General Knowledge
- A number issued by the Income Tax Department to their tax payers - Permanent Account Number (PAN).
- _____ is a name given to Credit cards, Debit cards, ATM cards and International Cards issued by banks - Plastic Money.
- A location at which a payment of a card transaction occurs - Point of Sale (PoS).
- Rate of interest at which a bank gives loan to its most reliable customer i.e., customer with ‘zero risk’ - Prime Lending Rate (PLR).
- A book where details of all bank transactions are recorded - Pass book.
Economy
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to set up an Automated Banknote Processing Centre (ABPC) in _____ for receipt, storage and dispatch of currency notes - Jaipur.
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to introduce the 'positive pay system' for cheque from 1 January 2021, under which re-confirmation of key details may be needed for payments beyond - Rs. 50,000.
International
- On 12 December 2020, _____ , United Kingdom, and France, in partnership with Chile and Italy, co-hosted the virtual ‘Climate Ambition Summit’ of the world climate leaders - the United Nations.
- The most-affected country on earth, imposing devastating loss to the country’s economy, according to World Terrorism Index 2020, released by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) - Afghanistan.
National
- Fertility in India as per National Family Health Survey (NFHS) IV - 2.2.
- To deliver the ‘Carbon Neutrality Pledge for Educational Institutes’ for achieving net-zero carbon neutrality by the educational institutes by 2040-2075, this organisation announced a partnership with TERRE Policy Centre, a non-profit organization - All India Council for Higher Technical Education (AICTE).
- The institution that partnered with TERRE Policy Centre to obtain a position as ‘Not-Zero Net-Zero’ - Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL).
Persons in News
- Newly promoted as executive directors in the Reserve Bank of India - R Subramanian, RS Ratho and Rohit Jain.
- Author of the books, “Grandparents’ Bag of Stories” and “Grandma’s Bag of Stories” - Sudha Murty.
- Author of the book, “The Presidential Years” - Pranab Mukherjee.
State Current Affairs
- In _____, 81st Nupi Lan Day 2020 was observed on 12 December 2020 remembering the brave mothers who fought against the mass exploitation and artificial famine triggered by the then mighty British Empire - Manipur.
- 'Rudraksh', a world-class convention centre, will be set up in - Varanasi, UP.
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