Important Current Affairs of December 2022

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Important Current Affairs of December 2022

Important Current Affairs of December 2022 are discussed in this article.

National Current Affairs

  • The Union Ministry of Railways has launched a new scheme called Amrit Bharat Station Scheme to modernize railway stations across India.
  • The Central Government has set up a panel to recommend structural and other reforms required for the effective implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The panel will be headed by Amarjeet Sinha – the former Rural Development Secretary and advisor in the PMO.
  • The election Commission of India (ECI) has developed a prototype for the Remote Electronic Voting Machine (RVM) aimed to facilitate voting for domestic migrants across India.
  • India-based Kalyani Group has launched India’s first “green” steel brand called Kalyani Ferresta.
    • When steel is manufactured without using fossil fuels, it is known as green steel. It is manufactured using low-carbon energy sources like hydrogen, electricity, or coal gasification instead of the traditional carbon-intensive manufacturing route.
    • Sweden was the first country to manufacture green steel.
  • Union Homme and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched the ‘Prahari’ app. The Prahari App can be used by the jawans of the Border Security Force (BSF) to get information about the accommodation facilities, Ayushman-CAPF and leaves.
  • INS Mormugao was commissioned by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on the eve of the Goa Liberation Day 2022. INS Mormugao is the second ship of the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided missile destroyers of the Indian Navy.
  • Indian PhD student – Rishi Rajpopa – has solved the Panini code. He released a thesis titled “In Panini, We Trust: Discovering the Algorithm for Rule Conflict Resolution in the Astadhyayi”.
  • Meghalaya tops across the country with average monthly income per agricultural household (Rs 29,348) followed by Punjab (Rs 26,701) and Haryana (Rs 22,841).
  • To raise awareness about the importance of millet, the Agriculture Ministry is hosting a Millet food festival in Parliament for the members. The United Nations has passed a resolution declaring the year 2023 as the International Year of Millets (IYM).
  • India plans to commission 20 nuclear power plants by 2031, adding nearly 15,000 MW in power generating capacity.
  • India has assumed the Presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of December 2022.

State Current Affairs

  • Maharashtra is the first state in India to set up a separate department for Divyang (differently-abled).
  • Tamil Nadu is the first state in India to Issue Soulbound Tokens. Soulbound token is a unique blockchain asset that cannot be bought, sold or moved to another blockchain wallet.
  • Haryana is the first state to introduce the open-loop ticketing system for roadways buses. The open-loop ticketing system aims to help commuters to do away with buying physical tickets for roadways buses.
  • The Nirogi Haryana scheme was launched recently in Haryana recently. The Nirogi Haryana Project was launched to provide comprehensive free health check-ups and required medical treatment to beneficiary families.
  • The state government of Tamil Nadu has launched the Nilgiri Tahr project to conserve the state animal.
  • World’s first Palm-leaf Manuscript Museum has recently opened in Kerala.
  • Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of centrally protected monuments that have been illegally encroached.
  • The bar-headed geese were spotted at Rushikulya in Odisha’s Ganjam. The bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) is considered to be one of the world’s highest-flying birds. Native to Central Asia, this species is capable of flying through the passes of high mountains at an altitude of 12,000 to 14,000 feet.

International Current Affairs

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  • Antarctica’s Biodiversity is at risk, Emperor Penguins could be extinct by 2100.
  • South Africa and Kenya have recently announced the Just Transition Initiative to put an end to plastic pollution in an inclusive manner.
  • The next World Trade Organization ministerial conference will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in February 2024.
  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen topped Forbes’ 2022 list of world’s 100 most powerful women.
    • Six Indian women featured on the 2022 list. These include Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar, HCLTech Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and Steel Authority Of India Chairperson Soma Mondal.
  • Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was chosen as the 2022 Person of the Year by the Time Magazine.
  • Goblin Mode: Oxford’s 2022 Word of the Year.
  • Scotland and Spain have recently passed gender reform laws to make it easier for individuals to change their legally registered gender without requiring any medical supervision.
  • Veer Guardian 23 will be the first-ever bilateral combat air exercise between the Indian Air Force and the Japanese Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) at Japan’s Hyakuri air base and Iruma air base.
  • The joint military exercise between India and Nepal, Exercise Surya Kiran XVI, is being held from December 16 to 29 in 2022 in Nepal Army Battle School in Nepal’s Saljhandi.
  • The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, organized an opening ceremony for the International Year of Millets – 2023 (IYM2023) in Rome, Italy.
  • Iran has been expelled from the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in a vote on which India abstained.
  • Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female president.
  • Sitiveni Rabuka was elected as new Prime Minister of Fiji.
  • Indian-origin Leo Varadkar is the new Prime Minister of Ireland.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn-in as Israel’s prime minister for a sixth time.
  • For the first time ever, a rare potentially fatal brain-eating amoeba has been discovered in South Korea.
  • Tokyo makes solar panels mandatory for new homes built after 2025.
  • Russia has for the first time emerged as top oil supplier to India replacing Iraq.
  • The New Zealand government has passed a law to completely end tobacco smoking by banning youth from buying cigarettes for life.
  • Japan has announced that it will jointly develop its next-generation fighter jet with the United Kingdom and Italy.
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried into space the first ever Arab-built lunar spacecraft. It was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Rashid Rover was built by Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and is being delivered by the HAKUTO-R lander, engineered by Japanese lunar exploration company ispace.
  • A group of nine rich industrialized nations (G7+ Norway+ Denmark) approved a deal to provide Vietnam with $15.5 billion to help the Southeast Asian nation move faster from coal power to renewable energy, cutting its climate-damaging pollution.
    • The Just Energy Transition Partnership with Vietnam is among a series of agreements that developing and rich nations are negotiating. The first such deal was signed with South Africa last year, and a similar agreement was reached with Indonesia last month.
  • An unprecedented bomb cyclone has hit the US and Canada.
    • Bomb cyclone is an extra-tropical weather phenomenon that develops by a process called bombogenesis.
    • It is a pressure system that develops upon contact between a warm air mass or a low pressure air mass and a cold air mass or a high pressure air mass.
    • A low pressure system is said to be a bomb cyclone if its pressure drops by 24 millibars within 24 hours.

Economy Current Affairs

  • The Union Labour Ministry is currently mulling to shift from the “minimum wages” to “living wages” in a bid to bring more people from poverty in the country.
  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its World Economic Outlook, slashed its FY23 growth forecast for India from its July projection of 7.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
  • In its annual ‘World Economic League Table’, the London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicted that India will become the third economic superpower by 2037.
  • China has recently raised a dispute with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the US chip sanctions.
  • The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways launched India’s first-ever surety bonds insurance product for highway contractors on December 19 this year.
  • The World Bank has increased India’s GDP forecast for the current fiscal year from its October estimate of 6.5 per cent to 6.9 per cent.
  • Bharti Airtel and Meta have decided to jointly invest in global connectivity infrastructure project that would extend the 2Africa Pearls (a subsea cable) to India.
    • The 2Africa Pearls is one of the largest subsea cable systems in the world. Its purpose is to provide faster internet connectivity to over 3 billion people by connecting Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  • The Kirit Parikh panel recently submitted a report on gas pricing, recommending complete pricing freedom from January 1, 2026.
  • Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines (SIA) have agreed to merge Air India and Vistara to create India’s second-biggest carrier.
  • The Wheebox India Skills Report 2023, which was released recently, found an increase in the employability of Indians over the past one year.
  • India has risen from the 9th rank to the 5th rank in the 2022 edition of the Hurun Global 500 list.

Sci-Tech Current Affairs

  • The Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has been chosen as the secretariat for Science 20 (S20) – the science working group of the G20 summit.
  • Project Vaani will be implemented jointly by the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), ARTPARK (AI and Robotics Technology Park), and Google to gather speech data from across India for the creation of an AI-based language model that can understand diverse Indian languages and dialects.
  • NASA has launched the newest Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft to track nearly all the water on the surface of the Earth.
  • India is planning to launch HPV vaccine for preventing cervical cancer in 2023 for girls aged 9 to 14 years. Cervavac is a quadrivalent vaccine that is capable of preventing cervical cancer through the immunization process.

Appointments Current Affairs

Praveen K SrivastavaCVC
Arvind WaliaEngineer-in-Chief of Army
Santosh Kumar YadavChairman of NHAI
Ganji Kamala V RaoChief Executive Officer at FSSAI
Anil Kumar LahotiChief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Railway Board
Suhel Ajaz KhanAmbassador of India to the Kingdom to Saudi Arabia
Hemant GuptaChairperson of New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC)
Dinesh Kumar ShuklaChairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)
Ashwini VaishnawChancellor of Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, Vadodara
Jeremy FarrarChief Scientist of WHO
PT UshaFirst woman president of Indian Olympic Association
K V ShajiChairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
Hansraj Gangaram AhirChairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC)
Rajeeva Laxman KarandikarChairperson of the National Statistical Commission
Chetan SharmaReappointed as the chairman of the BCCI senior selection committee
Santhi KumariFirst Woman Chief Secretary of Telangana

Sports Current Affairs

  • Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur inaugurated the Sports Science Centre at M.G. Stadium in Udupi, Karnataka.
  • FIFA world cup 2022: Argentina defeated France by 4-2 in a penalty shootout after the match was drawn 3-3 in normal time.
  • Ishan Kishan has smashed the fastest ODI double century in 126 balls against Bangladesh at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.
  • World champion American hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis won the World Athlete of the year awards.
  • Aditya Mittal becomes India’s 77th Chess Grandmaster.
  • E-sports gets recognition from the Indian government as part of multisports events.
  • FIFA World Cup 2022:
    • Argentina defeated France in the championship match, winning 4-2 on penalties to claim the trophy.
    • The French player Kylian Mbappé earned the Golden Boot for scoring the most goals (8) throughout the FIFA World Cup 2022 competition.
    • Lionel Messi, the captain of Argentina, was selected as the competition’s top player and awarded the Golden Ball.
    • The Golden Glove went to Emiliano Martnez.
    • Young Player Award went to Enzo Fernandez.

Awards Current Affairs

  • Prabhu Chandra Mishra has been awarded Atal Samman Award for his excellence in field of science & research.
  • Sudeep & Shobhana won Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22.
  • The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has won the prestigious GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022, a top national-level Green Building Award.
  • Jaipur Pink Panthers won the Pro Kabaddi League Season 9.
  • Sonakshi Sinha has been awarded PETA India’s 2022 Person of the Year title.
  • Filmmaker SS Rajamouli won the Best Director Award for RRR at the New York Film Critics Circle 2022.
  • A book on the popular forest conservation campaign Chipko Movement, written by historian-activist Shekhar Pathak, was named the winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022.
  • South Korea’s Mina Sue Choi was crowned Miss Earth 2022.

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