Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2020

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The Asian Wrestling Championship has recently commenced in New Delhi. Indian wrestler Sunil Kumar became the first Indian in 27 years to win a gold medal in the Greco-Roman style, at the Asian Wrestling Championships. Sunil defeated Azat Salidinov of Kyrgyzstan 5-0 to clinch the title in 87 kg category. Last year, he won silver in the tournament.
In 1993, Pappu Yadav won gold in the Greco-Roman wrestling, which forbids the use of legs and holding below waists in the bout.

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American social network company Twitter has recently acquired California-based Chroma Labs, known for its ‘Chroma Stories’ application.
The Labs, which develop tools for short video and creation of photos, was founded by seven Facebook and Instagram employees two years ago. Their ‘Chroma Stories’ app has various layout templates and frames for pictures. As many as 615,000 people have installed the application world-wide.

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Cobalt is a critical element for not only cell phones but also electric vehicles that might be good for the environment. Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Its continued availability is becoming an issue due to political environment of DRC.

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The United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Priti Patel recently announced the launch of the country’s new Points-based visa system. The system provides visas to only those persons who gain required points. It aims at attracting the high-skilled employees from around the world and cutting down incoming low-skilled labourers.
The new system is expected to come into force from January 1, 2021, which is the end of the transition period after exit of the UK from the European Union (EU). This system applies to both EU member and non member countries including India.

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The 22nd edition of the world language database Ethnologue was recently released. As per the list, Hindi is the third most spoken language of the world in 2019. The language is spoken by nearly 615 million speakers.
English is placed at the top of the database with 1132 million speakers while Chinese Mandarin is at the second place with 1,117 million speakers. Bangla has been ranked as the 7th most spoken language of the world.

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Divya Kakran recently won a gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships, recently being held in New Delhi. Divya won all four bouts in the five-wrestler 68kg category. Other Indian wrestlers Pinki and Sarita Mor also secured the gold medal in the women’s 55kg and 59kg categories respectively.
Earlier, Ashu, Aditya Kundu and Hardeep won bronze medals for India in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Championships.

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A report titled ‘A Future for the World’s Children’ was recently released by a World Health Organization (WHO) Commission, UNICEF and the Lancet journal.
The report included a new ‘Global Flourishing index’, which compares the countries in measures of child survival and well-being. Out of the total of 180 countries assessed, India is placed at 131st rank in flourishing index and 77th rank in sustainability index.

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The Government of Telangana have launched Project Tej, in association with a platform MedTechConnect,during the BioAsia 2020-Biotech and Life Sciences forum of the state. The Project aims at creating a platform to help entrepreneurs test their ideas in medical technology field.
The state’s Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) and MedTechConnect signed a MoU in this regard. MedTechConnect platform was established by the engineering and Tech Company Cyient and Xynteo’s business alliance called ‘India2022 Coalition’.

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The 21st edition of the Ernst and Young (EY) awards for the year 2019 was presented recently. The Founder and CMD of India’s leading Biopharmaceutical firm-Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was named as the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2019. She is set to represent India at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award (WEOY) in Monte Carlo, to be held in June.
Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award while Tuhin Parikh of Blackstone India, was the first recipient of the ‘Transformational Impact Person of the Year’ award.

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Larry Tesler was a great computer researcher, who was famous for his innovations of short-cuts in computers including the commands of cut/copy & paste, find & replace etc.
He started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s and was associated with several major technological firms including Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Amazon and Yahoo. He worked with the tech-giant Apple for 17 years.