Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, is the nodal department to monitor the legislative and policy reforms, to strengthen the “Enforcing Contracts” system for Ease of Doing Business in India.
Department of Justice has recently an exclusive “Enforcing Contracts Portal”. The “Enforcing Contracts” indicator is a part of the Ease of Doing Business survey by World Bank. It measures time and cost to resolve a commercial dispute and a series of good practices in the judiciary.

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As per recent reports, the NITI Aayog has recommended privatisation of state-owned insurer United India Insurance Company.
The privatisation in the banking, insurance and financial services sector are classified ‘strategic’ in its new public sector enterprise (PSE) policy. UIIC is the insurer of many insurance schemes run by the state governments.

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Charted Accountants (CA) Day is celebrated on July 1 every year to commemorate the finding of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) was established by the parliament of India in 1949 under an Act.

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Union minister of education, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank released Unified District Information System for Education Plus report (UDISE+) for 2019-2020. UDISE+ report highlighted some interesting facts, both positive and negative about Indian school education system.

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The International Day of Cooperatives was celebrated on July 3, 2021 under the theme of ‘Rebuild better together’. The day is celebrated every year on first Saturday of July.

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Pushkar Singh Dhami (bron 1975) has recently become the 11th and youngest Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Khatima constituency in Udham Singh Nagar district.

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The Project BOLD (Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought) is a project of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) that seeks to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones. It was launched on July 4, 2021 from tribal village Nichla Mandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan. It is unique and first of its kind scientific exercise serving the combined national objectives of reducing desertification and providing livelihood and multi-disciplinary rural industry support. It has been launched as part of KVIC’s “Khadi Bamboo Festival” to celebrate 75 years of independence “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”. KVIC is set to replicate the Project at Village Dholera in Ahmedabad district in Gujarat and Leh-Ladakh region by August this year. Total 15,000 bamboo saplings will be planted before August, 2021.

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Currently, India is working to exercise its rights to stop excess water flowing to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 to irrigate its own lands. In this context, India is working on a plan to divert the waters of Ujh river, which is one of the main tributaries of Ravi river that flows into Pakistan. This is also of strategic importance to India—control over river water flow acts as a force multiplier during times of aggression.

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‘Tiangong’ Space station is the flagship construction of China National Space Administration. Recently, Chinese astronauts successfully performed the country’s first spacewalk in the station.
Out of the three astronauts, who blasted off last month, two of them-Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo, worked for seven hours on the outside of the Tiangong station in the orbit around Earth. Earlier, the USA banned Chinese astronauts from using the International Space Station.

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The Gomti or Gomati River is a tributary of the Ganges, flowing across Uttar Pradesh. Gomti riverfront development project was launched in 2015 by the previous state government which was led by Samajwadi Party (SP).
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case in the project scam in December 2017. Recently, the officials of CBI initiated the second probe and conducted raids at 40 locations across Uttar Pradesh.