1.Sitar player Manju Mehta was conferred with the ‘Tansen Samman’ for 2018 by the Madhya Pradesh governmentThe award was given for her contribution in the field of music.She was given a cash award of Rs 2 lakh and a memento.She was presented with the award at the inaugural ceremony of the Tansen Music Festival on 25 December 2018.
2.CA Kuttappa has taken over as India’s Chief boxing coach on 26 December 2018.He took over from veteran coach SR Singh, who has now retired.His first major assignment would be the second edition of the India Open scheduled in January 2019 in Guwahati.
3.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stones of 576 projects worth Rs 161 crore in Lucknow on 25 December 2018.On this occasion, Rajnath Singh also inaugurated 17 projects worth Rs 2 crore undertaken by CSR fund of Gas Authority of India Limited.He also inaugurated ‘Vishram Sadan’ having 210 beds at King George’s Medical University from CSR fund of Power Grid Corporation.
4.Padma Shri award winner Sulagitti Narasamma passed away in Bengaluru on 25 December 2018.She conducted thousands of deliveries for free as a midwife at a time when medical help was hard to come by in rural areas.
5.The photo division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting will organise the 7th National Photography Awards in February 2019. The photographers will be awarded in mainly three categories – lifetime achievement award, awards for professional photographers, and the awards for the amateur photographers.
6.Italy’s Mount Etna erupted on 24 December 2018, causing a magnitude 3.3 earthquake and the closure of Sicily’s Catania Airport.The Mount Etna observatory said lava had spewed from a new fracture near its south-eastern crater.Mount Etna is Europe’s highest and most active volcano.
7.Haryana’s Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced to name all the Child Care Institutes (CCIs) being run in the state as ‘Jagannath Ashrams.’The Chief Minister made the announcement during an event in Karnal.A child care institution as defined under the JJ Act,2015, is a facility recognized under the Act for providing care and protection to children, who are in need of such services.
8.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in consultation with the government of India, has set up a six-member committee to review the ‘Economic Capital Framework’ of the central bank.Former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan will be the committee’s Chairman.The other members are Economic Affairs Secretary Subash Chandra Garg, RBI Deputy Governor N.S. Vishwanathan and two board members of the RBI.
9.The government of India said that e-commerce companies would be barred from selling products sourced from firms in which they have the stake in or control over.It also said that an e-commerce marketplace will not force any seller to sell any product exclusively on its platform.The norms will come into effect from February 1, 2019.
10.NITI Aayog released the ‘Second Delta Ranking’ of the Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) on December 27, 2018.The ranking will measure the incremental progress made by districts between 1 June 2018, and 31 October 2018.The districts have been ranked on parameters like Health & Nutrition, Education etc.The first Delta ranking for the Aspirational Districts was released in June 2018
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