Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2021

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India’s 1st Certified Organic Fruit – Arunachal Pradesh Kiwis have been launched by the Union Minister Kiren Rijiju.
Arunachal Pradesh has become the first Indian state to obtain organic certification for Kiwi under the scheme – Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region.

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Senior Indian Revenue Service Officer Shri. Vivek Johri has been appointed as the chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), by the personnel ministry.
Shri. Vivek Johri is a 1985-batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes) officer who is presently a member of the CBIC.

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Madhya Pradesh launched the ‘Kranti Surya Gaurav Kalash Yatra’ from the birthplace of freedom fighter Jannayak Tantya Mama, Barod Ahir village.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called upon the citizens to participate in this yatra. The state has also announced a programme to be organised on death Anniversary of Jannayak Tantya Mama at Indore on December 4.

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The Australian government released the draft of ‘Social Media (Basic Expectations and Defamation) Bill 2021’.
The Bill aims at holding social media companies accountable for the content posted on their platforms, and protecting users from trolls. The reforms will consider social media companies as publishers and they can avoid this liability if they provide information so that the victim can identify and begin defamation proceedings against the troll.

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Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata has introduced month-long adoption of animals to create public awareness about them. The Zoo also had year-long adoption process in practice.
As per the zoo officials, adoption fees have been lowered, and people are being encouraged to adopt lesser-popular birds and animals, besides popular ones such as deer, tigers and chimpanzees.

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As per a periodic labour force survey by the National Statistical Office (NSO), Unemployment rate for all ages in urban areas rose to 9.3 per cent in January-March 2021.
This is a rise from 9.1 per cent in the same month of the previous year. It also showed that unemployment rate among males remained at 8.6 per cent in January-March 2021, while for females in urban areas (age 15 and above) rose to 11.8 per cent in January-March 2021.

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According to data released by the Union finance ministry, the GST Revenue was at ₹1,31,526 crore for the second month in a row.
It is 25% higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year and 27% over the 2019 value. The highest ever GST collection of ₹1,41,384 crore was reported in April. This is the fifth consecutive month in which collections have crossed the ₹1 lakh crore benchmark.

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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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Writer Dinyar Patel won the prestigious Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021 for his book Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism.
The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize was instituted in 2018. It honours non-fiction literature from writers of all nationalities. The book is a biography of Naoroji, the 19th-century leader who founded the Indian National Congress. He was the first British MP of Indian origin.

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The Education Ministry has issued PRAGYATA Guidelines on Digital Education to all State governments as well as Schools directly under Central Government.
The guidelines include advices on various modes of digital education including online mode,  partially online mode and offline mode, which utilizes television and radio as a major medium of instruction of education.