Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2020

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The National Real Estate Development Council was established in 1998 under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. It is a major association of real estate developers.
Recently, National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) has appointed Rajesh Goel as Director General (DG) of the association. Prior to this appointment, Rajesh Goel superannuated as the CMD of Hindustan Prefab Ltd.

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The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has developed an online dashboard on the existing NDMA-GIS portal named ‘National Migrant Information System (NMIS)’.
The objective of launching this portal is to capture the information about movement of migrants and to enable them to transit across the states in a better manner. As per the communication from the Home Ministry, the portal equipped with a central repository will help in faster communication between the states.

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The state government of Chhattisgarh is set to launch its ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana on May 21, which marks the death anniversary of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The scheme has an aim of boosting the rural economy in the state and to recover them from the slowdown caused due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the scheme, the state will infuse Rs 5100 crore through Direct Benefit Transfer into the accounts of farmers. The farmers would be paid Rs 10,000 per acre for paddy, corn and sugarcane crops.

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The former executive of Walt Disney, who led the successful launch of the Disney streaming service, Kevin Mayer is set to become the chief executive officer of TikTok, the popular micro video sharing platform.
TikTok platform is owned by China-based ByteDance Technology. The appointment of Kevin Mayer will be made effective from June 1. He will also serve in the ByteDance as the Chief Operating Officer. Disney named a company veteran Rebecca Campbell to replace Mayer as head of the division led by him.

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India recently observed the 46th anniversary of its first nuclear test in Rajasthan’s Pokhran, conducted on May 18.
The peaceful first nuclear was codenamed the ‘Smiling Buddha’, which proclaimed India as a nuclear power. As the test was conducted on the Buddha Poornima of that year, the event was codenamed after Buddha. Indira Gandhi was the Prime of Minister of India during the tests and it was the first confirmed nuclear test by a country that was not a permanent member of the UNSC.

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The Jammu & Kashmir government notified Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure) Rules, 2020. There shall be a timeline of 15 days for issuance of the certificate after which the applicant can approach an Appellate Authority.
According to that, all people who have resided in the UT for 15 years, or have studied for 7 years and appeared in class 10th or 12th examination there and their children, Children of Government officials who have served in the UT for 10 years are eligible. Now, West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs), sanitation workers and children of women married outside Jammu and Kashmir shall also be eligible for Domicile Certificate.

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Global Technology major Facebook has ventured into the e-commerce sector by launching a new feature called ‘Shops’.
This new feature enables small businesses to set up their stores on Facebook and Instagram for free. It will be facilitated by third-party eCommerce services such as Shopify, BigCommerce, and Woo. This initiative is expected to assist small businesses amid the ongoing economic crisis.

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National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) is an online multi-commodity exchange, headquartered at Mumbai, India.
NCDEX was recently in news as the exchange announced that it will launch the country’s first agri-futures index, NCDEX AGRIDEX. The exchange said it has already begun the mock trading in agri-index futures contracts. AGRIDEX represents a basket of ten liquid agricultural commodities on the NCDEX and will serve as a benchmark for India’s strong agricultural sector.

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Veteran Marathi writer Ratnakar Matkari recently passed away after being diagnosed with COVID-19, at the age of 81.
He was considered as a versatile writer of Marathi literature. He had written more than 90 plays including more than 20 children plays. He was famous for his thriller stories, essays and his theatre autobiography Maaze Rangaprayog. His iconic literary work was ‘Gahire Paani’. He was a recipient of the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi and the Sahitya Akademi awards.

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As per the study by the Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in the US, more than 50 million people in India do not have access to effective handwashing.
This might place them at a higher risk of acquiring and transmitting the novel coronavirus. The study also highlighted that over 2 billion people in low and middle-income countries are without access to soap and clean water. More than 50 per cent of the people in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania also lacked access to effective handwashing.