Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s new next-generation space telescope, which is currently under development.
Formerly known as Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, it is named after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy, as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Recently, NASA announced that thousands of exploding stars called supernovae are to observed through this telescope.

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As a measure to mitigate the distress caused due to COVID 19 pandemic, Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in India have announced to provide financial assistance to individuals in the form of unsecured loans up to a limit of Rs 5 lakh.
This is a part of the three new loan products introduced by the PSBs to provide financial support to vaccine manufacturers, hospitals/dispensaries, pathology labs etc.

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The Controller General of Accounts (CGA) released the revenue-expenditure data of the Union government for 2020-21.
As per the data, the Net tax receipts were ₹14.24 lakh crore, while total expenditure was ₹35.11 lakh crore during the financial year 2020-21.

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Two Russian cosmonauts named Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov ventured out of the International Space Station on a 7-hour spacewalk to prepare for the arrival of a new Russian module.
It’s the first spacewalk for both the cosmonauts, who arrived at the space station in April. They conducted technical works including replacing the old batteries outside the International Space Station, before the arrival of the new Nauka (Science) multipurpose laboratory module.

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Leadership Group for Industry Transition, LeadIT, is an Indian-Swedish climate change initiative. It will help the countries to take the lead in heavy industry transition as well as meet Paris Agreement goals and create new sustainable jobs,
Recently, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commended India and Sweden for their climate change initiative. He announced this during the Clean Energy Ministerial hosted by Chile.

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National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) implemented “National Automated Clearing House (NACH)”, which can be used for making bulk transactions towards distribution and collection of payments.
NACH is a centralised system which consolidates multiple ECS systems running across the country. As per the RBI’s recent monetary policy committee meeting, the NACH facility would be available on all days of the week from August 1.

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The Indus Best Mega Food Park, has been launched in Raipur of Chhattisgarh, by the Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar.
This mega food park aims to make value addition, increase shelf life and provide better price realisation to farmers. It is expected that this park would provide direct and indirect employment to about 5,000 persons.

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Actor, Director and two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster from the USA would be the Guest of Honour for 2021 Cannes Film Festival opening ceremony and she would also be presented with the honorary Palme d’Or during the function.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival has been postponed from May to July 6-17, 2021.

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The Pakistani Army has conducted a military exercise named ‘Taskheer-e-Jabal’ near Kotli in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) region. Under this exercise, the troops rehearsed various defensive and offensive manoeuvres in mountain terrains.
The exercise was overseen by its Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. It was aimed to enhance the operational preparedness, defensive and offensive formations of various contingencies.

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The Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has announced that the validity period of the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) qualifying certificate would be extended from the present 7 years to life time.
This decision was made in the National Council for Teacher Education’s (NCTE) 50th general body meeting.