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December – 11 | Daily Current Affairs 2020

IMPORTANT DAYS

1. International Mountain Day is observed on which date?
A) December 11
B) December 12
C) December 13
D) December 14
Answer: A) December 11
International Mountain Day:

• International Mountain Day is celebrated every year on December 11. The day aims to encourage sustainable development in mountains.
• The day was announced by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003.
• The day is observed to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build alliances that will bring positive change to mountain peoples and environments around the world.
• The theme of International Mountain Day 2020 is Mountain Biodiversity.

OBITUARY

2. Vishnu Savra passed away. He was served as Minister of which sector?
A) Agriculture
B) Defence
C) Finance
D) Tribal
Answer: D) Tribal

• Former Tribal minister and senior BJP leader from the district, Vishnu Savra, died.
• Mr Savra had been minister in the earlier cabinets and was recently the Tribal Development Minister in the Devendra Fadnavis ministry and the guardian minister of Palghar.
• He represented the Wada assembly constintuency for four times, once each from Bhiwandi and Vikramgad constituency.
• Vishnu Savra – Former Tribal minister and senior BJP leader.

3. Alex Olmedo passed away. He was related to which sports?
A) Tennis
B) Table Tennis
C) Badminton
D) Athlete
Answer: A) Tennis
Alex Olmedo, who won the Wimbledon and Australian Championships singles titles in 1959 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, has died.
Alex Olmedo – Wimbledon champ, Tennis Hall of Famer.

RANKING

4. According to IIT Bombay, Which city Topped In Urban Quality Of Life Index?
A) Chennai
B) Mumbai
C) Delhi
D) Kolkata
Answer: B) Mumbai

Top city	Mumbai
The other top cities	Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai.
Most women-friendly	Chennai
Least women-friendly	Patna
Highest crime rate against women	Jaipur
Lowest crime rate against women	Chennai
Widest gap in literacy rate between men and women	Jaipur (13.2%)
Lowest gap in literacy rate between men and women	Kolkata (5.4%)
Highest overall Literacy rate	Pune (91%)
Lowest overall Literacy rate	Hyderabad (83%)
Highest unemployment rate for women	Patna

IIT-B Ranking of Indian Cities:

Index	Highest Ranked	Lowest Rank
Basic Amenities	Pune	Patna
Economic Development	Mumbai	Patna
Safety and Security	Kolkata	Patna
Transportation Access	Delhi	Indore
Environmental Impact	Mumbai	Lucknow
Infrastructure Development	Kolkata	Patna
Gender Role	Chennai	Patna

5. According to Knight Frank, what is the rank of India in global house price index in the third quarter of 2020?
A) 50
B) 54
C) 24
D) 78
Answer: B) 54
Total countries – 56

6. Which Country is topped in Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) 2020 Climatescope survey ranking?
A) Chile
B) India
C) Brazil
D) Japan
Answer: A) Chile

BANKING AND FINANCE

7. IMF approves how much amount disbursement to protect Guinea from downside corona risks?
A) $49.47 million
B) $19.47 million
C) $29.47 million
D) $39.47 million
Answer: A) $49.47 million
IMF – $49.47 million disbursement to protect Guinea from downside corona risks
IMF:
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., U.S
Managing Director: Kristalina Georgieva

8. Which small finance Bank has launched a tripartite account to help customers keep their saving, trading and demat investments under one umbrella entity?
A) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
B) Equitas Small Finance Bank
C) A U Small Finance Bank
D) Suryoday Small Finance Bank
Answer: B) Equitas Small Finance Bank

• Equitas Small Finance Bank announced that it has launched a 3-in-1 account, which includes savings, trading and demat, to widen its product offerings and allows its customers to keep their banking and financial investments under one umbrella entity.
• The bank will provide stock broking and demat services through referral arrangement with brokerage firms for trading and depository services.
• Equitas Small Finance Bank – 3-in-1 account for saving, trading & demat.

Equitas Small Finance Bank:
Hq: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
MD & CEO : Mr. Vasudevan P N

9. Which organisation has launched a USD 9 billion vaccine initiative that will offer support to its developing member economies to procure and deliver COVID-19 vaccines?
A) ADB
B) AIIB
C) World Bank
D) IMF
Answer: A) ADB

• ADB has launched a USD 9 billion vaccine initiative the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX) offering rapid and equitable support to its developing members as they procure and deliver effective and safe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines.
• ADB – $9 bn Covid vax initiative for its developing member economies.

Asian Development Bank:
Hq: Manila, Philippines
Head : Masatsugu Asakawa

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

10. CII and which e-commerce signed a pact to increase export potential of MSMEs in 10 states and help them leverage e-commerce to boost domestic trade.platform?
A) Flipkart
B) Amazon India
C) Myntra
D) Ola
Answer: B) Amazon India

• Industry body CII and Amazon India signed a pact to increase export potential of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in 10 states and help them leverage e-commerce to boost domestic trade.
• They will also help the enterprises leverage technology to reach out to customers in India through the adoption of e-commerce.
• The pact was signed at the 17th CII Global SME Business Summit.

CII + Amazon India = to boost MSME business

AWARDS

11. Who has been named by the prestigious TIME magazine as ‘2020 Person of the Year’?
A) Ram Nath Kovind
B) Joe Biden
C) Vladimir Putin
D) Boris Johnson
Answer: B)Joe Biden

• US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named by the prestigious TIME magazine as ‘2020 Person of the Year’ for changing the American story, showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division and sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world.
• CEO of conferencing platform Zoom Eric Yuan has been named as TIME’s Businessperson of the Year.
• South Korean boy band BTS was named Entertainer of the Year and American basketball player LeBron James as Athlete of the Year.
• Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Person of the Year.
• Rahul Dubey has been hailed among the “Heroes of 2020” by the TIME magazine, honouring those who “went above and beyond the call of duty” this year.

Joe Biden + Kamala Harris = Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2020

12. Dr. Carolina Araujo won the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020. She was related to which country?
A) Brazil
B) UK
C) USA
D) India
Answer: A) Brazil

• The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020 was awarded to Dr. Carolina Araujo, Mathematician from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• The prize awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India in collaboration with ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics), and the International Mathematical Union was given for her outstanding work in algebraic geometry.
• Her work area focuses on birational geometry, which aims to classify and describe the structure of algebraic varieties.

The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020:
The Prize, given every year to young mathematicians less than 45 years of age who have conducted outstanding research in a developing country, has been instituted by DST in the memory of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a genius in pure mathematics who was essentially self-taught and made spectacular contributions to elliptic functions, continued fractions, infinite series, and analytical theory of numbers.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

13. Which institution and the Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd developed an innovative dry swab test–Direct Amplification rapid RT-PCR (DArRT-PCR)–to detect SARS-CoV-2?
A) CSIR-CMERI
B) CSIR-CCMB
C) DRDO
D) CSIR-NCL
Answer: B) CSIR-CCMB
Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. announced a collaboration for joint manufacturing of an innovative dry swab test–Direct Amplification rapid RT-PCR (DArRT-PCR)–to detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that cause novel coronavirus.

CSIR-CCMB + Apollo = develop dry swab test for Covid-19

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

14. The Maharashtra cabinet approved a new law proposing stern actions, including death penalty and life imprisonment, in an effort to curb crimes against women and children in the state.what is the name of that act?
A) Deesha Act, 2020
B) Kira Act, 2020
C) Shakti Act, 2020
D) Vishu Act, 2020
Answer: C) Shakti Act, 2020

• The Maharashtra cabinet approved a new law proposing stern actions, including death penalty and life imprisonment, in an effort to curb crimes against women and children in the state.
• The act, crafted on the lines of Disha Act enacted by the Andhra Pradesh government, has been named the Shakti Act, 2020.
• According to the new law, an acid attack will be a non-bailable offence with two years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1 lakh for harassment of women by any mode of communication and trial will be completed in 30 days with the filing of the charge-sheet and disposal of case in 45 days.

Maha govt – approve new law to curb crimes against women & children

Maharashtra:
Capital : Mumbai
CM : Udhav Thackarey

15. Which state government signed MoU with Survey of India for historic land survey for the first time in the country?
A) Maharashtra
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: D) Andhra Pradesh

• The Andhra Pradesh government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Survey of India in the presence of Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for the implementation of ‘YSR Jagananna Saswatha Bhoomi Hakku-Bhoomi Rakshana,’ to be launched on December 21.
• The state government, in partnership with the Survey of India, would conduct a comprehensive survey, which would go down in history in golden letters, as such a large scale survey was being conducted for the first time in the country, after almost 100 years.
• The state government and the Survey of India were putting together 70 base stations to take up this survey, which will be added to their network in future.

Andhra Pradesh + Survey of India = Historic land survey.

Andhra Pradesh:
Capital : Amaravati
CM: Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
Governor : Biswa Bhushan Harichandan

16. Which Organisation launches ‘Digital Saksham’ with Mastercard and National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises for MSMEs?
A) CCI
B) CII
C) NHAI
D) NTPC
Answer: B) CII

• Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) announced a strategic MoU with Mastercard and National Institute for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (ni-msme) an organistion of Ministry of MSME, Government of India to launch the Digital Saksham Initiative – an expansive program designed to strengthen the competitiveness of MSMEs through digital know-how and acceptance.
• This collaboration aims to educate and train micro and small business owners and entrepreneurs enabling them to integrate into the digital economy and access credit, expand their market access, diversify their customer base, digitize their financial operations and solidify their supply chain.

CII + ni-msme + Mastercard = Digital Saksham Initiative for MSMEs.

17. The Karnataka Legislative Assembly passed the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill-2020. How much amount fine as per the new Bill?
A) ₹50,000 – ₹5 lakh
B) ₹25,000 – ₹5 lakh
C) ₹10,000 – ₹5 lakh
D) ₹1 lakh – ₹5 lakh
Answer: A) ₹50,000 – ₹5 lakh

• The Karnataka Legislative Assembly passed the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill-2020.
• The Bill was moved by Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chavan, which calls for a blanket ban on cattle slaughter and stringent punishment to those indulging in these activities.
• Slaughter of cattle as per the new Bill will be a cognisable offence and will attract three to seven years imprisonment and a fine that shall not be less than ₹50,000 extendable to ₹5 lakh.
• The minister said the new Bill will repeal the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964 (Karnataka Act 35 of 1964) to prohibit the slaughter of cattle and for the preservation of improvement of the breeds of cattle and to endeavour to organise agriculture and animal husbandry in terms of Article 48 of the Constitution of India, by enacting a comprehensive legislation.
• Karnataka – pass the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill-2020.

Karnataka:
Capital : Bengaluru
CM : B. S. Yeddyurappa
Governor : Vajubhai Vala

18. Which UT is the first Union Territory to become 100 per cent organic as all farming?
A) Delhi
B) Lakshadweep
C) Jammu & Kashmir
D) Ladakh
Answer: B) Lakshadweep

• Lakshadweep is the first Union Territory to become 100 per cent organic as all farming is carried out without the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, providing access to safer food choices and making agriculture a more environment-friendly activity.
• In January 2016, Sikkim became India’s first “100 percent organic” State.
• Lakshadweep – first UT to become 100% organic.

Lakshadweep:
Capital : Kavaratti
Lt. Governor : Shri. Dineshwar Sharma IPS

19. Who has addressed the International Bharati Festival organized by the Vanavil Culture Centre in Chennai via video-conference?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Ram Nath Kovind
C) Nirmala Sitharaman
D) Amit Shah
Answer: A) Narendra Modi

• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed International Bharathi Festival 2020 through video conferencing and paid tributes to the Bharathiyar on his Jayanti.
• The festival is being organised by Vanavil Cultural Centre to celebrate the 138th birth anniversary of Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi.
• The Prime Minister Congratulated the Scholar Shri Seeni Viswanathan, for receiving the Bharathi Award for this year who was presented the award during the event.
• PM Modi – address International Bharati Festival via video-conference.

20. Which Ministry of Secretary launched a programme of Socio-Economic Profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families?
A) Home
B) Finance
C) Housing & Urban Affairs
D) Women & Child Development
Answer: C) Housing & Urban Affairs

• Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched a programme of Socio-Economic Profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families
  Under this, a complete profile of each PM SVANidhi beneficiary and their family members will be prepared.
• In the first phase, 125 cities have been selected for the programme.
• Durga Shanker Mishra – Socio-Economic Profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries.

21. Indian Railways Launches Hospital Management Information System Trial Project. It has how many Modules?
A) 5
B) 4
C) 3
D) 2
Answer: C) 3
Indian Railways has launched another major IT initiative towards according priority for the well-being of its work force.
TheHospital Management Information System (HMIS) has been launched by Dr. B. P Nanda, Director General, Railway Health services, Railway Board through virtual.
About HMIS IN Railways:
The HMIS in Railways has been developed by Indian Railways in coordination with RailTel Corporation Limited. The objective of the HMIS is to provide a single window of clearance of hospital administration activity such as clinical, diagnostics, pharmacy, examinations, industrial health etc.,
The primary objectives of envisaged solution are:

• Effectively manage all the health facilities & its resources
• Monitor performance of hospitals across the administrative channel
• Impart quality health care services to its beneficiaries
• Improve the patient turn-around time
• Generate and maintain EMR (electronic medical records) of all patients
• Presently, 3 Modules of HMIS – Registration, OPD Doctor Desk & Pharmacy – arebeing taken up implemented.

These three modules are going to be implemented on trial basis at Central Hospital, Lallaguda and will progressively be implemented across all Health Units over SCR.
Indian Railways – Hospital Management Information System Trial Project.

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