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Ram Nath Kovind inaugurates centennial year celebration of the PAC

Tags: National News

• President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday inaugurated the centennial year celebration of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the Central Hall of Parliament on Saturday. The PAC is one of the most powerful financial committees of Parliament.
• Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, and Chairperson, Public Accounts Committee of Parliament of India, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, along with Union Ministers, MPs and presiding officers of the State legislative bodies, were present in the House.

PM inaugrated Vyasi Hydroelectric Project

Tags: State News

• The Prime Minister  inaugurated the 120 MW Vyasi Hydroelectric Project, built over Yamuna river at the cost of over 1,700 crore rupees.
• Located in Dehradun district, the Vyasi power project is a run-of-the-river scheme on the Yamuna.
• It is is operated by Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited

Perfect ten for Ajaz Patel

Tags: Sports News

New Zealand bowler Ajaz Patel became the third player in the history of test Cricket to take all ten wickets in an innings.

He took all ten Indian wickets in the first innings of the India In the Second Test Match of the series being played at  Mumbai, Wankhede Stadium.

 He was born in Mumbai before his family migrated to New Zealand.

Before him, Jim Laker of England took ten wickets against Australia  at Old Trafford in 1956 and Anil Kumble  against Pakistan in Delhi in 1999 

Veteran Kannada actor Shivaram passes away

Tags: Person in news

Shivaram was associated with the Kannada  film industry since the late 1950s, first as an associate director and later as a character and comedy actor. He was the recipient of several awards, including Padma Bhushan,  Dr. Rajkumar Lifetime Achievement Award.

Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Rosaiah passes away

Tags: Person in news

Former  Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Konijeti Rosaiah passed away in Hyderabad . He belonged to the Congress party.

He became the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in 2009 after the death of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in 2009 in a helicopter crash.

• The Telangana Government has declared a three-day mourning from December 4 to 6.

Senior journalist Vinod Dua dies at 67

Tags: Person in news

Vinod Dua was a prominent Hindi journalist who worked in Doordarshan and NDTV India. In 1996, he became the first electronic media journalist to be bestowed with the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award. He was awarded the Padma Shri for Journalism in 2008 by the Government of India.

Assam’s highest civilian award for Ratan Tata

Tags: Awards

• On the occasion of Asom Divas or Assam Day, the state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced to confer the most prestigious 'Asom Baibhav' award to the industrialist Ratan Tata.
• Asom Baibhav award is the biggest award of the state.
• Asom Divas or Assam Day is celebrated on 2 December to commemorate the rule of Chalong Sukapha.

U.S. maths prize for Nikhil Srivastava

Tags: Awards

• Eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize awarded by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for “highly original work” in Operator Theory.
• Along with Professor Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, the two other awardees are Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. 
• Mr. Marcus holds the Chair of Combinatorial Analysis at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Mr. Spielman is Sterling Professor of Computer Science at Yale University.

World Soil Day

Tags: Important Days

This year, the theme of World Soil Day 2021 is ‘Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity’ with a motive to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being. 

The  Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Conference, in June 2013, urged the  UN General Assembly.to adopt the World Soil Day. The  UN General  Assembly finally designated December 5, 2014, as the first official World Soil Day.