7 exam-relevant headlines, written simply. Read the bold fact in each — that's what exams ask.
P. V. Sindhu lost the 2021 BWF World Tour Finals women's singles final to South Korea's An Se-young, taking her second silver medal at the year-end badminton championships.
General Bipin Rawat, India's first Chief of Defence Staff, died on December 8, 2021 when an Indian Air Force Mi-17 helicopter crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district. His wife Madhulika and 11 others also died; the sole initial survivor, Group Captain Varun Singh, died on December 15.
The 2020-2021 farmers' protest formally ended on December 11, 2021 with farmers returning home, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced repeal of the three farm laws on November 19 and Parliament passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill on November 29, 2021.
India's Harnaaz Sandhu won the 70th Miss Universe pageant at Eilat, Israel on December 13, 2021, becoming the third Indian to win the crown after Sushmita Sen (1994) and Lara Dutta (2000).
DRDO successfully flight-tested the new Pralay quasi-ballistic short-range missile from Abdul Kalam Island on December 22, 2021, hitting a target at 400 km, with a second test the next day reaching 500 km with a heavier payload. The solid-fuelled, canisterised missile has a 150-500 km range class.
The James Webb Space Telescope - built by NASA with the European and Canadian space agencies - was launched on December 25, 2021 from Kourou, French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket, heading for a solar orbit near the Sun-Earth L2 point about 1.5 million km away as the infrared successor to Hubble.
Desmond Tutu, the South African Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid campaigner who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize and chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, died in Cape Town on December 26, 2021 at the age of 90.
From exactly the headlines above. If you read the month, you should score 8+.
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