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.

• The island nation of Sri Lanka has declared food emergency and an economic emergency, under an ordinance.
• The declaration of this, empowers authorities to impose restrictions on stocking and pricing of food articles.
• The country was affected with a foreign exchange crisis, due to which it had undertaken a steep devaluation of its currency, resulting in inflation.

• South Korean lawmakers passed the world’s first law to force tech giants such as Google and Apple to offer alternative payment systems on their app stores.
• The country is set to amend the ‘Telecommunications Business Act’, the nation’s primary telecommunications law.
• The legislation would allow developers to bypass the tech giants’ proprietary payment systems and could help shape how the firms collect fees and exert power over developers and users.

• Dr Firdausi Qadri, a vaccine scientist from Bangladesh and Muhammad Amjad Saqib, the microfinance pioneer from Pakistan are among the five recipients of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award.
• Established in 1957, the award is Asia’s highest honour and regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
• The other winners are Filipino fisher and community environmentalist Roberto Ballon, American Steven Muncy for humanitarian work and refugee assistance and Indonesian torchbearer for investigative journalism, Watchdoc.
• The award is given every year to individuals or organisations in Asia who provide significant service to the society.

• The New Development Bank (NDB) set up by the BRICS group of nations had admitted the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and Bangladesh as members in its first expansion push.
• Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, known as BRICS, launched the bank in 2015 and started formal talks with potential new members.
• NDB has initiated its membership expansion and started formal negotiations with prospective members recently.
• NDB has an authorised capital of USD 100 billion, which is open for subscription by members of the United Nations.

• The Government set up a 12-member committee to review the existing guidelines of the Journalist Welfare Scheme (JWS).
• The committee is headed by Prasar Bharti Board member Ashok Tandon.
• The committee will examine the need for revision of the amount of ex-gratia payment in death as well as other cases under the JWS.

• Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) is an annual meet held in Vladivostok, Russia.
• It aims to encourage foreign investments in Russia’s resource-rich but underdeveloped Far East regions.
• In 2019, PM Modi had announced a $1-billion line of credit for the Far East in 2019.
• The proposed Chennai-Vladivostok maritime corridor will promote tbe bilateral relationships together.
• Mazagon Docks Limited will partner with the Russian ship-building facility at Zvezda to build important commercial ships.
• India and Russia are partners in space exploration through the Gaganyaan programme.

Presently, various medical and paramedical institutions of the state are affiliated to different universities. This bill has been passed amidst strict opposition from various fronts.

Another Indian shooter Singhraj Adana has bagged the Silver in the P4 Mixed 50m Pistol SH1 event and bronze in the P1 men’s 10m air pistol SH1.