Daily Current Affairs

National: Legion of Merit Award: The President of the United States of America conferred the highest decoration, The Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 21 December 2020. This award is in recognition of the Prime Minister’s steadfast leadership and vision for India’s emergence as a global power, and exemplary […]

National: Status of Leopard Population Estimates in the Forested Areas of Tiger States, 2018: India now has 12,852 leopards as compared to the previous estimate of 7910 conducted 2014. More than 60% increase in population has been recorded. Leopard population estimates in the forested areas of tiger states, 2018: The States of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka

National: Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards: Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Electronics & IT and Shri Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, Minister of State for Communications and Electronics & IT, presented the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards for the first time for year 2018 on 18 December 2020. DoT launched

National: Inclusion of four indigenous Games in Khelo India Youth Games 2021: The Sports Ministry has approved the inclusion of four indigenous Games to be a part of Khelo India Youth Games 2021. Gatka, Kalaripayattu, Thang-Ta and Mallakhamba are the four games which to be included. 4th Khelo India Youth Games 2021 is scheduled to

National: DRDO Indigenously Developed System & Award Ceremony: Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh on December 18, 2020 handed over three indigenously developed Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) systems to Army, Navy and Air Force at a function held in DRDO Bhawan. These three systems are Indian Maritime Situational Awareness System (IMSAS), ASTRA Mk-I Missile,

National: Loan: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India signed a $300 million loan on December 18, 2020. The loan is to upgrade rural power distribution networks to provide reliable electricity supply to consumers in Uttar Pradesh. Book: The Vice-President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu virtually released the book “Oh Mizoram”,

National: ASSOCHAM Foundation Week 2020: ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India) was established in 1920 by promoter Chambers representing all regions of India. ASSOCHAM celebrated Foundation Day 2020 on December 12, 2020. To mark the occasion, the chamber organized 5-day virtual event from 15 December to 19 December, 2020. During this event

National: Establishment of Indian Institute of Heritage: The Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (IC), Shri Prahlad Singh Patel chaired a meeting of the National Museum Institute Society in New Delhi on December 17, 2020. Agenda of the meeting was to establish the Indian Institute of Heritage (IIH) and also too deliberated upon changing

National: OPPI Summit: The Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri D V Sadananda Gowda inaugurated the two-day Annual Summit of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI), on December 17, 2020. The Minister conferred the lifetime achievement and Special Recognition awards during the summit. Award: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has been

National: ISRO communication satellite CMS-01: The Indian Space Research Organisation on December 17, 2020 launched communication satellite CMS-01 onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C50) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. This was the country’s 42nd communication satellite. This communication satellite would replace the GSAT-12 in the orbit, which was launched in 2011.