Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: December 5 – 6, 2021

December 6, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for December 5-6, 2021:

Uttarakhand: PM inaugurates and lays foundation stone for multiple projects worth Rs 18,000 crore
India on its way to achieve population stabilisation: MoS Health Bharati Pravin Pawar
Navy Day celebrated on Dec 4
Former CM of undivided Andhra Pradesh Konijeti Rosaiah of Congress dies at 88
Veteran journalist Vinod Dua dies at 67
President inaugurates centenary celebrations of Public Accounts Committee of Parliament
India-Maldives joint military Exercise EKUVERIN being conducted in Maldives from Dec 6 to 19
Indian Navy’s 22nd Missile Vessel Squadron, that bombed the Karachi Port and sunk Pakistan Navy’s vessels in the 1971 war, to receive the President’s Standard on Dec 8
‘Public Service Ethics – A Quest for Naitik Bharat’, a book by former cabinet secretary and former Jharkhand governor Prabhat Kumar, released
Manipur: AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurates 50 Bed Integrated Ayush Hospital in Moreh
Nagaland: 11 civilians gunned down by security forces in Mon district
Heavy rains lash Odisha as remnants of cyclone Jawad near coast
TRS member Banda Prakash resigns from Rajya Sabha
Veteran Kannada actor Shivaram passes away in Bengaluru at 83
‘Sandhayak’, first of the four ships under Survey Vessel (Large) project for Indian Navy, launched at GRSE, Kolkata

Defence Minister delivers inaugural address at MSME Conclave organised by Department of Defence
Bureaucrat Alka Upadhyaya appointed Chairperson of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
Sanjay Bandopadhyay appointed Chairman of Inland Waterways Authority of India
Asok Kumar appointed Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga
Neelam Shammi Rao appointed as Central Provident Fund Commissioner, Employees’ Provident Fund Organization
External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar addressed fifth Indian Ocean Conference in Abu Dhabi
Indonesia: Eruption of Mount Semeru volcano kills 14 on Java island
International Volunteer Day observed by UN on Dec 5; theme: ‘Volunteer now for our common future’
World Soil Day observed on Dec 5; this year’s campaign “Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity”

Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, 2 colleagues selected for inaugural Ciprian Foias Prize
International Day of Banks celebrated by UN on Dec 4
UAE to buy 80 Rafale jets from France in $18-billion deal
Afghan trucks can carry Indian aid via Pakistan

New Zealand’s Ajaz Patel takes 10 wickets in an innings at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, 3rd in 144-yr Test history after England’s Jim Laker and India’s Anil Kumble
AIFF bars Chennai City FC from participating in the upcoming edition of the I-League
Argentina defeat Germany to win men’s Junior hockey World Cup at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar; India get bronze
Malaysia beat India 2-1 to win men’s Asian team squash championships in Kuala Lumpur
2021 BWF World Tour Finals badminton tournament in Bali, Indonesia: Viktor Axelsen (Denmark) and An Se-young (South Korea) win men’s women’s singles titles respectively
Russia defeat Croatia 2-0 in Madrid to win Davis Cup tennis tournament in Madrid