1. Four Bills including the National Anti-Doping Bill 2021, the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill 2021 were introduced in the Lok Sabha on 17 Dec.
2. Centre approves to set up 100 Sainik Schools in partnership with NGOs, Private Schools & state govts.
3. PM Modi hosted a roundtable interaction with representatives of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds at Lok Kalyan Marg in New Delhi.
4. PM Modi will lay the foundation stone of the longest expressway of Uttar Pradesh, Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur district on 18 Dec.
5. Suspended Opposition MPs of Rajya Sabha have been continuously sitting on dharna in front of Mahatma Gandhi Statue in Parliament complex. They are demanding revocation of their suspension. These 12 Opposition MPs were suspended for the current session, for their unruly behavior in the House in the last Monsoon Session.
6. HARYANA govt has started Khel Nursery Scheme to promote sports in the state.
7. MAHARASHTRA ;: The NCB informed on Friday that its Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Dnyandev Wankhede’s tenure will end on December 31 and he won’t seek an extension.
8. PUNJAB : Siddharth Chattopadhyaya has replaced Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota as the Director-General of Police, Punjab.
9. TELANGANA , the number of omicron cases confirmed has gone up to 8. The Public Health authorities have confirmed that the number of confirmed Omicron cases has gone up to 8 after a woman from United Kingdome tested positive for the new variant of Corona Virus
10. UTTAR PRADESH : Union Home Minister Amit Shah launches projects worth 155 crore rupees in Uttar Pradesh. This includes 23 new branches of Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Bank and 29 Godowns of Uttar Pradesh State Warehousing Corporation.
11.Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has secured an order for manufacturing, assembly, integration, testing and supply of High Speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) System, known as ‘ABHYAS’, from Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), DRDO. Post successful completion of this initial order, HAL said in a statement it would be identified as Development-cum-Production Partner (DcPP) for supply of this target system along with a private firm (50 per cent of the volume)
12. Construction Banned In Delhi-NCR As Air Quality Dips: The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) exempted some projects like those of the railways, airport, inter-state bus terminals and healthcare facilities among others from the restriction.
13. Ministry of Finance has said that Advance Tax collections for the first three quarters of financial year 2021-22 stand at over 4 lakh 59 thousand crore rupees till 16th of December.
14. The Ministry said that it shows a growth of nearly 53.50% against Advance Tax collections of 2 lakh 99 thousand crore rupees for the corresponding period of the immediately preceding Financial Year.
15. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal urged Indian industry to think big and set accelerated and aggressive targets, with a vision to achieve transformative changes by 2047 when India would be celebrating hundred years of independence.
16. Bank Strike on December 16-17: Banking and ATM services across the country are affected. A protest against central government’s decision to privatise public sector banks, the Union Forum of Bank (UFBU), an umbrella body of 9 bank unions has called a two-day strike from December 16.
17. Tom Holland-starrer ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ collected ₹32.67 crore on day one at the Indian box office, making it the biggest opening day collection in 2021. Earlier, ‘Sooryavanshi’ had earned ₹26.29 crore on its opening day.
18. The third Annual Defence Dialogue between India and France took place between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his French counterpart Florence Parly in New Delhi. A wide range of bilateral, regional, defence and defence industrial cooperation issues were discussed in the annual meeting.
19. The Ministers reviewed the existing military-to-military cooperation, which has increased in spite of pandemic challenges. They discussed ways to increase defence cooperation in all domains. India and France have recently concluded their annual bilateral Army Exercise, Shakti, with a focus on counter-terrorism operations, France in November this year.
20. Last rites of Group captain Varun Singh performed with full state, military honour in Bhopal. The lone survivor of Tamil Nadu Chopper Crash was under treatment at Command Hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka where he passed away on December 15th.
21. Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan AVSM NM is new Chief of Staff of the Eastern Naval Command.
22. The govt has started the process to appoint the next Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and a list of names based on recommendations from the three services will soon be submitted to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for approval.
23. It is learned that there is a strong possibility of appointing Army Chief Gen M.M. Naravane to the top post considering his overall experience. The Army Chief is due to retire in April. Gen Naravane is the senior-most among the three service chiefs.
24. If Gen M M Naravane is appointed as the CDS, then the govt will also have to look for his replacement. Vice Chief of Army Lt Gen CP Mohanty and Northern Army Commander Lt Gen YK Joshi will be the front-runner for the Army Chief’s post.
25. NDA EXAM : Over a thousand women have cleared the National Defence Academy (NDA) examination out of a total of nearly successful 8,000 candidates. This is the first time ever that women candidates appeared for the exam conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Nov 14. The results were declared on Wednesday.
These 1,002 women candidates will now appear for the Service Selection Board and their medical tests, after which 19 of them will be shortlisted for next year’s NDA course.
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