Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2020

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Union Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Giriraj Singh launched the implementation guidelines for Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund, AHIDF.
The 15000 crore rupees worth fund was approved by the Union Cabinet last month under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan stimulus package. Under the fund, Farmer Producer Organizations, MSMEs, Private Companies and individual entrepreneurs with minimum 10% margin are given 90% loans from scheduled banks, for developing infrastructure for animal husbandry.

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Elyes Fakhfakh, the Prime Minister of the North African country Tunisia, has recently submitted his resignation.
Earlier, there was an allegation that the Prime Minister holds a stake in a waste processing company that won government contracts worth 15 million euro. Investigations are being carried out in this case.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has postponed the 2022 Dakar Youth Olympics for four years, to 2026.
This decision has been taken due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Youth Summer Games, to be held in Senegal’s capital, will be the first Olympics to be organised in Africa. The Tokyo Olympics is scheduled to be held in July 2021 and Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022.

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India’s third largest services company, HCL Technologies announced that its Co-founder Shiv Nadar had stepped down as Chairman of the board of directors.
His daughter Roshni Nadar Malhotra has been named as the next Chairperson of the company. Shiv Nadar will continue in the post of Chief strategy officer. Roshni Nadar became the vice-chairman of the board in 2018. HCL was founded in the year 1976 by Shiv Nadar as one of the 5 founders.

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Union Shipping Ministry has named the retired IAS officer Malini Shankar, as the Vice-Chancellor of Indian Maritime University.
Malini Shankar is also the Chairperson of the National Shipping Board (NSB), the ace advisory agency to the Central government on shipping-related matters. Before being appointed as the VC in the Chennai-based University, she was the Director General of Shipping.

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The state Government of Odisha is implementing a pension scheme named ‘Madhu Babu Pension Yojana’.
Recently, it was announced that the people of transgender community will also be included in the Pension scheme. Under the scheme, financial assistance is provided to the destitute elderly, differently-abled persons and widows. Now, Around 5,000 transgenders will get a monthly pension between Rs 500 and Rs 900 based on their age.

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The 88-year-old veteran Indian Mathematician C.S. Seshadri has recently passed away. He was considered as a leader of Mathematics especially in the field of algebraic geometry.
He started the School of Mathematics as part of the SPIC Science Foundation in 1989, which then transformed into the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). He was also awarded the Padma Bhushan award in 2009.

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The state Government of Andhra Pradesh has announced the Andhra Pradesh Renewable Energy Export Policy, 2020.
The policy aims to attract private investments in establishing renewable power projects of 120 gigawatts (GWs) in the state. The state Cabinet has recently approved the Export policy, which is to be implemented by NREDCAP (New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of AP Limited).

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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first humans to land on the surface of the Moon.
To commemorate the historic achievement, it is celebrated as the Space Exploration Day, which is also called as the Moon Day. US President John F. Kennedy had set a goal of ‘landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth within a decade.’ After Armstrong’s feat, the US launched six Apollo missions to the moon from 1969 and 1972.

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The state government of Tamil Nadu has signed MoUs with industrial groups for Rs 10,399-crore investments.
These investments are expected to create as many as 13,500 jobs across the State in several sectors including solar cells, data centres, industrial parks and cashew nut process. Tamil Nadu was the top investment destination in the first quarter of 2020.