Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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The United Kingdom has exported apples to India for the first time in over 50 years. This is seen as a sign of the UK-India Enhanced Trade Partnership.
The Enhanced Trade Partnership was agreed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their virtual summit in May. After that, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal signed the agreement, setting a target to double UK-India bilateral trade by 2030.

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The Administration of UT of Ladakh has achieved 100 per cent vaccination with the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to all its eligible population, i.e. people above 18 years.
The UT Administration has given the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to all beneficiaries, by covering all Health Care Workers, Front line Workers, all those in the age group of above 45 and 18 to 45. India’s vaccination drive has crossed 38 Crore mark of administered doses, as on July 14, 2021.

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The Senate of Pakistan has recently passed a bill named “Torture and custodial death prevention and punishment bill” which aims to criminalise torture and custodial deaths. The bill has been passed unanimously by all members of the Senate.
The bill contains a punishment with imprisonment for a minimum of 3 years upto 10 years who commit the crime of torture or conspire to do so.

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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.

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has partnered with the state government of Rajasthan to improve the Targeted Public Distribution System (TDPS) in the state.
The partnership would make extensive use of digitization to develop a performance dashboard for monitoring of the TDPS. This is expected to provide a solution to enhance the efficiency of PDS in the state.

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The Union Cabinet approved a scheme to provide Rs 1,624 crore over five years as subsidy to Indian shipping companies in global tenders floated by ministries and CPSEs for import of government cargo.
According to the statement, registration shall be done online within 72 hours. This will be attractive to register ships in India and thereby help to boost the Indian tonnage. The budgetary support would be provided directly to the Ministry/department concerned.

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The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has released the draft Drone Rules, 2021 for public consultation. This is intended to replace UAS (unmanned aircraft system) Rules 2021.
Under the revised and draft regulation put for public consultation, drones are not permitted to operate without an unique identification number, unless they are exempted.

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Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who is a Pulitzer Prize awardee for the year 2018, was killed in Afghanistan at Kandahar, while covering the escalating conflict in Afghanistan. He is known for his breath-taking images of wars, riots and human suffering across the globe.
He was reportedly killed while covering the clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters, near the Pakistan border.

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The Union Minister for Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar has launched a digital portal named “Kisan Sarathi”. Using this platform, farmers can get the right information at the right time, in the language of their choice.
Using the portal, farmers can avail personalised advisories from respective scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVKs).

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As per Twitter, Indian Government made the largest number of requests for account information during the July-December 2020 period.
Also, it is reported that India is the second in terms of volume of legal demands for content removal, after Japan. These details were shared by Twitter in its bi annual transparency report.