Daily Current Affairs 24th December 2022

2022-12-23

Nepal has been elected a member of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) at the 56th plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly for tenure of two years.
The membership will be effective from 1st January 2023.This offers Nepal an opportunity to enhance the country’s visibility in the world arena as a peace builder and peace contributor.

The Gujarat government has announced that as part of the ‘Devabhoomi Dwarka Corridor’ project, the world’s tallest statue of Lord Krishna will be erected in Dwarka city.
The first phase of the project is expected to start in September 2023. As the first phase of this project, it is planned to set up a gallery so that people can see the evidence of the ancient city of Dwarka.

Sania Mirza, has been selected to become a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force and would be the country’s first Muslim girl and the state’s first IAF pilot.
Sania Mirza is a resident of Jasovar village under the Mirzapur Dehat Kotwali police station area. She secured this position by passing the NDA exam.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry is organizing a day-long one of its kind musical event Dance to Decarbonise’, the event will be held on December 23, 2022.
The Ministry has informed that the renewable energy generated through dance will be used to charge electric vehicles.
- The concept of kinetic dance floors has been generating well over 35 watts of sustained output. Electricity is generated by simply jumping or dancing on the floor.

National Yuva Janotsav will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Hubballi-Dharwad on January 12th, 2023.And it will be the 26th National Yuva Janotsava and a Committee headed by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is supervising the arrangements for the event.
The Sports and Youth Empowerment minister of Karnataka Dr. Narayanagowda said that the national-level event will be held from January 12th to 16th, 2023.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy has announced that ‘digital’ classrooms will be operational from the academic year 2023 in all government schools.
Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy launched a scheme to provide a portable computer called ‘Tab’ free of cost to the eighth grade students studying in government schools.

NLC Chairman and Managing Director Rakesh Kumar inaugurated a modern cardiology center at Neyveli NLC Hospital, Tamil Nadu.
Angiograms, Emergency and Peripheral Angioplasty, Pacemaker Implantation and other tests and treatments for any type of cardiac disease will be done at this center for patients referred by NLC Hospital and partners.

Chilla-i-Kalan’, the 40-day harshest winter period, has made its presence felt in the Kashmir valley with Srinagar recording its coldest night this winter, even as water supply lines and interiors of the Dal Lake froze due to the cold conditions.
The minimum temperature in Srinagar recorded on Wednesday (22 December 2022) night was minus 5.5°C, which is the lowest so far this season. The city had recorded minus 4.2°C the previous night.

Priyanka Sharma has become the first woman to drive a government bus in Uttar Pradesh
Priyanka Sharma thanks PM Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for giving opportunity to women drivers

The State government which has taken safety and security of students in the educational institutions as paramount importance is planning to form safety clubs in government, government aided, and private schools, colleges and universities.
The clubs will focus on six aspects – safety against sexual abuse, substance abuse, cyber safety, hostel safety, transport safety and traffic and road safety.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will confer seven state-level and 15 district-level Good Governance awards at the state-level programme scheduled to be held on “Good Governance Day”, December 25, in Panchkula.
The awards include flagship schemes of the state government such as Parivar Pehchan Patra, Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana, Chirayu Haryana Yojana, Auto Appeal System (AAS) and many other projects.

Archeologists have discovered a 1200-year-old Kotravai sculpture near Sekanurani in Madurai district.
A 4 feet high and 2 feet wide slab of stone is carved with 4 arms in relief of Kotravai, and archaeologists say that the sculpture dates back to the early Pandian period in the 9th century AD.

The Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022 were announced in Delhi, where the Sahitya Akademi Best Tamil interpreter Award went to writer K. Nallathambi.
Awarded for the Tamil translation of ‘Yad Vashem’ written by Nemichandra in Kannada, Writer and translator K. Nallathambi lives in Bangalore. It is noteworthy that he has translated many books from Kannada to Tamil and from Tamil to Kannada.

In recognition of the young mathematicians who contributed to the mathematical research of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, Thanjavur Sastra Niggatan University annually awards one person with the Srinivasa Ramanujan Award.
The Shastra Ramanujan Award Ceremony was held at the Kumbakonam Srinivasa Ramanujan Center of Sastra Nigga University for 3 Mathematicians from Israel, USA and China.
- For the year 2020 Professor Chai Evra of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
- For the year 2021, Professor Vilsavin, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, USA,
- For the year 2022 has been awarded to Professor Yunqing Tang, Department of Mathematics, University of California, USA, who left China.

- National Consumer Day is observed on 24 December annually in India, Every year on 15 March, is observed as World Consumer Rights Day.
- In order to commemorate December 24, 1986, when the Consumer Protection Act received assent of the President of India. The day is to highlight the importance of the consumer movement and spread awareness about the rights and responsibilities of every consumer.