Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code that criminalizes sex outside marriage.
The new code, which also applies to foreign residents and tourists, bans cohabitation before marriage, apostasy, and provides punishments for insulting the president or expressing views counter to the national ideology.

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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will launch India’s first-ever surety bonds insurance product to boost liquidity in the infrastructure sector, as per Union minister Nitin Gadkari.
The surety bonds will help in boosting the liquidity in the infrastructure sector by providing relief to the contractors’ working capital stuck in bank guarantees.

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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has proposed allowing all general insurers to offer long-term motor insurance policies.
The proposal seeks to provide a wider choice to policyholders. The regulator proposed a three-year policy in respect of private cars co-terminus with motor third party liability cover and a five-year policy in respect of two-wheelers.

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The International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime is observed on December 9.
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly established 9 December as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

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Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has recently sworn in as the next Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. He was a four-time MLA and chairman of the Congress’ state election campaign committee.
Mukesh Agnihotri has been selected as the Deputy Chief Minister. The Indian National Congress party won the Himachal Pradesh state assembly elections.

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University Grants Commission (UGC) announced new norms for undergraduate degrees. The draft regulations are mentioned in ‘Curriculum and credit framework for four-year undergraduate programmes'(FYUP).
Under this new system students will get a UG degree in three years on completion of 120 credits and a UG honours degree in four years on completion of 160 credits.

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Paleontologists have recently identified a new genus and species of titanosaurian dinosaur from the fossilized remains in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Titanosaurs had small heads, long tails and necks, and included the largest terrestrial animals known. The newly-identified species, Caieiria allocaudata, lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous epoch, between 70 and 66 million years ago.

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Article 43B of the Constitution inserted by the 97th Amendment says that ‘states shall endeavour to promote voluntary formation, autonomous functioning, democratic control and professional management of cooperative societies’.
The Bill to amend the Multi-State Cooperative Societies (MSCS) Act, 2002, was recently introduced in the Lok Sabha. The bill says central government will establish the Co-operative Election Authority to conduct elections, supervise, direct and control the preparation of electoral rolls. As per the Bill, the central government will appoint one or more Co-operative Ombudsman with territorial jurisdiction.

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Ministry of Development of Home Affairs formed a special committee to look into demands of Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO).
It will be headed by the Advisor of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Centre’s emissary on the Naga Peace Talks, A K Mishra. The Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation constitutes seven of the major tribes of Nagaland. They are demanding a separate state by the name of Frontier Nagaland.

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Dr NK Arora, chairman of the Covid working group, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) announced that India will organise a nationwide HPV immunisation drive for girls of 9-14 years by mid-2023.
India has joined a select group of countries where the HPV vaccine is to be manufactured in the next four or five months. The indigenously developed HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine CERVAVAC is an outcome of partnership of DBT and BIRAC with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, supported by Serum Institute of India Private Limited.