{"id":984,"date":"2026-09-08T19:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/current-affairs-notes-on-december-1-5-html\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:43:50","slug":"current-affairs-notes-on-december-1-5-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/current-affairs-notes-on-december-1-5-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Current affairs notes on December 1-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-141897181759897734\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a01.FATF recently held its annual\u00a0joint experts\u2019 meet. The<br \/>\nFinancial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body\u00a0established<br \/>\nin 1989 on the initiative of the G7.It is\u00a0a \u201cpolicy-making body\u201d\u00a0which<br \/>\nworks to generate the necessary political will to bring about national<br \/>\nlegislative and regulatory reforms in various areas. The FATF\u00a0Secretariat<br \/>\nis housed at the OECD headquarters in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">2.A\u00a0\u2018Monthly Progress Report\u2019\u00a0was recently<br \/>\nsubmitted by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to the Union Ministry of Jal<br \/>\nShakti on\u00a0cleaning Yamuna. The river\u00a0Yamuna is a major tributary of<br \/>\nriver Ganges. Originates from\u00a0the Yamunotri glacier\u00a0near Bandarpoonch<br \/>\npeaks in the Mussoorie range of the lower Himalayas in Uttarkashi district of<br \/>\nUttarakhand. It meets the Ganges at the Sangam in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh<br \/>\nafter flowing through Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi. Tributaries:\u00a0Chambal,<br \/>\nSindh, Betwa and Ken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">3.Present Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal. The Attorney<br \/>\nGeneral for India is the central government\u2019s\u00a0chief legal advisor, and its<br \/>\nprimary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He is\u00a0a part of the Union<br \/>\nExecutive. He is\u00a0appointed by the President of India under Article 76(1)<br \/>\nof the Constitution\u00a0and\u00a0holds office during the pleasure of the<br \/>\nPresident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">4. The major demand of the protesting farmers has been<br \/>\nthat\u00a0the government guarantee in writing the MSP system. The MSP (minimum<br \/>\nsupport price)\u00a0assures the farmers of a fixed price for their crops. The\u00a0Commission<br \/>\nfor Agricultural Costs &#038; Prices (CACP)\u00a0in the Ministry of Agriculture<br \/>\nwould recommend MSPs for 23 crops. The CACP considered various factors while<br \/>\nrecommending the MSP for a commodity, including cost of cultivation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">5.Chardham Project in news: The project comprises<br \/>\nimprovement as well as the development of 889 km length of national highways. The<br \/>\nproject will connect Badrinath Dham, Kedarnath Dham, Gangotri, Yamunotri, and<br \/>\npart of the route leading to Kailash Mansarovar yatra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">6. The virtual edition of the Aadi Mahotsav \u2013 Madhya Pradesh<br \/>\nlaunched. Aadi Mahotsav is\u00a0a national tribal festival and a joint<br \/>\ninitiative\u00a0of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India &#038;<br \/>\nTribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">7. Cyclone Nivar\u00a0hit the Karaikal coast, another\u00a0cyclone,<br \/>\nBurevi,\u00a0named by the Maldives, is expected to cross Tamil Nadu\u2019s<br \/>\nsouthernmost district of Kanyakumari\u00a0. Tropical Cyclone is any large<br \/>\nsystem of winds that circulates about a center of low atmospheric pressure in a<br \/>\ncounter-clockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction<br \/>\nto the south. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">8. Chinese Chang\u2019e-5\u00a0 probe lands on Moon to collect<br \/>\nsamples. The objective of the mission is\u00a0to bring back lunar rocks,\u00a0the<br \/>\nfirst attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon in four decades. If<br \/>\nsuccessful,\u00a0China will be only the third country to have retrieved samples<br \/>\nfrom the moon, following the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>9. Bihar is holding\u00a0a bird festival\u00a0for the first<br \/>\ntime as part of its initiative to save migratory birds that arrive in the state<br \/>\nin large numbers every year. This was because the 60-kilometre-long stretch<br \/>\nof\u00a0the Vikramshila Dolphin Sanctuary\u00a0between Sultanganj and Kahalgaon<br \/>\nhad long been a hub of migratory birds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">10. An expert panel of India\u2019s environment ministry has<br \/>\ndeferred environment clearance for the Lower\u00a0Orr Dam,\u00a0which is part<br \/>\nof\u00a0the Ken-Betwa river interlinking project. Ken- Betwa project. Conceived<br \/>\nas\u00a0a two-part project,\u00a0this is\u00a0the country\u2019s first river<br \/>\ninterlinking project. Ken and Betwa rivers originate in MP and are the<br \/>\ntributaries of Yamuna. Ken River passes through Panna tiger reserve (MP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">11. Every year, India celebrates\u00a0December 4 as Navy Day<br \/>\nto commemorate Operation Trident, a key offensive during the 1971<br \/>\nIndia-Pakistan War, when\u00a0the Indian Navy inflicted heavy damage on<br \/>\nPakistani vessels in Karachi harbour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">Thank You.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/currentaffairscircle.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/current-affairs-notes-on-december-1-5.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a01.FATF recently held its annual\u00a0joint experts\u2019 meet. 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