Current Affairs 29 Dec 2020

Foodie Hawker Culture

UNESCO recognized Singapore’s tradition of communal diving at Hawker centers, open air food centers and film society.
The culture agency of UN declared about addition of Hawker’s Culture to its list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity after two years of submission of bid by Singapore.

India’s largest hockey stadium to be build in Raurkela city of Odisha, it will be setup in Biju Patnaik university of technology campus. It will be spread over 15 acres of land with sitting capacity of 20,000 people.
Odisha will host FIH men’s hockey world cup for second time in 2023.

Central government is going to start CIMS (Coal Import Monitoring System) from 1^st of February 2021, in this monitoring mechanism it is required to importers to submit advance information online and it will be given an automatic registration number to handle coal imports.
India has set a target to increase the coal production to one billion tones by 2024 and 100 million tones coal gasification by 2030.

UNICEF recently launched COVID-19 vaccine market dashboard, it is an attractive tool for all countries and industries to follow the developments of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 vaccines.
This dashboard will provide regular updates on global research and development of covid-19 vaccine, bilateral and multilateral supply agreement, projected production capacity.

INS Kiltan reached at Nha Rong port of Ho Chi Minh city of Vietnam under the mission Sagar-III, in this mission INS Kiltan will deliver 15 tonnes of aid for flood affected people. It is a part of India’s HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief) to friendly foreign countries during the covid-19 disaster.
SAGAR is described as security and growth for all in the region. INS Kesari and INS Airavat was part of mission SAGAR-I and II respectively.