Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: December 26, 2022
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for December 26, 2022
INDIA
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi to participate in a programme marking Veer Bal Diwas in Delhi
- Maharashtra launches ‘Balsnehi’ buses, an initiative to rehabilitate street-children.
- Experts red-flag mega oil refinery project in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, citing damage to ancient rock carvings.
- Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) detects anomalies in National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam
- West Bengal’s First Vande Bharat Express to be flagged off on December 30.
ECONOMY
- RBI’s revised bank locker rules will come into effect from January 1.
- India seeks comments of WTO members on consumer protection in e-commerce
- DPIIT seeks views of Ministries on draft national retail trade policy
- Parliamentary panel expressed disappointment over poor utilisation of budgetary allocation of the National Smart Grid Mission (NSGM)
WORLD
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ elected as the Prime Minister of Nepal.
- President Vladimir Putin claims Russia is ready for talks to end the war in Ukraine
- Former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Gets 11-Year Jail for Money Laundering, Bribery
- China’s Zhejiang records 1 million daily Covid cases, expected to double
- U.N. refugee agency fears 180 Rohingya Refugees in Stranded Boat are dead
- Study: Antarctica’s emperor penguins could be extinct by 2100
SPORTS
- Women’s National Boxing Championships: Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain enter into final.
- Indian junior archers top medal tally in Asia Cup Stage III with nine medals, including five gold