Daily Current Affairs, News Headlines 22.12.2024
National Updates
- Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda held a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers and Health Ministers of all States and UTs on the government’s 100-day Intensified TB Elimination Campaign.
- Union Minister for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Bhupendra Yadav, released the India State of Forest Report 2023 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand
- First-ever World Meditation Day was observed yesterday, marking a global initiative to promote well-being, peace and mindfulness across nations.
- World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that India has demonstrated remarkable progress in reducing malaria cases and associated mortality in the country, particularly in its high-endemic states.
International Updates
- Former Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur has been appointed as chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council (IJC). Lokur has been appointed for a 4-year-tenure ending on 12th November 2028.
- In Pakistan, 16 soldiers were killed and five critically injured in an overnight militant attack on an army post near the Afghan border.
- France has commenced the withdrawal of its military forces from Chad, following the Central African nation’s decision to end its defence cooperation agreement with France two weeks ago.
- Indian missions across the globe celebrated the inaugural World Meditation Day, emphasising the transformative power of meditation for mental and physical well-being.
- Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Spain’s Former Deputy Prime Minister, Rodrigo Rato, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison by the Madrid Provincial Court.
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reshuffled his Cabinet, inducting eight new ministers, bringing the number of Indo-Canadians in the Cabinet to four.
- The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill narrowly avoiding a consequential government shutdown just few hours before the deadline came to end.
Sports Updates
- India’s Koyel Bar and L. Nilam Devi won silver medals in the 55kg Youth and Junior categories to take the country’s tally to six in the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships in Doha, Qatar
- India has been awarded the hosting rights for next year’s ISSF Junior World Cup including competitions in rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines.
- In Vijay Hazare TrophyAnmolpreet Singh smashes fastest List A hundred by an Indian.
- Veer Chotrani, Anahat Singh, Akanksha Salunkhe enter semifinals of Western India Squash Slam
- In Women’s Cricket, India will lock horns with Bangladesh in the final of the Under-19 Women’s T20 Asia Cup at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia today.
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