Current Affairs 4 December 2021-चालू घडामोडी

Current Affairs 4 December 2021-1) South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.

Current Affairs 4 December 2021

2) World Health Organization has granted emergency use listing (EUL) to Covaxin, adding to a growing portfolio of vaccines validated by the global health body for the prevention of COVID-19.
➨Covaxin is a whole virion-inactivated vaccine against SARS-CoV2, developed in partnership with ICMR and NIV, Pune.
▪️ World Health Organization :-
Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland
Founded – 7 April 1948
Director-general – Tedros Adhanom

3) Inauguration of the advanced 650 teraflops supercomputing facility at the National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) was done online by Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh.
➨The facility has come up under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) in collaboration with C-DAC, Pune.

4) The First Miss India 2021 title was bagged by Pearl Agarwal with Lekh Utaiah as 1st runner up and Shreya Gupta as the 2nd runner up while Rayna Sikri was declared as the First Miss India Teen 2021 with Shubhi Dhaneta as 1st runner up and Mrunmayi Barve as the 2nd runner up.
➨ The grand finale of the All India Beauty Pageants First Miss India’21 and First Miss India Teen’21 was held at Novotel Dona Sylvia Resort, Goa.

5) The Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Shri Arjun Munda launched 4 new Tribes India Outlets virtually one in Patna and three at Chennai Metro.
➨ With this, Tribes India has expanded its retail network to 147 outlets across the country.

6) To bring a sharper focus on moving women to the higher economic order, the Ministry of Rural Development launched an initiative to aim at creating ‘Lakhpati’ Self Help Group (#SHG) women, to enable rural SHG women to earn at least Rs 1 lakh per year.

7) The National Commission for Women (NCW), along with the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) launched a pan-India Legal Awareness Program for Women titled “Empowerment of Women through Legal Awareness” to impart practical knowledge about legal rights and remedies.

8) Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS) on sidelines of climate summit in Glasgow.

9) China launched the SDGSAT-1 science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China on November 5, 2021.

10) NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog And World Bank (WB) working together to facilitate a program for faster and easier financing Electric vehicles (EVs).

11) The first-ever open-air floating theatre in Jammu and Kashmir has been launched in the famous Dal lake.
➨This theatre aims to attract tourism to the union territory. Kashmir has earned fame on a global level for its natural beauty and Bollywood filmmakers have called it a ‘photographers paradise’.
▪️Jammu and Kashmir :-
➨L. Governor of J&K – Manoj Sinha
➨Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dachigam National Park
➨Salim Ali National Park

12) Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal launched “Uttam Beej Portal” in Chandigarh. The portal will benefit lakhs of farmers of the State.
➨This portal will provide transparency in the seed production programme arranged by Government as well as private seed producing agencies and will ensure better quality of certified seed.
▪️Haryana
➨Governor :- Bandaru Dattatraya
➨CM – Manohar Lal Khattar
➨Haryana Government has decided to develop Pipli in Kurukshetra as a world-class tourist hub.

13) Former India captain Rahul Dravid has been appointed the head coach of the men’s national team to succeed Ravi Shastri.
➨Former captain Dravid, who played 164 Tests and 344 one-dayers between 1996 and 2012, is credited for India’s steady supply of young talent as head of the National Cricket Academy.

14) Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh launched ‘Go to Village 2.0’ in Thoubal district with an aim for efficient service delivery to people’s doorsteps.
▪️Manipur
➨CM :- Nongthombam Biren Singh
➨Governor :- La. Ganesan
➨Khonghampat Orchidarium
➨Loktak Lake
➨Keibul-Lamjao National Park

15) The Reserve Bank of India has now appointed Bandhan Bank as an Agency Bank of the RBI to conduct government business.
➨Bandhan Bank now joins several other private banks that have been empanelled as an Agency Bank of the RBI.
◾️Reserve Bank of India:-
➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra,
➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
➨ First Governor – Sir Osborne Smith
➨ First Indian Governor – Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
➨Present Governor:- Shaktikanta Das

★◆★ संरक्षण ★◆★

या दलाने ‘बडोदा सैनिकी वेतन पॅकेज’ यासाठी बँक ऑफ बडोदा सोबत सामंजस्य करार केला – भारतीय भुदल.

◆◆अर्थव्यवस्था◆◆

व्हिझीकी संस्थेच्या ‘BFSI मूव्हर्स अँड शेकर्स 2020’ अहवालानुसार, 2020 साली सर्वोत्कृष्ट कामगिरी करणाऱ्या अव्वल पाच बँका – HDFC, ICICI, भारतीय स्टेट बँक, येस बँक, पंजाब नॅशनल बँक.

या खासगी बॅंकेनी देशात व्यवसाय स्थापन करण्यासाठी किंवा वाढविण्याच्या उद्देशाने परदेशी कंपन्यांसाठी ‘इनफायनाइट इंडिया’ नामक एक ऑनलाइन मंच सादर केला – ICICI बँक.

राष्ट्रीय कृषी व ग्रामीण विकास बँक (NABARD) आणि या सार्वजनिक क्षेत्रातल्या बँकेनी सध्याच्या विकासात्मक पुढाकारांद्वारे ग्रामीण समृद्धी वाढविण्याच्या उद्देशाने परस्पर सहकार्याच्या उद्देशाने एक सामंजस्य करार केला – भारतीय स्टेट बँक.

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2014 सालाच्या तुलनेत 60 टक्क्यांपेक्षा जास्त वाढीसह आता भारतामध्ये _ बिबटे आहेत – 12,852.

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या देशाच्या राष्ट्राध्यक्षांनी पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी यांना प्रतिष्ठित ‘लीजन ऑफ मेरिट’ सन्मान देवून गौरव केला – अमेरिका.

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या सार्वजनिक कंपनीने विविध राज्यांत लोह, सुवर्ण, कोळसा, हिरा आणि इतर खनिजांचा शोध घेण्यासाठी प्रकल्पांमध्ये सहयोग करण्यासाठी मिनरल एक्सप्लोरेशन कॉर्पोरेशन लिमिटेड (MECL) सोबत सामंजस्य करार केला – NMDC लिमिटेड.

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IIT दिल्लीचा संशोधक ज्याने वनस्पती-आधारित बनावट अंडाच्या शोधासाठी ‘UNDP एक्सेलेरेटर लॅब इंडिया’ यांच्या ‘इनोव्हेट4एसडीजी’ स्पर्धेत प्रथम पारितोषिक जिंकले – प्रा. काव्या दशोरा.

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आंतरराष्ट्रीय हॉकी महासंघ (FIH) याच्या ‘जागतिक क्रमवारी 2020’मध्ये भारताचा क्रमांक – पुरुष संघ: चौथा आणि महिला संघ: नववा.

आंतरराष्ट्रीय हॉकी महासंघ (FIH) याच्या ‘जागतिक क्रमवारी 2020’मध्ये पहिले स्थान – पुरुष संघ: बेल्जियम आणि महिला संघ: नेदरलँड.