Current Affairs Quiz-September, 2020

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has recently announced to set up the country’s biggest film city.
The biggest and the grandest film city of the country in Gautam Buddh Nagar. He also directed the state officials to search for a suitable land in or around Noida, Greater Noida or Yamuna Expressway, for construction.

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September 18 is observed as the International Equal Pay Day by the United Nations. It has been celebrated for the first time this year.
The day is observed by the United Nations to throw light and end discrimination against women and girls. As per the UN, women are paid less than men in all parts of the world, with the gender pay gap estimated at 23 %.

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India has recently amended its public procurement rules. Under the amended rules, entities of countries which do not allow Indian companies to participate in their government procurement will not be allowed to participate in government procurement in India.
This amendment been notified by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce.

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In India, there are three underground Strategic Petroleum Reserves located in Manglore, Visakhapatnam and Padur(Karnataka). Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL) is an Indian company that deals with maintaining the country’s strategic petroleum reserves.

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There is a gap of 11 days, 1 hour, 31 minutes and 12 seconds(approx 11 days) between solar year and lunar year because the solar year is of 365 days and about 6 hours and the lunar year is of 354 days which results into Adhik Mas in Hindu Calender after 32 months.

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Belgium secured the first position in the latest rankings released by FIFA followed by France and Brazil at the second and third position respectively. While, The Indian national team drop by one spot to rank 109th in the world

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To mark the 75th anniversary of UN in 2020, a meeting of the UN General Assembly was organized virtually on 21st September 2020. It released a declaration titled “The Future We Want, the UN We Need: Reaffirming our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism”. Year 2020 marks 75th anniversary of UN which was established on October 24, 1945.

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The Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India has formulated following schemes to provide attractive avenues and opportunities to Indian researchers who are residing in foreign countries to work in Indian Institutes and Universities which are as follows –
1. Visiting Advanced Joint Research(VAJRA) Faculty Scheme which is a scheme to bring overseas scientists and academicians to India to work in public funded Institutions and Universities.
2. Ramanujan Fellowship provides opportunities to Indian researchers of high academic intelligence to work in all area of Science , Engineering and Medicine.
3. Biomedical Research Career Programme (BRCP) which provides opportunities to researchers to establish their career in Clinical or Public Health in India.

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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) under National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) launched a hackathon named as ‘KRITAGYA’ in order to promote potential technology solutions for enhancing farm mechanization with special emphasis on women friendly equipments.

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The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) is responsible for implementing the scheme “Building Awareness on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)” in order to encourage registration of IPR by MSMEs to provide financial assistance.