11th December current AffAirs

1 Harsh Vardhan Shringla Foreign Secretary Tarun Bajaj Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj Economic Affairs Secretary T V Somanathan Expenditure Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla Home Secretary 4 Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 Arundhathi Subramaniam “When God is a Traveller” (English) Anamika "Tokri mein Digant: Therigatha 2014" (Hindi) M Veerappa Moily “Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam” (Kannada) Vyas Samman 2020: Sharad Pagare Patliputru Ki Samragi 2019: Nasira Sharma Kagaz ki Nav 1991: Ram Vilas Sharma Bharat ke Pracheen bhasha parivar aur Hindi Saraswati Samman 2020: Sharankumar Limbale Sanatan 2019: Vasdev Mohi "Chequebook" (Short Story Series) Harivansh Rai Bachchan "1991" 1 R Kaushik India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia R Giridharan Right Under our Nose Konsam Himalaya Singh Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo S Y Quraishi The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India

1 1 23-Mar World Meteorological Day/ िव मौसम िवान िदवस 24-Mar World Tuberculosis (TB) Day/ िव य रोग (टीबी) िदवस 27-Mar World Theatre Day / िव रंगमंच िदवस 31-Mar International Transgender Day of Visibility अंतराीय ांसजडर यता का िदवस 5 18-Mar Global Recycling Day/ विै क पुनचण िदवस 18-Mar Ordnance Factory foundation day / आयुध कारखान थापना िदवस 20-Mar International Day of Happiness/ अंतराीय सनता िदवस 20-Mar World Sparrow Day/ िव गौरैया िदवस 21-Mar International Day of Forests/ अंतराीय वन िदवस 21-Mar World Poetry Day / िव किवता िदवस 21-Mar World Down Syndrome Day/ िव डाउन िसंोम िदवस 21-Mar International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination अंतराीय नलीय भेदभाव उमूलन िदवस 22-Mar World Water Day/ िव जल िदवस 2 Index India 1st Rank Global Home Price Index 56 Turkey (Decline of 3.6% in home price appreciation) 9th International Intellectual Property (IP) Index 40 USA UN World Happiness Report 2021 139 Finland Henley Passport Index 2021 85 Japan Global Climate Risk Index 2021 7 Mozambique 2020 Democracy Index 53 Norway Coronavirus Performance Index 86 New Zealand "Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index" 10 Singapore Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020 8 Afghanistan Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021 10 Sweden (4th) Index India 1st Rank Index released by Global Home Price Index 56 Turkey Property Consultancy Knight Frank (Decline of 3.6% in home price appreciation) 9th International Intellectual Property (IP) Index 40 USA US Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Centre (GIPC) UN World Happiness Report 2021 139 Finland UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Henley Passport Index 2021 85 Japan Henley & Partner + International Air Transport Association (IATA) Global Climate Risk Index 2021 7 Mozambique Germanwatch 2020 Democracy Index 53 Norway Economist Intelligence Unit Coronavirus Performance Index 86 New Zealand Sydney-based Lowy Institute "Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index" 10 Singapore Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020 8 Afghanistan Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021 10 Sweden (4th) Germanwatch, New Climate Institute and Climate Action Network 3

Final Price: 3740 Month Validity: 12 Month