Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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The latest edition of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) World Economic Outlook was released recently.
It has raised India’s growth projection to 12.5 per cent for FY22 which made the country rank highest among all countries including both the emerging and advanced economies. This year, the country is expected to contract by 8 per cent.

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Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G), 92% target of completion has been achieved in the 1st phase of the scheme.
A target of 1 crore houses was set for completion in the 1st phase of the scheme- from 2016-17 to 2018-19. It aims constructing 2.95 crore PMAY-G houses with all basic amenities by the year 2021-22.

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The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution designating 7 April as the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, in 2003.
Rwanda observes mourning the genocide on two days a year. The national mourning period begins with Kwibuka, the national commemoration, on 7 April and concludes with Liberation Day on 4 July.

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As per a recent release by the US-based Pew Research Centre, the COVID 19 pandemic has pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class.
The report states that the number of middle-class Indians earning $10 – $20 a day has reduced by 32 million.

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Australian air force personnel will be known as aviators rather than airmen, as per the Australia’s Chief of Air Force.
Australia has the highest female participation in any branch of the country’s military at over 20% of the 15,000 personnel in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). It also aims to have 25% women strength in the force by 2023.

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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US Special Presidential Envoy for climate John Kerry have agreed to come together and collaborate for the 2030 climate change agenda.
The special focus of the collaboration would be clean and green energy, adequate finance, resilient infrastructure and green hydrogen.

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The fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Patagonia region of Chile, South America.
Named as “Orretherium tzen” meaning ‘Beast of Five Teeth’, it is claimed to have lived lived between 72 and 74 million years ago. It is said to have been a herbivore and said to have lived in South America at the end of the Mesozoic era.

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“Historical nihilism” is a phrase used in China which describes public doubt over the description of past events by Chinese Communist Party.
Recently, China’s cyber regulator has launched a hotline to report online comments that tend to defame the ruling Communist Party and its history. The Party’s 100th anniversary falls on July this year.

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Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju inaugurated the Khelo India Centre of Excellence in Rowing in Srinagar.
The training centre is situated in Dal Lake, and comes under the Jammu & Kashmir Sports Council. The centre was upgraded with modern facilities and equipment including 16 new boats and coxless four boats.

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‘Central Asia’ is the name of an international center for trade and economic cooperation, being constructed by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan at the borders of the two countries.
The center would have a capacity of accommodating 35,000 people and 5,000 trucks per day in both directions. It would serve as a large industrial, trade and logistics platform for both countries.