Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2021

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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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India records the highest number of Road crash deaths, across the world. The World Bank recently released a report titled “Traffic Crash Injuries and Disabilities: The Burden on Indian Society”.
Union Transport minister Nitin Gadkari released the report, which highlights the unequal impact of a road crash on poor households. Over 75% of the poor households in India reported a decline in their income after a road traffic crash.

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Chittaura Jheel or Chittaura Lake is situated in Uttar Pradesh. A river named Teri Nadi originates from this lake. It is known for many migratory birds during August – October months. It is also an important Hindu Pilgrimage site in the state.
Prime Minster Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the development works of the Chittaura Lake.

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The death anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay – 11th February, was recently observed as Samarpan Diwas.
He was the co-founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the was forerunner of BJP. During the pre-independence time, he started a monthly publication named Rashtra Dharma. He was assassinated on 11th February 1968.

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As per the recent data from the EU statistics agency Eurostat, China was the biggest trading partner of the European Union.
Last year, China overtook the United States as the biggest trading partner of the EU. As per the agency, Britain which is not a part of the European Union at present, was the third-largest trading partner.

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The Tata Group’s Tata Electronics has proposed to invest ₹5,000 crore in Tamil Nadu to set up a Phone component manufacturing unit.
The unit is to be set up in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu, for manufacture of mechanical enclosures of mobile phones. It is expected to create over 18000 new employment opportunities.

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Nigerian American economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the new director-general of World Trade Organization (WTO). With this appointment, she becomes the first African women to be the Chief of WTO.
WTO is an intergovernmental organization that is regulates the trade between nations. It is headquartered at Geneva.

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India’s leading cement maker ACC has launched a new low carbon range of ready mix concrete, in order to cut down carbon emissions.
This has been named as ECOPact. It has been launched in Mumbai and Hyderabad initially and would be rolled out in the entire country in some time.

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The Union Cabinet has approved signing of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) between India and Mauritius.
This is the first trade Agreement to be signed by India with any country in Africa. The agreement aims to liberalise norms covering Rules of Origin, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, Dispute Settlement, Telecom, Financial services and Customs Procedures among others.

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The TIME magazine’s annual list of 100 “emerging leaders who are shaping the future”, named the “2021 TIME100 Next”, was released recently.
Chandrashekhar Azad, the leader of the Bhim army, which runs school to educate Dalit children and works to curb caste-based violence, featured in the list. Other 5 Indian origin personalities are UK finance minister Rishi Sunak, Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde, Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, ED of nonprofit Get Us PPE Shikha Gupta and founder of nonprofit Upsolve Rohan Pavuluri.