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     📚 Daily Current Affairs | 13-12-2021 📚

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Q.1. Which company has launched "Cyber ​​Security Skills Program" with an aim to train more than 1 lakh learners by the year 2022?

Ans. Microsoft

Q.2. By whom has Paytm Payments Bank been given the status of a scheduled bank?

Ans. Reserve Bank of India

Q.3. Which state's Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has launched "Milk Price Promotion Scheme"?

Ans. Uttarakhand

Q.4. DRDO and who has successfully test-fired indigenously built stand-off anti-tank missile at Pokhran range?

Ans. Indian Air Force

Q.5. In which state, Shri Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Saryu Canal National Project in Balrampur?

Ans. Uttar Pradesh

Q.6. Who has planned to set up 1000 Atal Tinkering Labs in Jammu and Kashmir?

Ans. NITI Aayog

Q.7. Which is the first Indian airline to launch ESG report?

Ans. IndiGo

Q.8. Who has published the "World Talent Ranking Report"?

Ans. IMD World Competitive Center

Q.9. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Katherine Russell as the head of which United Nations agency?

Ans. United Nations Children's Fund

Q.10. NITI Aayog in partnership with whom has launched Konyok 2021-22?

Ans. Bharti Foundation

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1. Which Indian has won the title of Miss Universe 2021?

Ans : Harnaz Kaur Sandhu

2. Who will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Varanasi today?

Ans : Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham

3. Which MLA of Gujarat has died due to dengue at the age of 44?

Ans : Asha Patel

4. Who has defeated Lewis Hamilton to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix F1 race?

Ans : Max Verstappen

5. Which scheme has been launched by the Uttarakhand state government for milk producers?

Ans : Milk Price Incentive Scheme

6. According to a latest report released by the IMD World Competitive Center, which country has got the first place in the “World Talent Ranking Report”?

Ans : Switzerland

7. Who has been appointed as the new head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)?

Ans : Katherine Russell

8. The government of which country has announced to be the world's first 100% paperless government?

Ans : United Arab Emirates (UAE)

9. Who has been appointed by the education sector company Byju's as its new brand ambassador?

Ans : Olympic Gold Medalist Neeraj Chopra

10. Which indigenous missile has been successfully test-fired by DRDO in collaboration with Indian Air Force?

Ans : Stand off Anti Tank Missile

11. Which medal has been won by senior rowing player Arvind Singh in the lightweight men's singles sculls event of the Asian Rowing Championships?

Ans : Gold Medal

12. How many new cases of corona have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours?

Ans : 7,350 Cases (202 Deaths)

13. Today (December 13) is being celebrated all over the world as which day?

Ans : World Violin Day and International Universal Health Coverage Day.

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1. Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, awarded the President’s Standard to the 22nd Missile Vessel Squadron, also known as the Killer Squadron at a ceremonial parade to be held at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai.

राष्ट्रपति रामनाथ कोविंद ने मुंबई के नेवल डॉकयार्ड में आयोजित होने वाली एक औपचारिक परेड में 22वें मिसाइल वेसल स्क्वाड्रन, जिसे किलर स्क्वाड्रन के रूप में भी जाना जाता है, को प्रेसीडेंट्स स्टैंडर्ड प्रदान किया।

2. The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das kept the repo rate unchanged at 4% per cent, while the reverse repo rate also was kept unchanged at 3.35% per cent.

भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक (आरबीआई) के गवर्नर शक्तिकांत दास की अध्यक्षता वाली छह सदस्यीय मौद्रिक नीति समिति (एमपीसी) ने रेपो दर को 4% प्रतिशत पर अपरिवर्तित रखा, जबकि रिवर्स रेपो दर को भी 3.35% प्रतिशत पर अपरिवर्तित रखा गया।

3. Olaf Scholz sworn in as new Chancellor of Germany.

ओलाफ स्कोल्ज़ ने जर्मनी के नए चांसलर के रूप में शपथ ली।

4. India stands out as a poor and very unequal country, with the top 1% of the population holding more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 and the bottom half just 13%, according to World Inequality Report 2022.

विश्व असमानता रिपोर्ट 2022 के अनुसार, भारत एक गरीब और सबसे अधिक असमानता वाले देशों की सूची में शामिल हो गया है। देश में वर्ष 2021 में एक फीसदी आबादी के पास राष्ट्रीय आय का 22 फीसदी हिस्सा है जबकि निचले तबके के पास 13 फीसदी है।

5. Indian-origin physician, Anil Menon has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced.

भारतीय मूल के भौतिकीविद् अनिल मेनन को नौ अन्‍य अंतरिक्ष यात्रियों के साथ नासा के भावी अभियानों के लिए चुना गया है।

6. Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile was successfully flight tested by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha.

ओड़िशा के तट से दूर एकीकृत परीक्षण रेंज, चांदीपुर से वर्टिकल लॉन्च शॉर्ट रेंज सरफेस टू एयर मिसाइल का रक्षा अनुसंधान एवं विकास संगठन (डीआरडीओ) द्वारा सफलतापूर्वक परीक्षण किया गया।

7. Sunil Arora, former Chief Election Commissioner of India has been invited to join the Board of Advisers for International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).

भारत के पूर्व मुख्य निर्वाचन आयुक्त सुनील अरोड़ा को अंतर्राष्ट्रीय लोकतंत्र और चुनावी सहायता संस्थान (आईडीईए) के सलाहकार बोर्ड में शामिल होने के लिए आमंत्रित किया गया है।

8. National Commission for Women (NCW) launched a Pan-India Capacity Building Programme ‘She is a Changemaker’ for Women in Politics.

राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग (एनसीडब्ल्यू) ने राजनीति में महिलाओं के लिए अखिल भारतीय क्षमता निर्माण कार्यक्रम 'शी इज ए चेंजमेकर' शुरू किया।

9. Noida International Airport has awarded Indian Oil Skytanking Ltd. (IOSL) a 30-year concession to design, build, and operate fuel infrastructure, including multi-user fuel farm and hydrant system for the airport.

नोएडा इंटरनेशनल एयरपोर्ट ने इंडियन ऑयल स्काईटैंकिंग लिमिटेड (आईओएसएल) को एयरपोर्ट के लिए मल्टी-यूजर फ्यूल फार्म और हाइड्रेंट सिस्टम सहित फ्यूल इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर के डिजाइन, निर्माण और संचालन के लिए 30 साल की रियायत दी है।

10. Pakistan's Abid Ali, New Zealand pacer Tim Southee and Australian opener David Warner have been nominated for the 'ICC Player of the Month' for November following their performances in the ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE and the subsequent Test series.

पाकिस्तान के आबिदअली, न्यूजीलैंड के तेज गेंदबाज टिम साउदी और ऑस्ट्रेलियाई सलामी बल्लेबाज डेविड वार्नर को यूएई में आईसीसी टी20 विश्व कप और उसके बाद की टेस्ट सीरीज में उनके प्रदर्शन के आधार पर नवंबर माह के लिए 'आईसीसी प्लेयर ऑफ द मंथ' के लिए नामांकित किया गया है।

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1) The 21-year-old from Punjab, representing India at the 70th Miss Universe 2021, held in Eilat, Israel, brought home the crown, 21 years after Lara Dutta won the title in 2000.

➨She edged out contestants Paraguay and South Africa to claim the crown.

➨ Sandhu was presented the crown by Andrea Meza, former Miss Universe 2020 from Mexico at the event which was live-streamed globally.

➨Sushmita Sen is the first Indian to win the competition in 1994. 

2) The eighth edition of the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) was inaugurated by Odisha Tourism Minister, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi.

➨Padmashree Srinivas Udgata was given with Kalinga Literary Award and Arun Kamal was awarded with Kalinga Literary International award.

➨ Tamal Bandopadhyay was awarded best writer in the Economy category for his book “Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy”.

▪️Odisha CM - Naveen Patnaik

➨ Governor - Ganeshi Lal

➨ Similipal Tiger Reserve

➨ Satkosia Tiger Reserve

➨ Bhitarkanika Mangroves 

➨ Nalabana Bird Sanctuary

3) Neena Gupta, a mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, has been awarded the '2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from developing countries' for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.

4) US President Joe Biden elevated Indian American Gautam Raghavan to a new position making him head of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

5) The ministry of defence (MoD) has entered a MoU with the Indian Institute of Teacher Education (IITE) in Gandhinagar to facilitate training of teachers at Sainik Schools.

▪️Ministry of Defence :-  

➨Headquarters - New Delhi

➨Founded - 15 August 1947

➨ Chief of the Army Staff - General Manoj Mukund Naravane

➨ Chief of the Air Staff -  Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari

➨Chief of the Navy Staff - Admiral R. Hari Kumar

6) NITI Aayog has partnered with Bharti Foundation -- the philanthropic arm of New Delhi based business conglomerate Bharti Enterprises -- to launch Convoke 2021-22, a national research symposium which aims to address the myriad challenges of imparting education.

▪️NITI Aayog :- National Institution for Transforming India

➨Formed - 1 January 2015

➨Preceding - Planning Commission

➨Headquarters -New Delhi

➨Chairperson:- Narendra Modi, 

➨Vice Chairperson - Rajiv Kumar, 

➨CEO - Amitabh Kant

7) Education Ministry has launched a mobile app called Bhasha Sangam in order to help people acquire basic conversation ability in languages other than one’s mother tongue to at least 75 lakh people.

➨The mobile app is developed to give users familiarity with common expressions of daily conversation in scheduled Indian languages.

8) To ensure women safety in cyberspace, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has launched an online resource center to offer help for women in distress on issues pertaining to online safety such as cyber bullying, cyber stalking, financial frauds.

➨The online resource center was inaugurated by the Governor of Jharkhand Ramesh Bais and Chairperson Ms Rekha Sharma.

➨The resource center can be accessed at www.digitalshakti.org .

9) Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra, represented by JSW Sports, has been announced as brand ambassador for Disney Byju's Early Learn App. 

➨Think And Learn Private Limited, which runs Byju's has taken Disney-licensed characters for its early learning app for younger children.

10) Manipur successfully defended their Senior Women’s National Football Championship crown after a dramatic penalty shootout win over Railways in the final at the EMS Stadium in Kozhikode.

▪️Manipur 

➨CM :- Nongthombam Biren Singh

➨Governor :- La. Ganesan

➨Khonghampat Orchidarium

➨Loktak Lake

➨Keibul-Lamjao National Park

11) India has emerged as the fourth most powerful country in Asia with its overall score declining by two points from 2020 in the Lowy Institute Asia Power Index. India fell short of the major power threshold in 2021 and is among eighteen countries in the region to trend downward in its overall score in 2021.

12) Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana launched an e-learning initiative by the southwest district of the police force to help educate youths and impart skill training to school dropouts from the weaker sections of society.

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