Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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Haryana has recently amended several provisions under its Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Legislative Assembly of the state.
The new provisions include mandating presence of at least two ministers and preventing the members from tearing off documents in the House in protest. This is expected to maintain the decorum of the house.

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Two researchers from IIT Kanpur have recently developed touch-sensitive, tactile, haptic watch. This is intended to measure time by touching the face of the clock.
This model of watch conveys time via vibrations when an individual touches the proper spoke on the face.

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The Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (TRIFED) under the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has recently launched “Sankalp se Siddhi” – Village & Digital Connect Drive. This drive has commenced on April 1, 2021.
This is a 100-day drive that would include participation of 150 teams and would cover 1500 villages of the country. The main aim of this drive is to activate the van dhan kendras of these villages.

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The Food and Drug Administration of the USA have approved the first new drug in over a decade for children aged 6 to 17 with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
ADHD is said to cause inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. This new medicine is different from the traditional ADHD medicines as it is not a stimulant or a controlled substance, which makes it hard to abuse.

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The Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund Gita Gopinath announced that the IMF has favoured adoption of a global minimum tax on corporate profits.
She also highlighted that tax avoidance is a troubling issue for the global economy. The disparities in national corporate tax rates has resulted in significant tax shifting and tax avoidance, which again results in reduced social welfare spending.

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Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the 65-year-old man behind Vietnam’s successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic, has been formally sworn in as President of the country.
Phuc was Vietnam’s Prime Minister for the last five years. He was known for his contribution for the economy boom and his government’s COVID-19 response. Pham Minh Chinh has been appointed as the new Prime Minister.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to provide a sum of Rs.50,000 crore to the All-India Financial Institutions (AIFIs) namely NABARD, SIDBI and NHB.
NABARD would receive Rs.25,000 crore, SIDBI would receive Rs.15,000 crore and NHB would receive a sum of Rs.10,000 crore as refinance credit facility.

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“IH2A” stands for India H2 Alliance. Major global players in energy and industry have come together to form a new energy transition coalition, the India H2 Alliance (IH2A).
This coalition is focused on commercialising hydrogen technologies in India to make it a net zero carbon emitter. It will work to build a hydrogen economy and supply chain in India.

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Dr Chintan Vaishnav has been appointed as the Mission director of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), the flagship initiative under NITI Aayog.
He will take over from Ramanathan Ramanan, who has been leading AIM as its first mission director since June 2017. Chintan Vaishnav is a socio-technologist who is currently serving at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US.

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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.