Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2021

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”Elderline-14567” is a senior citizen’s national helpline which has been launched in Jammu and Kashmir by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. This helpline will serve as an important support system to comfort the distressed elderly in need through a dedicated decentralized call center, provide emotional care and support, health services and other assistance to the elderly in need through a dedicated decentralized call center.

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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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Every year on September 18 the World Water Monitoring Day has been celebrated globally to increase public participation and awareness regarding water resources protection and monitoring around the world. “Valuing water” is the theme of World Water Day 2021.

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Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated Digital Hub with a capacity to support 200 start-ups via video conferencing recently.

The product development centre, one of the largest in South Asia, at the Technology Innovation Zone (TIZ) in Kalamassery, Kochi. It aims to provide direct employment opportunities for 2500 people at the Hub. The Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) leads the implementation of the project.

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English author Ruskin Bond, Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla and six others were selected for the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.

The National Academy of Letters said that the general council of Sahitya Akademi announced its highest honour, the Fellowship.The others who received the Fellowship are Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Bengali), M Leelavathy (Malayalam), Dr. Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi), Dr Tejwant Singh Gill (Punjabi), Swami Rambhadracharya (Sanskrit), Indira Parthasarthy (Tamil).

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Gujarat government is set to launch “Aap Ke Dwar – Ayushman” mega drive from 23rd September 2021. According to the state health Ministry, 80 lakhs families will be covered under this drive to enroll them for Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and Ma Card scheme of the state government.

The National Health Authority (NHA) launched the campaign in February this year. Bihar was the first state to activate the beneficiary verification process.

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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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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 National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (GBO) along with other partners have released a new high-resolution image of the Moon. This is the best-ever image taken from the ground using new radar technology on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT).
The resolution of the new Tycho Crater image contains approximately 1.4 billion pixels. The image covers an area of 200km by 175km. The entire crater, which measures 86km in diameter, has been captured.

 

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The Union Power Ministry has issued an order for setting up district-level committees that will oversee all power-related schemes of the Union Government.
This aims to improve quality of electricity supply in the country. The Committees shall exercise oversight over all power related schemes of Government of India. It will comprise M.Ps in the district, District Collector, representatives of the district panchayat, MLAs, representatives of state-run firms of ministries of power and new and renewable energy, SE of DISCOM among others.