Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2021

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Manas Bihari Verma – a reputed aeronautical scientist and Padma Shri Awardee died recently of suffering a massive heart attack. He was 78 years old.
He has been the man behind the country’s first Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) ‘Tejas’ and has closely worked with former president Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced an “On-tap liquidity facility” for Bank Amounting Rs.50,000 crore. RBI would lend banks at Repo rate and banks would use the proceeds to lend for health care needs. The scheme would be available till March 31, 2022.
The loan extended by Banks to health care needs would be classified as Priority Sector Lending till its repayment.

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Denmark has officially passed a legislation, to prevent outside FDI and special economic agreements that may pose a threat to national security, through screening and potential interference.
The new law was developed following security concerns over a bid by China’s Huawei to build Denmark’s 5G network. However, Denmark’s biggest telecoms operator, TDC picked Ericsson over Huawei for the project.

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Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, located between France and the UK, 22 kilometres from the coast of Normandy, France.
They include two Crown dependencies: The Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey. They recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state and the UK is responsible for the defence and international relations of the islands. Recently, 60 French fishing boats made a blockade in the Jersey islands, which followed a deployment of two Royal Navy vessels from the UK.

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The Assam State Disaster Management Agency and UNICEF have jointly developed an online flood reporting and information management system in Assam.
The new system would replace the existing mechanism which is manually operated and is time consuming one. The new system would be made fully operational from May 15th 2021.

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Haryana conducted a three-day Monkey Census as a part of a larger Wildlife Census for Haryana-2021.
Over 600 people throughout Haryana participated in Monkey Census and documented approximately 6,000 monkeys on a mobile application by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) titled ‘Wildlife Census Haryana’.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has recently started to study the floor structure of the ancient crater- Jezero Crater.
The rover has started focusing its science instruments on rocks laying on the floor of the crater. A camera named ‘WATSON’ at the end of the rover’s robotic arm has taken detailed shots of the rocks. The rover is also documenting the historic flights of the rotorcraft of Ingenuity.

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The Union Cabinet approved a ₹18,100 crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage.
The prime objective is to set up 50 giga watt hour (GWh) manufacturing capacity for advance chemistry cell batteries. This is expected to accelerate switching to electric vehicles to curb pollution and reduce oil imports.

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Under its Mission Oxygen, also coined as Swayampurna Maharashtra, the state aims to increase daily production of Oxygen up to 3,000 metric tonnes (MT).
The state also has a short-term goal of 2300 MT to be achieved in the next six months. It aims to encourage the private sector to generate liquid medical oxygen. The state is to extend waiver in registration fee, electricity duty, stamp duty and GST.

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The Voyager 1 probe of NASA, has detected humming sound in space, which is said to be caused by gas in interstellar space. The plasma wave system of the probe had made this observation.
The Voyager 1 probe was launched by NASA in the year 1977, to study the outer Solar System.