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1. Father of Mindfulness and the influential Zen Buddhist Monk “Thich Nhat Hanh” passed away

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After dedicating a lifetime to promote peace and compassion in the world, author, activist and Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh left the planet for his heavenly abode, on 22nd January 2022.

• Known as the Father of Mindfulness, he was born as Nguyen Xuan Bao in 1926. 
• Ordained as a monk at the age of 16, he is now remembered fondly as one who introduced the concept of mindfulness to the West.
• Hanh also authored more than a hundred books, including “The Miracle of Mindfulness” and “Peace Is Every Step”.
• During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Hanh had met civil rights leader Martin Luther King in the US, and also persuaded him to speak against the conflict. Subsequently, King nominated the monk for Nobel Peace Prize, describing him as, “an apostle of peace and non-violence.”

2. FCRA license of Missionaries of Charity not renewed by the Government of India

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• According to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs the license of the Mother Teresa founded Non-Governmental Oragnisation (NGO) Missionaries of Charity license has not been under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) 2010, renewed due to certain adverse input received by the ministry against the NGO.
• A  First Information Report (FIR) was filed on 12 December 2021 against  one of its children’s homes in Vadodara following allegations of religious conversions made by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
•  The license of the NGO is set to lapse on 31 December 2021.
• The NGO has clarified that its bank account has not been frozen.
• Under the FCRA NGO, in India has to open account in the New Delhi Main Branch (NDMB) of the State Bank of India (SBI).

What is FCRA 

•  The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 2010 regulates the receipts of foreign contribution foreign contribution received by certain Individuals, companies, Political Parties, association or NGO resident in India .
• The government can ban receipt of foreign contributions if it feels that it harms the national interest.
• It can also cancel the license of the Associations, NGO if they do not follow the procedure mentioned in the law.
• The law is administered by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. 

 Mother Teresa

Mother Mary Teresa born as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje now in North Macedonia. She was a Roman Catholic nun who came to India and founded Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Kolkata.

The Missionaries of Charity was formed to serve the poor and destitute.

She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

3. Desmond Tutu no more

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• South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died on 26th December 2021 aged 90.
• A tireless activist, Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for combating white-minority rule in his country.
• He coined the term “Rainbow Nation” to describe South Africa when Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black President in 1994.

4. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s 2-day visit to Myanmar

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• Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla flew for a two ­day visit to Naypyitaw and Yangon, in Myanmar to meet the State Administration Council (SAC) chaired by General Min Aung Hlaing.
• Shringla is expected to speak to the Tatmadaw (military) about India’s growing security concerns over insurgent groups based along the 1,600­km India-Myanmar border which have carried out attacks in recent months
• This visit along with appointment of Mr. Vinay Kumar as the new Ambassador to Myanmar last November is an official acknowledgment of India’s recognition of the coup in Myanmar.
• State Administration Council”, is an 11­ member group of military officials and civilians set up by Min Aung Hlaing, who toppled the elected National Unity Government of Aung San Suu Kyi last February and subsequently named himself “Prime Minister”.

Myanmar (Burma)

Capital - Naypyidaw

Currency - Kyat

Legislature - Assembly of the Union

Prime Minister - Min Aung Hlaing

Nobel Laureate - Aung San Suu Kyi of the National League of Democracy (NLD) party, was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.

5. Tigray rebels retake Ethiopian world heritage Lalibela

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Tigray rebels on 12th December recaptured the north Ethiopian town of Lalibela, home to a UNESCO world heritage site from the  Ethiopian government  forces..

Ethiopian Civil War

The conflict started on 4 November, when the  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive against  the northern regional forces in Tigray.

The escalation came after months of feuding between Mr Abiy's government and leaders of Tigray's dominant political party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) .

For almost three decades, the party was at the centre of power, before it was sidelined by Mr Abiy, who took office in 2018 after anti-government protests.

Mr Abiy pursued reforms, but when Tigray resisted, the political crisis erupted into war.

Lalibela

Lalibela is a town in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is famous for its rock-cut monolithic churches. It is a holy pilgrimage site for Christians.  The Rock-Hewn Churches were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978

Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) -  A landlocked country in the horn of Africa.  Capital - Addis Ababa Currency - Birr Lake Tana in the North is the source of Blue Nile Abiy Ahmed - He is the present prime minister of Ethiopia. As the first Ethiopian and the first African head of state, he won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa takes its name from the horn-shaped land formation that forms the easternmost point of the African continent, projecting into the Indian Ocean south of the Arabian Peninsula.  The term is also used to refer to the greater region of adjacent countries located at the southern end of the Red Sea and on the Gulf of Aden: the Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and the landlocked Ethiopia. Located on the main shipping route for the transport of oil from the Persian Gulf to Europe and the United States, the Horn of Africa is considered one of the most strategically important regions in the world.

6. Awards

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1. Assam’s highest civilian award for Ratan Tata

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.

2. U.S. maths prize for Nikhil Srivastava

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.

3. Balkrishna Doshi receives U.K Royal Gold Medal 2022.

Acclaimed Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been selected for the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture.

Nobel Prize 2021

Nobel prize 2021 winners were conferred with the prize on 10 December on the birth anniversary of  Alfred Nobel.

Nobel Prize Winner 2021.

Physics 

Syukuro Manabe of Japan  and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Girogio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Giorgio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

Chemistry 

Benjamin List   of Germany and David W.C. MacMillan of Scotland 

- “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

Medicine/Physiology 

David Julius of U.S and Ardem Patapoutian of   U.S 

- “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

Peace 

Maria Ressa  of Philippines and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov of Russia 

Maria Ressa in 2012,   co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism.

Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov was the co-founder of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.Novaya Gazeta is the most independent newspaper in Russia today. 

Literature 

Abdulrazak Gurnah of Britain . He was born in Tanzania, Africa.

His famous works are Paradise, By the Sea,Desertion

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 

David Card of Canada, Joshua D. Angrist  of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland   David Card  got this award - “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”

Joshua D. Angrist   of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland  for 

 - “ their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

7. Nobel Prize 2021

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Nobel prize 2021 winners were conferred with the prize on 10 December The award is announced in the month of October  but it is given to the winner on 10 december ,the birth anniversary of  Alfred Nobel. All the Nobel prizes are given in Stockholm except the Peace prize,which is given in Oslo, Norway. Norway and Sweden were united by a monarch until 1905 when Norway became an Independent Kingdom .

Nobel Prize Winner 2021.

Physics 

Syukuro Manabe of Japan  and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Girogio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Giorgio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

Chemistry 

Benjamin List  of Germany and David W.C. MacMillan of Scotland 

- “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

Medicine/Physiology 

David Julius of U.S and Ardem Patapoutian of   U.S 

- “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

 Peace 

Maria Ressa  of Philippines and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov of Russia 

Maria Ressa in 2012,  co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism.

 Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov was the co-founder of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.Novaya Gazeta is the most independent newspaper in Russia today. 

 Literature 

Abdulrazak Gurnah of Britain . He was born in Tanzania, Africa.

 His famous works are Paradise, By the Sea,Desertion

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 

David Card of Canada, Joshua D. Angrist  of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland   David Card  got this award - “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”

Joshua D. Angrist  of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland  for 

 - “ their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

NOBEL PRIZE  The Nobel Prize are five separate prizes awarded annually, that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind.” Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace  In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) funded the establishment of the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to also be administered by the Nobel Foundation Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, but if a person is awarded a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize is presented. The prize money is given in Swedish Krona , SEK. The Nobel Prizes, begun in 1901, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, begun in 1969.  TRIVIA The youngest Nobel laureate is Ms Malala Yousafzai who was awarded the Peace Prize 2014 when she was 17 years old.  The oldest Nobel laureate is John B. Goodenough who was awarded the Prize in Chemistry in 2019 when he was 97 years old. Laureates who have received Multiple Nobel Prizes:  Marie Curie received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911). The International Committee of the Red Cross received the prize three times. Nobel Peace Prize (1917, 1944, 1963). Linus Pauling received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954) and Nobel Peace Prize (1962). John Bardeen received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Physics (1956, 1972). Frederick Sanger received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958, 1980). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; received the prize twice. Nobel Peace Prize (1954, 1981). List of Nobel Prize winners from India - Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - Literature CV Raman (1930) - Physics Har Gobind Khurana (1968) - Medicine Mother Teresa (1979) - Peace Subhramanyan Chandrashekhar (1983) - Physics Amartya Sen (1998) - Economics Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009) - Chemistry. Kailash Satyarthi (2014) - Peace Abhijit Banerjee (2019) - Economics

8. Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in prison

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The military junta ruling Myanmar has sentenced the deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi  for four years for incitement against the military and breaching COVID-19 rules,

Ms. Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the Generals staged a coup and ousted her Government on February 1, ending the Southeast Asian country’s brief period of democracy. 

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Monday denounced a four-year jail term handed down to Myanmar’s ousted leader Suu Kyi after a “sham trial” and called for her immediate release.

Western countries have demanded Ms. Suu Kyi’s release and condemned the violence since the coup in which some 1,300 people have been killed,

Myanmar was earlier called Burma.

Capital : Naypyidaw

Currency : Myanmar Kyat

President : Military leader  Min Aung Hlaing

Aung San Suu Kyi She is the youngest daughter of the Burmese Father of the Nation  Aung Sang. She studied in Delhi University and she rose to prominence for leading a democracy movement against the army rule in Myanmar. Her Party National League for Democracy(NLD) won the 1990 election but she was jailed and put in house arrest for almost 15 years  She became the face of the Pro democracy movement in the world  She got the Nobel Peace Prize 1991. Her Party won the 2015 General election and she became the State Counsellor(Prime Minister ).  On 1 February 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi  was arrested  and deposed by the Myanmar military, along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, after the Myanmar military declared the  November  2020 general election  results fraudulent.

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