Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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The Indian President approves new design of ‘President’s Standard and Colour’ and Indian Navy Crest.
These were unveiled in Visakhapatnam on the occasion of the Navy Day. The previous design of the President’s Standard and Colour for the Indian Navy was instituted on September 2017. The new design is based the new Naval Ensign which was adopted on September 2.

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The archaeologists of Egypt made a strange discovery of old mummies with solid-gold tongues in their mouths.
The discovery was made in the central Nile Delta, 40 miles north of Cairo. The preserved corpses are said to be from 300 to 640 BCE. The people in those times believed that the dead will communicate with Osiris, the ancient Egyptian ‘Lord of the Underworld’.

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The Oxford English Dictionary recently unveiled the word of the year 2022 as ‘Goblin mode’, which was selected by public votes.
According to Oxford University Press (OUP), it means ‘a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.’ The term was first used in 2009 but went viral on social media earlier this year.

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India has jumped to the 48th position in the global aviation safety ranking by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
The Indian aviation safety has scored the highest ever score of 85.49 per cent. In 2018, India was at the 102nd rank. In the ranking, Singapore is at the top, followed by the UAE and South Korea at the second and third positions.

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Chinese leader Jiang Zemin passed away recently at the age of 96. He was China’s first head of state to have visited India in 1996, and played a key role in signing a crucial agreement to reduce the tensions along their disputed border.
Jiang was the President of China and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) from 1989 to 2002.

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Google’s Jigsaw subsidiary is launching a new anti-misinformation project in India. The project is aimed to prevent misleading information that has been blamed for inciting violence.
The initiative will use prebunking videos, which have been designed to counter false claims before they are circulated on the company’s YouTube platform and other social media sites. In India, the project is released in multiple local languages including Bengali, Hindi and Marathi.

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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released the ‘Global status of black soils’ Report on the occasion of World Soil Day, December 5, 2022.
As per the report, Black soils, which feed the global population, are under threat, with most losing at least half of their soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. As per the FAO, the reasons are Land-use change, unsustainable management practices and excessive use of agrochemicals.

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Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting recently approved the Print and Digital Media Association (PADMA) as a self-regulatory body for publishers of news and current affairs across India.
The organisation, which has 47 digital news publishers on board, will look into grievances related to digital media news content on their platforms. The Ministry has approved nine self-regulatory bodies since May 2021.

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University Grants Commission (UGC) has sought the translation of textbooks for undergraduate programmes in languages such as Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu.
UGC also constituted an apex committee to prepare the roadmap to introduce undergraduate and postgraduate courses in regional languages in disciplines including commerce, humanities, and science.

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Dina Boluarte was appointed as Peru’s first female president amid a political crisis when her predecessor and former boss Pedro Castillo was ousted in an impeachment trial.
Peru’s leftist president Pedro Castillo was ousted by lawmakers and detained by police after he tried to illegally shut down Congress.