Daily CURRENT AFFAIRS 13.12.2020
🗓️ 12 December : Universal Health Coverage Day
✔️ Theme 2020 : " Health For All : PROTECT EVERYONE "
♿ India’s 1st National Centre For Divyang Empowerment Launched In Telangana
📈 ADB Predicts India’s GDP At -8% In FY20 & 8% In FY2021
💻 5th India Water Impact Summit (IWIS) Held Virtually On 10th Dec
✔️ IWIS 2020 Has Been Organised By The National Mission For Clean Ganga
✔️ IWIS Theme : " Arth Ganga : River Conservation Synchronised Development "
🤝 BSNL Partnered With Skylotech India To Launch Satellite-Based Narrow Band-Internet Of Things (NB-IoT)
✔️ This Initiative Is The World’s 1st Satellite-Based NB-IoT Network
🤝 Yes Bank Partnered With Mastercard To Launch " Yes Private Prime Credit Card "
🤝 Maharashtra Govt Signed MoU With Cornell University To Setup World-Class Incubation Centre In Mumbai
🥇 Mumbai Ranked No.1 In The Urban Quality Of Life Index 2020
🥈 Delhi Ranked 2nd In The Urban Quality Of Life Index 2020
🥉 Kolkata Ranked 3rd In The Urban Quality Of Life Index 2020
😔 South Korean Film Director Kim Ki-Duk Passed Away Recently
👤 Gaurav Ahluwaliya Has Been Appointed As The Next India Ambassador To Algeria
👤 Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed Appointed As Home Minister Of Pakistan
👤 Dabur Chyawanprash Ropes In Akshay Kumar As Brand Ambassador
🛰️ ISRO To Launch Communication Satellite " CMS-01 " On Dec 17
✔️ Will Be Launched From The 2nd Launchpad Of The Sriharikota Launch Centre
⏳ The CMS-01 , Which Will Have A Lifespan Of Seven Years
✔️ This Will Be The 42nd Communications Satellite To Be Launched By ISRO
✔️ The New Satellite Will Replace The Current GSAT-12 In Orbit , Which Was Launched In 2011
💰 Microsoft Launches Anti-Corruption Technology And Solutions (ACTS)
✔️ To Help Empower Governments & Other Stakeholders In Their Corruption Fight
🔶 Andhra Pradesh Govt Launched " Jagananna Jeeva Kranthi " Scheme
✔️ To Distribute 2,49,151 Sheep & Goat Units To The Beneficiaries Of YSR Cheyutha & YSR Aasara
💉 ADB Has Launched A USD 9 Billion Vaccine Initiative The " APVAX "
✔️ APVAX : Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility
🚉 Indian Railways Has Launched The Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)
🤝 Exim Bank Of India , Bank Of Africa BMCE Group Sign MoU For Trade , Investment Between Countries
🤝 Indian Air Force & CSIR-NML Sign MoU For Research In Material Science , Engineering
✔️ NML : National Metallurgical Laboratory , Jamshedpur
👑 Virat Kohli Ranks No.1 In The ICC Men’s ODI Batting Rankings
🏏 Rohit Sharma Ranked 2nd In The ICC Men’s ODI Batting Rankings
👑 Trent Boult Ranks No.1 In The ICC Men’s ODI Bowling Rankings
🏏 Jasprit Bumrah Ranked 3rd In The ICC Men’s ODI Bowling Rankings
👤 Russia's Umar Kremlev Elected President Of The International Boxing Association (AIBA)
👤 Sweden's Tomas Eriksson Re-Elected for A 6th Term As International Floorball Federation
🏆 Ukraine Win Team Title At European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
📺 Taiwanese Television Network " ELTA TV " To Launch 3 Channels For Tokyo 2020 Coverage
🥋 Croatia To Host 2021 European Karate Championships After Swedish Withdrawal .
General Knowledge
- Product of the share price and number of the company’s outstanding ordinary shares - Market Capitalization.
- A kind of security which one offers for taking an advance or loan from someone - Mortgage.
- An Investment scheme, which pools money from various investors in order to purchase securities - Mutual Fund.
- Loans given by a bank on which repayments or interest payments are not being made on time - Non-performing Asset (NPA).
Economy
- Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank) and ____ jointly plan to set up an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) to provide equity and loan advance to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which could arise as a rising star in the export firmament - Small industrial Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
- The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) launched an electronic spot platform for agricultural commodities, - 'BSE E- Agricultural Markets Limited' or BEAM.
Environment
- According to data, Largest CO2 emitter - United States of America.
- India’s CO2 emission - 3 percent of emission.
- India's contribution to GreenHouse gas (GHG) emissions - 6.8 percent of global emissions.
- India has only 2.4 percent of the world's land area and 17 percent population, and preserved 8 percent of world's biodiversity and ____ of forest cover - 24.56 percent.
International
- On 12 December 2020, the virtual Global Climate Summit was organised on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement by - the United Kingdom.
- The Indian side confirmed the approval of a 448 million US dollar Line of Credit to be extended by India for four developmental projects in _____ in the fields of road construction, sewerage treatment and information technology - Uzbekistan.
- India and ____ signed a Memorandum of Understandings on High Impact Community Development Projects (HICDP) - Uzbekistan.
- Five ‘Most Dangerous Countries for Practice of Journalism in the World’, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) - Iraq (topped), Mexico, the Philippines, Pakistan.
- Recipient of the UN Population Award 2020, a first time for an institution in India - HelpAge India.
National
- Exempted items from Quality Control Order, under Toys (Quality Control) Second Amendment Order, 2020 - Handicraft and GI Toys.
- Under the theme of ‘Emerging Pathways for Building a Resilient Post COVID-19 Mountain Economy, Adaptation, Innovation and Acceleration’, the ninth edition of the Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS) on 11 December has begun in - Dehradun.
- Winner of the CII Industrial Innovation Award, 2020 - Matrix Comsec.
Persons in News
- Winner of the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020 for her outstanding work in algebraic geometry, given by the Government of India in collaboration with ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics), and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) - Dr. Carolina Araujo from Brazil (first non-Indian to receive this prize).
- Author of the book ‘Parva’, which has been translated into Chinese and Russian languages - Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa (Kannada writer).
State Current Affairs
- Maharashtra government announced that 25 crore rupees will be provided in the first phase for the development of Dajipur Sanctuary, which is part of the - Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary in Kolhapur district.
- Maharashtra’s Department of Social Justice launched an ambitious scheme for distribution of assistive devices to lakhs of persons with disabilities through - “Maharashtra System for Health and Rehabilitation Assistance” or MahaSharad Digital Platform.
- This state government issued a resolution putting in place a strict dress code, as no jeans, T-shirts and slippers and Khadi clothes once a week, for all its employees and officials - Maharashtra.
Science & Technology
- India’s first indigenous mRNA vaccine candidate for Covid-19 - HGCO19 (developed by Gennova, Pune).
- World’s first light-based quantum computer which is created by Chinese scientists - ‘Jiuzhang’.
- India's 42nd Communication Satellite, which is scheduled to launch on 17 December 2020 - CMS-01.
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