- FASTags will be mandatory for vehicles from January 1, 2021, Union minister Nitin Gakdari said on Thursday. FASTags, which facilitate electronic payment of fee at toll plazas, was introduced in 2016.
- TheRegistrarGeneral of India (RGI) has written to all State coordinators to update the census register. A census is the procedure of systematically enumerating, and acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
- The Central Information Commission (CIC), the lead body for implementing the Right to Information Act 2005, has ruled that the discloser of Identity of electoral ond scheme doners will not serve any larger public interest and will violate provisions of the Act itself
- In a joint statement on Thursday, Congress, NCP, DMK, PAGD, RJD, SP, CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP leaders expressed their solidarity with the protesting farmers.
- The Hemant Soren government in Jharkhand waived farm loans of up to Rs 50,000, benefitting around 9 lakh farmers of the state, officials said on Thursday.
- The Haryana cabinet on Wednesday approved the implementation of the Delhi-Panipat Corridor of Regional Rapid Transport System (RRTS), which will have a total length of 103.02 km, and it will have 17 stations, including six in Delhi and 11 in Haryana.
- Justice Bobde, who inaugurated an e-Sewa Kendra at the High Court of Tripura, appealed to judges to be more attentive towards justice.
- India on Thursday condoled the death of Karima Baloch, a noted Pakistani political activist who had extensively worked for the rights of people of Balochistan.Baloch, who was living in exile in Canada, was found dead in Toronto, according to the recent Pakistani media reports.
- The survey reveals that while over 75 per cent respondents did not take a vacation in the last three months, over 57 per cent are planning their next leisure travel in early 2021. An increasing number of people want to opt for domestic travel. Within India, Goa (53.1 per cent), followed by Kerala (32.9 per cent) and Shimla (31.4 per cent) ranked high on the travel bucket-list. Ladakh, Kashmir, Jaipur, Agra and Mysuru were the other popular destinations.
- The 2023 FIH Men's Hockey World Cup will be hosted by Odisha, for a second consecutive time, at two venues, Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
- The Rourkela city stadium would be the biggest stadium for hockey in India with a sitting capacity of 20,000. The stadium along with the allied facilities will be developed as a benchmark for other hockey stadiums around the world. Spread over 15 acres of land, the stadium will be constructed in the Biju Patnaik University of Technology campus, Rourkela.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the country's first fully automated driveless metro train on December 28, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said on Thursday. he train will run on the 37 km Magenta line from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden, Anuj Dayal, DMRC's Executive Director of Corporate Communications, in a statement.
- The JEE-Mains exam for admission to engineering colleges will be held four times a year starting 2021 to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scores, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced on Wednesday. The first edition of the exam will be held from February 23 to 26, followed by rounds in March, April and May.
- Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all the religious institutions in the Khordha district except the Lingaraj Temple and the temples coming within the territorial jurisdiction of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) have been allowed to open from January 3, 2021
- . According to the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), the revenue shortfall for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation payable to States in 2020-21 could be about Rs. 1.95 lakh crore in the best-case scenario.
- The National Water Mission (NWM), Ministry of Jal Shakti in collaboration with Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports have launched the ‘Catch the Rain’ Awareness Generation Campaign
- An e-Sewa Kendra was inaugurated by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) at the High Court of Tripura.
- Digital India Summit 2020 aims to cover the core theme of "Enabling The New Normal" with thought-leaders engaging in conversations and discourse in the search for digitally empowered solutions for present-day and future challenges.
- Kerala Chief Secretary on Thursday approached the Supreme Court against the high court order which raised the number of permissible daily pilgrims at Sabarimala Temple to 5,000.
- On Thursday (December 24), the BCCI named the trio of Chetan Sharma, Abbey Kuruvilla, Debasis Mohanty as the new national selectors as Ajit Agarkar missed out from the role.
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