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1-German Chancellor Angela Merkel received its first gender equality prize from Finland.
2- NASA has revealed the discovery of an eight-planet that has been orbiting Kepler-90, a star comparable to the Sun located 2,545 light-years from the Earth.
3-Facebook has launched a click-to-WhatsApp button on its platform. With this new feature, the advertisers can connect with over one billion WhatsApp users.
4- Oxford Dictionaries has declared ‘Youthquake’ as 2017 Word of the Year.
5- Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi’s hat-trick helped his Pakhtoons side beat the Virender Sehwag-led Maratha Arabians by 25 runs in the opening night of the inaugural T10 League in Sharjah.
6-Rajkummar Rao’s ‘Newton’ movie has missed the Oscar race.
7-Actor-wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has been eyeing for the President of the US. He is planning to do so in 2024.
8- National Award-winning actor Rajkummar Rao won Asia’s Rising Star award at the International Film Festival and Awards in Macau.
9-The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has reiterated its 2015 order banning plastic in Haridwar, Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.
10- Nineteen-year-old Christian Pulisic has been declared the United States(US) Soccer Federation’s Male Player of the Year.
11- Haryana Advocate General’s office has launched a project to curb investigating officials’ court appearances in criminal cases.
12- Haryana Advocate General’s office has earlier successfully implemented ‘e-vetting’ and ‘e-custody’ programmes.
13-60 million-year-old meteorite impact has been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye.
14-Cabinet has approved forming ‘circle office’ of Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) to monitor safety in railways.
15-Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has approved reserving 25 percent of the seats in the National Law University, Cuttack, for students from the state.
16-Football expert Novy Kapadia has been appointed an adviser to Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) president Shaji Prabhakaran.
17-The Union cabinet has cleared the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority bill, 2017.
18-Ravindra Jadeja smashed six sixes in an over in Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) inter-district T20 tournament in Rajkot.
19-FIFA has suspended the head of the Brazilian football federation Marco Polo Del Nero for the period of three months(90 days) over a breach of its rules.
20-Ford India has signed an agreement with the Telangana government to develop mobility solution for Hyderabad commuters.
21-Drug maker Sanofi India Ltd has elevated Director N. Rajaram as Managing Director from January 1.
22-Cabinet has given the nod for Rs 2,600 cr jobs’ package for the leather sector for three financial years up to 2019-20.
23-Budget passenger carrier IndiGo to operate new flight services on the Lucknow-Sharjah-Lucknow and Hyderabad-Sharjah-Hyderabad sectors from December 29, 2017.
24-The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the centrally-sponsored National AYUSH Mission (NAM) by three years with an outlay of Rs 2,400 crore.
25-Global IT services giant HCL Technologies has been conferred “The Key to the Heart of Gothenburg” award by Gothenburg City in Sweden
26-The Union Cabinet has approved the bill to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI)
27- 202 railway stations across the country have been identified as sensitive and 106 have been covered with CCTV cameras for surveillance.
28-‘Kingfisher Villa’, owned by absconding tycoon Vijay Mallya was renamed ‘King’s Mansion’ by its new owner, Sachiin Joshi.
29-Actor Mark Wahlberg has found a top position in the Forbes magazines list of ‘The Most Overpaid Actor Of 2017’.
30-Russia’s former Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev gets 8 years in jail for bribery.
31-25 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations will come up in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in Odisha.
32-Manish Dawar will take over as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) OF Vodafone India with effect from January 1, 2018