Daily Current Affairs Quiz: December 29, 2020

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India has successfully conducted the first Army version test of the Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM) from a test range off Odisha coast.
This advanced missile has been jointly developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries. The new generation MRSAM can neutralise airborne threats including projectiles.

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National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) is a Central Public Sector Undertaking, based at Mumbai. It was incorporated in the year 1975.
The objective of the agency is to promote the integrated development of Indian Film industry. Recently, the Union Cabinet has approved to merge four of its film media units, namely Films Division, Directorate of Film. Festivals, National Film Archives of India, and Children’s Film Society, India with NDFC.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is to establish a Regional Academic Centre for Space (RAC-S) at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU).
The Academic Centre would be set up to facilitate short- and long-term projects at the institute, to promote the culture of research and development among students. Capacity building programmes like conferences, exhibitions will also be organised.

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Electronics and IT have jointly launched a contest to strengthen digital platform CoWIN.
The contest has been developed to invite solutions from IT companies and start-ups the platform, which will be used for rolling out COVID vaccine distribution across the country. The top 5 applicants will be provided CoWIN Application Programming Interface.

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The Union Cabinet has recently approved ₹59,000 crore Post Matric Scholarship for more than four crore Scheduled Caste (SC) students.
In the scheme, which is to be implemented in the next five years, the total investment is ₹59,048 crore, out of which 60% will be borne by the Central Government. The rest will be spent by the state Government. Transfer of financial assistance to the students would be on DBT method.