Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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The Scientists at Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Hyderabad have developed an indigenous Chip-off technique.
The main objective of the technique is to retrieve encrypted data from locked and severely damaged smart cell phones. This would benefit investigative agencies to produce credible evidences against criminals.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced to create a Special liquidity window of Rs 15,000 crore with a tenor of 3 years at the repo rate to provide liquidity support to the contact-intensive sectors hit by Covid-19.
This encourages banks to provide fresh lending support to hotels, restaurants, tourism, aviation ancillary services, and other services including private bus operators, car repair and rental service providers, event/conference organizers, spa clinics, and beauty parlours/saloons. RBI will extend a special liquidity facility of ₹16,000 crore to SIDBI for on-lending/refinancing.

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The Tata Power group, which is involved in conservation of Blue Finned Mahseer and Golden Mahseer in Lonavala for the past 50 years, has stated that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has moved Blue Finned Mahseer out of its “Endangered Red List”.
The species has been moved to “Least Concern”. But the Golden Mahseer is still on the endangered list.

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As per a recent study conducted in Indonesia, mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, reduce the insect’s ability to spread dengue.
As per the World Mosquito Programme team, the bacteria remain in those parts of its body that the dengue virus needs to get into. After the study, the Dengue fever cases have been cut by 77%.

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Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is defined as the fraction of applied nitrogen that is absorbed and used by the plant.
Recently, Indian biotechnologists have identified candidate genes for nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in rice. This is expected to save nitrogenous pollution and fertilisers worth billions of rupees. After analysing over 16000 genes, researchers shortlisted 6 high priority target genes, to improve NUE in rice.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) released a handbook to help assess the burden of foodborne diseases. It also aims to locate data gaps to help strengthen health infrastructure.
As per the report, more than 600 million people are affected by foodborne diseases every year. It also highlighted that over 0.12 million children under five years die from consuming unsafe food.

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DBS has been named by Forbes in their list of World’s Best Banks 2021, based on global customer survey. DBS was ranked in the first position out of 30 domestic and international banks in India.
This is the third edition of the ‘World’s Best Banks’ list by Forbes, conducted in partnership with market research firm Statista. The second bank in the list is Kerala-based CSB Bank, followed by ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank.

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The International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) is a worldwide initiative to improve awareness of level crossing safety.
The campaign has been spearheaded by the Paris- based International Union of Railways (UIC), an international rail transport industry body. The ILCAD campaign was established in 2009, by the European Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

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The UK holds the presidency of G7 and has invited India, Australia, South Africa and South Korea to the outreach summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to virtually participate in the outreach sessions of the G7 summit, hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This is the second time the Prime Minister is participating in the G7 meeting after France invited India in 2019 as a ‘Goodwill Partner’.

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As per the recent data from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), India as a whole received the second highest monthly rainfall for the month of May in the last 121 years since 1901.
The average maximum temperature over India this May, 34.18 degrees Celsius, was the fourth lowest temperature since 1901. There was formation of a cyclone each in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, during May.