Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy (second) Ordinance 2021.
It aims to reduce tenancy disputes as it makes signing of contract compulsory to rent out a property. There is no clear mechanism for conflict resolution under the present law. It was promulgated and implemented in the state of January 2021.

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Israel’s longest-serving leader and the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a mandate from Israel’s president to form a new government.
Israel’s election on March 23, was its fourth in two years and ended with an inconclusive election. Netanyahu was in power consecutively since 2009, and now has 28 days to form a new Government.

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Ministry of Commerce & Industry notifies Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021. It also added a new provision regarding publication of a copyrights journal, thereby eliminating the requirement of publication in the Official Gazette.
In India, the copyright regime is governed by the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Copyright Rules, 2013.

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Meghalaya’s Assembly Committee on Women Empowerment has said that three out of every 1,000 pregnant women test positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The panel headed by Ampareen Lyngdoh has also sought a scheme to rehabilitate commercial sex workers in the state. The increase in HIV cases observed in the state is increasing at an alarming rate.

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Quasars are extremely luminous cores of distant galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes.
Recently, a group of astronomers have discovered a dozen quasars, distorted by a cosmic lens and split int four similar images. The first such quadruple image was discovered in 1985. The study by “Gaia Gravitational Lenses Working Group” of astronomers, also included scientists from ARIES, Nainital.

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The Ministry of External Affairs has launched the first online Pre-Departure Orientation Training (PDOT) Programme for migrant workers.
It has associated with Protector of Emigrants (POE) Mumbai and other POEs for the online session, to supplement physical training being held in PDOT Centres. The programme aims to train maximum number of prospective migrants before their departure.

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Scientists from Singapore are working on an experiment named “Robo Plants”. Under the experiment electrodes are attached to a Venus flytrap plant.
These electrodes fit tightly to the plant’s surface using a thermogel. These electrodes monitor weak electrical pulses naturally emitted by plants.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proposed the imposition of “solidarity tax” on high earners and companies that prospered in the coronavirus crisis to show solidarity with those who were hit hardest by the pandemic.
IMF has stated that this temporary tax would help to reduce social inequalities and help countries recover from COVID 19 disruptions.

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‘Osiris’, which is officially called HD 209458 b, is the first-ever planet the astronomers have spotted beyond the Earth’s solar system.
As per a new study published in Nature, it has been found that six chemicals are present in the atmosphere of Osiris. The composition of the chemicals confirm that the exoplanet is over 100 times farther than its current position, when it came into existence.

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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.