Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2021

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The 52nd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is set to be held in Goa, from November 20 to 28.
The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur announced that Hollywood veteran Martin Scorsese and celebrated Hungarian film-maker Istevan Szabo will be honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s film festival. IFFI has also invited major OTT players to participate in the festival.

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Kittur Chennamma was the Queen of Kittur, a princely state in present-day Karnataka. She was one of the first Indian rulers to lead an armed revolt against the British East India Company in 1824, protesting the Doctrine of Lapse, introduced by Lord Dalhousie
Every year in the month of October since 1824, ‘Kittur Utsava’ has been observed to commemorate Kittur Rani Chennamma’s rebellion. The leader’s anniversary was observed recently.

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The Indian Navy’s first training squadron arrived in Sri Lanka on a mission aimed at exposing young officers to overseas deployments and aspects of maritime diplomacy.
The training squadron comprises seven indigenously built ships— Indian Naval Ships Tir, Sujata, Magar, Shardul, Coast Guard ship Vikram and two sail training ships INS Sudarshini and INS Tarangini, from the Southern Naval Command (SNC) headquartered in Kochi, Kerala.

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Recent works on a mummy excavated in 2019 suggests that ancient Egyptians living during the time of the Old Kingdom (between 2700BC and 2200BC) were already carrying out sophisticated burials of dead bodies. This is 1,000 years earlier than the previously known information.
This discovery was featured in a 2020 episode of National Geographic’s Lost Treasures of Egypt. As per the researchers, the development will change the understanding of the evolution of the process of mummification.

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The Reserve Bank of India issued a new set of rules for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs). It includes limiting the lending to IPO investors to Rs 1 crore per borrower from April 1, 2022.
At present some high-net-worth individuals have been borrowing in excess of Rs 100 crore, from NBFCs for investing in IPOs. These curbs are a part of RBI’s “scale-based regulations”, which aim to mitigate systemic risks.

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Ace Racing Driver Max Verstappen (Red Bull) has recently won the title of U.S. Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton is a five-time winner at COTA.
He defeated the seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and won his eighth race of the season. The young Dutchman is also seeking his first world championship. Max Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver currently competing in Formula One.

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Scientists have recently discovered 28 new species of beetles. One of them has been named Trigonopterus corona, marking the large impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on this project.
In April, a new species of caddisfly was collected near a stream in Kosovo by a team of scientists, and was named Potamophylax coronavirus. Before that, some insects were named P. coronavirus, A. quarentnus, S. Covida.

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Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve includes a chain of islands and adjoining coral reefs off the coasts, located in Tamil Nadu.
The annual migration of birds from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve has begun recently. A big flock of birds was sighted in the Manoli Islands inside the park. Thousands of Arctic terns and gulls, hundreds of sand, crab and grey plovers.

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The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (WDAH) is celebrated on October 27 every year, to raise awareness about and acknowledge the importance of preserving audiovisual materials.
In 1980, the 21st General Conference of the Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images adopted the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. This year the theme of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is ‘Your Window to the World.’

 

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The Indian Army celebrated the 75th Infantry Day on 27th October 2021. This day commemorates the operation launched by Independent India against Pakistan’s aggression in Jammu & Kashmir in 1947.
This day seeks to remember the sacrifices made by the Indian Army Jawans to defend the nation against foreign infiltrations and agitations.