Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2021

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The Government of Madhya Pradesh has announced a scheme named “Mukhyamantri Ration Aapke Dwar Yojana”, under which physically challenged and senior citizens of the state would be supplied with ration at the doorsteps, transported by vehicles.
Also, ration would be transported to villages in vehicles where there are no fair price shops.

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South Korea has launched its first homegrown rocket. It is named as the Korean Satellite Launch Vehicle II, also known as Nuri.
The vehicle took off from Goheung, about 500km (310 miles) south of Seoul. Though it completed its full flight sequence, the vehicle failed in its goal of putting a dummy satellite in orbit. South Korea plans to carry out four more launches of the Nuri until 2027 to increase reliability.

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India has become the top source of Chinese rice imports during January-August this year. The shipments during the month of August alone accounted for 45 per cent of the total imports.
This data has been released in the USDA’s Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report on China’s rice prices. It said Indian rice made up 23 per cent of total imports by China during January-August this year.

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WeProtect Global Alliance, a global movement released the ‘Global Threat Assessment report 2021’. As per the report, COVID-19 contributed to a significant spike in child sexual exploitation and abuse online.
WeProtect Global Alliance is a global movement of more than 200 governments, private sector companies and civil society organisations. It aims to transform the global response to child sexual exploitation and abuse online.

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China passed a new law to strengthen land border protection amid the ongoing military tension along the disputed boundary with India.
The legislation formalises combining the military defence of China’s land borders, along with improving social and economic development in the Indo-China border areas. It also strengthens the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) policy to work closely with civilians staying in border areas including Tibetan villagers.

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Ace Racing Driver Max Verstappen (Red Bull) has recently won the title of U.S. Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton is a five-time winner at COTA.
He defeated the seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and won his eighth race of the season. The young Dutchman is also seeking his first world championship. Max Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver currently competing in Formula One.

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YouWeCan Foundation is a Non-Profit Organization founded by Indian Cricketer Yuvraj Singh, which works to fight cancer.
Recently, the foundation has collaborated with SBI foundation and the Government of Goa to launch the initiative named ‘Swasth Mahila, Swasth Goa’, under which free breast cancer screening would be undertaken for 1 lakh women in Goa.

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Scientists have recently discovered 28 new species of beetles. One of them has been named Trigonopterus corona, marking the large impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on this project.
In April, a new species of caddisfly was collected near a stream in Kosovo by a team of scientists, and was named Potamophylax coronavirus. Before that, some insects were named P. coronavirus, A. quarentnus, S. Covida.

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The Supreme Court recently set up an expert panel to investigate whether the Centre used the Pegasus spyware to snoop on citizens.
The three-member expert panel, overseen by retired Supreme Court judge R.V. Raveendran, will also find out details of people targeted by the military-grade Israeli spyware. This was announced by the bench, headed by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana.

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The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched the Krishi UDAN 2.0, which aims to integrate agriculture harvest and air transportation, thereby helping to improve the Agri Value Addition Chain.
The scheme incentivises the movement of Agri-produce by air transportation, by providing full waiver of Landing, Parking, TNLC and RNFC charges for Indian freighters.