World no. 1 Ash Barty was named WTA Player of the Year for the second time and U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu took the Newcomer of the Year title, the governing body of the women's game said.
Czech Barbora Krejcikova took the WTA prize for the Most Improved Player of the Year following a stellar season.
Carla Suarez Navarro was named the Comeback Player of the Year award.
Noted Assamese poet Nilmani Phukan won the 56th Jnanpith Award and Konkani short story writer and novelist Damodar Mauzo won the 57th Jnanpith Award for their contribution to Indian literature.
Jnanpith is the highest literary prize of India, awarded to the writers in the scheduled languages of the country.
The last Jnanpith was given to Malayalam poet Akkitham in 2019.
Gambia, Adama Barrow comfortably won a second term in The Gambia's presidential election.
Barrow obtained 457,519 votes, while Ousainou Darboe, a lawyer and long-time opponent of former President Yahya Jammeh, came in second place.
Barrow obtained the majority of the votes in 45 of the 53 electoral districts of the country, consolidating his leadership for a second term.
Gambia's longtime dictator :- Yahya Jammeh (exiled).
Chief Minister Hemant Soren has launched “Hamar Apan Budget” and a mobile application prepared by the state finance Department from the Chief Minister’s residential office in Ranchi.
Through this portal, the general public of the state will be able to share their valuable suggestions for the 2022-23 budget.
India and Russia has vowed to deepen collaboration in the space sector, including in the human spaceflight programme, and signed an agreement for cooperation in the building as well as operation of launch vehicles.
The pact was signed during the India-Russia summit held between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Development Programme India to strengthen the waste management sector in India under the overall ambit of Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban 2.0.
Solid waste management has been a key focus of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban since its launch in 2014.
Sarada Menon, considered India’s first woman psychiatrist, passed away at the age of 98 at her home in Chennai.
She has been a recipient of several awards, including the Padma Bhusan in 1992 for her work in the field of mental health.
She was born in Mangaluru, Menon graduated from the Madras Medical College and trained in psychiatry in Bengaluru’s NIMHANS.
Olaf Scholz is to be voted in as chancellor by the Bundestag (German federal parliament), opening a new chapter in German and European politics as the Merkel era comes to an end.
He will lead a government composed of his Social Democrat party, the business-friendly Free Democrats and the Greens, a coalition of parties never tried before at the federal level in Germany.
Germany's Capital:- Berlin; Currency :- Euro.
India’s leading digital ecosystem for consumers and merchants, Paytm, has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer its startup toolkit to startups onboarded on AWS Activate, a program that offers startups free tools, resources, & more to quickly get started on AWS.
The Paytm startup toolkit is a single-stop platform that offers solutions in payments, banking, etc.
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has launched PNB Pride-CRMD module tool, an android-based application for differently-abled employees, to monitor and effectively follow up with the special mention account (SMA) borrowers.
SMA accounts are stressed loans recognized early, enabling banks to initiate timely remedial actions, and preventing such borrowers from slipping to NPA.
NPA:- Non performing Assets.
ICICI Bank has partnered with Flipkart to offer an instant and completely digital overdraft (OD) facility of up to ₹25 L to individual sellers &businesses registered on the e-commerce platform.
Enabled by API integration, the partnership helps sellers to avail an OD from the Bank instantly in a process from application to sanction to disbursement, that is entirely digital.
OnePlus, the global technology brand has welcomed cricketer Jasprit Bumrah as Brand Ambassador for its Wearables category.
The OnePlus Wearable category includes the OnePlus Watch, the first global smart wearable from OnePlus that offers a premium design, seamless connection, smart fitness tracking and an incredible battery life.
City Union Bank (CUB), in collaboration with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and its manufacturing partner Seshaasai, has announced the launch of RuPay On-the-Go contactless wearable keychain for its debit card customers.
Currently, the keychain will be linked to the operative account of the customers.
N Kamakodi, MD & CEO, City Union Bank.
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent for the ninth consecutive time while maintaining an ‘accommodative stance’ as long as necessary.
The reverse repo rate too was kept unchanged at 3.35 percent.
The Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and bank rate also remained unchanged at 4.25 percent.
The number of ATMs across the country stood at over 2.13 lakh by the end of September this year, and over 47 per cent of these are in rural and semi-urban areas.
According to the RBI data, scheduled commercial banks have installed 2,13,145 ATMs (automated teller machines) up to September 2021. In addition to this, 27,837 White Label ATMs (WLA) were also installed.
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Charter Day is observed every year on 8th December. On this day in 1985, SAARC Charter was adopted in Dhaka, during the first summit of the group. This year marks the 37th Anniversary of the regional group.
The aim of SAARC members is to promote stability, peace and progress in the region.