Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2021

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• The Department of School Education & Literacy has decided to celebrate Shikshak Parv-2021 from 5th September till 17th September 2021.
• This event will be held through virtual mode.
• President Ram Nath Kovind will confer the awards to 44 Awardees, on 5th September, 2021 through virtual mode.
• The National Awards to Teachers were first instituted in 1958 to recognize excellence and commitment of teachers working in elementary and secondary schools.

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• Indian shooter Avani Lekhara became the first Indian woman to win two Paralympic medals.
• She won the 50m Rifle 3 Position SH1 bronze to add to the Gold she had won earlier in the Games.
• The 19-year-old Lekhara had become the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic gold after she topped the 10m air rifle standing SH1 event.
• Joginder Singh Sodhi was the only Indian to win multiple medals in the same edition of the Games when he got one silver and two bronze medals in the 1984 Paralympics.

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India and United Kingdom have announced a $1.2 billion package, which aims to improve finance to green growth of Asian countries.

This package includes an $1 billion would be an investment from CDC, the UK’s development finance institution to support businesses working on green technology. The Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI) India partnership has also been launched to raise private capital for green projects in India.

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Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) has recently raised a sum of $750 million, by sale of green bonds. The funds so raised would be used by the company to finance its under-construction projects.

With this, AGEL has completed the capital management plan presently has sufficient funds to achieve its stated target of 25GW by 2025. Green bonds are also known as climate bonds, are debt instruments used to finance projects which have a positive impact on the environment.

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Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha won votes of confidence in Parliament, which would help him to steady his government. The Government has been facing criticism in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Prayuth and his government had survived two other no-confidence debates since the 2019 general election. Pro-democracy activists have been opposing his policies have been seeking his resignation since last year.

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Kasai River is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was seen in the news because the Kasai River had turned red recently.

The bodies of hippos and dead fish were seen floating in the river. The pollution was first detected in a tributary of the Kasai River, named the Tshikapa. The Kasai is a tributary of the Congo River. The pollution originates from a major spill at three mining facilities around in Angola. Researchers also fear the potential for lasting contamination of groundwater.

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On 3rd September, 2021, the 11th BRICS Trade Ministers Meeting was held in a virtual mode, under the chairmanship of India. The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal chaired the meeting and was attended by Trade and Economic Ministers of BRICS Countries.

India is chairing the BRICS 2021, under the theme BRICS@15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus.

 

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Bank of Baroda has topped the MeitY Digital Payment Scorecard for 2020-21 with a total of 86% marks on the scorecard. The scorecard ranks 44 banks (Public Sector Banks, Private Banks, Foreign Banks, Payments Banks, Small Finance Banks) on various parameters on the digital business.

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The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Fiserv Inc. Has partnered to launch a plug-and-play RuPay credit card stack named ‘nFiNi’. ‘nFiNi’ is a RuPay based Application Programming Interface platform to boost credit card based products in the country. The nFiNi platform will power RuPay cards (including National Common Mobility Card) by offering access to needed services through the NPCI network combined with FirstVisionTM cloud-based open API integrations from Fiserv.

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Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh, who retired as the Deputy Chief of Army, was appointed the Governor of Uttarakhand, a post which fell vacant after Baby Rani Maurya resigned from the post.