Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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US-based (Educational Testing Service), the world’s largest private educational assessment organization, conducts several tests including TOEFL and GRE.
It was recently announced that Aadhaar Card will be accepted as an identification for taking the TOEFL and GRE tests. Students have to, however submit the original version of their Aadhaar Card as received in the mail.

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The Government of Jammu & Kashmir recently ended 149-year-old practice of ‘darbar move’. Darbar Move is the name given to the bi-annual shift of the secretariat and all other government offices of Jammu and Kashmir from one capital city to another.

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a moratorium on federal executions while it reviews policies and procedures. U.S. President Joe Biden had said on his campaign website that he would legislate the end of capital punishment at the federal level and incentivize states to follow suit.

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India is the largest producer of milk globally, with an estimated production of 208 million tonnes in FY2021.

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Panacea Biotec has received a licence from the Drugs Controller General for manufacturing the Sputnik V vaccine in India. On July 4, 2021, the first batch of the vaccine, manufactured at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh, passed quality control checks.

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As per 2019 data, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) it is the world’s largest party in terms of primary membership, with the second largest party, the Chinese Communist Party, having about half the registered members of the BJP. BJP was founded on 6 April 1980 by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — the world’s second largest political party after India’s Bharatiya Janata Party recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding.

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Levon Aronian won the Goldmoney Asian Rapid online chess title 2021. Levon Grigori Aronian is an Armenian-American chess grandmaster.
He won the title after defeating Vladimir Artemiev. Magnus Carlsen, the current world champion was on the 3rd position. The Goldmoney Asian Rapid is the seventh tournament of the Champions Chess Tour 2021 or Meltwater Champions Tour.

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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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India’s first Indigenous drone defense dome ‘Indrajal’ has been developed by Grene Robotics, a Hyderabad based technology R&D company.
Indrajaal is capable of protecting a large area of 1,000-2,000 sq. km. per system against threats such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), incoming weapons (missiles) etc.

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Invest India, has been awarded the world’s most innovative Investment Promotion Agency 2021 by OCO Global.
Invest India was set up in 2009, as a non-profit venture under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It is the National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency of India and act as the first point of reference for investors in India.