Current Affairs For (July 5, 2021)

Answers With Explanation : (B) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister recently re-launched the YSR Bima scheme with new guidelines, where the government itself will directly pay the insurance amount to the family of the deceased to make the insurance claims easier.

Answers With Explanation : (A) Athlete MP Jabir become the first Indian to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in 400m hurdles after he clocked 49.78s to win gold at the recently concluded Inter-State Athletics Championships in Patiala. Jabir qualified through the World ranking quota where there are 14 spots available.

Answers With Explanation : (B) The Indian Army recently inducted the first batch of 12 indigenously designed and developed Short Span Bridging systems into the Corps of Engineers at Delhi which are designed by DRDO and manufactured by Larsen and Toubro Limited.

Answers With Explanation : (B) The Ministry of Youth affairs & Sports has decided to grant recognition to WAKO India Kickboxing Federation as National Sports Federation (NSF) for promotion and development of the Kickboxing sport in India.

Answers With Explanation : (A) IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath and NASA scientist Kamlesh Lulla are among the 34 immigrants honoured by a prestigious American foundation ahead of the US Independence Day. Gopinath and Lulla are among the 2021 Great Immigrants honourees named by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a non-profit organisation.

Answers With Explanation : (B) Government of India is set to achieve its $400 billion export target in 2021-22. Indian merchandise exports touched $95 billion in the three months ended June, recording an all-time high in any single quarter.

Answers With Explanation : (A) Central Reserve Police Force has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in advanced technologies. The MoU aims at augmenting the technical capabilities of CRPF by training its manpower in advanced areas like Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber security, Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data Analytics.

Answers With Explanation : (B) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has given a financial grant of Rs. 100 crores to the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) to build India's second-largest stadium in Jaipur. The construction work for the first phase of the stadium is likely to take 24 to 30 months. An amount of about Rs. 290 crores has been estimated in the construction work.

Answers With Explanation : (B) The government has extended the superannuation age of IPO-bound LIC Chairman to up to 62 years by making amendment to the Life Insurance Corporation of India (Staff) Regulations, 1960. The changes made in the rules will be called the Life Insurance Corporation of India (Staff) Amendment Rules, 2021, according to a government notification dated June 30, 2021.

Answers With Explanation : (C) Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Shri Arjun Munda laid the foundation stone for construction five Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) on 3rd and 4th July, 2021 in three districts of Jharkhand. Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) is a Government of India scheme for model residential school for Indian tribals (ST, Scheduled Tribes) across India.