Current Affairs - December 11, 2021 Current Affairs

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposes several restrictions on Nagar Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, including restrictions on withdrawals up to Rs. 10,000 for customers.

Konkani author Damodar Mauzo was awarded the 57th Jnanpith award 2022 on Tuesday, 7 December. The 77-year-old author was conferred with the nation's highest literary award for his "outstanding contribution to literature".

Indian Shuttler PV Sindhu won Silver at BWF World Tour Finals 2021 Viktor Axelsen and An Se-young won gold.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched a new X-Ray mission that aims at unlocking the secrets of the black hole and other extreme cosmic objects.

Shivalik Small Finance Bank (SSFB) signed a partnership agreement with fintech firm, Indiagold to launch India's first Loan against Digital Gold.

The Lowy Institute Asia Power Index 2021, Indian has been ranked as the 4th most powerful country in the Asia-Pacific region for comprehensive power out of 26 countries.

The Biden administration has announced that US officials will not attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing after China took an unspecified "retaliation" against any such diplomatic boycott.

Tokyo Olympics has the top searched news event by Indians on Google in 2021, followed by Black Fungus, Afghanistan News, West Bengal elections and Tropical Cyclone Tauktae.

Fitch Ratings has cut India's economic growth forecast to 8.4 per cent, earlier it was estimated at 8.7 per cent for the current fiscal year (2021-22, or FY22).

German lawmakers officially elected Social Democrat, Olaf Scholz as the new chancellor, putting an end to 16 years of conservative rule under Angela Merkel.

President of India, Ram Nath Kovind has presented the 'President's Standard' to the 22nd Missile Vessel Squadron of the Indian Navy, which is also known as the Killer Squadron at the ceremonial parade held at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Pune is going to host a multilateral and multi-agency exercise named "PANEX-21" for the member countries of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation).

The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has ranked at 37th position in the Forbes' rankings of 100 most powerful women of the world for the third time in a row.

Chandrayaan-3 mission is likely to be launched during the third quarter of 2023 if normal workflow continues, informed Union Minister of State in the Department of Space Dr Jitendra Singh.

The theme for Human Rights Day 2021 is "Equality - Reducing inequalities, advancing human rights".

The National Institution of Transforming India (NITI) Aayog has launched an initiative named 'e-Sawaari India Electric Bus Coalition' in collaboration with Convergence Energy Service Ltd (CESL) and World Resources Institute, India (WRI India) and Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI).

Nicaragua announced that it is breaking its diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China.

Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10th December across the world to honour the day in 1948 when the UNGA adopted the UDHR.

It is located near Villupuram in Tamil Nadu and will be called the 'Kazhuveli Birds Sanctuary' from now.

In this regard, PayPhi, Phi Commerce's API (Application programming interface) first digital payments platform, became the first certified tokenization service for NTS supporting tokenization of RuPay cards.