Current Affairs Quiz 28 December 2020 | Current Affairs for SSC, IBPS, Railway, UPSC Exams

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With the deal for Ka-226T utility helicopters with Russia not concluded five years after it was announced and its fleet of Cheetah and Chetak helicopters at the end of their service life, the Army is set to approach the Defence Ministry for a waiver to take the deal forward. The Ka-226 features an interchangeable mission pod, rather than a conventional cabin, allowing the use of various accommodation or equipment configurations.

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Worker unrest following the non-redressal of payment and overtime issues at a new factory of Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Wistron Corporation, resulted in a riot at the Industrial plant at Narasapura in Kolar district. The Narasapura (industrial area) is located in Kolar District, Karnataka.

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A new mutated form of the novel coronavirus that appears more transmissible than the original has raised alarm in the U.K. and around the world. It does not appear to cause more severe disease, and the newly available vaccines do seem to protect people against it. In an RNA virus such as SARS-CoV-2, proteins are made of a sequence of amino acids. In the UK variant, one mutation has made the virus more likely to bind with human proteins called receptors and this is called N501Y.

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An international team of scientists has collected the first possible radio signal from a planet beyond our solar system, emanating from an exoplanet system about 51 light-years away. Tau Bootes is an F-type main-sequence star approximately 51 light-years away in the constellation of Bootes. It is a binary star system, with the secondary star being a red dwarf.

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The Ministry of Education in April 2020 had appointed a committee for suggesting measures for effective implementation of reservation in student admissions and faculty recruitment in IITs. This committee, headed by IIT-Delhi V Ramgopal Rao, submitted its report in June 2020, the contents of which were recently reported in the media.

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) have identified a gene that facilitates in the greening of plants by playing a crucial role in regulating the levels of protochlorophyllide — an intermediate in the biosynthesis of the green pigment chlorophyll. IISER scientists have identified the gene ‘BBX11’ and their study was recently published in the prestigious British journal New Phytologist.

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Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting addressed the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) Big Picture Summit 2020. During the event mentioned that India will host Global Media and Film Summit in 2021. He also announced the Indian govt in cooperation with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)Bombay is forming a Center of Excellence, where the courses in Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comic (AVGC) will be offered.

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The 6th India International Science Festival to be held in Virtual format from 22nd to 25th December, 2020. IISF is an annual event organised jointly by science & technology-related Ministries and Departments of the Government of India and Vijnana Bharati (Vibha). This year’s theme for IISF was ‘Science for Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Global Welfare’.

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China is going to overtake the US to become the world's biggest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Kingdom, currently the fifth-biggest economy by the CEBR's measure, would slip to sixth place from 2024.

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Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has framed a policy to protect its employees from domestic abuse. This extends the scope of employee well-being beyond work, that is, the office to his/her personal life and home. HUL’s policy comes at a time when a significant number of its office-based staff are working from home. Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has framed a policy to protect its employees from domestic abuse. The policy seeks to protect and grant relief to employees who are survivors of abuse, or acts of physical/emotional abuse beyond the workplace.