Saurav Ghosal made history as he became the 1st Indian to win the Malaysian Open Championships after beating Miguel Rodriguez in the men's singles final.
Ghosal had defeated V Crouin of France 3-0 in the semifinal after crushing L Serme & M Gamal by the same scoreline in the quarterfinals & pre-quarterfinals respectively.
He beat Miguel Rodriguez 11-7, 11-8, 13-11 in final.
The Indian Navy is commemorating it’s the success of its ‘Operation Trident’ during the 1971 War by marking the Navy Day. On December 4, during the 1971 Indo-Pak War, the Indian Navy played a significant role in the bombing of Karachi harbour, when Operation Trident was launched. Owing to its success, since then December 4 is celebrated as Navy Day.
Defense minister Rajnath Singh called Navy an “outstanding force”
Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated Earth Station of Doordarshan Kendra in Gorakhpur. Three FM stations of All India Radio in Etawah, Lakhimpur Kheri, and Bahraich districts were also inaugurated at this juncture virtually.
In Tripura, Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh along with Minister of State Faggan Singh Kulaste inaugurated the National Generic Document Registration System and Banadhikar mobile application through virtual mode.
CM Tripura: Biplab Kumar Deb
Capital: Agartala
Governor: Satyadev Narayan Arya
India's Ananya Bansal won the country's first silver medal in shotput in the F-20 category at the Asia Youth Paralympic Games in Manama, Bahrain yesterday.
Ananya Bansal is an athlete with an intellectual impairment. Deepa Malik, the President of the Paralympic Committee of India lauded Ananya for her performance in the showpiece event.
Former Governor of Tamil Nadu and former Chief Minister of the unified State of Andhra Pradesh Konijeti Rosaiah passed away in Hyderabad. Rosaiah, 88 years, was one of the most senior Congress leaders and had served in the Cabinets of several Chief Ministers including K. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy and Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
Rosaiah had a record in placing the budgets on the floor of Assembly as Finance Minister
In J&K, continuing with its efforts to cover 100 percent of rural households with functional tap water connections under Jal Jeevan Mission by 2022, the UT Administration has provided 4.62 lakh tap water connections in two years. J&K, two districts Srinagar and Ganderbal which include 11 Blocks, 383 Panchayat, and 925 villages were covered with 100% pipe-water connections
The RBI's clarification on non-performing advances (NPAs) accounting is likely to increase NPAs by around one-third for non-banking finance companies as per domestic rating agency India Ratings and Research
impact on provisioning could be modest, given NBFCs are using Indian Accounting Standards & generally for higher rated NBFCs, provision policy is more conservative
United Nations General Assembly decided to keep December 4 as International Day of Banks and it was celebrated for the first time in 2020. It was celebrated to recognise the importance of multilateral and international development banks in financing sustainable developments. It is also observed in recognition of the vital role of banking systems in Member State.
Government has cleared sale of its entire 100 per cent stake in Central Electronics Limited (CEL), a state-owned engineering company, to Nandal Finance and Leasing Private Limited for ₹ 210 crore, a statement issued by the finance ministry. The "winning bid of Rs 210,00,60000" was placed by Nandal Finance and Leasing Private Limited
Ashwini Vaishnaw - Union Minister Meity
UttarPradesh has become the 1st state in the country to fully vaccinate over 5 crore people were One-third of the state’s eligible population is now fully vaccinated. The most populous state has also administered over 75% of its eligible population with the first dose of the Covid vaccine.
Uttar Pradesh Governor - Anandiben Patel
Perseverance, a word which captures the undaunted will of people across the world to never give up, despite the many challenges of the last 12 months, is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2021.
Perseverance has been looked up more than 243,000 times on the website in 2021, the first time it has made a noticeable appearance.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover made its final descent to Mars on 18 February
In an attempt to curb the violence, and enabling citizens to directly communicate with the police personnel, the Nagaland Director General of Police (DGP) T. John Longkumer recently launched the ‘Call your Cop’ at Police Headquarters in Kohima. CUG App envisages to make it convenient for the public to directly communicate with police officials
Nagaland Capital: Kohima
Chief minister: Neiphiu Rio