DECEMBER 2019 CURRENT AFFAIRS AND GK FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS- SARKARI NAUKRI
December 2019 Current Affairs
December 31 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ General Manoj Mukund Naravane is appointed as new Chief of Army Staff. He replaced General Bipin Rawath.
⇒ Magnus Carlsen awarded World blitz title. He won a playoff against Hikaru Nakamura.
December 30, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Bipin Rawat, Indian Army chief appointed as first Chief of Defence Staff of India.
⇒ NCP’s (Nationalist Congress Party) leader Ajit Pawar again take oath as Maharashtra’s Deputy CM.
⇒ Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Union Environment Forest and Climate Change has released State of Forest Report 2019. As per his report total forest which is covered our country is 7,12,249 sq km.
December 29, 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ Actor Amitabh Bachchan got Dadasaheb Phalke Award. He received this highest Indian film honour by Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India.
⇒ K Humpi, Indian Grandmaster won World Women’s Rapid Chess Championship title after drawing the Armageddon game against Lei Tingjie of China in Russia.
December 28, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ The UN approved a new resolution in order to draft an international treaty to combat cyber-crime.
⇒ Astronaut Christina Koch of NASA made a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, surpassing the earlier record of 288 days in space.
December 27, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ National Tribal Dance Festival started in Chhattisghrh’s capital Raipur.
⇒ Ladakhi New Year and Losar festivals are being celebrated by people of Ladhak this day with festive fervor.
December25, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ PM Modi changed the name of Rohtang passageway in Himachal Pradesh as Atal Tunnel.
⇒ Today is X-Mas
December 24,2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Mukesh Ambani Chairman of Reliance Industries (RIL) is the 12th richest person in the world as he added $16.5 billion to his property in the year 2019. His present net worth is $60.8 billion.
⇒ Union Cabinet declared to conduct of Census of India 2021. And its decided to update the National Population Register.
⇒ Dharmendra Pradhan, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister announced India’s first long distance CNG bus fitted with CNG cylinders in New Delhi. With a single fill the bus can travel about 1000 kms.
December 23, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu awarded 66th National Film Awards in New Delhi this day.
December 22, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Manuel Marrero Cruz is Cuba’s first Prime Minister who is appointed by President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
⇒ Indian cricketer Rohith Sharma erased Srilanka’s Jayasuriya’s 22-year-old record of the most runs scored as an opener in a single calendar year. Rohith Sharma achieved this record against West Indies in Cuttack in the chase of 316 score. Rohith Sharma scored 2388 runs in the year 2019 while the score of Sanath Jayasuria is 2387 in the year 1997.
⇒ December 20 is National Mathematics Day. India celebrates the this day on the occasion of Srinaivasa Ramanujans birth anniversary.
December 21, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ President of USA Donald Trump started United State’s Space Force in Washington at an army base.
December 20,2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Portugal PM Antonio Costa has announced Gandhi Citizenship Education Award every year.
⇒ Former world champion, weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is the winner of women’s 49kg category gold medal at the 6th Qatar International Cup Doha.
⇒ Australian Pacer Pat Cummins was sold to KKR – Kolkata Knight Riders for 15.50 crore rupees. He is the most expensive overseas player.
⇒ In Forbes India Celebrity 100 List, Virat Kohli got 1st position.
December 19, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ GST Council has fixed a uniform tax rate of 28 per cent on both state-run and private lottery.
⇒ United States president Trump to be impeached, as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse of power in a historic vote.
December 18, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Sahitya Akademi announced 2019 Annual Awards in all 23 indian languages.
⇒ For Hindi language Nand Kishore got the award for his Poetry ‘Chilte Hue Apne Ko’.
⇒ For English Language the academy selected Dr Shashi Tharoor for his work ‘An Era of Darkness’. An Era of Darkness’ is a Non-Fiction
⇒ Cyrus Mistry restored as the executive chairman of Tata Sons this day by the NCLAT – National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ().
December 17, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ New Chief of Army Staff is Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane. Presently he is serving as Vice Chief of the army. Our present Chief of Army Staff is Gen Bipin Rawat. His retirement date is 31st Dec 2019.
⇒ Ravi Mittal, the IAS officer will take charges the new Secretary, Information and Broadcasting Ministry today.⇒ In a first in Pakistan’s history, a 3-member bench of the special court, headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, handed former military ruler Pervez Musharraf death sentence in the long-drawn high treason case today.
December 16, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Today India celebrating Vijay Diwas in the memory of India’s victory over Pakistan in 1971 war.
December 14, 2019 Current Affairs:⇒ 14th December is National Conservation Day in India.
⇒ Forbs released top 100 World’s Most Powerful Women list for the year 2019.
⇒ Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor got the 1st rank for the 9th consecutive year in the list.
⇒ Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Finance Minister got 34th rank in the list.
December 13, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ In the UK elections 2019 Conservative party of British PM Boris Johnson won 364 seats out of the total 650 in the British House of Commons. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party won 203 seats in the contest.
⇒ Union Cabinet approved Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 approved by Union Cabinet approved on 11th Dec, 2019.
December 12, 2019 Current Affairs :
⇒ The the International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019 passed by Lok Sabha.
⇒ Time Magazine selected Climate change activist Greta Thunberg as ‘Person of the Year’ by Time Magazine for the Year 2019.
⇒ 12th December is world’s International Universal Health Coverage Day
December 11, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ The South Pasific Archipelago of Bougainvelle voted to become independent of Papua New Guinea. It became latest territory of the world to seek separation.
⇒ Latest and advanced surveillance satellite of India is launched from Sriharikota Andhra Pradesh.
⇒ RISAT -2BR1 (The Radar imaging earth observation satellite) is sent to the space by ISRO India through PSLV-C48 rocket. RISAT -2BR1 is the 50th mission to launch successfully from Sriharikota – Sathis Dhawan Space Center.
⇒ Abhijith Banerjee and Esther Duflo got 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. They shared the Prize with Michael Kremer.
⇒ 13th South Asian Games came to an end in Nepal last evening.
⇒ In South Asian Games, India won 312 medals. India won 174gold, 93 Silver and 45 bronze medals in the Games.
December 10, 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ The COP25 climate summit held in Spanish’s capital Madrid. India got the ranks among the top 10 countries which are selected for Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI).
⇒ Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 is passed in Lok Sabha. 80 members opposed the bill and 311 voted in the favor of the bill.
⇒ December 10 World Human Rights Day. December 10 will be observed as Human Rights Day to commemorate the UDHR – Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
December 9, , 2019 Current Affairs:
⇒ Russia is banned by World Anti-Doping Agency from global sporting events. With this effect Russia lose the chance from participating 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after accusing Moscow of falsifying data from an anti-doping laboratory.
⇒ On 9th December Lok Sabha passed The Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
⇒ Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa won 2019 Miss Universe crown. She defeated 90 contestants in the Miss Universe 2019 contest.
8th December 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ 43 workers were died in the luggage manufacturing factory fire accident in Delhi.
7th December 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ 7th December is Armed Forces Flag Day of India. The day will be celebrated every year to honor the martyrs and Army personnel.
5th December 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ Today a special court announced absconding diamantaire Neerav Modi prime accused in the Punjab National Bank scam, a fugitive economic offender (FEO).
⇒ Indias GS Laxmi is created history. She is selected as first female match referee to officiate in a men’s ODI match. ICC announced the above.
4th December 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ P Chidambaram Former union minister got bail and walked out of Delhi Tihar Jail. He got the bail from Supreme Court.
⇒ The cabinet approved a proposal to extent SCs and STs reservation in Lok Sabha and in state Assemblies for another ten (10) years.
3rd December 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill was passed by Parliament. Rajya Sabha also approved it today.
⇒ Parliament passed a bill today to merge two UTs (Union Territories) Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu into 1 Unit.
⇒ 3rd December is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
2nd December 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ December 2nd is National pollution day.
⇒ Syed Modi International Men’s single won by Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei. He defeated Sourabh Verma.
1st December 2019, Current Affairs:
⇒ December 1st is world AIDS day
⇒ GST collection for the month of November is Rs 1,03,492 crore.
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