Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2021

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France and Greece announced a multibillion-euro Defence deal, which includes the decision of Greece to buy three French warships.
Greece will boost its Defense capacities in the Eastern Mediterranean amid tensions with Turkey. President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a Defense and security strategic partnership in Paris. Greece has already bought 18 French Rafale fighter jets.

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Technology Major Facebook launched its largest creator education and enablement programme in India. Named “Born on Instagram” the programme includes e-learning course, aimed at encouraging, educating and enabling creators.
The programme was originally launched in 2019. It focusses on content creators who drive more users, viewers and commerce across different platforms. The programme will also provide live masterclasses with experts, latest information on trends, product updates and challenges.

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Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupendra Yadav announced a collaboration with Microsoft India to launch DigiSaksham programme.
Through DigiSaksham, 10 million active registered job seekers will be able to access the training including computing and computer science training on the National Career Service Portal. The programme is aimed to impact 3,00,000 job seekers in the first year by training them in subjects like programming languages, data analytics, software development etc.

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Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) 2.0 and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) 2.0. The schemes would be implemented by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, like their previous versions.
SBM-U 2.0 envisions to make all cities ‘Garbage Free’ and ensure grey and black water management in all cities. The outlay of SBM-U 2.0 is around ₹1.41 lakh crore. AMRUT 2.0 aims to provide 100% coverage of water supply to all households in around 4,700 urban local bodies and 100% coverage of sewerage and septage in 500 AMRUT cities.

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Vice Admiral Adhir Arora, NM has taken charge as the Chief Hydrographer to the Government of India. He succeeded Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar, AVSM, NM who superannuated in this month.
Adhir Arora was responsible for maritime boundaries aspects including representing India in the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) during the arbitration with Bangladesh. He was also the co-chair for the 3^rd Indo – Mauritius hydrographic cooperation meeting.

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The NITI Aayog, Amazon Web Services and Intel have jointly created a new experience studio, which is located at NITI Aayog Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center, New Delhi.
This premise would serve as an experimentation facility for government, start-ups, enterprises, and industry experts. It would house technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality and virtual reality etc.

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Russia recently announced that it had successfully test launched a Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile from a submarine for the first time.
The country’s Defence Ministry said that the Severodvinsk submarine had fired the missile in the Barents Sea, successfully hitting its target. Russia had earlier tested firing the Tsirkon missile from a warship in July

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The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet has approved the proposal to provide government land in exchange for the private land being acquired for Atal Pragati Path.
It is a 313-km four-lane expressway project implemented under the Bharatmala project. The proposed Atal Pragati Path will pass through Sheopur, Morena and Bhind districts of Madhya Pradesh. The state government is providing land free for the project.

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Indian Railways had begun the construction work on the new 2.05 km Pamban railway bridge in Mandapam, which will connect Rameswaram to the mainland in Tamil Nadu.
The Ministry of Railways announced that this bridge will be operational from March next year. The new 2-km-long bridge, linking the island of Rameswaram in the Arabian Sea to the mainland, is set to replace the existing 104-year-old bridge. IT will have a 63-metre stretch, that will lift up vertically to allow passage to small ships.

 

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The DART mission, or NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is set to be lift off on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
After the launch in November, NASA will test its asteroid deflection technology in September 2022 to see the impact of motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space.The target of this asteroid deflection technology is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos.