India successfully test fired a long-range Supersonic Missile Assisted Torpedo (SMART) off Balasore coast in Odisha.
The weapon system is being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian Navy.
The system has been designed to enhance anti-submarine warfare capability far beyond the conventional range of the torpedo.
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was named Time magazine's Pof the Year" for 2021.
Musk is also the founder and CEO of SpaceX, and leads brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company.
Tesla's market value soared to more than $1 trillion this year, making it more valuable than Ford Motor and General Motors combined.
The Person of the Year signifies somebody who affected the news or our lives the most.
The United Nations General Assembly has granted Observer Status to the International Solar Alliance (ISA), according to India's Permanent Ambassador to the UN, T S Tirumurti.
The ISA was conceived as a joint effort by India and France to mobilise efforts against climate change through the deployment of solar energy solutions.
The National Green Tribunal allowed the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor Expressway and formed a 12 member committee to ensure no damage is caused to the environment by unscientific muck dumping or obstruction of animal corridors on the Ganeshpur-Dehradun Road (NH-72A) stretch.
NGT directed the NHAI to deposit ₹1 crore in a separate account for research of Sal regeneration.
NHAI - National Highway Authority of India
Emirate's Crown Prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has announced, pointing at savings of 1.3 billion Dirham (USD 350 million) and 14-million-man hours.
All internal, external transactions and procedures in the Government of Dubai are now 100 per cent digital and managed from a comprehensive digital government services platform.
Former India batter VVS Laxman began his stint as the new head of the National Cricket Academy. VVS Laxman has replaced Rahul Dravid, who left the top job at NCA to join the senior national men's cricket team as its head coach.
He was also directly involved with the Indian developmental teams which include India A, India Under-19, India Under-23 teams.
The International Boxing Association has changed its acronym from AIBA to IBA, promising to adopt a set of governance reforms so as to keep the sport's inclusion at the 2028 Olympics.
Boxing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon were all left off the initial list of sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Games and were asked to make changes by the International Olympic Committee.
Disability cricketers have welcomed the decision of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to form a Differently Abled Committee for the differently abled cricketers.
On the basis of the recommendation of the Justice Lodha committee, a board of three former disabled cricketers was being awaited for the last several years.
The Proposal was approved by BCCI headed by president Sourav Ganguly & secretary Jay Shah
Bank of Baroda (BOB) has joined hands with National Payments Corporations of India (NPCI) to launch bob World Wave, a wearable line of products for payments, integrated with a complete health ecosystem.
A bob World Wave wearable device will allow customers to monitor their Sp02, body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure.
The Life Insurance Corporation of India has launched a new non-linked, non-participating, individual savings life insurance plan called Dhan Rekha, it offers special premium rates for female lives.
The plan is also allowed for the third gender adding that all benefits under the plan are fully guaranteed. The minimum sum assured under this plan is ₹2 lakh.
There is no limit for maximum sum assured.
Bank of Baroda has signed a MoU with Centrum Housing Finance (CHFL) for sourcing and financing housing loan borrowers under co-lending model.
With this tie-up the bank will be able to penetrate deep into markets in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities at competitive rates.
Bank of Baroda would be able to garner housing loan business to the extent of ₹1,000 crore in one financial Year.
IIT Roorkee signed an MOU with Inland Waterway Authority of India (IWAI), Noida for stabilization of the navigational channel at 17 locations along a stretch of the Ganga river from Varanasi to Sahibganj, NW-1.
Professor Z. Ahmad, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, was the signatory to the agreement on behalf of IIT Roorkee.
Reliance BP Mobility Limited (RBML), which operates under the brand name Jio-bp, has signed a non-binding MoU with Mahindra Group.
The two companies plan to create electric vehicle (EV) products and services, along with exploring synergies in low-carbon and conventional fuels.
Under the new MoU, Mahindra and Jio-bp will explore creating solutions on battery swapping tech.
Australia opener David Warner and West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews were voted the ICC Players of the Month for November.
Warner, nominated for the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award alongside Pakistan’s Abid Ali and New Zealand’s Tim Southee, emerged victorious with the most votes, following his crucial role in Australia’s triumph in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021
National Energy Conservation Day is observed on December 14, every year.
The day focuses on making people aware of global warming and climate change and promotes efforts towards saving energy resources.
The Government of India has set up the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) on 1st March 2002 under the provision of the Energy Conservation Act, 2001.