- India’s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line.
- He also inaugurated a fully operational National Common Mobility Card service on the Airport Express Line.
- Note: In 2014, only 5 cities had metro rail and today, metro rail is available in 18 cities. By the year 2025, metro rail will be available in more than 25 cities.
- Mobile Application “Swachhata Abhiyan”
- Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot launched a Mobile Application “Swachhata Abhiyan”.
- This mobile application has been developed to identify and geotag the data of insanitary latrines and manual scavengers so that the insanitary latrines can be replaced with sanitary latrines and rehabilitate all the manual scavengers to provide dignity of life to them.
- Note: “Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013”mandates survey of insanitary latrines, their demolition and construction of sanitary latrines in their place.
- Bengal's first Oil and Gas Reserve to Nation
- Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan dedicated the eighth oil and gas producing basin to the nation in Ashok Nagar, around 47 km from the state capital Kolkata.
- The first proven reserve of oil and gas in the state was discovered in 2018.
- The Ashok Nagar field, which falls under the Mahanadi-Bengal-Andaman (MBA) basin, has proved to be commercially viable.
- Indian & Vietnamese Navy conducts PASSEX- 2020 in South China Sea
- Indian and Vietnamese Navy conducted the two-day naval passage exercise PASSEX in the South China Sea as part of efforts to boost maritime cooperation between the two countries.
- Note: Indian Naval Ship Kiltan, carrying humanitarian assistance, reached Vietnam's Nha Rong Port in Ho Chi Minh City to deliver 15 tonnes of relief material for flood-affected people under Mission Sagar-III.
- This mission of INS Kiltan was part of India’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) assistance to Friendly Foreign Countries during the ongoing pandemic.
- New population of blue whales discovered in western Indian Ocean
- Scientists have found evidence of a previously undiscovered population of blue whales living in the western Indian Ocean based on an analysis of sound recordings from the region.
- In a recently published study in the journal Endangered Species Research, the scientists analysed recordings from the Arabian Sea coast of Oman, and as far south as Madagascar, and found a blue whale song that had never been described.
- According to the researchers this population of blue whales was previously assumed to belong to the same that had been studied off Sri Lanka, ranging into the southcentral Indian Ocean.
- Virat Kohli wins the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for Male Cricketer of the Decade
- India captain Virat Kohli won the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade. He also won the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade Award.
- MS Dhoni won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade.
- Steve Smith from Australia won the ICC Men’s Test player of the decade.
- Rashid Khan from Afghanistan won the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade award.
- Ellyse Perry from Australia won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade.
- NTPC wins prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2020
- Country’s largest power producer, NTPC Ltd. has been conferred “Excellence” in the prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2020 in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Domain.
- Note: NTPC wins the prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Awards in Corporate Excellence category second time in a row i.e. in the year 2019 and 2020.
- World celebrates 1st International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on 27 December
- The first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness was celebrated by United Nations on December 27, 2020.
- The International Day of Epidemic Preparedness aims to promote international awareness and action on the prevention of, preparedness for and partnership against epidemics.
- Eminent dance scholar and critic Sunil Kothari passes away
- He was a member of the International Dance Council of UNESCO and a recipient of the Emeritus Fellowship of the Department of Culture, Government of India.
- He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1995 and the Padma Shri in 2001.
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