Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2021

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The RBI Governor – Shri. Shaktikanta Das has announced that the fourth regulatory sandbox cohort of the Reserve Bank would be on “Financial Frauds”.
It has been stated that the main focus would be on “reduce the lag between the occurrence and detection of frauds” and to “strengthen the governance structure”.

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“River ranching programme” designed as a special activity under the PM Matsya Sampada Yojana under the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying aims to augment and enhance fish production.
The programme has been launched by the Union Minister Shri Parshottam Rupala at Brijghat, Garh Mukteshwar, Uttar Pradesh.

 

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The Union Ministry of Power has recently released the “Framework for Implementation of Market Based Economic Despatch (MBED) Phase 1”. This framework aims to lower the cost of power purchase to consumers.
Under this framework, the state distribution companies (DISCOMs) will now be able to plan power purchases from the day-ahead market at power exchanges.

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Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have been chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize 2021, for their efforts to safeguard and promote freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.
Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist, author, and the co-founder of a media company Rappler. Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist and a television presenter.

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Indian professional footballer and the Captain of Indian National Football team – Sunil Chhetri has recently scored his 77th international goal, in a match against Nepal at the SAFF Championships in Male.
With this, he has equalled the goal table of Pele, former legendary Brazilian Footballer. This record was made by him in his 123rd match for India.

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The Centre for Development of Telematics is an Indian Government owned telecommunications technology development centre.  It is headquartered at New Delhi.
C-DOT has been asked to start working on 6G technologies which is said to be 50 times faster than 5G and other futuristic technologies. Union Telecom Secretary recently inaugurated C-DOT’s Quantum Communication Lab and launched the indigenously developed Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) solution.

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From the images captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Timothy Hamilton have discovered an unusual gravitational lensing configuration.
Named as ‘Hamilton’s Object,’ it consists of two images of a spiral background galaxy in a fold configuration and a third resolved image of the same spiral galaxy. Together, they create a tangential point configuration.

 

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WHO launched its ‘Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022’ launched last week. As a part of the strategy, India will soon submit its covid-19 vaccination targets to WHOwith an updated national vaccination trajectory.
It will also include plans defining dose requirements, investment required for manufacturing the vaccines and their distribution through the government. As per WHO, all countries must meet its targets to vaccinate 40% of their population by end-2021 and 70% by mid-2022.

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Under the Italy’s G20 Presidency, an Extraordinary Leaders’ Summit has been convened, to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting would be held in a virtual format.
India has been invited by Italy, to take part in the meeting for discussing the humanitarian needs in Afghan and to review the livelihood requirement in the country.

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Rajnish Kumar, former chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), has joined the board of Fintech firm BharatPe as its Chairman.
Rajnish Kumar earlier retired from the country’s largest lender SBI after four decades of service, in October 2020. He was previously appointed as a non-executive director for the Asia Unit of HSBC.