Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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The Ministry of Education is set to release -Content for Specially-abled Children. It includes digitally inclusive curriculum including Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADTs) for all children, supplementary learning material, and sign language videos.
These are part of the guidelines approved by the Ministry for online education for differently-abled children. Assistive technology, simplified lessons, multimodal evaluation will be included in the e-content for different-abled students.

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Weyan, a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district has become the first village in the country to vaccinate all its adult population against Covid-19.
Vaccination in village was covered under the J&K model, a 10-point strategy to vaccinate all eligible citizens at a faster pace. The Union Territory has also achieved 70 per cent vaccination for those in the 45+ age group.

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The Centre has approved Rs 19.15 crore for conducting a first-in-human phase-1/2 clinical trial of the CAR-T cells.
India’s first CAR-T cell therapy was done at the Bone Marrow Transplant unit at ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai. The Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is a type of gene therapy, used in cancer treatment, especially in patients suffering from acute lymphocytic leukemia

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Assam’s Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary has been recently notified as the seventh national park of the state of Assam.
Recently, Raimona was declared as the National Park in the state. Assam is the state with the second highest number of national parks in the country, after Madhya Pradesh (11). The UT of Andaman and Nicobar has nine national parks.

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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 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.

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Former Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh was recently elected as the country’s sixth President.
Khurelsukh was forced to resign as the Prime Minister after several protests earlier this year. Among the 99.7% of votes counted, 68% of the total votes were received by Khurelsukh. This is expected to consolidate the power of the ruling Mongolian People’s Party (MPP).

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The Ministry of Education has launched an online module to compile data on out-of-school children. The data is to be mapped with ‘PRABANDH’ portal of Samagra Siksha.
Admissions of children in the age group of 6-14 years in disadvantaged sections can be fast-tracked. Financial assistance will be provided for out of school children in the 16-18 years age group, to continue their education through distance learning mode.

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released an independent appraisal report on India’s Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP).
As per the report, the programme has resulted in sectoral growth and improvements in governance and administration. It analyses the progress of ADP and made recommendations for improvement. UNDP India representative handed over the report to NITI Aayog.

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Margherita Hack, also called as the “Lady of the Stars”, was a famous Italian astrophysicist. She was born on June 12, 1922, in Florence, Italy.
Google honoured Margherita Hack with a doodle on her 99th birth anniversary. She was the first female director of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory. She had also discovered the asteroid 8558 Hack, which was named in her honour.