Daily Current Affairs 21 December 2023

1.		Which two payment processing giants received final authorization from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as Payment Aggregators?

Razorpay and Pine Labs

Cashfree and Stripe

Razorpay and Cashfree

Pine Labs and Stripe

2.		What is the primary focus of the dispute between the European Union (EU) and India at the World Trade Organization (WTO)?

Environmental regulations

Import duties on textiles

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) product import duties

Agricultural subsidies

3.		Which actor recently became the owner of the Mumbai team in the Indian Street Premier League (ISPL)?

Hrithik Roshan

Akshay Kumar

Shah Rukh Khan

Amitabh Bachchan

4.		What is "Smishing," as warned by the Indian government?

A new social media platform

A type of malware

A sophisticated scam using text messages

A form of online gaming

5.		Which country became India’s second-largest supplier of coking coal, after Australia, as of October 2023?

Indonesia

Russia

United States

China

6.		Where did Accenture establish its new Generative AI Studio?

New York

Tokyo

Bengaluru

London

7.		What percentage of India’s GDP does the agricultural sector contribute in the fiscal year 2022-23?

10%

15%

20%

25%

8.		What significant achievement did the Kakrapar Unit-4 Power Project attain on December 17, 2023?

Renewable energy production

Initial criticality

Carbon neutrality

Grid connectivity

9.		Which two business books were declared joint winners of the Gaja Capital Business Book Prize 2023?

"The Lean Startup" and "Zero to One"

"Against All Odds" and "Winning Middle India"

"Thinking, Fast and Slow" and "The Innovator's Dilemma"

"Good to Great" and "Blue Ocean Strategy"

10.		Which variant of the COVID-19 virus has raised concerns due to its ability to spread faster and evade immunity?

Delta variant

Lambda variant

JN.1 variant

Beta variant