CM Naveen Patnaik launched PAReSHRAM portal along with 22 online services of Labour and Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) department. Industries, commercial organisations, small entrepreneurs and the public will be benefited through this portal.
The portal will provide 52 types of services in the coming days.
Srinagar based Amar Singh College’s building, built nearly 80 years ago, is one of the seven conservation projects to be recognised with '2020 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation'. It was recognised with the ‘Award of Merit’.
INTACH chapter in the UT carried out the conservation.
PayU with Google Pay has introduced tokenised payments flow for Indian merchants. With the digital token linked to the phone and card information tokenised, Google Pay users can make repeat payments seamlessly and securely.
Card data replaced with a unique identification code(token).
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in collaboration with Carnegie India (CI) organized the 5th edition of the GTS. The theme of the 2020 GTS was "The Geopolitics of Technology". External Affairs Minister,S. Jaishankar participated in it.
It is one of four flagship annual conferences organized by MEA.
The Sports Ministry has approved the inclusion of four Indigenous Games to be a part of Khelo India Youth Games 2021, scheduled to take place in Haryana. The games are: Gatka, Kalaripayattu, Thang-Ta and Mallakhamba.
Yogasana was included as a competitive sport recently.
MoFPI signed a Joint Communique with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs & 5 MoUs with TRIFED, ICAR, NSFDC, NAFED and NCDC for implementation of PM FME scheme. Agreement with Union Bank of India as nodal bank for the PM FME scheme was signed as well.
FME - Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises.
VP Venkaiah Naidu virtually released the book ‘Oh Mizoram’, written by Governor of Mizoram, Shri P S Sreedharan Pillai. Pillai is a lawyer, an orator, a prolific writer, a philanthropist, and a thinker. He has written 125 books in Malayalam & English.
Oh, Mizoram is his first poetry collection in English
UAE hosted 20th IORA COM Meeting on December 17, virtually. Discussed ways in coordinating efforts to achieve IORA’s vision for a peaceful, stable & prosperous Indian Ocean region as outlined in the Jakarta Concord & IORA Action Plan.
IORA HQ at Ebene, Mauritius.
Five states have so far completed the stipulated reforms in the Ease of Doing Business. Among these states, Tamil Nadu has received maximum Rs 4,813 crore; followed by Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana & Madhya Pradesh.
Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman.
Indian boxers won three gold medals, besides two silver and four bronze, at the recently concluded Cologne Boxing World Cup held in Koln, Germany. Amit Panghal won gold in men's category while Manisha Moun and Simranjit Kaur won gold in Women's category.
The Cologne World Cup is the new name of the Chemistry Cup.
Sri Ramaseva Mandali Trust will confer the Sri S.V. Narayanaswamy Rao Memorial National Award 2020 on sarod maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath.Taranth, is a Padma Shri awardee (2019) and is a disciple of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
The first SVN Rao awarded to M S Subbulakshmi.
ONGC has commenced oil production from the Asokenagar-1 well, Bengal Basin in West Bengal’s 24 Paragana districts.Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday dedicated the Bengal Basin to the nation.It was completed under Early-Monetization Plan.
Union Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan
Anshu Malik clinched India's first medal at the Individual World Cup with her silver in the 57kg category. She lost the gold medal bout 1-5 to Moldova's Anastasia Nichita. She had won a bronze at the Asian Championship early this year.
Indian Wrestler & Gold Medallist Pawan Kumar is her uncle.
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) chairman Sukhbir Singh Sandhu has received a six months extension in his central deputation. He was due to end his second extension term on January 21 next year. He has been Chairman since Oct 2019.
NHAI:
HQ - New Delhi
Established - 1988.
Stating the need to examine proposals received for the Expression of Interest (EoI) from investors, RBI extended restrictions on PMC period from December 23, 2020 to March 31, 2021.PMC bank was placed under restrictions from 23 September 2019.
Restrictions imposed - Section 35A of Banking Regulation Act.
Regulated entities should upload KYC data pertaining to accounts of LEs opened on or after April 1, 2021 on CKYCR.Data pertaining to all individual accounts opened on or after January 1, 2017 are already uploaded. KYC is required by rule 9 of PML rules.
RBI:
Governor - Shaktikanta Das.
HQ - Mumbai.
Senior RSS ideologue and the first spokesperson of the organization Madhav Govind Vaidya died on December 19. A teacher turned professional journalist,served as Editor of Tarun Bharat, Nagpur based pro-RSS Marathi daily.
Was nominated member of Maharashtra Legislative Council(1978-84)
UP govt launched a first of its kind campaign 'Varasat'(natural succession) to to end land disputes in villages over succession rights and curb property lawsuits. Villagers will get to register their name in land records both in online & offline modes.
UP:
CM - Yogi dityanath
Governor - Anandiben Patel.
IndiGrid has fully acquired FRV Andhra Pradesh Solar Farm-I & FRV India Solar Park II – from FRV Solar Holdings for Rs.660 crore. IndiGrid is an infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) backed by KKR, an equity firm.
IndiGrid is only publicly listed InvIT in power sector.
KVIC will provide another 1 Lakh double-layered, tri-color Cotton face masks to Arunachal Pradesh govt with its logo.As the state government prepares to re-open schools for class VIII students from January 4, 2021, it has placed a repeat purchase order.
KVIC has sold over 25 lakh face masks in just nearly 8 months.