Current Affairs One-Liner: 5th January 2020

• Indian Navy and Bharat Electronics Limited signed a pact to procure Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Dazzlers (LASER Dazzlers). They have signed a pact to procure total 20 Laser Dazzlers at the initial stage. The Laser Dazzlers are developed by DRDO and will be manufactured by BEL, Pune Plant. 
• Static Part: 
• HQ of BEL: Bangalore, Karnataka
• Virtual Agri India Hackathon 2020: It was inaugurated by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar. A hackathon is a 2-month event being organised by Pusa Krishi, ICAR-IARI, ICAR, Dept. of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

• ‘eKhadiIndia.com’: It is the e-commerce portal of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) under the Ministry of MSME. The portal will offer online shopping platform and will boost the income of rural communities. 
• Static Part: 
• HQ of KVIC: Mumbai
• Chairman of KVIC: Vinai Kumar Saxena
• The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that a zero to 1 km area around the boundary of Mathikettan Shola National Park situated in Idukki district of Kerala as an Eco-sensitive zone which accounts to the area of 17.5 sqkm.
• Static Part: 
• Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change: Prakash Javadekar
• CM of Kerala: Pinarayi Vijayan
• Governor of Kerala: Arif Mohammad Khan
• Obituaries: Colonel Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar: He was Mountaineer. 
• ADB Approved Loan to Upgrade Power Distribution System in Bangalore
• TRIFED, DoNER and India Post to Promote North-East Tribal Products
• Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act
• Appointment on 5th January 2021
• Tamil Academy to be Setup in Delhi

Question: 

Q.1 With whom the Indian Army signed a pact to procure Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Dazzlers (LASER Dazzlers)?
a. Engineers India
b. Bharat Dynamics
c. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
d. Bharat Electronics Limited