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19 year old Kaitlyn became ‘Miss India USA 2024’. Chinese astronauts did a 9-hour spacewalk. At the same time, ‘Good Governance Week’ started from today.
Information about some major current affairs, which are important for students preparing for government jobs…
Award
1. Gagan Gill will receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2024: Sahitya Akademi announced the Sahitya Akademi Award 2024 in a press conference on 18 December. Gagan Gill will receive the award for Hindi and Easterin Kire will receive the award for English. This year writers from 21 languages will be honored. Their names have been announced, while the awards in Bengali, Dogri and Urdu will be announced later.
The awards for 21 languages were announced at the executive board meeting held under the chairmanship of Sahitya Akademi President Madhav Kaushik.
- The Academy honors writers in 24 languages with the Sahitya Akademi Award every year.
- Sahitya Akademi Award 2024 will be given to writers on March 8, 2025.
- The award carries an amount of Rs 1 lakh and copper plate, shawl etc.
- Gill will be honored with the award for his poetry collection ‘Main Jab Tak Aayi Bahar’.
- Kire will be honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel ‘Spirit Nights’ and Sudhir Rasal for his criticism ‘Vindanche Gudyarup’ in Marathi.
- Apart from these, Deepak Kumar Sharma (poetry collection) in Sanskrit, Mukut Maniraj (poetry collection) in Rajasthani, Paul Kaur (poetry collection) in Punjabi, Sohan Kaul (novel) in Kashmiri and Dilip Jhaveri (poetry collection) in Gujarati, among others. Will be rewarded.
- The awards for 21 languages include 8 poetry collections, 3 novels, 2 story collections, 3 essays, 3 literary criticisms, 1 play and 1 research book.
- These awards are being given to books published for the first time during the last 5 years (January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2022).
STATE IN NEWS
2. UCC will be implemented in Uttarakhand from January 1: ‘Uniform Civil Code (UCC)’ will be implemented in Uttarakhand from next year i.e. January 1, 2025. In this way, Uttarakhand will become the first state after independence to implement ‘Uniform Civil Code’. Under the Uniform Civil Code, the same laws regarding marriage, divorce, alimony, land, property and inheritance will be applicable to all the citizens of the state, irrespective of the religion they follow. For this, a portal and mobile app has also been prepared, which has facilities for online registration etc.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami gave this information on December 18, 2024.
- After the formation of the Dhami government in the state in the year 2022, it was decided to form an expert committee to implement UCC.
- This expert committee of five members was headed by retired judge Ranjana Prakash Desai.
- The committee submitted a 740-page report in 4 volumes regarding UCC to the state government.
- After this, ‘Uniform Civil Code Bill 2024’ was passed in the Uttarakhand Assembly on February 7, 2024.
- After getting approval from President Draupadi Murmu on the Uniform Civil Code Bill, its notification was issued on 12 March 2024.
- Now the state government has prepared the rules of the Uniform Civil Code, Uttarakhand 2024 Act and will implement it from January 1, 2025.
- The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has been in force in Goa since the days of Portuguese rule.
MISCELLANEOUS
3. Salman Khan becomes the brand ambassador of Kho-Kho World Cup: Kho-Kho Federation of India (KKFI) on 18 December announced Indian actor Salman Khan as the brand ambassador of the first Kho-Kho World Cup 2025. This tournament will be held from 13 to 19 January at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi. This was announced at the ‘National Player Training Camp’ organized at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Kho-Kho Federation of India President Sudhanshu Mittal, General Secretary MS Tyagi, Indian men and women players and coaches etc. were present at the ‘National Player Training Camp’.
- 21 men’s and 20 women’s teams from 24 countries will participate in the first Kho-Kho World Cup.
- The first match of the Kho-Kho World Cup 2025 tournament will be played between India and Pakistan.
- The Indian Kho-Kho Federation is the national governing body of the game in India.
- Every year it organizes national championships for men, women and junior categories.
- The Ultimate Kho-Kho League (UKK) is also organized in collaboration with KKFI.
- ‘Kho-Kho Federation of India’ is organizing the first World Cup tournament in collaboration with the Indian Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
- In the year 1914, Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote the Rule Bull for the first time on the rules of Kho-Kho game.
- The Asian Championship of Kho-Kho was held for the first time in the year 1996.
- Since 2010, it is being played on indoor mats.
- Till now, a total of 15 Kho-Kho players have been honored with the Arjuna Award.
- In the year 2023, women’s Kho-Kho team captain Nasreen Shaikh was honored with the Arjuna Award by President Draupadi Murmu.
International
4. 19 year old Kaitlyn became ‘Miss India USA 2024’: On December 18, Indian-American Caitlin Sandra Neal won the title of ‘Miss India USA 2024’. 19 year old Caitlin was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In this competition, Sanskriti Sharma of Illinois was crowned ‘Mrs. India USA’ and Arshita Kathpalia of Washington was crowned ‘Miss Teen India USA’.
At the event, Miss India USA 2023 Rijul Maini and Mrs. India USA 2023 Sneha Nambiar honored Caitlin Sandra Neal by crowning her.
- Miss India USA 2024 was held in New Jersey, USA and is organized by India Festival Committee (IFC).
- 47 candidates from 25 states participated in 3 categories of this competition.
- Nirali Desia of Illinois and Manini Patel of New Jersey were announced as the first and second runner-up respectively for Miss India USA 2024.
- Caitlin is currently studying in her second year at the University of California, Davis and she wants to become a web designer.
5. 9-hour spacewalk of Chinese astronauts: Chinese astronauts have created a new world record for the longest spacewalk i.e. 9 hours. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on December 18 that the Shenzhou-19 mission crew carried out a spacewalk with astronauts ‘Qie Juzhe’ and ‘Song Lingdong’ at the Tiangong Space Station and carried out several repair works.
China’s space agency China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) released a video of the spacewalk. In this, both the astronauts are seen coming out of Tiangong’s lab module with the help of a 2 meter long cable.
- These astronauts left behind the spacewalk record set by American astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms on March 11, 2001.
- According to the US space agency, NASA, the previous record for a spacewalk of 8 hours and 56 minutes was set by American astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms on March 12, 2001.
- Song, who was a fighter pilot in the Chinese Air Force, has become the first Chinese astronaut born in the 1990s to perform a spacewalk.
- This was the second spacewalk for the mission commander. Earlier, he had done a 5.5-hour spacewalk in November 2022.
NATIONAL
6. Good Governance Week started from today: ‘Good Governance Week’ is being celebrated by the Central Government from 19 to 24 December 2024. For this, ‘Administration Towards Village’ campaign has been started. It is a nationwide campaign for redressal of public grievances and improvement in service delivery.
A national level workshop will be organized at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi on 23 December 2024. Officials of ministries and departments including secretaries of the Government of India will participate in it.
- Workshops based on best practices of good governance will be organized in all the districts on 23 December.
- Virtual programs will be organized in 700+ districts during the Good Governance Week, in which Chief Secretaries, Secretaries and DMs of all the states will also participate.
- The objectives of Good Governance Week are to promote transparency and accountability between the government and the public, to improve the process of service delivery, to spread awareness against corruption and to make citizens aware of their rights. Is.
- Good Governance Day is celebrated every year on 25 December in India.
- Good Governance Day is celebrated on the occasion of the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
TODAY’S HISTORY
History of 19th December: On this day in 1927, freedom fighters Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaq Ullah Khan and Thakur Roshan Singh were hanged. This day is celebrated as ‘Martyrdom Day’. All three fighters had received this punishment for carrying out the Kakori incident. Revolutionaries had looted a train going from Saharanpur to Lucknow on August 9, 1925. This train was stopped at Kakori station near Lucknow and the guard was taken hostage at gunpoint and looted. The revolutionaries got a total amount of Rs 4,601.
Ramprasad Bismil was hanged in Gorakhpur jail, Ashfaq Ullah Khan in Faizabad jail and Roshan Singh in Allahabad.
- In 2012, Park Geun Hye was elected the first female President of South Korea. However, in 2017, he was removed from office due to corruption and in August 2018, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
- In 2007, Time magazine chose Russian President Vladimir Putin as ‘Person of the Year’.
- In 1997, Titanic, one of the highest-grossing films in history, was released. The film starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the lead roles.
- In 1984, an agreement was signed between China and Britain to return Hong Kong to China by 1997.
- In 1974, former Australian cricket player and World Cup winning captain Ricky Ponting was born.
- Goa gained independence from Portugal in 1961. Under Operation Vijay, Indian troops liberated Goa, Daman and Diu from Portugal.
- In 1941, German dictator Adolf Hitler took complete command of the army and became the Commander in Chief of the German Army.
- In 1934, India’s first and so far only woman President, Pratibha Patil, was born.
- The United States recognized Hawaii as a province in 1842.
- King Henry II became king of England in 1154.
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