Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2020

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The Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah recently released a book titled ‘Karmayoddha Granth’. The book is based on the life of the present Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the book releasing event, Amit Shah hailed Modi for successfully transforming the Gujarat BJP organisation and his leadership qualities as the Indian Prime Minister.
Narendra Modi is the 14th and the incumbent Prime Minister of India since 2014. Prior to that he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat since 2001.

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The edition of ‘Crime in India’ statistics for the year 2018 was released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). As per the report Uttar Pradesh is the worst place for women’s security with the most crimes against women at 59445.
Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of rape cases in the year and West Bengal registered the highest number of acid attack cases. The report also said that Crime in India has increased by 1.3% in 2018 compared to that of 2017. The overall number of crime against women has also steadily increased in the last 3 years.

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The team representing Serbia defeated the team of Spain  in the inaugural ‘ATP Cup’ 2020 Tennis tournament held at Sydney. The top-rated Tennis player of Serbia and World No 2  Novak Djokovic defeated the World No 1 Rafael Nadal of Spain. With this victory, Serbia won the title by defeating Spain 2-1.
Djokovic subsequently partnered with his team-mate Viktor Troicki to win the doubles match and confirmed the country’s victory.

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The first mission of the year of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the communication satellite GSAT-30. It is scheduled for launch on January 17,2020 aboard the Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 251) from French Guiana.
The satellite will provide communication services from Geostationary orbit and is expected to serve as the replacement satellite to INSAT- 4 A with extended coverage. GSAT-30 would be beneficial in several ways including supporting VSAT networks, Cellular connectivity and DTH-Television services.

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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 high-level committee on industrial guidance and single window system, chaired by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K Palaniswamy recently approved investment proposals worth Rs 6608 Crores. The fifteen new investments are expected to boost the employment generation in the state.
During the event, the Chief Minister also launched a scheme named ‘Amma Youth Sports Scheme’ to encourage the sporting activities of youth in the state. Amma Youth Sports Committee would be formed under the scheme, which is to be implemented in all gram panchayats and Panchayat unions.

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The Road Safety Stakeholders’ Meet was recently organised in New Delhi. During the event, the Defence Minister of India, Rajnath Singh addressed the participants and presented the ‘Best performing state in reducing road accidents’ award to the state of Tamil Nadu.
The Union Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has also announced that World Bank and Asian Development Bank have approved seven thousand crore rupees each, for India, to enhance road safety.

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Verizon Media, an arm of the international tele- communication company, Verizon communications, has recently launched a new privacy-focused search engine called ‘OneSearch’.
The search engine claims that the search history of the users will not be stored and the self-destructible search data of the users will not be shared with advertisers. The new search engine is also expected to give unbiased and unfiltered results, which will be personalised only based on locations and will separate IP addresses from users and their search results.

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‘Saksham’ is an annual one-month- long campaign organised by the Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA), which functions under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. PCRA works to promote energy efficiency and conservation across various sectors of the country.
The ‘Saksham’ campaign is to be launched by the Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan in an event to be held in Delhi. PCRA has been creating various awareness programmes for the general public about the need for fuel conservation and provides tips for saving fuel.

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The Swiss Bank Julius Baer has recently conducted a study on the 28 cities around the world to rank them as expensive in terms of luxury goods and services. According to the study, the bank tracked a basket of luxury goods and the most expensive city for the selected luxury goods is Hong Kong.
Asia is considered to be the most expensive continent as the 2nd, 3rd and 5th ranks were bagged by Shangai, Tokyo and Singapore respectively.