Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2020

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John Magufuli has been sworn in as the President of Tanzania for the second 5 year term. His second term of office would run till 2025.
Tanzania is an East African nation known for its vast wilderness areas. The Serengeti National Park and Kilimanjaro National Park are located in this country. Dodoma is its capital and Tanzanian shilling is its currency.

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Uttar Pradesh has launched an awareness campaign regarding the burning of Crop remains in many parts of the state.
The Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the farmers of the state not to burn remains of their crops (known as Parali) but to make compost with it. Several volunteers are also involved in creating awareness about pollution.

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The One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme was launched to provide uniform pensions for Armed Forces Veterans, who are retiring in the same rank with the same length of service.
The Prime Minister has recently highlighted that the One Rank One Pension scheme has completed five years since its implementation. The pension is provided irrespective of the time they retire.

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The Union Ministry of Finance has given an approval for creation of the first ever national database of migrant labour called the National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW), which would be seeded with Aadhaar.
This database would provide a platform for the government to implement specific programmes for such labourers

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Australia-India Water Centre (AIWC) has been recently inaugurated through a Webinar and will be led by University of Western Sydney, Australia and IIT Guwahati, India.
The Centre will also include 21 other partners from India and Australia. It will include collaboration in water research, joint master’s level programme in water futures, student and staff exchanges, workshops and training in water sector.

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The 20th Summit of SCO Council of Heads of State was held in Video Conference Format. The Meeting was chaired by the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Indian delegation to the summit. Other SCO Member States were represented by their Presidents, while India and Pakistan were represented by their respective Prime Ministers.

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Nepal has recently released a pictorial anthology on Mahatma Gandhi titled Maile Bujheko Gandhi or the Gandhi as I understood. It has been released in Nepali language by the country’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari.
This special anthology was launched to mark Gandhi’s 151st birth anniversary. The book has been published by the Embassy of India along with the B P Koirala India-Nepal Foundation.

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The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which will the world’s largest visible-light telescope hwne completed, is proposed to be set up in Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii.
Physics Nobel Laureate Professor Andrea Ghez collaborated with Indian astronomers on the design of instruments and science prospects of the TMT project. India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) are involved in the project.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will co-chair the virtual 17th India-ASEAN summit, along with the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
The leaders are expected to note the adoption of ASEAN-India Plan of Action (2021-2025). The Prime Minister attended the 16th ASEAN-India Summit in Bangkok in November last year.

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COVISHIELD, the Covid-19 potential vaccine candidate has recently completed the enrolment of Phase III clinical trials.
COVISHIELD has been developed by the Serum Institute of India with a master seed from Oxford University and AstraZeneca. SII has already manufactured 40 million doses of the vaccine and will make the vaccine available by joining hands with ICMR.