- The Chhattisgarh Government has constructed around 516 barrages in the upper catchment areas of Mahanadi river to stop inflow of water from the river, informed Water Resources Minister Raghunandan Das.
- India's Jhilli Dalabehera won a silver medal in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which is being held alongside the World Championships.
- PM Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and NSA Ajit Doval paid floral tributes to Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and defence personnel who lost their lives in the chopper crash.
- The Parliament has passed the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2021, with passing of the Bill in the Rajya Sabha and on 6th December in the Lok Sabha.
- Veteran actor Mihir Das has been hospitalized after his health condition became critical. Das has been suffering from kidney ailments for past few years.
- Union Cabinet approved the Ken-Betwa River interlinking project, ahead of elections to major North Indian states.
- Farmer union Samyukta Kisan Morcha has announced suspension of agitation against three farm laws. The Parliament had repealed these laws on the first day of the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament. PM Modi in his address to the nation on the 19th of last month had announced that the new farm laws enacted in 2019 would be repealed in the winter session of Parliament.
- Union Cabinet approved the extension of flagship housing-for-all scheme named “Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G)” till March 2024.
- The Lok Sabha on 09 Dec passed the Central Vigilance Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021 and the Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seek to extend the tenure of chiefs of ED and CBI for up to five years. Their tenures were fixed at two years.
- Union power minister, R K Singh, approved 23 new inter-state transmission system projects of worth Rs 15,893 crore.
- Central Board of Direct Taxes, CBDT has issued refunds of over 1.32 lakh crore rupees to more than 1.19 crore taxpayers between 1st of April to 6th of December this year.
- RBI proposes to launch UPI-based payment products for feature phone users. UPI transaction limit to be hiked to Rs 5 lakh from current limit of Rs 2 lakh. UPI transaction limit hike only for retail direct scheme for investment of G-Secs and IPO offering applications.
- Actress Kangana Ranaut has moved Bombay High Court seeking to quash the FIR filed against her by Mumbai Police over her alleged anti-Sikh post on Instagram.
- DRDO test fires air version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from Sukhoi 30 MK-I aircraft
- Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo has been appointed the first ever female director of the French Open, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said on 09 Dec.
- India on Thursday highlighted terrorism and climate change at UNSC open debate on "Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Security in the context of Terrorism and Climate Change"
- The High Court in England on Thursday rejected an appeal by Indian authorities seeking permission to appeal against a magistrates'court order turning down the extradition on human rights grounds of Kuldeep Singh.
- Road accidents killed as many as 47,984 people on National Highways, including on expressways, during 2020, the Parliament was informed on Thursday.
- At 94, Balkrishna Doshi is being recognised for his career spanning seven decades, with over 100 built projects, across India.
- Following Rajnath Singh's statement, the Lok Sabha paid tributes to Gen Bipin Rawat and the other soldiers who died in the crash.
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