December headlines Flashcards
The Border Security Force (BSF), is observing its
56th Raising Day on
01 December 2020.
formed on December 1, 1965,(, as a unified central
agency, after the Indo-Pak and India-China wars, for
ensuring the security of the borders of India and for
matters connected therewith.
The Union Minister of Railways,
Piyush Goyal
Piyush Goyal has
inaugurated newly electrified ____________
section of North Western Railway (NWR) in the
state of Rajasthan
Dhigawara-Bandikui on Delhi-Ajmer route
via Jaipur
A booklet titled ______________________ was released, on
the occasion of birth anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak
Dev Ji. It has been produced by Bureau of Outreach
Communication under Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting and is released in three languages
Hindi, Punjabi and English
‘PM Modi and his Government’s
special relationship with Sikhs’
_________ has been roped in as ambassador of the
BAFTA Breakthrough initiative in India.
AR
Rahman
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has virtually released
a commemorative Postage Stamp in honour of the
late Prime Minister of India & Freedom Fighter,____________
I K
Gujral (Inder Kumar Gujral).
___________ the Chief Executive of the Punebased Serum Institute of India (SII), has been
named among six “The Straits Times Asians of the
Year” for 2020,, the Chief Executive of the Punebased Serum Institute of India (SII), has been
named among six “The Straits Times Asians of the
Year” for 2020,
Adar Poonawalla,
Adar Poonawalla, the Chief Executive of the Pune based _____
Serum Institute of India (SII)
The
new height of Mt Everest has been calculated at________
, which is 0.86m more than the
previous measurement done by India in 1954
8,848.86 metres (by nepal and china)
The Ministry of Agriculture has declared
_____ as India’s first Union Territory to
become 100 per cent organic.
Lakshadweep
The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) along with
Department of Posts (DoP) launched a digital
payment application called _______on 15 December
2020, in an effort to provide Digital Financial
inclusion at the last mile across India
‘DakPay’
Union Minister for Communications,
Electronics & Information Technology and Law &
Justice,
Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The _________ Zoo has
become the first zoo in the country to receive ISO
9001:2015 Quality Management Standards
Certificate.
Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad,
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has
banned Mauritian badminton player ___________ for two years for an anti-doping violation
Kate Jessica Foo
Kune
Mega leather park to come up in ________ with an investment of Rs 5,850 crores.
Ramaipur village
of Kanpur
NITI Aayog has launched indigenously developed
India’s first Digital Asset Management and Storage
platform, called ______
‘DigiBoxx’.
_______ has launched indigenously developed
India’s first Digital Asset Management and Storage
platform, called ‘DigiBoxx’.
NITI Aayog
Digiboxx offers_____ free
cloud storage space, and ______ space per month
at just Rs 30.
20GB
100GB
t India’s biggest hockey stadium is
being set up in ______
Rourkela city of Odisha
India’s first Lithium refinery is soon going to be set
up in ________.
Manikaran Power Limited, one of the
country’s largest power trading and renewable
energy company will invest around Rs 1,000 crore to
set up this refinery
Gujarat.
The Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Science &
Technology, Dr Harsh Vardhan virtually inaugurated
the web-based application ________
“Digital Ocean”.
Digital Ocean” has
been developed by Hyderabad-based _________ an autonomous organization under M/o
Earth sciences.
Indian
National Centre for Ocean Information Services
(INCOIS)
The 21-year-old college student,
_____________has
been elected the new mayor of
Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, of Kerala. The
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, _______ is
the youngest person in India to occupy the post of
mayor anywhere in the country.
Arya Rajendran
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways,
Nitin Gadkari has announced that a multi-modal
logistics park in _________
Assam.
multi-modal logistics park in will be constructed in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ section of the Silchar-Saurashtra Highway will be completed in March 2022.
Silchar and the Balacherra-Harengajao
Indian Railways successfully completed the 180 km
per hour speed trial of its new design ________
tourist coaches. These _________coaches will make
train journeys memorable for the passengers, as well
as give a further boost to tourism
Vistadome
____________ Bank has launched FX 4 U that enables its
entire internet banking users to handle forex
transactions hasslefree.
Canara
FX 4 U is used for forex
remittance through internet banking. With this
development, eligible customers will be able to
undertake remittance facility in adherence to the________________
FEMA regulations 1999.
