Weekly Current Affairs One-Liners (5th Dec to 11th Dec)

 

 • The Semeru volcano on the Indonesian island of Java erupted on December 4, 2021. 

• Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in the country to fully vaccinate 100 per cent of its adult population against COVID-19. 

• 2021 Miss Trans Global title was conferred to Kerala native Sruthy Sithara. 

  Weekly Current Affairs One-Liners - 1st (5th Dec to 11th Dec)  

• Assamese poet Nilmoni Phukan has been awarded the Jnanpith Award for 2020. 

• The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize will be awarded for the years 2021 and 2022 together. 

• India has risen as the fourth most powerful country in Asia, according to a report by Lowy Institute Asia Power Index 2021. 

• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ranked 37 in Forbes’ The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

• The United Nations has appointed Catherine Russell as the next Executive Director of the UN children's agency UNICEF. 

• India's first human space mission "Gaganyaan" will be launched in 2023. 

• Switzerland has reportedly approved the use of a suicide pod called the Sarco capsule. 

• Russia beat Croatia to win the Davis Cup title after a 15-year wait.  

• Argentina won the Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup 2021 beating Germany's team. 

• Professor Neena Gupta has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from developing countries. 

• Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) has launched Sandhayak, the ‘First Of Class’ Indigenous survey vessel. 

• Human Rights Day 2021 is observed on December 10, every  year.