Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has come out with “Green Deal: Fit for 55” plan, which aims to reduce the dependence of Europe on fossil fuels and impose new national limits on emissions.
This also seeks to produce 40 per cent of the Europe’s energy from wind, wave and solar sources by 2030.

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The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) approved the inclusion of the Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHC) scheme in Master Plan 2021. This will facilitate budget rental housing for poor and migrant workers living in urban areas in the Capital.
ARHC scheme was given the Cabinet approval in July 2020, with an aim to provide affordable rental housing for migrant workers.

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Defence Ministry Rajnath Singh launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered grievance management application.
It is developed by Ministry of Defence with the help of IIT-Kanpur. This is also the first AI based system developed to improve grievance redressal in the Government. The AI tool can understand the content of the complaint and can identify repeat complaints or spam automatically. It can categorise complaints of different categories and enables geographical analysis of complaints.

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Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana launched a new scheme called ‘FASTER’ or ‘Fast and Secure Transmission of Electronic Records’.
Under the scheme, the Supreme Court will instantly transmit bail and other orders to the jail authorities, district courts and the High Courts. This will be done in a secure way electronically. As per the present practice, hard copy of the bail order received by hand mandated.

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Muhammad Yunus, the noble laurate from Bangladesh will receive the Olympic Laurel at the Tokyo Games 2021. This was informed by the International Olympic Committee. (IOC). His pioneering work of micro lending has led to much poverty reduction across the globe.
As per the IOC Muhammad Yunus would be honored for “his extensive work in sport for development”.

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As per the recent data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN children’s agency UNICEF, India recorded the greatest increase in the world in the number of children who didn’t receive the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis combined vaccine in 2020.
The data highlights that 23 million children globally missed the basic vaccines through routine immunisation services in 2020, due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.

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As per a new genetic research, the Cannabis is said to have originated in the present northwest China, where local strains are most like the original strain of cannabis cultivated more than 12,000 years ago.
The study shows that cannabis was possibly first domesticated in early Neolithic times in the region of China near its borders with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The study also added 82 genomes to the 28 that were already sequenced.

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Julia Ducournau’s Titane has been adjudged as the best movie and has been awarded the Palme d’or award, at the 74th Cannes Film Festival. She becomes the first female director in 28 years, whose movie has made it to the prestigious award.
Prior to this, it was Jane Campion who was the female director, whose movie ‘The Piano’ made it to the top list in 1993.

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The Union Government has decided to set up the Indian Institute of Heritage in Noida, as an umbrella body under which all heritage institutes in the country will operate.
The institute will offer masters and PhD courses in history of arts, archaeology, manuscriptology among others. It will be a “deemed to be university” institute formed by integrating the Institute of Archaeology, National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, National Museum Institute of History of Conservation and Museology (NMICHM) and the academic wing of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

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The Marine Aids to Navigation Bill has been recently introduced in the upper house of the parliament by the Union Minister of Ports Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal.
The bill seeks to repeal the colonial era legislation of the Lighthouse Act of 1927 and is aimed to strengthen the marine aids for navigation across the country.