Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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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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The Reserve Bank of India has barred the financial services company Mastercard from onboarding new customers in India. This move is made by the RBI on grounds of non compliance with the Data localization and data storage in India.
This restriction would not affect the existing customers of Mastercard. The action has been initiated by RBI using the powers vested to it under Section 17 of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007

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NTPC Renewable Energy (NTPC REL) has inked a pact with the Union Territory of Ladakh to set up a ‘Green hydrogen mobility project’ in the region.
Leh would be the first city in the country to implement a green hydrogen-based mobility project, once completed. NTPC is set to ply 5 hydrogen buses and to set up a solar plant and a green hydrogen generation unit in Leh. NTPC’s first solar installations in Leh in form of solar trees and a solar car port were also inaugurated.

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Uzbekistan played host to the ‘Central South Asia connectivity conference 2021’. It is also called as the Tashkent Connectivity Conference.
On the side lines of the conference, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Tashkent and discussed the situation in Afghanistan amidst the withdrawal of US forces from the country. The Minister also inaugurated the IT room of India-Uzbekistan Entrepreneurship Development Centre.

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The US Senate has recently passed a legislation to ban the import of products from China’s Xinjiang region, as the US has been condemning China for genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups.
Called as the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act, it assumes goods manufactured in Xinjiang are made with forced labour and therefore banned under the 1930 Tariff Act, unless otherwise certified by US authorities. The current rule bans the import of goods if there is reasonable evidence of forced labour.

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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.

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Arjun Munda, Minister of Tribal Affairs, virtually launched the nationwide campaign “COVID Teeka Sang Surakshit Van, Dhan aur Uddyam”. It aims to fast-track the pace of COVID vaccination among tribals, in India.
The campaign will focus on the 45,000 Van Dhan Vikas Kendras (VDVK) of the Tribal Co-operative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED). It will be implemented with the help of traditional village headsmen, SHGs and ground level workers in villages.

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Bashar al-Assad has won the recent election held in Syria and has sworn in as the President of the country for the 4th time. He has been serving as the 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. He would serve as the President for a seven-year term.
He has won the recent elections with more than 95% votes favouring him, while his opponents claim the election to be illegitimate.

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NASA recently announced that its new spacecraft, named NEA Scout (Near-Earth Asteroid Scout) has completed all required tests and has been safely tucked inside the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
NEA Scout is one of several payloads that will ride on Artemis I, which is expected to be launched in November. Artemis I will be an uncrewed test-flight of the Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket. Under the Artemis programme, NASA has aimed to land the first woman on the Moon in 2024.

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The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) was established in the year 2016, under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
Recently, IBBI has made amendments to the “Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons Regulations”, under which, resolution professional should submit his / her opinion on avoidance transactions made by a corporate debtor (undervalued transactions, extortionate credit transactions, fraudulent trading, wrongful trading etc).