Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2023

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Dhillo is an ecofeminist festival celebrated in the Western Ghats of Goa. The festival’s fervour is also felt in the forested villages of Joida in Karnataka.
These villages are home to the Goan Kunbi community members, whose ancestors had migrated to Joida during the Portuguese era to escape persecution.

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Bollywood Actor Madhuri Dixit was bestowed with the ‘Special Recognition for Contribution to Bharatiya Cinema’ Award at the 54th International Film Festival of India.
Over the course of a career that spans four decades, she has appeared in over 70 films. The actress primarily works in Hindi films.

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France recently test-fired a long-range ballistic missile to improve its nuclear deterrence capabilities. The M51.3 missile was launched from the Biscarosse missile testing site and landed in the North Atlantic.
The French defense ministry said the test-firing significantly increased the credibility of France’s nuclear deterrence. France’s nuclear deterrence force is called the Force de dissuasion (Deterrence Force). It used to be a triad of nuclear weapons based on land, sea, and air.

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Australia defeated India in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and clinched the ODI World Cup for the sixth time.
India had 10 successive victories in the tournament and Virat Kohli won the Player of the Tournament Award.

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Javier Milei recently won Argentina’s presidential election. Controversial economist Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian outsider in Argentina’s politics, is set to be the country’s next president.
The political landscape of Argentina has been historically influenced by socialism in Latin America. Milei has not only promised to tighten the fiscal expenditures but also promised to scrap the local currency and shutting down the central bank.

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Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, participated in the Investor Forum of the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) and Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF).
The Forum was also attended by Ministers and senior officials from IPEF partner countries. The Minister participated at the APEC Informal Leader’s Dialogue in San Francisco, in the United States.

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IRRA has been jointly developed by all the stock exchanges – BSE, NSE, NCDEX, MCX and Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India (MSE) and was launched by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch.
The Investor Risk Reduction Access (IRRA) serves as a protective measure for investors in instances of technical issues experienced by a trading member or a stockbroker registered with SEBI.

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Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, inaugurated the Vidhya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) in Shimla.
This data repository will consolidate information from all Ministry of Education (MoE) initiatives. The VSK aims to monitor real-time status, including projects and activities under Samagra Shiksha, oversee enrolled students’ progress, track learning outcomes, identify dropouts, assess support required by teachers and schools, and monitor field-level academic and non-academic activities.

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The Atal Innovation Mission, a part of NITI Aayog, introduced the Rapid Innovation and Startup Expansion (RISE) accelerator program in New Delhi.
This initiative is designed to assist startups and small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) focused on circular economy technologies and solutions, fostering collaboration between India and Australia.

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Justice Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court recently passed away at the age of 96.
Justice Fathima Beevi was also the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the higher judiciary in the country and the first woman to become a Supreme Court Justice in an Asian country.