Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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The United States of America (USA) has released a notification which classifies India among the list of countries affected with African swine fever disease.
With this, the USA has imposed certain restrictions on import of pork and pork products from India.
This notification has been made by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

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The Indian women’s team won Gold in the 25m Pistol Team event of ISSF World Cup being held in New Delhi.
India placed its victory against Poland in the finals to win India’s 10th gold medal. India is leading the tournament with 10 gold, six silver and five bronze medals.

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Veteran American children’s author Beverly Cleary, has recently passed away at the age of 104. She was famous for her books including “Henry Huggins” (1950) and “Ramona and Her Father,” (1978).
The famous author was named as “Living Legend” by the US Library of Congress in 2000. She was also awarded the National Medal of Art from the ‘National Endowment for the Arts’ in 2003.

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The Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has decided to utilise the services of retired combat canines / dogs as ‘therapy dogs’. They would help early recovery of personnel undergoing medical treatment. Also, they are to be used in treatment of the soldier’s specially abled children.
This is the first time in India, that retired canine elements are being used to serve the soldiers.

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The Indo-South Korean friendship park has been constructed in New Delhi – Cantonment. It has been built to commemorate the contribution of Indian peacekeeping force during the Korean war of 1950-53.
The park was jointly inaugurated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of National Defence of South Korea Suh Wook.

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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup India 2022 Organising Committee confirmed the venues of the tournament.
D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, TransStadia in Ahmedabad and the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar will host the premier women’s football competition, from January 20 to February 6, 2022.

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India has signed 5 MoUs in the fields of trade, IT and setting up of sports facilities with Bangladesh. This event took place during the concluding sessions of Indian Prime Minister’s 2-day visit to Bangladesh.
During the visit, both national leaders discussed progress achieved on various parameters like health, trade, connectivity etc.

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The world’s first animal vaccine against the novel coronavirus has been registered in Russia. It has been as ‘Carnivac-Cov’.
As per the country’s agriculture safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, the immunity lasts for six months after the vaccination. The use of this vaccine is expected to prevent the development of virus mutations.

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As per a recent release by FIS (leading provider of financial technology solutions to banks and merchants), the number of real-time financial transactions in India has grown to 41 million transactions per day. This number is more than double that of the last year.
In terms of growth rate of real time financial transactions, the list is topped by Bahrain with 657% growth.

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The Government of India has promulgated an Ordinance that allows the use of pre-packs as an insolvency resolution mechanism for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This is applicable for defaults upto an amount of Rs. 1 crore.
A pre-pack is an agreement for the resolution of debt of a distressed MSME through an agreement between secured creditors and investors instead of a public bidding process.