Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: December 17, 2022

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for December 17, 2022.

INDIA

• Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav delivers the National Statement at COP15 of Convention on Biodiversity
• Exercise to link Aadhaar with election photo identity card (EPIC) is ‘voluntary,’ Law Minister Kiren Rijiju
• Lok Sabha clears Bill to add Himachal Pradesh’s Hattee community in ST list
• All child care institutions have to be compulsorily registered with the district authorities: Women and Child Development Ministry
• Three bulk drug parks are being set up in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh to help supply raw material for pharmaceutical industries.

ECONOMY

• 48th meeting of GST Council to be held today by video conferencing
• SEBI issues fresh benchmarking norms for portfolio managers
• India, South Africa and Pakistan, along with 80 other countries sought to amend WTO report for extension of Covid vaccine patent waiver
• The European Union adopted a plan for a global minimum 15 percent tax on multinational businesses
• The Union Cabinet approves the National Geospatial Policy that seeks to boost entrepreneurship for the socio-economic development of the country.
• RBI asks Razorpay to pause on-boarding new merchants

WORLD

• Twitter Suspends Indian Rival Platform Koo’s Query Handle
• EU warns Elon Musk of sanctions after journalists’ accounts blocked on Twitter
• NASA Launches International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water
• Twitter suspends the query handle Indian Rival Platform Koo

SPORTS

• Neeraj Chopra displaces Usain Bolt to top the list of the most written about athletes
• Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur unveils Hockey World Cup Trophy.

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