Current Affairs Quiz 26 December 2020

Explanation:Legendary Urdu poet and critic Shamsur Rahman Faruqi has passed away, a month after recovering from COVID-19. He was 85. He received Saraswati Samman in 1996 and the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2009.

Explanation:Online payments solutions provider PayU has collaborated with Google Pay to introduce tokenised payments for merchants in India.

Explanation:The 2020 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation (NIF) Book Prize for the best non-fiction book on contemporary/ modern India has jointly been won by former Union minister Jairam Ramesh and U.S.-based academician Amit Ahuja.

Explanation:Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh launched Mobile Application and web portal called ‘PR Insight’ on 23 December 2020, to improve the delivery of citizen centric services, based upon the feedback of its citizens on government policies.

Explanation:The Government of Karnataka has unveiled an e-governance portal named ‘Farmer Registration and Unified beneficiary Information System (FRUITS)’, for the benefit of the farmers of the state.

Explanation:Former English first-class batsman John Edrich has passed away at the age of 83. Edrich, a left-handed batsman, was amongst the best players of his generation, during a career that ran from 1956 to 1978

Explanation:India’s first Lithium refinery is soon going to be set up in Gujarat. The refinery will process Lithium ore to produce battery-grade material.