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Current Affairs One Liner: 1 to 31 December 2023

• ISRO plans to launch 50 satellites in the next five years for geo-
intelligence gathering
• Govt increases rate of interest on 2 small savings schemes for January-
March 2024
• Grand Master Koneru Humpy won silver in World Women Rapid
Championships 2023
• Appointment : Anish Dayal Singh, DG CRPF; Rahul Rasgotra, DG ITBP;
Nina Singh, DG CISF
• Ad Hoc committee to supervise operations of Wrestling Federation of
India
• Qatar court reduces death penalty of 8 ex-Indian Navy officers to jail
terms
• Reversal of liquidity facilities under both SDF and MSF is available with
effect from 30th December: RBI
• MPhil is no longer a recognized degree : UGC
• Govt declares Muslim League Jammu Kashmir (Masarat Alam faction) as
unlawful association under UAPA
• Indian Navy commissioned its latest Stealth Guided Missile Destroyer,
INS Imphal, in Mumbai
• Veer Baal Diwas – 26 December : in honor of two young Sikh princes,
Baba Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh
• Aircraft With Indians Held In France For Days Lands In Mumbai
• CBDT notified Income Tax Return (ITR) forms 1 and 4, for the assessment
year 2024-25
• Good Governance Day – 25 December : Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth
anniversary
• UNESCO Grants Prestigious Award of Excellence to Rambagh Gate &
Ramparts Project for Outstanding Inclusivity and Community Access
• Wrestling Federation of India Faces Suspension by Sports Ministry Over
Numerous Violations
• National Consumer Day, celebrated in India on December 24th
• France President Emmanuel Macron to be Chief Guest for 75th Republic
Day celebrations

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• Kishan Diwas – 23December : Birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan
Singh
• National Mathematics Day – December 22 : to mark the birth
anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan
• National Sports Awards 2023 : Khel Ratna Award to Chirag
Chandrashekhar Shetty and Rankireddy Satwik Sai Raj
• 3,209 meter-long Tunnel T-1 between Katra – Reasi Stations completed in
Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) Project
• Sahitya Akademi Award 2023 announced
• Lok Sabha takes up three amended Criminal Law Bills for consideration
and passing
• Goa Liberation Day : 19 December
• Egypt’s President Sisi Clinches Third Term with 89.6% Majority Vote
• Khelo India Para Games Debut Concludes in New Delhi, Haryana
Dominates with 40 Gold, 39 Silver, and 26 Bronze Medals
• FIFA Unveils Club World Cup in June-July 2025 and Introduces New
Intercontinental Cup for 2024 Debut
• The Khelo India Games are scheduled to take place in Tamil Nadu in
January 2024
• Surat Diamond Bourse – world’s largest workspace
• Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik to arrived in New Delhi on three-day
visit to India
• INS Tarmugli, a Fast Attack Craft, commissioned into Navy at Naval
Dockyard, Visakhapatnam
• Germany beats India 4-1 in the FIH Men’s Junior World Cup semifinal
• Parliament security breach incident on 13 December 2023
• ASEAN-India Millet Festival in New Delhi inaugurated by Union
Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda
• India supports UNGA’s ceasefire resolution in West Asia
• Nations at COP28 Reach Landmark ‘UAE Consensus’ for a transition away
from fossil fuels for net zero by 2050
• FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup 2023 : India vs Germany Semifinal
• Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence Summit in New Delhi on
December 12th and 13th, 2023
• Bhajan Lal Sharma elected as Chief Minister of Rajasthan
• Donald Tusk elected as Polish Prime Minister

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• Viksit Bharat@2047 – Voice of Youth : Launched by PM Modi
• Parliament passed Jammu and Kashmir Reservation and Reorganisation
(Amendment) Bills
• Mohan Yadav elected as the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
• 27th WAIPA World Investment Conference in New Delhi from December
11, 2023
• Vishnu Deo Sai : New Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
• First-ever Khelo India Para Games in New Delhi from 10 to 17 Dec 2023
• RBI has maintained the policy repo rate at 6.5% for the fifth consecutive
time
• PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the Indian Art, Architecture & Design
Biennale (IAADB) 2023 at Red Fort
• Mahua Moitra expelled from Lok Sabha member over allegations of a
“cash-for-query” scandal.
• Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit 2023 at the Forest Research
Institute in Dehradun
• President Droupadi Murmu presented the Lakshmipat Singhania – IIM
Lucknow National Leadership Awards
• Armed Forces Flag Day : December 7
• India to provide relief assistance of one million dollars to Papua New
Guinea in wake of volcanic eruption
• Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan presided over the first
session of the Combined Leadership Conclave in New Delhi
• Garba of Gujarat inscribed in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
of Humanity by UNESCO
• ISRO Moves Chandrayaan Orbiter from Moon to Earth Orbit
• Severe Cyclonic Storm Michaung crosses south Andhra Pradesh coast
• Revanth Reddy will be the next chief minister of Telangana
• Mizoram Assembly Election : Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) to Form
Government
• Indian Navy Day celebrated on 4 December 2023 at at Sindhudurg in
Maharashtra
• Assembly elections : BJP set to form govt in MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh;
Congress victory in Telangana
• World’s first portable hospital ‘Aarogya Maitri Aid Cube’ unveiled in
Gurugram

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• Cyclone Michaung over the southwest Bay of Bengal to make landfall in
Tamil Nadu on December 4
• 59th Raising Day of Border Security Force is celebrated at BSF Meru
Training Centre on December 1, 2023
• Hornbill Festival began at Naga Heritage Village ‘Kisama’ from December
1 to 10, 2023
• BCCI announced squad for Indian cricket team’s tour of South Africa
• Winter Session of Parliament from 4 to 22 December 2023
• COP28 Summit in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December 2023

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