Current Affairs Quiz - March, 2021

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India’s first undersea tunnel is being constructed in Mumbai, as a part of the Coastal Road project of the city. It is expected to be completed by the year 2023.
The twin tunnels have a length of 2.07 km of which around a kilometre will be under the Arabian Sea. The undersea tunnel will be 20 metres below the seabed.

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The Indian government, Government of Nagaland and the World Bank signed a USD 68 million project to enhance the governance of schools across Nagaland.
It also aims to improve teaching practices and environments in some select schools. The project titled “Nagaland: Enhancing Classroom Teaching and Resources Project” also provides technology support to hybrid and online learning.

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India off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the fastest Indian bowler to take 400 Test wickets, while playing at his 77th Test.
In the international level, he is only behind Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan, who reached the milestone in 72 Tests. Earlier, he also became the fourth Indian bowler with the most wickets in international cricket with 599 wickets across formats.

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The second edition of Khelo India Winter Games is being held in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
This is an annual event which is organised by the J&K Sports Council in association with the J&K Winter Games Association under the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. This function was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a virtual mode.

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A consortium led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has decided to launch a Covid-19 Oxygen Emergency Taskforce.
This decision comes amidst the pressure on health systems of low-and-middle-income countries, many of those are running out of oxygen. WHO, under the proposed taskforce aims to increase the supply of oxygen to health systems across the globe.

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The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched the field assessment for 6th edition of the Swachh Survekshan 2021.
The Swachh Survekshan commenced in the year 2016 as a competition enhancing framework to encourage cities to achieve high standards of sanitation under the Swatch Bharat Mission.

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Exercise Desert Flag is a multinational exercise, which is to be held in the United Arab Emirates. Ten countries are to take part in this exercise including India, France and the U.S. This exercise will be held for three weeks this month.
This semi-annual exercise will involve multiple, intensive air combat sorties. IAF’s Su-30-MKI and C-17s fighter jets took off recently to participate in this exercise.

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Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli became the first Asian celebrity to reach the 100 million followers-milestone on Instagram.
Portuguese star footballer Christiano Ronaldo tops the chart with 266 million followers, followed by singer Ariana Grande with 224 million followers and former WWE superstar Dwayne Johnson with 220 million followers. Footballers Messi and Neymar are also in the Top-5 list.

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Pharohylaeus lactiferous is a rare species of native Australian bee that was recently spotted along the east coast of Australia. It was last spotted a century ago in 1923 in Queensland and only 6 individuals have ever been found.
The invertebrate is threatened by wildfires, land fragmentation and climate change.

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Epigraph algorithm is a novel computer algorithm that could predict vaccine candidate for various diseases.
It was developed by scientists at the Los Alamos National Lab in the USA. The software was recently used to predict HIV vaccine candidates.