- P V Sindhu has won Macau Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton Title held in Macau.
- Russian film ‘Leviathan’ bagged the Golden Peacock at the closing ceremony of the 45th International Film Festival of India ( IFFI).
- United Arab Emirates — Dubai plan for the city’s second airport that aims to make it the world’s biggest airport.
- Gujarat has become first state in to surpass the 1 billion mark in e-Transactions and to achieve landmark of 100 crore e-Transactions.
- Anil Kumar Sinha was appointed as the new CBI Director.
- Russia has launched the new generation navigation satellite GLONASS-K.
- Tabare Ramon Vazquez Rosas won the 2014 presidential elections of Uruguay.
- Government observed national ‘Good Governance Day’ on the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 25th December, 2014.
- Duncan Campbell wins Britain’s prestigious art award ‘Turner prize’ for year 2014.
- The Uttar Pradesh government has started the Women Entrepreneurship Promotion Scheme 2014-15 to empower women and ensure their participation in the process of industrialisation.
- Indian-American scientist Arun Majumdar appointed as US Science Envoy.
- SBI Cards tied up with FBB of Future Group to launch a co-branded credit card named Styleup.
- Indian Oil won the 119th Beighton Cup Hockey tournament.
- The Assam government launched a new road construction scheme named Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Concrete Road Nirman.
- India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-16 was placed in orbit by Ariane 5 rocket from the space port of Kourou in French Guiana.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been named as the Asian of the Year 2014 by Singapore’s leading newspaper The Straits Times.
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has relaxed the norms for Pre-paid Payment Instruments (PPI) and doubled the limit of PPI from 50000 rupees to one lakh rupees.
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