Current Affairs (December 2020) Flashcards
The states with the new Honey Farmer Producer Organizations
Bihar, UP, MP, Rajasthan, West Bengal
- set up by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited [NAFED]
RBI ordered this bank to temporarily stop launches of the Digital Business generating activities planned & sourcing of new credit card customers.
HDFC
____ topped Fortune India 500 Ranking 2020
Reliance Industries
- then IOC and ONGC
Country’s biggest oil firm
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC)
Indian Navy Day
4 December
- Theme: Indian Navy Combat Ready, Credible & Cohesive
Father of the Indian Navy
Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosle
The Indian Navy is the marine branch of the Indian Armed Forces and is led by ____ as Commander-in-Chief.
President of India
The Union Cabinet approved for ____ scheme to boost employment in the formal sector by encouraging the businesses to do fresh hiring amid the pandemic.
Atmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana (ABRY)
- Govt will pay both 12% employees’ contribution and 12% employers’ contribution
The Central Government launched _____ scheme for small taxpayers under the GST system.
‘Quarterly Return filing & Monthly Payment of Taxes (QRMP)’
____ & ____ bagged Sportsperson of the Year awards at FICCI India Sports Awards 2020.
Bajrang Punia & Elavenil Valarivan
____ & ____ were included in the list of UNESCO’s world heritage cities under its ‘World Heritage Cities Programme’.
Gwalior and Orchha
- in Madhya Pradesh
Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2020
Joe Biden & Kamala Harris
Time magazine named ___ as its Entertainer of the Year.
Korean pop group BTS
Time magazine named ____ Businessperson Of The Year
Eric Yuan
- Zoom founder
2020 Champions of the Earth Award for Policy Leadership
Frank Bainimarama
- PM of Fiji
2020 Champions of the Earth Award for Inspiration & Action
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
2020 Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Robert D. Bullard
UNESCO launched an international award named after ____ following Bangladesh’s proposal.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- for ‘Creative Economy’
Indian boxers bagged ____ medals at the Cologne Boxing World Cup 2020.
9
- three gold, two silver and four bronze
- held at Cologne, Germany
ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade
Dhoni
Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade
Virat Kohli
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade
Virat Kohli
ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade
Rashid Khan
ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade
Steve Smith
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry
ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry
ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade
Kathryn Bryce
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
____ 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
RBI decided to set up an Automated Banknote Processing Centre (ABPC) in _____ for the receipt, storage and dispatch of currency notes.
Jaipur
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
_____ launched an online platform ‘Infinite India’ to support foreign companies to establish or expand business in India.
ICICI Bank
_____ projected India to be the fastest-growing Asian
economy in 2021.
Nomura
- Japanese research and brokerage house
____ declared a “climate emergency” in Dec 2020 and promised to make its public sector carbon neutral by 2025.
New Zealand
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
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
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
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
___ 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
International Sand Art Festival and the 31st edition of the Konark Festival was held in ____.
Odisha
Boris Johnson invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the ____.
UK-hosted G-7 summit 2021
Modi flagged off the country’s first-ever fully-automated driverless train service on the ____ line of the Delhi Metro.
Magenta Line
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
2023 International Hockey Federation Men’s Hockey World Cup will be hosted in ____.
Odisha
- at Bhubaneswar and Rourkela
Uttar Pradesh government launched a special program to double the income of farmers named _____.
“Kisan Kalyan Mission”
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
India’s first hot air balloon wildlife safari in a tiger reserve was launched in ____ by Madhya Pradesh.
Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
Country’s first pollinator park is in ____.
Haldwani, Uttarakhand
Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat
Utpal Kumar Singh
First Indian to be appointed to the global role of Bata
Sandeep Kataria [CEO]
President of International Golf Federation
Annika Sorenstam
World Squash Federation President
Zena Wooldridge
World’s most polluted city, according to air pollution data released by the US Air Quality Index (AQI)
Lahore, Pakistan
In the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020, India ranked at _____ spot globally in the list of countries most affected by terrorism in 2019.
8th
_____ topped the list of wealthiest women in India.
Roshni Nadar Malhotra [Chairperson of HCL Tech]
Quickest batsman to complete 22,000 runs
Kohli
World AIDS Day
1 Dec
- Global solidarity, shared responsibility
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
2 Dec
- since 1986
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
3 Dec
International Anti-Corruption Day
9 Dec
Human Rights Day
10 Dec
UNICEF Day
11 Dec
National Farmer’s Day (Kisan Diwas)
23 Dec
- to mark the birth anniversary of former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh
The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2020
Robert Lewandowski
The world’s first satellite-based NB-IoT network is an initiative between which two companies?
BSNL & Skylo