Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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The Indus Best Mega Food Park, has been launched in Raipur of Chhattisgarh, by the Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar.
This mega food park aims to make value addition, increase shelf life and provide better price realisation to farmers. It is expected that this park would provide direct and indirect employment to about 5,000 persons.

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The state-owned power sector major NTPC, has become a signatory to United Nations Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate.
This mandate is an UN initiative to make efforts by companies for better management of water and sanitation. This is expected to pave the way to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030.

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The Delhi government is set to celebrate ‘Van Mahotsav’ from June 26 to July 11 as part of a mega plantation drive.
Under the initiative, 33 lakh saplings will be planted across the city this year. Saplings of various medicinal plants will be available to government-run nurseries free of cost. Delhi’s environment department released a booklet with the description of all the plants available in the nurseries.

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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released the assessment titled ‘World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021’.
As per the report, global crisis-induced ‘jobs gap’ will reach 75 million in 2021 before falling to 23 million in 2022. It also predicts that employment growth will be insufficient to make up for the losses suffered until at least 2023.

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During the announcement of the State Budget, the Kerala Government has launched the Knowledge Economy Mission.
This project is led by the Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC). The initiative will bring all efforts to provide employment to the educated under a single scheme. The allocation for the ‘knowledge economy fund’ was hiked from ₹200 crore to ₹300 crore.

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The market regulator – SEBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore on Franklin Templeton Asset Management Company for violating the regulatory norms pertaining to six debt schemes.
Additionally, SEBI has also barred Franklin Templeton from launching any new debt schemes in India for the next 2 years.

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Residents of Himachal Pradesh have been protesting against the proposed 804 mega-watt Jangi Thopan Powari hydroelectricity project (JTP HEP).
This is a proposed project over the Sutlej River. The run-of-the-river (ROR) project involves construction of a concrete gravity dam above the deepest foundation level across river Satluj and underground powerhouse on the right bank upstream of Tehsil boundary.

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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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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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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recently approved the Medtech company Meril for its self-use Rapid Antigen Test for Covid-19, CoviFind.
This indigenously researched and developed test can detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus swiftly in 15 minutes. This affordable test does not have any specific storage requirements.