Current Affairs Quiz 27th and 28th July 2021 : Daily GK Update Quiz

Exp. India’s nomination of Dholavira, the Harappan City in the Rann of Kutchch, Gujarat has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.

India submitted the nomination dossier for Dholavira: A Harappan City to the World Heritage Centre in January, 2020.

The site was on the UNESCO’s tentative list since 2014. Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd to mid-2nd millennium BCE.

India has 40 world heritage properties overall, which includes 32 cultural, 7 natural and one mixed property.

Exp. Union Government is implementing Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP) as a sub scheme of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) since 2020-21.

It aims to promote traditional indigenous practices. The scheme focusses on exclusion of all synthetic chemical inputs and promotes on-farm biomass recycling. Under BPKP, financial assistance of Rs 12200 per hectare for 3 years is provided for cluster formation.

Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) was launched in 2015.

Exp. Government has permitted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) up to 100 percent under the automatic route for renewable energy projects, including offshore wind energy projects.

Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy, R.K. Singh recently replied in Lok Sabha that Government notified the ‘National Offshore Wind Energy Policy’ in 2015, to provide basic framework for developing offshore wind sector. The Government also enabled private investors to carryout offshore wind resource assessment.

Exp. Uzbekistan hosts ‘Central-South Asia conference 2021. Uzbekistan has hosted a high-level International Conference titled “Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity.

Challenges and Opportunities” at Tashkent. The conference was an initiative of the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Delegates from over 40 countries and about 30 international organizations, and heads of think tanks participated in the conference.

Exp. Indian Naval Ship Talwar is participating in Exercise Cutlass Express 2021, being conducted from 26 July 2021 to 06 August 2021 along the East Coast of Africa.

The exercise is an annual maritime exercise conducted to promote national and regional maritime security in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean.

Aims: The exercise focuses on East Africa’s coastal regions and is designed to assess and improve combined maritime law enforcement capacity, promote national and regional security and increase interoperability between the regional navies.

Exp. The Care Ratings agency has estimated the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of India to be in the range of 8.8 to 9 per cent in the current financial year, that is 2021-22 (FY22).

The country’s economy had contracted by 7.3 per cent in fiscal 2020-21.

Exp. 27 July: CRPF observes 83rd Raising Day. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), observed its 83rd Raising Day on 27 July 2021. CRPF is India’s largest Central Armed Police Force, under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

It came into existence as the Crown Representative’s Police on 27 July 1939. After Indian Independence, it became the Central Reserve Police Force on the enactment of the CRPF Act on 28 December 1949.

Exp. Sumit Nagal became only the third Indian to win a men’s singles match at an Olympics edition and the first in 25 years, when he defeated Denis Istomin in the first match at Tokyo Games.

Zeeshan Ali was the first Indian to win a singles match at the 1988 Seoul Games when he beat Victo Caballero from Paraguay. After that, Leander Paes won the men’s singles bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Games, beating Brazil’s Fernando Meligeni.

Exp. Momiji Nishiya, 13, of Japan took home gold in skateboarding 25th July, making her one of the youngest gold medal winners ever in the Olympic Games. The youngest gold medalist was Team USA’s Marjorie Gestring at the 1936 games in Berlin. Gestring, only 13 years and 268 days old at the time, won gold in the women’s diving competition.

Exp. Marine National Park in the Gulf of Kutch is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Kutch in the Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat state, India.

Exp. Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF): Kuldiep Singh

Exp. In order to promote AYUSH in Madhya Pradesh and to link it with employment, the government has made the ‘Devaranya’ scheme.

The scheme has been made to provide employment to the people living in the tribal areas of the state.

Exp. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on 26th July inaugurated the ‘Drink From Tap’ mission in Puri, making it “the first city in India” to achieve a 24*7 quality drinking water supply, an official said.

The initiative to provide water supply adhering to “Quality Standards of IS 10500” will benefit the city’s 2.5- lakh population and 2 crore tourists who visit the holy place annual.

Exp. BJP leader Basavaraj S Bommai will take oath as the 23rd chief minister of Karnataka on 28th July.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) legislature party elected Basavaraj Bommai as the successor of BS Yediyurappa who resigned from the top post on 27th July. Basavaraj Bommai was the home minister in the BS Yediyurappa government and was among the top contenders for the chief minister’s post.

Exp. Lebanon’s newly appointed Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati on Monday urged unity to begin recovery from a devastating economic and financial meltdown roiling the country.

He said he will strive to form a new government but the situation is too dire to overcome with the usual fractious politics.

Exp. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered India’s growth projection from 12.5 per cent to 9.5 per cent for fiscal 2021-22 – down by three percentage points, following the severe second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

For the current fiscal year, India witnessed the largest drop in growth projections made by IMF, even as the global economic growth rate remains the same at six per cent, according to IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO).

Exp. 28th July: World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day is observed each year on 28 July to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver that causes severe liver disease and hepatocellular cancer.

Exp. 28th July: World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day is observed each year on 28 July to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver that causes severe liver disease and hepatocellular cancer.

Theme 2021: “Hepatitis Can’t Wait”.

Exp. 28 July: World Nature Conservation Day

World Nature Conservation Day acknowledges that a healthy environment is the foundation for a stable and healthy human society. It is celebrated on July 28 annually.

The main purpose of celebrating World Nature Conservation Day is to conserve the animals and trees that are on the verge of going extinct from the natural environment of the Earth.

Exp. The 12th Edition of the Indo-Russia joint military exercise called ‘Exercise INDRA 2021’ will be held at Volgograd, Russia from 01 to 13 August 2021. The exercise will entail the conduct of counter-terror operations under the United Nations mandate by a joint force against international terror groups.

Exp. Capital: Beirut

Currency: Lebanese pound

Exp. IMF Membership: 190 countries.

Andorra: IMF’s 190th Member