Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2021

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Wang Yaping became the first Chinese woman to walk in space, as her team completed a six-hour stint outside the Tiangong space station.
Tiangong, which means “heavenly palace”, is the latest achievement of China, after landing a rover on Mars and sending probes to the Moon. Its core module entered orbit earlier this year, with the space station expected to be operational by 2022.

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Iran’s military began its annual war games in a coastal area of the Gulf of Oman. It is called “Zolfaghar-1400”.
The war games have been started at a time amid tensions between Iran and the US in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of America from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal. Fighter jets, helicopters, military aircraft, submarines and drones were also expected to take part in the drill.

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PHDCCI (PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry) is a chamber established in 1905 and releases the “Economy GPS Index”.
The latest Economy GPS Index for October 2021 stood as 131 as compared to 113.1 in September 2021. The chamber has stated that Indian economy has gained momentum on account of vaccinations, festival seasons and improvement in industry sentiments.

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Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has commenced a ‘Shri Ramayana Yatra’ train from Delhi.
The train left Delhi’s Safdarjung railway station. As per IRCTC, more such ones would be run to promote religious tourism. The train will cover the visit of all prominent places associated with the life of Lord Rama in 17 days, travelling around 7500 Kms in the entire tour.

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November 8 is observed annually as World Radiography Day to commemorate the discovery of X-rays, on November 8, 1895, by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen.
In 1901, he became the inaugural winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for this achievement. The objective behind World Radiography Day is to raise public awareness of radiographic imaging and therapy.

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The International Solar Alliance (ISA) and Netherlands-based publishing company Elsevier has launched journal ‘Solar Compass’ with Ambassador Stephane Crouz at the COP26 Climate Conference.
The ISA is an inter-governmental treaty-based international organisation initiated by India. Ajay Mathur, Director-general of International Solar Alliance released the first official call for papers to authors around the world.

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Delhi government launches ‘Shramik Mitra’ scheme to ensure that the benefits announced by the Government reach construction workers.
Under the scheme, around 800 ‘Shramik Mitras’ will reach the construction workers at their doorsteps and inform them about the schemes launched by the Delhi Government and provide them any assistance required

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced its first ‘HARBINGER 2021 – Innovation for Transformation’ with the theme of ‘smarter digital payments’.
Registration for the hackathon starts from November 15. The Hackathon invites participants to develop solutions to make digital payments accessible to the under-served, enhance the ease of payments, user experience and security of digital payments.

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Sakhalin Island is a Russian island located north of Japan. Recently Russia has launched a forest plan, to be implemented in the island.
The authorities of the Sakhalin Island, which has more than two-thirds as forest, have set an ambitious goal of making the island carbon neutral by 2025. The results of the experiment in Sakhalin will be applicable to the whole Russian Federation.

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The National Achievement Survey (NAS) is conducted every three years. The survey was last conducted in 2017 and was scheduled to take place in 2020. Due to the Covid-19 situation, it was postponed until this year.
Around 3.8 million students from 1, 23,000 schools from across 36 states and UTs will participate in the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021. The survey assesses the competencies developed by the students at grades 3, 5 and 8. This is the first time that private schools are included in this NAS.