Daily Current Affairs for Competitive Examinations: December 27, 2022
Evaluating the candidate’s understanding of current affairs is one of the most critical factors of RRB, SSC, UPSC, and other similar government exams. This part assesses the candidates’ knowledge of current events and is considered the scoring section of the exam. Follow Embibe’s daily current affairs series to keep yourself updated with the latest news and enhance your preparation.
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Current Affairs: National
Right to Repair Portal Launched
Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal recently introduced a host of new initiatives, including a ‘right to repair’ portal and an NTH mobile app and opened new premises of the National Consumer Helpline centre in the national capital.
Why Is the ‘Right to Repair’ Needed?
When the average consumer buys electronic equipment, they are aware that it will quickly become obsolete when the maker introduces newer versions of the same device.
As the item ages, problems arise, and one is left at the mercy of manufacturers, who make repairs inaccessible to the majority by dictating who can service your equipment and making it an extremely expensive process.
This is a question that advocates of the global ‘right to repair’ movement have been dealing with for decades.
Countries all across the world (including the US and the UK) have been striving to implement effective ‘right to repair’ laws in recent years.
About Right to Repair Portal:
On this portal manufacturers will share the manual of product details with customers so that they can either repair it by themselves or by third parties rather than depend on the original manufacturers.
Initially, mobile phones, electronics, consumer durables, automobiles and farming equipment will be covered.
It allows consumers to repair and modify their consumer products against the manufacturer requiring them to use their services either by restricting access to tools and components or putting in place software barriers.
Significance:
Reduce pollution and wastage of resources
Boost business for small repair shops
Improves quality and reduces prices
How Can This Right Be Exercised?
Step 1: Go to this site – https://www.righttorepairindia.in/home
Step 2: Enter the brand or product name in the space mentioned OR scroll below to find names of various products, such as mobiles, Audio, Microwave ovens etc. Click on the type of product you want to repair. (Or you can search products brand-wise also.)
Step 3: On the left, you’ll find a “Find Consumer Brands” section. Enter Sub-Category and sub-group. Click on search.
Here you’ll find all the customer service details of the brand, including the product manual.
Question:
Which of the following ministries recently launched the ‘Right to Repair’ Portal?
A. Ministry of Consumer Affairs
B. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
C. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
D. Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Answer: A
Current Affairs: Defence
Veer Guardian 23: India, Japan to Conduct First-Ever Air Combat Exercise
India and Japan are set to conduct their first-ever bilateral combat air exercise over ten days in Japan next month.
The exercise will be held at the Hyakuri Air Base, northwest of Tokyo.
About Exercise:
The exercise named ‘Veer Guardian 23’ will be conducted from January 16 to January 26. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) will conduct bilateral fighter training with the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Aim:
The exercise aims to promote mutual understanding and strengthen defence cooperation between the air forces.
Details:
IAF will be fielding its Russian-origin Sukhoi-30MKI aircraft drawn from a squadron under the Western Air Command. The IAF 150 crew will be flying in IAF’s C-17 transport aircraft. The fighter jets on their journey from India to Japan will be refuelled mid-air using the IL-78 planes of the IAF.
Japan will field its F-2 jets, which are derivatives of the F-16 plane of the US. It will also field the F-15, like the ones used by the US too.
Question:
With which of the following countries the Indian Air Force will conduct the first-ever bilateral air combat exercise, Veer Guardian 23?
A. Indonesia
B. Japan
C. UAE
D. Germany
Answer: B
Current Affairs: Awards and Honours
Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22
The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection, A Sky Full of Bucket Lists (Red River, 2021).
Detail:
The winners, awarded $10,000 and a Rabindranath Tagore statuette, were picked from a shortlist of 11 at India International Centre recently, with the Tagore Prize for social achievement going to Sanjoy K Roy, producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
About Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize:
The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was started in 2018 to recognise literary and social accomplishments annually.
In 2020, the award was won by Raj Kamal Jha, Chief Editor of The Indian Express, for The City and The Sea (2019, Penguin Books). In 2019, it was awarded posthumously to Kabir for One Hundred Poems of Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore.
Question:
Who among the following has recently been jointly awarded Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 with Shobhana Kumar?
A. Raj Kamal Jha
B. Kabir
C. Sudeep Sen
D. Arundhati Roy
Answer: C
Current Affairs: Geography
Bomb Cyclone
A fierce blizzard in the United States has brought on dangerously low temperatures and snow as deep as 43 inches, causing over 30 deaths and leaving more than a million homes without power.
The storm’s effects are being felt from the Great Lakes near the Canadian border to the Rio Grande near the Mexican border.
What Is a Bomb Cyclone?
A bomb cyclone is a mid-latitude storm in which the central pressure drops fast at one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
However, the millibar readings can change based on where the storm is forming.
This quickly increases the pressure difference, or gradient, between the two air masses, making the winds stronger.
This process of rapid intensification has a name called bombogenesis.
What Are the Features of a Bomb Cyclone?
The corridor off the US East Coast is notorious for bombogenesis events.
The bomb cyclone will be characterised by cold winds, which are also expected to pick up, and wind chill temperatures could drop to dangerous lows far below zero—enough to cause frostbite within minutes.
The dangerous storm is expected to hit everyone east of the Rockies — around two-thirds of the country.
Question
Consider the following statements about Bombogenesis
Bombogenesis is an ominous-sounding term frequently used to describe the powerful low-pressure systems that intensify rapidly
The corridor off the East Coast of the US is notorious for bombogenesis events
Major features of Bombogenesis are directly related to Frontogenesis
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
A. Only 1 and 2
B. Only 2 and 3
C. Only 1 and 3
D. All are correct
Answer: A
Current Affairs: National
First Veer Bal Diwas Observed Today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 26 December paid tributes to Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh, Guru Gobind Singh’s sons, who laid down their lives while defending their faith.
The day they died is observed as ‘Veer Bal Diwas’.
PM Modi had announced that 26 December would be observed as ‘Veer Bal Diwas’.
On 26 December 1707, Sahibzada Zorawar Singh and Sahibzada Fateh Singh attained martyrdom when they were executed on the orders of Aurangzeb.
Guru Gobind Singh:
He was the tenth Sikh guru.
He became the Sikh guru at the age of nine, following the demise of his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru.
He is also known for his significant contributions to the Sikh religion, including introducing the turban to cover hair.
He is renowned for founding the principles of Khalsa or the Five ‘K’s, i.e., kesh (uncut hair), kanga (wooden comb), kara (iron or steel bracelet), kirpan (dagger) and kachera (short breeches).
He fought against the Mughals later in the battle of Muktsar in 1705.
Guru Gobind Singh was killed by a Mughal assassin in 1708, a year after the death of Aurangzeb.
Question:
Which of the following days has recently been announced as ‘Veer Bal Diwas’ by PM Modi?
A. 23 April
B. 19 August
C. 05 October
D. 26 December
Answer: D
Current Affairs: Science and Technology
Garuda Aerospace Becomes the First Drone Company Ever to get Double Certification by DGCA for ‘Kisan Drones’
Drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace has become India’s first drone startup to receive both Type Certification and RTPO approvals by DGCA for their indigenously designed Kisan Drones.
DGCA Type certification is provided on the basis of the quality check of the drones and is issued after a rigorous testing process.
What Are ‘Kisan’ Drones?
The Made in India ‘Kisan’ drones are particularly developed for agricultural purposes such as reducing crop loss, crop health monitoring, yield measurement, and crop loss mitigation with the latest manufacturing capacities.
The startup is now eligible for ₹10 lakh unsecured loans from Agri Infrastructure Fund at a 5% interest and 50-100% subsidy from the Centre, post the Type Certificate approval for the GA-AG model.
Priced at ₹4.50 lakhs, the Kisan Drone is India’s most affordable advanced automated Agri Drone, which has DGCA-approved Type Certification in the under 25kg small category.
About DGCA Type Certification:
DGCA Type certification is provided based on the quality check of the drones and is issued after a rigorous testing process for the UAVs.
The government of India introduced the Type certification in August 2021 under Drone Rules, and the historic dual DGCA approval validates the Chennai-based startup’s tag of being India’s most valuable Drone startup.
About Garuda Drone:
Kisan Drones currently being developed by Garuda are fitted with sensors, cameras, and sprayers that help increase food crop productivity, reduce crop loss, and reduce farmer exposure to harmful chemicals.
They enable precision spray of pesticides and fertilisers and also help with crop health monitoring, surveillance, industrial inspection, yield measurement and crop loss mitigation.
Question:
Which of the following is the first Aerospace company of India ever to get double certification by DGCA for ‘Kisan Drones’?
A. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
B. Boeing India Private Limited
C. BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited
D. Garuda Aerospace
Answer: D
Factbook: 26 December 2022
Antim Panghal nominated for United World Wrestling Rising Star of Year award
An Indian female wrestler Antim Panghal has recently been nominated for the United World Wrestling Rising Star of the Year award.
Nonoka Ozaki of Japan, Amit Elor of the United States, Emma Malmgren of Sweden, and Andreea Ana of Romania are among the five women nominated for the prize.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ to be Nepal Prime Minister for the third time
Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari recently appointed Pushpa Kamal Dahal, leader of the parliamentary party of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), Prime Minister of the Himalayan nation.
He will replace Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress party as the Prime Minister.
In the recent elections none of the parties got a clear majority.
Prachand’s Maoist Center Party won 32 seats in Nepal’s 275-member House of Representatives.
The Parliament of Nepal is called Sanghiya Sansad, It is a bicameral house.
Upper house is called the National Assembly or Rastriya Sabha and consists of 59 members.
It is a permanent body and the term of a member of the house is six years.
The lower house is called the House of Representative or Pratinidhi Sabha.
It consists of 275 members with a term of five years.
PV Sindhu is among the top 25 highest-paid female athletes on Forbes’ annual list
India’s badminton star PV Sindhu is the only player in the top 25 in Forbes’ annual list of the highest-paid female athletes in the world.
Sindhu, the 2016 Tokyo Olympics silver medallist, occupies the 12th spot in the list.
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka tops the list.
The 27-year-old made seven million US Dollars of her earnings, having won a singles gold and doubles silver at the Commonwealth Games earlier this year in Birmingham.
Osaka tops Forbes’ annual list of the world’s highest-paid female athletes for the third straight year.
The list is dominated by tennis players once again.
A girl from UP is India’s first Muslim female to be selected to become an IAF fighter pilot
A girl named Sania Mirza, from a small village in Uttar Pradesh got 149th rank in the NDA exam.
She became the first Muslim girl in the country to be selected to become a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF) from UP.
She belongs to Jasovar village in Uttar Pradesh.
Sania will also be the state’s first woman IAF pilot.
The Defence Ministry had approved allowing women to join the Air Force as fighter pilots in 2015, but the scheme for “Induction of Women SSC officers in Fighter Stream of Flying Branch” began in 2016.
NHPC wins ‘Best Globally Competitive Power Company of India – Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector’ at PRAKASHmay ‘15th Enertia Awards 2022’
NHPC Limited has been awarded as Winner of ‘Best Globally Competitive Power Company of India – Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector’ at PRAKASHmay ‘15th Enertia Awards 2022’.
The function was held at the New Delhi Institute of Management recently.
The award has been conferred to NHPC in recognition of its leadership in the hydropower sector with a gross asset class renewable energy capacity of more than 7000 MW.
The award also recognises that NHPC has more than 5000 MW of projects under construction and an ambitious 7000 MW plus plan for solar capacity addition.
Star named after former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee
On the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which was marked as ‘Good Governance Day’ (25th December) across the country, the Aurangabad unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named a star after the ‘Bharat Ratna’ recipient.
The distance of the star from Earth is 392.01 light years. It is the closest star to the Sun.
“The star with the coordinates 14 05 25.3 -60 28 51.9 has been registered in the International Space Registry on 25th December 2022. The star gets the name Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji. Registration Number CX16408US,” read the International Space Registry certificate.
Vajpayee served as the Prime Minister from 16th May 1996 to 1st June 1996 and again from 19th March 1998 to 22nd May 2004.
He also served as India’s External Affairs Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Moraji Desai from 1977 to 1979.
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