- Amid growing concern over the detection of a more contagious strain of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom, a man, who has recently flown in from the European country, has been identified in Bhubaneswar. He has been asked to stay in home quarantine.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired 15 pre-budget meetings for Budget 2021-22, from 14-23 December. More than 170 invitees representing nine stakeholder groups participated in the virtual meetings
- Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for 18 highway projects worth ₹8,341 crore in Rajasthan on Thursday.
- The tenure of senior IAS Officer Asit Kumar Tripathy will end soon as the Chief Secretary of Odisha as the Government has approved his retirement with effect from December 31, 2020.
- Tamil Nadu government has granted permission to hold Jallikattu event, with certain restrictions. The number of players should be not to be more than 150 at an event. It will be mandatory for the players to provide Covid-19 negative certificate.
- Public Sector Bank (PSBs) have been reviewing loan accounts and are expected to report more fraud cases in accounts which have earlier been put under their Early Warning Signals (EWS) system. TheReserve Bank of India (RBI) developed the EWS framework as it noticed a delay in the detection and reporting of banking frauds
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a virtual meet with nine crore farmers on December 25 - former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birth anniversary - during which he will clarify the centre's position on the farm laws
- The government will invest around 60 billion USD in creating gas infrastructure in the country till 2024 and increasing gas’s share in the energy mix up to 15% by 2030.Currently, gas accounts for 6% in the country’s total energy mix.
- A special CBI court in Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram today sentenced to life imprisonment a Catholic priest and a nun for the murder of Sister Abhaya, 28 years after the crime. The sentencing came a day after the two were held guilty by the court.
- Electricity is a Concurrent List or List-III (Seventh Schedule) subject and the central government has the authority and the power to make laws on it. The government has notified the Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020, which would allow consumers in India to access a continuous supply of reliable electricity.
- Sugathakumari, the eminent Malayalam poet, conservationist and women's activist died today, She was 86. Sugathakumari had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment at the government hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
- The government and the World Bank has signed a $500 million project for implementation of the Green National Highways Corridor Project.
- The famous temple in Puri dedicated to Lord Jagannath has reopened after being closed for nine months due to the coronavirus-forced lockdown.
- The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is conducting a Special Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) programme for workers, with the Department of Panchayati Raj (DoPR). The programme, implemented under Skill Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for livelihood Promotion (SANKALP) Programme of MSDE, has been rolled out in Varanasi and Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh (UP).
- The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday decided to provide reservation to the community under the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) category for educational admissions and jobs.The 10 per cent EWS quota is earmarked for those who are not covered under any social reservations.
- Over 200 Naxals killed in encounters in Chhattisgarh in 3 years: Govt
- The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved revision in guidelines for providing direct to home (DTH) services in the country under which licenses would be issued for 20 years, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said.The Union Cabinet has also approved 100 per cent FDI in the DTH broadcasting services sector,
- The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has approved to merge four of its film media units, namely Films Division, Directorate of Film. Festivals, National Film Archives of India, and Children’s Film Society, India with the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Ltd. by expanding the Memorandum of Articles of Association of NFDC, which will then carry out all the activities hitherto performed by them.
- A statue of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is all set to be unveiled at the Shaurya Memorial intersection of Madhya Pradesh’s capital.The statue will be unveiled on December 25, on the occasion of Vajpayee’s birth anniversary.
- The North Orissa University (NOU) in Baripada of Mayurbhanj district will now be known as Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University as the institution has been renamed after the erstwhile King of the princely state of Mayurbhanj, announced Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday.
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