National

GPAI Summit

• PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.
• The Summit will provide an opportunity to know what the world is thinking on Artificial Intelligence and what India is offering.

J&K Reservation and Reorganisation (Amendment) Bills

• Parliament has passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023.

Viksit Bharat@2047

• PM Narendra Modi launched the ‘Viksit Bharat@2047 - Voice of Youth’ initiative aimed at integrating youngsters towards building a developed India.

International

Nuclear-powered submarines

• Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled two new nuclear-powered submarines that he said would soon start patrolling the Pacific.

Economy

Bio-Economy

• Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said India's 'Bio-Economy' has grown eight times in the last eight years from $10 billion to $80 billion.
• Bio Agriculture and Bio Pharmaceuticals, Bio Services are the emerging sectors that are growing rapidly in the country.

Agriculture credit target

• Government has set an agriculture credit target of 20 lakh crore rupees for the 2023-24 fiscal.

Defence

VINBAX-2023

• Indian Armed Forces contingent comprising 45 personnel reached Hanoi, Vietnam to take part in the fourth edition of Joint Military Exercise VINBAX-2023.
• The exercise will be conducted at Hanoi, Vietnam from 11th to 21st December 2023.
• Exercise VINBAX was instituted in 2018 and the first edition was conducted at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

Sports

Khelo India Para Games

• Monu Ghangas from Haryana won gold in men’s discus throw (F11) category.
• Nishad Kumar from Himachal Pradesh won the high jump gold.
• Vinothkumar from Tamil Nadu sealed gold in the 100m dash in the T38 category.

R. Raghupathi Reddy Memorial Cup

• Trainer G. Shashikanth’s Ashwa Morocco, ridden by K.G. Likith Appu, won the R. Raghupathi Reddy Memorial Cup.

ICC Men's Player of the Month

• Australian batter Travis Head has been named as the ICC Men's Player of the Month for November 2023.

ICC Women's Player of the Month

• Bangladesh spin bowler Nahida Akter clinched the ICC Women's Player of the Month award for November.

Awards & Honours

Vyas Samman

• 33rd Vyas Samman will be conferred to notable Hindi-Writer Pushpa Bharati this year.
• It is given annually to an outstanding work of Hindi literature by an Indian citizen published in the last 10 years.

Person in News

Donald Tusk

• Donald Tusk elected as new Prime Minister of Poland after current leader Mateusz Morawiecki loses confidence vote in parliament.

Haitham bin Tarik

• Head of State of Oman, Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, will visit India for a State visit.