Wednesday, April 20, 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS :- 13.12.2021

 CURRENT AFFAIRS :-


1. Olaf Scholz sworn in as new Chancellor of Germany.


2. India stands out as a poor and very unequal country, with the top 1% of the population holding more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 and the bottom half just 13%, according to World Inequality Report 2022.


3. Indian-origin physician, Anil Menon has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced.


4. Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile was successfully flight tested by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha.


5. Sunil Arora, former Chief Election Commissioner of India has been invited to join the Board of Advisers for International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).


6. National Commission for Women (NCW) launched a Pan-India Capacity Building Programme ‘She is a Changemaker’ for Women in Politics.


7. Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, awarded the President’s Standard to the 22nd Missile Vessel Squadron, also known as the Killer Squadron at a ceremonial parade to be held at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai.


8. The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent, while the reverse repo rate also was kept unchanged at 3.35 per cent.

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