15 December 2023 : Latest Current Affairs 15th December
Important Current Affairs 15th December 2023
In this article, we will discuss all the Current Affairs of 15th December including national, international, banking, finance, sports, awards, and many others. So if you are interested to know about the latest 15th December 2023 current affairs then read this article till the end.
Current Affairs of 15th December – National News
1. An agreement was reached between the Maharashtra government and The Art of Living to find a strong way to address the dire water shortages.
◉ With great pride, The Art of Living Social Projects announces a strategic alliance to bring about revolutionary policies that guarantee Maharashtra’s water positively.
◉ The Art of Living Social Projects and the Maharashtra government’s Department of Soil and Water Conservation signed an agreement in Mumbai.
◉ Initiating the process of making India water-positive, The Art of Living has already made great strides toward revitalizing more than seventy rivers, tributaries, and streams.
◉ Ninety thousand or more groundwater recharge structures have been constructed in eight states: Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh.
2. The Punjabi government initiated the “Bhagwant Mann Sarkar Tuhade Dwar.”
◉ The “Bhagwant Mann Sarkar Tuhade Dwar” initiative was introduced by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal.
◉ The program’s goal is to provide citizen-centric services right to people’s doors.
◉ 43 services would be provided to the public under the system, including land demarcation, pension payments, income, caste, rural, border, and backward area certifications, as well as certificates of birth, marriage, and death.
◉ The helpline number 1076 must be dialed to use these services.
3. Mercom listed Adani Green Energy as the second-largest solar PV developer.
◉ With a total solar capacity of 18.1 GW, Adani Green Energy Ltd. came in second place, behind Total Energies, a company based in France, with a capacity of 41.3 GW.
◉ Mercom Capital Group is a research and communications company focused on clean energy. The report was created using information gathered between July 2022 and June 2023.
◉ This accomplishment is in line with their lofty goal of having 45 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
◉ This acknowledgment highlights our steadfast dedication as one of the global leaders in renewable energy, rapidly expanding, and on track to meet our challenging target of 45 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
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International News
4. China opened the world’s deepest laboratory.
◉ The largest and deepest subterranean laboratory in the world started operating in
◉ The 2,400-meter-deep Physics Laboratory is situated in the Sichuan Province of southwest China.
◉ Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture’s Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments (DURF) is situated beneath Jinping Mountain.
◉ The DURF can accommodate 330,000 cubic meters of space in total.
◉ The lab gives the global hunt for dark matter—a hypothesized type of matter that doesn’t seem to interact with light or the electromagnetic field—a significant boost.
5. Hyderabad was named by Mercer as the “most livable city in India.”
◉ In Mercer’s Quality of Living City Index 2023, Hyderabad came in at number 153, Pune at number 154, and Bengaluru at number 156.
◉ After Hyderabad, Pune boasts the second-best “quality of life” in all of India. Mumbai comes in at 164th place, Chennai at 161st, Kolkata at 170th, and New Delhi at 172nd.
◉ The 2023 index places Vienna, Austria, Vancouver, Canada, and Zurich, Switzerland, as the top three cities, respectively.
◉ Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, is ranked 241st from the bottom.
◉ This index, which uses information from more than 500 places worldwide, assesses the standard of living for workers who are stationed overseas, particularly those who have families.
6. In the globe, Myanmar now produces more opium than Afghanistan, according to a UN assessment.
◉ According to a United Nations assessment, Myanmar has overtaken Afghanistan as the world’s leading producer of opium in 2023, following three years of growing production spurred by the nation’s civil strife.
◉ Numerous causes, including internal unrest and a sharp drop in opium cultivation in Afghanistan, have contributed to this.
◉ Opium production in Afghanistan fell by 95% when the Taliban declared an end to drug use in 2022, which caused the world’s opium supply to migrate to Myanmar.
◉ According to the UNODC research, many people turned to poppies as a means of escaping the political, social, and economic upheaval that followed the coup in Myanmar in 2021.
Banking
7. November saw a 5.5% increase in retail inflation due to increased food prices.
◉ The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation revealed data showing that India’s retail inflation rate dropped to 4.8 percent in October, a four-month low, and then spiked to 55 percent in November.
◉ Food costs have risen sharply, which has been linked to an increase in retail inflation. Notably, November’s food inflation rate was 8.70 percent.
◉ The Reserve Bank of India considers a jump in inflation to be acceptable within a range of 2 to 6 percent. According to the published data, the inflation rate increased by 0.54 percent sequentially. It should be mentioned that retail inflation has remained below 6 percent for the third straight month.
Appointment
8. Ganguly is named as Tripura’s tourist brand ambassador.
◉ Former cricket player Sourav Ganguly has been appointed a brand ambassador by the BJP-led administration in Tripura to help promote tourism in the region.
◉ Former Indian cricket captain Ganguly and Susanta Choudhury, the minister of tourism for Tripura, signed a deal at Agartala’s historic Ujjayanta Palace, once home to the Manikya Dynasty.
◉ Ganguly was to film videos in the two main tourist destinations, Ujjayanta Palace and Chabimura in the Gomati district, as per the arrangement.
◉ Among the most popular tourist destinations in Tripura are the historic Sundari temple, the Ujjayanta Palace, the Neermahal Water Palace, and the Unakoti archeological site. To boost tourism, the state is also attempting to highlight the vibrant tribal culture in some areas.
Awards
9. Awarding Javed Akhtar at the Ajanta-Ellora Film Festival
◉ At the Ajanta-Ellora Film Festival, seasoned lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar will receive the Padmapani Lifetime Achievement Award.
◉ Hindi film masterpieces including “Zanjeer,” “Deewaar,” “Sholay,” “Don,” “Mr. India,” and others are co-written by Akhtar.
◉ On January 20, 2024, the award ceremony will be held at the Rukmini Auditorium on the MGM University campus in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Science
10. China launched “Zhuque 2,” the first rocket fuelled by methane in history.
◉ The first satellites in the world to be launched using rockets powered by liquid oxygen and methane were launched by the Chinese company LandSpace Technologies.
◉ From the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, the Zhuque 2 Y-3 rocket was launched.
◉ The rocket’s dimensions were 49.5 meters long by 3.35 meters wide, with a lift-off mass of 220 tons (not including payloads).
◉ Two 50 kg test satellites, one of which had technology borrowed from Hongqing, a corporation based in China, were carried by Zhuque-2 Y-3.
Defence
11. The 15th Capacity Building Senior Officers’ Meet was organized by the Indian Coast Guard.
◉ The 15th “Capacity Building Senior Officers’ Meeting” (CBSOM-2023) has been arranged by the Indian Coast Guard at GIFT City in Gandhinagar to gain an understanding of the state of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia.
◉ By the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Armed Robbery and Piracy against Ships in Asia, the meeting was convened.
◉ Nineteen international delegates from fifteen countries were present, including important national stakeholders from India.
Obituary
12. Dr. Gao Yaojie, who exposed the AIDS epidemic, passed away
◉ At the age of 95, Chinese physician Gao Yaojie, who gained notoriety for exposing the AIDS epidemic in the nation’s rural areas, passed away.
◉ Yaojie was one of the first physicians to lead China’s fight against the AIDS epidemic; by profession, she was a gynecologist.
◉ Yaojie revealed how blood-selling enterprises contributed to the HIV epidemic in rural China.
◉ In the 1980s and 1990s, selling blood was a widespread practice in rural China, particularly in the province of Henan, according to a BBC report. Poor rural villages made a living by selling blood. Nevertheless, there was inadequate oversight of the process, and HIV+ patients’ blood was occasionally drawn.
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