World News
- Miss India - USA Shri Shiny (Washington) was selected in the 2017 beauty contest
- Sebastian Pinera (former president) has won the Chilean presidential election
- Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman has bought the world's most expensive (Rs.2,000 crore) house (Chatty Luis 14)
- 'Mammoot' elephant skeleton that lived 10 thousand years ago in France has bid for Rs 4 crore 13 lakh
- According to the US National Tourism and Travel Office, the number of Indians coming in the first six months of 2017 is 12.9 percent
National News
- A new bill to vote for Indians instead Overseas Indians in foreign nationals was passed in parliament
- The central government has borrowed Rs 4,500 crore from the World Bank for rural development in India
- New Bill on Waiver and Leave under the Central Vigilance Provision Act introduced in Parliament Lok Sabha
- The Income Tax Department has detected unaccounted income of Rs 7,961 crore after cash disinvestment
- From January 1 The Agriculture Department has announced that Aadhaar Card will be Monitary for farmers for subsidized prices of fertilizer
- The federal government has ordered the removal of bumpers in cars (airbag and security equipment disrupted during the accident)
Business messages
- TRAI plans to reduce the cost of mobilisation of 4 to 80 per cent without changing the mobile number
- NEW DELHI: The government has announced Rs 500 crore worth of new 500 rupee notes
- Iraq, first time delivered 2.58 crore tons of crude oil to India
- Toyota plans to introduce electric cars by 2020
Sports news
- Indian men’s have won 11 medals (6 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze) at the Junior International Boxing Competition in Germany
- Virat Kohli topped the batsman's rankings for one-day cricket match. Rohit Sharma is in the 5th place
- The 40th State Supermarkets Championship will be held in Viruthunagar on January 4
- Dindigul PSNA Engineering and Technology College Girls team won the championship in the basketball competition for Anna University-level There are new rules that give equal opportunity to the players in the shootout match
- Lioness Messi (Barcelona team) was awarded with a gold shoe award in the European football league match
Science and technology
- A team of 3 people from the United States, Russia and Japan went to the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft for the International Aeronautics Research Center (Scott Dingle, Anton Schipperlov, Norrisheim Kanye)
- Sandy Sullivan (UK) has invented the 'Resomometer' engine that will burn the dead body as it does not affect the environment
Important days
- December 19 - The Iron Man of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin’s (139) Birth anniversary