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.

National: TROPMET-2020: Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) in collaboration with North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), Shillong, organized a four-day Virtual Symposium on Tropical Meteorology (TROPMET-2020) from December 14 to December 17, 2020 at NESAC, Shillong. The Symposium was on the theme of “Weather and Climate Services over Mountainous Regions”. During the Symposium, Speakers discussed the

National: Himgiri is the first of the three ships of Project 17A built at M/s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata. The ship was launched on 14 December 2020 in the Hooghly River. P17A ships are the first gas turbine propulsion and largest combat platforms ever built at GRSE. IPPB new digital payment