24th December Current Affairs English

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 24th DECEMBER 2021

1. ‘National Consumer Rights Day’ is observed every year on December 24.
2. REC Ltd. has entered into an agreement with kfw Development Bank for availing ODA (Official Development Assistance) term loan of UDS 169.5 mm under Indo-German Bilateral partnership.
3. The Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) has been chosen to join a research project backed by the Space Application Centre of the Indian Space Research Organization under a NASA-ISRO collaboration programme.
4. Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) signed an MoU with Aditi Ashok in December 2021 to strengthen the brand’s voice, spirit and innovative approach.
5. Private Sector IFFCO-TOKIO General Insurance has appointed H.O. Suri as its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.
6. Pankaj Advani has won his 11^th national billiards title, after he defeated his teammate Dhruv Sitwala in December 2021.
7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Banas Dairy Kashi Sankul (complex) at the UP state Industrial Development Authority Food park in Varanasi.
8. Tamil Nadu Government passed a Government order on 23^rd December Constituting a new urban development authority for Madurai city.
9. The All India Football Federation announced that 18 Indian referees have been selected in the FIFA Refereeing International list for 2022, four are Women, and 14 are Men.
10. The Punjab Cabinet on 23^rd December gave its nod to set up Punjab State General Category Commission for unreserved classes.
11. State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited is targeting the installation of 1.6 crores smart LED streetlights across the nation by 2024.
12. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik distributed special COVID assistance of  Rs.6,000 for every registered newspaper hawker in the state.
13. Five time Australian Open runner-up Andy-Murray accepts wild-card entry to Australian open 2022.
14. Joan Didion the legendary essayist, novelist, and screen writer who has long been revered as one of America’s preeminent writers died.
15. The Reserve Bank of India extended the cared-on-file (COF) tokenization deadline by 6 months to June 30,2022, the earlier deadline was December 31,2021.
16. Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik has inaugurated the state’s longest bridge, ‘T-Setu’, built over the Mahanadi River in Cuttack Distrct, Odisha. The bridge in the shape of the English alphabet ‘T’ was constructed at a cost fo Rs 111 crore.
17. Tusshar Kapoor has written his first book titled ‘Bachelor Dad’.
18. India successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the indigenously-developed, surface-to-surface missile ‘Pralay’ off the Odisha coast.
19. Pritzker Prize-Winning British-Italian Architect, Richard Rogers has passed away at his residence in London, United Kingdom. He received the Pritzker Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of Architecture, in 2007.
20. Environmentalist Dr Anil Prakash Joshi, who was conferred upon the Padma Bhushan this year, has been awarded the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2021