Daily Current Affairs, News Headlines 26.12.2024

National Updates

• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast cold wave to severe cold wave conditions in parts of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu-Kashmir, and Ladakh.
• PM Modi Lays Foundation for India’s 1st Ken-Betwa River Linking Project in Madhya Pradesh
• President Droupadi Murmu will confer the ‘Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar’ on 17 children for exceptional achievements in seven categories in New Delhi today.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute over 58 lakh property cards under the SVAMITVA scheme on Friday.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended Hanukkah greetings to his Israel counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, and all the people across the world celebrating the festival.
• The Health Ministry today said that the number of annual malaria cases declined from 7.5 crore at the time of independence to 20 lacs by 2023, with over a 97 percent reduction.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah today held a comprehensive review of the operational and administrative efficiency of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at its headquarters in New Delhi.
• The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has registered a net addition of 13 lakh 41 thousand members during October this year.
• Inflows into Non-Resident Indian, NRI, deposit accounts surged 11.9 billion dollar in April-October during the current financial year. According to the latest figures compiled by the Reserve Bank of India
• Defence Secretary launches Rashtraparv website & app on Good Governance Day

International Updates

• In Kazakhstan, several people are feared dead after a passenger plane crashed with about 70 people on board. Authorities in Azerbaijan, where the flight originated, say there were at least 30 survivors.
• Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration claimed that at least 46 people were killed in a bombing by Pakistani fighter jets in the eastern Paktika province.
• The largest cargo ship in the Russian military’s logistics fleet, the Ursa Major, sank in the Mediterranean Sea after an explosion in its engine room
• The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has stated that one child is killed every hour in the Gaza Strip
• Maia Sandu Sworn in for 2nd Term as President of Moldova

Sports Updates

• In weightlifting, Martina Devi clinched a silver medal in the women’s junior +87kg category at the Asian Junior Championships in Doha.
• The Differently abled Cricket Council of India (DCCI) announced India’s participation in the Physical Disabled Cricket Champions Trophy 2025, set to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from the 12th to the 21st of next month.
• In Shooting, the duo of Maheshwari Chauhan and Anantjeet Singh Naruka won the skeet mixed team title for their home state Rajasthan in the National Shooting Championship in New Delhi.
• In Football, Odisha and Delhi earned the last two quarter-final berths at the 78th Senior Men’s National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy 2024-25 at the Deccan Arena.
• In the 67th National Shooting Championship, Ganemat Sekhon of Punjab clinched her second consecutive national title in the women’s skeet competition in Delhi.

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