Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2021

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‘Indian Organ Donation Day’ celebration has been organized by National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) in New Delhi on November 27.
The total number of organ transplants done per year in the country increased from 4990 in 2013 to 12746 in 2019. India now ranks third in the world only after USA and China as per the data available on the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation (GODT) website.

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The Nagaland Police recently launched ‘Call your Cop’ mobile App, which will enable all citizens of the state and those in distress to get in touch with the police, in a single click.
The features in the Application include directory, alerts, tourist tips, SOS, nearest police station and search.

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Indian professional squash player Saurav Ghosal has become the first Indian player to claim the Malaysian open. At the final event, Saurav Ghosal clinched the title by defeating former world No.4 Miguel Rodriguez of Colombia.
On many occasions, the two players have played together and at one point were even trained by the same coach David Palmer.

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Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish festival celebrating the Jewish victory over a tyrant king, the rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.
The eight-day Jewish celebration of Hanukkah is being held across the UAE between Sunday, November 28 and December 5, for a second year in a row after the Abraham Accords.

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National Cadet Corps (NCC)  is the youth wing of the Indian Armed Forces with its headquarters in New Delhi, India.
NCC is the largest uniformed youth organisation in the world. It recently observed its 73rd anniversary of its raising on November 28. NCC is open to school and college students on a voluntary basis as a ‘tri-services organisation’, comprising the army, the naval, and the air wings.

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently announced the implementation of a police commissionerate system in Bhopal and Indore.
The Chief Minister cited growing population and geographical expansion of the two cities and the administrative and law & order problems. Under this structure, the District Magistrate -DM is entrusted with issuing arrest warrants, licenses while the Superintendent of Police (SP) has powers and responsibilities to investigate crime and make arrests.

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Ministry of MSME implements the Zero Defect, Zero Effect (ZED) scheme. It is an MSME certification scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016 to encourage the manufacturing of goods by MSMEs without any defects and without any effects on the environment.
According to the data shared by MSME Minister Narayan Rane in Rajya Sabha, the scheme has recorded around 25,000 MSME registrations. The scheme was upscaled in FY19 to benefit more MSMEs.

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Skill Development Ministry launched a pilot project to revive traditional ‘Namda’ craft in Jammu and Kashmir.
The project has been launched under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) 3.0′. The project aims to increase the carpet export from ₹600 crore to ₹6,000 crore and will benefit 2,250 people of 30 Namda Clusters from six districts of Kashmir.

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The government of Arunanchal Pradesh has signed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt as the brand ambassador on the occasion of the golden jubilee celebrations, marking the 50th year of the naming of the state.
It also announced filmmaker Rahul Mittra as its brand advisor. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Pema Khandu.

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Several tribal outfits in Tripura have joined hands to push their demand for a separate state for indigenous communities in the region.
The demand has grown to carve out a separate state of ‘Greater Tipraland’ for the indigenous communities in Tripura under Article 2 and 3 of the Constitution. Among the 19 notified Scheduled Tribes in Tripura, Tripuris (also known was Tipra and Tiprasas) are the largest.