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April 19 | Daily Current Affairs 2021

IMPORTANT DAYS

1. World liver day is observed on which date?
A) April 14
B) April 15
C) April 17
D) April 18
E) April 19
Answer: E) April 19

• World Liver Day is celebrated every year on April 19th. World Liver Day is celebrated to raise awareness about diseases related to a vital organ, the liver.
• The liver is the second largest organ in the body and plays a key role in the body’s digestive system.
• World Liver Day 2021 theme: Love Your Liver and Live Longer.

SPORTS

2. Dilhara Lokuhettige was banned from all cricket for how many years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code?
A) 8
B) 5
C) 7
D) 4
E) 6
Answer: A) 8

• Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dilhara Lokuhettige was banned from all cricket for eight years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
• Lokuhettige’s ban is backdated to April 3, 2019, when he was provisionally suspended.
• As previously announced, following full hearings and presentations of written and oral argument, the Tribunal found Lokuhettige guilty of:
  • Article 2.1.1 – for being party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspect(s) of a match.
  • Article 2.1.4 – Directly or indirectly soliciting, inducing, enticing, instructing, persuading, encouraging or intentionally facilitating any Participant to breach Code Article 2.1.
  • Article 2.4.4 – Failing to disclose to the ACU full details of any approaches or invitations received to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code.

Lokuhettige – Ban for 8 years under ICC Anti-Corruption Code.

3. Who won Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2021?
A) Charles Leclerc
B) Carlos Sainz
C) Lewis Hamilton
D) Max Verstappen
E) Lando Norris
Answer: D) Max Verstappen

POS	DRIVER	CAR
1	Max Verstappen	RED BULL RACING HONDA
2	Lewis Hamilton	MERCEDES
3	Lando Norris	MCLAREN MERCEDES
4	Charles Leclerc	FERRARI
5	Carlos Sainz	FERRARI

 

Max Verstappen – Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2021.

4. ICC announces ____ per cent Cricket Future Leaders Programme?
A) 30%
B) 40%
C) 50%
D) 60%
E) 100%
Answer: E) 100%

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) launched the next phase of the 100 per cent cricket campaign, with the launch of the 100 per cent Cricket Future Leaders Programme a mentorship programme for all female future leaders in cricket as part of their long-term commitment to accelerating the growth of women’s cricket and women in cricket.
• It is designed to support emerging female talent in cricket across administration, coaching and officiating, broadcast, and journalism as well as marketing, digital and technology and events.
• The programme is designed to address the low percentage of women in leadership positions in global cricket and build a pipeline of new female leaders in cricket.

The International Cricket Council:
Chairperson: Greg Barclay
Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 15 June 1909

ICC – 100 per cent Cricket Future Leaders Programme.

OBITUARY

5. Bachi Singh Rawat passed away. He was related to which field?
A) Sports
B) Actor
C) Writer
D) Singer
E) Politician
Answer: E) Politician

• Former Union minister and senior BJP leader Bachi Singh Rawat died at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences.
• Bachi Singh Rawat was a four-time MP from the Almora-Pithoragarh constituency and had defeated former chief minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat thrice in consecutive elections.

Well known Kannada writer, editor, lexicographer and critic Venkatasubbiah passes away:

• Centenarian, Kannada Writer, Editor, Lexicographer and Critic Ganjam Venkatasubbiah passed away.
• He is primarily known for his contribution to the Kannada lexicography and was popularly known as a walking encyclopaedia of the Kannada language and culture.
• He has compiled 12 dictionaries, authored four seminal works on dictionary science in Kannada, edited over 60 books and published several papers.
• He also translated into Kannada eight important works from other languages.
• Recipient of the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award and the Pampa Award

Former Assam Chief Minister Bhumidhar Barman dies at 91 after prolonged illness:

• Barman was 89 years and suffering from old age related ailments.
• He was MLA for seven terms and had held important departments in Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s cabinet.
• Gogoi was Chief Minister from 2001-2016.
• He was first elected in 1967. Burman was known for his strong grassroots connect and had in past faced three attacks of militant outfits, ULFA.

Bachi Singh Rawat – Former Uttarakhand BJP president and Union minister.

BANKING AND FINANCE

6. LIC ties up with which payment app to handle digital payments?
A) Amazon Pay
B) Googlepay
C) BharatPe
D) PhonePe
E) Paytm
Answer: E) Paytm

• State-run Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has appointed homegrown payments player Paytm to facilitate its digital payments.
• Following a tie-up with another payment gateway earlier, the country’s largest life insurer has sought a new deal as the majority of its payments have moved to digital modes.
• The new agreement requires an easy payment process, a broader range of payment options, and more players (wallets, banks, etc) in payment channels.

Life Insurance Corporation:
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Chairman: M R Kumar

LIC + Paytm – Handle digital payments.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

7. ‘Resounding Mridangam: The Majestic South-Indian Drum’ authored by whom?
A) Sakthi N Sunil
B) Karthik N Sunil
C) Erickavu N Sunil
D) Ganesh N Sunil
E) Ashok N Sunil
Answer: C) Erickavu N Sunil

• ‘Resounding Mridangam: The Majestic South-Indian Drum’ authored by Mridangam maestro Erickavu N Sunil has been released by popular playback singer ‘Padma Vibhushan’ KS Chithra.

HarperCollins India to publish Girish Karnad’s memoir, This Life At Play, on 19th May 2021:

• On the 83rd birth anniversary of one of modern India’s greatest cultural figures, HarperCollins is proud to announce the publication of This Life at Play: Memoirs By Girish Karnad – Releasing on 19th May 2021 from Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan’s book for children paints a vivid portrait of celebrated artist Raja Ravi Varma:

• Author, poet and voice artiste Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan brings alive the life and times of Raja Ravi Varma, the celebrated artist, in Prince With a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma, her book for children.

‘Resounding Mridangam: The Majestic South-Indian Drum’ – authored by Erickavu N Sunil – released by KS Chithra.

APPOINTMENTS

8. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted a committee headed by _____ that would examine the role of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) in stressed debt resolution and review their business model?
A) R Anand
B) Rohit Prasad
C) Sudarshan Sen
D) Abizer Diwanji
E) P N Prasad
Answer: C) Sudarshan Sen

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted a committee that would examine the role of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) in stressed debt resolution and review their business model.
• Headed by former RBI executive director Sudarshan Sen, the six-member committee will include Vishakha Mulye, executive director, ICICI Bank; P N Prasad, former deputy managing director, State Bank of India (SBI); Rohit Prasad, professor of economics, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon; Abizer Diwanji, partner, Ernst & Young; and R Anand, a chartered accountant.
• The committee will review of existing legal and regulatory framework applicable to ARCs and recommend measures to improve efficacy of ARCs.
• It will also review of role of ARCs in stressed asset resolution under Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and suggest means of improving liquidity in and trading of security receipts.
• Lenders sell stressed loans to ARCs at a discount, either in exchange of cash or a mix of cash and security receipts.
• These receipts are redeemable as and when the ARC recovers the specific loan.

Reserve Bank of India:
Act: Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra
Governor– Shaktikanta Das
Deputy Governors– 4 (one post vacant, Mahesh Kumar Jain, Michael Debabrata Patra, M. Rajeshwar Rao)

RBI – Set up committee to review ARC regulations – Headed by former RBI executive director Sudarshan Sen.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

8. Which organisation successfully launched its Mars helicopter Ingenuity from the surface of the Red Planet?
A) YoHo
B) SpaceX
C) JAXA
D) ISRO
E) NASA
Answer: E) NASA

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully launched its Mars helicopter Ingenuity from the surface of the Red Planet.
• NASA had earlier said that the Perseverance rover will provide support during flight operations, taking images, collecting environmental data, and hosting the base station that enables the helicopter to communicate with mission controllers on Earth.

NASA:
Abbreviation: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Founded: 1 October 1958
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States of America
Acting Administrator: Steve Jurczyk

NASA – Ingenuity Helicopter from Mars’ surface.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

9. India and which country sign deal on cities combating plastic entering marine environment?
A) Iran
B) Iraq
C) Russia
D) Nepal
E) Germany
Answer: E) Germany

• The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety signed an agreement on Technical Cooperation titled ‘Cities Combating Plastic Entering the Marine Environment’ at a virtual ceremony in New Delhi.
• Speaking at the signing ceremony, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, MoHUA said, “2021 marks 63 years of fruitful development cooperation between our two countries.
• It gives me great pleasure to kickstart this new endeavour with our German partner.
• The project’s outcomes are completely in line with the objectives of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban focusing on sustainable solid waste management and Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision to phase out single-use plastic by 2022″.

Germany:
Capital: Berlin
Currency: Euro

India + Germany – Sign deal on cities combating plastic entering marine environment.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

10. Which organisation develops SpO2 based Supplemental Oxygen Delivery System?
A) NSIC
B) NMDC
C) NTPC
D) NHAI
E) DRDO
Answer: E) DRDO

• The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed yet another system, which is of a great value not only to the Indian Army soldiers fighting in the Extreme High Altitudes Areas but also would be a boon to the country in this extreme crisis of Covid 19 pandemic.
• The Defence Bioengineering and ElectroMedical Laboratory (DEBEL), Bengaluru of DRDO has developed SpO2 (Blood Oxygen Saturation) supplemental Oxygen Delivery System for soldiers at extreme high altitudes.
• This automatic system delivers supplemental oxygen based on the SpO2 levels and prevents the person from sinking into a state of Hypoxia, which is fatal in most cases.

DRDO:
Abbreviation: Defence Research and Development Organisation
Founded: 1958
Headquarters: New Delhi, Delhi
Chairman: G. Satheesh Reddy

DRDO – SpO2 based Supplemental Oxygen Delivery System.

11. Which Minister inaugurated the first-ever online exhibition on Ramayana?
A) Tourism and Culture Minister
B) Finance Minister
C) Health Minister
D) Education Minister
E) Tribal Affairs Minister
Answer: A) Tourism and Culture Minister

• Tourism and Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel inaugurated the first-ever online exhibition on Ramayana.
• The weblink for the online exhibition is www.nmvirtual.in/Virtual_Tour/Ramayan.
• The online exhibition showcases forty nine miniature paintings collections of National Museum, New Delhi from different art schools of India.

Culture and Tourism:
Minister: Prahalad Singh Patel
Constituency: Damoh, Madhya Pradesh

Tourism and Culture Minister – First-ever online exhibition on Ramayana.

12. Which exchange company announced the launch of cross-border electricity trading on its platform?
A) GAIL EX
B) IEX
C) NSE
D) BSE
E) GEX
Answer: B) IEX

• Indian Energy Exchange Ltd (IEX) announced the launch of cross-border electricity trading on its platform.
• NTPC Vidyut Vypar Nigam Ltd, the trading arm of the public-sector power generator, has secured approval from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) for Nepal’s participation in the day-ahead market of IEX.

IEX – Cross-border electricity trading.

13. Which Minister launched the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS)?
A) Railways Minister
B) Finance Minister
C) Health Minister
D) Education Minister
E) Tribal Affairs Minister
Answer: A) Railways Minister

• Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution Shri Piyush Goyal launched the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS).
  The Fund aims to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry, and commercialization.
• The Scheme was announced by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on 16th January 2021 in his Grand Plenary address of ‘Prarambh: StartupIndia International Summit’, marking the five-year anniversary of the Startup India initiative.
• Rs. 945 Crore corpus will be divided over the next 4 years for providing seed funding to eligible startups through eligible incubators across India.
• The scheme is expected to support an estimated 3,600 startups through 300 incubators.

Railways and Commerce and Industry:
Minister: Piyush Goyal
Constituency: Rajya Sabha MP, Maharashtra

Shri Piyush Goyal – Startup India Seed Fund Scheme.

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