Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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Spain’s lower house of Parliament passed a law that allows people over 16 years of age to change their legally registered gender without any medical supervision.
Under the law, minors aged 12 or 13 will need a judge’s authorisation to make the change, while those between 14 and 16 will have to be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians. The law also banned conversion therapies, established fines and punishments for attacks on LGBT people.

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Project Lion is being implemented by the State Government of Gujarat and other stakeholders like Central Zoo Authority.
It is implemented in the Gir landscape in Gujarat which is the last home of the Asiatic lion. Project Lion document titled ‘Lion @ 47: Vision for Amrutkal’ has been prepared to secure and restore lions’ habitats for managing its growing population.

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Delhi has the highest crypto adoption in India, measured in terms of value invested, as per the annual investor report by crypto investing platform CoinSwitch.
Delhi at 7.87 per cent, Bangalore at 4.87 per cent and Hyderabad at 3.27 percent were the metro cities with the highest crypto adoption. Jaipur has the highest adoption among tier-2 cities. CRE8 or Crypto Rupee Index (CRE8) is a benchmark index to measure the performance of the Indian Rupee-based crypto market.

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Parliament has passed the Maritime Anti Piracy Bill 2022 after the approval of Rajya Sabha. The Bill has already been passed by Lok Sabha.
The Bill enables Indian authorities to take action against piracy on the high seas. It applies to the sea beyond the Exclusive Economic Zone, which is beyond 200 nautical miles from India’s coastline. Ministry of External Affairs is associated with the bill.

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Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has secured a deal to form a new government.
Netanyahu has managed to form a government after tough negotiations with far-right coalition partners.  Though Netanyahu’s Likud and like-minded religious-nationalist parties won a comfortable majority, the agreement to form a government was held up by several political disputes.

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Decacorn is the name given to a business with a value more than USD 10 billion. Unicorns are businesses with a value more than USD 1 billion.
Recently, the collective value of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is estimated to have gone up to USD 10.9 billion, thereby becoming a decacorn. Media rights, sponsorships, ticket sales, and in-stadia revenue are the contributors for its revenue.

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As per a new research, two-thirds of Antarctica’s native species, including emperor penguins, are under threat of extinction or major population declines by 2100.
This is due to current trajectories of global heating. The study was conducted by scientists, conservationists and policymakers from 12 countries.  It has identified emperor penguins as the Antarctic species at greatest risk of extinction, followed by other seabirds and dry soil nematodes.

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Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated the Sports Science Centre in Udupi.
This Sports Science Centre will bring together sports scientists and athletes. The Government has spent 2700 crore rupees to enhance sporting infrastructure as well as 3,136 crore rupees for Khelo India Games, for a period of five years.

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Indian badminton star PV Sindhu is the only Indian player in the top 25 in Forbes’ annual list of the highest-paid female athletes in the world.
The 27-year-old made 7 million US Dollars of her earnings, after having won a singles gold and doubles silver at the Commonwealth Games earlier this year in Birmingham. Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka tops the list, for the third straight year.

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The Indian Army has offered the first 3D printed houses for soldiers at Ahmedabad Cantt. They are constructed by the Military Engineering Services (MES) in collaboration with MiCoB Pvt Ltd.
The dwelling unit, with a ground floor plus one configuration are not only cheap but can be constructed in less time. Construction work of the dwelling unit with garage space and first floor was completed in 12 weeks.