Daily Current Affairs Updates

Sprint king Usain Bolt from Jamaica has been awarded the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year award in male category for sixth time. Earlier he had won it in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

The 7th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) was held from December 2 to 4, 2016 at Science City in Kolkata, West Bengal.

Hailakandi district of Assam has become the first district to pay wages to tea garden workers through individual bank accounts.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is going to issue new currency notes of Twenty and Fifty rupees denomination in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005.

The Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram launched Stanpan Suraksha mobile application to promote breastfeeding and keep a tab on inappropriate promotion of baby food items.

All monuments and archaeological sites protected by the ASI have been declared as polythene free zones.

• Akodara becomes India’s first Digital Village
• Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu to head CMs Committee on Demonetisation
• India hosts golden jubilee celebrations of UNCITRAL in New Delhi

The Union Agriculture & Farmers Welfare launched e-pashuhaat portal to connect farmers and breeders of bovine animals.

India hosted the golden jubilee (50th anniversary) celebrations of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in New Delhi.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has set up two high-level advisory committees to gather inputs from experts, including on service providers and corporate liquidation.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dropped the term ‘counterfeit’ and retained ‘falsified’ to describe medicines of inferior quality.

The Union Government has decided to constitute a sub-committee of Chief Ministers of five states in the wake of demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes.