Current Affairs Quiz 3 January 2021 | Current Affairs for SSC, IBPS, Railway, UPSC Exams

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The Central Government of India has decided to extend Disability Compensation to all serving employees, if they get disabled in the line of duty while performing their service and are retained in service in spite of such disablement. The Ministry of Personnel recently did away with minimum qualifying service of 10 years for pension, if a government servant is incapacitated due to bodily or medical infirmity and retired from government service.

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Prime Minister Modi has expressed grief over the demise of Colonel Narendra 'Bull' Kumar. He served the nation with exceptional courage and diligence. Colonel Narendra "Bull" Kumar (1933 – 2020) was an Indian soldier–mountaineer. He is known for his expeditions across various mountain ranges such as the Himalayas and Karakorams, and respective subranges such as the Pir Panjals and Saltoro Mountains.

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Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan launched the missed call facility for LPG consumers in Bhubaneswar. Indian Oil LPG customers can now give a missed call to 8454955555 for refill booking for all India and for new connection for Bhubaneswar city. The Minister also rolled out the second phase of the world class octane 100 premium grade petrol, under the brand XP 100.

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The government of India has decided to extend the benefit of tax refund scheme RoDTEP to all goods. The scheme will refund to exporters the embedded Central, State and local taxes that were so far not being given rebate or refunded. The refund will be credited in the exporter's ledger account with Customs and used to pay Basic Customs duty on imported goods. The credits can also be transferred to other importers.

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The labour ministry has sought stakeholders' feedback on the draft model standing orders for the manufacturing, mining and service sectors to set standards for service conditions and employees' conduct. The concept of “Work from home” has been formalized in the Model Standing Orders for Service Sector. Rail Travel Facility has been extended to the workers in the mining sector. Presently, it is being availed by the workers in coal mines only.

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The Union Cabinet has approved a modified scheme to enhance ethanol distillation capacity in the country. Government has fixed a target of 10% blending of fuel grade ethanol with petrol by 2022, 15% blending by 2026 & 20% blending by 2030. Government also planning to prepone achievement of 20% blending target by year 2025.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rajkot in Gujarat and said that the nation had emerged as the nerve centre of global health.AIIMS Rajkot will boost health infrastructure, medical education and provide employment opportunities in Gujarat. In the last 6 years, work on 10 new AIIMS has started and many have been inaugurated.

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DRDO Young Scientist Laboratory for Quantum Technologies (DYSL-QT) has developed a Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) which detects random quantum events and converts those into a stream of binary digits. The Laboratory has developed a fibre-optic branch path based QRNG. Branch path based QRNG is based on the principle that if a single photon is incident on a balanced beam splitter, it will take either of the beam-splitter output paths randomly.

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Former Union minister, ex-MP from Rajasthan and Congress leader Buta Singh passed away at the age of 86 years. Buta Singh (1934 – 2021) was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was elected to the Lok Sabha eight-times.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah released the inaugural issue of "National Police K-9 Journal." It is the first such publication in the country on the subject of Police Service K9s, Police Dogs. This is a unique initiative that will further enrich the subjects related to Police Service Dog, K-9, PSK teams in the country. The journal comprises different sections in Hindi and English. It is a biannual journal which will be released in April and October every year.