Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2021

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National Beekeeping & Honey Mission (NBHM), which was announced for three years (2020-21 to 2022-23), aims for the development of scientific beekeeping in the country to achieve the goal of ‘Sweet Revolution’.
It is being implemented through National Bee Board (NBB). Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar recently launched ‘Amul Honey- a product of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. with cooperation with ‘National Bee Board’.

 

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France and Greece announced a multibillion-euro Defence deal, which includes the decision of Greece to buy three French warships.
Greece will boost its Defense capacities in the Eastern Mediterranean amid tensions with Turkey. President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a Defense and security strategic partnership in Paris. Greece has already bought 18 French Rafale fighter jets.

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Canada observed its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30. It is an annual commemoration honouring the children who died while attending residential schools.
It united the survivors, families and communities still affected by the legacy of the residential school system. In 2017, a private member’s bill was introduced to make National Day for Truth and Reconciliation an official holiday. Recently, hundreds of potential burial sites and unmarked graves were discovered near former residential schools.

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB prize) for the year 2021 have been announced recently. Every year, the award is presented to scientists who have shown outstanding capability and contributed in the field of Science and Technology.
The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) India – late Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. The prizes are awarded to scientists below 45 years of age for their research in one of seven disciplines including Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering Sciences among others.

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The Cabinet of Assam has recently approved a sum of Rs 1,800 crore towards repayment of micro finance loans taken by 11 lakh borrowers of the state.
In addition, the cabinet has also approved a sum of Rs, 700 crore as a relief package for employees of the defunct paper mills of the PSU Hindustan Paper Corp (HPC).

 

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Indian industrialists Shiv Nadar – founder of HCL Technologies and Mallika Srinivasan – chairperson of TAFE have been selected for 2021 Global Leadership Award by US India Business Council (USIBC).
The award is given annually since the year 2007, recognising top corporate executives of USA and India, who have demonstrated high degree of leadership and played a pivotal role to improve Indo-US partnership.

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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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The Armies of India and Sri Lanka are set to participate in the 12-day military exercise – “Mitra Shakti”, which would be held in Combat Training School in Sri Lanka’s Ampara. This is the 8th edition of the joint military exercise between the two countries.
India would be represented by a contingent of 120 personnel. This exercise is aimed to promote close coordination and interoperability among the two military forces.

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Prime Minister recehntly virtually launched the Jal Jeevan Mission mobile application. It contains all details about the mission including the number of households that received water, quality of water etc. The application aims to improve awareness among stakeholders and for more transparency and accountability of schemes under the Jal Jeevan mission.
He also launched the Rashtriya Jal Jeevan Kosh. The fund facilitates contributions for providing tap water connection in every rural household, school, Anganwadi centre, etc. Contributions can be made by any individual, organisation, philanthropist, either in India or abroad.

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The birth anniversary of India’s ‘Father of Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi is observed as the ‘International Day of Non-Violence’ every year, on October 2.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in a resolution adopted in 2007, established the day as an occasion to spread the message of non-violence through education and public awareness. In 2004, Iranian Noble Laureate Shirin Ebadi proposed the idea of the commemoration.