DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 6 DECEMBER 2020*
1.PM Modi to lay foundation and perform ‘Bhoomi Pujan’ for new parliament building on December 10 .
2. Serum Institute of India’s CEO Adar Poonawalla has been named among six people as “Asians of the Year” by Singapore’s leading daily, The Straits Times for their work in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. Kanhalgaon, spread over 270sqkm in Chandrapur district, is the latest to be declared a wildlife sanctuary. It will be the 50th wildlife sanctuary in Maharashtra
4. Kolkata’s Majerhat Bridge Named “Jai Hind” To Mark Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th Birth Anniversary
5.Italian club Napoli renamed its stadium in honor of former captain Diego Maradona.
6.Indian, Russian navies conduct Passage Exercise in eastern Indian Ocean Region
7. Indian-American teen inventor Gitanjali Rao named Time Magazine’s first-ever Kid of the Year
15-year-old inventor recent invention is an app and web tool called ‘Kindly’, which uses artificial intelligence to detect the early signs of cyberbullying.
8.India is the largest buyer of COVID-19 vaccines in the world with 1.6 billion doses, according to a global analysis, a number some scientists say could cover 800 million people, or 60 per cent of its population, and will be enough to develop “herd immunity”.