December 2021 Current Affairs

Sahitya Akademi Award 2021:

1. Anuradha Sarma Pujari (Assamese)
2. Bratya Basu (Bengali)
3. Mwdai Gahai (Bodo)
4. Raj Rahi (Dogri)
5. Namita Gokhale (English)
6. Daya Prakash Sinha (Hindi)
7. DS Nagabhushana (Kannada)
8. Wali Mohd Aseer Kashtawari (Kashmiri)
9. Sanjiv Verenkar (Konkani)
10. George Onakkoor (Malayalam)
11. Kiran Gurav (Marathi)
12. Chhabilal Upadhyaya (Nepali)
13. Hrushikesh Mallick (Odia)
14. Khalid Hussain (Punjabi)
15. Meethesh Nirmohi (Rajasthani)
16. Vindeshwariprasad Mishr “Vinay” (Sanskrit)
17. Niranjan Hansda (Santali)
18. Arjun Chawla (Sindhi)
19. Ambai (Tamil)
20. Gorati Venkanna (Telugu)

Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2021:

1. Abhijit Bora (Assamese)
2. Gourob Chakraborty (Bengali)
3. Gautom Daimary (Bodo)
4. Arun Akash Dev (Dogri)
5. Megha Majumdar (English)
6. Drashti Soni (Gujarati)
7. Himanshu Vajpai (Hindi)
8. L.Lakshmi Narayan Swamy (Kannada)
9. Razi Tahir Bhagat (Kashmiri)
10. Sharddha Garad (Konkani)
11. Amit Mishra (Maithili)
12. Mobin Mohan (Malayalam)
13. Lenin Khmancha (Manipuri)
14. Pranav Sakhadeo (Marathi)
15. Mahesh Dahal (Nepali)
16. Debabrata Das (Odia)
17. Veerdavinder Singh (Punjabi)
18. Swetapadma Satapathy (Sanskrit)
19. Kuna Hansdah (Santali)
20. Rakesh Shewani (Sindhi)
21. Thagulla Gopal (Telugu)
22. Umar Farhat (Urdu)

Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2021:

1. Mrinal Chandra Kalita (Assamese)
2. Sunirmal Chakraborty (Bengali)
3. Ratneshwar Narzary (Bodo)
4. Narsingh Dev Jamval (Dogri)
5. Anita Vaccharajani (English)
6. Devendra Mewari (Hindi)
7. Basu Bevinagida (Kannada)
8. Majeed Majazi (Kashmiri)
9. Sumedha Kamat Desai (Konkani)
10. Anmol Jha (Maithili)
11. Raghunath Paleri (Malayalam)
12. Ningombam Jadumani Singh (Manipuri)
13. Sanjay Wagh (Marathi)
14. Sudarsha Ambatey (Nepali)
15. Digaraj Brahma (Odia)
16. Kirti Sharma (Rajasthani)
17. Asha Agarwal (Sanskrit)
18. Sova Hansda (Santali)
19. Kishin Khubchandani “Ranjayal” (Sindhi)
20. Mu. Murugesh (Tamil)
21. Devaraju Maharaju (Telugu)
22. Kausar Siddiqui (Urdu)

CDS Bipin Rawat

General Bipin Rawat was a four-star general of the Indian Army who was appointed as the first CDS of India on 31 December 2021. He assumed office on 1 January 2020. 

Jnanpith Awards

Jnanpith Awards are India’s highest literary honour, which is bestowed on the writers for their outstanding contribution in Literature.

• Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr has won the 56th Jnanpith Award.
• Konkani novelist Damodar Mauzo has won the 57th Jnanpith Award.

India’s highest literary award, the annual Jnanpith is bestowed on writers for “their outstanding contribution towards literature”.

Most Powerful Indian Women

Fortune India’s List of Top 5 Most Powerful Women in India:

NITI Aayog Health Index

The report has been prepared in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with technical assistance from the World Bank.

• Uttar Pradesh has once again figured at the bottom of 19 large states on the fourth NITI Aayog health index for 2019-20.
• Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana are the top three, which means for four times in a row Kerala has emerged the best in overall health performance.
• Bihar and Madhya Pradesh were the second- and third-worst performers, respectively.
• Among Union Territories, Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir have been ranked among bottom UTs with respect to overall performance. However, they emerged as leading performer with respect to incremental performance.
• Telangana secured the third place in terms of overall performance as well as incremental performance.
• Rajasthan was the worst performer, in terms of overall performance and incremental performance.
• Among smaller states, Mizoram & Tripura registered strong overall performance. They also showed improvements in incremental performance.
• In smaller states category, Mizoram became the best performer in overall performance and incremental performance.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is the next great space science observatory following Hubble, designed to answer outstanding questions about the Universe and to make breakthrough discoveries in all fields of astronomy. Webb will see farther into our origins: from the formation of stars and planets, to the birth of the first galaxies in the early Universe. Webb is an international partnership between NASA, ESA and CSA. The telescope will launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

• Target launch date: 25 December 2021
• Launch location: Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana
• Launch vehicle: Ariane 5
• Orbit: Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million km from Earth

Good Governance Index 2021

Top ranking States and UTs in the sectors and their Composite Ranks

List of important national and international days in the month of December 2021:

1 December- World AIDS Day

2 December- National Pollution Control Day

2 December- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

2 December- World Computer Literacy Day

3 December- World Day of the Handicapped or International Day of Persons with Disabilities

4 December- Indian Navy Day

5 December- International Volunteer Day

5 December- World Soil Day

6 December- BR Ambedkar’s death anniversary

6 December- National Microwave Oven Day

7 December- Armed Forces Flag Day

7 December- International Civil Aviation Day

9 December- International Anti-Corruption Day

10 December- Human Rights Day

11 December- International Mountain Day

11 December- UNICEF Day

12 December- Universal Health Coverage Day

14 December- National Energy Conservation Day

16 December- Vijay Diwas

18 December- Minorities Rights Day in India

18 December- International Migrants Day

19 December- Goa's Liberation Day

20 December- International Human Solidarity Day

22 December- National Mathematics Day

23 December- Kisan Diwas

24 December- National Consumer Rights Day

25 December- Christmas Day

25 December- Good Governance Day (India)

31 December- New Year's Eve