Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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‘OSH&WC’ Code stands for Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code. The Labour Ministry has notified draft rules for setting up of a technical committee under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (OSH&WC Code), 2020.
The committee would help the Government or the National board to be set up under the Code to discharge safety and other related measures across industrial establishments.

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As per a recent study, only 3% of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, without spoiled by human beings.
The undamaged lands are mainly in parts of the Amazon and Congo tropical forests, east Siberian and northern Canadian forests and tundra, and the Sahara. The researchers suggest reintroducing a small number of important species to some damaged areas, such as elephants or wolves.

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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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Recently the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin is found to effectively neutralise the double mutant strain, B.1.617, of SARS-CoV-2. This vaccine is manufactured by Hyderabad based – Bharat Biotech
Also, ICMR has stated that at its National Institute of Virology, scientists have successfully isolated and cultured the double mutant strain which has E484Q and L452R mutations.

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The Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur has commercialized its healthcare product COVIRAP.
This is a diagnostic technology to zero on Covid infections. Using this technology, the COVID test results can be obtained within 45 minutes of sampling and the results can be seen using a smartphone application.

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“Global youth mobilization” aims to fund young people’s ideas to combat the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, in various communities. This is supported by the World Health Organization and United Nations Foundation.
It is also backed by UNICEF, USAID, UNFPA, European Commission, Salesforce, FIFA and Heads of State and Governments from around the world.

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During the virtual summit on climate change convened by US President Joe Biden, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India and the US are launching an “Agenda 2030” partnership on green collaborations.
“India-US Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership”, aims to implement actions at high speed and on a large scale globally, to combat climate change. The summit was attended by various country leaders like Chinese President Xi Jinping, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin etc.

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The Government of India has planned to bring around nine million hectares of land under mustard cultivation and increase the production to around 17 million tonnes (mt) by 2025-26.
This was announced during the ‘Mission Mustard 2025’, organised by Solvent Extractors’ Association (SEA) of India. The average normal area for five years from 2014-15 to 2018-19 was 5.9 million hectares and the production was around 7.7 mt.

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The Annapurna Mountain Range in the Himalayas is located in north-central Nepal. It is the tenth highest mountain peak in the world, which includes a peak over 8000 metres.
Recently, Priyanka Mohite from Satara in Maharashtra became the first Indian woman to scale Mt Annapurna. She had earlier summitted several peaks including Mt Everest.

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Tissue Chips are small models of human organs that contain multiple cell types that behave similarly to the human body.
Four astronauts were recently launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX under the Commercial Crew Program. Their prime focus during this time will be to carry out a series of Tissue Chips in Space studies.