Bogibeel, Asia's second-longest rail-cum-road bridge completed. The 4.9 km-long Bogibeel Bridge on the Bramhaputra river is India's only fully welded bridge for which European codes and welding standards were adhered to for the first time in the country.
Bridge reduces distance from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh by 600KM
India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable long-range Inter Continental Ballistic Missile Agni-IV, with a strike range of 4,000 km. The strategic surface-to-surface missile was flight tested from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Odisha.
Nirmala Sitharaman is the Union Defence Minister.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release a commemorative coin in honour of former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Atal Bihari Vajpayee's anniversary will be celebrated as Good Governance Day on 25th December.
Vajpayee served as the Prime Minister thrice.
Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu has conferred the Skoch Golden Jubilee Challenger Award -2018 at the 55th Skoch Summit in New Delhi. The Skoch Challenger Awards are the highest independently instituted civilian honours.
Skoch Awards celebrate agents of change in Indian society.
United States President Donald Trump has announced that he replaced Defence Secretary Jim Mattis with his deputy Patrick Shanahan as acting Pentagon chief. Mattis resigned in protest after Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria.
As a symbol of the U.S. military the phrase “The Pentagon” used.
The country’s first music museum will be set up with assistance from the Central government in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamilnadu, the birthplace of Saint Tyagaraja, one of the Trinities of Carnatic music, Shyama Shastri and Muthuswami Dikshitar are other two.
The Tyagaraja Music Festival is held annually in January.
The GST Council has reduced tax rates on 23 goods and services, including movie tickets, TV and monitor. With this, only 28 goods are left in the highest 28 percent tax bracket. the annual revenue implication of the rate cuts 5500 cr.
Union Finance Minister chairs GST Council.
Foreign investors have pumped in close to Rs 4,000 crore in the Indian capital markets this month so far on strengthening rupee and easing global crude oil prices. FPIs infused a net amount of Rs 1,332 crore in equities and Rs 2,552 crore in debt market.
FPI Stands for Foreign portfolio investment.
Indian woman Vedangi Kulkarni has become the fastest Asian to cycle the globe. Hailing from a suburb of Pune, 20-year old Vedangi completed the 29,000 kilometers’ distance required to qualify as bicycling across the globe.
She started the journey in July 2018.
India born UK Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown passed away. He was the face of centrist politics in the UK for more than a decade. He was born in India in 1941. He led the liberal party in the UK for record 11 years. He was voice of liberal democrats
First Indian elected to the House of Commons from Liberal Party.