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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 9th DECEMBER 2021

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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 9th DECEMBER 2021

  1. The Prestigious 7th Dr. ‘M S Swaminathan Award’ for the period 2017-2019 was awarded to Dr. V Praveen Rao.
  2. Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra has been announced as brand ambassador for Disney Byju’s Early Learn App.
  3. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has made it to the Forbes’ annual list of powerful women The world’s 100 Most Powerful women. She is ranked at number 37.
  4. Indian weightlifter Jhilli Dalabehera has won the gold medal in the women’s 49 kg category at the Commonwealth weightlifting Championships in Tashken, Uzbekistan.
  5. Noted educationist and ‘Padma Shri’ awardee Nanda Kishore Prusty Passed away in December 2021.
  6. National Energy Conservation week is being observed from 8th-14th December 2021.
  7. The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) along with the Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies (c-Ganga) are organizing the 6th India water Impact Summit (IWIS) from 9-14 December,2021.
  8. India has risen as the fourth most powerful country in Asia, according to a report by Lowy Institute Asia Power Index 2021.
  9. Air Version of BrahMos Supersonic Cruise missile was successfully test fired from the supersonic fighter aircraft Sukhio-30 MK-I from Integrated Test Range Chadipur off the coast of Odish of 8 December,2021.
  10. The world’s population is set to decline for the first time ever in the next century, a new study published in the Lancent Journal has revealed.
  11. Fitch Rating has cut economic growth projections for India marginally to 8.4 percent for the current financial year (2021-2022) from an earlier forecast of 8.7 percent.
  12. International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on December 9 annually to raise awareness on staying away from corruption. The theme for 2021 is “Your right, your role : say no to corruption.”
  13. Google is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to build an open-source Software Developer Kit(SDK).
  14. Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has become the first Japanese tourist to visit the International Space Station on 8 December,2021.
  15. The Union Cabinet on 8 December 2021 cleared the continuation of the rural housing scheme Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana Gramin Till 2024.
  16. The Union Cabinet has approved the funding and implementation of the Ken-Betwa inter-linking of rivers project. The project involves the transfer of water from the Ken to the Betwa River through the Construction of the Daudhan Dam and a canal linking the two rivers.
  17. International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the crime of Genocide and the Prevention of this crime is observed on 9 December annually.
  18. The Kazhuveli wetland situated in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu has been declared as the 16th Bird Sanctuary by Surpiya Sahu, Environment and Forest Secretary, at the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change.

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