TNPSC - CURRENT AFFAIRS 1 DECEMBER 2020

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•  Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launches “Sahakar Pragya” initiativE.
• Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurates Suryadhar Lake.
• Utpal Kumar Singh Appointed as Secretary-General of Lok Sabha.
•  IAS officer Varsha Joshi named Chairperson of NDDB.
•  A book titled ‘Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific’ by ADB.
• Lewis Hamilton wins Bahrain Grand Prix 2020.
• World AIDS Day: 01 December
•    Piyush Goyal inaugurates Dhigawara-Bandikui section of NWR.
• BSF Celebrates its 56th Raising Day on December 1, 2020.
•   Tamil Nadu received the best organ donated state for the sixth consecutive time.
• Recently, Maharashtra announced the setting up of a desalination plant in Mumbai..
• The eleventh National Organ Donation Day was observed on November 27, 2020 by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
• Russia successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Arctic Region..
• Bhutan has announced that it had established diplomatic relations with Germany.
• Scotland becomes first nation in the World to make sanitary pads, tampons at the free of cost.
•    Dr. Gaurav Sharma, MP in New Zealand created history by becoming the first Indian-origin parliamentarian to take oath in Sanskrit language on foreign land.
• The United Arab Emirates recently became the first and probably the last Arab country to generate electricity from coal.
• 3rd Global Renewable Energy Investment Meeting and Expo (RE-Invest 2020)
•  The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar virtually launched ‘India Climate Change Knowledge Portal’

IRDAI approves acquisition of Bharti Axa General by ICICI Lombard

·         ICICI Lombard through an official statement informed that it is progressing applications for the receipt of approval from other regulators who are concerned for the transaction.

Agriculture Infrastructure Fund: All you need to know!

·         The Agriculture Infrastructure Fund approved by the central government will facilitate formal credit to farm and farm processing- based activities which in return is expected to create several job opportunities in the rural areas.

FIFA’s final rankings for 2020

• ·         Belgium has been ranked at the top.
• ·         France is placed second, while Brazil is on third place, England on fourth place and Portugal in fifth place