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Current Affairs (December 2020) Flashcards

1
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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

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Ellyse Perry

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ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade

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Ellyse Perry

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ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade

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Ellyse Perry

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ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade

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Kathryn Bryce

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RBI cancelled the licence of ____, for not having adequate capital and earning
prospects.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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The Urban Co- operative Bank Ltd in Kerala

33
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_____ launched an online platform ‘Infinite India’ to support foreign companies to establish or expand business in India.

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ICICI Bank

34
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_____ projected India to be the fastest-growing Asian

economy in 2021.

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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.

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New Zealand

36
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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.

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Bhutan

37
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Second country in the world to unfurl its national flag on the moon surface.

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China

  • third country in the world to have samples from the moon
38
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The ____ in Singapore

has been inducted by UNESCO in its prestigious ‘Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’.

A

Hawker Culture of street food

39
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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.

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Aadi Mahotsav – Madhya Pradesh

40
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___ was expected to be the chief guest at 2021 Republic day.

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Boris Johnson

  • last British PM at the Republic Day parade was John Major in 1993
41
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International Sand Art Festival and the 31st edition of the Konark Festival was held in ____.

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Odisha

42
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Boris Johnson invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the ____.

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UK-hosted G-7 summit 2021

43
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Modi flagged off the country’s first-ever fully-automated driverless train service on the ____ line of the Delhi Metro.

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Magenta Line

44
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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.

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Lucknow Municipal Corporation

  • coupon rate of 8.5% and a tenure of 10 years
45
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2023 International Hockey Federation Men’s Hockey World Cup will be hosted in ____.

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Odisha

  • at Bhubaneswar and Rourkela
46
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Uttar Pradesh government launched a special program to double the income of farmers named _____.

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“Kisan Kalyan Mission”

47
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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.

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Jai Ram Thakur, Atal Bihari Vajpayee

48
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India’s first hot air balloon wildlife safari in a tiger reserve was launched in ____ by Madhya Pradesh.

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Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve

49
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Country’s first pollinator park is in ____.

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Haldwani, Uttarakhand

50
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Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat

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Utpal Kumar Singh

51
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First Indian to be appointed to the global role of Bata

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Sandeep Kataria [CEO]

52
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President of International Golf Federation

A

Annika Sorenstam

53
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World Squash Federation President

A

Zena Wooldridge

54
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World’s most polluted city, according to air pollution data released by the US Air Quality Index (AQI)

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Lahore, Pakistan

55
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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.

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8th

56
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_____ topped the list of wealthiest women in India.

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Roshni Nadar Malhotra [Chairperson of HCL Tech]

57
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Quickest batsman to complete 22,000 runs

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Kohli

58
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World AIDS Day

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1 Dec

  • Global solidarity, shared responsibility
59
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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

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2 Dec

  • since 1986
60
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities

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3 Dec

61
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International Anti-Corruption Day

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9 Dec

62
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Human Rights Day

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10 Dec

63
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UNICEF Day

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11 Dec

64
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National Farmer’s Day (Kisan Diwas)

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23 Dec

  • to mark the birth anniversary of former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh
65
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The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2020

A

Robert Lewandowski

66
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The world’s first satellite-based NB-IoT network is an initiative between which two companies?

A

BSNL & Skylo

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