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FOR 3 R D CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ (02 N D JANUARY 2020)
merchants or customers from January 1,
 HDFC Life Insurance has partnered
2020.
with Paytm to expand its distribution by
enabling the customers of Paytm to purchase
 General Bipin Rawat has been named
insurance products from HDFC Life.
as the first Chief of Defence Staff of India. He
will serve as the principal military advisor to
 State Bank of India will introduce One
the Union Defence Minister. He will be
Time Password (OTP)-based ATM cash
responsible for the administration of all three
withdrawals for every cash withdrawal of Rs
armed services including the army, navy and
10,000 and above between 8 am and 8 pm.
the air force.

 Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy

wins the World Women’s Rapid Chess
Championship held in Moscow, Russia.
 NASA Astronaut Christina Koch has
created a record for the longest single
spaceflight by a woman.
 Minister of State (I/C) for Civil
Aviation launched the Centralised Access
Control System (CACS) project which aims
to digitize the employee movement process
at the airports.
 Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund
Narwane, the Deputy Chief of the Indian
Army, has become the next Chief of the
Indian Army. He has replaced Bipin Rawat.
Naravane was commissioned in Sikh Light
Infantry Regiment on June 1980.
 The Union Finance Minister has
announced that the digital transactions made
using RuPay credit cards, or UPI QR codes
will not face any additional charges for
 Indian navy has banned the use of
facebook by the naval personnel. The Indian
Navy has also banned the use of
smartphones at naval bases, dockyards and
aboard warships, in an effort to prevent
leaking of sensitive information.
 India's first solar mission has been
named Aditya L-1 by ISRO. Six payloads will
be sent on this mission. It will study the
effects of sun in solar system.
 Kerala has become the first state in
India to pass a resolution demanding
scrapping of the controversial Citizenship
Amendment Act (CAA). The anti-CAA
resolution was moved in the state assembly
by Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and it was
passed with unanimous support.
 The deadline to link PAN card with
Aadhaar has been extended till March 2020.
The Income Tax Department had earlier
announced December 31 as the final
deadline.

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