Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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Legendary actor Dilip Kumar died recently at the age of 98. He holds the record of receiving most Filmfare Award for Best Actor, by winning the award for 8 times.
He had won various awards during his 5-decade journey in Cinema, including Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994, Padma Bhushan (1991), Padma Vibhushan (2015) and Pakistan’s Nishan-e-Imtiaz (1998). He was nominated as the Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra in 2000–2006.

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Stan Swamy, the Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist spent nine months in custody after being booked under the UAPA, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act
UAPA is the primary counter-terror law in India. Though it was originally enacted in 1967, the law has undergone over 6 amendments, the last one in 2019. Stan Swamy was among the 16 activists, academics, and lawyers booked and arrested for their alleged links to Maoists in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence.

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UNICEF has recently released a report titled ‘Suffering in Silence’, to highlight the plight of Niger during Covid-19. As per the report, more than 2.1 million children need humanitarian help in the country.
In 2021, 3.8 million people will need humanitarian assistance in Niger. In addition to the armed conflict, displacement, floods, diseases and malnutrition, Niger has also been affected by the impacts of Covid-19 recently.

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National Insurance Company Ltd (NICL), for the first time, has decided to insure the highly valuable Himalayan Yak.
The Yak farmers living in harsh climatic conditions used to face regular losses due to deaths of the animal. India has around 58,000 yaks, mainly in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, and Ladakh. Only in 2019, 500 yaks had died in Sikkim due to heavy snowfall.

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A new report by WWF and UNEP has found that 35 per cent of India’s tiger ranges currently lie outside protected areas.
The report was titled “A Future for All – A need for Human-Wildlife Coexistence”. 40% of the African lion range and 70% of the African and Asian elephant ranges fall outside protected areas. As the protected areas disconnected from each other, many animals depend on human-dominated spaces for their survival.

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Italy is the Champion of the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship. Italy has defeated England at the Wembley Stadium on penalties, to win their second Euro title.
England was chasing its first Euro title in history. The team last won a major tournament in 1966, when they won the World Cup. Giorgio Chiellini was the captain of the winning team, Italy while the England team was led by Harry Kane.

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The National Fish Farmers day is observed every year on July 10, to express solidarity with all fisher folk, fish farmers and concerned stakeholders throughout the Country
The National Fisheries Development Board leads the celebration. It is celebrated to commemorate Professor Dr. Hiralal Chaudhury and his colleague Dr. Alikunhi for their achievement of successful induced breeding of major carps on 10th July,1957 in Odisha for the first time in the country.

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At least 841 of the manatees have died this year in the US state of Florida, mainly from starvation. Manatees are large, aquatic marine mammals, also known as sea cows. They are generally herbivores.
In 2013, as many as 830 manatees died after exposure to harmful algae. The main issue is the increasing waste contamination of Florida’s waterways, which leads to the accumulation of algae and the loss of seagrass. Most of the deaths are said to have happened when manatees migrated to the Indian River Lagoon, where most seagrass had died.

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India has formally set up a bad bank, registered as the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. has been registered in Mumbai with a paid-up capital of ₹74.6 crore ($10 million).
Padmakumar Madhavan Nair has been appointed as the Managing Director. He had earlier handled stressed assets resolution in the SBI. Sunil Mehta, CEO of the Indian Banks’ Association, will be a director. Initially, public sector banks will transfer 22 bad loan accounts worth ₹89,000 crore to NARCL.

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The state-run PSU – NTPC’s renewable energy arm NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd (NTPC REL) has proposed to set up India’s single-largest solar photovoltaic project at Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, with a capacity of 4750 MW.
The company has received approval from the Union Energy Ministry. The company has been given a target of building 60 GW renewable energy capacity by 2032.