Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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England becomes the first team to score 500 runs on Day 1 of a Test Cricket Match. The team scored 506/4 runs against Pakistan at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Pakistan. England surpassed Australia to create the world record during the first Test of the series against Pakistan, at the end of the first day of the game. Australia’s previous-highest total was 494/6, which they registered against South Africa in 1910.

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As per recent data, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) announced that the country’s annual rate of HIV infection has declined by 46 per cent between 2010 and 2021.
The decline is against the global average of 32 per cent. According to NACO, AIDS-related mortalities have also declined by 76 per cent against the global average of 52 per cent during the period.

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Saurashtra team beat Maharashtra by 5 wickets in the final to win the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Ahmedabad.
This is Saurashtra’s second Vijay Hazare Trophy triumph. Maharashtra scored 248 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 50 overs, while Saurashtra reached the target with 21 balls to spare losing five wickets.

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India’s first gold ATM and world’s first real time gold ATM has been launched in Hyderabad. The gold ATM enables customers to buy gold without going to a physical jewellery store.
Goldsikka, a company that specialises in buying and selling of gold, introduced the ATM with technology support from a Hyderabad-based startup OpenCube. In the ATM, the buyer selects the price and gold worth the amount is released to the buyer.

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India has jumped to the 48th position in the global aviation safety ranking by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
The Indian aviation safety has scored the highest ever score of 85.49 per cent. In 2018, India was at the 102nd rank. In the ranking, Singapore is at the top, followed by the UAE and South Korea at the second and third positions.

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The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiked the repo rate by 35 basis points (bps) to 6.25 per cent with immediate effect.
The policy rate is now at its highest level since August 2018 and this is the fifth rate hike by the central bank in this financial year. MPC decided to remain focused on the withdrawal of accommodative stance. The standing deposit facility (SDF) rate stands adjusted to 6.00 per cent and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate to 6.50 per cent.

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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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Government of UT, Ladakh has approached the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) to develop Spatial Data Infrastructure geoportal ‘Geo-Ladakh’ for UT-Ladakh.
A Memorandum of Understanding was earlier signed between Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO and UT-Ladakh Administration. The portal provides geospatial data visualization and analytics for Ladakh.

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Chairperson of the Tata Group, N Chandrasekaran was appointed the chair of B20 India, to lead the business agenda during India’s G20 presidency.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is appointed as the B20 India Secretariat by the Centre to lead the B20 India process.

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The USA’s White House has supported Congress to pass a legislation that seeks to eliminate the per country quota on green cards.
This seeks to allow U.S. employers to focus on hiring people based on merit, not their birthplace. The bill if passed would benefit several hundreds of thousands of immigrants specially Indian-Americans. A Green Card, or a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants to the U.S. as evidence of grant of privilege of residing permanently.