Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2020

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India’s first under-water Metro rail service is the Kolkata Metro, where the metro train plies under the river Hooghly of West Bengal. The under-water stretch of the project is nearly 5.8 kilometers. The project is being executed by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal recently flagged off the first phase of the East-West corridor, of the Metro network. Kolkata Metro is also the first metro rail service of India.

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The global sports icon Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash three weeks ago, was recently named as finalist of ‘Basketball Hall of Fame’.
One of the most dominant players in NBA history played for the Los Angeles Lakers during his 20-year career. Many other former Basket ball players and national coaches have also been named finalists of the ‘Basketball Hall of Fame’.

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The Ministry of Food Processing Industries in association with the Ministry of Women and Child Development is to organise ‘Organic food festival’ in New Delhi, in this month.
The two Union ministries have recently signed an agreement in this regard. The festival is expected to assist the women entrepreneurs in organic food sector to connect with government schemes and include them in the global market.

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The Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI)-77th Senior National squash championships was recently held at Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Ace Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa clinched the women’s title by beating Tanvi Khanna, while another top-rated player Saurav Ghosal bagged the men’s title by defeating Abhishek Pradhan in straight sets. The champions were awarded a prize money of Rs. 1,25,000 each.

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Mumbai-based Indian steel making company, JSW Steel Ltd recently approved permission from the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal on Monday (NCLAT) to acquire Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd.
While JSW steel is to acquire the firm for Rs 19,700 crore, it would be immuned from the acts of former promoters of the Bhushan Power, as per the ruling of the apex court. Enforcement Directorate would still continue the money laundering prosecution against the former Bhushan power’s promoters.

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The Election Commission of India was awarded ‘Silver’ award for ‘Excellence in Government Process re-engineering for Digital transformation’ from the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), during the 23rd National Conference on e-Governance held at Mumbai.
The award is presented to ECI for its portal ERO-NET. The portal uses a mechanism to effectively enter an applicant in E-roll. It is used for various functions like processing of forms, easy handling of the databases and maintenance of E-Rolls.

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Reliance Industries Ltd topped the domestic market capitalisation chart with Rs. 9,42,422.58 crore. It is followed by TCS, HDFC Bank, Hindustan Unilever Ltd and HDFC.
Recently, eight of the 10 most valued Indian companies together added Rs. 1.09 trillion to their market capitalisation. Except HDFC and HDFC bank, the other top-10 companies augmented their market valuation. ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel and Bajaj Finance in the top-10 list, increased their m-cap higher.

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The skipper of Indian cricket team Virat Kohli recently became the first Indian to reach the 50 million followers mark on social media platform Instagram.
Globally, the official account of Instagram has the highest number of followers, followed by Football star from Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo, who has nearly 200 million followers. Virat has made 930 Instagram posts so far and earned the most number of followers, followed by Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra (49.9 followers) and Deepika Padukone (44.1 followers).

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Veteran Kannada actor Kishori Ballal recently passed away at the age of 82. She was known for starring with Shah Rukh Khan in his movie -Swades as ‘Kaveri Amma’.
She made her acting debut during 1960 in the movie ‘Ivalentha Hendathi’ and has acted in more than 75 movies of different Indian languages. The artist had been acting for more than 50 years and starred in several Bollywood films too.

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The second estimate of food-grain production has been released by the Agriculture Ministry. As per the data, total food-grain production is estimated at a record 291.95 million tonne for the 2019-20 crop-year.
It also stated that India is set to harvest a wheat production of 106.21 million tonne in the 2019-20 crop-year due to good rains in the country. Wheat is the major rabi crop of India.