Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced a one-time financial assistance of Rs 2.5 lakh for the women in the state who lost her husband to Covid-19.
This financial assistance will be provided from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. Those women will also be entitled to the benefits of the Orunodoi scheme and the ongoing Indira Miri Universal Widow Pension Scheme.

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Delhi Development Authority (DDA) published the draft proposal for Master Plan Delhi (MPD) 2041 and invited public opinion and objection.
The vision document for the next twenty years deals with several issues that will impact the city in the upcoming years. Any citizen can give their suggestions on the draft policy, over the next 45 days.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended risk-based internal audit (RBIA) system for housing finance companies to improve quality of their internal audit system.
The system will apply to all deposit-taking housing finance companies irrespective of their size, and those non-deposit-taking housing finance companies with asset size of 5,000 crore and above.

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The United Nations Security Council is a 15 member body. Five veto-wielding permanent members of the council are the United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom and France.
Recently, five countries namely Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Albania, Ghana and Gabon have been selected for to join the U.N. Security Council. They replace another 5 members whose terms end and will start their terms on January 1.

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Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has released a report titled “Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending”.
The report details the spending of nine countries on their weapons, the companies that profited, among others. The amount had an increase of $1.4 billion from last year. USA tops the list with an expenditure of $37.4 billion, followed by China at $ 10.1 billion. Russia, UK and France are in the next places.

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BSE Administration and Supervision Ltd (BASL) is a subsidiary of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) Ltd
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has appointed BASL to grant recognition to registered
investment advisers (RIAs) and supervise them. At present, these functions are discharged directly by SEBI.

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WISA Woodsat is a nano satellite, which would be the world’s first wooden satellite to be launched to space by the end of this year from New Zealand.
This nanosatellite is a cube shaped structure made of birch plywood with its sensors developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). It would be launched from a rocket electron which is developed by “Rocket Lab” – an American space company.

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The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest ice streams in Antarctica and is the fastest melting ice shelves in the region.
As per a recent study by the Washington University and British Antarctic Survey, the ice shelves of Pine Island Glacier are reported to rapidly break down. It is expected to collapse faster than previously expected
timeline. Its complete melting could result in 0.5 meters rise in global sea levels.

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Paraceratherium is an extinct genus of hornless rhinoceros. It is one of the largest terrestrial mammals. The exact size of Paraceratherium is unknown because of the incompleteness of the fossils. It lived in habitats ranging from arid deserts with a few scattered trees to subtropical forests.

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Scientists have named a newly discovered frog species after name of Led Zeppelin, an English rock band of 1960s . Pristimantis ledzeppelin is a ground-breeding frog found in a part of the Ecuadorean Andes. This frog has coppery-red eyes and a yellow, brown, black and orange skin.