Current Affairs Quiz-December, 2019

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A three-day National Tribal Dance Festival will be held in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The festival is to be held on 27-29 December 2019. The National Tribal Dance event will be organized at the Science College Ground from 10 am to 8:30 pm. During the event, artists from various states and countries will march past in their traditional attires. Nearly 1,400 artists of 151 art troupes from 23 states and guest artists from 6 countries will participate.

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The Gujarat police was presented the ‘President’s Colours’ by Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu at a ceremony held in Karai Police Academy in Gandhi Nagar on 15 December 2019. Gujarat now becomes the seventh state to receive the prestigious President’s Colours, also called as Nishaan, an emblem which all police officers of Gujarat would wear on left-hand sleeve of their uniform. A new logo of Gujarat Police was also unveiled and the force was also awarded a specially designed flag and an emblem.

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Edelweiss Asset Management Company (AMC), a subsidiary of Edelweiss Capital Limited (ECL) has launched India’s 1st Corporate Bond ETF (exchange trade fund) called the Bharat Bond ETF. The ETF is a government initiative and Edelweiss AMC was given the mandate to design and manage the product.Edelweiss aims to raise an initial amount of Rs 3,000 crore through this bond from institutional players with a greenshoe option of Rs 2,000 crore in the 3-year maturity period (2023) and Rs 4,000 crore with a greenshoe option of Rs 6,000 crore in the 10-year maturity bucket (2030).Small retail investors will have to invest at least Rs 1,000 in this fund.After this, there is a facility for multiple investments. Here they can invest up to 2 lakhs. At the same time, the minimum amount for anchor investors has been fixed at Rs 10 crore.

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Pakistan and the World Bank have signed a loan agreement worth USD 406 million for the Khyber Pass Economic Corridor (KPEC) project. The project is expected to create more than 100,000 jobs in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The project aims to construct of a 48-km long, four-lane, 7.3- meter-wide dual carriageway, high speed access-controlled motorway, which will run from Peshawar to Torkham border point with Afghanistan, in a bid to promote economic development and uplift areas adjoining the expressway and falling in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

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The capital of Togo or Togolese Republic is Lome. Togo is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Burkina Faso to the north, Ghana to its west and Benin to its east. The oil tanker, from which the nationals were kidnapped, was on its way to Lome from Angola.

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The Centre is planning to implement a star rating system for solar panels in India. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the Ministry of new and renewable energy are involved in developing the dedicated mechanism. Currently, BEE rates household appliances like fans and air conditioners by the star rating system.

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The Cuba government is to get the office of Prime Minister after more than 40 years. The last Prime Minister of the Central American country was Fidel Castro who abolished the post after becoming the president. The Cuban Prime Minister is to be the head of the government with a 5 year term.

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The Suposhan Abhiyan is a scheme of the Chhattisgarh state government. The state recently conducted information dissemination drives in local languages under this scheme to create awareness about the various government initiatives to the forest dwellers and tribal people of the region.

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Ethiopia recently launched its first ever satellite, ETRSS-1. It is a remote sensing satellite and was launched from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre. The 70kg satellite will serve civil observation purposes for Ethiopia. The project was developed in collaboration with China.

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The 14^th century mosque, Jamia Masjid is in Jammu and Kashmir. Prayers were held at this historic site for the first time since August with police security cover. The structure was commissioned by the Shah Miri dynasty ruler Sultan Sikandar.