Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for December 29, 2021

– Defence Minister Rajnath Singh virtually dedicates to the Nation 24 bridges & three roads built by BRO in four States & two Union Territories

– PM launches blockchain-based digital degrees at IIT Kanpur

– PM inaugurates 356 Km long Bina-Panki Multiproduct Pipeline Project; connects Bina refinery in MP to Panki in Kanpur

– PM inaugurates 9 kms completed section of Kanpur Metro Rail Project

– Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs 3rd meeting of Apex Level Committee of Narco Coordination Center in New Delhi

– FCRA licence of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity not renewed following adverse inputs: Home Ministry

– The Hindu’s Shiv Sahay Singh wins prize at Ramnath Goenka award for his 2019 story “Death by Digital Exclusion”

– Vikram Misri, India’s former ambassador to China, appointed Deputy National Security Advisor

– RBI releases report on “Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2020-21”; gross non-performing assets (GNPA) ratio of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) declined from 8.2% at end-March 2020 to 7.3% at end-March 2021

– DRDO hands over technology of extreme cold weather clothing system (ECWCS) to five Indian companies; designed to provide thermal insulation between +15° to -50° Celsius

– Supriya Lifescience makes strong market debut; lists at 55% premium over its issue price

– Booker Prize-winning novelist Keri Hulme of New Zealand dies at 74

– Pakistan: National Security Committee (NSC) approves ‘citizen-centric’ National Security Policy