Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2021

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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has recently released its annual review of India’s actions on climate change. NRDC is an international non-profit environmental organisation.
As per the report, India is largely on track to meet its Paris Climate Agreement targets. It said that the country is to meet its targets of reducing emissions by 33 to 35 per cent of its GDP by 2030 from the 2005 levels and achieve 40 per cent of installed power capacity from non-fossil fuels by 2030.

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The United Nations General Assembly has declared the year 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the lead agency to celebrate this year, along with other relevant organizations.
This year seeks to spread awareness on the role played by fruits and vegetables in human nutrition, and in food security.

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Kushagra Rawat of Delhi and Srihari Nataraj of Karnataka are Indian Aquatic champions, who have created new national records in 400m freestyle and 100 backstroke events respectively at the 74th Senior National Aquatic Championships.
Kushagra Rawat has created a new record of 3:53.68 seconds, which is 1.25 seconds lower than the previous record on 400 m freestyle, while Srihari Nataraj finished in 55.10 seconds in 100 m back stroke, there by beating his own national record created in 2019.

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was established in the year 1997 with its headquarters as Vienna, Austria.
The institution is in news recently, as it has launched Data Disclosure Framework (DDF) in association with the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. The DDF is a tool which describes the practices developed to handle and respond to the data requests from foreign criminal justice authorities for counter-terrorism investigations.

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The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021 report has been published by the World Bank. As per the report, South Asia suffers the most among all regions of the world in terms of loss of human capital due to air pollution.
The report has measured wealth creation and distribution in 146 countries covering a 20-year period from 1995-2018. Human capital was the largest source of worldwide wealth, with 64 per cent of total global wealth in 2018.

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The Andhra Pradesh State Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy approved passing a resolution in the Assembly urging the Centre to undertake caste census of Backward Classes while conducting general census 2021.
Cabinet gave its approval for setting up a separate department for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) to effectively implement schemes. It was also decided to set up separate corporations for the welfare of Jains and Sikhs in the State.

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Famous Kannada Actor Puneeth Rajkumar recently passed away after suffering a heart attack, at the age of 46.
He was the son of legendary actor Rajkumar. He was known to fans as “Appu” and “Power Star”. The actor began his career as a child star, when he was just six-months-old in 1976.

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An integrated Single Window Filming mechanism has been created by the Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The objective of the scheme is to make the permission for filming across Railways premises easier and more efficient. Under the mechanism, filmmakers can submit online applications for filming at various railway locations under jurisdiction of any zonal railways in a centralized way.

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Karnataka government launched ‘Janasevaka’, an online portal, and ‘Janaspandana’, an Integrated Public Grievance Redressal System (IPGRS).
Janasevaka is an initiative to help people avail government services easily. People can get up to 56 government services delivered to their doorsteps, including home delivery of ration, Aadhar card, Income certificate etc. using a mobile application or website, or via a call centre.

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A proposal for 12 Light Utility Helicopters from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was approved by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC).
DAC approved the capital acquisition proposals amounting to Rs 7, 965 crore for the modernisation of the Indian armed forces. DAC approved the procurement of Lynx U2 naval gunfire control system from BEL and “mid-life upgradation of Dornier aircraft” by HAL.