Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) has entered into a loan agreement with
Deutsche Bank for a loan value of Euro 68.87 million (Rs 600 cr).
The proceeds of the loan would be used by the corporation for onward lending to cooperatives in the country. Also, the NCDC has entered into another agreement with Indian Chamber of Commerce to boost farmers’ linkages with markets.

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Wular, Asia’s second largest freshwater lake is located in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is fed by the Jhelum River. The lake’s size varies from 12 to 100 square miles seasonally.
A massive work to remove silt is in process. The project to clean the lake had a deadline of June this year. As per the officials, around 48.94 lakh cubic metres of silt has been removed.

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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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Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V is developed by Russia. Bala Venkatesh Varma, who is the Indian Ambassador to Russia has stated that the first dose of Sputnik V vaccines would be delivered to India in the month of April 2021.
Recently, the Subject expert committee (SEC) for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) has granted approval to Russia’s Sputnik V making it the 3rd in India to get clearance.

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Every year April 18 is celebrated as World Heritage Day or the International Day for Monuments and Sites.
This year, the theme of the World Heritage Day is “Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures”. In India, Tourism and Culture Minister has inaugurated the first-ever online exhibition on Ramayana. The online exhibition showcases 49 miniature paintings collections of National Museum, New Delhi.

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Google celebrated the 151st birthday of Dr. Vera Gedroits, a Russian surgeon, professor, poet, and author.
She is also regarded as the country’s first female military surgeon and one of the world’s first female professors of surgery. Dr. Gedroits volunteered as a surgeon during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.

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Indian Navy’s first unit of the indigenously-built Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mk III, Indian Naval Air Squadron 323 (INAS 323), was commissioned at INS Hansa, Goa.
The Mk III version of the ALH will be used for Search and Rescue, Special Operations and Coastal Surveillance. The squadron will operate three ALH Mk III helicopters, a multi-role chopper with the Shakti engine manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

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The NASA has recently released the image of interacting galaxies Arp 273, in the shape of a ‘Cosmic Rose’.
The image has been shared on the official Instagram handle of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In the image, a group of spiral galaxies create a shape resembling a rose. This structure made of galaxies lies in the Andromeda constellation, at about 300 million light-years away.

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As per a recent study by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Clean Air Fund and consulting firm Dalberg, air pollution in India is expected to cost 95 billion every year, or 3% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product on Indian businesses.
It has also stated that New Delhi is the world’s most polluted capital and that India is home to 35 of the world’s 50 most polluted cities.