1. PM Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of several development projects worth over 6,800 crore rupees in Tripura and Meghalaya on Sunday.
2. Prime Minister inaugurated the New Campus of IIM Shillong at Umsawli. He also inaugurated Shillong – Diengpasoh Road, which will provide better connectivity to new Shillong satellite township and decongest Shillong.
3. The Prime Minister also launched the “Grih Pravesh” programme in Agartala for more than two lakh beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban and Rural schemes.
4. India to meet 62% energy demands with renewable sources & from non-fossil sources by 2030: Additional Power Secretary Ajay Tewari said.
5. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has said that reversing ecosystem degradation and halting global biodiversity loss are essential for the socio-economic development and well-being of people, and for advancing global sustainability.
6. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah presided over the 25th Eastern Zonal Council meeting in Kolkata. He appeals to insurgents in North East to lay down arms and help in speeding up economic development
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7. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram (PMKKK) has now been named as Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PM VIKAS) Scheme. PM VIKAS aims to improve livelihoods of the minorities, particularly the artisan communities.
8. Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog and UNDP India jointly launched the 5th edition of Youth CoLab on December 15, 2022. It is a largest youth innovation movement in the Asia Pacific.
9. Protesting over the remarks made by some leaders that those who “migrated” to Congress from other parties are being given prominence, 13 PCC members of the Telangana Congress submitted their resignation.
10. Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao gave farmers good news ahead of the Sankranti festival by instructing finance minister T. Harish Rao to begin disbursing crop investment support to farmers under the Rythu Bandhu scheme from December 28.
11. Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said PM Modi will inaugurate India Energy Week 2023 in Karnataka in February next year.
12. Students of IIT Madras have designed a driverless battery car which can travel 25kms with one battery.
CRIME REPORT
1. 5 officials suspended after spurious liquor kills over 72 in Bihar’s Saran.
2. A doctor at a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind was caught using her car as a pharmacy to sell private medicines. Dr Beena Hotagi has also been accused of prescribing medicines to patients on her personal letterhead instead of the hospital’s letterhead.
3. A teenage girl was allegedly raped by eight men at a village in Palghar district of Maharashtra, following which the police have arrested all the accused.
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1. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman laid the foundation for a nine-story new office complex Vaigai to be built at a cost of Rs. 92 Crore at the Custom House in Chennai.
2. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the innovation is going to be key factor in making India a developed nation by 2047.
3. Reserve Bank of India is to issue two tranches of Sovereign Gold Bonds, which will open for public subscription in December and March 2023. The investors will be compensated at a fixed rate of 2.50 percent per annum payable semi-annually on the nominal value. The tenor of the SGB will be for eight years.
ENTERTAINMENT
1. Bollywood Actress Deepika Padukone unveiled the FIFA World Cup trophy in Qatar at the Lusail Iconic Stadium.
Actress singer Nora Fatehi performed at the 2022 FIFA World Cup closing ceremony.
2. Actor turned politician Kamal Haasan will be participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra being led by Congress’ Rahul Gandhi on December 24 in Delhi.
3. Recently, music composer MM Keeravaani has received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s (LAFCA) best music score award for his work in filmmaker SS Rajamouli worldwide blockbuster “RRR”.
4. Actor Kangana Ranaut has sought permission from the Lok Sabha secretariat for shooting her upcoming film Emergency inside Parliament premises.
DEFENCE
1. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh commissioned INS Mormugao, a P15B stealth-guided missile destroyer, into the Indian Navy in Mumbai on 18 Dec.
2. The joint military exercise between India and Nepal, Exercise Surya Kiran XVI, is being held from December 16 to 29 this year in Nepal Army Battle School in Nepal’s Saljhandi.
3. Defense Minister said, the government’s aim is to make India an indigenous shipbuilding hub.
4. To mark the successful culmination of the training of 168 flight cadets of the flying and ground duty branches of Indian Air Force (IAF), a combined graduation parade (CGP) 210 course was held at the Air Force Academy(AFA) in Dundigal, on 17 Dec.
Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan, Chief of the Air Staff, Bangladesh Air Force, was the Reviewing Officer (RO) of the parade, making it the first instance when the parade was reviewed by a foreign service chief.
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