Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2021

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Al Raisi – the Inspector General of the United Arab Emirates’ Interior ministry has been elected as the President of Interpol, following three rounds of voting. He received 68.9 percent of votes cast by member countries.
The International Criminal Police Organization, commonly known as the Interpol, facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. It is headquartered in Lyon, France.

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Indian tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan won his maiden Challenger level singles title, in the final clash of the ATP80 Manama event.
The 27-year-old Ramkumar, seeded sixth and ranked 222 in the world, beat his Russian rival 6-1 6-4 in 68 minutes. The Indian player had lost six Challenger finals in his career before.

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Archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City are a World Heritage site. Archeologists have resolved the mystery of the Liangzhu culture in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD).
It was among the world’s most advanced Neolithic cultures. Archeological evidence suggests that the Liangzhu ancient city was abandoned, and then the culture collapsed. In a recent research, a layer of clay points to a possible connection between the demise of the civilisation and floods of the Yangtze River or floods from the East China Sea.

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Indian government have signed a $ 250 million loan to support the National Industrial Corridor Development Program (NICDP).
The program aims to develop world-class industrial nodes and generate high level employment. This agreement was signed for the first of two subprograms of the Industrial Corridor Development Program, each of $ 250 million.

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India recently joined the G20 Troika, which now includes Indonesia, Italy and India. Indonesia has assumed the G20 Presidency and will convene G20 meetings throughout the year ending with the G20 Leaders` Summit on October 30-31, 2022.
The theme of this year’s Summit is “Recover Together Recover Stronger”. India will assume the G20 Presidency from Indonesia and will convene the G20 Leaders` Summit for the first time in India in 2023.

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Every year, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is marked on December 3. The theme of this year is ‘Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible, and sustainable post-COVID-19 world’.
The day is observed to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities at every level of society and development.

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The Philippines based Asian Development Bank has approved a loan of USD 500 million (about Rs 3,752 crore) to India for improving the quality of the country’s school education.
The funding would support India’s Integrated Scheme for School Education and help mitigate the impact of the COVID 19 on student’s education.

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Several tribal outfits in Tripura have joined hands to push their demand for a separate state for indigenous communities in the region.
The demand has grown to carve out a separate state of ‘Greater Tipraland’ for the indigenous communities in Tripura under Article 2 and 3 of the Constitution. Among the 19 notified Scheduled Tribes in Tripura, Tripuris (also known was Tipra and Tiprasas) are the largest.

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Semeru is the tallest mountain on Java Island, Indonesia, spewed up towers of ash and hot clouds. The eruption of Semeru volcano has killed at least 14 people and injured many people in the island.
The eruption also destroyed buildings and damaged a strategic bridge connecting two areas in the district of Lumajang with the city of Malang. Around 1,300 people have been evacuated, while nine people were unaccounted for.

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The Kazhuveli wetland located near Villupuram in Tamil Nadu has been recently declared the 16th bird sanctuary by the Environment, Climate Change and Forest Department.
The 5,151.60 hectares of land will henceforth be called the ‘Kazhuveli Birds Sanctuary’. The sanctuary lies adjacent to the Bay of Bengal along the eastern coast.