Current Affairs Quiz 23 January 2021 | Current Affairs for SSC, IBPS, Railway, UPSC Exams

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A team of archaeologists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest known cave art that was painted at least 45,500 years ago was recently discovered in Indonesia. The cave painting which depicts a life-sized picture of a wild pig was uncovered in South Sulawesi region. It consists of a figurative depiction of a warty pig, a wild boar that is endemic to this Indonesian island.

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Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has of late made it his style statement to sport the Risa, a customary handwoven cloth used by Tripura’s indigenous tribal communities. The trend has picked up on social media with people posting their photos with the Risa. Risa is a customary handwoven cloth used by Tripura’s indigenous tribal communities.

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The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has launched a regulatory compliance portal that will act as a bridge between citizens, industries and the government to minimize burdensome compliances. It will also act as a first-of-its-kind central online repository of all Central and State-level compliances.

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India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) announced on Jan 20, 2021 that it will establish a Quantum Computing Applications Lab, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate quantum computing-led research and development and enable new scientific discoveries. The lab is World’s first quantum computing applications lab on AWS to support a national government’s mission to drive innovation.

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Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. The non-profit Signal Foundation was launched in 2018 with initial funding of $50 million from Brian Acton. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls.

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The Supreme Court held that the successful bidders for a corporate debtor under the IBC would be immune from any investigations being conducted either by any investigating agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) or other statutory bodies such as SEBI. The protection to successful bidders and the assets of a corporate debtor are provided by the rules under Section 32A of the IBC.

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India Science, Nation’s Science & Technology OTT (Over-the-top) channel has completed its second year of existence successfully on January 15th, 2021. Managed by Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization of the Department of Science & Technology, this channel was formally launched on January 15, 2019. With an aim to create scientific awareness & temper amongst the citizens of the country through the latest technology prevalent today like OTT, it was important for Vigyan Prasar to keep pace with it.

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A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers regarding upcoming 12.7 lakh MMTPA capacity urea plant at Namrup. Namrup is a small town situated close to the foothills of the great Patkai Mountain Range (Purvanchal Range connecting to Myanmar) in the extreme south-eastern part of Assam.

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A large scale Joint Military exercise - Exercise Kavach involving assets of Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force and Indian Coast Guard will be conducted in the coming week under the aegis of the Andaman and Nicobar Command. The exercise involves synergised application of maritime surveillance assets, coordinated air and maritime strikes, air defence, submarine and landing operations. The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is the only Joint Forces Command of the country.

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China said its construction of a village across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh was “beyond reproach” because it had “never recognised” Arunachal. The village was built between November 2019 and November 2020 and located a couple of kilometres across the LAC, beyond what India sees as the border separating Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet, on the banks of the Tsari Chu river in Upper Subansiri district in Arunachal.