23,December, 2018 Current Affairs - Daily Current Affairs
23,December, 2018 Current Affairs - Daily
Current Affairs
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NFAI and __________ sign MoU to Transfer the land for
the construction of storage facility for films and film material.
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
National Film Archive of India (NFAI) and Film
& Television Institute of India (FTII) signed Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) for transfer of three acres of land for the construction of storage
facility for films and film material. The land belonging to FTII at their
Kothrud campus in Pune will be transferred to NFAI for this purpose.
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Name of the Genetically Modified (GM) indoor plant to
remove pollutants inside the house.
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Researchers have Genetically Modified (GM) a
common indoor plant, golden pothos or Devil's ivy (Epipremnum aureum), to
remove pollutants inside the house. It has been modified to produce a liver
enzyme called cytochrome p450 2e1, which is taken from rabbits, that breaks
down a wide range of pollutants. The researchers put the modified plant and
normal pothos ivy in glass tubes and added either benzene or chloroform gas
into each tube. They found that the concentration of either gas did not
change for normal plants. However, for the modified plants, the concentration
of chloroform dropped by 82%, and it was almost undetectable by day six.
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Sahitya Akademi award winner Prabhanjan passed away
recently. He belongs to which state?
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Noted Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi award
winner Prabhanjan died due to Cancer at the age of 83.Prabhanjan started his
career as a Tamil Teacher and got Sahitya Akademi Award for his historic
novel "Vaanam Vasapadum" in 1995.
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The CM of this state opened a World Herbal Forest
Project in a collaboration of Patanjali.
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
inaugurated the World Herbal Forest Project, a collaboration of Patanjali and
Haryana Government, at Morni Hill, near Chandigarh. The project covers over
52,000 acres of land in Morni Hills and is aimed at developing a forest of
medicinal plants which will provide a huge boost to the Ayurvedic industry
across the country. Yoga guru Ramdev and Patanjali CEO Acharya Balkrishna
were also present during the inaugural function. About 25 different varieties
of plants found in the country will be housed in this forest. 50,000 plants
each of 20 medicinal varieties are being sown in the first phase of the
project.
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Which ministry launched the "Asiatic Lion
Conservation Project" to protect and conserve the population of Asiatic
Lion?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change launched the "Asiatic Lion Conservation Project" to
protect and conserve the population of Asiatic Lion and its associated
ecosystem. The Asiatic Lion Conservation Project is aimed at the conservation
and recovery of Asiatic Lion with the help of up to date techniques,
instruments, regular scientific research studies, disease management, modern
surveillance and patrolling techniques.
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Name of the Indian CM who has been conferred the Skoch
Chief Minister of the Year Award for 2018?
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West
Bengal , has been conferred the Skoch Chief Minister of the Year Award for
2018 for her contribution in the overall development of the state and
emerging as the best chief minister in the country. Banerjee has been
conferred with the prestigious award on the basis of the state's performance
in the field of governance, culture, finance, urban and rural development. In
2018, The state has bagged 31 Skoch Awards for its performance across
different fields besides implementing unique projects. As per Skoch, West
Bengal has also won the top position in terms of the number of man-days
created and the amount spent in paying people for their work in the 100 days'
work scheme. Besides Banerjee, the Skoch Group has also awarded Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu with the 'SKOCH Sprinter of the
Year', and Commerce and Industry and civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu as
the 'Steady Reformer'.
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For what purpose, the Union Government has launched
iGOT programme?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh launched the
iGOT (Integrated Government Online Training Programme) for government
employees. The iGOT will augment the existing training mechanism with online
module-based training coupled with certification. The programme, developed by
the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Ministry of Personnel, will
make training inputs available to a government servant on-site and on
flexitime basis. The initiative aims at "competent civil services for
good governance". Dr. Singh also launched Right to Information (RTI)
Portal on Judgments/Orders of Supreme Court, High Courts and CIC that will
provide a learning environment for all stakeholders under which a repository
on the landmark cases on the RTI will be available at one place. He also
launched a hybrid course on administrative laws developed by the DoPT in
collaboration with premier law institute National Law School of India
University (NLSIU), Bengaluru.
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Which metro plans to launch mobile app to book a ride
for travelling to areas around stations?
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) is to soon
offer its commuters a facility to book a ride through its mobile app, for
travelling to areas around stations. For this project, CMRL has tied up with
a firm to offer the service. The firm's icon for this service will be created
in the Chennai Metro Rail mobile app and when commuters touch the icon, it
will direct them to the firm's vehicle booking page and they can hire a car.
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This country launched the first satellite to provide
space-based broadband as part of Hongyun project.
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
China launched its first communication satellite,
from a Long March 11 carrier rocket, to provide broadband internet services
worldwide to rival Google and other firms. It is the first in the Hongyun
project planned by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC). It
weighs 247 kilogrammes and works in a sun-synchronous orbit about 1,100
kilometres above earth. Powered by solar arrays, the satellite would verify
basic designs of Hongyun satellite and demonstrating low-orbit broadband
communications technologies with a life span of more than 1 year.
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On which date, the National Mathematics Day was
observed?
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
The National Mathematics Day (NMD) is celebrated
every year in India on December 22 to commemorate the birth anniversary of
great mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The day also recognizes his
contribution to the world of mathematics, which includes mathematical
analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. The NMD
was declared by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2012 to mark the
125th birth anniversary of Ramanujan. Born in 1887 in Erode, Madras
Presidency (now Tamil Nadu), Ramanujan's affinity for Mathematics was such
that he failed in college exams because of his negligence for
non-mathematical subjects. However, his talents were recognized by a
mathematician at Madras Port Trust were Ramanujan had started working as a clerk
in 1912. In 1917, Ramanujan was elected to be a member of the London
Mathematical Society.
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Which of the following app has been launched by the
Ministry of Aviation for Global Aviation Summit 2019?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
The Ministry of Aviation along with the Airport
Authority of India (AAI) has launched an official mobile app
"GAS-2019" for the Global Aviation Summit (GAS) for 2019, which is
scheduled to be held in Mumbai in January 2019. The app enables users to
interact with the co-delegates and speakers besides providing a platform for
networking through personal and group chats. The summit is being hosted by
the civil aviation ministry along with the AAI and industry lobby FICCI.
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Which country tops in the FIFA global ranking 2018?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Federation Internationale de Football Association
(FIFA) released the Global football ranking topped by Belgium who have 1727
points as per FIFA calculations. So Belgium is going to end the year as No. 1
ahead of World Champion France. France ranked 2nd with 1726 points and Brazil
ranked third with 1676 points. India ranked at 97th Position in the latest
FIFA ranking released on 20th December 2018.
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What is the position of India in the Stock market?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
India achieved another milestone when Indian
Stock market overtakes Germany for the first time in seven years to become
the world's seventh largest stock market. This move reflects India's positive
returns this year as companies dependency on domestic demand enabled them to
avoid meltdown in other emerging markets spurred due to U.S. - China trade
war. South Asian Giant, India is projected to grow at 7.5 percent in 2018 and
7.3 percent in 2019 whereas Germany managed to achieve a growth rate of only
1.6 percent in 2018. After the exit of United Kingdom from European Union,
now European Union has only one country in top seven economies of the world -
France.
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Which Indian city will host the first ever India China
Film Festival strengthening the cultural understanding amidst?
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
A three day India China Film Festival is set to
begin in New Delhi from 22nd of December this year culminating on 24th of
December. In order to strengthen and deepen cultural understanding between
the two countries, the film festival is being organized during the first
India-China High-Level Mechanism on Cultural and People-to-People Exchanges.
Jackie Chan's 2012 action movie "CZ12" will open the India-China
Film Festival here. The three-day Festival will be organized at Siri Fort
Auditorium II, New Delhi by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of
Information & Broadcasting and the Indian Government. The duo cultural
and people-to-people exchanges will probably be encouraged by way of this
initiative. A total of seven films including four Chinese and three Indian
Films will be screened during the Festival. The opening film of the Festival
will be 'CZ12' also known as 'Chinese Zodiac'.
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