Current Affairs 10.12.20 English

 

NATIONAL

1.     Ministry of Ayush & AIIMS will setup Department of Integrative Medicine.

2.     PM Modi laid foundation stone of New Parliament Building at an estimated cost of Rs. 971 crore.

STATE

3.     West Bengal cabinet approved construction of Deep Sea Port in Tajpur built at cost of Rs. 15,000 cr.

4.     UP’s Dandpur Railway station to be renamed as Maa Barahi Devi Dham Railway Station.

APPOINTMENTS

5.     Austria’s Sabrina Filzmoser & Brazil’s Flavio Canto – International Judo Federation Climate Ambassadors.

6.     Annika Sorenstam – President, International Golf Federation.

7.     Zena Wooldridge – President, World Squash Federation.

MOU

8.     Andhra Pradesh signed MoU with Survey of India for land survey named “YSR Jagananna Saswath Bhoo Hakku-Bhoo Raksha Pathakam”.

9.     MoRTH (Ministry of Road Transport & Highways) signed MoU with Austria for Technology cooperation in Road Infrastructure sector.

AWARDS

10. Raj Kamal Jha won Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 for his book “The City and the Sea”. 

RANKS & REPORTS

11. Fitch revised India’s GDP Forecast to -9.4% for FY21.

12. In Climate Change Performance Index, India got 10^th rank & Sweden topped the list.

13. Gwalior & Orchha have been included in list of UNESCO’s world heritage cities list.

 SPORTS

14. Maldives will host 2023 Indian Ocean Island Games.

DAYS

15. Human Rights Day – December 10, Theme “Recover Better – Stand up for Human Rights”.