Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2021

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The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) organised its first ever Red Ribbon club Quiz Competition.
NACO was established in 1992 as a division of Health Ministry. Headquartered in NeW Delhi, it is implementing the ‘Adolescence Education Programme’ in schools, in association with NCERT. It has also established 12,500 Red Ribbon Clubs (RRCs) to create awareness among the college youth.

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The new Foreign Trade Policy of India, is set to take effect from 1st April 2021. The policy will be in effect for 5 years from 2021 to 2026.
It aims to make India a leader in international trade. It is also known that the District Export Hubs initiative will form an important component of the new Foreign Trade Policy.

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The National Informatics Centre and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) jointly launched a software named CollabCAD. The software would allow students to create and modify 3D digital designs with a free flow of creativity and imagination.
The NIC, CBSE, and Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) will also jointly release a comprehensive e-book on CollabCAD 3D modeling.

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The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has collaborated with Telangana Artificial Intelligence Mission (T-AIM) to launch an Innovation Factory.
It aims to recognise and promote innovative Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for challenges in agricultural sector. The start-ups, companies and institutions winning the challenge will get Rs 1 lakh prize money along with mentorship from state entities.

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The Prime Minster of Netherlands Mark Rutte along with the entire cabinet of Ministers have stepped down from power, taking responsibility for a scandal involving investigations into child welfare payments.
Earlier, thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and told to pay money back to the government.

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The Union Finance Ministry has recently released the 12th tranche of GST revenue shortfall to the states and Union Territories amounting Rs.6000 crores. The funds have been released to 23 states and 3 UTs.
The funds were arranged using the special borrowing window at a rate of 4.43%. So far, a sum of Rs.72,000 crore has been released by the Centre to the states and UTs through this window.

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India has supplied two Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHC) to Iran’s Chabahar port. This is a part of a USD 25 Million contract agreement between India and Iran to deliver 6 number of Mobile Harbour Cranes to the port.
India and Iran entered into a bilateral contract in 2016 amounting USD 85 million for equipping, mechanizing and starting operations at Shahid Beheshti Port of Chabahar.

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Seven countries including Iran have recently lost their right to vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
As the countries have not paid their dues more than two years, seven countries including Iran, Niger, Libya, the Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan and Zimbabwe lost their voting rights as per the UN Charter.

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The Assam Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of Science City at Tepesia, in the outskirts of Guwahati.
It would be built at a total expenditure of Rs. 184 crores. The main building is being built by National Council of Science Museum, Union’s Cultural Affairs department and state’s Science and Technology Department.

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The Indian Railways has recently renamed one of the oldest trains, the Howrah-Kalka Mail, as the ‘Netaji Express’.
The Mail was started in the 19th Century as one of the early commercial passenger train services in India. This has been announced as a part of the 125th birth anniversary of Subash Chandra Bose. It is said Netaji took this train from Bihar, when he escaped from his house in Kolkata in 1941.