Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2021

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Raja Rithvik from the state of Telangana has become India’s 70th Grand Master after crossing the ELO 2,500 mark at the Vezerkepzo GM Chess Championship which was held in Budapest, Hungary. The 17-year-old passed the mandatory ELO 2,500 mark and became the 70th grandmaster in India. After defeating the FIDE master Fennek Vaclav from Czechoslovakia, he scored 4 points.

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Singrauli based- Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL), a Coal India arm under the Ministry of Coal has announced to start 75 “Fulwari Centers” in the Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh.

This project ‘Fulwari’ aims to address the problem of malnutrition and associated physical and mental development problems of infants. Currently 25 centers are being operated successfully with the strength of around 220 kids of the age between 6 months to 3 years.

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The IUCN status of the “Humboldt Penguin” is “Vulnerable”. Humboldt Penguin is a South American penguin mainly housed in the Pinguino de Humbold National Reserve in Chile.

Eighty per cent of the world’s Humboldt Penguin population lives in the protected area of Chile. Mumbai’s Byculla Zoo has announced the addition of two new Humboldt penguin chicks this year. There are already seven adult Humboldt penguins at Byculla Zoo.

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India’s Pankaj Advani successfully lifted the Asian Snooker Championship, held in Doha, Qatar, outplaying Amir Sarkhosh of Iran 6-3.

The 36-year-old player won the title in 2019 but he was the runner-up in 2017. In 2019, Pankaj also became the only player in the world who won the titles in all forms of billiards, snooker, 6Reds, and 10Reds competitions.

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The Cure Salée (Salt Cure) is a festival that takes place in the Agadez dessert, in the north of Niger. It is also called as the “Festival of the Nomads”.

The ceremony marks the end of the rainy season, and usually occurs in the last two weeks of September. The annual Cure Salee festival brings together Tuareg and Wodaabe pastoralists. Niger is one of the world’s worst-performing countries in terms of the Human Development Index.

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Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the National Conference on Agriculture for Rabi campaign 2021-22.

The objective of this conference was to review and assess the crop performance during the preceding crop season. It also aims to fix crop-wise targets for Rabi season in consultation with State Governments and facilitate adoption of innovative technologies, to enhance production and productivity of the crops.

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The Indian Navy, in association with the Indian Naval Sailing Association (INSA) has proposed to conduct a Sailing regattas and a Sail parade in all the three command headquarters. This is as a part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations.
The first of the such event would be conducted in Indian Naval Watermanship Training Center, Kochi under which a team of 75 Naval personnel would participate.

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The Kun Peak is a part of Nun Kun mountain massif. It is also the second highest summit of the massif with elevation of 23,219 ft in the eastern Himalayan Range. The peak is located near the Suru valley, Kargil, Ladakh.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged-in a team of National Institute of Mountaineering & Allied Sports (NIMAS) Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh, in New Delhi. The team completed a mountaineering expedition to Mount Kun between July 15, 2021 and August 10, 2021. NIMAS is a premier mountaineering institute functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Defence.

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The Government of India has constituted a 12-member National Steering Committee, under the chairmanship of K Kasturirangan, for formulating guidelines for changes in the CBSE / NCERT curriculum. The Committee has a term of three years. The document, called as the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), was last prepared in 2005.
Kasturirangan is the former Chief of ISRO and has also headed the committee that drafted the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

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The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India has recently brought the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021. Under the revised rules, the processing fee levied on educational institutions for filing patents has been reduced by 80%.
This move is aimed to encourage greater participation of the educational institutions in the innovation ecosystem in the country.