Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club to become the first player from Japan to claim a men’s major championship.
The 29-year-old has 15 worldwide wins, eight career top-10 finishes in major championships, and four Presidents Cup appearances. In 2012, Matsuyama reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

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New Zealand has become the first country in the world to introduce a Climate Change law for Financial sector.
The law requires banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business. It requires financial firms to explain how they would manage climate-related risks and opportunities.

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The American Space Agency – NASA has recently shared an image of Mars titled ‘Blue Dunes of Red Planet’.
This picture has been released to mark the 20 years of NASA’s Odyssey mission to Mars. The picture combines shots captured between December 2002 and November 2004 by the robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars.

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Balbir Singh Junior – a legendary hockey player of India died recently at the age of 88 years.
He was a part of the silver medal-winning 1958 Asian Games Indian hockey team. He joined the Indian Army as an emergency commissioned officer in 1962 and played for the Services hockey team in various national tournaments.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) launched Global Diabetes Compact to fight the disease more effectively. This was launched during the centenary of the discovery of insulin.
The programme will focus on increasing access to diagnostic tools and medicines in low- and middle-income countries. The launch was hosted by WHO and the government of Canada along with many countries including Kenya, Fiji, Norway and Singapore and UN agencies.

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Russia is set to deliver the first regimental set of S-400 Triumf ‘SA-21 Growler’ air defence systems to India.
India and Russia have inked a USD 5.43 billion contract, for the S-400 Triumf ‘SA-21Growler’, which is long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. This system is for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and will help in further enhancing the air defence (AD).

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The “Urban heat island effect” describes cities being warmer than surrounding rural areas. It means that darker, paved surfaces absorb more heat than more natural surroundings.
A recent study found that 94% of lower income communities of color, are exposed to higher temperatures than affluent areas. This is because these lower income communities lack green space and suffer most from urban heat islands.

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Stefanos Tsitsipas, the 22-year-old Greek player defeated Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the Monte Carlo Open for his first Masters 1000 title.
The world number five clinched the biggest victory in his career, after his triumph in the year-end ATP Finals in 2019. He is the youngest player ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

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The President of the Central African country Chad, Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the country for more than three decades, died recently during a fight with rebels.
Hours earlier, the electoral officials had declared Deby as the winner of the April 11 presidential election. Deby was a major French ally in the fight against Islamic extremism in Africa and also supplied critical troops to the peacekeeping effort in northern Mali.

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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.