Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2021

• IIT Roorkee, in a joint venture with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), has built an app that can predict natural disasters.
• The app will alert about the probable natural calamities beforehand.
• The expert committee will intimate about the amount of rainfall that will be received in every area.
• The Doppler radar in Mukteshwar has started functioning and will also be set up at Surkanda Devi shortly.

• Recently, the naval forces of India and Algeria has conducted a maiden naval exercise
• The exercises were conducted at the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Algeria.
• India was represented by Navy’s stealth frigate INS Tabar and naval ship ANS Ezzadjer was its counterpart.
• This exercise was aimed to enhance interaction and collaboration between the two nations.

• The Indian Institution of Technology Madras (IIT-M) is developing an online platform named e-Source.
• This platform aims to tackle e-waste by linking various participants in formal and informal sector.
• It would act as a market place between buyers and generators of e waste, in electrical and electronic equipment segment.
• This is expected to pave a great way for recycle and reuse of electronic wastes, thus achieve the objectives of circular economy.

• New Delhi is preparing the ambitious Draft Regional Plan-2041 (DRP-2041), which aims to evolve it into a “future ready” and economically prosperous area with citizen-centric infrastructure.
• The NCRPB covers entire Delhi, eight districts of Uttar Pradesh, 14 districts of Haryana and two districts of Rajasthan.
• The regional plan says that population in National Capital Region (NCR) is expected to grow to around 7 crore by 2031 and to about 11 crore by 2041
• The draft plan envisages on making multilevel parking complexes, peripheral parking, Superfast trains and heli-taxi services, Trauma centres on highways and Helipads for high-rise buildings.

• In Uttar Pradesh, many children have been diagnosed with a new mystery fever identified as Scrub Typhus.
• Several children are sick in the region surrounding Western Uttar Pradesh districts including Mathura, Agra, Firozabad etc.
• Scrub typhus, also known as shrub typhus, is caused by a bacterium called Orientia Tsutsugamushi.
• The infection spreads to people through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites).

• Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu appointed Dr. Parasaram Pattabhi Kesava Ramacharyulu as the new Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha.
• Ramacharyulu has been working as Secretary in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat since 2018.
• He succeeds Desh Dipak Verma, who demitted office after serving for four years in the post.
• As per the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, Ramacharyulu is the first ever Upper House employee to have reached the Secretary General’s post.

• Singapore has introduced a new concept called ‘Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL)’.
• VTLs are an extension of travel corridors but are only for fully vaccinated travellers.
• Singapore has established VTLs with two jurisdictions as of now, Germany and Brunei Darussalam
• Persons travelling to Singapore are required to apply for a Vaccinated Travel Pass (VTP), prior to their date of entry into Singapore.

• The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released the Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2019).
• As per the report, every third death (35 per cent) from extreme weather, climate or water stress in half a century was in Africa.
• The African continent accounts for only 17 per cent of global population.
• Four droughts (1973 and 1983 in Ethiopia, 1981 in Mozambique and 1983 in Sudan) were responsible for 89 per cent of the total deaths in Africa from weather, climate and water extremes in the last 50 years.
• Almost 99 per cent of all reported deaths occurred in low-to-lower-middle-income countries in Africa.

• The Assam government has decided to rename Rajiv Gandhi National Park as Orang National Park.
•  The Assam cabinet passed a resolution in this regard.
• The National Park covers an area of 79.28 sq km. It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1985, and a national park in 1999.
• The Assam national park is located on the north bank of the Brahmaputra in Darrang and Sonitpur districts.
• It is known for wild animals like Royal Bengal Tiger, Indian Rhinos, Pygmy Hog, and wild elephants

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