Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2021

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The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) along with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) released a Joint Action Plan on the “Prevention of Drug and Substance Abuse among Children and Illicit Trafficking’’.
It proposed to include curriculum related to drug abuse by NCERT, CCTV cameras at Drug stores and establishing “Prahari clubs’’ to encourage children to monitor dug abuse in their schools and communities.

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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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Vigyan Jyoti programme, was launched by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) which encourages gilrs take interest in science and build their career.
The second phase of Vigyan Jyoti programme was commenced on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, 2021. This will extend the scheme to 50 more districts in additional to the 50 districts.

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Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) releases the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).
As per the recent edition of the data, the IIP measure grew 1 per cent for December 2020. The Consumer Price Index inflation (CPI) decreased to 4.06 per cent in January 2021, due to the decline in vegetable prices.

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Yoshiro Mori resigned from the post of the President of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
After being criticised for his sexist comments he had made earlier. Yoshiro Mori is 83 years old and he is also the former prime minister of Japan. He also served as the president of the organizing body by the previous Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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The State Government of Odisha has announced its decision for construction Covid Warrior Memorial at a public park in Bhubaneswar.
The decision has been made to recognise the immense sacrifice made and services rendered by the front-line workers of the state during the pandemic times.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated Bharat Petroleum’s Propylene Derivatives petrochemical complex at Kochi Refinery.
The Rs 6,000 crore worth Propylene Derivative Petrochemical Project (PDPP) will produce Acrylic Acid, Oxo-Alcohol and Acrylates, which are mainly imported in India. He also inaugurated the Ro-Ro vessels of Inland Waterways Authority in Kochi, Kerala

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The Union Ministry for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched the Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MGNF) programme.
This nation-wide programme has been launched in partnership with nine Indian Institutes of Management across India. It has been launched under the SANKALP (Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion) scheme.

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Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot released the third edition of the Indian Sign Language (ISL) Dictionary.
This edition has 10,000 terms of daily use and technical terms including academic, legal, medical terms. The second edition of the dictionary released in 2019 had 6,000 terms and the first edition released in 2018 had 3,000 terms.

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Iran and Russia are organising a two-day navy exercise called “Iran-Russia Maritime Security Belt 2021” in the northern part of the Indian Ocean.
India has joined the exercise with a select group of vessels and forces. The drill will cover an area of 17,000 square kilometres and will include shooting at sea and air targets and liberating hijacked ships, as well as search and rescue and anti-piracy operations.