Daily Current Affairs Quiz : December 03 & 04, 2022

Answer: B [WMO]

Notes:
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released a report titled ‘State of Global Water Resources 2021’.
As per the report, the volume of water available in the Ganga and the groundwater in the river-basin reduced significantly between 2002 and 2021. The report has also identified several other global hot spots that show the same trend.

S2. Ans.(d)
Sol. The 23rd Edition of the Hornbill Festival 2022 begins at Naga Heritage Village Kisama, Nagaland.

S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. International Lusophone Festival is being held from 3 to 6 December 2022 in Goa. The Ministry of External Affairs is organizing the festival in partnership with the Indian Council of Cultural Relations and the Goa government.

S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. CEO of South Asia of GroupM Media Pvt Ltd Prasanth Kumar has been elected as the President of the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) for 2022-23.

Answer: B [HAL]

Notes:
An Indian Coast Guard Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mk-III squadron- 840 Sqn (CG), was commissioned by DG VS Pathania at ICG Air Station, Chennai.
The ALH Mk-III helicopters are indigenously manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). They feature advanced RADAR, Shakti engines, advanced communication systems, search-and-rescue homer among other equipment for reconnaissance. A total of 16 ALH Mk-III aircraft have been inducted in the Indian Coast Guard in a phased manner.

Answer: C [South Korea]

Notes:
India and South Korea signed the arrangement regarding Economic Development Cooperation Fund loan of over 245 billion Korean won.
The agreement is for the establishment of Intelligent Transport System on Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway Project in Delhi. South Korea was designated as India’s Official Development Assistance partner for development cooperation in, 2016.

Answer: A [Rs 1.46 lakh crore]

Notes:
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of November 2022 is ₹1,45,867 crore. The revenues for the month of November are 11% higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year.
Out of the total revenue, CGST is ₹25,681 crore, SGST is ₹32,651 crore, IGST is ₹77,103 crore and Cess is ₹10,433 crore.

Ans.(a)
Sol. The Central government on December 1 launched its facial recognition system DigiYatra at Delhi, Bangalore and Varanasi airports, which will allow domestic passengers to seamlessly travel without an identification card.

Ans.(d)
Sol. TurtleFin, India’s top insurtech platform, has collaborated with YES BANK, one of India’s major private sector banks, to develop EasyNsure, a complete technological platform.

Ans.(b)
Sol. National Pollution Control Day is observed every year on 2 December in India. The day is recognized to commemorate the precious lives that were lost in the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, one of the greatest industrial disasters in the history of India.

Answer: A [Conventional weapons]

Notes:
India will assume chairmanship of the plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement for a year on January 1, 2023.
Five year ago, India joined the 42-member voluntary export control regime, which monitors transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use goods.

S12. Ans.(b)
Sol. India has assumed the Presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of December. It is the second time in its two-year tenure as an elected member of the UN Security Council that India has assumed the Presidency of the Council.