Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal recently inaugurated “Anandam: The Center for Happiness” at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Jammu virtually.
The Center aims to help people overcome mental stress and help spread positivity. The prime objectives will be divided into five broad categories: Counselling, Holistic wellness, Elective courses on Happiness Development, Research and Leadership & Faculty Development.

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World Bank has recently released a report titled “South Asia Vaccinates”. It highlighted that private consumption and public investment will make the Indian economy grow by 10.1% in 2021-22 (FY22).
It also estimated that on account of uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, it said India’s economic growth in FY22 will be in the range from 7.5% to 12.5%. It also forecasts that the Indian economy to contract by 8.5% in FY21.

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The Work Economic Forum (WEF) has recently released the Global Gender Gap Report 2021. India has been ranked at 140th place among 156 countries. In last year’s report, India ranked 112 and, in this year, India has fallen back 28 spots.
The report has stated that India had so far closed 62.5% of its gender gap. It noted that most of the decline was seen on the Political Empowerment sub-index.

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The Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) has allowed private sector firms to join hands with it in development and production of missile systems.
This announcement has been made under the Development-cum-Production Partner programme. The programmes covered under the programme include the Vertical Launched Short Range Surface to Air Missile system (VL-SRSAM).

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International Day of Conscience is celebrated all around the world on April 5th. The UN General Assembly declared April 5 as the International Day of Conscience in 2019.
UNGA adopted the draft resolution laid by the Kingdom of Bahrain called ‘Promoting the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience’ in 2019. UN aims to create conditions of stability, well-being as well as peaceful relations throughout the world.

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World Health Day is celebrated across the world annually on April 7. It marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948.
It aims to create awareness on a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world. The theme for this year is “Building a fairer, healthier world”.

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Four sailors created history from India by qualifying for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics, during the Mussanah Open Championship.
Other three men sailors are Vishnu Saravanan and the pair of Ganapathy Chengappa and Varun Thakkar. They were announced qualified during the ongoing Asian Qualifiers in Oman.

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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 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 Central Mine Planning & Design Institute is Mini Ratna company, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL).
The company has obtained approval from the Ministry of Civil Aviation for use of drones to survey the coalfield areas of Coal India Ltd and for monitoring various mining activities.