Current Affairs One-liners — 21 December 2024

Sat, 21 Dec 2024

• The GST Council chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, on 21 December 2024 and recommended a series of rate changes and clarifications.
• Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav released ISFR 2023, the 18th biennial report of the Forest Survey of India, at the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, on 21 December 2024.
• The 72nd Plenary Session of the North Eastern Council was held in Agartala, Tripura, on 21 December 2024, followed by the 12th meeting of the North Eastern Space Applications Centre Society.
• The Ministry of Textiles and SASMIRA launched a 15,000 sq m demonstration centre for agro-textiles in Navsari, Gujarat, on 21 December 2024 in the presence of Jal Shakti Minister C. R. Patil.
• The Ministry of Mines presented the auction process for India's first offshore areas mineral blocks to industry at Porbandar, Gujarat, on 21 December 2024, highlighting lime-mud for cement.
• World Meditation Day, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly with India in the core group of sponsors, was observed for the first time on 21 December 2024.
• The Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, received two new facilities on 21 December 2024, building on the Pashmina Certification Centre opened a year earlier.
• The Association of NPS Intermediaries (ANI) was launched at the Insurance Institute of India, Mumbai, on 21 December 2024 to bring together stakeholders of the National Pension System.
• The Nagpur–Mansar bypass stretch of NH-44 in Maharashtra, built with lignin-based bio-bitumen, was inaugurated on 21 December 2024.
• Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw presented the 69th Ati Vishisht Rail Seva Puraskar at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 21 December 2024.