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December 1 , 2020 1399 days 1155 0
  • Tamil Nadu received the best organ donated state for the sixth consecutive time.
  • Recently, Maharashtra announced the setting up of a desalination plant in Mumbai.
    • Maharashtra will be the fourth state to experiment with Desalination Plants after Tamilnadu, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.
  • The eleventh National Organ Donation Day was observed on November 27, 2020 by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
  • Russia successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Arctic Region.
    • The missile was fired from the White Sea to the Barents Sea at a speed of over Mach 8.
  • Bhutan has announced that it had established diplomatic relations with Germany.
    • This is the Bhutan kingdom’s first diplomatic foray in seven years.
  • Scotland becomes first nation in the World to make sanitary pads, tampons at the free of cost.
    • It is the first nation in the world to take such a step against period (menstrual) poverty.
  • Dr. Gaurav Sharma, MP in New Zealand created history by becoming the first Indian-origin parliamentarian to take oath in Sanskrit language on foreign land.
    • He took oath first in New Zealand’s indigenous Maori language and then in Sanskrit.
  • The United Arab Emirates recently became the first and probably the last Arab country to generate electricity from coal.
    • Mostly Gulf countries, rich in oil and natural gas, fulfil their electricity requirements from gas-based power plants.

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