Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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Six Indian para-shuttlers clinch gold medals at Peru Para Badminton International in Lima. World No 3 Sukant Kadam defeated ace shuttler Singapore’s Chee Hiong Ang to clinch gold.
India won 14 medals in total including 6 gold, 1 silver and 7 bronze. In the women’s category, Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan and Mandeep Kaur clinched the titles in the SH6 and SL3 singles sections.

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Three Female umpires will officiate in Ranji Trophy this season, for the first time in Indian cricket history.
Vrinda Rathi, Janani Narayan and Gayathri Venugopalan will officiate in the Ranji Trophy. It will be the first for Indian cricket when female umpires are asked to officiate in the men’s cricket matches. One of the umpires Gayathri has served as a fourth umpire in Ranji Trophy in the past.

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Sixteen-year-old Aditya Mittal has recently become India’s 77th chess Grandmaster. The Mumbai-based player crossed 2,500 ELO points mark during the sixth round of the ongoing Ellobregat Open tournament in Spain.
Mittal is also the fifth Indian to achieve the GM title in 2022 after Bharath Subramaniyam, Rahul Srivatshav, V Pranav and Pranav Anand.

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Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting recently approved the Print and Digital Media Association (PADMA) as a self-regulatory body for publishers of news and current affairs across India.
The organisation, which has 47 digital news publishers on board, will look into grievances related to digital media news content on their platforms. The Ministry has approved nine self-regulatory bodies since May 2021.

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In the 19th annual Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen was ranked first for her leadership during the Ukraine war.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde came on second position while US Vice-President Kamala Harris was on third. From India, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is at 36^th rank. SEBI Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, SAIL Chairperson Soma Mondal, Biocon Chair Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Nykaa CEO Falguni Nayar were on the list.

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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that search engines must dereference information if the person making the request can demonstrate that the material is inaccurate.
People in Europe have the right to ask Google and other search engines to delete links to outdated or embarrassing information, even if it is true, under a principle known as the right to be forgotten.

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Political parties received Rs 676.26 crore in the 23rd phase of the sale of electoral bonds (EBs) between November 11 and 15.
This period is ahead of the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. Around 97 percent of the bonds sold (worth Rs 660 crore) were encashed by political parties at the New Delhi Main branch of State Bank of India. Anonymous donors gave Rs 545 crore in the 22nd sale of EBs conducted between October 1 and 10.

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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin launched sanitation workers’ development programme across the state and distributed safety equipment.
A survey will be carried out to identify sanitation workers and details will be uploaded on a mobile application. In the first phase, the scheme will be implemented in five urban local bodies and will be extended to all other local bodies.

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Major social media company Twitter said it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features.
Twitter is attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed. The blue checkmark was originally given to companies, celebrities, government entities and journalists verified by the platform.

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Bhupendra Patel will continue as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term, after the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins in the state assembly elections. The newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs elected Bhupendra Patel as the leader of the legislative party.