1. Over 137 crore 49 lakh doses of COVID vaccine administered in country so far. It includes 1st and second dose vaccines.
2. India’s Omicron count rises to 145. Maharashtra (48), Delhi (22), Rajasthan (17) and Karnataka (14), Telangana (20), Gujarat (9), Kerala (11), Andhra Pradesh (1), Chandigarh (1), Tamil Nadu (1) and West Bengal (1).55 ty
3. PM Modi on 19 Dec participated in the Goa Liberation Day celebrations at Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Stadium at Taligao in Goa. He felicitated the freedom fighters and veterans of ‘Operation Vijay’ at the function.
4. Union Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation Amit Shah announced that a National level co-operative university will soon be established in the country to further expand the co-operative sector. He was speaking at the Convocation ceremony of Vaikuntha Mehta National Cooperative Management Institute in Pune, Maharashtra. Emphasizing the need for expansion of the Co-operative sector in the villages.
5. The govt has allocated 10 thousand 180 crore rupees to Rajasthan in the current financial year under Jal Jeevan Mission. Ministry of Jal Shakti has said that it is a four-fold increase from two thousand 522 crore rupees allocated in the last financial year. The Ministry said that the central government is providing all-out support to States to make provision of tap water supply to every rural household of the country by 2024.
6. Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the Packaged Drinking Water Test Facility at National Test House, Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.
7. Protest for three capitals gains momentum in Andhra Pradesh. Various Political leaders take out Nyayasthanam (Tulluru) to Devasthanam (Tirupati) Maha Padayatra. The government has proposed to retain Amaravati as the legislative capital, while making Visakhapatnam the home for executive and Kurnool the judicial capital.
8. Andaman & Nicobar Islands Achieve 100% Covid Vaccination Coverage.
9. KERALA : Kerala’s coastal Alappuzha district was rocked by back-to-back killings of two party leaders, the first belonging to the SDPI and the second to the BJP, leading to Prohibitory order under CrPC section 144 was imposed in the entire Alappuzha district on Sunday.
10.MADHYA PRADESH : Senior woman IAS officer Kalpana Srivastava who had taken cognisance of a complaint alleging massive corruption within the horticulture department was removed from the post of principal secretary (PS).
11. UTTAR PRADESH: PM Modi used a new coinage Upyogi or “UP plus Yogi bahut hai upyogi” to praise Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath for “eliminating” mafias and undertaking a lot of developmental work in the state.
12. PUNJAB: Deputy CM Sukhjinder Randhawa demands 10-year jail term for those found guilty of sacrilege.
13. Sukhjinder Randhawa chaired a high-level meeting with the Amritsar Police commissioner in the wake of the attempted sacrilege incident at the Golden Temple. A youth accused of attempted sacrilege at the Golden Temple was allegedly lynched by the devotees on Saturday.
14. TELANGANA: CM K. Chandrashekar Rao on 18 Dec announced that a sum of Rs 5,000 per acre for rabi season will be credited in the bank accounts of farmers from December 28 under the Rythu Bandhu scheme.
15.Indian Railway Rules : Now TTE cannot check your ticket in trains, According to the rules of Indian Railways, if you are sleeping during the journey, then even TTE cannot pick you up. If a passenger is traveling in the train since morning, TTE cannot disturb you after 10 pm. if a passenger boards the train after 10 pm, the TTE has the right to come and check your ticket and ID.
16. Yes Bank Cuts Interest Rates On Savings Account: 0.75% to 5.25%. The interest rate on regular, senior citizen, rural, semi-urban, and urban savings accounts has been reduced from 6 percent to 5.25 percent with effect from 15 Dec 2021.
17. Yes Bank is currently providing a 4.5% interest rate on daily balances of less than one lac, 4.5% on balances between one lac and ten lacs, 5 % on balances between ten lacs and one crore, and 5.25% on daily balances between one crore and one hundred crores.
<=1 Lac 4% >1 Lac to < 10 lacs 4.50% >=10 lacs to < 1 Cr 5.00% >=1 Cr to < 100 Cr 5.25% 18. According to the Ministry of Finance, 3.59 crore Income Tax Returns (ITRs) were filed via the new e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department as of December 15, 2021. 19. State Bank of India (SBI) has ncreased benchmark lending rate or base rate by 0.1%. The new rate is effective from December 15, 2021. 20. From January 1, 2022, customers of the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) will be charged for cash deposits and withdrawals. If the free limit set by the bank is exceeded, these charges, which are exclusive of GST/CESS, will be charged. Cash withdrawals, which are free up to 4 transactions per month for a Basic Savings Account, will be charged at 0.50% of the total amount, subject to a minimum of Rs 25 per transaction. 21. A Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court at Esplanade on Saturday dismissed actor Kangana Ranaut’s plea seeking permission to withdraw her criminal complaint against lyricist Javed Akhtar for alleged extortion from the Andheri magistrate court and to refer the same to another magistrate court. 22. Actor R Madhavan and his wife Sarita have shifted to Dubai so that their son Vedaant can prepare for the Olympics, the Breathe actor has revealed in an interview. Maddy said that due to Covid scare, big swimming pools are closed in India and the family decided to make the move so that Vedaant’s prep for the 2026 Olympics is not hampered because of lack of facilities for training. 23. Mormugao is the Indian Navy's second indigenous stealth destroyer of the P15B class, planned to be commissioned in mid-2022. Mormugao is being built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDSL) as part of the Project 15B destroyers. 24. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility Aircraft Upgrade Research & Design Centre (AURDC) has launched a new upgrade programme for MiG-29K of Indian Navy to enhance its lethality through the integration of Laser Pod and new laser guided bomb. The upgrade programme involves integration of indigenous mission computers, laser pods, indigenous air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons. 25. The Defence Research and Development Organisation’s R&D lab conducted a flight demonstration of Controlled Aerial Delivery System of 500 kg capacity (CADS-500) on 18 Dec, The system, developed by Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) in Agra, was para-dropped from an AN32 aircraft and then steered to the predesignated landing point in autonomous mode. Eleven paratroopers of the Indian Army and Indian Air Force chased the CADS-500 in the air and landed simultaneously at the drop zone in Malpura from an altitude of 5,000 metres. ===================== USD 76.01💷GBP 100.69 MADHYA PRADESH : Bhopal CM : Shivraj Singh Chouhan Gvnr : Mangubhai C. Patel 🥇Gold ₹50,120@10 gm 24 (Krt) 🥈 Silver ₹66,000@ Kg ⛽ Petrol ₹ 107.23 ⛽ Diesel ₹ 90.87 ⛽ CNG ₹ 49.40 LPG : ₹906/14.2 Kg BSE Sensex: 57,011.74 NIFTY: 16,985.20 ===================== 20 Dec (Monday) Hemant Ritu Krishna पक्ष:: Month: Pausha 01, (Purnimata) Agrahayana 16, (Amanta) Titi: Pratipada (up to 12:37 pm) Dwitiya Vikram Samvat - 2078 According to Purnimanta calendar (Ujjain) Rahu Kaal : 08:26 AM – 09:45 AM ×××××××××××××××××× For latest news, first Hand written articles & trending news Join Saachibaat telegram group Click here to join: https://t.me/joinchat/llGA9DGZF9xmMDc1
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