DAILY GK: 25 DEC
1.
WADA REPORT: INDIA RANKED 3RD
AMONG DOPE VIOLATORS
·
Russia Tops World
Anti Doping Agency(WADA) has published its latest Report titled “2019 Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) Report”.
·
India ranked 3rd among dope
violators in the world with 152 (17 per cent of the world total) ADRVs.
·
Bodybuilding(57), Weightlifting(25), and Athletics(20) has recorded
the more number of dope offenders in India.
·
Russia tops the list with 167 ADRVs, followed by Italy with 157 ADRVs.
2.
HARJINDER SINGH APPOINTED INDIA’S
‘CHEF DE MISSION’ FOR 2022 WINTER OLYMPICS
·
The Indian Olympic
Association (IOA) appointed Harjinder Singh as
the ‘Chef de Mission’ of the Indian contingent for the upcoming
Winter Olympics 2022 that will be held from 4-20th February in Beijing, China.
·
The first edition of the Winter
Games was held in 1924 at Chamonix, France.
3.
DRDO SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTS
FLIGHT-TEST OF AERIAL TARGET ‘ABHYAS’
·
DRDO successfully
conducted the flight test of indigenously developed High-speed Expendable
Aerial Target (HEAT) Abhyas, Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off
the coast of Odisha.
·
It is Developed by Aeronautical Development
Establishment (ADE), DRDO laboratory along with other laboratories.
·
HEAT provides a high subsonic speed
trajectory at a very low altitude with high endurance that meets the
requirement of aerial targets of the Indian Armed Forces.
·
The aircraft is controlled by a
ground-based controller and an indigenously developed
Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) based Inertial Navigation
System
4.
INDIAN NAVY DECOMMISSIONS INS
KHUKRI
·
INS Khukri (Pennant number
49), the first indigenously built Missile Corvette, was decommissioned
after 32 years of service at Visakhapatnam
·
The warship was built by the
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders (MSD) & Commissioned on 23rd
August 1989 and had been part of both the Western and Eastern Fleets.
5.
VETERAN INDIAN SPINNER ‘HARBHAJAN
SINGH’ ANNOUNCED RETIREMENT
·
The senior Indian
off-spinner, Harbhajan Singh announced retirement from all
forms of cricket.
·
Harbhajan was the 1st Indian Cricketer to take Hat-trick wickets
in Test
·
Harbhajan Singh is a 41-year-old
cricketer from Jalandhar, Punjab who took 417 wickets in 103 Tests and is
the 4th highest wicket taker for India in Test cricket.
6.
BOOK “THE TURNOVER WIZARD –
SAVIOUR OF THOUSANDS”
·
“The Turnover Wizard – Saviour Of
Thousands”, is an autobiography of Arup Roy
Choudhury, the former Chairman and Managing Director(CMD) of NTPC
Limited.
·
The book is published by HP
Hamilton Limited.
·
Arup Roy Choudhury was appointed
as the CMD of NBCC (India) Limited (formerly National Buildings
Construction Corporation Limited) in 2001 and became the youngest
ever CMD of a central public sector enterprise (CPSE).
7.
NATIONAL CONSUMER DAY 2021 – DECEMBER
24
·
The day commemorates the
enactment of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, which received
assent from the President of India on 24th December 1986.
·
The theme of National Consumer
Day 2021 is “Consumer – Know your Rights”.
