Current Affairs Quiz-September, 2020

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Tata Projects Limited has won the contract bid to construct the new Parliament building.
The construction of the parliament building is a part of the Central Vista redevelopment project. The Central Vista redevelopment project consists of a triangular Parliament building, a common central secretariat and revamping of the 3 km-long Rajpath. Tata Projects Ltd had submitted a bid of Rs 861.90 crore.

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Union Agriculture Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar has been assigned additional charge of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
This has been communicated by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The erstwhile Minster of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal submitted her resignation from Union Cabinet, which has been accepted by the President.

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Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited has donated Rs.5.00 crore to the state of Uttar Pradesh, for procurement of 50 ambulances for the state.
The MD and CEO of the company handed over the cheque to the Chief Minister of UP. NCL is a Miniratna Company that supplies over 100 million tonnes of coal annually.

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Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has recently lifted the ban of movement of onion supplies, that were already contracted for by the importers of Bangladesh.
Earlier, the DGFT banned all exports of Onion following shortage and sudden increase in prices in the domestic market. After Bangladesh had formally complained about the exports of the commodity, India has lifted the ban.

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The Department of Science and Technology and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is to organise Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit.
This virtual summit is to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 2nd October 2020. A month-long session with webinars will be organised with non-resident Indian (NRI) scientists, to solve emerging challenges in India.

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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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Alzheimer’s is a progressive diseases which leads to memory loss. The condition worsens with time and makes it difficult to perform day to day functions. Since 1994, each year 21st September is observed as the World Alzheimer’s Day. September is the month which is observed each year as the World Alzheimer’s Month in order to enable national and local Alzheimer associations worldwide to extend their reach of awareness programmes over a longer period of time.

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Israel has signed ‘Abraham Accord’ agreements normalizing diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain.

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The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was passed in Lok Sabha on 22nd September, 2020. The Bill replaces an ordinance which was issued by the Government of India on 22 April for amending the the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 in order to make the incidents of violence on health workers treating the COVID-19 patients a non-bailable offence, with provision of a penalty and a jail up to seven years.

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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.