DEC-8th

 📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 08 December 2021 

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1) Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employees Employer Mapping (ASEEM) portal, which acts as a directory of skilled workforce.

➨ The objective is to provide a platform that matches supply of skilled workforce with the market demand.

2) Senior bureaucrat Alka Upadhyaya has been appointed as the chairperson of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

➨ Ms Upadhyaya, a 1990-batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, is currently Additional Secretary, Department of Rural Development.

▪️National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) :-

👉Founded - 1988

👉Sector - Indian National Highway System

👉Purpose - Development and maintenance of national highways

👉Headquarters - New Delhi

👉Chairman - Alka Upadhyaya

3) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has made it to the list of the world’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes, for the third year in a row. Her ranking in 2021 rose to 37 from 41 a year ago.

4) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) on Sunday launched the first large survey vessel of the GRSE-class, named Sandhayak. The Indian Navy will receive the ship in 2022.

5) Vice President (VP) M Venkaiah Naidu released a book called ‘The Midway Battle: Modi’s roller-coaster second term’ Author Gautam Chintamani and published by Bloomsbury India at the Vice-President’s residence, New Delhi.

6) Indian badminton ace P V Sindhu settled for a silver medal at the BWF World Tour Finals after going down meekly against Korean teen sensation An Seyoung in the summit clash.

➙Sindhu, the reigning world champion and two-time Olympic medallist, could neither match the pace nor breach the defence of the world number six Korean, losing 16-21 12-21 in the 40-minute lop-sided clash.

7) Rajasthan government has come up with a ‘Back to Work’ scheme for women who sometimes have to quit their jobs due to family circumstances.

▪️ Rajasthan:-

CM - Ashok Gehlot

Governor - Kalraj Mishra

➭Amber Palace

➭Hawa Mahal

➭Ranthambore National Park

➭City Palace

➭Keoladeo Ghana National Park

➭Sariska National Park.

➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort

8) Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Sunil Arora has joined the Board of Advisors for International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). 

➨ The institute is assisted by a 15-member Board of Advisors that consists of eminent personalities from various .

9) The Government appointed Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Neelam Shammi Rao as the Central Provident Fund Commissioner in the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).

10) Eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, has been jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize for the "highly original work" in Operator Theory by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

11) Punjab National Bank (PNB) has launched PNB Pride-CRMD module tool, an android-based application for differently-abled employees, to monitor and effectively follow up with the special mention account (SMA) borrowers.

12) Central Government launched Scheme for Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas (SRESHTA).

➨The scheme is for socio-economic upliftment and overall development of Scheduled Castes students.

13) Himachal Pradesh has become the first state to fully vaccinate 100 percent of its adult population.

➨ Himachal Pradesh was also the first state to achieve the 100 percent first dose.

▪️ Himachal Pradesh :-

CM :- Jai Ram Thakur

 Governor :- Rajendra Vishwanath

➠Kinnaura tribe , Lahaule Tribe, Gaddi Tribe and Gujjar Tribe

➠Sankat Mochan Temple.

➠Tara Devi Temple

➠Great Himalayan National Park

➠Pin Valley National Park

➠Simbalbara National Park

➠Inderkilla National Park

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[10:34 am, 09/12/2021] KKMR😎: Q.1. Which ministry will launch 'Shreshtha' scheme for students in high schools?

Ans. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Q.2. Which state of India has become the first state in the country to get 100% Kovid-19 vaccination?

Ans. Himachal Pradesh

Q.3. Which language's famous journalist Vinod Dua, one of the pioneers of broadcast journalism, has passed away?

Ans. Hindi (हिन्दी)

Q.4. Ajaz Patel of New Zealand has become which cricketer to take all 10 wickets in an innings?

Ans. Third

Q.5. Which word has been chosen as "Word of the Year 2021" of Cambridge Dictionary?

Ans. Perseverance

Q.6. When is Armed Forces Flag Day celebrated in India?

Ans. 7 December

Q.7. Which team has won the title by defeating Germany in the Junior Hockey World Cup played at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar?

Ans. Argentina Hockey Team

Q.8. In Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, there has been an agreement between India and which country regarding the AK-203 assault rifles?

Ans. Russia

Q.9. Joint military exercise "Ekuverin exercise" has been organized between India and which country?

Ans. Maldives

Q.10. Who has been appointed as the chairman of the National Highways Authority of India?

Ans. Alka Upadhyay

[1:40 pm, 09/12/2021] KKMR😎: 📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 09 December 2021 

#English

1) Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others died in an IAF helicopter crash near Coonoor in the Nilgris district of Tamil Nadu. Rawat was 63.

▪️Ministry of Defence :-  

➨Headquarters - New Delhi

➨Founded - 15 August 1947

➨ Chief of the Army Staff - General Manoj Mukund Naravane

➨ Chief of the Air Staff -  Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari

➨Chief of the Navy Staff - Admiral R. Hari Kumar

2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. 

➨ He also inaugurated a fertilizer plant and a new building of the Regional Medical Research Center of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in Gorakhpur.

▪️Uttar Pradesh :- 

CM-  Yogi Adityanath

Governor - Smt. Anandiben Patel

➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary

➨Dudhwa National Park

➨National Chambal Sanctuary

➨Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake

➨Kashi Vishwanath Temple

3) Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone for Maa Shakumbhari Devi University in Saharanpur’s Behat Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

4) The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) announced that Sanjiv Mehta, the chairman and managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited will be appointed as its president on December 18.

5) Bihar's Shreyashi Singh won her second at the 64th National Shooting Championship Competitions in shotgun events, being held at the New Moti Bagh Gun Club Ranges in Patiala, Punjab.

6) Nasa-turned-SpaceX flight surgeon Anil Menon is among the 10 latest trainee astronauts who will join the 2021 class of the American space agency as it plans for the first human missions to the moon in more than 50 years.

▪️NASA :- 

➨Headquarters - Washington, D.C.

➨Formed - July 29, 1958

➨Preceding agency - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

7) 2021 Miss Trans Global title was conferred to Kerala native Sruthy Sithara, who had been competing in the pageant for the last six months. She is the first Indian to do so.

8) Vevek Paul, founder of The Great Indian Film Festival (TGIFF) and CEO of the production house Cinemaddicts9, was awarded with the title of 'Asia's Most creative Entrepreneur' and 'Asia's Most Innovative platform for Short Films & Documentaries' at the 15th Edition of Asia Africa Business & Social Forum 2021 (AABSF).

9) In a bid to strengthen its footprint in the renewable space, particularly solar energy, state-owned Oil and Natural Gas  Corporation (ONGC) signed an agreement with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to scale up its clean energy projects. 

➨The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by ONGC Chairman and Managing Director Subhash Kumar and SECI Managing Director Suman Sharma.

10) BCCI has named Rohit Sharma as the new ODI captain of the Indian cricket team. He will take over from his predecessor Virat Kohli starting the three-ODI series against South Africa in January 2022.

▪️Board of Control for Cricket in India:-

President - Sourav Ganguly

Secretary - Jay Shah

Headquarters - Mumbai

Founded - December 1928

11) The World Health Organization has launched the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant assays and animal models study tracker, even as the highly mutant variant is spreading fast across the globe.

▪️ World Health Organization :-

Headquarters - Geneva, Switzerland

Founded - 7 April 1948

Director-general - Tedros Adhanom

12) To improve leadership skills of grassroot women political leaders, the National Commission for Women (NCW) launched a pan-India capacity building programme,‘She is a Changemaker’ for women representatives at all levels, gram panchayats to parliament members and political workers including office bearers of National/State political parties.

➽ National Commission for Women (NCW) :-

Formed - 1992

Headquarters - New Delhi

Chairperson - Rekha Sharma

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