Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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The State Government of Odisha has decided to set up district-level Industry and Investment promotion agencies (DIPAs) in different districts.
This aims to create new employment opportunities and boost economic activities in rural areas. DIPAs would be managed by three professionals under the direct supervision of the respective District Collectors.

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As per recent reports, the NITI Aayog has recommended privatisation of state-owned insurer United India Insurance Company.
The privatisation in the banking, insurance and financial services sector are classified ‘strategic’ in its new public sector enterprise (PSE) policy. UIIC is the insurer of many insurance schemes run by the state governments.

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The Project BOLD (Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought) is a project of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) that seeks to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones. It was launched on July 4, 2021 from tribal village Nichla Mandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan. It is unique and first of its kind scientific exercise serving the combined national objectives of reducing desertification and providing livelihood and multi-disciplinary rural industry support. It has been launched as part of KVIC’s “Khadi Bamboo Festival” to celebrate 75 years of independence “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”. KVIC is set to replicate the Project at Village Dholera in Ahmedabad district in Gujarat and Leh-Ladakh region by August this year. Total 15,000 bamboo saplings will be planted before August, 2021.

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Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme launched by the Indian Government under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. The scheme aims to boost competitiveness of the existing MSMEs in the unorganised segment of the food processing industry by helping them become formalised.

This Rs.10,000 crore scheme will be implemented over a period of 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25. It recently marked one year of completion. It seeks to directly assist 2 lakh micro food processing units by providing them with financial, technical and business support required for expanding and upgrading the business.

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Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL), Kasauli is the National Control Laboratory for testing of Immunobiologicals (vaccines and antisera) meant for human use.
Recently, the Union Government has set up two laboratories including one at Autonomous Research Institutes National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, and another at National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB) Hyderabad as Central Drug Laboratory (CDL).

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Hou Yifan won the FIDE Chess.com Women’s Speed Chess Championship 2021 title. She won the final game by defeating Indian Grand Master Harika Dronavalli.
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster and four-time Women’s World Chess Champion. She is the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women’s World Chess Championship.

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Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix 2021. Max Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver currently competing in Formula One, under the Dutch flag, with Red Bull Racing.
The race was the ninth round of the 2021 Formula One World Championship. Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas was the runner-up. McLaren’s Lando Norris and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton were on the 3rd and 4th positions respectively.

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Microsoft has collaborated with Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM) to build a centre of excellence enabled with AI and emerging technologies. AJNIFM was set up in 1993 as a registered society under Ministry of Finance.
The main aim of this collaboration is to transform the public finance management, Expenditure management in India and prevent risks like money laundering, use of machine learning models for decision making etc..

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The French Navy hosted the 7th edition of Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS). It was concluded at Réunion island, a French department in the Indian Ocean.
Indian Ocean Naval Symposium is a biennial event, which was conceived by the Indian navy in 2008. IONS includes 24 member nations that touch or lie within the Indian Ocean Region and 8 observer nations.

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Bengaluru is the highest ranked Indian city in Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2021, released by StartupBlink. It is on the 10th position worldwide and on 1st position in India. India was placed at 20th place.
New Delhi and Mumbai were at 14th and 16th position (worldwide). 43 Indian cities got placed in the list of 100 countries. The top five countries are USA, UK, Israel, Canada and Germany. The top five cities in the Index are San Francisco, New York, Beijing, Los Angeles and London.