Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2021

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The State Election Commission of Telangana is about to conduct a dry run of the voting using their smartphones. This trial has got approval from the state government.
The trial would be run in Khammam district on October 20th 2021 and would be the country’s first e-voting process using mobile smart mobile phones.

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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.

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Indian Born Dr.Abdul Qadeer Khan, also known as the father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program died recently in Pakistan. He was born in the year 1936 in Bhopal and moved to Pakistan during the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
Dr. Khan is said to have made Pakistan a nuclear power, from its scratch.

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The Indian Railway has launched two long haul freight trains named “Trishul” and “Garuda”, which are multiple times longer than the normal trains.
The Train named “Trishul” is run by the South-Central Railway (SCR) and comprises of 177 wagons. It ran between the Kondapalli station to Khurda division of East Coast Railway.

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Finnish racing driver Valtteri Bottas wins the Turkish Grand Prix 2021. Another Racing Driver Max Verstappen came in the second place and Sergio Perez was in the third place.
Ace Racing Driver Lewis Hamilton crossed the line in the 5th place while Charles Leclerc took the fourth place. Bottas, the 32-year-old driver has won ten races from 2017 till 2021.

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Karuppur Kalamkari paintings and wood carvings of Kallakurichi, both belonging to the state of Tamil Nadu have received geographical indication or GI tag, from the Government of India.
GI tag is awarded to products of specific geographical origin and it adds significance to the product. It is regulated under the Geographical Indications registration is administered by the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act of 1999.

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently launched the ‘Desh ke Mentor’ programme to provide career guidance to the students of class 9 to 12.
The Delhi government school students will be mentored by subject experts for providing various career options. Every mentor will adopt up to 10 students to provide career counselling. Actor Sonu Sood has been named by the Delhi government as the brand ambassador of the initiative.

 

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Mexico City’s governor has confirmed that the capital’s Christopher Columbus monument would be replaced by a statue of an indigenous woman.
The statue was removed last year after indigenous rights activists threatened to tear the statue down. It is set to be replaced by a replica of a pre-Columbian statue known as the Young Woman of Amajac.

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The Malabar series of exercises, which began as an annual bilateral naval exercise between India and the US in 1992.
The Indian Navy is set to participate in the Second Phase of Multilateral Maritime Exercise Malabar along with the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force, Royal Australian Navy and the United States Navy. It is being conducted in the Bay of Bengal from 12 – 15 Oct 2021. First Phase of the exercise was conducted in the Philippines Sea in August.

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World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF jointly released the 2021 State of The World’s Hand Hygiene report.
As per the report, all households in the world’s 46 least developed countries could have handwashing facilities by 2030 if the world invested less than $1 per person per year, in hand hygiene. An annual cost to governments on promoting handwashing with soap at home comes to 2.5% of the average government health expenditure in these countries.