Parliament has passed the Maritime Anti Piracy Bill 2022 with Rajya Sabha approving. It was already passed by Lok Sabha. The Bill enables Indian authorities to take action against piracy on the high seas. It applies to the sea beyond the Exclusive Economic Zone, which is beyond 200 nautical miles from India’s coastline.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has kickstarted the ground survey of Pey Jal Survekshan. The Survey is to assess the service level compliance of the city with respect to quality, quantity, and coverage of water supply, sewerage and septage management, the extent of reuse and recycling of used water, and conservation of water bodies in 500 AMRUT cities.
Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)
National Mathematics Day is celebrated on December 22 every year. The National Mathematics Day is marked to recognise and celebrate the works of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian mathematical genius, was born on this day in 1887. The former PM Manmohan Singh, in 2012, declared December 22 as the National Mathematics Day to mark the birth anniversary.
Srinivasa Ramanujan is also known as the ‘man who knew infinity’.
Puma India said it has roped in actor and entreprenuer Anushka Sharma as its new brand ambassador. It added that this latest association is part of the company’s ongoing commitment towards the women consumer segment in India.Other brand ambassadors of the sports brand include Virat Kohli, MC Mary Kom, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Sunil Chhetri, and Harrdy Sandhu.
India’s gross domestic product growth in the first half of the current fiscal year averaged at 9.7 per cent, the finance ministry said in its mid-year expenditure and revenue statement. Ministry said it could not present the medium-term expenditure framework as said in Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, because projections were disrupted by global situation.
Northern India has emerged as the most favoured spiritual travel destination followed by Southern, Western and Eastern regions in the country, reveals OYO Cultural Travel 2022 Roundup Report by global hospitality chain OYO. Varanasi, which is also one of the oldest cities in the world, emerged as the top religious destination for bookers across India.
This was followed by Tirupati, Puri, Amritsar and Haridwar.
CoinSwitch, a cryptocurrency trading platform in an annual investor report informed that New Delhi has the highest cryptocurrency adoption in India followed by Jaipur, measured in terms of value invested. An insight from the report was that investing patterns followed by men and women were largely similar in India at 8%, women represent a small group of crypto investors.
Viacom18 Media has secured exclusive media rights to broadcast the next Olympic Games, which will be held in Paris in 2024, in India and the subcontinent region. It has also received non-exclusive rights to the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024, said a joint statement issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Viacom18 Media.
Viacom 18 is a joint venture of Viacom and Network18 Group.
Adani Solar, the photovoltaic manufacturing and research arm of the Adani Group, has introduced India’s first large sized monocrystalline silicon ingot. Inaugurated at Mundra facility, the monocrystalline ingots will drive indigenization to produce renewable electricity from Silicon based PV modules with efficiencies ranging from 21% to 24%.
Adani Solar is a part of Adani New Industries (ANIL)
The Centre has appointed Justice Hemant Gupta, who retired recently as a judge of the Supreme Court, as the Chairperson of the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre.Along with Justice Gupta, Ganesh Chandru and Anant Vijay Palli have been appointed as part-time members of the NDIAC. The aim of the NDIAC is to conduct arbitration, mediation, and conciliation proceedings.
The world's most popular and richest cricket league, Indian Premiere League(IPL) which was started in 2008 has turned into a decacron with a valuation at $10.9 billion as per the estimates by D and P Advisory. The report by by D and P Advisory stated that the renewed media rights deal was the major contributor towards this substantial jump in value of Indian Premier League.
The Indian Gas Exchange (IGX), promoted by the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), has launched an index that will reflect gas prices and will soon come up with a product for trading in gas pipeline capacity.The index, which IGX has named ‘GIXI’, will reflect the volume-weighted average price for all gas traded and would represent the gas prices at the Western and Southern hubs.
YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed over Rs 10,000 crore & supported more than 7,50,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the Indian economy in 2021, citing a report by the consulting firm Oxford Economics unveiled. In 2020,the YouTube creator ecosystem contributed Rs 6,800 crore to India's GDP equivalent to 6,83,900 full-time jobs.
After a delay of two years due to Covid-19, a new global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 gets a final nod during the last day of UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada. The historic deal signed in Montreal also aims to provide critical financing to the developing world to protect biodiversity.
The Assam cabinet has approved the proposal for grant of industry status to the tourism sector in the state, to boost investments and generate employment. With industry status, fresh investments in tourism infrastructure, permanent in nature, will contribute towards rapid employment generation, public-private partnership and development.
State-owned Gail India and Japanese transport firm Mitsui OSK Lines, through its wholly owned subsidiary, has signed a time charter contract for a new-build liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, and for joint ownership of an existing LNG carrier.The vessel will be built by South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering with a charter period from 2023.
On the eve of 75 years of raising of the Infantry School and to commemorate the Vijay Diwas, the country's first Infantry Museum opened to the general public. This museum is the country's first and world’s second Infantry museum. History of the Infantry corps shown in this museum is from 1747 to 2020, in which the sacrifice and valor of Infantry soldiers are depicted.