• Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi has penned down new book titled ‘Covid-19: Sabhyata ka Sankat aur Samadhan’ (Covid-19: Crisis of Civilisation and Solutions).

• It has been launched by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh.

• The book discusses how Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the common way of life while suggesting solutions to the ongoing crisis triggered by the disease.

Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 'Player of the Century' award at the Globe Soccer Awards.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola won the Coach of the Century award. Spanish giants Real Madrid won the Club of the Century award during the event.

• ICICI Bank has rolled out online portal ‘Infinite India’ to support foreign companies to establish or expand business in India

• It will offer banking solutions as well as value-added services such as incorporation of a business entity, corporate filings, licences and registrations, HR services, compliances and taxation among others.

• YES bank partnered with Visa as a payment processor to enhance salaried and YES FIRST account holders’ payment experience.

• The bank has also introduced a new line of vertical Debit cards under the E-series across Mastercard and VISA cards.

• This launch enables customers to avail VISA-branded YES bank debit cards along with Mastercard and RuPay branded debit cards.

• This upgradation is aligned with the vision of the bank to offer its customers a best payment experience in the world.

• It also is the step towards the cashless transformation in India.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off the 100th run of the Kisan Rail via video conferencing.

• It starts from Sangola in Maharashtra to Shalimar in West Bengal, covering a distance of 2,132 km with more than 400 tonnes of cargo at a speed of 54.6 kmph.

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh handed over three indigenously developed high technology systems developed by DRDO to Indian Navy, Army and Air force

• BOSS stands for Border Surveillance System. It is being handed over to Indian Army.

• It is an all-weather electronic system that has been deployed at Ladakh border area for day and night surveillance.

• The system facilitates monitoring and surveillance by automatically detecting the intrusions in harsh high-altitude sub-zero temperature areas with remote operation capability.

• The Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) is set to establish the “Dr F C Kohli Centre of Excellence for Advanced Research in Mathematical and Computing Sciences” in honour of Faqir Chand Kohli, known popularly as the father of the Information Technology industry in India.

• With a committed donation of Rs 10 crore towards the establishment of the centre, the institute will raise funds from cor porates, communi t y groups, colleagues and wellwishers to further augment the corpus.

• FC Kohli, known as the architect of the Indian IT industry, passed away on November 26 at the age of 96.

• The Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad becomes the first zoo in the country to receive ISO 9001: 2015 quality management certification from the ASCB, UK.

• The ISO certificate helps to ensure maintaining the quality of standards.

• HYM International Certifications Pvt Ltd, accredited by the ASCB, recently reviewed the ISO 9001: 2015 certification.

• The basis of assessment was sanitisation, food processing, animal breeding, medicare, animal care, hygiene maintenance and establishment.

• Notably, the number of tigers and Indian Gaur were also increased at the Nehru Zoological Park.

• Uttar Pradesh govt has rolled out special campaign named as ‘Varasat’ (natural succession) to curb property & land-related disputes in rural areas.

• This is a first of its kind campaign in UP that will end the land-related issues in the rural areas and eradicate the exploitation of the villagers over succession rights by land mafias, who generally target disputed properties.

• It is a 2-month-long special drive campaign.

• France was accepted as 23rd member state of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).

• In the 20th IORA Council of Ministers virtual meeting, held in the UAE, France’s application was approved through consensus. Together with France, this inter-governmental ministerial forum, at present has 23 member states.

• It’s other nine dialogue partners are: China, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Republic of Korea, UK and the USA.