Madhya Pradesh has become the 1st state in the country to introduce the unified registration card and the 2nd state to launch the unified driving license after UP. CM Kamal Nath distributed the unified cards to six persons in a function held in Bhopal.
The card bears a unique number recognized across the country.
India and the United States finalized defence deals worth 3 billion dollars and signed three agreements, including in health and oil sectors. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on mental health between the health departments of both the countries.
Another MoU on the safety of medical products was also signed.
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical & Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is working on connecting about 3,000-kilometre long power grid from Myanmar-Thailand to India. Grid connectivity would ensure better capacity utilization by countries.
Countries had signed a MOU for forming a power grid in 2018.
Deputy PM & Foreign Affairs Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters arrived in India for a 4-day visit. He will attend the inaugural ceremony of New Zealand Centre at IIT Delhi and will give speech on Indo Pacific at the Indian Council of World Affairs.
New Zealand Capital- Wellington, Currency- Dollar.
UN Security Council renewed its sanctions regime on Yemen for another year, after tense negotiations between Britain & Russia. 13 countries eventually adopted the London-drafted resolution on the sanctions, which now are in effect through February 2021.
Russia and China abstained the resolution.
The child malnutrition rate in Bangladesh has declined sharply over the last 6 years. The finding was reported in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2019, jointly conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics & United Nations Children's Fund.
The rate of chronic malnutrition among children is 28% in 2019.
The 16th Session of the Joint Ministerial Commission between India & Australia was convened in New Delhi. It was co-chaired by Union minister Piyush Goyal and Hon. Senator Simon Birmingham, Minister for Trade, Tourism & Investment, Government of Australia.
Piyush Goyal- Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry.
In a first, Canadian doctors have used a robot to perform a surgery to treat brain aneurysm. The medical condition is a weakness in a blood vessel in the brain that balloons and fills with blood. The experimental procedure was described at the ISC.
International Stroke Conference (ISC)-2020 was held in US.
UP, MP and Bihar are among the states that send maximum patients out to other states for treatment under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, as per the analysis carried out by the National Health Authority on the portability feature of the scheme.
PM-JAY provides health insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh.
Injeti Srinivas inaugurated the SPICe+ Web Form as part of govt’s Ease of Doing Business initiatives. It would offer 10 services by 3 Central Govt Ministries-Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Labour & Dept of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance.
It also includes Maharashtra State Government.
Union Minister of HRD, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, presented the Vishwakarma Awards 2019 instituted for promoting an innovative spirit and scientific temperament for the holistic development of society through stakeholders of its approved institutes.
AICTE has been organizing Vishwakarma Awards since 2017.
The Forest Department of the Odisha State Government conducted a census at Chilika lake to count the number of dolphins at the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Odisha. According to the report, the dolphin count came down to 233 in 2020 from 259 in 2019.
The Sanctuary is a part of Bhitarkanika National Park of Odisha.
Adani Foundation launched a unique CSR activity among Kerala’s coastal communities in association with Lifology.com. The project aims to provide career-building opportunities to students from less developed coastal areas using the Lifology.com platform.
Lifology is an international career accelerator for youth.
Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports (I/c), Kiren Rijiju inaugurated the first-ever Khelo India Winter Games in the UT of Ladakh at Leh, Ladakh. The event, which is first of its kind in India, is being organised to promote winters sports in India.
The second leg of the Winter Games will be held at Gulmarg.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the hosts bagged gold medal in the 6th National Ice Stock Sports Championship organized at Ice Rink in Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir. Two hundred participants from 18 different states across the country participated in the three-day event.
The event was organized by J&K Ice Stock Sports Association.
Egypt's former President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, who ruled the country for 30 years, died at the age of 91. A former air force chief, Mubarak became Vice President of Egypt on 14 October 1981, and just eight days later, was sworn in as the President.
Current Egyptian President-Abdel Fattah El-Sissi.