Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2021

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The Kerala government is set to launch a mobile application for improving and tracking the collection of inorganic waste in local self-governing bodies.
The smart garbage mobile app would be launched in all six municipal corporations, 70-odd municipalities and 300 village bodies. The volunteers of state poverty alleviation and women empowerment programme Kudumbashree Mission, known as Haritha karma sena would be involved in the scheme.

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Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala inaugurated India’s first-of-its-kind, dedicated fisheries business incubator known as LINAC- NCDC Fisheries Business Incubation Centre (LlFlC) in Gurugram.
It aims to encourage initiatives among entrepreneurs providing them support in the fisheries sector to move towards self-reliance. The incubator costs Rs 3.23 crore. In total, there are around 30,000 cooperatives in the fisheries sector.

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Ministry of Coal has established a full-fledged Sustainable Development Cell (SDC). The cell has been set up to advice, mentor and plan action to minimise the adverse impact of mining.
SDC is formulating future policy framework for environmental mitigation in Coal and Lignite sector of our country. Coal India Ltd. (CIL) and its subsidiaries along with Singareni Coal Company Ltd. (SCCL) & NLC India Ltd. (NLCIL) has already started related works.

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The Indian Police Foundation (IPF) launched the Smart Policing Index 2021. IPF used six competency-based dimensions and three values-based dimensions of trust in the survey. It measures public perceptions and citizen satisfaction in the survey.
The level of satisfaction with the quality of policing was highest in Andhra Pradesh (8.11), Telangana (8.10), Assam (7.89). They are followed by Kerala, Sikkim and Mizoram.

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A new genus and species of toothless ceratosaur has been identified from a complete skeleton found in Brazil.
Named Berthasaura leopoldinae, the newly-identified dinosaur species lived in the present-day Brazil during the Early Cretaceous period, between 125 and 100 million years ago. The well-preserved skeleton of the species was found at a paleontological site named Cemitério dos Pterossauros Quarry in Brazil’s Paraná state.

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Pratham, a Mumbai-based NGO, has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2021. It is a first-of-its kind civil society organisation, which to improving the quality of education for underprivileged children in India and across the world.
Its annual Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), based on surveying 600,000 rural Indian children, is being used as a model to assess education outcomes and learning deficiencies in 14 countries present in three continents.

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The United Kingdom is set to host a summit of Foreign and Development Ministers from the G7 next month in the city of Liverpool.
The UK is holding the G7 Presidency in 2021 and this is the second in-person meeting of G7 Foreign Ministers in 2021, following May’s meeting in London.  Representatives from the US, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and the EU would participate.

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The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill 2019 has defended the controversial exemption clause that allows the Government to keep any of its agencies outside the purview of the law.
The committee, headed by P P Chaudhary, has retained the Clause with minor change. The report will now be presented in the Parliament.

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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India announced that it will start accounting of natural resources such as mines.
The CAG will also help state governments so that real-time audit of local bodies becomes possible. Quantum of natural resources available in mines, expenditure incurred for its extraction, and if the mines are profitable or not will be audited by the CAG.

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India’s very first All-India Survey on Domestic Workers has commenced and is being conducted by the Labour Bureau.
The survey is aimed to calculate the proportion of domestic workers at the national-level and in the States, number of labourers engaged in informal work, number of migrant labourers etc. The survey is expected to be completed in one year.