Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2021

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The Government of India’s Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in association with the Government of Uttar Pradesh has organized a Two-day Regional Conference on “Strengthening the State Institutes of Public Administration” at Lucknow.
The objective of the conference was to bring various training institutes on one platform to share best practices and requirements in governance and administrative training.

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is an international agency to protect displaced communities and is headquartered at Geneva, Switzerland
The UNHCR has released a report titled “Mid Year Trends 2021” which stated that there are 48 million internally displaced people by the end-2020 and that developing countries host 85% of the world’s refugees.

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Professor Bimal Patel, Vice-Chancellor, Rashtriya Raksha University and Member of National Security Advisory Board of India, has been elected to the International Law Commission for a five-year term.
Patel obtained 163 votes in the UN General Assembly out of 192 members, topping the Asia-Pacific group that included 11 candidates from China, South Korea and Japan.

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UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland has concluded with a global agreement aimed at capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
This Glasgow Pact is the first-ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.

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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a Defence Firm has unveiled its “Scorpius” suite of electronic warfare (EW) systems.
It is claimed to be the world’s first EW system capable of simultaneously targeting multiple threats, across frequencies and in different directions. The system is based on Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) technology.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Bhagwan Birsa Munda Smriti Udyan cum Freedom Fighters Museum in Ranchi via video conferencing.
Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, the 19th-century freedom fighter and tribal leader on November 15, 2000. The state’s Chief Minister Hemant Soren launched a universal pension scheme for vulnerable sections, to mark the state’s foundation day.

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The Government passed two Ordinances extending the tenures of the Chiefs of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to up to five years.
The chiefs of the two central agencies currently have two-year tenure. With the Ordinance, the current ED chief S K Mishra, who is already on an extension, would continue as a Chief. The chiefs of the top agencies can be given extensions every year for up to three years after they complete the two-year term

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Mannu Bhandari a famous author in Hindi literature, passed away recently at the age of 90. She is the author of classic works such as ‘Mahabhoj’ and ‘Aapka Bunty’.
Some of her most famous works include ‘Yeh Sach Hai’, ‘’Ek Inch Muskaan’ and ‘Hung’ and stories for children like ‘Aankhon Dekha Jhooth’, ‘Asmata’ and ‘Kalava’. She published her autobiography in the title -‘Ek Kahani Yeh’. She received several prominent literary awards in the country including Vyas Samman.

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In the first six months of the current financial year, Uttar Pradesh marked a 563 per cent rise in its capex (capital expenditure) growth.
There was a wide variation of capex growth by the top ten states in terms of tax devolution. Odisha saw its capex grow by just 12.58 per cent year-on-year and Andhra Pradesh saw a fall of 30 per cent in capex.

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The 341-km Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh connects Lucknow with Ghazipur and has been constructed at a cost of Rs 22,500 crore. The expressway consists of a 3.2-km airstrip to facilitate emergency landing of fighter air crafts on it.
The highway has been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently.