Weekly Current Affairs (Beepedia) 9th-15th December 2022

RBI, Banking and Economy

• RBI permits gold price hedging at IFSC

• ADB keeps India's GDP growth unchanged at 7% for current financial year

• Ministry of Steel select 67 Applications under PLI scheme for Speciality Steel

SEBI and FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• SEBI bars AIFs from raising capital from non-compliant foreign investors

• Investor network FAAD gets SEBI nod to launch Rs 300 crore fund

NABARD & AGRICULTURE

• Number of beneficiaries under PM-KISAN rises to 8.42 cr; more than Rs 2 lakh cr paid so far-Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare

• Centre awards nine GI tags to take total to 432, Kerala bags five

NATIONAL

• Establishment of AIIMS Nagpur

• New India Literacy Programme

• India signed joint declaration of Intent on migration and mobility with Finland

INTERNATIONAL

• Peru's President Pedro Castillo replaced by Dina Boluarte after impeachment

• US prints first banknotes with women's signatures

STATES

• Karthigai Deepam Chariot festival held in Madurai

• ‘Salaam Aarati’ soon to be renamed as ‘Aarati Namaskara’ in Karnataka

• PM flags off Vande Bharat Express from Nagpur Railway Station

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• Over 15 lakh Udyam MSMEs in handloom, handicraft, and agro employ more than 43 lakh women: Govt data

• India moves up to 5th place in list of world’s valuable firms - Hurun Global 500 list 2022

• Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women: Nirmala Sitaraman Among 5 Other Indians

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Three Himalayan medicinal plants enter IUCN Red List

• Zydus Life gets U.S. FDA nod for two generic drugs

• ISRO Successfully Completes Hypersonic Vehicle Test Run

DEFENCE

• Indian Army's Airawat Division Conducted Ex Sanchaar Bodh

• Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Ajay Bhatt unveils a bust of India’s first CDS late Gen Bipin Rawat

• Indian Navy allows women to join elite special force Marcos

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• Volodymyr Zelensky won the title of Time magazine’s “Person of the year 2022”

• Indian-American Krishna Vavilala receives US Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award

SPORTS

• Meghna Ahlawat becomes TTFI’s first female president

• India’s 77th Grand Master In Chess Is Aditya Mittal

• Legendary athlete PT Usha elected as first woman president of IOA