Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2021

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Power Finance Corporation (PFC), a non-banking financial company (NBFC) which comes under the ministry of power, has successfully issued its first 300-million-euro 7 year Euro Bond issuance. The Euro Green Bond is the first green bond denominated in Euro issued in India. This is also first-ever Euro issuance by an Indian NBFC. With this issuance, PFC also entered the European market for international fundraising.

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‘Ease of Doing Business’ reports which are published by the World Bank Group will be discontinued. It added that it will study a new method to assess the business and investment environment in various countries. After ethical matters irregularities were raised involving former bank employees and board members, the World Bank will study a new method to assess the business and investment environments of countries.

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At the 60th National Open Atheltics Championships at the Nehru Stadium in Warangal, B Aishwarya of the railway won the women’s long jump gold medal with a personal best of 6.52 meters. Railways’ Parul Chaudhary won the gold medal in women’s 3000m steeplechase with a personal best time of 9:51.01. In the women’s 1500m, Harmilan Kaur Bains won gold in a time of 4:05.39s breaking 19-year-old national record of Sunita Rani’s made in the year 2002.

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The Sikkim government has declared “Cooper Mahseer” which is locally named “Katley” as a state fish to emphasize the importance of the fish and emphasize its protection measures. “Neolissochilus Hexagonolepis” is the biological name of this fish.

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TRIBES INDIA VAN DHAN expanded online marketing by cooperating with Big Basket. TRIFED and Big Basket signed a memorandum of understanding and The Memorandum of Understanding between TRIFED and Big Basket has been signed with the aim of promoting and selling Van Dhan’s natural products through the Big Basket platform.

 

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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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Indian & Indonesian Navy are participating in the two-day bilateral maritime exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ in Jakarta scheduled from September 20-22.

The exercise aims to strengthen the bilateral relationship, enhance mutual understanding and interoperability in maritime operations between the two navies. The Indian Navy ships Shivalik and Kadmatt, and Anti-Submarine Warfare-Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft P8I are participating in the exercise.

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Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, released Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s third state food safety index (SFSI). The index measures the performance of States across five parameters of food safety.

In this year, Gujarat was the highest ranked state among the larger states, followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Among the smaller states, Goa stood first followed by Meghalaya and Manipur. Among UTs, Jammu and Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and New Delhi topped the index.

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The e-Shram portal is India’s first national database on unorganised workers. The portal came into being after the Supreme Court directed the Government to complete the registration process of unorganized workers.

Over 1 crore registered on e-shram portal. 68% of those registrations were done through Common Service Centres (CSC). The workers can also register themselves in this portal via State Seva Kendra, Labour Facilitation Centres, selected post offices of the Department of Posts’ Digital Seva Kendras.

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UNESCO has stated that, the USA would return a 3,500-year-old tablet recounting the epic of Gilgamesh to Iraq. The tablet was earlier illegally imported by a wealthy US collector. In addition to the tablet, the UNESCO has announced the repatriation of 17,000 other artifacts to Iraq.
UNESCO has considered this as a victory against illicit trafficking of cultural objects, which is said to be a major source of funding for terrorist groups.