Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2021

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Union Ministers and government departments of the country are setting up accounts on Koo application.
It is seen as the Made-in-India alternative to the social media giant Twitter. The app was one among the winners of the government’s ‘AatmaNirbhar App Innovation Challenge’ in 2020. Recently, there has been a tussle between Twitter and Indian Government, in matters related to farm protest.

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Reserve Bank of India leads the observance of the Financial Literacy Week since 2016, to create awareness about financial education.
This year, it is being observed from February 8-12, 2021, with the theme of ‘Credit Discipline and Credit from Formal Institutions’. RBI is also conducting mass media campaigns in the month of February to promote financial awareness.

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National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is set to launch ‘NPCI PayAuth Challenge’, a global-level hackathon.
The hackathon is supported by the world’s first open architecture API marketplace, APIX. It is a cross-border sandbox platform. The hackathon aims to get alternatives for the authentication of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions.

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The Kerala state government has launched ‘Kerala Knowledge Mission’, a digital platform to provide employment and skill training.
Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC), is implementing this mission. Job aspirants and educated unemployed youth would be facilitated to upskill and enhance knowledge apart from gaining employment.

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Indian Army organised a Seminar-cum-Webinar, named as ‘Divya-Drishti 2021’ on Multi-Domain Operations: Future of Conflicts.
It was organised by Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS). Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), General MM Naravane participated in the webinar. India’s Preparedness in Multi Domain Operations was focussed in the session.

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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated over 57000 water structures constructed in Madhya Pradesh under ‘Jalabhishekam’ water conservation campaign.
These water structures were created during the Covid-19 pandemic period by linking the work with the MNREGA scheme. The water structures costing over Rs 200 crore have been inaugurated under the MGNREGA scheme and PM Krishi Irrigation scheme.

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The Government of India has approved applications from leading medical devices manufacturing companies, under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
These companies include Siemens Healthcare, Sahajanand Medical Technologies, Nipro India Corporation and Wipro GE Healthcare.

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24-year-old Priyanka Goswami of Uttar Pradesh won the women’s 20-km walk event with a time of 1:28:45, at the National Open Race-Walking Championships in Ranchi. Sandeep Kumar broke the record in the corresponding men’s event.

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A group of six black storks (Ciconia nigra), were spotted recently in the Sigur plateau in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.
The species is classified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the “Least Concern” category. The sighting of the black stork in this region is considered to be extremely rare.

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The Reserve Bank of India releases data on the measures of the credit and deposit of banks across the country.
In the latest edition of the data, Bank credit grew 5.93 per cent to Rs 107.05 lakh crore, while deposits rose 11.06 per cent to Rs 147.98 lakh crore. During the first nine months of the current fiscal year, bank credit rose by 3.2 per cent and deposits by 8.5 per cent.