Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2021

Notes:
Senior Indian Revenue Service Officer Shri. Vivek Johri has been appointed as the chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), by the personnel ministry.
Shri. Vivek Johri is a 1985-batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes) officer who is presently a member of the CBIC.

Notes:
Madhya Pradesh launched the ‘Kranti Surya Gaurav Kalash Yatra’ from the birthplace of freedom fighter Jannayak Tantya Mama, Barod Ahir village.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called upon the citizens to participate in this yatra. The state has also announced a programme to be organised on death Anniversary of Jannayak Tantya Mama at Indore on December 4.

Notes:
‘World Aids Day’ is observed every year on December 1, across the world. It was first observed in 1988.
“End inequalities. End Aids. End pandemics.” is the theme for this year’s World Aids Day as per the UN. The Day aims to create awareness about the disease and working towards ending the stigma surrounding it.

Notes:
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.

Notes:
The new species of butterfly, now named the Chocolate-bordered Flitter, has been discovered at Dzongu in north Sikkim.
It carries the scientific name Zographetus dzonguensis, after the place where it was discovered. The closest relatives of the butterfly are in south-eastern China, near Hong Kong. This was discovered through a photograph uploaded on to the ‘Butterflies of India’ website National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru.

Notes:
Indian industrialist and philanthropist Shri. Ratan Tata, has been chosen for “Assam Baibhav” – Assam’s highest civilian award, for his exceptional contribution towards cancer care in the state.
He was instrumental in constructing 16 hospitals under the Assam Cancer Care Foundation, of which 10
hospitals will be completed by this year and operationalised in April 2022.

Notes:
The state of Tamil Nadu was awarded the best State for promoting empowerment of persons with disabilities (PwD), by the Government of India.
The National Awards for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities is awarded every year on 3rd December (International day for the disabled persons) by the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Notes:
Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh announced that the third phase of the Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojana will be completed by the year 2025.
The scheme would focus on providing easy access to markets, hospitals and schools. The first phase of the central scheme focused on connectivity and the next phase on upgradation of rural roads.

Notes:
The Indian Navy launched ‘Sandhayak’, the first of the four large survey vessels, in Kolkata. The primary role of these survey ships would be to conduct full-scale coastal and deep-water hydrographic survey of ports and harbours.
The ships would be deployed for collecting oceanographic and geophysical data and determination of navigational routes. The contract for building four survey ships was signed between the Defence Ministry and Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in 2018.

Notes:
Yutu-2 is a robotic lunar rover which was launched in 2018, as a part of Chang’e 4 mission to the Moon.
The rover has recently detected a strange-looking, cube-shaped object on the surface of the Moon. The rover spotted the object as it crossed the Von Karman crater on the far side of the Moon. The object has been dubbed “mystery house” and scientists are set to drive the rover closer to get a better look.