Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: December 4, 2021
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for December 4, 2021:
India
- Delhi’s Nizamuddin Basti project wins two UNESCO heritage awards
- ‘Maitri Diwas’ to be commemorated on Dec 6 to mark India recognising Bangladesh in 1971
- NCC carrying out month-long nationwide ‘Puneet Sagar Abhiyan’ to free seashores/beaches from waste
- Govt to launch SRESHTA (Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas) scheme for socio economic development of SC students
- INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium) calls for Covid booster hot for those at risk, above 40 years
- gets proposal from CJI N. V. Ramana to set up the National Judicial Infrastructure Authority of India (NJIAI)
- Cyclone Jawad over Bay of Bengal intensifies into depression: IMD
Economy & corporate
- India’s foreign exchange reserves declined by USD 2.713 billion to USD 637.687 billion in the week to Nov 26
- Industrialist Ratan Tata honoured with ‘Asom Baibhav Award’ by Assam government
- PM inaugurates InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech
- Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) gets Rs 471.41 crore contract from Indian Army for refurbishment of IGLA – 1M missiles
- IREDA and THDCIL sign MoU for Green Energy collaborations
- Pradip Shah appointed chairman of NARCL (National Asset Reconstruction Company), Sanjay Jain appointed CEO of IDRCL
- DoT releases bank guarantee of around Rs 9,200 cr of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio
World
- International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath to become its First Deputy Managing Director in 2022
- SpaceX launches rocket carrying 48 Starlink Internet, 2 BlackSky satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida (US)
- China launches its first cross-border BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) train with Laos
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities observed on Dec 3; theme: ‘Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible, and sustainable post-COVID-19 world’
Sports
- Convicted ex-head of world athletics (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack dies in Senegal at 88
- United Nations General Assembly adopts Olympic Truce for Beijing 2022
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021