NATIONAL

India reached its 40% energy from non fossil fuels

• India had aimed to achieve a target of 40% energy generation through non fossil fuel sources as a part of its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) by 2030, as discussed in Conference of Parties 21 meeting held at Paris.
• Out of the total installed power capacity of India which is 390.8GW it has achieved  156.83 GW of power from non fossil fuel sources by 2021, making the country achieve 40.1% of  power generated by non fossil fuel sources.
• This makes the country achieve its COP21 target of 40% energy by non fossil fuel well ahead by 2021 itself.
• India is currently generating 150.05 GW from the installed renewable energy capacity and the country is generating 6.78GW of energy from its installed nuclear capacity,

Navik Jeevan Report released

• Minister for Ports, Shipping & Waterways and AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal has released the survey Navik Jevan , which is the survey conducted on the life of Sea Farers.
• The report mainly focusses on the various issues faced by the sea farers in employment, training, discrimination, harassment, fatigue, stress, motivation, happiness, safety, environment, working on board.
• The Union Minister has also launched Online Competency exams for seafarers through Video Conferencing Mode as a part of Maritime India Vision 2030.

ZyCoV-D approved in 7 States

• The Health Ministry has approved to administer the ZyCov-D vaccination in States of India, where the number of people who haven’t received a single dose is high.
• The Ministry has Identified Seven states namely-Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal and approved for initial jab of ZyCoV-D.

Additional Fact-

1. ZyCoV-D( Zydus Cadila)is the worlds first Plasmid DNA Vaccine developed by Cadila Healthcare, India.
2. The Vaccination had 66.66% Efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 Patients under the Phase 3 trial.

New Scheme to protect endangered languages

• Indian Government has launched a new scheme named-‘Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages of India’ (SPPEL) aimed to preserve endangered languages spoken in India.
• The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) has identified 117 endangered languages which has been spoken by less than 10,000 people under the phase 1, and will work to prevent, preserve and document the languages.
• The University Grants Commission has also launched two more schemes to preserve languages namely ‘Funding Support to the State Universities for Study and Research in Indigenous and Endangered languages in India’ and ‘Establishment of Centres for Endangered Languages in Central Universities’
• The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) and The University Grants Commission together have released a sum of Rs 50 Crore approximately for the protection of endangered languages from 2015-2020.

AAI and NEC work on Facial Recognition from 2022

• The Airports Authority of India and NEC corporation Private LTD are working together to implement Facial Recognition at Airports by 2022 as a part of Digi Yatra Policy.
• The Minister of State for Civil Aviation V.K Singh has set to implement the delayed project of implementing Facial Recognitiontechnology based biometric boarding system at 4 airports namely in Kolkata, Pune Varanasi and Vijaywada initially by 2022.

INTERNATIONAL

New PM candidate for Cambodia

• Deputy Commander in Chief and Commander of the Infantry of royal Cambodian Army Hun Manet was announced as the next candidate for Prime Minister of Cambodia.
• This announcement was made by the current Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen, and announced his son Hun Manet as the next candidate to contest in elections to be held by 2023.

BANKING, FINANCE AND ECONOMICS

79% subscription for New IPO

• Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd’s Initial public offering secured 79.3% subscription.
• As per the exchange data the firm totally received Rs 3.56 crore equity shares against Rs 4.49 crores shares on offer.
• The Qualified Institutional Buyer portion was subscribed to a value of Rs 2,204 crore(103%), and the Retail Investors bid to Rs 784 crore(110%).
• The employees portion stood at a bid of 10% and subscription for non institutional buyers stood at 19%.

New agreement for green hydrogen

• The Larsen ad Tubro Ltd and Re New Power are yet to sign an agreement to start a business on green hydrogen at India.
• The investment would rise upto $60 billion from the both sides

Additional Fact-

CEO of Larsen and Tubro- S.N Subrahmanyan

CEO of ReNew Power- Sumant Sinha

SPORTS

Women of the Year

• World Athletics has awarded the Women Of the Year award to Indian Long Jump legend Anju Bobby George for her dedication to Athletics.
• She becomes the second women to receive the award after Ethiopia’s double Olympic champion Derartu Tulu.

Other awards-

1. World Athletes of the Year- Elaine Thompson Herah(Jamaica) and Karsten Warholm(Norway) .
2. Female Rising Star-Athing Mu (United States).

MISCELLANEOUS

• Dec 3^rd is observed as the International Day of Person with Disabilities.
• Dec 3^rd  is observed as the Birth anniversary of First Indian President Rajendra Prasad