GK & Current Affairs Quiz: November 15, 2019

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The Uttar Pradesh government has launched a dedicated web portal and a mobile application  “e-Ganna App” for sugarcane farmers of the state. Now, the ane supply slip will be issued to the farmers by sugar mills online. The portal and the App will ensure transparency in the process of getting slips, and facilitate sugarcane supply by farmers to mills and check irregularities. It will also help in eradicating cane mafia and middleman and strengthen cane development societies. 

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The 39th edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF-2019) has started at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi with theme ‘Ease of Doing Business’. In the 14-day Trade Fair, the status of ‘Partner Country’ has been accorded to Afghanistan and South Korea is the Focus Country. Bihar and Jharkhand are the focus states. 

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Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has been named in the TIME 100 Next i.e., an expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential persons in the world. The list is an initiative of TIME magazine. It  highlights 100 rising stars who are shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science, activism etc. Dutee had won two silver medals — 100m, 200m — at Jakarta Asian Games and became the first Indian sprinter to win the 100-m at the World University Games.

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In New Delhi, the Good Air Summit (GAS-2019) has been organized by the Integrated Health and Wellbeing Council  (IHWC) under the theme ‘Making India Breathe’. Over 2,000 students took the pledge to make environment greener and pollution-free at the summit. The purpose of the summit is to make the young children and citizens take responsibility for Good Air and bringing changes in the behaviour of individuals towards keeping society clean of pollutions. Here, the students joined the nationwide drive ‘Good Air Movement’ that aims to cover Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Ahmedabad to Aizawl by 2025 to create mass awareness and mobilize public action towards good air goals as well as engage and educate 50 crore people. 

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The UN Women has proposed to partner with Kerala’s Gender Park to take forward projects and campaigns aimed at securing gender parity in South Asia. The aim of partnership is to make The Gender Park (a gender equity and empowerment initiative)  as the South Asian hub of UN Women. The 3-key areas of co-operation of the partnership will be setting up of the Gender Data Centre at The Gender Park in Kozhikode, holding events during the 64th session of Commission on Status of Women (CSW64) in March 2020 and 75th session of UN General Assembly in September 2020 and launch of a focused campaign called 16 Days of Activism in Kerala from November 25 to December 10, 2019. This partnership marks recognition of Kerala’s long and hard campaigns and policy initiatives to achieve gender justice and parity.