Daily Current Affairs Quiz 22nd December 2018

Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu was conferred the 'Skoch Golden Jubilee Challenger Award 2018' on 22 December 2018. He was awarded for his contribution to reforms, particularly in the power sector reforms. The Skoch Challenger Awards are the highest independently instituted civilian honours.

The book ‘Changing India’ written by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was released.

Popular Assamese singer Dipali Barthakur passed away after a prolonged illness on 21 December 2018. She was known as the 'Nightingale of Assam'. Her songs such as ‘Joubone Amoni Kore’ and ‘Sunor Kharu Nelage Muk’ have been all-time Assamese hits. She has been honoured with various awards, including prestigious Padma Shri award for folk and traditional music in 1990-92.

Nevada becomes 1st US state with female-majority Legislature. Twenty-three of the 42 available State Assembly seats will now be represented by a woman.

Premier Badminton League 2018 (PBL) began in Mumbai on 22 December 2018. It will conclude in Bengaluru on 13 January 2019. Olympian and World Champion Carolina Marin of Spain and India's Rio Olympics silver medalist PV Sindhu are taking part in it. The Premier Badminton League 2017 title was won by the Chennai Smashers.

A German court found in favour of US chipmaker Qualcomm in a patent dispute case against Apple, which could lead to a ban on sales of iPhones in Germany.

The National Mathematics Day is observed every year in India on 22 December. The day commemorates the birth anniversary of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. He was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University. He made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.

Indian Kabaddi player Anup Kumar announced retirement recently.

Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh were the top three performing states under the maternity benefit programme 'Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana' (PMMVY). It is a centrally-sponsored scheme under which the cost-sharing ratio between the Centre, states, & the Union Territories with the legislation is 60:40. PMMVY is implemented by the Ministry of Women & Child Development

Ministry of Aviation and AAI launched Gas 2019 Mobile app recently.