Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2020

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NITI Aayog has estimated that India needs 6.2% additional spending of GDP to achieve 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
The country’s think tank said this in its second Voluntary National Review (VNR) at the UN high-level political forum (HLPF) on sustainable development, 2020. India needs to upgrade its statistical system, improve its monitoring mechanism and capacity building of all stakeholders. It also advised that the Budget should be aligned with SDGs.

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Chhattisgarh government’s Mukhyamantri Darpan website and mobile application has been awarded “Elites Excellence Awards-2020”.
The website and app contains all the flagship schemes of the Chhattisgarh government, including the ‘Suraji Gaon Yojna’. The award was announced under the ‘Digital India initiative’ of Elites Technomedia in a virtual conference inaugurated by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi.

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Jack Charlton, who was a part of the 1966 World cup winning English Football team, has recently passed away, at the age of 85.
He played for the Leeds United football club for nearly 21 years before managing the Republic of Ireland. He was also a Manager of British football club Newcastle United F.C.

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The United States President Donald Trump has signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act into law. He also signed an executive order ending US preferential treatment for Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Autonomy Act was passed unanimously by the Congress. It gives provisions to the country, to hold accountable the individuals involved in suppressing Hong Kong’s freedom. After this act, Hong Kong will be treated the same as mainland China by the US.

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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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The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has recently inaugurated the construction work at the Diamer-Bhasha dam in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
When completed, Diamer-Bhasha would be Pakistan’s third largest dam after Tarbela and Mangla dams. The project will generate 4,500MW electricity and is expected to be completed by 2028. Pakistan had signed a Rs 442 billion contract with a joint venture of Chinese state-run firm and Pakistan’s military arm.

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Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs is implementing the PM SVANidhi (PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi) scheme.
PM SVANidhi was launched by the government on June 1, 2020, to provide working capital loan to street vendors. Recently, the Ministry has launched a mobile application of PM SVANidhi scheme, in a virtual event from New Delhi.

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The Horticultural Department of Haryana is organising a five-day Sub-Tropical Fruit Expo 2020 till July 22.
The expo is being organised at the Centre for Sub-Tropical Fruit at Ladwa that is an Indo-Israel project. The cultivation techniques of sub-tropical fruit are explained and streamed live on social media, so that the farmers can learn the technologies under the ‘Mera Pani – Meri Virasat’ crop diversification scheme.

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International Centre of Automotive Technology (ICAT) has launcehd the automotive technology e-portal ‘ASPIRE’.
‘ASPIRE’ stands for Automotive Solutions Portal for Industry, Research and Education. ICAT also announced that five portals being developed by different organizations namely, BHEL for power sector equipment, HMT for machine tools, CMFTI for manufacturing technology, ICAT and ARAI for the automotive sector.

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Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has won the Hungarian Grand Prix held at Budapest, Hungary.
British Driver Lewis Hamilton has clinched his 86th Grand Prix tournament. He is just five victories behind the legendary driver Michael Schumacher, who had won 91 races. Lewis Hamilton won this tournament for the eighth time and equalled Michael Schumacher’s single-venue record.