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The states with the new Honey Farmer Producer Organizations

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Bihar, UP, MP, Rajasthan, West Bengal

  • set up by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited [NAFED]
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RBI ordered this bank to temporarily stop launches of the Digital Business generating activities planned & sourcing of new credit card customers.

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HDFC

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____ topped Fortune India 500 Ranking 2020

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Reliance Industries

  • then IOC and ONGC
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Country’s biggest oil firm

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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC)

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Indian Navy Day

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4 December

  • Theme: Indian Navy Combat Ready, Credible & Cohesive
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Father of the Indian Navy

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosle

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The Indian Navy is the marine branch of the Indian Armed Forces and is led by ____ as Commander-in-Chief.

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President of India

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The Union Cabinet approved for ____ scheme to boost employment in the formal sector by encouraging the businesses to do fresh hiring amid the pandemic.

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Atmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana (ABRY)

  • Govt will pay both 12% employees’ contribution and 12% employers’ contribution
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The Central Government launched _____ scheme for small taxpayers under the GST system.

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‘Quarterly Return filing & Monthly Payment of Taxes (QRMP)’

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____ & ____ bagged Sportsperson of the Year awards at FICCI India Sports Awards 2020.

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Bajrang Punia & Elavenil Valarivan

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____ & ____ were included in the list of UNESCO’s world heritage cities under its ‘World Heritage Cities Programme’.

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Gwalior and Orchha

  • in Madhya Pradesh
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Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2020

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Joe Biden & Kamala Harris

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Time magazine named ___ as its Entertainer of the Year.

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Korean pop group BTS

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Time magazine named ____ Businessperson Of The Year

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Eric Yuan

  • Zoom founder
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2020 Champions of the Earth Award for Policy Leadership

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Frank Bainimarama

  • PM of Fiji
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2020 Champions of the Earth Award for Inspiration & Action

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Yacouba Sawadogo (Burkina Faso)

  • for teaching farmers his traditional nature-based solution to regenerate their soil and turn barren land into arable land and forest across Africa

Nemonte Nenquimo (Ecuador)

  • unifying work with indigenous communities that halted drilling in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest
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2020 Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award

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Professor Robert D. Bullard

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UNESCO launched an international award named after ____ following Bangladesh’s proposal.

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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

  • for ‘Creative Economy’
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Indian boxers bagged ____ medals at the Cologne Boxing World Cup 2020.

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9

  • three gold, two silver and four bronze
  • held at Cologne, Germany
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ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade

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Dhoni

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Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade

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Virat Kohli

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ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade

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Virat Kohli

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ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade

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Rashid Khan

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ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade

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Steve Smith

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Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry
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ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry
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ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry
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ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade
Kathryn Bryce
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RBI cancelled the licence of ____, for not having adequate capital and earning prospects.
Karad Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd in Maharashtra - did not comply with the provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
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____ recently launched the Atmanirbhar Women Scheme as part of its Baroda Gold Loan.
Bank of Baroda (BoB) - offering loans at 0.50 per cent concession for women
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RBI decided to set up an Automated Banknote Processing Centre (ABPC) in _____ for the receipt, storage and dispatch of currency notes.
Jaipur
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RBI imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 50.00 lakh on _____ for non-compliance with directions issued on Income Recognition and Asset Classification (IRAC).
The Urban Co- operative Bank Ltd in Kerala
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_____ launched an online platform ‘Infinite India’ to support foreign companies to establish or expand business in India.
ICICI Bank
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_____ projected India to be the fastest-growing Asian | economy in 2021.
Nomura - Japanese research and brokerage house
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____ declared a “climate emergency” in Dec 2020 and promised to make its public sector carbon neutral by 2025.
New Zealand
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Bangladesh has signed its first Preferential Trade National Current Affairs Agreement (PTA) with ____, allowing duty-free access to a range of goods between the two countries.
Bhutan
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Second country in the world to unfurl its national flag on the moon surface.
China - third country in the world to have samples from the moon
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The ____ in Singapore | has been inducted by UNESCO in its prestigious ‘Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’.
Hawker Culture of street food
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Arjun Munda launched the first-ever virtual edition of ____ to showcase the tribal traditions of the various tribal communities by having their crafts and natural products on display.
Aadi Mahotsav – Madhya Pradesh
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___ was expected to be the chief guest at 2021 Republic day.
Boris Johnson - last British PM at the Republic Day parade was John Major in 1993
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International Sand Art Festival and the 31st edition of the Konark Festival was held in ____.
Odisha
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Boris Johnson invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the ____.
UK-hosted G-7 summit 2021
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Modi flagged off the country’s first-ever fully-automated driverless train service on the ____ line of the Delhi Metro.
Magenta Line
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Yogi Adityanath rang the bell at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), to mark the listing of bonds of ____ on the exchange.
Lucknow Municipal Corporation - coupon rate of 8.5% and a tenure of 10 years
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2023 International Hockey Federation Men’s Hockey World Cup will be hosted in ____.
Odisha - at Bhubaneswar and Rourkela
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Uttar Pradesh government launched a special program to double the income of farmers named _____.
"Kisan Kalyan Mission"
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Himachal Pradesh CM _____ unveiled an 18-feet tall statue of ____ on the occasion of his 96th birth anniversary at the historic Ridge in the state capital.
Jai Ram Thakur, Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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India's first hot air balloon wildlife safari in a tiger reserve was launched in ____ by Madhya Pradesh.
Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
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Country's first pollinator park is in ____.
Haldwani, Uttarakhand
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Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat
Utpal Kumar Singh
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First Indian to be appointed to the global role of Bata
Sandeep Kataria [CEO]
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President of International Golf Federation
Annika Sorenstam
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World Squash Federation President
Zena Wooldridge
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World’s most polluted city, according to air pollution data released by the US Air Quality Index (AQI)
Lahore, Pakistan
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In the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020, India ranked at _____ spot globally in the list of countries most affected by terrorism in 2019.
8th
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_____ topped the list of wealthiest women in India.
Roshni Nadar Malhotra [Chairperson of HCL Tech]
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Quickest batsman to complete 22,000 runs
Kohli
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World AIDS Day
1 Dec - Global solidarity, shared responsibility
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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
2 Dec - since 1986
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities
3 Dec
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International Anti-Corruption Day
9 Dec
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Human Rights Day
10 Dec
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UNICEF Day
11 Dec
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National Farmer’s Day (Kisan Diwas)
23 Dec - to mark the birth anniversary of former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh
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The Best FIFA Men's Player 2020
Robert Lewandowski
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The world’s first satellite-based NB-IoT network is an initiative between which two companies?
BSNL & Skylo

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