Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2021

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• In Uttar Pradesh, many children have been diagnosed with a new mystery fever identified as Scrub Typhus.
• Several children are sick in the region surrounding Western Uttar Pradesh districts including Mathura, Agra, Firozabad etc.
• Scrub typhus, also known as shrub typhus, is caused by a bacterium called Orientia Tsutsugamushi.
• The infection spreads to people through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites).

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• The National Conference on Women and Child Development was held at Kevadia, Gujarat, which was chaired by the Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani.
• The meeting was attended by the Minister of State for WCD, Ministers and Principal Secretaries from various States related to women and child development.
• This conference served as a platform to discuss implementation of various schemes like Mission Poshan 2, Mission Vatsalya, and Mission Shakti.

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• The New Development Bank (NDB) set up by the BRICS group of nations had admitted the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and Bangladesh as members in its first expansion push.
• Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, known as BRICS, launched the bank in 2015 and started formal talks with potential new members.
• NDB has initiated its membership expansion and started formal negotiations with prospective members recently.
• NDB has an authorised capital of USD 100 billion, which is open for subscription by members of the United Nations.

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• Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) is an annual meet held in Vladivostok, Russia.
• It aims to encourage foreign investments in Russia’s resource-rich but underdeveloped Far East regions.
• In 2019, PM Modi had announced a $1-billion line of credit for the Far East in 2019.
• The proposed Chennai-Vladivostok maritime corridor will promote tbe bilateral relationships together.
• Mazagon Docks Limited will partner with the Russian ship-building facility at Zvezda to build important commercial ships.
• India and Russia are partners in space exploration through the Gaganyaan programme.

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Exercise Bright Star is a multinational military exercise, held once in two years at Egypt. This year’s exercise would witness participation from 21 countries including the USA.
The first such exercises were held in the year 1980 after signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The last Bright Star exercise was conducted in 2018, with 16 participating nations.

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Indian Shooter Manish Narwal has bagged a Gold Medal at the Tokyo Paralympics in the P4 Mixed 50m Pistol SH1 event. The 19-year-old shooting champion shot a total of 218.2 which is a Paralympic record.

Another Indian shooter Singhraj Adana has bagged the Silver in the P4 Mixed 50m Pistol SH1 event and bronze in the P1 men’s 10m air pistol SH1.

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The Union AYUSH Ministry has launched a campaign named AYUSH AAPKE DWAR. This campaign aims to distribute medicinal plant saplings to 75 lakh households in one year.

This campaign has been launched in more than 45 locations across India. The medicinal plants include Tejpatta, Stevia, Ashwagandha, Lemongrass, Tulsi, Sarpagandha, Amla etc.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) opened a two-day Lunar Science Workshop 2021, to commemorate the completion of two years of operation of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft around the lunar orbit.

Chandrayaan-2 has completed more than 9,000 orbits around the Moon. The imaging and scientific instruments on board have been relaying the required data. ISRO Chairperson also released the documents based on data from Chandrayaan-2, along with data from spacecraft’s orbiter payloads.

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The National Level Exhibition and Project Competition for INSPIRE Awards – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge) has commended, under the aegis of Dept. of Science and Technology – Union Ministry of Science and Technology.

The INSPIRE Awards – MANAK scheme has been launched to motivate students in the age group of 10-15 years of class 6 to 10th standards, to become future innovators.

 

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The bilateral exercise – AUSINDEX between Indian Navy and Royal Australian Navy is being held in Australia from September 6 to 10, 2021. The exercise will provide an opportunity for both Navies to further bolster inter-operability, gain from best practices and develop a common understanding of procedures for Maritime Security Operations. The two countries will also be holding their first “2+2″ Foreign and Defence Ministers meet in New Delhi.