Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2021

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PC Mody, the former chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes and an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer has been appointed as the Rajya Sabha’s secretary general.
This is one of the rare appointments, since an IRS officer is being appointed as the Secretary General, a position which has been traditionally occupied by IAS officers.

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NASA’s fastest spacecraft ever flown – the Parker Solar Probe was launched in the year 2018 to investigate the sun. This spacecraft has gotten closer to the sun than any other missions. The craft has been designed to move at a very high speed and withstand very high temperatures.
Recently, it has been found that hypervelocity dust impacts have led to plasma explosions on Parker Solar Probe.

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The Rezang La, is a mountain pass on the Line of Actual Control, situated in Eastern Ladakh. This is known for the Battle of Rezang La, as a part of 1962 war in which 13 troops of the Indian Army’s Kumaon Regiment defeated several waves of the Chinese Army at a height of over 16,000 feet
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is set to inaugurate the revamped war memorial at Rezang La in memory of the battle.

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Shakti 2021 is a biennial training exercise between the armies of India and France. This year’s exercise is the 6th edition of the biennial training between the two nations and would be conducted at France.
Indian Army would be represented by a platoon strength of a Gorkha Rifles Infantry Battalion.

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Public Service Broadcasting Day is celebrated every year on 12th November to commemorate the only visit of Mahatma Gandhi to All India Radio in Delhi in 1947.
Mahatma Gandhi addressed the displaced people through Radio, who had temporarily settled at Kurukshetra in Haryana after partition.

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The Ministry of Culture has launched a unified mobile app for the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ events to enable access to all information related to the celebrations.
‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ is the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence. The app includes links to sections such as ‘Digital District Repository’ and ‘Unsung Heroes’ under ‘History Corner’.

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US President Joe Biden has signed the ‘Secure Equipment Act’ that stops companies judged as a security threat from receiving new telecoms equipment licences.
The Act says the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should no longer review applications from companies ruled as a threat. It implies that equipment from Huawei, ZTE and three other Chinese companies cannot be used in US telecoms networks.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the revamped Rani Kamalapati station, India’s ‘most-modern’ railway station, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
The railway station previously known as Habibganj, has been renamed after Gond queen Rani Kamalapati of Ginnorgarh. The station has been redeveloped at a cost of around Rs 450 crore in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode. It has been revamped as a hub for integrated multi-modal transport and also as a green building.

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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is an armed revolutionary group fighting for a separate independent socialist state of Manipur. PLA and the Manipur Naga People’s Front have jointly claimed responsibility for the ambush of an Assam Rifles convoy.
The ambush was held in Churachandpur district of Manipur, killing seven, including a Commanding Officer and his family. The incident is one of the biggest in the state since the attack on the Dogra Rifles in 2015.

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The Dimasas (or Dimasa-Kacharis) are the earliest known rulers and settlers of Assam. Recently, 46 cadres of the Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA), laid down arms in Assam’s Dima Hasao district.
DNLA, laid down arms along with Commander-in-Chief Mushrang, to join the mainstream. It is a relatively new insurgent group was formed in 2019, operating in Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong districts of Assam.