Pierre Cardin - French fashion designer.
Ranking National Ranking The 2020 Fortune India-500 list Rank Company 1st Rank Reliance Industries 2nd Rank Indian Oil Corporation 3rd Rank Oil and Natural Gas Corporation 4th Rank State Bank of India 5th Rank Bharat Petroleum Corporation
List of wealthiest women in India - the second edition of ‘Kotak Wealth Hurun–Leading Wealthy Women’ report Rank Name Company Name 1 Roshni Nadar Malhotra HCL Technologies 2 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Biocon 3 Leena Gandhi Tewari USV
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The Best performing police station in the country Rank Police station name State 1 Nongpok Sekmai Manipur's Thoubal district 2 AWPS-Suramangalam Tamil Nadu's Salem Arunachal Pradesh's 3 Kharsang Changlang district
Most trusted brand - Tenth edition of TRA Research's brand trust Rank Company Name 1 Dell 2 Mi 3 Samsung
List of Agricultural Universities for the year 2019 – ICAR Total Universities - 67 Ranking Universities 1 ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal 2 Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 3 ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
Urban Quality of Life Index – IIT Bombay Rank State 1st Rank Mumbai 2nd Rank Delhi 3rd Rank Kolkata
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Category City Top city Mumbai The other top cities Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. Most women-friendly Chennai Least women-friendly Patna Highest crime rate against women Jaipur Lowest crime rate against women Chennai Widest gap in literacy rate between men and women Jaipur (13.2%) Lowest gap in literacy rate between men and women Kolkata (5.4%) Highest overall Literacy rate Pune (91%) Lowest overall Literacy rate Hyderabad (83%) Highest unemployment rate for women Patna
Index Highest Ranked Lowest Rank Basic Amenities Pune Patna Economic Development Mumbai Patna Safety and Security Kolkata Patna Transportation Access Delhi Indore Environmental Impact Mumbai Lucknow Infrastructure Development Kolkata Patna Gender Role Chennai Patna
Top 10 Overseas borrowers between FY17 to Q2 2021 – RBI Data Top 10 Overseas Borrowers Between FY17 and Q2 FY21 Borrower Amount ($ b) Reliance Industries 17.27 Power Finance Corporation 6.15 Reliance Jio Infocomm 5.25 Arcelor Mittal India 5.04 Export-Import Bank of India 4.87 Indian Railway Finance Corporation 3.90 RECL 3.70 Adani Ports & SEZ 3.40 Indian Oil Corporation 3.20 NTPC 3.08
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The ‘Status of Leopard in India 2018’ report Rank State 1st Madhya Pradesh (3,421) 2nd Karnataka(1783) 3rd Maharashtra(1690)
Men’s FIH world rankings Rank Country 1st Belgium 2nd Australia 3rd Netherlands 4th India
Women’s FIH world rankings Rank Country 1st Netherlands 2nd Argentina 3rd Germany 9th India
❖ The Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana - The first rank amongst State Veterinary Universities in India for the year 2019 - conducted by the Education Division of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi.
International Ranking Global Dairy Processors Rankings - IFCN Dairy Research Network Rank Company 1st Rank Dairy Farmers of America 2nd Rank New Zealand’s Fonterra 3rd Rank French major Groupe Lactalis stood 8th Rank Amul, India
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Fortune the Businessperson of the Year 2020 Rank Person Company 1 Elon Musk Tesla and SpaceX CEO 2 Lisa Su AMD CEO 3 Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO 7 Jeff Bezos Amazon Founder and CEO 8 Shantanu Narayen Adobe CEO 9 Ajay Banga Mastercard CEO
Spammed countries in 2020 – Truecaller Rank Country 1 Brazil 2 USA 3 Hungary 9 India
In India Rank State 1 Gujarat 2 Maharashtra 3 Andhra Pradesh
World’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes Rank Name Country Category 1 Angela Merkel Germany Politics & Policy 2 Christine Lagarde France Politics & Policy 3 Kamala Harris United States Politics & Policy 41 Nirmala Sitharaman Politics & Policy 55 Roshni Nadar Malhotra India Technology 68 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Business
Global Terrorism Index 2020 Total countries - 163 countries It is issued by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), Sydney Rank Name 1 Afghanistan 2 Iraq 3 Nigeria 8 India
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The ICC T20I rankings for batsmen Rank Person Country 1 Dawid Malan England 2 Babar Azam Pakistan 3 KL Rahul India
ICC ODI Rankings Rank Player Team 1st Rank Virat Kohli India 2nd Rank Rohit Sharma India 3rd Rank Babar Azam Pakistan
Global house price index in the third quarter of 2020 - Knight Frank Rank Country 1st Rank Turkey 2nd Rank New Zealand 3rd Rank Luxembourg 54th Rank India
Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) 2020 Climate scope survey ranking Rank Country 1st Rank Chile 2nd Rank India 3rd Rank Brazil
Climate Change Performance Index 2020 - Germanwatch, CAN International and the New Climate Institute Rank Country 1 2 Not Achieved 3 4 Sweden 5 UK 6 Denmark 10 India
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ICC Men's Test Team Rankings Rank Country 1 Australia 2 New Zealand 3 India
Highest-paid celebrity of 2020 by Forbes Rank Person 1 Kylie Jenner 2 Kanye West 3 Roger Federer
ICC Test Rankings for Batsmen Rank Player Country 1 Steve Smith Australia 2 Virat Kohli India 3 Kane Williamson New Zealand
Human Development Index by UNDP Total countries - 189 Rank State 1st Rank Norway 2nd Rank Switzerland 3rd Rank Ireland 131st Rank India
Human Freedom Index 2020 Released by the Cato Institute in the United States and Fraser Institute in Canada Total - 162 countries Rank Country 1st Rank New Zealand 2nd Rank Switzerland 3rd Rank Hong Kong 111th Rank India
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Nature Index 2020 AI The top 25 countries/territories in artificial intelligence ranked by total article share (Share) in the field from 2015 to 2019 Rank Country/territory
1 United States of America (USA)
2 United Kingdom (UK)
3 Germany
20 India
The top 25 countries/territories in artificial intelligence in the Dimensions database ranked by total number of publications Rank Country/territory
1 China
2 United States
3 India
The top 100 research organizations in artificial intelligence in the Dimensions database ranked by total number of publications (# publications) in the field from 2015 to 2019. Rank Research organization Location
1 Tsinghua University China
2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China
3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
32 Anna University India
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Top emerging markets in Southeast Asia - Published by Bloomberg investment strategist Simon Flint and co-authored by Michelle Jamrisko Countries - 17 Rank Country 1st Rank Thailand 2nd Rank Russia 3rd Rank South Korea 11th Rank India
BANKING AND FINANCE BANKING RBI ❖ RBI - HDFC Bank to stop new digital business launches and avoid adding new Credit Card customers after repeated reports by its customers facing multiple cases of technical glitches. ❖ RBI - Increase limit for contactless card transactions to Rs 5,000 from Rs 2,000 per transaction from January 1. ❖ RBI - Cancel the licence of Karad Janata Sahakari Bank, Karad, in Maharashtra. ❖ RBI - Set up an Automated Banknote Processing Centre (ABPC) in Jaipur, Rajasthan for receipt, storage and dispatch of currency notes. ❖ RBI - Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) money transfer facility operational round-the- clock. ❖ RBI - Fix The issue price for the next series of sovereign gold bonds at Rs 5,000 per gram of gold. ❖ RBI - Extend the timeline for constitution of Board of Management (BoM) by Urban Co- operative Banks by six months till June 30, 2021.
PENALTY Amount Bank Reason ₹ 10 Lakh HDFC Bank bouncing of SGL
RATES Rate Percentage Policy Repo Rate 4.00% Reverse Repo Rate 3.35% Marginal Standing Facility Rate 4.25% Bank Rate 4.25% CRR 3% SLR 18.00%
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PUBLIC BANKS State Bank of India
❖ NABARD + SBI - Extend concessional refinance facility to the beneficiaries of watershed development and tribal development projects in Karnataka. ❖ Mercedes-Benz + SBI - Car finance at ‘attractive’ interest rate besides many other benefits. ❖ NABARD + SBI - Improve rural prosperity through convergence of their institutional lending and ongoing developmental initiatives.
Punjab National Bank ❖ Punjab National Bank - Tech-based loan management solution named 'LenS-The Lending Solution' to speed up and maintain accuracy in online loan processing and sanctioning of credit proposals.
Canara Bank ❖ Canara Bank - Launch of forex remittance through internet banking through a new tech product – FX4U. ❖ Canara Bank - Access to the FRUITS platform on a pilot basis which is the project of Karnataka.
Bank of Baroda ❖ Bank of Baroda (BoB) - the Atmanirbhar Women Scheme as part of its Baroda Gold Loan - 0.50 per cent concession for women - agri-gold loan at 0.25 percent concession - for retail loan at 0.50 per cent concession. ❖ Bank of Baroda + Defence forces - new Baroda Military Salary package. ❖ Bank of Baroda - Digital Lending Platform - allow prospective retail loan seekers to get loans digitally through a paperless process.
Central Bank of India ❖ NBCFDC + NSFDC + Central Bank of India - interest subvention scheme named “VISVAS yojana”.
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PRIVATE BANKS Federal Bank ❖ Federal Bank + OrbitRemit Limited - Facilitate money transfer from New Zealand to India.
ICICI Bank ❖ Aceware + ICICI Bank - Ace Money Micro ATM service in Kochi, Kerala. ❖ IIFL Finance + ICICI Bank - Provide affordable housing and MSME loans. ❖ ICICI Bank - An online platform named ‘Infinite India’ to enable foreign companies to establish or expand business in India. ❖ ICICI Bank + Google Pay - Issuance of FASTags.
Kotak Mahindra Bank ❖ Kodak Mahindra Bank - ‘Health to the Power Infinity’ programme for employees.
Yes Bank ❖ Yes Bank - Re-energised YES Premia - Unveiling a premium banking program that offers personalized solutions focused on the particular needs of key consumer segments - from small business owners to salaried professionals and senior citizens.
DBS Bank India ❖ DBS Bank India + Haqdarshak - Enable recovery of Indian businesses through its newly launched platform which offers access to MSME-focused government-assisted schemes across the country.
INSURANCE ❖ PolicyBazaar - Dedicated vertical for consumers to purchase job/income loss insurance products. ❖ HDFC Life Insurance - New digital campaign that focuses on the role of Unit Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs) as part of a prudent financial plan. ❖ Max Life Insurance Company - ‘Max Life Critical Illness and Disability Rider’ provides comprehensive financial protection against a range of critical illnesses and disability. ❖ RBL Bank + ICICI Prudential Life Insurance - Bancassurance partnership. ❖ SBI General Insurance + Mahindra Insurance Brokers - Increase insurance penetration in rural areas. IRDAI - Standard personal accident product with common coverage and policy wordings across the industry - Minimum sum insured shall be Rs 2.5 lakh and a maximum sum insured shall be Rs 1 crore. ❖ Bharti AXA Life Insurance - GotYouCovered campaign to appreciate frontline healthcare workers who are striving to protect people from the Covid-19 pandemic. ❖ Edelweiss General Insurance - India’s first Open API Gateway for Insurance products.
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INSURANCE (Cont.) ❖ BSE Ebix Insurance Broking + ICICI Prudential Life Insurance - The beta launch of term insurance products on its platform. ❖ SBI General Insurance + IntrCity RailYatri - Provide Domestic Travel Insurance to customers opting to travel/commute through IntrCity RailYatri - travel cover worth Rs. 5 Lacs along with the travel ticket. ❖ Whatsapp + SBI General Insurance - Offer consumers health insurance products. ❖ ICICI Prudential Life Insurance - ICICI Pru Guaranteed Pension Plan - guarantees life-long income after you retire. ❖ Bharti AXA Life Insurance - Bharti AXA Life Guaranteed Income Pro – Offer life insurance along with maturity benefits and guaranteed returns. ❖ Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance - First-of-its-kind video-based Digital Life Certification for its policyholders to ease the annuity pension claim process. ❖ Muthoottu Mini Financiers Ltd + Exide Life Insurance Company Limited - Provide life insurance products through its branches. ❖ A U Small Finance Bank + ICICI Prudential Life Insurance - Offer need and goal-based life insurance solutions. ❖ ICICI Lombard - Online platform for small and medium enterprises to buy or renew insurance.
Small Finance Bank
❖ Paytm + Suryoday Small Finance Bank - Empower MSMEs with instant digital loans. ❖ Ujjivan Small Finance Bank - New channel named Money Mitra to make banking services accessible to customers in their neighbourhood. ❖ Equitas Small Finance Bank - Tripartite account to help customers keep their saving, trading and demat investments under one umbrella entity.
Regional Rural Banks
❖ Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank - an overdraft facility named ‘Kirishi OD’ scheme for farmers -The limit is capped to a maximum of ₹1.5 lakh per acre to irrigated lands and ₹1 lakh per acre to dry land.
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WORLD BANK Amount Purpose USD 1 million Timor-Leste to support the country's fight against COVID-19. USD 400 million Morocco covid-19 social protection emergency response project. USD 25million Boost covid-19 recovery in Samoa. Tackle climate change, solid waste($200 million for the sindh USD 300 million resilience project and $100 million for the solid waste emergency and efficiency project) in Pakistan. Help Afghanistan alleviate COVID-19 impacts and improve access to USD 85 Million clean water, sanitation, and public services. USD 400 million To protect India’s poor and vulnerable from the impact of COVID-19. Second Accelerating India's COVID-19 Social Protection Response USD 400 million Programme project. Chhattisgarh Inclusive Rural and Accelerated Agriculture Growth USD 100 million Project. USD 250 million Second Dam Improvement and Rehabilitation Project (DRIP-2). USD 68 million Nagaland: Enhancing Classroom Teaching and Resources Project. USD 30 million Biological E to boost Covid-19 vaccine production. Build safe and green national highway corridors in the states of USD 500 million Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Amount Purpose USD 132.8 million Strengthen and modernize the distribution network and improve the quality of power supplied to households, industries, and businesses in Meghalaya. USD 430 million Improve the quality and reliability of electricity supply in Uttar Pradesh USD 50 million Boost digital platforms for public finance reforms in West Bengal. USD 400 million Support the Government of Sri Lanka in transforming its secondary education system to align with the demand for highly skilled and agile workers. USD 40 million Road rehabilitation in Samoa. USD 100 Million Government of Afghanistan respond to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Amount Purpose Modernization and upgradation of power distribution system in USD 190 million Karnataka's capital city of Bengaluru. Improve the operational performance and financial sustainability of USD 100 million state-owned enterprises (SOE) in Papua New Guinea. Technical assistance to support advanced biofuel development in USD 2.5 million India. USD 500 million Construct new metro rail lines in Bengaluru. USD 2.5 million Response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Georgia. USD 300 million Strengthen and improve access to comprehensive primary health care in urban areas in India. Vaccine initiative that will offer support to its developing member USD 9 billion economies to procure and deliver COVID-19 vaccines. The preparation of infrastructure development projects to improve USD 4.21 million urban amenities and develop tourism infrastructure in the north-
eastern state of Tripura. The Tripura government for the development of urban areas and Rs. 2,100 crores tourism in the northeastern state. Northern Arc Capital for on lending to the microfinance and the MSME Rs. 295 crores sectors in India. Augment electricity generation capacity in Assam through USD 231-million construction of a 120-megawatt (MW) hydroelectric power plant.
The European Investment Bank
Amount Purpose Foster the sustainable growth of ukraine and the prosperity of its €640 million people.
New Development Bank
Amount Purpose To provide support to Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan through MGNREG USD 1,000 million Scheme to support India’s economic recovery from COVID-19.
IMF Amount Purpose $49.47 million disbursement to protect Guinea from downside corona risks
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❖ SEBI - Set up a specialised department - tackle cases of diversion of funds, bank loans and resources by company promoters - This department will be known as CFID. ❖ SEBI - Impose a penalty of Rs 5 crore on NDTV - failure to disclose price-sensitive information about VCPL loan agreements.
CARD/PAY NEWS
❖ SBI + National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) + JCB International Co - 'SBI RuPay JCB Platinum Contactless Debit Card'. ❖ Rupifi + Axis Bank + Visa - Launch Credit Card for Small Businesses - .The average credit limit offered will be in the range of Rs 1 and 2 lakh per month. ❖ PayNearby + YES Bank + National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) - launch the PayNearby shopping card powered by RuPay for retailers - The maximum wallet balance at any point in time can be ₹ 1 lakh and users can transact up to ₹ 5 lakh monthly and ₹ 25 lakhs annually. ❖ ICICI Bank - 'iMobile Pay' - Mobile Banking app which offers payments and banking services to customers of any bank. ❖ Google Pay + Qwikcilver - Issue Real-Time Virtual Gift Cards to Users. ❖ Yes Bank - Yes Private Prime Credit Card, for India’s affluent and ultra HNIs - Available on the Mastercard World Elite platform. ❖ Department of Posts + India Post Payments Bank - New digital payment app named DakPay. ❖ Ewire Softtech + YES Bank - Prepaid card for enabling the next-generation payment platform provider chart an all-India presence. ❖ IndusInd Bank + Mastercard - Launch of its first metal credit card - ‘PIONEER Heritage. ❖ Yes Bank + Visa - launch a new line of debit cards – E-series for salaried and YES FIRST account holders. ❖ Central Bank of India + National Payments Corporation of India - Unique variant of contactless Debit Card – ‘RuPay Select’ on the occasion of Bank’s Foundation Day. ❖ Punjab National Bank - Digital replica of a physical Credit Card named PNB e-Credit Card. ❖ RBL Bank + PayNearby + Rupay - Innovative payment solution for Indian merchants – RuPay PoS.
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❖ VN Finance - ‘VNFinance’ - Automate the process of helping customers to get business loans. ❖ Razorpay + PayPal - Enable international payments for MSMEs and freelancers. ❖ Khatabook - New employee management platform named Pagarkhata to helps MSMEs to digitally manage workforce-related tasks such as monthly/hourly wages, attendance/leaves, payslips, salary calculation, payment, etc. ❖ Finin + SBM India - Neobank in India. ❖ NSE - its first agricultural commodity futures contract on crude degummed soybean oil. ❖ PhonePe + L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited - offer contactless payment options for commuters across the city. ❖ Exim Bank + Small Industries Development Bank of India - Set up an Alternative Investment Fund to provide equity and loan support to small and medium enterprises. ❖ PayPoint - e-gold facility to help rural customers make small-ticket gold investment. ❖ Exim Bank - a Line of Credit of $448 million to Uzbekistan for financing various projects in the Roads & Transport, Water and Technology & Communication sectors. ❖ BSE - an electronic spot platform for agricultural commodities through its subsidiary BSE Investments Ltd ❖ SBI Card + Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd - 'BPCL SBI Card Octane' offering maximum savings to consumers who spend a significant amount on fuel. ❖ National Payments Corporation of India - RuPay contactless offline feature for retail payments on a pilot basis. ❖ ChitMonks - Insurance product named ChitInsure designed to protect the subscribers of registered chit fund companies. ❖ IFC + IFC Emerging Asia Fund (EAF) + Puravankara - invest $76 million in the development of up to four residential projects under their affordable housing-focused ‘Provident’ brand. ❖ Snapdeal + National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) - Allow buyers to make QR- based digital payments at the time of accepting delivery of their orders. ❖ Cashaa + United Multistate Cooperative Society - crypto bank named UNICAS - users to transact in cryptocurrency and fiat from one account. ❖ IRDAI - issue guidelines for standard travel insurance policies to be offered from April 1, 2021. ❖ DBS Bank India - One-stop travel marketplace within the digibank app named ‘Travel Now’. ❖ National Housing Bank - Impose a fine of Rs 47,000 on GIC Housing Finance - violation of the guidelines.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY AMAZON ❖ CII + Amazon India - Increase export potential of MSMEs in 10 states and help them leverage e-commerce to boost domestic trade platform. OTHERS ❖ Mindtree + Databricks - Help customers implement cloud-based data platforms for advanced analytics. ❖ U GRO Capital + Wadhwani Foundation - Help MSMEs thrive in post Covid era. ❖ Accenture + Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) - Create a digital experience to engage art enthusiasts. ❖ PwC India + UNICEF + YuWaah (Generation Unlimited in India) - Help bridge the digital gap. ❖ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US - $886 million to Elon Musk's SpaceX as part of a programme to help bring high-speed broadband Internet to the country's rural areas. ❖ Report by NRI Consulting and TAGMA, Indian Tooling Industry - Rise to Rs 26,000 crore in value by 2025. ❖ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Offer an additional $250 million to fund the research, development and equitable delivery of tools for Covid-19 tests, treatments and vaccines. ❖ Spice Money + actor Sonu Sood - Digitally and financially empower one crore rural entrepreneurs. ❖ IBM + Telangana - Provide curated online courses for the states students that will enhance their technical and professional skills. ❖ FADA + ASDC + Google India - Bridge digital skills gap in auto dealerships and build their capacity in this critical growth driver. ❖ IndiGrid + IBM - Digital transformation of critical power infrastructure. ❖ CEBR – India to become 5th largest economy in 2025, the third spot by 2030. ❖ DPIIT - FDI equity inflows into India grew 21 per cent to USD 35.33 billion during April- October period of the current financial year.
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ACQUISITION AND MERGERS Company Acquire company Percent stake Amount Bank of India BOI AXA Investment 49 - Managers Pvt Ltd (BAIM) Bank of India BOI AXA Trustee 49 - Services Pvt Ltd (BATS) Bharti Airtel Ltd Bharti Infratel Ltd 4.94 ₹ 2,882.32 crore Convergent Finance ADF Foods Ltd 10 ₹ 100 crore SBI Life Insurance Paisalo Digital 8.99 - Tata Oasis Smart SIM - 58.1 Communications Europe SAS Myclassboard ₹ 4.5 crore ICICI Bank Educational 9.09 Solutions Pvt Ltd
Books and Authors Book Author Published Released by Thillai Rajan, G Arun Thoduvanam Thedi Kumar and Saji Vaanavil publications. Kamal Haasan Mathew Dharma: Decoding Bhavana Roy + Amish the Epics for A - - Tripathi Meaningful Life Manavta ke Praneta: Ramesh Pokhriyal Shri Ram Nath - Maharishi Arvind Nishank Kovind The Ministry of Putting Farmers First - - Information and Broadcasting To win your battles Anita Peter STAY ALIVE - - Persist Sen Elizabeth Warren - -
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Book Author Published Released by The Light of Asia: Penguin’s ‘Viking’ The Poem that Jairam Ramesh - imprint Defined the Buddha Vajpayee: The Years Shakti Sinha - - that Changed India The Maharaja of Robert Elgood -- - Jodhpur’s guns Ayodhya Madhav Bhandari - Devendra Fadnavis In Pursuit of Justice: Rajindar Sachar Rupa Publications - An Autobiography Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Parliament : A - - Narendra Modi Commemorative Volume Making of a Hindu Patriot: Background J.K. Bajaj and M.D. Har-Anand - of Gandhiji's Hind Srinivas Publications Swaraj I Came Upon a Lighthouse: A Short Sanjana Desai and HarperCollins India - Memoir of Life with Shantanu Naidu Ratan Tata The New Artificial Intelligence Against K Subash Kumar - Dr Selvin Kumar Coronavirus (Covid- 19) Building an - - Ministry of Railways Aatmanirbhar Bharat
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APPOINTMENTS NATIONAL APPOINTMENTS Name Designation Organization Replaced Director (Industrial Renuka Gera BHEL S Balakrishnan Systems & Products) 27th Director General Lt Gen Rajeev Border Roads - - Chaudhry (DGBR) FICCI for the year Uday Shankar President Sangita Reddy 2020-21 The Union Territories Justice Rajesh Bindal Chief Justice of Jammu And - Kashmir And Ladakh Prime Minister Kuldeep Handoo Ambassador Narendra Modi’s ‘Fit - India’ Uday Shankar President - Sanjiv Mehta Senior Vice President Ficci - Subhrakant Panda Vice President - Justice Dr S Orissa High Court - Muralidhar Justice Hima Kohli Telangana High Court - Justice Sanjib Madras High Court - Banerjee Chief Justice Jammu and Kashmir Pankaj Mithal - High Court Sudhanshu Dhulia Gauhati High Court -- Infrastructure Leasing Nand Kishore Executive Director and Financial Services - (IL&FS)
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Name Designation Organization Replaced Vineet Agarwal President The Associated Niranjan Hiranandani Chambers of Commerce and Sumant Sinha Vice-President Industry of India - (ASSOCHAM) Sanjay Nayar Chairman KKR India - Adityanath Das Chief Secretary Andhra Pradesh Nilam Sawhney First Female Softball Federation of Rana Gurmit Singh Neetal Narang President India Sodhi Country's Youngest Thiruvananthapuram, Arya Rajendran - Mayor Kerala Ramesh Chandra Chief Information CBI - Joshi Officer South East Area Regional Member on The GAVI Office(SEARO)/ Harsh Vardhan - Board Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) P Ravi Kumar Chief Secretary Karnataka TM Vijay Bhaskar Raghvendra Singh Uttarakhand - Chauhan Jitendra Kumar Andhra Pradesh - Maheshwari Chief Justice Madhya Pradesh Mohammad Rafiq -
Arup Kumar Andhra Pradesh - Goswami
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Name Designation Organization Replaced Sanjay Yadav Allahabad - Rajesh Bindal Calcutta - Vineet Kothari Gujarat - Andhra Pradesh Joymalya Bagchi -- Judge Satish Chandra Karnataka - Sharma
Ravi Vijaykumar Himachal Pradesh - Malimath Suneet Sharma Chairman And CEO Railway Board V K Yadav Deputy Election Election Commission Umesh Sinha -- Commissioner of India K Sivan Chairman ISRO(1 year extended) - Dalit Indian Chamber Ravi Kumar Narra National President of Commerce and - Industry (DICCI)
INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS Name Designation Organization Replaced Anil Soni CEO WHO - Sheikh Sabah al- Prime Minister Kuwait - Khalid al-Sabah United Nations Siddharth Chatterjee China - Resident Coordinator International Arvind Krishna Chairman Business Machines Ginni Rometty Corp Shashi Shekhar Asia-Pacific Vice President - Vempati Broadcasting Union
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BANKING APPOINTMENTS Name Designation Bank Replaced R Subramanian, RS The Reserve Bank of Executive Director - Ratho and Rohit Jain India Sanmoy Chakrabarti CRO HDFC Bank Jimmy Tata Kotak Mahindra Uday Kotak Managing Director - Bank Sandeep Batra Executive Director ICICI Bank - Niranjan Banodkar Chief Financial Officer Anurag Adlakha Chief Human Yes Bank Anurag Adlakha Deodutta Kurane Resources Officer
COMMITTEE Person name Committee Board Members oversee construction of the new Parliament house and to ensure - heritage and Centre 5 aesthetics of the complex are maintained implementation of Shri C.K. Mishra Government - Paris Agreement preparing roadmap on technical Amit Khare Education Ministry - education in mother tongue commemorate the 125th Birth Amit Shah Anniversary of Netaji - - Subhas Chandra Bose
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AWARDS NATIONAL AWARDS Person Award Name Category Given by Details The Users The Google Play WCC 2 Choice - - Best Of 2020 Award Category Recognition of his efforts to promote girls’ education and Global Teacher Prize Ranjitsinh Disale - - trigger a quick- 2020 response (QR) coded textbook revolution in India The Life Dr Rajan Chief scientist of Infosys Prize 2020 Sciences - Sankaranarayanan CSIR-CCMB Category Rabindranath Tagore Raj Kamal Jha - - The City and the Sea Literary Prize 2020 The DRI His years of Shri B. Sankaran Utkrishtsevasamma - - distinguished and n committed service “Most Innovative The textile machinery Lakshmi Machine Company For The - CII manufacturing major’s Works Year 2020” innovative products Decade-long concerted efforts in National Water Shivaji Ghadge - - the field of water Award conservation in the state Golden Peacock Environment SAIL -- - - Management Award For The Year 2020 Energy and ESAF Small Global Sustainability Environme - - Finance Bank Award 2020 nt Foundatio n
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Person Award Name Category Given by Details Confedera The Most Innovative tion of Its disruptive IIT Madras - Institute of The Year Indian innovations Industry Amar Singh 'Award of Merit' In College Cultural heritage The 2020 UNESCO - - conservation conservation Asia-Pacific Award project First Prize in The Presented by Shri.Ravi Pandit Deendayal Shri. Sreenivas shankarprasad and Upadhyay Telecom - - Karanam Shri. Sanjay Shamrao Skill Excellence Dhotre Awards Award of Excellence The Sunder In This Year’s Cultural heritage - - Nursery UNESCO Asia- conservation Pacific Awards Mother Teresa Harmony Vikas Khanna and Memorial Award - Foundatio - Sanjay Pandey 2020 n Corporate Excellence Excellence in The Category & Prestigious CII-ITC Commend NTPC - - Sustainability ation for Awards 2020 Significant Achieveme nt Best Company Ficci india sports AFSCB Promoting Sports - - awards 2020 (Public Sector) 2020 The Cubes In Space S Riyasdeen Global Design - - Sastra university Competition Contribution in developing several Hemant Kumar Cientist Of The Year - DRDO herbal medicines, Pandey Award including the popular drug Lukoskin
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Person Award Name Category Given by Details CII National Award Continuous efforts For Excellence In Tata Steel - - and commitment to Water Management water sustainability 2020 Fintech Startup Of Simpl - - - The Year North- Eastern Best Performing Region Tripura - - State And Hilly States Category Institution Outstanding “Eminent Engineer of contribution towards V.K. Yadav Award For The Year - Engineering modernization and 2020 and reforms over Indian Technology Railways
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Person Award name Category Given by Details ‘The Patient PEN Hessell- Assassin: A True Anita Anand Tiltman Prize for - - Tale of Massacre, History 2020 Revenge and the Raj’ tackle issues ranging from TIME magazine’s contaminated Gitanjali Rao first-ever ‘Kid of - - drinking water to the Year’ opioid addiction and cyberbullying.” ‘Best International Business culture UST Global - -- Initiative for awards 2020 Business Culture’
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Person Award name Category Given by Details the United raising awareness The prestigious Nation's Food about importance International King ICAR - and Agriculture of soil health Bhumibol World Organization among all Soil Day Award (FAO) stakeholder Singapore's their work in Asians of the leading daily, fighting the Adar Poonawalla - Year The Straits COVID-19 Times pandemic 2020 united the United nations Invest India - Nations - investment (UNCTAD) promotion award Lifetime The Indus Bill Gates achievement - Entrepreneurs - award (TiE) Joe Biden + '2020 Person of - - Kamala Harris the Year Businessperson Eric Yuan - - of the Year TIME magazine South Korean boy Entertainer of the - - band BTS Year Athlete of the LeBron James - - Year Young Dr. Carolina Ramanujan prize - - Mathematicians Araujo 2020 efforts for the UN Population HelpAge India - - elderly over the award past four decades The Dutch word Social Distancing - - - of the year
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Person Award name Category Given by Details promoting innovation that Global Visionary supports of Sustainable sustainability and Ratan Tata - - Business and peace in the Peace award region, including with the Palestinians ASSOCHAM Ratan Tata Enterprise of the - - - Century Award BBC's Sports Lewis Hamilton Personality of the - - - Year prize Federation of Global Visionary Indo-Israel epitomizing "unity, of Sustainable Ratan Tata - Chambers of peace and Business and Commerce sustainability" Peace (FIICC) Presented by The The Legion of President of the Narendra Modi - - Merit United States of America
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National Film Awards for 2019 - Bangladesh ❖ The Bangladesh Ministry of information announced the National Film Awards for 2019. ❖ Films ‘No Dorai’ and ‘Fagun Haway’ jointly won the best film award. Taneem Rahman Anghshu who directed the film ‘No Dorai’ got the best Director award. ❖ The film ‘No Dorai’ dominated the awards in several categories including best cinematography (Sumon Kumar Sarker), Best Sound Recording (Ripon Nath) and best Screenplay (Mahboob Rahman). ❖ Eminent actor Sohel Rana and actress Kohinoor Akhter Suchanda jointly won the Life Time Achievement Award for their contribution to the film industry. ❖ Zahid Hasan got the Best Villain award for his role in the film ‘Shaludu’. ❖ ‘Nari Jibon’ got the best short film award while ‘Ja Chilo Ondhokare’ was selected for the best documentary film of 2019. ❖ Emon Chowdhury got the best Music Director award for the film ‘Maya- The Lost Mother'. ❖ Best playback singer (male) award was given to Mrinal Kanti Das. ❖ Best Female singer award was awarded jointly to Momtaz Begum and Fatima Tuz Zahara Oyshee. ❖ Plabon Koroshi and Tanvir Tarek won the award for best music composer category.
2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Goldman Environmental Prize ❖ The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. ❖ The award is given by the Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California. ❖ It is also called the Green Nobel. ❖ The Goldman Environmental Prize was created in 1989 by civic leaders and philanthropists Richard N. Goldman and Rhoda H. Goldman. 6 Persons won 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize. There are, Lucie Pinson, France (Europe) ❖ Lucie Pinson used a variety of methods to pressure banks and insurers to cease support of coal development. Now, 17 insurers and 22 global banks have pledged to no longer fund coal projects.
Leydy Pech, Mexico ❖ Leydy Pech, a Mayan beekeeper, spearheaded a coalition that prevented Monsanto from planting genetically modified “Roundup ready” soybeans in seven states in southern Mexico. .
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Nemonte Nenquimo, Ecuador (North America) ❖ Nemonte Nenquimo filed a lawsuit against the Ecuadoran government and successfully safeguarded 202,000 hectares of Indigenous territories and Amazon rainforest from oil exploration and extraction.
Paul Sein Twa, Myanmar (Asia) ❖ Paul Sein Twa worked to establish a 546,000-hectare (1.35-million-acre) peace park to safeguard biodiversity and culture in the Salween River Basin in Myanmar, the first in a conflict zone.
Chibeze Ezekiel, Ghana (Africa) ❖ Chibeze Ezekiel led a four-year grassroots campaign to cancel the construction of the first coal-fired power plant in Ghana, changing the trajectory of Ghana’s energy future.
Kristal Ambrose, The Bahamas ❖ Kristal Ambrose started a youth movement that convinced the government of The Bahamas to enact a ban on single-use plastic bags, plastic cutlery, straws, and Styrofoam cups and containers. The India Sports Awards - 2020 – FICCI Award Personality Sports Wrestling Federation of India Best National Sports Federation and Paralympic Committee of - India Sports Person of the year (Male) Bajrang Puniya Wrestler Sports Person of the year Elavenil Valarivan Shooting (Female) Coach of the year award Radhakrishnan Nair Athletics Best Sports Promoting Award Madhya Pradesh Best company Promoting Sports Anil Kumble Tenvic Sports (Private Sector) Javelin Thrower, Best Para-Athlete Award Sundar Singh Gurjar Shot Put and (Male) Discus throw Best Para-athlete Award Simran Sharma Athlete (Female)
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"Young Champions of the Earth" 2020 prize Vidyut Mohan
❖ Vidyut Mohan, an engineer, Indian entrepreneur, is the co - founder of "Takachar", a social enterprise enabling farmers to prevent open burning of their waste farm residues and earn extra income by converting them into value - added chemicals like activated carbon on – site.
Nzambi Matee
❖ Nzambi Matee from Kenya, a material engineer and head of Gjenge Makers, which produces sustainable low - cost construction materials made of recycled plastic waste and sand.
Xiaoyuan Ren
❖ Xiaoyuan Ren from China who leads MyH2O, a data platform that tests and records the quality of groundwater across a thousand villages in rural China into an app so residents know where to find clean water.
Lefteris Arapakis
❖ Lefteris Arapakis, 26, from Greece founded the start - up Enaleia, through which the team trains, empowers and incentivises the local fishing community to collect plastic from the sea, allowing both fish stocks and the ecosystem to recover.
Max Hidalgo Quinto
❖ Max Hidalgo Quinto from Peru founded Yawa, building portable wind turbines that harvest up to 300 litres of water per day from atmospheric humidity and mist.
Niria Alicia Garcia
❖ Niria Alicia Garcia, 28, from the US coordinates - alongside a community of indigenous activists - the annual Run 4 Salmon event using virtual reality to bring to life the historical journey of the Sacramento chinook salmon along California's largest watershed, raising awareness of this invaluable ecosystem, the species and people it supports.
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Fatemah Alzelzela
❖ Fatemah Alzelzela from Kuwait started Eco Star, a non - profit recycling initiative that exchanges trees and plants for waste from homes, schools and businesses in Kuwait.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IISC BENGALURU ❖ Honeywell + IISc Bangaluru - Support deep science startups with societal impact. ❖ IISc Bangaluru - a new device could measure the rate of evaporation of a local area within a couple of minutes. ❖ IISc Bangaluru - Work on rapid identification of COVID-19 biomarkers in blood plasma using Raman spectroscopy and artificial intelligence. IIT MADRAS ❖ Wipro GE Healthcare + IIT Madras - Provide increased opportunities for Research Scholars to build and further improve the innovation ecosystem. ❖ IIT Madras + govt of Rajasthan - Implement data-driven systems approach to road safety. IIT DELHI ❖ Common Services Centres + IIT Delhi - Establish a design and innovation lab - conduct research on new products and services for village level entrepreneurs. IIT GUWAHATI ❖ IIT Guwahati - Develop novel materials that can efficiently harvest water from humid air. ❖ Agri-tech startup AgSpert of IIT Guwahati + alumni of NIT Silchar + Dibrugarh University - Multi-lingual smartphone AI-based application for farmers with a goal of optimizing the in- farm productivity through AI. IIT Hyderabad ❖ IIT Hyderabad-incubated start-up PURE EV + CSIR-Central Electro Chemical Research Institute - Indigenising lithium-ion battery technology for electric vehicles. ❖ ARCI + IIT Hyderabad - High-performance hybrid supercapacitors with novel electrode material. ❖ IIT Hyderabad - ‘TiHAN-IIT’ testbed for autonomous navigation systems. IIT KHARAGPUR ❖ IIT Kharagpur - Portable Artificial Intelligence-based device for automatic inspection of goods manufactured in MSMEs. IIT Ahmedabad ❖ Caspian Debt + CIIE,the incubator of IIT Ahmedabad - The Innocity Startup School to support and enhance the skills of start-ups in their early stages. IIT ROPAR ❖ IIT Ropar + IIT Alumni Council - Set up first Global Centre of Excellence (GCE) in the area of agritech and water.
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IIT MANDI ❖ IIT Mandi - Propose a technique to enhance the power output of piezoelectric materials, although the experimental application of the technique remains challenging now ❖ IIT Mandi - Develop social networks, high-efficiency face masks from waste ‘PET bottles’, Wi-Fi Operated smart ventilator, UV-C disinfection box.
IIT Kharagpur ❖ IIT Kharagpur + UK’s Cardiff University - Funding to develop waste water treatment solutions Others News in Science and Technology Mask ❖ Hetero Healthcare Ltd - self-sanitizing reusable mask named DEFEND99. Tests ❖ Tulane University School of Medicine - Portable saliva-based smartphone testing platform for COVID-19 can provide results within 15 minutes without the need for resource-intensive laboratory methods. ❖ Roche technologies - Laboratory SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to support high-volume testing of suspected COVID-19 patients. ❖ University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering - Ultrasensitive test using a paper- based electrochemical sensor which is capable of detecting the presence of the coronavirus in mere five minutes. ❖ CSIR-CCMB + the Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd - Innovative dry swab test–Direct Amplification rapid RT-PCR (DArRT-PCR)–to detect SARS-CoV-2. ❖ Australia scientists - genome sequencing to trace Covid-19 cases within four hours ❖ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - New online “Covid-19 mortality risk” calculator to help prioritise certain groups for vaccination. Space News ❖ Pixxel + NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) - Launch the country’s first private remote-sensing satellite on an ISRO PSLV rocket in early 2021. ❖ China - Successfully launch new Earth observation satellite which can take high-resolution pictures of ground objects across the globe - Gaofen-14, was sent into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. ❖ SpaceX - Shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship into the air from a remote corner of Texas. ❖ Raja Chari + Sankt Wendel + Marshburn - The Commander of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA and the European Space Agency. ❖ India - Launch its latest communication satellite CMS-01 in PSLV-C50 at the spaceport of Sriharikota. ❖ ISRO - Set up dedicated control centre named NETRA for Space Situational Awareness.
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Space News (Cont.) ❖ Long March-8 - China's new space carrier rocket - successfully launch five satellites on its maiden flight. ❖ ISRO - Set up its Regional Academic Center for Space (RAC-S) at IIT Varanasi. ❖ Skytoot Aerospace - Successful test firing of its solid propulsion rocket stage named Kalam-5. ❖ The Indian Space Research Organization - Launch the first satellite Amazonia-1 - develop completely in Brazil by the National Institute for Space Research.
Institution ❖ Alagappa University in Tamil Nadu + KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Find new drugs that can potentially treat coronavirus. ❖ CGWB + CSIR-NGRI - Use of advanced heliborne geophysical survey and other scientific studies in parts of the States of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana under the Aquifer Mapping Programme. Others ❖ Zeco Aircon - An air purification technology that would destroy harmful viruses including Covid-19 causing SARS-CoV2 ❖ Department of Space + Agnikul Cosmos, a Chennai based start-up located in the National Centre for combustion R&D, IIT Madras - launch vehicle development program. ❖ Chinese scientists - The world’s first light-based quantum computer which can solve problems far faster than a classical supercomputer named Jiuzhang. ❖ Thalamus Irwine - an Artificial Intelligence and IoT-based solution to complete a sero survey with 1 crore samples of COVID-19 cases within a week. ❖ Cipla + Premier Medical Corporation Pvt Ltd - commercialisation of the rapid antigen test kits for COVID-19 in India. ❖ Serum Institute of India - Develop first indigenous vaccine against pneumonia. ❖ 'H-Bots Robotics' - Robotic disinfectant named ACCORD to help in the fight against Covid- 19. ❖ Polytechnic University of Valencia + University of Valencia - New system to monitor signals to detectSARS-CoV-2 in environmental aerosols. ❖ DRDO Young Scientist Laboratory for Quantum Technologies - Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) - detects random quantum events and converts those into a stream of binary digits.
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS UK ❖ UK - The first country in the world to approve a Covid-19 vaccine named Pfizer-BioNTech - developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. ❖ India + UK - Set up a joint task force consisting of designated higher education organisations from both the countries to work towards mutual recognition of academic qualifications.
France ❖ France - The 23rd member of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).
Vietnam ❖ India + Vietnam - 7 new agreements on areas such as Defence, scientific research, nuclear and renewable energy, petrochemicals and other diverse subjects like cancer treatment. China ❖ The government in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir + China - Build 700MW hydropower project at an estimated cost of USD 1.35 billion. ❖ China - Successfully launch a new remote sensing satellite Yaogan-33 into space. ❖ China - Launch 1,110-kilometre middle section of China-Russia East gas pipeline. ❖ China - Successfully launch two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from Long March-11 carrier rocket.
Israel ❖ Israel - Transfer over $1 billion in taxes and customs duties it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
Australia ❖ Australia + United States - To develop and test an air-launched hypersonic cruise missile under the bilateral Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment program.
Singapore ❖ Singapore - Become first country to approve lab-grown meat
Bhutan ❖ India + Bhutan - Cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
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USA ❖ India + USA - Co-operate on intellectual property examination and protection for the next 10 years and to strengthen the IP systems in both countries. ❖ The US - The sale of USD 90 million worth of military hardware and services in support of its fleet of C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft. ❖ Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), India + Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), USA - Exchange of information and experiences in areas of mutual interest to both in the electricity sectors. ❖ USA - Arms sales to Kuwait worth over USD 4 billion - include eight Apache AH-64E helicopters, along with equipment upgrade of 16 older Apaches.
Bangladesh ❖ Bangladesh + Bhutan - Its first Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) - Allowing duty free access to a range of goods between the two countries. ❖ India + Bangladesh - 7 MoUs and agreements during the virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Finland ❖ Geological Survey of India + Geological Survey of Finland - In Fields Of Geology & Mineral Resources.
Japan ❖ Japan - $708 billion in economic stimulus to help recovery from Covid-19. ❖ India + Japan - Agreement to enhance cooperation between their steel industries.
Austria ❖ India + Austria - Technology Cooperation in the Road Infrastructure Sector.
Russia ❖ Russia - Successfully test launch heavy lift space rocket after long hiatus.
Uzbekistan ❖ India + Uzbekistan - Nine Agreements and MoUs in various areas including in the field of Solar Energy, Digital Technologies and on High Impact Community Development Projects (HICDP).
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Renamed News ❖ Italy - San Paolo stadium is renamed the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.
Summit ❖ The World Economic Forum - Hold its 2021 annual meeting in Singapore instead of Davos, Switzerland which is battling a surge in coronavirus infections - Davos-Klosters, Switzerland in 2022. ❖ India + Iran + Uzbekistan - The first Trilateral Working Group Meeting on joint use of Chabahar Port will be held virtually. ❖ India-Sri Lanka Joint Working Group - 4th edition of Meeting - Fisheries was held through virtual mode.
Exercises
Armed Exercise Name Edition Countries Place Forces Eastern Indian PASSEX - Navy India + Russia Ocean Region "Shaheen (Eagle)-IX - Air Force Pakistan + China - Russia + NATO Pakistan's port AMAN-2021 - Military members city of Karachi Indian Ocean IND-INDO CORPAT 35 Navy India + Indonesia Region PASSEX - Navy India + Vietnam South China Sea
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❖ The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) + the IKEA Foundation - $30 million commitment to Aceli Africa, an innovative program that incentivizes banks to lend to agribusinesses. ❖ India - Donate $3 million to complete the construction of Palestine-India Techno Park for Palestinian IT entrepreneurs connecting them to the local, regional and global markets. ❖ The Indian Navy - Final a contract for procurement of a batch of Israel weapon systems that are capable of bringing down high-speed enemy drones. ❖ WHO + IFRC - Strengthen delivery of emergency medical supplies. ❖ The UNESCO - Launch an international prize in the field of ‘creative economy’ in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. ❖ Prime Minister of UK - The Chief Guest of India’s Republic Day celebrations in 2021. ❖ UNICEF - Covid-19 vaccine market dashboard to follow the developments of the rapidly evolving coronavirus vaccine market and the efforts of the COVAX Facility. ❖ US International Development Finance Corporation - Invest USD 54 million in India - support the development of critical infrastructure projects in the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. ❖ WHO - Mobile application - Provide users with the latest updates on the coronavirus disease.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS Prime Minister – Narendra Modi ❖ PM Modi - Inaugurate construction of Agra Metro project virtually - The project comprises of two corridors with a total length of 29.4 km. ❖ Narendra Modi – Address the International Bharati Festival organized by the Vanavil Culture Centre in Chennai via video-conference. ❖ Narendra Modi - Release Rs 18,000 crore PM-KISAN installment to over nine crore farmers. ❖ Narendra Modi - AB-PMJAY SEHAT scheme via video-conferencing - extend health insurance coverage to all residents of Jammu & Kashmir. ❖ Narendra Modi - India's first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro's Magenta Line + fully operational National Common Mobility Card service on the Airport Express Line via video conferencing. ❖ Narendra Modi - 100th Kisan Rail from Sangola in Maharashtra to Shalimar in West Bengal via video conferencing. ❖ Narendra Modi - The first train to run on the 351-km New Bhaupur-New Khurja section (both in Uttar Pradesh) of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC)+ inaugurate the operation control centre for the EDFC at Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh via videoconferencing.
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Vice President – Venkaiah Naidu ❖ Vice President - Release commemorative postage stamp in honour of late Prime Minister, Shri I K Gujral - Shri I K Gujral served as 12th Prime Minister of India.
Defence - Rajnath Singh ❖ Defence Minister - Approve proposals to procure equipment worth Rs 27,000 crore from domestic industry. ❖ Defence Minister - Hand over three systems - Develop by the Defence Research and Development Organisation to chiefs of the three-armed forces – IMSAS + Astra Mk-1 missile + BOSS. ❖ Rajnath Singh - India's first hypersonic wind tunnel in Hyderabad, Telangana. ❖ Ministry of Defence + BEL - Procurement of 10 Lynx U2 Fire Control systems for frontline warships of Indian Navy at a cost of Rs 1,355 crore.
Home Affairs- Amit Shah ❖ Amit Shah - The development and beautification project of Batadrava ‘Than’ at Borduwa in Nagaon district - Rs 188 crore. ❖ Amit Shah - Lay foundation stones for seven projects and inaugurate Thoubal Multipurpose Project - construct with an estimated cost of Rs.1998.99 crore. ❖ Amit Shah - Unveil Arun Jaitley's statue at DDCA premises - statue prepared by Ram Sutar.
Road Transport and Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari ❖ Nitin Gadkari - “toll plaza free” in the next two years. ❖ Nitin Gadkari - Inaugurate the 23rd Hunar Haat of indigenous master artisans in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. ❖ Nitin Gadkari - Unveil life-size bronze statue of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to commemorate his birth anniversary in Assam. ❖ Nitin Gadkari -Construction of a multi modal logistic park (MMLP) in Silchar ❖ Nitin Gadkari - Unveil a bronze statue of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Assam's Silchar - 13-feet length. ❖ Nitin Gadkari – Extend validity of Vehicular documents like DLs, RCs, Permits etc till 31st March 2021.
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Finance and Corporate Affairs - Nirmala Sitharaman ❖ Finance Minister - Release the Smuggling in India Report 2019-20 which analyses organised smuggling trends on Gold and Foreign Currency, Narcotic Drugs, Security, Environment and Commercial Frauds. ❖ The Finance Minister - Rs 9,879.61 crore worth capital expenditure proposals of 27 states. ❖ Nirmala Sitharaman - Inaugurate a bust Mr Jaitley at the Arun Jaitley Park in New Delhi.
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and Food Processing Industries - Narendra Singh Tomar ❖ TRIFED + Food Processing Ministry - Upliftment of Tribal Lives Through the Implementation of the PM- FME Scheme. ❖ Narendra Singh Tomar - inaugurate Virtual Agri-hackathon 2020 in New Delhi
Law and Justice, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology - Ravi Shankar Prasad ❖ The Union Minister of State for Communication - Five-star village postal scheme to ensure the universal coverage of flagship postal schemes in Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Social Justice and Empowerment - Thawar Chand Gehlot ❖ Social Justice and Empowerment Minister - Mobile Application “Swachhata Abhiyan” to Identify and Geotag the data of Insanitary Latrines and Manual Scavengers.
External Affairs - Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar ❖ External Affairs Minister - Economic diplomacy website which will showcase India's economic, sectoral, and state-wise strengths ❖ External Affairs Minister - 2-day visit to Qatar - Visits FIFA 2022 World Cup venue – Built by Larsen & Toubro ❖ Minister of state External Affairs Ministry - The Global Pravasi Rishta portal and app to connect with the nearly 3.12-crore strong Indian diaspora across the world.
Tribal Affairs - Arjun munda ❖ Shri Arjun Munda - New Tribes India Outlet at the Departure Lounge of Lokpriya Gopinath Bordolai International Airport
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Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology; and Earth Sciences Dr Harsh vardhan ❖ Health Minister - Mobile app Co-WIN for real-time monitoring of Covid-19 vaccination. ❖ Health Minister - The NCD Medical Officer App - ensure that the missing links in the follow up of patients suffering from Non-Communicable Diseases. ❖ CSIR-NISCAIR + Minister of Earth Sciences + Vijnana Bharati - Organize the inaugural session of the International Science Literature Festival, Vigyanika. ❖ Health Minister + MeitY - “CoWIN”, a grand challenge for strengthening the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system ❖ Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare - India’s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Pneumosil - Develop by the Serum Institute of India Private Limited (SIIPL) + the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ❖ Harsh Vardhan - India's highest Meteorological Centre in Leh, Ladakh. ❖ Harsh Vardhan – Inaugurate the web-based application “Digital Ocean” - Developed by INCOIS during a Virtual Meeting held in New Delhi.
Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar ❖ Prakash Javadekar - The Rajgir Zoo Safari in Nalanda, Bihar and Shaheed Ashfaque Ullah Khan Prani Udyaan in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh were granted recognition.
Railways and Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal ❖ Commerce and Industry Minister +the Minister of AYUSH - To set up an Export Promotion Council to boost AYUSH exports.
Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel - Dharmendra Pradhan ❖ Shri Dharmendra Pradhan - World-class premium grade Petrol (Octane 100) in the country. ❖ Shri Dharmendra Pradhan – Inaugurate & dedicate to the Nation MNGL’s 5 stations through Video Conference. ❖ Shri Dharmendra Pradhan - The country’s first mobile Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) dispensing unit - operated by Mahanagar Gas Ltd (MNGL) in Pune. ❖ Dharmendra Pradhan - Eighth oil & gas production plant of the country in West Bengal. ❖ Dharmendra Pradhan - IndianOil’s Remote Monitoring & Operation Centre - remote tracking of IndianOil’s Refinery Gas Turbines based in Hyderabad.
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Skill Development and Entrepreneurship - Mahendra nath pandey ❖ The Minister of skills development and entrepreneurship + Microsoft + NASSCOM Foundation - Provide digital learning content for students at industrial training institutes (ITIs). Youth Affairs and Sports - Kiren Rijiju ❖ Kiren Rijiju + Shripad Yesso Naik - Formally recognise yogasana as a competitive sport. ❖ The Sports Minister - The inclusion of 4 indigenous sports in the Khelo India Youth Games 2021 - Kalaripayattu + Mallakhamba + Gatka + Thang-Ta. ❖ Shri Kiren Rijiju - Virtually inaugurate 8 Khelo India State Centres of Excellence (KISCEs) across India - The presence of distinguished State Sports Ministers. ❖ Kiren Rijiju - "Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan" a river rafting expedition and public outreach programme in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.
Housing and Urban Affairs, Civil Aviation. - Hardeep Singh Puri ❖ Housing & Urban Affairs of Secretary - A programme of Socio-Economic Profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families. ❖ Hardeep Singh Puri - Launch E-Sampada, a new web portal and mobile app on Good Governance Day.
Shipping - Mansukh L. Mandaviya ❖ Shipping Minister - Issue Draft Indian Ports Bill, 2020 for public consultation which replace the Indian Ports Act of 1908.
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STATES Andhra Pradesh ❖ Cumbum Tank, Kurnool-Cuddapah Canal, Porumamilla Tank (Anantharaja Sagaram) - World Heritage Irrigation Structure (WHIS) tag 2020. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - Brochure of ‘100-day Women’s March’ in his chambers in the Legislative Assembly ❖ Andhra Pradesh - AP-Amul project, which will strengthen the dairy sector in cooperatives besides creating economic empowerment of women. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - An online interactive agriculture solutions platform named Rythu Prakasam for farmers. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - ‘Jagananna Jeeva Kranthi’ scheme for distribution of sheep, goats to women - ₹1,869 crore allocated under this scheme. ❖ Andhra Pradesh + Survey of India - Historic land survey for the first time in the country. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - ₹15,000 financial assistance a year for each student under Amma Vodi scheme. ❖ Kapuluppada,Andhra Pradesh - The Natural History Park, Museum and Research Institute (NHPM&RI) - Rs 80 crore. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - ‘YSR Free Crop Insurance’ scheme + credited ₹1,252 crore into the bank accounts of 9.48 lakh farmers in insurance claims for the agricultural season 2019. ❖ Andhra Pradesh – Approve new tourism policy named Mega Tourism projects over ₹400 crore. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - The Rejuvenating Watersheds for REWARD project in five parched districts. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - A comprehensive survey of all types of lands in the state – agriculture, non-agriculture, state-owned and private lands – in rural and urban areas. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - The flagship programme of Navaratnalu ‘Pedalandariki Illu,’ (housing for poor) in East Godavari. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - Release ₹1,766 crore towards compensation for crop damages and Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan scheme.
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Assam ❖ Assam - The first phase of commissioning of South West Guwahati water supply project under JnNURM. ❖ Assam - Setting up a national park named Raimona National Park in a militancy ravaged reserve forest - It is 6th national Park. ❖ Guwahati, Assam - The first human milk bank in the northeast. ❖ The Commissionerate of Industries and Commerce of Assam state - Receive the ISO 9001:2015 certification for implementing various government schemes to promote industrial development in the state. ❖ Assam government - Launch a scheme for the infrastructural development of the Border Outposts - Rs 100 crore. ❖ The industries and commerce department of Assam + Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) - Boost the MSME sector in the state. ❖ Assam - Approve the Assam Official Language Amendment Bill for making Bodo language is an associate official language of the state. ❖ Assam - Bill to abolish all state-run madrassas and convert those into general schools with effect from April 1, 2021.
Bihar ❖ Bihar - 3 MW solar power unit – Commissioned at the NTPC Kahalgaon.
Chhattisgarh ❖ Chhattisgarh - Sign a contract to set up the first ethanol plant in the state under the Public- private partnership (PPP) model.
Goa ❖ Goa - A one-time power bill settlement scheme 2020 for power consumers. ❖ Goa - Approval to a proposal to allow cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Gujarat ❖ Gujarat - India’s first Lithium refinery. ❖ Gujarat - New solar power policy comprising provisions to encourage small and medium scale solar projects on residential, commercial and industrial premises.
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Haryana ❖ Haryana - The Ashtavakra Center for disability persons through video conferencing to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities. ❖ Haryana - The 'Smart Shiksha Pariyojna' at the Government Girls Senior Secondary School under the Smart City Project. ❖ Haryana - The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to bring transparency and efficiency in the process of releasing state government advertisements and payments to media houses. ❖ Gurugram, Haryana - First Centre of Excellence for Skill Development in Power Sector – Established by Skill India. ❖ Haryana + India Accelerator - Build a robust start-up ecosystem in the state. ❖ Haryana - New enterprises and employment policy 2020 which aims to establish the state as a competitive and favored investment destination. ❖ The Haryana Cabinet – Approve Delhi-Panipat corridor of the Regional Rapid Transport System (RRTS) - 103 Km length of this corridor.
Himachal Pradesh ❖ Himachal Pradesh - Unveil an 18 feet statue of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the historic Ridge Maidan - Rs 1.08 crore.
Jharkhand ❖ Jharkhand - Rs 2,000 crore for loan waiver to farmers in the state. ❖ Jharkhand - Invite to address the Annual India Conference at Harvard University in February next year.
Karnataka ❖ Karnataka - To implement learning management system (LMS)-based digital learning in government higher educational institutions from the academic year 2020-21. ❖ Karnataka - The first edition of 'Koushalya Karnataka', a monthly magazine, to provide a link between job aspirants and employers. ❖ Mysuru, Karnataka - Set up Sandalwood museum. ❖ The Karnataka Legislative Assembly - The Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill-2020 - ₹50,000 - ₹5 lakh fine as per the new Bill. ❖ Karnataka + British Council - MoU of Understanding to further bilateral cooperation in higher education. ❖ Karnataka - Affidavit-based approval system for ease of doing business. ❖ Karnataka - An Ordinance on the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill-2020. ❖ Karnataka - The newly constructed administrative complex of Helath and Family Welfare Department named Arogya Soudha at Bangalore.
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Kerala ❖ Kerala - Rs 10,000 crore worth development projects in next 100 days
Madhya Pradesh ❖ Madhya Pradesh - Aim to completely eliminate AIDS by 2030. ❖ Gwalior and Orchha of Madhya Pradesh - The list of World Heritage City by UNESCO. ❖ Madhya Pradesh - Pipe manufacturing unit set up by the Welspun Group at a cost of about 300 crores ❖ Madhya Pradesh - Distribute an interest-free loan of 10 thousand rupees each under the Chief Minister Rural Street Vendor Scheme to about 20 thousand street vendors. ❖ Madhya Pradesh - Approve the Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Bill 2020 - Provide for prison term of up to 10 and fine of Rs 1 lakh for conversion through marriage or by any other fraudulent means.
Maharashtra ❖ Pune, Maharashtra - Introduced "Child-friendly" police station in the state. ❖ Maharashtra - Start a new campaign to detect patients suffering from leprosy and tuberculosis. ❖ 490-year-old Dhamapur Lake in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district - World Heritage Irrigation Structure (WHIS) tag 2020. ❖ Maharashtra - Propose 10 new conservation reserves, one sanctuary. ❖ Maharashtra - Sea Harrier Monument at a popular junction of Bandra Bandstand in the city. ❖ Maharashtra - ‘Sharad Pawar Gram Samruddhi Yojana’ under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNRES). ❖ Maharashtra - A new law named Shakti Act, 2020 proposing stern actions, including death penalty and life imprisonment, in an effort to curb crimes against women and children in the state. ❖ Maharashtra + New York-based Cornell University - Launch a social impact accelerator program for marginalised entrepreneurs. ❖ Maharashtra - 25 crore rupees will be provided in the first phase for the development of Dajipur Sanctuary, which is part of the Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary in Kolhapur district. ❖ Maharashtra + 25 national firms - Investments worth ₹61,042 crore and create over 2.53 lakh job opportunities in the state.
Manipur ❖ Manipur - 81st anniversary of the “women’s war” on December 12.
Meghalaya ❖ Meghalaya - State Disability Logo, Launches Meghalaya Sign Bank App.
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Mizoram ❖ Tlungvel - Mizoram’s first solar power plant has been commissioned - The grid connected 2 megawatts solar photovoltaic (SPV) solar power plant. ❖ Mizoram - Project to assist the migrant workers who lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic find suitable employment.
Odisha ❖ Odisha - The Customer Integrated Management Services (CIMS) and Stockyard Management System (SMS) applications of the Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) to transform the online sales process of minerals and despatch management with transparency. ❖ Odisha - The unified emergency helpline number 112 to provide all forms of police assistance to people in distress. ❖ Odisha - The second edition of its flagship ''Eco-Retreat'' programme at five locations. ❖ Odisha - PAReSHRAM portal along with 22 online services of Labour and Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) department. ❖ Odisha - New world-class hockey stadium in Rourkela. ❖ Odisha + UNICEF - 'Career Portal' for secondary and higher secondary students. ❖ Odisha - The first town planning scheme by distributing land pattas to residents of four villages on the outskirts of the Capital city. ❖ Odisha - 7th State in the country to successfully undertake “Ease of Doing Business” reform stipulated by the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
Punjab ❖ Punjab - 100 percent Tax Exemption to State Stage Carriage, Educational Institutes' Buses till Dec 31.
Rajasthan ❖ Rajasthan - Email ID for the public to send their complaints or suggestions to Chief Minister. ❖ Rajasthan - Two amnesty schemes providing relief to the Krishi Upaj Mandi traders and agro-processing units. ❖ Rajasthan - Successfully undertake “Ease of Doing Business” reform stipulated by the Finance Ministry – 6th State.
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Tamil Nadu ❖ Chennai Corporation - The ‘Take Me Back’ initiative to recycle beverage cartons into useful items. ❖ Tamil Nadu - Sign 18 MoUs worth Rs 19,955 crore with an employment potential of 26,509 persons. ❖ Tamil Nadu - ‘Amma’ mini clinics to provide free medical services to the poor. ❖ Tamil Nadu - Disburse Rs 2,500 as a Pongal gift each to the rice cardholders in the state. ❖ Giant Rock Bee Honey - Add to Tribes India Collection - Malayali tribes of Tamil Nadu ❖ Edappadi K Palaniswami - Inaugurate the newly created Mayiladuthurai district through video conferencing - 38th District in Tamil Nadu.
Telangana ❖ Telangana - ₹7,300 crore for the second phase of Rythu Bandhu disbursals in the current agricultural season. ❖ Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad- Acquire ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Standards Certification from ASCB, UK. ❖ Telangana + SAP India - Equip MSMEs in the State with digital skilling and technologies.
Tripura ❖ Tripura - Provide health insurance cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per year for journalists.
Uttar Pradesh ❖ Uttar Pradesh – COVID-19 testing centre detection app named the Mera Covid Kendra app which will help people get information about nearby testing labs. ❖ Uttar Pradesh - Approve the design, name and logo of the international airport to be constructed in Jewar – Name: Noida International Greenfield Airport + a picture of stork— The state bird--will used in its logo. ❖ Uttar Pradesh - Launch a special program Kisan Kalyan Mission to double the income of farmers. ❖ Uttar Pradesh - Special campaign named Varasat to curb property & land-related disputes in rural areas. ❖ Uttar Pradesh - India’s first mega leather park.
Uttarakhand ❖ Uttarakhand – An initiative to give 80 per cent subsidy for beekeeping and honey rearing in boxes to locals. ❖ Uttarakhand - Women self-help groups engaged in making LED lights will be given a revolving fund of Rs 50,000. ❖ Haldwani, Uttarakhand - India’s first pollinator park.
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West Bengal ❖ West Bengal – Massive outreach campaign ‘Duare Sarkar’ to ensure that people avail the benefits of 11 state-run welfare schemes and also to hear out their grievances related to the programmes. ❖ West Bengal – ‘Manobik’ scheme where differently-abled persons with 40 per cent or more disabilities will receive a monthly pension. ❖ West Bengal - Agro-industrial park in Hooghly.
UT Andaman and Nicobar Islands ❖ Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Join One Nation One Ration Card scheme.
Chandigarh ❖ Chandigarh - “neki ki deewar” or wall of kindness scheme of the municipal corporation here at the community centre.
Delhi ❖ Delhi – A forum to engage with stakeholders for the successful implementation of electric vehicles policy. ❖ Delhi – A truck-mounted anti-smog gun to combat the worsening dust pollution. ❖ Delhi - Reading portal named Tadaa for children. ❖ Delhi police - Set up solar energy-enabled modern beat booth at India Gate.
Lakshadweep ❖ Lakshadweep – The first Union Territory to become 100 per cent organic as all farming.
Puducherry ❖ Kiran Bedi – The approval to deposit of Rs 2,200 each into the bank accounts of 1.75 lakh BPL families. ❖ Puducherry - "Nammazhvar Agriculture rejuvenation scheme" providing subsidy of Rs 10,000 per acre to sugarcane growers.
Jammu and Kashmir ❖ Jammu & Kashmir - The Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network eVIN to rationalize vaccine flow and distribution.
Ladakh ❖ Tso Kar Wetland Complex in Ladakh - 42nd Ramsar site, which is a second one in the Union Territory of Ladakh.
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Missile Missile Place Range A naval version of the Bay of Bengal BrahMos supersonic cruise 400 km
missile Suryalanka test firing range in Akash Missiles 25 km Andhra Pradesh two Prithvi-2 ballistic missiles Balasore, Odisha medium range surface-to-air Odisha coast missile
Target Years ❖ 2021 - The country's first Maritime Theatre Command (MTC) is set to take concrete shape. ❖ Narendra Singh Tomar - The government's target to double farm mechanization per hectare in 10 years. Festivals ❖ Madhya Pradesh – The 10-day-long Áadi Mahotsav’. ❖ Hornbill Festival – Nagaland. ❖ Chandrabhaga Beach of Konark in Odisha’s Puri district – 9th edition of the International Sand Art Festival . ❖ Konark, Odisha - 31st edition of the Konark Dance Festival. ❖ Assam – 8th North East Festival. ❖ Jammu & Kashmir – The second edition of the Yayavar Literary Festival. ❖ Leh, Ladakh – 2nd edition of Ladakh Literature Festival 2020. ❖ Jammu & Kashmir - 2nd Edition of Yayavar Literary Festival.
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Summits ❖ Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs - Deliver a Keynote Address at the inauguration of the Sri Lanka Economic Summit (SLES) 2020 in virtual format – 20th edition – The theme for this year’s event is “Roadmap for Take-off: Driving a People –Centric Economic Revival”. ❖ Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Kiren Rijiju – Attend 6th edition of BRICS Youth Summit and meeting of BRICS Ministers through a virtual programme. ❖ Union Home Minister Amit Shah – Address the inaugural session of All India DGP/IGP Conference-2020 via video conferencing in New Delhi. ❖ Narendra Modi – A keynote address at the IIT-2020 Global Summit, organised by PanIIT USA – The theme of this year’s summit is ‘The Future is Now’. ❖ Narendra Modi - Deliver the inaugural address at the virtual India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2020 – This year in 4th edition. ❖ Shri Rakesh Asthana – Participate The 5th India- Myanmar Bilateral Meeting on Drug Control Cooperation between NCB India and the Central Committee on Drug Abuse Control, Myanmar was held virtually. ❖ Dehradun, Uttarakhand – 9th edition of Sustainable Mountain Development Summit – Emerging Pathways for Building a Resilient Post COVID-19 Mountain Economy, Adaptation, Innovation and Acceleration(Theme). ❖ 26th of DST- CII Technology Summit - Organised by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). ❖ Piyush Goyal - Ministerial session at the cii partnership summit 2020 whose theme is ‘partnerships for lives, livelihood and growth’. ❖ The 4th Bilateral Joint Working Group meeting - The Narcotics Control Bureau India and the National Narcotics Board Indonesia was held virtually. ❖ Narendra Modi - Address the India-Japan SAMVAD conference 2020 via virtual conferencing – 6th edition. ❖ Dr. Harsh Vardhan - Inaugurate 7th edition National Summit on Good, Replicable Practices through a video conference. ❖ Narendra Modi - Chair the 34th Pragati meeting and assessed projects worth around Rs1 lakh crore in 10 states and Union territories.
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Vessel ❖ India - The first of three stealth frigates named ‘Himgiri’ built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited. ❖ GSL - The 5th and the last vessel ICGS ‘Saksham of the indigenous project for five Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) for Indian Coast Guard (ICG). ❖ GSL - The Indian Coast Guard ship 'Sujeet' which is the second in the series of 105 metres off-shore patrol vessels was commissioned in Goa. ❖ Larsen & Toubro - An indigenously built interceptor boat C-454 of Indian Coast Guard was commissioned in Gujarat’s Surat.
Foundation Stones ❖ Union minister Nitin Gadkari - Inaugurate and lay foundation stone for Rs 4,127-crore highway projects in Nagaland. ❖ Punjab - Lays foundation stones of six projects in Sultanpur Lodhi with cost of 40.75 crore rupees. ❖ Karnataka - Laid the foundation stone for a 11.5 MW megawatt power plant run on municipal waste. ❖ Himachal Pradesh - Unveil, lay foundation for projects worth ₹22 crore in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. ❖ Manipur - Lays foundation stone for Irang RCC Bridge, inaugurates Irang Bailey Bridge,Irang RCC Bridge will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 49.31 crore. ❖ Vijay Rupani - The foundation stone for Rs 711-crore Tapi-Karjan irrigation water pipeline network at Umarpada in Tapi district. ❖ Vijay Rupani - The foundation stone for Narmada-based water supply project worth Rs 241.34 crore for Banaskantha district. ❖ Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur - Foundation stones for new schemes estimated at ₹197 crore in Seraj assembly segment. ❖ Meghalaya Chief Minister - Laid the foundation stone for an indoor stadium at Jongksha village in East Khasi Hills to be built at a cost of Rs 22 crore. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - Virtually laid the foundation stone to YSR Upper Penna project - Rs.803 crores. ❖ Prime Minister Narendra Modi - Laid the foundation stone of the New Parliament Building at Sansad Marg - The new Parliament building will cost of Rs 971 crore. ❖ Prime Minister - Address the Climate Ambition Summit 2020 on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement. ❖ 5th edition of India Water Impact Summit – Organise by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and the Center for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies (cGanga). ❖ Narendra Modi - Lay foundation stone of the country's largest renewable energy generation park named The Hybrid Renewable Energy Park in Gujarat.
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Foundation Stones (Cont.) ❖ Manipur - Laid the foundation stone for the State’s first-ever water amusement park in the state – Cost Rs 40 crores. ❖ Nitin Gadkari - Foundation for 25 highway projects and inaugurated 8 highways in Karnataka - Rs. 10,904 crore rupees. ❖ Nitin Gadkari - Laid the foundation for 14 NH projects with total investment of over ₹13,169 crore in Telangana. ❖ Manish Tewari - Laid the foundation stone of the high-level bridge (HLB) being built over Patiala ki Rao river in Punjab. ❖ Nitin Gadkari - Inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for 18 highway projects in Rajasthan - Rs 8,341 crores. ❖ Nitin Gadkari - Inaugurate and laid foundation stone for 27 highway projects in Assam - Rs 2,366 crore. ❖ Andhra Pradesh - The foundation stone of Intelligent SEZ Development Limited at Kadapa. ❖ Narendra Modi - Lay the foundation stone of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Rajkot in Gujarat - an estimated cost of Rs 1195 crores.
Renamed News ❖ The National Defence Academy (NDA) - A new award for motivating cadets which has been named after Lt Ummer Fayaz ❖ Uttar Pradesh - Dandupur railway station to be renamed as 'Maa Barahi Devi' station. ❖ Odisha - Rename North University as Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University.
NITI AAYOG ❖ Sequoia India + Niti Aayog's Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) - A year-long partnership to promote women entrepreneurship in India. ❖ NITI Aayog - Conduct a comprehensive evaluation exercise to denote "best practices" in mitigation and management of covid-19 by states and Union Territories. ❖ Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog + SAP Labs India - Partnership to promote digital literacy, innovation and entrepreneurship in India. ❖ Niti Aayog + University of Manitoba - A report titled 'Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India: A White Paper. ❖ Amitabh Kant - Virtually launch India's first digital asset management platform DigiBoxx.
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Government ❖ The government - The Quarterly Return filing & Monthly Payment of Taxes (QRMP) scheme for small taxpayers under GST system. ❖ The Union Cabinet - Rs 22,810 crore outlay for a new employment scheme that aims at encouraging businesses to do fresh hiring. ❖ The Cabinet - Provision of a Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) scheme for mobile coverage in Arunachal Pradesh and two districts of Assam -- KarbiAnglong and Dima Hasao -- under the Comprehensive Telecom Development Plan (CTDP) for the North Eastern Region (NER). ❖ The Cabinet - A public Wi-Fi access network called PM-WANI (Wi-Fi Access Network Interface) to enable easily accessible public Wi-Fi hotspots spread across the country. ❖ The Cabinet - The provision of submarine optical fibre cable connectivity between the mainland (Kochi) and the Lakshadweep Islands (KLI Project). ❖ Cabinet - Signing a bilateral MoU between Sebi and Financial and Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) of Luxemburg to strengthen cross border cooperation in the area of securities regulations and facilitate mutual assistance. ❖ The Centre - ₹ 6,195 crore to 14 states as monthly instalment of post devolution revenue deficit grant. ❖ The Government - Extend the deadline till March 31, 2021 for completing GST anti- profiteering investigations. ❖ EESL + the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company - Commissioning of about 8 megawatt solar-agro project at Devdaithan, Maharashtra. ❖ Cabinet - Approve subsidy of Rs 3,500 crore to sugar mills for the export of 60 lakh tonnes of sweetener during the ongoing marketing year 2020-21. ❖ The Centre - Eighth installment of Rs.6,000 crore to states as back-to-back loan to meet the goods and service tax (GST) compensation shortfall. ❖ The Union Cabinet - Approve the license for the DTH will be issued for a period of 20 years in place of present 10 years. ❖ Centre - Rs 4,898 crore of reform-linked additional borrowing limit to Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh . ❖ The Cabinet - Approve an ordinance for extending National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act for another 3 years giving protection to unauthorized colonies from punitive action in Delhi. ❖ Cabinet - Approve ₹59, 048 crore post-matric scholarship scheme for 4 crore SC students. ❖ Cabinet - Approve export of Akash Missile System and creation of a committee for faster approval of exports. ❖ Cabinet - Approve Deepening and Optimization of Inner Harbour Facilities including Development of Western Dock on BOT basis under PPP mode to handle cape size vessels at Paradip Port. ❖ Cabinet - Approve Industrial Corridor nodes at Krishnapatnam and Tumakuru.
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Government (Cont.) ❖ Union Cabinet - Approve the opening of 3 Indian Missions in Estonia, Paraguay and Dominican Republic in 2021. ❖ Union Cabinet - Approve three infrastructure proposals worth ₹7,725 crore. ❖ Union Cabinet - Approve an interest subvention of Rs 4,573 crore for new distilleries producing ethanol, which can be used for doping in petrol.
Road/Bridge ❖ Uttarakhand - The state's first eco-bridge across Kaladhungi-Nainital highway - the 90-feet- long and 5-feet-wide bridge. ❖ Nitin Gadkari - The three lane 1.5 km long Koilwar bridge over Sone river in Bihar through Video Conferencing.
Others ❖ IndianOil - To invest ₹1,689 crore in new projects in Andhra Pradesh which includes ₹1,522- crore on petro products infrastructure and ₹167 crore on LPG storage facilities. ❖ Basin Trials of Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) - Successfully conduct at Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) marking entry into the final phase of the ambitious warship building project. ❖ The Indian Gas Exchange - Receive approval from PNGRB to operate as gas exchange for 25 years. ❖ APEDA + NABARD - Synergize the activities in the interest of agriculture and allied sectors for bringing better value to the stakeholders. ❖ Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike - A 3Ws campaign, as fears about a second Covid-19 wave abound. ❖ Southern Naval Command - ''Operation Demonstration'' organised as part of Navy Week - 2020 celebrations. ❖ VOSAP - A virtual art gallery on the theme of disability that aims at colouring the world with inclusion of specially-abled people through the creative expression of artwork. ❖ DRDO - Howitzer Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System underwent trials at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra - A striking range of around 50 kms. ❖ NTPC + Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal - Implement the Narmada Landscape Restoration Project. ❖ SJVN Limited + Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) - Financing green energy projects. ❖ Nine States - Complete the implementation process of One Nation One Ration Card System. ❖ Skylotech India + BSNL - Launch worlds' first satellite-based narrowband IoT network in India. ❖ Indian Railways' Parel workshop - Prototype coach for carrying automobiles - It will increase the speed potential of NMGH coach from 75 to 110 Kmph.
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Others (Cont.) ❖ DRDO - Successfully demonstrate communication between its two labs using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology. ❖ CII - ‘Digital Saksham’ with Mastercard and National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises for MSMEs. ❖ Indian Railways - Hospital Management Information System Trial Project. ❖ Larsen & Toubro - The lowest bidder for three orders worth around ₹ 5,500 crore including NPCIL and Chennai Metro Rail jobs. ❖ The Marine Products Export Development Authority - India’s first multilingual call centre for aquafarmers at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. ❖ Indian Navy + INCOIS - Sharing ocean services data, expertise in operational oceanography. ❖ NMDC + MECL - Iron ore, gold, coal, diamond and other minerals in mutually agreed projects across various States. ❖ Oil India + Assam Hydrocarbon & Energy Company Ltd (AHECL) - Facilitate bilateral cooperation in hydrocarbon exploration. ❖ Sharad Arvind Bobde - Inaugurate the eSewa Kendra in Tripura High Court. ❖ FASTags - Mandatory for vehicles from January 1, 2021. ❖ The Jal Jeevan Mission + The Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade - An innovation challenge to develop portable devices for water testing. ❖ Ramnath Kovind - Inaugurate and laid the foundation stone of various developmental projects in Diu. ❖ Coal India Ltd - Construct 21 railway sidings at an estimated investment of Rs 3,370 crore. ❖ Seaways Shipping and Logistics + MOL Logistics (India) - Providing end-to-end supply chain and turnkey logistics services to customers across the country. ❖ NHAI - Update FASTag app named ‘My FASTag App’ to provide balance status to users. ❖ TP Renewable Microgrid - Inaugurate a 5-kilowatt (kW) bio-gas plant in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. ❖ M Venkaiah Naidu - Inaugurate Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) - Optics Fabrication Facility and Environmental Test Facility at CREST campus in Bengaluru. ❖ BHEL - Bag orders worth Rs 3,200 crore for hydro projects in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. ❖ DRDO + Indian Navy - The successful maiden test trial of India's first indigenously designed and developed Air Dropped Container named 'SAHAYAK-NG'. ❖ Bharat Electronics Limited + Indian Navy - Supply 20 Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Dazlers (Laser Dazzlers) in New Delhi.
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