International Current Affairs December 2023

One Liner Short International Current Affairs December 2023

  • Angola to quit the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
  • UK to introduce carbon import levy on certain products by 2027
  • India to Acquire Five Lithium Blocks in Argentina
  • Pakistan People’s Party nominated first Hindu woman, Dr Saveera Parkash for elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Kartik Aaryan signed as Brand Ambassador for Football
  • Bisleri signed Deepika Padukone as it’s Global Brand Ambassador
  • UN chief appoints Sigrid Kaag as senior humanitarian coordinator for Gaza
  • HDFC Bank approves re-appointment of Atanu Chakraborty as chairman for 3 years
  • Nina Singh becomes first woman to be appointed as DG of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
  • Yunqing Tang and Ruixiang Zhang won SASTRA Ramanujan Awards for 2022 and 2023 respectively
  • Karnataka bags National Energy Conservation Award 2023
  • Devendra Fadnavis Conferred Honorary Doctorate By Japanese University
  • Pakistan successfully tests Fatah-II guided multi-launch rocket system
  • China launches a Long March-11 carrier rocket into space
  • Denmark introduces green tax on air passengers from 2025
  • World Bank sets up task force to act on MDB reform plan
  • Abdel Fattah El-Sisi elected president of Egypt
  • Maheshwar Dayal Takes Over as Director General of Prisons
  • Sanjay Singh becomes new president Wrestling Federation of India
  • Amrita Raichand named Health Ambassador for Salaam Bombay Foundation
  • Pramod Sharma appointed as Director (Works) of National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL)
  • Uday A Kaole Takes Over as CMD of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd
  • Indian-American medical student Rijul Maini crowned Miss India USA 2023
  • Srinivas Naik Dharavath receives Visionary Leader Icon 2023 Award
  • Israeli film ‘Children of Nobody’ won Best film award at KIFF Festival
  • Reliance Nippon Life Insurance won National Energy Conservation Awards
  • INS Shivaji received ‘Vir Chakra’ of late Vice Adm. Benoy Chowdhury
  • Nitin Mohan Lal received prestigious International Doctorate
  • Poonam Khetrapal Singh was awarded Bhutan’s National Order of Merit Gold Medal
  • NTPC Kanti received FICCI Water Award 2023 for water use efficiency
  • IREDA CMD Pradip Kumar Das bagged ‘CMD of the Year’ award
  • Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission Earns Leif Erikson Lunar Prize
  • Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2023 announced; Sanjeev will get Award for his Hindi novel Mujhe Pahachaano, Neelam Saran Gour will get award for her English Novel Requiem in Raga Janki
  • Bengaluru Airport Recognised As One Of World’s Most Beautiful Airports
  • President awarded Crompton-Most Energy Efficient Appliance of the Year
  • Sai Sudharsan awarded ‘impact fielder of the ODI series
  • Indonesia’s Ibu volcano erupts, ash up to 1,200m
  • Sri Lanka to host Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in 2024
  • Russia unveiled two new nuclear-powered submarines
  • Hyderabad ranked as “most livable city in India” by Mercer
  • Myanmar surpassed Afghanistan as world’s largest source of opium: UN report
  • China launched the deepest lab on Earth
  • Shah Rukh Khan tops UK’s 2023 South Asian celebrity list
  • World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 appoints UAE’s Mohammed Al Ramsi as Chairman
  • Lalduhoma takes oath as Chief Minister of Mizoram
  • Vishnu Deo Sai becomes the new CM of Chhattisgarh
  • Anish Shah takes over as FICCI President for 2023-24
  • Mohan Yadav becomes the new CM of Madhya Pradesh
  • Donald Tusk elected as PM of Poland
  • Bhajan Lal Sharma becomes CM of Rajasthan
  • Tripura appoints Ganguly as its tourism brand ambassador
  • Parama Sen appointed part-time member of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) board
  • Sangram Singh appoints as CEO of Indifi Technologies
  • Aditya Jairaj appoints as CEO and MD of Stellantis India
  • India’s Uma Sekhar was elected to the Governing Council of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
  • TIME ranks Sam Altman as CEO of the Year
  • Bhutanese author Tshering Tashi conferred with Sahitya Akademi’s Premchand Fellowship
  • Nikhil Dey named as International Anti-Corruption champion by US Govt.
  • Kabir Bedi awarded Italy’s highest honour “Order of Merit of the Italian Republic”
  • 33rd Vyas Samman to be conferred to Hindi writer Pushpa Bharati
  • International Gender Equality Prize 2023 went to an Afghanistan NGO
  • Javed Akhtar to be honoured at Ajanta-Ellora Film Festival
  • Former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon honoured with Diwali ‘Power of One’ Awards2023
  • Hemachandran Ravikumar honoured with the Karmaveer Chakra Medal
  • BBG Foundation becomes winner of Telangana Business Awards
  • Ali Abu Awwad and Daniel Barenboim won the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
  • Federal Bank as the top performer of the 2023 Climate Assessment for Financial Institutions (CAFI) Awards
  • Bipin Chandra Bags Champion of Change Award
  • Nepal is the first country in South Asia to register same sex marriage
  • The United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting is scheduled to be held in Accra Ghana.
  • The 91st edition of Interpol General Assembly is held in Vienna, Austria.
  • ALTERRA Fund for Climate Investment is launched by the UAE.
  • Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia becomes 8th wonder of the world
  • India re-elected to the International Maritime Organization
  • World Digital Competitiveness Ranking: India ranked 49th; topped by US
  • The word “Rizz” chosen as the Oxford Word of the Year 2023
  • China Adopts ‘One Province, One Policy’ Approach to Financial Risk Management
  • World’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor JT-60SA, was inaugurated in Japan
  • Narayan Sheshadri appointed as India Debt Resolution Co Ltd (IDRCL) chairman
  • Revanth Reddy takes oath as CM of Telangana
  • Captain Geetika Koul becomes first woman medical officer to be deployed at Siachen
  • Vice Admiral Dinesh Tripathi appoints as VC of Naval Staff
  • Deven Parekh appointed to IDFC (International Development Finance Corporation) board
  • Akshata Krishnamurthy becomes first Indian to operate Mars rover
  • Jithesh John took charge as Executive Director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
  • Max Life Insurance appoints Rajiv Anand as Chairman
  • Anand Kripalu appoints as CEO of Swiggy India
  • Indian-origin Samir Shah appoints head of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Board
  • V R Lalithambika was conferred with top French Civilian Award Legion d’Honneur
  • Arshia Sattar received French literary honor
  • Armed force medical college pune receives President’s color
  • Abdullahi Mire Wins 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
  • Ranveer Singh honoured by Sharon Stone at Red Sea Film Festival
  • India’s Safeena Husain honoured with Qatar WISE Prize 2023
  • Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) bagged “ISSA Vision Zero 2023” Award at the 23rd World Congress
  • Amazon won National Award for empowering individual with disabilities
  • Olympian M. Sreeshankar Clinches 35th Jimmy George Foundation Award
  • Jason Momoa’s ‘Deep Rising’ movie won ALT Environment Film Festival
  • ISRO and team Chandrayaan-3 honoured at India Business Leader
  • Indian-Origin Novelist Meira Chand Receives Singapore’s Highest Arts Award
  • Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi named Time Athlete of the Year for 2023
  • Coast Guard Commander Conference’s 40th edition inaugurated by the Defence Minister
  • The first edition of high-level virtual interaction MAHASAGAR launched by the Indian Navy
  • India-Sri Lanka Joint Military Exercise Culminates at Southern Command In Pune
  • Meta and IBM launched ‘AI Alliance’ to promote open-source AI development
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