14 December 2021 Current Affairs Quiz

Governor
He/she is the Chief Executive Head of a State.
Like the President of India, he is a nominal (titular or constitutional) head and also acts as an agent of the central government. Therefore, the office of the governor has a dual role.
Articles 153 to 167 in Part VI of the Constitution deal with the State Executive, which comprises the Governor, the Chief Minister, the Council of Ministers and the Advocate General of the State.
There is no office of Vice-Governor (in the state) like that of Vice-President at the Centre.
Usually, there is a governor for each state, however, the 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956 facilitated the appointment of the same person as a governor for two or more states.
The Governor has no diplomatic, military or emergency powers like the President.

Operation Turtshield: It was launched by Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)
“Operation Turtshield- I” from 1st December 2019 to 31st January 2020 and Operation Turtshield-II” (1st December 2020 to 28th February 2021) was taken up.
Its aim was to tackle the illegal trade of live turtles.

The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to be rocketed into orbit no earlier than December 22.
The Webb telescope is said to be the scientific successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
It will be a large infrared telescope with an approximately 6.5-meter primary mirror.

Hubble Space Telescope
It is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency.
It was launched and deployed in April 1990 and is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble and is the first major optical telescope to be placed in space.

Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)
It is a specialised division of the Reserve Bank of India which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance.
It was established on 15 July 1978 under the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation Act, 1961 for the purpose of providing insurance of deposits and guaranteeing of credit facilities.

Commercial Banks: All commercial banks including branches of foreign banks functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks are insured by the DICGC.
Cooperative Banks: All State, Central and Primary cooperative banks, also called urban cooperative banks, functioning in States / Union Territories.

The DICGC insures all deposits such as savings, fixed, current, recurring, etc. deposits except the following types of deposits
Deposits of foreign Governments;
Deposits of Central/State Governments;
Inter-bank deposits;
Deposits of the State Land Development Banks with the State co-operative bank;
Any amount due on account of and deposit received outside India
Any amount, which has been specifically exempted by the corporation with the previous approval of the Reserve Bank of India.

The Pinaka-ER Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher System was successfully tested at the Pokharan range.
It is the upgraded version of the earlier Pinaka version which has been in service with the Indian Army for the last decade.
The system has been designed in the light of emerging requirements with advanced technologies enhancing the range.