Current affairs notes on December-Part 3


1.India, Afghanistan and Iran recently met to discuss the issues in the implementation of Chabahar port in Iran. Chabahar port is Located on the Gulf of Oman and is the only oceanic port of the country. The three countries have decided to open Mormugoa and New Mangalore Port in addition to JNPT, Mundra, Kandla and Cochin as part of designated route under the Chabahar Agreement.


2.Winter Solstice this year falls on December 22. The Sun is directly overhead of the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere.

3.National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year on December 22.It's to honor the birth anniversary of the famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.  1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number.


4.Hunar Haats are organised by Ministry of Minority Affairs under USTTAD (Upgrading the Skills & Training in Traditional Arts/Crafts for Development) scheme. Hunar Haat is an exhibition of handicrafts and traditional products made by artisans from the Minority communities.


5.DRDO has successfully test-fired indigenously developed Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air missiles (QRSAM) from a test range off the Odisha coast.It is capable of hitting the low flying objects.


6.Govt notifies rules for fixation of microdots identifiers on vehicles. which give a unique identification. Use of this technology will help check theft of vehicles and also use of fake spare parts.

7.Swadesh Darshan Scheme: Tourism Ministry launched the scheme in 2015.Aim is to develop theme-based tourist circuits in the country. 100% centrally funded for the project .

8.To battle rising air pollution in cities, an ”Oxygen Parlour” has been opened at Nashik railway station. The parlour contains some unique plants that better absorb the five most harmful pollutants from the air.


9.The government will name the strategic tunnel under Rohtang Pass after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birth anniversary on December 25th. The 8.8-km-long tunnel is the world’s longest above an altitude of 3,000 metres.


10.The Prime Minister of India paid tribute to Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya on his 158th birth anniversary (25th December, 2019).He was the editor of a Hindi magazine, ‘Hindosthan’, ‘Indian Opinion’ in 1889.He was instrumental in founding the Benares Hindu University in 1916.


11.Latest edition of the ‘Good Governance Index’ has been launched on the occasion of ‘Good Governance Day’ on 25th December. Tamil Nadu on top on the states and Pondicheri on UTs.

12.Typhoon phanfone  lashed the central Philippines recently. A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere.

13.Nari Shakti Puraskars on eminent women and institutions in recognition of their service towards the cause of women empowerment. The Ministry of Women and Child Development announces these national level awards.


14. Illegal Bt brinjal cultivation in Haryana have been confirmed recently. India banned Bt brinjal in 2010. A GM or transgenic crop is a plant that has a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology.


15.The India State of Forest Report 2019 has been released. Karnataka tops the country in growing the maximum amount of forest in the last two years.Karnataka is followed by Andhra Pradesh (990 sq km) and Kerala (823 sq km).

16.US astronaut Christina Koch has set the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman when she reached, and crossed, 289 days in her current mission.

17.Madhya Pradesh gets its first elephant colony on Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve: In 1968, it was notified as a national park and in 1993 was declared a tiger reserve- under the Project Tiger-1973.


18.NITI Aayog has released the 2019 SDG (sustainable development goals) India Index. Kerala retained the top rank with a score of 70. Chandigarh maintained its top spot among the UTs. Bihar, Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh are the worst performing states.


19.The latest edition of National Children’s Science Congress was held in Thiruvananthapuram. Theme: “Science, Technology and Innovation for a Clean, Green and Healthy Nation”.

20.The outgoing Army chief, Gen. Bipin Rawat, has been appointed as the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).Upper age limit for the CDS has been fixed at 65 years. 

Thank you.

(Extracted from The hindu,PIB..etc).

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