Current Affairs December 2021

At World Athletics Awards 2021 Indian sprinter Anju Bobby George was awarded ‘Woman of the Year’.

The theme of World AIDS Day 2021 is ‘End inequalities. End AIDS’.

Senior IAS Officer Sanjeev Kaushal becomes the 35th Chief Secretary of Haryana.

As per the World’s most expensive cities list Tel Aviv ranked world’s costliest city in the world.

1. Tel Aviv, Israel
2. Paris ( France)
3. Singapore
4. Zurich, Switzerland
5. Hong Kong
6. New York, US
7. Geneva, Switzerland
8. Copenhagen, Denmark
9. Los Angeles, US
10. Osaka, Japan

Fortune India recently released a list of top 50 most powerful women in India in 2021. Here is the list of the top ten most powerful women.

1. Nirmala Sitharaman
2. Nita Ambani
3. Soumya Swaminathan
4. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
5. Suchitra Ella
6. Arundhati Bhattacharya
7. Gita Gopinath
8. Tessy Thomas
9. Rekha M. Menon
10. Reddy Sisters

The Indian Army will get a new combat uniform with a “digital disruptive” pattern. The uniform will feature a mix of colours including olive and earthen.

The theme of International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2021 is “Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world.”

Vinod Dua, veteran journalist, and Padma Shri awardee passed away at the age of 67.

Gita Gopinath will be the First Deputy Managing Director of IMF.

Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2021 passed in Lok Sabha. The bill aims at establishing a national board and the state boards for the regulation and supervision of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) clinics and ART banks for the ethical and safe practice of ART services.

India-Russia signed a major defence deal for the procurement of over 6 lakh AK-203 rifles.

Scientists detected a New Exoplanet GJ 367b. The new exoplanet is reportedly smaller and denser than Earth. It is located 31 light-years from the Earth and takes only eight hours to orbit its star.

At Asia Youth Para Games 2021 the Indian Para shuttlers won a total of 4 Gold, 7 Silver, and 4 Bronze. Nithya Sre, Sanjana Kumari, Palak Kohli and Sanjana Kumari, Nehal Gupta and Abhijeet Sakhuja are the para shuttlers who won gold.

India signed 28 MoUs with Russia. 

The United States has announced the diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

The theme of International Civil Aviation Day 2021 is “Advancing Innovation for Global Aviation Development”.