Current Affairs For (July 4, 2021)

Answers With Explanation : (C) After the resignation of Tirath Singh Rawat, two-time Khatima MLA Pushkar Singh Dhami has been declared as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. Dhami represents the Khatima constituency in Udham Singh Nagar district, the region known as ‘terai’ and dominated by farmers, largely belonging to the Sikh community, and the center-stage of protests against the three Central farm laws.

Answers With Explanation : (C) ICICI Bank launched the SalaamDilSey initiative, a comprehensive banking solutions for medical doctors. It includes a number of services such as a range of premium savings and current accounts for personal and business banking.

Answers With Explanation : (A) Zydus Cadila has applied for emergency use authorisation (EUA) to the office of the Drug Controller General of India for ZyCoV-D, its plasmid DNA vaccine against Covid-19. ZyCoV-D is a plasmid DNA vaccine which, when injected, produces the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and elicits an immune response mediated by the cellular and humoral arms of the human immune system, which play a vital role in protection from the disease as well as viral clearance.

Answers With Explanation : (B) Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar kick started the week of Van Mahotsav 2021 with the plantation of Parijat sapling in New Delhi. Van Mahotsav is celebrated in India by planting tens and thousands of saplings. It is a festival that encourages the citizens of India to plant more trees.

Answers With Explanation : (B) Maana Patel became the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through the 'Universality quota'. The Universality quota allows one male and one female competitor from a country to participate in the Olympics, provided no other swimmer from the same gender qualifies for the Games or receives a FINA invite based on his or her Olympic Selection time (B time).

Answers With Explanation : (B) Sir Richard Branson has named the date he'll fly to the edge of space. It will be 11 July, or very soon after. The vehicle can climb to an altitude of 90km (295,000ft), giving those on board a few minutes of weightlessness and a view of the curvature of the Earth.

Answers With Explanation : (C) Flipkart has launched Shopsy app to enable Indians to start their online businesses without any investment. With the ability to influence their local network and fulfil their aspirations, users of Shopsy will be able to share catalogues of a wide selection of 15 crore products offered by Flipkart sellers.

Answers With Explanation : (D) The World Bank has pledged to boost available funding for COVID-19 vaccine purchases and deployment to $20 billion from a previous target of $12 billion, citing a sharp increase in overall financing demand from developing countries. The global development bank had already provided more than $4 billion to 51 developing countries for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, and would add billions for 25 more countries soon.

Answers With Explanation : (A) The United Nations World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that Antarctica logged temperatures up to 18.3 degrees Celsius, a new maximum temperature record for the region, on February 6 earlier this year. With this, Antarctica has now become one of the fastest-warming regions in the world -- registering a rise of almost three degrees Celsius in the last 50 years.

Answers With Explanation : (A) Former international footballer M Prasannan passed away at the age of 73 years. He played for Kerala, Maharashtra and Goa in Santosh Trophy National Football Championship. A gifted midfielder of the 1970s, he shared the dressing room with stalwarts of Indian football like Inder Singh and Doraiswamy Natraj.