Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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Bengali New Year named Pohela Boisakh or Shubho Nobo Borsho is celebrated this year on 15th April 2021.
It is the first day of the first month of Boishakh according to the lunisolar Bengali calendar, which usually falls on 14th or 15th of April every year.

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The Nagaland government has decided to form a joint consultative committee (JCC) for taking an exercise to register the State’s indigenous inhabitants.
In July 2019, the Nagaland government launched the RIIN, seen as a variant of Assam’s National Register of Citizens. The committee will prepare the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN).

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‘Reorienting for the Future’ is the theme of the Indian Air Force Commanders’ Conference 2021 that has concluded recently in the national capital New Delhi.
It was a three-day conference that had in depth discussions to enhance the operational capabilities of the Air Force. Air Officers Commanding-in-Chief of the seven commands and top officials attended the meeting.

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As per the ‘2021 Norton Cyber Safety Insights Report,’ by NortonLifeLock, a consumer security company, around 59 per cent experienced cybercrime in the last 12 months.
As per the report, more than 27 million Indian adults experienced identity theft in the past 12 months and 52 per cent of Indian adults admitted they don’t know how to protect themselves from cybercrime.

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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 former RBI Governor Shri. M. Narasimham passed away recently at the age of 94 years. He was the 13th Governor of RBI and till date is the only Governor of RBI to be appointed from Reserve Bank cadre.
He chaired the Committee on Financial System (CFS) 1991 and the Committee on Banking Reforms 1998, which forms the financial sector landscape that is in existence today.

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The country’s very first ‘Oxygen Express’ departed from Andhra Pradesh to supply oxygen to the state of Maharashtra.
The Ro-Ro (roll-on, roll-off) service operated by Central Railways is ferrying oxygen from Vishakhapatnam steel plant to meet the sudden surge in oxygen demand in Maharashtra due to COVID 19 pandemic.

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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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NASA’s Perseverance mission has extracted oxygen on the Mars planet, using its MOXIE (i.e) Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.
MOXIE has produced 5 grams of oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere, which is enough for an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes. On Mars, carbon dioxide makes up 96% of the gas in its atmosphere while Oxygen is only 0.13%. MOXIE intakes CO2 and produces O2 from it

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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.