Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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The Union Health Ministry has recently approved the National Policy for Rare Diseases 2021.
This national policy aims to bring down the high cost of treatment for rare diseases. This policy has been drafted and approved in consultation with multiple stakeholders of the nation. It is also stated that 40% of beneficiaries covered under PM JAY will benefit from the policy.

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India has fixed a target of 10% ethanol blending in petrol by the year 2022.
Recently, India has achieved more than 7.2 per cent of ethanol blending in fuel, for the first four months of ethanol supply. Some stated like Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra have achieved 9-9.5% ethanol blending. This shows that India is on track to reach 10% ethanol blend by 2022.

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The National Maritime Day is celebrated every year on 5th of April. This year marks the 58th edition of National Maritime Day, while the first such event was celebrated in the year 1964. This day is celebrated to support the global maritime economy.
It was on April 5th, 1919, Indian shipping first started with the ship “SS Loyalty” sailed from Mumbai to the United Kingdom.

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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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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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The Reserve Bank of India has revised and modified its inflation-forecasting model. This has been done to better capture the relationship between monetary policy and real economic elements.
fiscal-monetary dynamics, fuel pricing, exchange-rate fluctuations etc have been incorporated in the revised model to adjust inflation. This is termed as the Quarterly Projection Model 2.0.

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The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have planned to launch a dedicated platform that would advise the poor nations on funding their climate and conservation activities.
It is proposed that the platform would consist of UN officials, non-governmental organisations, private investors and rating agencies, to aid and advise the funding activities.

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The Union Jal Shakti Ministry is set to commence an annual planning exercise with states and UTs in the month of April, for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission.
The scheme was announced on 15th August, 2019 which aims to provide Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural home by 2024.

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The Ministers of the BASIC countries- Brazil, South Africa, India and China have announced that the European Union’s plan to impose taxes on carbon at its border are discriminatory and unfair to developing nations.
The EU had proposed to impose a levy on carbon-intensive products imported into the Union from countries which do not have a price on carbon.

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As per a new study published in the journal Biological Conservation, several unique animals and plants will go extinct if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
The study reveals that Climate change will negatively affect most native and endemic species. All endemic species from islands and more than four out of five endemic species from mountains are at high risk of extinction.