• Andrés Manuel López Obrador sworn in as the First Leftist President of Mexico Lopez Obrador would like to reach an agreement with both Ottawa and Washington to tackle immigration issues.

• Foreign dignitaries including US Vice-President Mike Pence, first daughter Ivanka Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro attended the inauguration in the capital.

• Mexico: Capital -  Mexico City,

• Currency - Peso (MXN)

• With the earnings of Rs. 112.8 crore, Bollywood Actress Deepika Padukone is the highest-earning woman celebrity in India.

• She is the 1^st woman to break into the top 5 of Forbes' Richest Indian Celebrities List since its inception in 2012.

• Flipkart-owned Myntra's CEO Ananth Narayanan has resigned from his role with his position set to be abolished.

• Flipkart's Amar Nagaram has been given the responsibility to head Myntra.

• Key Myntra leaders such as Chief Revenue Officer Mithun Sundar and human resources head ManpreetRatia have also resigned.

RLSP Chief UpendraKushwaha Quits As Union Minister

• Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) Chief UpendraKushwaha resigned as Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
• This comes a day ahead of the start of the Parliament’s Winter Session, triggering a realignment of political equations in Bihar.

Soft Bank Vision Fund gets Facebook’s Kirthiga Reddy as first venture partner

• Kirthiga Reddy, the former managing director of Facebook India, has joined Soft Bank as its first venture partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund.
• She the first women coming on board in a company where the rest are all men.
• Kirthiga Reddy was Facebook’s first employee in India and served as the managing director for India and South Asia market until 2016, following which she relocated to the company’s US headquarters, serving as Managing Global Client Partner and Emerging Markets Lead.

Four Indians among world’s 100 most powerful women, list topped by Germen Chancellor Angela Merkel: Forbes

Four Indians who were featured in the list were:

• IT stalwart Roshni Nadar Malhotra ranking 51^st in the list, Biotechnology pioneer Kiran Mazumdar - Shaw ranking 60^th, Media mogul ShobhanaBhartia at 88^th position and Actor Priyanka Chopra at 94^th spot.
• The list is topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
• It is the eighth consecutive year and 13 times in total in the 15 years of the annual list she has topped She is followed by UK Prime Minister Theresa May, for the second year in a row.

Others among the top 5 are:

•  International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde (No 3), General Motors CEO Mary Barra (No 4), and Fidelity Investments CEO Abigail Johnson (No 5)
• Sunil Mittal, the First Indian received honorary doctorate from ESCP biz school
• Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has received ESCP Europe’s highest honour ‘Doctor HonorisCausa’ for his innovative entrepreneurship and contribution towards philanthropy in the field of education.
• With this, Mittal has become the first Indian to be honoured with this recognition in ESCP Europe’s near 200 years history.
• Established in 1819, ESCP Europe is the world’s first business school, founded by a group of economic scholars and businessmen.

• The resignation of the former governor was imminent from the recent government RBI tussles on a host of issues, including: Central bank autonomy The government reportedly seeking a share of the RBI reserves and Relaxing the restrictive prompt corrective action (PCA) framework for state-owned banks.

• With his resignation,he has become the first governor since 1990 to step down before the end of his term.

• He succeeded ex-RBI RaghuramRajan in September 2016 and his term was due till September 2019.

• Prior to being the governor of the central bank, he was the deputy governor in RBI.

• Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has resigned amid pressure on his government over his support for the UN global compact on migration.

• The pressure increased after his biggest coalition partner, the right-wing N-VA party, quit the government over the issue.

• Michel lost the backing of the party over his support for the UN migration pact, a cause celebre for European anti-immigration parties.

• Belgium holds the modern European record for going the longest time without a government, a whopping 541 days in 2010-2011.

• Belgium Capital: Brussels,

• Currency: Euro.

• Pakistan's Ex-Prime Minister Sharif Sentenced to 7 Years In Latest Corruption Case An anti-corruption court sentenced former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison in a case centered on his ownership of a steel mill.

• The anti-corruption court found that Sharif could not prove his source of income for ownership of a steel mill in Saudi Arabia.

• He was arrested following the verdict.

• It is the latest blow against Sharif, a dogged survivor of Pakistan's brutal political system.

• Pakistan: Capital – Islamabad,

• PM -Imran Khan,

• President - Arif Alvi

• The 33-year-old man Colin O'Brady from the United States has become the first person to complete a solo trek across Antarctica without any assistance. 

• He finished the 1,500 km journey across the frozen continent in 54 days, lugging his supplies on a sledge as he skied in bone-chilling temperatures from north to south With his voyage being tracked by GPS, and live updates of the trip were provided daily on his website colinobrady.com.

• The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) meeting in Sonepat revoked suspension of former national champion Soumyajit Ghosh following allegations of rape against him by an ex-girl friend.

• Ghosh's legal troubles finally came to an end after he married the rape accuser four months after his career nose-dived owing to the crisis.

• The withdrawal of suspension means Ghosh is eligible to participate in all national and international tournaments, with the Senior Nationals starting at Cuttack from January 4 2018.