Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2021

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SEBI’s board recently cleared a proposal for setting up a ‘Gold exchange’ and a ‘Social Stock Exchange’. In the Gold Exchange, the metal will be traded in the form of Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs) and they will be notified as securities.
Any recognised stock exchange, existing as well as new, can launch trading in EGRs. Vault manager should be a body incorporated in India, registered with SEBI and should have a net worth of at least Rs 50 crore. The social stock exchange will be operated for fundraising by social enterprises.

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The state government of Rajasthan has launched a campaign named ‘Prashasan Gaon ke Sang’. It aims to enable access to 22 departments of the local administration for the people of remote villages in the state.
Under the campaign, the departments would hold camps at every gram panchayat to offer on-spot solutions to the applicants. The camps in villages would be held under the observation of respective District Collectors on weekdays. Services related to land deeds and issuance of various certificates are also done.

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Indian ace woman cricketer Smriti Mandhana has created a new record by becoming the very first Indian woman to score a century in Australia. The previously held record in this regard was 58 runs in the second innings of the Melbourne Test in 1991.
Mandhana scored 127 runs off 216 balls, which included 22 boundaries and a six.

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Edayur Chilli and Kuttiattoor Mango of the state of Kerala have received Geographical Indication tag (GI Tag) recently.
Geographical Indication (GI) is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and is regulated under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act of 1999. GI is awarded by the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marks, under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

 

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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recently released a report titled ‘The State of Climate Services 2021: Water report’.
The report was coordinated by WMO and includes input from more than 20 international organizations, development agencies and scientific institutions. As per the report, some 3.6 billion people globally had inadequate access to water for one month per year in 2018, which is expected to surpass five billion by 2050.

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Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, topped the rich list for the 14th year in a row, as per Forbes Rich List, with a total wealth of $92 billion,
He has added $4 billion to his net worth in the year 2021. Gautam Adani, with a wealth of $74.8 billion, is the second richest in India with only $17.9 billion short of Ambani. Shiv Nadar of HCL was number three in the list with a wealth of $31 billion. Radhakrishnan Damani, founder of Avenues Super-mart, and Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman of Serum Institute, were placed fourth and fifth.

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India and the UK kickstarted a two-week military exercise ‘Ajeya Warrior’ at Chaubatia in Uttarakhand.
It aims to strengthen bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries. As per the Indian Army, this edition of the ‘Ajeya Warrior’ exercise is part of an initiative to develop interoperability and sharing of expertise, it said.

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Lakhimpur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It was seen in the news because in the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, nine persons lost their lives.
The Uttar Pradesh government has deputed Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, a retired judge of the Allahabad High Court, to probe the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. The judicial commission will have its office in Lakhimpur Kheri and would submit its report within two months.

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NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, has successfully ended its mission. The clock was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California.
The Deep Space Atomic Clock is an ultra-precise, mercury-ion atomic clock. It was launched aboard the Department of Defense Space Test Programme 2 mission on June 25, 2019. After the instrument completed its one-year primary mission in Earth orbit, NASA extended the mission to collect more data.

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The Exercise Malabar is a Naval / Maritime Exercise of Navies of India, Japan, Australia and USA. The second phase of Malabar exercise would be conducted from October 12-15, 2021 in the Bay of Bengal.
INS Ranvijay, INS Satpura, P8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft and a Submarine would be representing India in the exercise.