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- The Integral coach factory (ICF), Chennai rolls out the country’s first ever Self-propelled Inspection Car (SPIC), which means that it is powered by diesel-electric power pack.
- Usually a separate locomotive is employed for carrying out inspection works, which is expensive and time-consuming.
- Sadaiv Atal, the Samadhi of Atal Bihari Vajpayee was dedicated to the Nation on the birth Anniversary (December 25) of the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
- The 55th anniversary of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) was celebrated on December 24th at its 25th Battalion, Ghitorni, in New Delhi.
- The wrestler Bala Rafique Shaikh achieved the Maharashtra Kesari 2018 title by defeating Abhijeet Katke of Pune in the 62nd Maharashtra Kesari Wrestling Championship held at Azad ground, Jalna, Maharashtra.
- The US President Donald Trump announced that deputy secretary of defence Patrick Shanahan will take charge as Acting Secretary of Defence from January 1, 2019.
- The Ministry of Personnel appointed P V Bharathi as the MD and CEO of Corporation Bank, effective from February 1, 2019 till March 31, 2020 – the date of her superannuation.
- The RBI has mandated a three-year cooling-off period for its top retired officials before they can take over as chairman or chief executive of any other entity.
- To join as a director of any company’s board, the one-year cooling period mandate continues.
- The first meeting of the Follow-up Committee for implementation of the Trilateral Chabahar Agreement between India, Afghanistan and Iran was held in the port city of Chabahar in Iran.
- The Indian Navy commissioned its 10th Naval Hospital Ship named ‘INHS Sandhani’ at the Naval station Karanja in Uran near Mumbai, Maharashtra.
- The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting organized an India-China Film festival during the first India-China High Level Mechanism on Cultural and People-to-People Exchanges in New Delhi.
- The Indian Railways won 17 awards in the National Energy Conservation awards 2018 held in New Delhi.
- This was the highest number of awards bagged by a single organisation.
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