Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2020

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Top professional golfer of Australia, Wade Ormsby recently clinched the Hong Kong Open title for the second time in last three years. Another ace golfer and British Open champion Shane Lowry finished the tour in the second place. The tournament was held in Hanling, Hong Kong.
Ormsby is a 39-year-old golfer, who had earlier won the Hong Kong Open title in 2017, which was his maiden European Tour victory. By this victory, Ormsby is only the second wire-to-wire winner of this tour.

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International money transfer company, MoneyGram and the leading international supplier of software and e-commerce services, EbixCash signed an agreement recently, to expand their business in India.
By this partnership, EbixCash will be the exclusive partner of MoneyGram in India. MoneyGram could reach additional consumers in the rural areas through several distribution outlets of Ebix group. The customers of Ebixcash could also use the MoneyGram platform for money transfer services across several countries.

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India recently signed an MoU with Bangladesh for content exchange programme between All India Radio and the national broadcaster of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Betar in New Delhi.
An MoU was also signed between National Film Development Corporation, India and Film Development Corporation, Bangladesh in the presence of Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar and his Bangladesh counterpart. A biopic on the life of the great leader of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman jointly produced by the countries, will be released in March 2020.

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The Indian Government constituted the Island Development Agency (IDA) in 2017 for the overall development of islands. The meetings of IDA are chaired by the Union Home Minister.
Recently, the Union home minister Amit Shah chaired the sixth meeting of the Island Development Agency (IDA). In the meeting, IDA reviewed the progress made towards the programme “Holistic development of islands”. During the meeting, the CEO of NITI Aayog made a detailed presentation about the projects planned for the welfare of the islanders. The previous meeting of the IDA was chaired by the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

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Kaifi Azmi was a famous Indian Urdu poet and song writer and was the pioneer in using Urdu literature in Indian movies. His 101st birth anniversary was recently observed and Google dedicated a doodle on the day as a tribute.
He had won several awards including the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award. He was also presented with the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in India. Kaifi Azmi had won the renowned Sakitya Akademi fellowship.

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The Non-Governmental organisation, called ‘Pratham’ releases the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) in India. The ASER for the year 2019 was released recently. The report states that five-year-old children in private institutions performed better in learning activities than the same-aged children in Government-run schools and anganwadis.
The enrolment levels among girls in the age group of 4 to 8 years, were higher than those among boys. But more girls are being enrolled in state-run schools than boys, who are enrolled more in private schools, showing a clear gender gap.

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The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi recently participated in the 50th Anniversary function of Tamil Magazine Thuglak, through Video Conferencing. The event was held at Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu.
The magazine was founded by the famous journalist Cho Ramaswamy, who passed away in 2016. The Tamil weekly magazine was famous for its intelligent arguments and political satire. Swaminathan Gurumurthy is the present editor of the magazine after the demise of its founder and editor.

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Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways connects Mumbai, the financial capital of India with Gujarat and some parts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, with its headquarters being the Churchgate station of Mumbai.
Alok Kansal, a 1983-batch officer of the Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE) has been recently appointed as the General Manager of the Western Railway zone. The previous General Manager was Anil Kumar Gupta, who retired on November 2019

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Retired Surgeon, Alejandro Giammattei was recently sworn in as the President of the Central American Country, Guatemala. During the power transfer ceremony held at the Guatemala City, the outgoing President, Jimmy Morales handed over the presidential band to Giammattei.
Guatemala is one of the most populous and the poorest countries of the continent, with a very low Human Development index. Notorious for corruption, the country also finds place in the most violent nations of the planet.

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The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) recently appointed Ashish Garg as its new President for the year 2020. Another member of ICSI, Nagendra D Rao has been elected Vice-President of the Institute. Ashish Garg was elected to the central council of ICSI for the 2015-18 term and has been re-elected for the 2019-22 term.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) is a New Delhi based statutory body to promote and regulate the profession of company secretaries in India.