Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2021

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World EV Day is observed on September 9 every year. The day marks the celebration of e-mobility. Special awareness campaigns are organised globally to educate people about the benefits of electric vehicles. World EV Day was an initiative created by sustainability media company Green.TV. The first World EV day was observed in 2020.

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The government has constituted an eight-member panel for framing a new law for drugs, cosmetics and medical devices. The panel is being headed by Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) Dr V G Somani. The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, regulates the import, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs, cosmetics and medical devices. This Act is amended from time to time. The last amendment in the Act was made in 2008.

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Co-WIN has developed a new Application programming interface called ‘Know Your Customer’s or Client’s Vaccination Status (KYC-VS). This will enable entities to check an individual’s status of vaccination through CoWIN. To use this API, an individual needs to enter his/her mobile number and name. Thereafter, they will get an OTP which they have to enter. In return, Co-WIN will send a response to the verifying entity on the individual’s status of vaccination. CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) is an Indian government web portal for COVID-19 vaccination registration, owned and operated by India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar inaugurated and presided over the Seminar on Population, Human Capital and Sustainable Development (healthy people – healthy future), in New Delhi on September 10, 2021. She also inaugurated a digital population clock at the Institute for Economic Growth nestled inside the University of Delhi. She also launched a book titled “Infant and Child Mortality in Assam – Demographic and Socio-Economic Interrelations” on the occasion. The book was written by Dr Dipanjali Haloi and Dr Suresh Sharma. During the event, a HMIS Brochure or Ready Reckoner was also launched.

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India and Australia hold first ever 2+2 talks with focus on strategic ties and situation in Afghanistan. India and Australia on Saturday began a high-level foreign and defence ministerial dialogue to boost the overall strategic cooperation between the nations. External affairs minister S Jaishankar and Union defence minister Rajnath Singh held the ‘two-plus-two’ talks with their Australian counterparts Marise Payne and Peter Dutton.

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The South Korean military has conducted its first successful underwater test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLMB). This test was conducted by Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine that was inducted in service in August 2021. This submarine has launched a Hyunmoo-2B ballistic missile which has a 500km range. Dosan Ahn Chang-ho is the country’s first 3000 ton class submarine which is equipped with six launch tubes. This launch makes South Korea the 8th country capable of SLMB joining United States, India, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom.

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In Odisha, Nuakhai, an important agrarian festival in the state was celebrated on 11 September 2021. As per the customary practice, people offer the new grains of crops to the deities before their own consumption. As per rituals, a porridge prepared from a new paddy crop, which is called ‘Nabanna’ is offered to Goddess Samaleswari and blessing is sought for a bumper harvest.

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Japan and Vietnam have recently signed a new deal, which enables the export of Japanese-made defence equipment and technology to Vietnam. Both the countries have inked the deal to boost the defence cooperation in the backdrop of China’s growing military influence. The countries have also planned to deepen defence ties through multinational joint exercises as well. To counter the China’s increasingly assertive actions in disputed waters of South China Sea, Japan and Vietnam have also agreed on the importance of maintaining freedom of navigation & over flight in Indo-Pacific region and cooperation in several defence areas including cyber security. Vietnam is the 11th country with which Japan signed the defence equipment and technology transfer deal.

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Indian Navy and Sudanese Navy carried out a bilateral maritime exercise in the Red Sea off the Sudanese. INS Tabar and two Sudanese Navy ships- Almazz and Nimer- participated in this maiden exercise with the Indian Navy.

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The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has launched its account on social media platform Telegram to counter fake news. It was launched as ‘PIB Fact Check’, which is one of the few government entities to have a telegram channel, and aims to verify information related to the Centre and disseminate to its subscribers. Earlier, fake channels were being run on Telegram in the name of fact check.