1. India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 135 crore landmark milestone . More than 53 lakh vaccine doses have been administered till 15 Dec.
2. Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan held meeting with States/UTs to review status of Medical Oxygen devices.
3. PM Modi will take part in the National Conclave on Natural Farming today in Anand, Gujarat via video conferencing.
4. Union Cabinet has approved implementation of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana for 2021-26. The scheme will benefit about 22 lakh farmers.
5. Union Cabinet has approved programme for Development of Semiconductors and Display Manufacturing Ecosystem in the country. Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said, 76 thousand crore rupees will be spent on this project in the next six years. He said, this will strengthen India’s journey towards Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.
6. On December 14, 2021, Supreme Court observed that fundamental rights are guaranteed to every citizen irrespective of vocation and directed the central government to start the process of issuing voter ID, Aadhaar and ration cards to sex workers. Supreme court also directed centre to keep providing dry ration to sex workers.
7. ANDHRA PRADESH , at least 9 people, including the driver were killed and several others injured in a major bus accident in West Godavari district on 15 Dec afternoon. According to the police, the APSRTC bus which was carrying 47 passengers, overturned and plunged into the Jalleruagu rivulet near Jangareddygudem in the district. At least 26 people were seriously injured in the accident.
The incident took place when the bus was on its way to Jangareddy gudem in West Godavari from Aswaraopeta in Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana State.
8. CHANDIGARH : The Ministry of Tourism has approved Rs49.51 crore for the development of Gurdwara Nada Sahib, Panchkula, and the Mansa Devi temple under the “Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive” (PRASAD) scheme of the Centre.
9. HIMACHAL : Union cabinet has approved the Renuka Dam project as a part of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Saknhayee Yojana (PMKSY). Renuka dam is a national project conceived as a storage project on Giri river, a tributary of Yamuna river, in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh.
10. J & K: An ‘A+’ category terrorist of proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) was on Wednesday killed in a gunfight with the security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
11. KERALA on Wednesday reported four fresh cases of Omicron, taking the state’s tally of those infected with the new coronavirus variant to five.
12. MAHARSHTRA :The NCB officer Sameer Wankhede has sought more time from the Mumbai district caste certificate scrutiny committee to submit his caste validity certificate. The zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau has been accused of submitting incorrect caste information to the government. Wankhede and the complainant were to attend a hearing by the committee on Monday.
13. TAMIL NADU on Wednesday reported its first case of the new coronavirus variant Omicron as a 47-year-old man who returned from Nigeria tested positive, Health Minister Ma Subramanian said.
14. WEST BENGAL govt issued an order on 15 Dec to extend the COVID-19 restrictions till January 15, in view of the new coronavirus variant Omicron. The order said restrictions will remain on public movement from 11 pm to 5 am, but it shall be relaxed from December 24 to January 1 for Christmas and New Year celebrations.
15. LEH : Ladakh received its first ever FM radio station in the capital city Leh. The frequency for Leh & Kargil will be 91.1 FM. It will cover 50 kilometres aerial distance in radius.
16. Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu arrives in Mumbai after winning the beauty pageant, which took place in Eilat, Israel. The 21-year-old became the third Indian to win the pageant after Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta.
17. The Supreme Court has warned the Enforcement Directorate against indiscriminate use of the law to control money laundering. Chief Justice NV Ramana said., “You (ED) are diluting the Act (Prevention of Money Laundering Act)…If you start using it as a weapon against 10,000 rupees case and 100 rupees case, what will happen,”
18. Healthcare technology firm Innovaccer has raised $150 million in a financing round led by Mubadala Capital. The company is now valued at $3.2 billion. This is more than double of what it was valued, at $1.3 billion, after it last raised capital in February 2021.
19. The RBI has fined PNB ₹1.80 crore and imposed a ₹30-lakh penalty on ICICI Bank. PNB’s fine related to the bank’s shareholding in borrower companies, as pledgee, of an amount exceeding 30% of paid-up share capital of those companies. ICICI Bank was fined for violating rules regarding levy of penal charges on non-maintenance of minimum balances in savings bank accounts.
20. Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput-starrer 2019 film ‘Chhichhore’ will be opening at 11,000 screens in over 100 cities in China on January 7, 2022. The film had made over ₹7 crore on its first day and crossed ₹100 crore mark after two weeks of release in India in 2019. ‘Chhichhore’ won the 2021 National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
21. Ranbir Kapoor-starrer ‘Brahmāstra’ will release on September 9, 2022 in five Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Director Ayan Mukerji has said that, in his mind, it is not a superhero film but a modern mythology piece.
22. SWARNIM VIJAY VARSH : Indian Armed Forces secured a decisive victory over Pakistan which resulted in the Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. It was the largest military surrender after the Second World War. The Indian Armed Forces along with Mukti Bahini liberated Bangladesh in a span of just 13 days.
23. After the demise of CDS Gen Bipin Rawat and until the new CDS is appointed, Indian Army chief General MM Naravane has taken over as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee.
24. Indian Army chief General MM Naravane, being the senior-most, has taken over as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee as was the practice before the office of the CDS came into being.
25. Decorated air warrior Group Captain Varun Singh passed away at a military hospital in Bengaluru on 15 Dec ( Wednesday), a week after he was seriously injured in the chopper crash near Coonoor,Tamil Nadu.
*NOTIFICATION*
UPSC CISF Recruitment 2021: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is going to hold a Limited Departmental Competitive Examination, 2022 for filling the vacancies of Assistant Commandants (Executive) in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
The Commission also said that the examination will be held in New Delhi on March 13, 2022. The tentative number of vacancies to be filled on the basis of the examination will be 19 (General-14, SC-03, ST-02).
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