ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1982 First artificial heart transplant
• 1988 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister
• 1804 Napoleon is crowned Emperor of France

NATIONAL NEWS

• Armies of India and Sri Lanka begin Exercise Mitra Shakti-VII at Aundh Military Station, Pune
• Maharashtra: Nana Patole of Congress elected Assembly Speaker; BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis named the leader of the opposition
• Nagaland celebrates its 57th statehood day on December 1, 2019
• 20th edition of Nagaland Hornbill Festival is organized at the Naga Heritage Village at Kisama from December 1 to 10

ECONOMY NEWS

• ICAS (Indian Civil Accounts Service) Officer Soma Roy Burman takes charge as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
• Indian Ordnance Factories’ Service officer (IOFS) Hari Mohan takes charge as new Chairman of the Kolkata-headquartered Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• World AIDS Day observed on December 1 with its theme as ‘Communities Make the Difference’
• MoS, HRD Sanjay Dhotre inaugurates the India Pavilion at International Bookfair in Guadalajara, Mexico
• India becomes the first country to make the entire process for pilgrims going process digital: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
• Irving Burgie, the songwriter of calypso hit ‘Day-O,’ dies at 95

SPORTS NEWS

• 13th South Asian Games inaugurated in Kathmandu by Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari
• Delhi’s Shamim Khan wins Kensville Open golf tournament in Ahmedabad
• 2019 Syed Modi International badminton tournament concluded at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow on December 1, 2019. Winners are:
• Men’s Singles: Wang Tzu-Wei of Chinese Taipei
• Women’s Singles: Carolina Marín of Spain