Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2021

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India’s 1st Certified Organic Fruit – Arunachal Pradesh Kiwis have been launched by the Union Minister Kiren Rijiju.
Arunachal Pradesh has become the first Indian state to obtain organic certification for Kiwi under the scheme – Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region.

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Indian professional squash player Saurav Ghosal has become the first Indian player to claim the Malaysian open. At the final event, Saurav Ghosal clinched the title by defeating former world No.4 Miguel Rodriguez of Colombia.
On many occasions, the two players have played together and at one point were even trained by the same coach David Palmer.

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The Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP), a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research developed the ‘Bio-jet fuel’.
It has been formally approved for use on military aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC). It is a regulatory body under DRDO. This approval will enable Indian armed forces to use bio-jet fuel produced using indigenous technology across all its operational aircraft

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Railways is constructing the world’s tallest railway bridge pier at Noney Valley in the state of Manipur with a height of 141 metres.
It is a part of the 111 Kilometre long Jiribam-Imphal railway line, which aims to connect the capital of Manipur with the broad gauge network of the country. The bridge at Noney Valley will surpass the Mala – Rijeka viaduct’s existing record of 139 meters, located in Montenegro, Europe.

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Skill Development Ministry launched a pilot project to revive traditional ‘Namda’ craft in Jammu and Kashmir.
The project has been launched under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) 3.0′. The project aims to increase the carpet export from ₹600 crore to ₹6,000 crore and will benefit 2,250 people of 30 Namda Clusters from six districts of Kashmir.

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The fifth Indian Ocean Conference is set to be held in Abu Dhabi on December 4-5, 2021. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will address the Conference.
The theme of the Indian Ocean Conference 2021 is “Indian Ocean: Ecology, Economy, Epidemic”. The inaugural address will be delivered by President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The representatives of Maldives, Fiji and other countries will participate.

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Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 48 Starlink internet satellites and two BlackSky satellites as a payload from Florida.
The partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket had its first-stage boosters launched into space as part of several missions. The array of Starlink satellites offer internet coverage in remote areas of several countries.

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The Vice President recently released a book titled, ‘Public Service Ethics’- A Quest for Naitik Bharat’ written by Prabhat Kumar, former Governor of Jharkhand and former Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India.
The Vice President also called for a broad-based social movement for a ‘Naitik Bharat’ or ‘Ethical India’.

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Every year, On December 3 the Feast of St Francis Xavier is celebrated in the state of Goa, to pay homage to St Francis Xavier, in which people from across the globe visit Goa, to observe the death anniversary of St Francis Xavier.
St Francis Xavier was a Catholic missionary who preached about Jesus Christ to people around the world.

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Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. The project is a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency.
IXPE is scheduled to launch on December 9, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft includes three space telescopes with detectors capable of measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays.