Current Affairs : 16 December 2024

1. The President of South Korea has been removed after the impeachment motion was passed.

2. Recently, RBI has increased the limit of agricultural loan without collateral from one lakh sixty thousand to 2,00,000.

3. Asia’s first ‘Geo Science Museum‘ has been built in India.

4. IIT Madras has completed 410 meters long India’s first Hyperloop train test track.

5. Recently 21st cattle census has been started in Haryana.

6. 21st December has been declared as World Meditation Day’ by the United Nations General Assembly.

7. Central Government has allocated Rs 8,000 crore for the Smart City Mission.

8. The theme of the 10th World Ayurveda Congress 2024 and Arogya Expo is Digital Health: An Ayurveda Perspective.

9. Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi has presided over the fourth National Conference of New Delhi Chief Secretaries.

10. The world famous ‘Surajkund Fair 2025’ will be organized in Faridabad.

11. Vijay Diwas’ is celebrated every year on 16 December.

12. Currently Sri Lanka President ‘Anura Kumar Dissanayake’ is on a two-day official visit to India from 15 to 17 December.

13. The three-day ‘World Hindu Economic Forum’ has been inaugurated recently in Maharashtra.

14. Recently DRDO has conducted the final test of Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur on the coast of Odisha.

15. BMW Group has recently partnered with UNICEF with an aim to change the educational landscape in rural India.