India
- Uttarakhand: PM inaugurates and lays foundation stone for multiple projects worth Rs 18,000 crore
- India on its way to achieve population stabilisation: MoS Health Bharati Pravin Pawar
- Navy Day celebrated on Dec 4
- Former CM of undivided Andhra Pradesh Konijeti Rosaiah of Congress dies at 88
- Veteran journalist Vinod Dua dies at 67
- President inaugurates centenary celebrations of Public Accounts Committee of Parliament
- India-Maldives joint military Exercise EKUVERIN being conducted in Maldives from Dec 6 to 19
- Indian Navy’s 22nd Missile Vessel Squadron, that bombed the Karachi Port and sunk Pakistan Navy’s vessels in the 1971 war, to receive the President’s Standard on Dec 8
- ‘Public Service Ethics – A Quest for Naitik Bharat’, a book by former cabinet secretary and former Jharkhand governor Prabhat Kumar, released
- Manipur: AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurates 50 Bed Integrated Ayush Hospital in Moreh
- Nagaland: 11 civilians gunned down by security forces in Mon district
- Heavy rains lash Odisha as remnants of cyclone Jawad near coast
- TRS member Banda Prakash resigns from Rajya Sabha
- Veteran Kannada actor Shivaram passes away in Bengaluru at 83
- ‘Sandhayak’, first of the four ships under Survey Vessel (Large) project for Indian Navy, launched at GRSE, Kolkata
Economy & corporate
- Defence Minister delivers inaugural address at MSME Conclave organised by Department of Defence
- Bureaucrat Alka Upadhyaya appointed Chairperson of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
- Sanjay Bandopadhyay appointed Chairman of Inland Waterways Authority of India
- Asok Kumar appointed Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga
- Neelam Shammi Rao appointed as Central Provident Fund Commissioner, Employees’ Provident Fund Organization
- External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar addressed fifth Indian Ocean Conference in Abu Dhabi
- Indonesia: Eruption of Mount Semeru volcano kills 14 on Java island
- International Volunteer Day observed by UN on Dec 5; theme: ‘Volunteer now for our common future’
- World Soil Day observed on Dec 5; this year’s campaign “Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity”
World
- Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, 2 colleagues selected for inaugural Ciprian Foias Prize
- International Day of Banks celebrated by UN on Dec 4
- UAE to buy 80 Rafale jets from France in $18-billion deal
- Afghan trucks can carry Indian aid via Pakistan
Sports
- New Zealand’s Ajaz Patel takes 10 wickets in an innings at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, 3rd in 144-yr Test history after England’s Jim Laker and India’s Anil Kumble
- AIFF bars Chennai City FC from participating in the upcoming edition of the I-League
- Argentina defeat Germany to win men’s Junior hockey World Cup at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar; India get bronze
- Malaysia beat India 2-1 to win men’s Asian team squash championships in Kuala Lumpur
- 2021 BWF World Tour Finals badminton tournament in Bali, Indonesia: Viktor Axelsen (Denmark) and An Se-young (South Korea) win men’s women’s singles titles respectively
- Russia defeat Croatia 2-0 in Madrid to win Davis Cup tennis tournament in Madrid
