The nation celebrates Vijay Diwas to commemorate India's victory over Pakistan in 1971 war. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman along with three Service chiefs will pay tributes to the Martyrs at Amar Jawan Jyoti. It led to the creation of Bangladesh.
Vijay Diwas Celebrated on 16th Dec every year.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal dedicated India’s first Railway University to the nation in Vadodara. Ministry of Railways has sanctioned 421 crores rupees for this university and its curriculum development for the next five years.
First Train ran in India in 1853.
Kamal Nath will take oath as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. The Congress has secured support of a total of 121 MLAs, including SP and BSP and Independent legislators to cross the majority mark of 116 seats in the 230-member Assembly.
Anandiben Patel is governor of Madhya Pradesh.
NITI Aayog is organising the third edition of the Women Transforming India Awards 2018. This year’s theme is “Women and Entrepreneurship”. The Women Transforming India Awards recognise and celebrate stories of exemplary women from across the country.
Rajiv Kumar is Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog.
After intense negotiations ministers of 200 nations finally reached consensus on rules to implement the 2015 Paris climate agreement in Poland. The Paris accord aims to limit rise in global temperature to well below 2 degrees from pre-industrial level.
Antonio Guterres is UN Secretary-General.
A deep depression in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm named ‘Phethai'. According to Cyclone Warning Centre, Visakhapatnam, the cyclonic storm is very likely to hit Andhra Pradesh’s coast.
Chandra Babu Naidu is the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Two-time chief minister Ashok Gehlot named as Rajasthan CM while Sachin Pilot will be deputy Chief Minister. Congress secured 99 seats out of the 199 seats that went to polls. Assembly has total 200 seats.
Kalyan Singh is the Governor of Rajasthan.
Everstone-backed IndoSpace has raised $1.2 billion from investors through its new fund to develop and acquire industrial and logistics parks. IndoSpace is one of the largest provider of modern industrial and logistics real estate in India.
IndoSpace 1st fund IndoSpace Logistics Parks I was raised in2009
Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have recovered 2.33 lakh crore rupees worth of bad loans during the four years from financial year 2014-15 to fiscal 2017-18. As per RBI data during the financial years 2014-15 to 2017-18, PSBs recovered 2,33,339 crore rupees.
Shaktikanta Das is RBI Governor.
Noted English writer Amitav Ghosh has been honoured with this year's Jnanpith Award, a literary award given to an author for "outstanding contribution towards literature". His book includes- Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide.
Jnanpith Award first time awarded in 1965.