ANSWER: A
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The Prime Minister paid tributes to revolutionary freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma on his birth anniversary (4th October).
About:
ANSWER: C
WHY IN NEWS?
Recently, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), have launched the Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) Programme in Seychelles.
India has been chosen as the Partner Administration and has provided Tax Expert for this programme.
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Tax Inspectors Without Borders Programme:
ANSWER: B
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Recently, several prominent Indian names have been included in the Pandora Papers leak.
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Reasons for Setting up Trusts Overseas:
Legislative Action:
International Cooperation:
ANSWER: B
WHY IN NEWS?
Recently, Amazon has unveiled its ‘Astro’ home robot, which is designed to help customers with a range of tasks like home monitoring and keeping in touch with family.
About:
Issues Related to Privacy:
Other Recent Experiments:
ANSWER: C
WHY IN NEWS?
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launched an initiative on October 4, 2021 to facilitate COVID-19 vaccine delivery using “made in India drones” in the tough & hard-to-reach terrains of Northeast.
About:
This was the first time that a “Make in India’ drone has been used in South Asia for transporting COVID-19 vaccine for an aerial distance of 15 km. This distance was covered in 12-15 mins from Bishnupur district hospital to Loktak lake, Karang island in Manipur. Road distance between both the locations is 26 kms.
Use of drones
Which states are running similar projects?
Currently, drone-based delivery projects are being run in Manipur & Nagaland as well as Andaman & Nicobar Islands to overcome the challenges by deploying Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones in remote areas.
Which institution transferred the drone technology?
ICMR conducted the initial study in association with “Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur” for testing the capacity of drones to transfer and carry vaccines safely. ICMR conducted the study in Manipur, Nagaland and Andaman & Nicobar.
ANSWER: B
WHY IN NEWS?
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated the winners of ‘Dare to Dream 2.0’ Contest organised by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO).
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Dare to Dream Contest
Dare to Dream contest was launched by DRDO across India to promote Indian academicians, individuals and start-ups for developing emerging defence and aerospace technologies or systems. Under the contest, DRDO provides technical and financial support to the winners, in a bid to realise their ideas under “Technology Development Fund (TDF) scheme”.
New system developed by DRDO
On the occasion, three indigenously developed products or systems by DRDO were handed over to Armed Forces:
ANSWER: A
WHY IN NEWS?
American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the prestigious “2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine”.
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About Nobel Prizes
The prestigious Nobel prizes for “science, literature and peace” were created and funded in the name of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel. The prize is awarded since 1901. The Nobel prize for economics was first conferred in 1969. This century-old prize is worth 10 million Swedish crowns.
Who is Ardem Patapoutian?
Ardem Patapoutian was born in 1967 in Lebanon, to Armenian parents. He moved to Los Angeles in his youth and currently he is a Professor at Scripps Research, La Jolla, California. He has done research at the University of California, San Francisco as well as at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He was awarded with The Nobel Prize for finding a cellular mechanism and underlying gene which translates a mechanical force on our skin into an electric nerve signal.
Who is David Julius?
Davis Julius was born in New York. He is a Professor at University of California, San Francisco. He was awarded for his findings on the skin’s sense of temperature on the basis of how certain cells react to capsaicin.
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