Top 10 News for today, 26 December 2020

Top 10 News for today
1. To ensure a smooth roll-out of the vaccination process, the central government has selected Punjab to conduct a dry run on December 28 and December 29, 2020
2. ISRO has released the first set of data from the country’s second mission to the Moon, the Chandrayaan-2, for the general public. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
3. Bangladesh is finalizing a purchase of 150,000 tonnes of rice from the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd
4. India Ratings on 24 Dec 2020, projected 7.8% contraction for the economy for 2020-21 as compared to 11.8% degrowth estimated earlier. It now expects Q3 to see contraction at 0.8% and Q4 to print in 0.3% growth
5. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has announced the construction of a new world-class hockey stadium in Rourkela. The stadium, being built as the largest one in the country, will host the Men’s World Cup Hockey World Cup in 2023
6. FIFA has cancelled Under-17 and Under-20 World Cups that were scheduled to be played in 2021, due to a coronavirus pandemic
7. India and Gabon discussed and reviewed bilateral ties including the COVID pandemic and possibilities of cooperation in the post-COVID scenario during a virtual interaction on 24 Dec’20
8. India and Croatia have reiterated their commitment to an open, free and stable Indo-Pacific region
9. Union Ministry of Culture has allowed free shooting in ASI monuments, except iconic sites including world heritage sites, till 15th August 2021
10. Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary on December 25 is observed as Good Governance Day. The year 2020 marks his 96th birth anniversary