Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2020

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The Prime Minister of India recently attended the 150th celebration of the historic Kolkata Port Trust. During the event, he announced that Kolkata Port Trust would be renamed to ‘Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Port’.
The Prime Minister also released a Commemorative Stamp to mark 150 years of the Kolkata port trust. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was the founder of Bharathiya Jana Sangh, following which the Bharathiya Janata Party was formed.

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The 18th edition of the famous Dhaka International Film Festival was recently inaugurated at Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The festival will be organised from January 11 to 19, 2020 with the theme of ‘Better Film, Better Audience and Better Society’.
During the eight-day-long festival, which is to be held at various venues in Dhaka, more than 200 films from 74 countries are to be screened. A conference on the theme of ‘Women in cinema’ will also be conducted during the film festival.

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In the recently held presidential election of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected as the country’s President. With more than 57% of the votes, Tsai won her second presidential term. Her victory in the election has gained significance as she vowed to protect the sovereignty of Taiwan amidst of the threats posed by China.
China has announced that Taiwan must be united with China at any cost and it would use power if necessary. There were several protests across the country against China’s Authoritarian behaviour.

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Senior IPS Officer A.P. Maheshwari has been appointed as the new Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. The previous DG of CRPF, Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar retired last month and ITBP Director General S.S. Deswal was given the additional charge in CRPF.
Maheshwari is a 1984-batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, who is the Special Secretary (Internal Security) in the Union Home Ministry at present, has been appointed as the new Director General up to 28 February, 2021.

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Captain Tania Shergill will be the first woman to become the Republic Day parade’s parade adjutant, which means the officer responsible for the parade. She is an officer of the Indian Army’s Corps of Signals.
Captain Tania was commissioned into the Corps of Signals in 2017. The Corps of Signals is an arm of the Indian Army, which handles the communications of the military force. Last year, the Indian Army has selected 100 women to join the Corps of Military Police as soldiers.

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The Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) is an autonomous Institute established by the Government of Delhi. It is super-speciality hospital for liver and biliary diseases located at New Delhi. It has also been given the status of University by the University Grants Commission.
Recently, the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, attended and addressed the tenth foundation day of the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) in New Delhi. He suggested to establish liver transplant programs in more public hospitals across the country and to spread awareness about organ donation.

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Tech Major Microsoft has recently announced the launch of its new Edge Chromium browser for both the Mac and Windows platforms.
Though the enterprise users are initially targeted by Microsoft, other Windows and macOS users could also download the browser manually from the official website of Microsoft and install it. It is expected that the Windows 10 users will be provided the browser through a windows update. The Edge has similar features like those in Chrome and also supports Chrome extensions.

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The Government of India, Governments of Tripura and Mizoram and Bru-Reang representatives signed the historic agreement in New Delhi recently, which will end the 23-year old Bru-Reang refugee crisis.
Under the new agreement, around 34,000 Bru refugees, who were displaced from Mizoram will be permanently settled in Tripura and would be given aid from the Centre to assist their rehabilitation and development, through a fund of Rs 600 crores. Each displaced family will also be given residential plots by the Tripura Government.

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The Founder and Chairperson of the famous Bio-technology company Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw was recently honoured with the Australia’s highest civilian honour, ‘Order of Australia’.
The award was presented to her for significant service to promote bilateral relationship between Australia and India, especially in commercial and educational aspects. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the fourth Indian citizen to receive this honour after Mother Teresa, former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee and ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.

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The Chief of the leading multinational online retailer Amazon, Jeff Bezos announced that the company would invest in India to create 1 million jobs by 2025. These proposed jobs will be in addition to the 7 lakh jobs which have been already created over the last six years in India, through the investments of Amazon.
Recently the Chief of Amazon attended the two-day meet of the company in New Delhi. He also announced that investments worth $1 billion would be made in India. Amazon has been alleged by small traders, for providing steep discounts to products in their platform and supporting only a particular group of retailers.