Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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E-commerce major Flipkart is set to acquire Cleartrip, which is a leading online travel and technology company.
Cleartrip was founded in the year 2006 and offers personalised travel products to its customers via desktop website and mobile application. Flipkart will acquire 100 per cent of Cleartrip’s shareholding.

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Dr. Kakarla Subba Rao who was a renowned radiologist passed away recently at Secunderabad. He also served as the Director of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad.
For his relentless service in the field of medicine, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award in 2000 by the Government of India.

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Indian wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Anshu Malik, have won their maiden medals at the Asian Championship held at Almaty, Kazakhstan. These Indian players are bound for the upcoming Olympics in Japan.
At the Asian Championship, India ended with seven medals in the women’s event, with four gold medals.

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Israel and Greece have signed their biggest ever defence procurement deal. It includes a USD 1.65bn contract for establishment and operation of a training centre for the Hellenic Air Force (Greece) by Israeli defence contractor.
This deal is expected to strengthen political and economic ties between the countries. The Air Forces of the two countries also launched a joint exercise.

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A report was recently released by China’s central bank, People’s Bank of China (PBOC). It stated that India’s demographic advantage to overtake China’s by 2035.
It also proposed that China should immediately liberalise its birth policies to tackle the problems of an ageing population. This would enable the country to compete economically with demographically young India and immigration-friendly US.

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The Government of India has recently extended the insurance scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package for health workers for a period of one year.
This insurance scheme convers loss of life due to COVID 19 and accidental death due to COVID related duty. A sum of Rs. 50 lakh would be paid to the claimant of insured person.

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The United Nation’s flagship report – State of the Global Climate report has been released for the year 2020.
The report has stated that Cyclone Amphan that made landfall in the India-Bangladesh border last year, was the costliest tropical cyclone on record for the North Indian Ocean. It has led to economic losses amounting $14 billion to the affected nations.

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Fighters of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) rebel group was formed in 2016. The group said to have crossed into Chad recently with the aim of overthrowing President Idriss Deby.
A day after provisional results of Deby being re-elected, the military announced that President, had died due to wounds suffered during a battle against the rebels.

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National Stock Exchange’s (NSE) flagship index – the Nifty 50 has completed 25 years of its journey on April 22nd this year.
It was originally launched in the year 1996. Out of 50 companies in the index, so far only 13 of them could multiply their market caps to stay in the index till the 25th year. These include HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries, SBI, Tata motors etc.

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The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Finance Initiative.
43 banks from 23 countries formed the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which joined GFANZ. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) was chaired by the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.