Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2020

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The 9th edition of the Joint exercise between the armies of India and Bangladesh, SAMPRITI recently concluded at Umroi, Meghalaya. The two-week exercise was held from February 3 to 16, 2020.
The personnel of the two countries shared their experiences on counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism operations and disaster management techniques. The exercise helped to strengthen ties between India and Bangladesh, and mutual operability between the armies.

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Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra has been named as the nominee for the proposed Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir, by the Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, after a request from the government.
As per the J-K Reorganisation Act, 2019, the number of Legislative Assembly seats of Jammu and Kashmir UT shall be increased from 107 to 114, and delimitation of the constituencies shall be determined by the Election Commission of India.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme on 19th February, 2015 at Suratgarh in Rajasthan. Fifth year of the launch of the scheme is being observed on the ‘Soil Health Card (SHC) Day’, this year.
The scheme aims at issuing soil health cards to all farmers every two years. The card would provide details about the nutritional deficiencies in soil, so that the farmers can supplement the soil with suitable fertilizers and increase the yields.

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Highest income tax rate is 30% for income above 15,00,000.

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Nripendra Misra, the former principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been selected as the chairman of the Ram Temple Complex Development Committee.
Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas chief Nritya Gopal Das has been named as the Chairman of the Sri Ram Janambhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.

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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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Veteran Indian cricketer Pragyan Ojha recently announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket.
The 33-year-old left-arm spinner played 24 Tests between 2009 and 2013 and grabbed a total of 113 wickets. He last played for India in 2013, against the West Indies in Mumbai. He had also played ODIs and T20 Internationals, representing India.

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Ahmer Khan, the 27-year-old Indian freelance reporter, was selected as the winner of the 2019 Agence France-Presse (AFP) Kate Webb Prize.
The award is named after one of the best correspondents of Agence France-Presse (AFP), an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. He was selected for the coveted award for his coverage illustrating Kashmir during the month of August, when the special status of the region was repealed.

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched International Mother Language Day (IMLD) in 1991, with an objective of gaining global support for preserving the diversity of languages, with special focus on indigenous languages.
This year, UNESCO has declared ‘Languages without borders’ as the theme for International Mother Language Day 2020, celebrated on February 21. In India, the day is celebrated as Matribasha Diwas.

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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.