Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2020

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The Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan recently launched the mobile application called ‘Yodhavu’ (Warrior), for curbing drug menace in the state.
The Police Department of Kochi, Kerala has introduced the application, through which the public can inform police about drug abuse and distribution of drugs. The identity of the informer would be kept secret, according to the police. A cyberdom cyber crime police station was also inaugurated by the Chief Minister.

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The current accounting year of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is July-June. Recently, the Central Board of Directors of the RBI recommended to align the accounting year of RBI with the financial year of the government (April-March), from 2020-21.
The RBI board announced this proposal at its 582nd meeting and approved to forward the proposal to the government for receiving its consideration. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed the meeting.

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The Bollywood movie based on the life of two rap singers, Gully Boy created history in the Filmfare awards by winning 13 of them. The film won in all 13 categories, which it was nominated in.
In the event held in Guwahati, the film beat the previous record of 11 awards held by ‘Black’ by winning in categories that include Best Film, Best Director for Zoya Akhtar, Best Actor for Ranveer Singh and Best Actress for Alia Bhatt. It also bagged Supporting Role Male and Female, Best Music Album and Best Lyrics.

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The 15th Finance Commission (FFC) recently set up a High level expert group on farm exports. The group is to be headed by the Chairman and Managing director of ITC, Sanjiv Puri.
The committee comprises various members including Former agriculture secretary- Radha Singh and chairman of APEDA- Paban K. Borthakur. The committee will suggest performance-based incentives to the state governments for 2021-22 to 2025-26, to accelerate agricultural reforms and exports in the sector.

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The United Arab Emirates recently announced that it issued the operating licence for the first of four reactors at its Barakah nuclear power plant. It is the first ever nuclear plant in the Arab region.
The Barakah plant is located on the Gulf coast west of Abu Dhabi. It has received operating license after several delays due to safety and regulatory requirements. The nuclear power plant is expected to start its operations within a few months.

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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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Bill moots setting up a dedicated fund of Rs 50,000 crore, raised from the fines charged from the defaulting pesticides companies and contributions from the Central and state governments.

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Telecom companies in India have reduced from nine in 2016 to four in 2020, including Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the government-owned telecom company. This has happened even as consumption of mobile services rose 88% from 366 minutes per user per month to 691 while data consumption grew from less than 0.5 gigabytes (GB) to nearly 11 GB between 2016 and 2019, according to data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

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7th Economic Census is being brought out by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s Central Statistics Office (Economic Statistics Division). A nationwide Business Register as per international practices adopted by developing countries and in line with UNSD recommendations. It will provide detailed information on economic variables, activity wise, of all the non agricultural establishments of the country including its distribution at all India, State, district, village/ward levels for comprehensive analysis of the structure of the economy.

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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.