Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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India and Thailand began the 31st edition of Coordinated Patrols or CORPAT. As per the Indian Navy, this is the first of a biannual exercise.
The Indian Navy’s Saryu, an indigenously built Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel, is participating in the exercise. CORPAT aims at reinforcing maritime links between the two countries by maintain the Indian Ocean safe for international trade.

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The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World Rankings 2022, which is an annual publication of university rankings has been recently published.
As per the release, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru has secured the position of the “world’s top research university”. This institution has achieved a score of 100/100 under the metric Citations Per Faculty (CPF) assessment.

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Assam’s Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary has been recently notified as the seventh national park of the state of Assam.
Recently, Raimona was declared as the National Park in the state. Assam is the state with the second highest number of national parks in the country, after Madhya Pradesh (11). The UT of Andaman and Nicobar has nine national parks.

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As per a recent study conducted in Indonesia, mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, reduce the insect’s ability to spread dengue.
As per the World Mosquito Programme team, the bacteria remain in those parts of its body that the dengue virus needs to get into. After the study, the Dengue fever cases have been cut by 77%.

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The European Space Agency has recently announced a probe called Envision, as a part of its Venus Mission.
ESA announced this one week after its American counterpart, NASA, chose two Venus projects of its own, known as Veritas and Davinci+. As per the team of EAS, all three of the missions are highly complementary and the probe will be ready by 2034-35.

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As per the recent data from the Commerce Ministry, Exports of India’s organic farm products rose 51 percent in 2020-21.
Outward shipments of organic products touched 1,040 million dollars last year compared to 689 million dollars a year before. Exports of organic products grew at 39 per cent to 8 lakh 88 thousand 179 tonnes last fiscal, in terms of volume.

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IEA-International Energy Agency has released a special report titled “Financing clean energy transitions in emerging and developing economies”. This report addresses the challenges in mobilising finance and investment for supporting clean energy transitions.
The report has been based on detailed analysis of 50 successful projects implemented across the globe.

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The 2021 summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the 31st formal meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of NATO. It was held in Brussels, Belgium.
NATO leaders warned that China presents systemic challenges to the world. This was also the first NATO Summit attended by the US President Joe Biden. Earlier Group of Seven (G7) rich nations issued a statement on human rights in China and Taiwan.

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The Government of Britain has announced a free trade agreement with the Government of Australia, for the first time post Brexit.
Under the agreement cars, Scotch whisky and confectionery made in Britain would be sold in Australia at a cheaper cost because of the agreement which aims to reduce tariff barriers.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which is headquartered at Brussels, Belgium, is an intergovernmental military alliance European and North American countries.
Recently the NATO leaders have declared China as a constant global security challenge. The organisation has stated that China’s goals and assertive behaviour have posed various systemic challenges to international order.