Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1st December to 8th December 2023

December Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 1

National News

• Jal Itihas Utsav is organized by the ministry of JAL Shakti in Delhi.
• The Union Ministry of Urban and Housing affairs launched Amplifi 2.0 portal (Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive, and Future-Ready Urban India)
• NLCIL signed an MOU with Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF) and Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation (TNSDC) for youth employment
• Bengaluru To Get India’s Largest Circular Railway, Spanning 287 Kilometers.
• The 5th Global Ayurveda Festival is going to be held in Thiruvananthapuram
• Cyclone Michaung is going to landfall on coastal Andhra
• Arjun Ram Meghwal inaugurated Sahitya Akademi Book Fair
• Bihar government launched “Mission Daksh” to minimize school dropout
• World’s first portable hospital ‘Aarogya Maitri Aid Cube’ unveiled in Gurugram
• India Internet Governance Forum IIGF’23 held in New Delhi
• RK Singh inaugurates National Conference on “Energy Transition in India”
• PM Modi unveiled the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Rajkot Fort
• Takeda partnered with Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) in India for healthcare innovation
• 18 crore 50 lakh beneficiaries enrolled under PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana & PM Suraksha Bima Yojana during last three years
• 11th Bangladesh Book Fair begins in Kolkata
• UP Municipality passed proposal to rename Firozabad as Chandra Nagar
• Kolkata declared safest in India for 3rd consecutive year: National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report
• Ministry of Panchayati Raj launched “Gram Manchitra”
• India provides $250 million Line of Credit to Kenya for agricultural modernization
• Garba of Gujarat makes it to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list
• India signed loan agreement with ADB to improve Madhya Pradesh roads
• Allen Career Institute acquires doubt solving platform Doubtnut
• 59th Fertiliser Association of India Annual Seminar 2023 in New Delhi
• Nirmala Sitharaman, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Soma Mondal & Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw are the four Indians among Forbes list of ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ of 2023

International News

• Nepal is the first country in South Asia to register same sex marriage
• The United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting is scheduled to be held in Accra Ghana.
• The 91st edition of Interpol General Assembly is held in Vienna, Austria.
• ALTERRA Fund for climate investment is launched by the UAE.
• Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia becomes 8th wonder of the world
• India re-elected to International Maritime Organization
• World Digital Competitiveness Ranking: India ranked 49th; topped by US
• The word “Rizz” chosen as the Oxford Word of the Year 2023
• China Adopts ‘One Province, One Policy’ Approach to Financial Risk Management
• World’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor JT-60SA inaugurated in Japan

Banking and Financial

• The total GST revenue 1.68 lakh crore in the month of November 2023
• SEBI is announced to extend the timeline of implementation for SEBI Complaint Redressal (SCORES) platforms.
• Ujjivan Small Finance Bank partners org to offer sanitation loan
• LIC introduces new whole life insurance policy Jeevan Utsav
• Kanchan Devi first woman DG of Doon-based Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE)
• Bharti Airtel Becomes the 8th Company to Surpass ₹6 Lakh Crore Mcap
• RBI cancels licence of Shankarrao Pujari Bank in Maharashtra
• India set to become third-largest economy by 2030: S&P
• SBI to acquire 20 percent stake in SBI Pension Funds for Rs 230 crore
• RBI keeps policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5 percent in latest MPC meet
• Federal Bank Named “Bank of the Year (India)” by Financial Times

Appointment and Resignation

• Narayan Sheshadri appointed as India Debt Resolution Co Ltd (IDRCL) chairman
• Revanth Reddy takes oath as CM of Telangana
• Captain Geetika Koul becomes first woman medical officer to be deployed at Siachen
• Vice Admiral Dinesh Tripathi appoints as VC of Naval Staff
• Deven Parekh appointed to IDFC (International Development Finance Corporation) board
• Akshata Krishnamurthy becomes first Indian to operate Mars rover
• Jithesh John took charge as Executive Director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
• Max Life Insurance appoints Rajiv Anand as Chairman
• Anand Kripalu appoints as CEO of Swiggy India
• Indian-origin Samir Shah appoints head of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Board

Awards

• V R Lalithambika was conferred with top French Civilian Award Legion d’Honneur
• Arshia Sattar received French literary honor
• Armed force medical college pune receives President’s color
• Abdullahi Mire Wins 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
• Ranveer Singh honoured by Sharon Stone at Red Sea Film Festival
• India’s Safeena Husain honoured with Qatar WISE Prize 2023
• Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) bagged “ISSA Vision Zero 2023” Award at the 23rd World Congress
• Amazon won National Award for empowering individual with disabilities
• Olympian M. Sreeshankar Clinches 35th Jimmy George Foundation Award
• Jason Momoa’s ‘Deep Rising’ movie won ALT Environment Film Festival
• ISRO and team Chandrayaan-3 honoured at India Business Leader
• Indian-Origin Novelist Meira Chand Receives Singapore’s Highest Arts Award
• Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi named Time Athlete of the Year for 2023

Defence

• Coast Guard Commander Conference’s 40th edition inaugurated by the Defence Minister
• The first edition of high-level virtual interaction MAHASAGAR launched by the Indian Navy
• India-Sri Lanka Joint Military Exercise Culminates at Southern Command In Pune
• Amritsar To Host Military Literature Festival Next Year
• GRSE (Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers) delivers India’s largest survey vessel INS Sandhayak to Navy

Science

• ISRO to launch ‘XPoSat’ Satellite
• Meta and IBM launched ‘AI Alliance’ to promote open-source AI development

Sports

• West Indies’ Shane Dowrich announces retirement from cricket
• Ruturaj Gaikward becomes the fastest Indian to 4,000 T20 runs
• Vaishali Rameshbabu becomes India’s 84th grandmaster
• Amazon acquires ICC cricket rights for Australia till 2027
• India bags 3 gold, 5 silver, and 1 bronze medals in IBA Junior World Boxing
• China’s Ningbo to host World Weightlifting Championships 2026

Book and Author

• “Welcome to Paradise” book written and launched by Twinkle Khanna
• Huma Qureshi launches 1st novel ‘Zeba : An Accidental Superhero’

Important day

• World’s AIDS day-1st December (Theme 2023- “Let communities lead”)
• Nagaland statehood day is celebrated on 1 december
• Border Security Force raising day is celebrated on 1st December
• 2 December – World Computer Literacy Day (Theme 2023- “Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies”)
• 2 December – National Pollution Control Day (Theme 2023- “Sustainable Development for a Clean and Healthy Planet“)
• 2 December – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (Theme 2023 – Fighting Slavery’s Legacy of Racism through Transformative Education)
• 4 December – Indian Navy Day
• 5 December – World Soil Day (Theme for 2023 – Soil and water, a source of life)
• 5 December – International Volunteer Day (Theme 2023 – The Power of Collective)
• 6 December – DR. BR Ambedkar’s Mahaparinirvan Diwas
• 6 December – National Microwave Oven Day
• 7 December – International Civil Aviation Day (Theme 2023 – Advancing Innovation for Global Aviation Development)

Obituary

• Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Passed Away
• Former IAS officer Christy Fernandez passes away
• CID actor Dinesh Phadnis passed away
• Former Mr. Universe Shaun Davis passes away at 57

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