Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2021

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The Governor of Georgia, Brian P. Kemp, has announced that November 1 will be observed as ‘Kannada Language and Rajyotsava Day’.
Georgia had become the first state in the U.S. to issue such a proclamation for Kannada. Karnataka is set to celebrate Kannada Rajyotsava. Georgia houses one of the biggest Indian diaspora in the U.S. Kannada is one of the longest-surviving classical languages, with a rich literature and inscriptions dating back to 450 BCE.

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The Information and Broadcasting Minister of Bangladesh, Dr Hasan Mahmud recently inaugurated Bangabandhu Sambad Kendra at the Kolkata Press Club.
It was done on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the country’s independence and the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The centre was inaugurated in recognition of the significant contribution of the journalists of the Kolkata Press Club in the liberation war of Bangladesh.

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US wildlife researchers have discovered that two California condors, a critically endangered bird, have given birth without any male genetic DNA.
Virgin births are formally called parthenogenesis or asexual reproduction, are recorded in other bird species, also in lizards, snakes, sharks, rays and other fish. Around 500 California condors remain in the US south-west region and Mexico.

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The Centre’s fiscal deficit hit a four-year low of Rs 5.26 lakh crore, or 35% of the budget estimates, at the end of the first half of FY22.
At the same stage last year the fiscal deficit was Rs 9.1 lakh crore or 114.8% of budget estimates. The government managed to collect over 60% of the budgeted revenue receipts in the first six months of the fiscal, which is the highest ever H1 collection, as per the official data.

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Sweden is set to launch a trade promotion event named Time for India, to boost bilateral trade with India. The Swedish Ambassador in India Klas Molin announced that Sweden does not require vaccination from international travellers including those from India.
A Swedish diplomatic and economic delegation to Sweden along with the Indian embassy in Stockholm will launch a promotional campaign for Indian business.

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AY.4.2, which was seen in the news, is a ‘Coronavirus lineage’. Lineages are the labels given to the branches of the COVID evolutionary chart to illustrate their relatedness.
The lineages are overseen by the Pango network, a team of researchers from the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. They act as the custodians of lineages and handle the assignment of new labels. This AY.4.2. lineage is traced back to April this year.

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As per the data by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 37,666 daily wage workers died by suicide in 2020, who made up the largest share of total suicides. They are followed by House-wives and persons in farming sector.
As per the report, the country reported more than 1.53 lakh suicides last year highest in the last 10 years. It also cited that an average of 31 children died by suicide every day in India in 2020. As many as 11,396 children died by suicide in 2020, at an 18 per cent rise from 2019.

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In the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal, as many as 110 world leaders promised to end and reverse deforestation by 2030.
Named ‘Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use’, the pledge includes $12 billion in public funds and $7.2 billion of private investment of public and private funds. A previous deal in 2014 had failed to slow deforestation at all.

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River Mandakini, a tributary of the Yamuna, starts in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district and flows into the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh Chitrakoot district.
The river flows through Sati Anusuiya, a perennial trough where many springs feed into it. It was seen in the news recently, as encroachment, concretisation and pollution are causing severe damages to the river.

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The National Ayurveda Day is celebrated on the occasion of Dhanwantari Jayanti (Dhanteras) since 2016. This year, the theme of the National Ayurveda Day is ‘Ayurveda for Poshan’.
Union Minister for Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal announced a corpus ₹260 crore for expanding the infrastructure of National Institute of Ayurveda’s satellite centre at Panchkula in Himachal Pradesh. Lord Dhanvantari is a God, who is worshipped for good health and wealth.