Daily GK and Current Affairs Quiz – 30th December 2020

Correct Answer: B. Gujarat

Explanation: India’s first Lithium refinery is soon going to be set up in Gujarat. Manikaran Power Limited, one of the country’s largest power trading and renewable energy company will invest around Rs 1,000 crore to set up this refinery. The refinery will process Lithium ore to produce battery-grade material. Lithium is a rare element and is usually not found in India.

Last year, Manikaran Power had collaborated with Australian firm Neometals to tap the Mount Marion Lithium mine in Western Australia. The proposed project is expected to help Gujarat secure the raw material supply for domestic manufacturing of Lithium batteries as it looks to promote electric vehicles.

Correct Answer – A. Punjab

Explanation: Punjab Chief Minister Captain, Amarinder Singh has launched Mobile Application and web portal called ‘PR Insight’, to improve the delivery of citizen-centric services, based upon the feedback of its citizens on government policies. The basic objective of PR Insight is to re-orient the existing schemes and programmes of the state government to the people’s satisfaction after meticulously monitoring their feedback.

PR Insight application has been developed by the Information & Public Relations Department to provide a single repository & dashboard of all the news articles & social media posts of the State. This single repository of news articles and social media posts are then analysed using advance analytics and sentiment analysis tools to understand citizen feedback on Government policies and perception of Governance by the citizens. As many as 31 leading Newspaper agencies/portals have been integrated online with PR Insight application & portal and all the State Departments’ news articles are fetched from these newspaper agencies on a real-time basis.

Correct Answer – D. Kailash Satyarthi

Explanation: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s new book titled ‘Covid-19: Sabhyata ka Sankat Aur Samadhan’ (Covid-19: Crisis of Civilisation and Solutions) was launched by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh. The Hindi book, published by Prabhat Prakashan. The new book discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the common way of life while suggesting solutions to the ongoing crisis triggered by the disease. The book discusses how the pandemic has influenced the education system, business, politics, public safety, foreign policy, law, medicine, economy and development of countries.

Correct Answer – D. E-Sampada

Explanation:  Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri has launched E-Sampada, a new web portal and mobile app on Good Governance Day. The new application provides a single-window for all the services including an allotment for over one lakh government residential accommodations, office space allotment to government organisations in 45 office complexes in 28 cities and booking of 1,176-holiday homerooms.

Correct Answer – C. Austria

Explanation: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology of the Republic of Austria on Technology Cooperation in the Road Infrastructure Sector. It was signed by the Additional Secretary, MoRTH Shri K.C. Gupta and the Ambassador of Austria Brigitte Oppinger-Walchshofer in New Delhi.

The MoU will cover Road Transportation, Road/Highways infrastructure development, management and administration, Road safety and Intelligent Transport Systems between both countries. It will also promote long standing bilateral relations since 1949 and enhance trade and regional integration between the two countries.

Correct Answer – D. Magenta line Delhi Metro

Explanation: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off India’s first ever fully-automated driverless train service on the Magenta Line of the Delhi Metro. With the commencement of these new-generation trains, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has entered elite league of 7% of world’s Metro networks which can operate services without drivers.

Correct Answer – C. Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry

Explanation: Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot has launched ‘Swachhata Abhiyan’ mobile app to identify and geotag insanitary latrines and manual scavengers. It will provide the authorities concerned details of any insanitary latrine or manual scavenger they notice.

Correct Answer – C. 42nd

Explanation: India has added Tso Kar Wetland Complex situated in the Changthang region of Ladakh as 42nd Ramsar site of the country. Tso Kar Basin: High-altitude wetland complex, consisting of Startsapuk Tso (freshwater lake of about 438 hectares) and Tso Kar (hypersaline lake of 1800 hectares), Tso Kar means white lake. It is an A1 Category Important Bird Area (IBA) and is also breeding areas of many bird species.

Correct Answer – A. M. S. Dhoni

Explanation:  The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the ICC Teams of the Decade based on the performances, consistency of players over the period of last 10 years. Former Indian captain and wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named as the captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Decade.

Dhoni has also been named the skipper of the ICC T20I Team of the Decade. Similarly, Virat Kohli has been named the captain of the ICC Test Team of the Decade. Ravi Ashwin is the only other Indian in this list.

Correct Answer – D. Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh

Explanation: India’s first hot air balloon wildlife safari in a tiger reserve has been introduced in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh. Hot air balloon wildlife safari will be restricted to the buffer area and people can watch tigers, leopards, Indian sloth bear and other wild animals from a height. It will be operated by Jaipur-based Sky Waltz.

Correct Answer – C. 57kg category

Explanation: Indian wrestler, Anshu Malik has become the first wrestler of the country to finish on the podium position at the Individual Wrestling World Cup in Belgrade, Serbia. The 19-year-old won a silver medal in the women’s 57kg category to claim first international medal of the tournament for the country. She lost to Moldova’s Anastasia Nichita 5-1 in the final.

Correct Answer – A. Nikita Khakimov

Explanation: The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has imposed a 5-year ban on Russian shuttler Nikita Khakimov for charges of “betting, wagering and irregular match results. Khakimov was part of the Russian men’s team that won the bronze medal at the 2020 European Team Championships. The 32-year-old Khakimov was found to breach BWF’s integrity regulations, including approaching a player and offering money to manipulate a match, betting on badminton games and deliberately destroying evidence of a corruption offence to conceal from the BWF.

Correct Answer – B. Roopa Chari

Explanation:  Union Minister of State (I/C) for AYUSH and Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik released a Konkani book “Sutranivednachi sutra- ek anbav”, by Dr Roopa Chari on 26 December, 2020. It is published by Sanjana Publications . This book will help aspiring youngsters, who wish to make a career in this field. This is the spontaneous art; you don’t nurture it by having any classes. With proper study, you always have to be vigilant, as compere is the link between the audience and the speaker.

Correct Answer: D. Wrestling

Explanation: Former professional wrestler Jon Huber, who was popularly known by his ring name ‘Luke Harper’ in the WWE has passed away, due to a non-COVID-19 related lung illness. He wrestled under the names Luke Harper and Brodie Lee and performed for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as well as All Elite Wrestling (AEW).