Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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Nineteen years after Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin created a sensation by becoming the youngest chess grandmaster ever at 12 years and seven months on August 12, 2002, a new prodigy, Abhimanyu Mishra of the United States, broke the record on June 30, by becoming a Grandmaster at 12 years four months and 25 days. To attain the title of Grandmaster (GM) a player has to complete three GM norms and an Elo rating of at least 2500. Mishra won his third GM norm on June 30.

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The Rampal Power Station is a 1320 megawatt coal-fired power station currently under construction at Rampal Upazila of Bagerhat District in Khulna, Bangladesh. It will be the country’s largest power plant. It is being setup by BIFPCL (Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Limited).

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The Communist Party of China the founding party of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The CCP was founded in 1921. The CCP is officially organized on the basis of democratic centralism. China’s Communist Party has marked the 100th year of its inception recently.

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The Glacial Lake Atlas of Ganga Basin was recently released by the Ministry of Jal Shakti. It analyses changes in water bodies in the Himalayan regions over a period, which can then be used for studying the impacts of climate change and for pre-planning the disaster response. Around 4,000 glacial lakes have been mapped in the Ganga River basin, with the aggregate lake water covering an area of 20,685 hectares.

The atlas is currently available on Bhuvan portal of ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). It provides latest information on the expansion or shrinkage of glacial lakes. It also monitors the addition of new lakes during a particular period of time.

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With 79% female teachers, Kerala leads the country in this ratio as per the Unified District Information System for Education report for 2019-20. Other leading states are Punjab 76%, Tamil Nadu 75%, Delhi 74% and Haryana 62%.

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A Los Angeles court has denied the music star’s request to eject her father from a guardianship arrangement that gives him control of her affairs. This a week after the singer made an impassioned plea to end the “abusive” conservatorship during which she said she has been medicated to control her behaviour, prohibited from making decisions on friendships or finances and prevented from having a contraceptive implant removed, despite wanting more children.

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HDFC Bank launched “Salaam-Dil-Sey” initiative. It has been launched to show gratitude to doctors for their significant service during the pandemic.
Similarly, ICICI Bank launched banking solution package called Salute Doctors, to provide customised banking and value-added services to all doctors.

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gave its nod to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education to provide technical assistance for satellite TV classrooms in India.
This aims to bridge the learning gap due to COVID-induced lockdown. ISRO scientists made a presentation before the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Education, MEITY and Doordarshan, about the proposed satellite TV classroom for students.

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According to the first aerial survey in two years, the number of Saiga in Kazakhstan has increased from 334,000 to 842,000.
Saiga is a rare type of antelope, which was considered to at the brink of extinction following a mass die-off in 2015. After a series of conservation measures, the population of the rare antelope has more than doubled since 2019. The Saigas give birth to twins every year.

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India has been outperforming the global growth in market- capitalisation for the last five years, at 14.7% annually against 13.25%.
In the month of June, India’s share of the world market capitalisation rose to 2.60%, which was more than the long-term average of 2.45%, as per media reports. India’s market-cap rose 66% in one year to $3.02 trillion last month, which was also higher than the 44% growth of global market-cap.