Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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The parliament of the New Zealand has recently passed legislation giving mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a miscarriage or still birth.
It has become only the second country in the world to pass the law, after India. One in four New Zealand women experienced a miscarriage. This law will give employees three days leave when a pregnancy ends with a stillbirth.

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The Market Regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India approved amendments to SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.
It extended the requirement for formulation of dividend distribution policy by the existing top 500 listed companies to the top 1,000 listed companies. It also relaxed norms for listing of start-ups.

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As per the recent World Development Report by the World Bank, most countries have not implemented the open-data policy, particularly the developing economies.
Only 11 per cent low-income countries consistently made their data available with an open license. The per centage in lower-middle-income countries was 19 per cent; for upper-middle-income countries is 22 per cent and high-income countries at 44 per cent.

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Leading Fintech company BharatPe has recently launched a new lending product named Distributor to Retailer (D2R) Finance.
The product would offer instant liquidity to distributors, wholesalers, traders and dealers. This specialised product would focus on small and medium enterprises. It would offer collateral-free loans of up to Rs 50 lakh for a period of seven days to 30 days, at lower interest rates.

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The Government has extended the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) till June 30, 2020.
The institutions are permitted to issue additional funding up to 40 per cent of outstanding loans as on Feb 29, 2020 as against 20 per cent earlier. ECLGS 3.0 also will be 6 years including moratorium period of 2 years. This is one year up from the previous tenure.

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The 3rd Joint Logistics Node (JLN) of Indian Armed Forces has been made operationalised in Mumbai by the Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat.
This JLN will provide integrated logistics support to the Armed Forces for their small arms ammunition, rations, fuel, general stores, civil hired transport etc.

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The Department of Science and Technology announced that Scientists have developed a new technique to track the huge bubbles of gas, which are ejected from the Sun.
This new technique will be used in India’s first solar mission Aditya-L1. A software named Computer Aided CME Tracking Software (CACTus) and CMEs Identification in Inner Solar Corona (CIISCO) algorithm have been developed.

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that India holds the world record for fastest road construction.
India has entered Guinness World Records by building a 2.5 km 4-lane concrete road within 24 hours. It also built 25-km bitumen Solapur-Bijapur road within 24 hours. A record construction of 37 km per day was achieved in financial year 2020-21.

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The Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has recently released a report titled “Women and Men in India 2020”.
This report has been published by MoSPI since 1995 and this year’s report is 20th in the series. It provides gender related data for policy makers, planners and other stakeholders.

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Hubert Hurkacz of Poland has recently clinched the Miami Open Men’s title. He defeated Jannik Sinner of Italy to take away the cup.
Presently, he is ranked 37th in the world. He has defeated two top 10 opponents in this tournament. With this he is projected to move up to 16th in world ranking.