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The correct answer is Plan Bee.

Key Points 

Plan Bee:

• ​This is a unique strategy adopted by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) to keep wild elephants away from railway tracks, which has won the best innovation award by Indian Railways.
• This involves the setting up of devices (an amplifying system imitating the buzz of a swarm of honey bees) near tracks, which emit the ‘buzzing’ sound of swarming bees, considered a natural repellent of elephants (elephants have a natural fear of the perilous stings of the insects).
• The first one was installed near the Guwahati railway station.
• The sound is audible to elephants 600-700 meters away and thus helps them in keeping away from the tracks.
• According to wildlife experts, India has the highest number of train accidents involving elephants in the world.

The correct answer is Nodirbek Abdusattorov.

Key Points

• Nodirbek Abdusattorov is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and the reigning World Rapid Chess Champion.
• A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days. FIDE awarded him the title in April 2018.
• The World Rapid Chess Championship 2021 is the 2021 edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls.
• Since 2012, FIDE has held the World Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament.

The correct answer is 16^th September.

Key Points

• Ozone day is an International day for the preservation of the Ozone layer.
• It is informally called Ozone day.
• It is designed by the United Nations General Assembly.
• The slogan of Ozone day is “Ozone for Life”.
• It reminds us that Ozone is crucial for life on earth and we should continue to protect the ozone layer for future generations.
• Ozone day is celebrated on the 16^th September of every year.​

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• Its Main Objective of it is to spread awareness among the people about the depletion of the ozone layer.
• The motto is also to find possible solutions to preserve it.
• Educators also teach students about the importance of the ozone layer.
• Schools also conduct special activities to spread awareness among the upcoming generations to help prevent the ozone layer.

The correct answer is The Washington Post.

Key Points

• Louise Erdrich won Pulitzer Prize 2021 in the friction category for the book “The Night Watchman”.
• Pulitzer Prize 2021 in “ International Reporting Category” for reporting on China’s detention camps for Muslims to three reporters : Megha Rajagopalan ,Christo Buschek and Alison Killing.
• “Tania Leon” won in “Music” for “Stride”
• “Marcia Chatelain” won in “History” for “Franchise”
• “The New York Times” won in “Public Service”
• “Neil Bedi” won in “Local Reporting”

Additional Information Pulitzer Prize:

• Awarded for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical compositions.
• Country: US
• First Awarded in 1917.
• Award is given by Provisions in the Will of J Pulitzer
• Prizes are awarded Yearly in Twenty-One Categories every year.
• In 20 Categories each winner is awarded a certificate and Cash amount of “US$ 15,000” and for the Public Service Category a Gold Medal is Awarded$.

The correct answer is b.

Key Points 

• India ranked48^th as per medal tally in Tokyo Olympics 2020.
• India has won 7 medals in Tokyo Olympics 2020.
• These 7 medals include 1 Gold Medal, 2 Silver medals and 4 Bronze medals.
• Neeraj Chopra has bagged the first-ever gold medal in athletics for India in the Olympics.

Some of our stars in the Tokyo Olympics 2020:

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The correct answer is Meerut.

Key Points 

Major Dhyan Chand Sports University,Meerut (UP)

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh on January 2, 2022.
• The Major Dhyan Chand Sports University will be equipped with modern and state-of-the-art sports infrastructure.
• It will be the first-of-its-kind Sports University that will offer training to sportspersons in all possible ways, in all sporting disciplines.
• It will be equipped with a synthetic Hockey ground, Football ground, Basketball, Volleyball, Handball, Kabaddi ground and Lawn tennis court.
• It will also have a synthetic running stadium, swimming pool, Gymnasium Hall, Multipurpose Hall and a cycling Velodrome.
• The sports university will also have facilities for other sporting disciples including weightlifting, shooting arena, squash, gymnastics, archery, canoeing and Kayaking.
• The University will have the capacity to train at least 1,080 sportspersons at a time including 540 female and 540 male sportspersons.

The correct answer is Nagaland.

• The Ministry of Home Affairs had declared the entire State of Nagaland as a “disturbed area” for six more months under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) In December 2020.
• MHA had said the area comprising the whole of Nagaland is in such a “disturbed and dangerous condition” that the use of armed forces in aid of the civil power is necessary.

Key Points 

​AFSPA :

• AFSPA gives armed forces the power to maintain public order in “Disturbed Areas”.
• They have the authority to prohibit a gathering of five or more persons in an area, can use force or even open fire after giving due warning if they feel a person is in contravention of the law.
• If reasonable suspicion exists, the army can also arrest a person without a warrant; enter or search a premises without a warrant; and ban the possession of firearms.
• A Disturbed Area is one which is declared by notification under Section 3 of the AFSPA.
• An area can be disturbed due to differences or disputes between members of different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities.
• The Central Government, or the Governor of the State or administrator of the Union Territory can declare the whole or part of the State or Union Territory as a disturbed area.
• A suitable notification would have to be made in the Official Gazette. As per Section 3 , it can be invoked in places where “the use of armed forces in aid of the civil power is necessary”.

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• This act has been a controversial one, with human rights groups opposing it as being aggressive.
• Manipur’s Irom Sharmila has been one of its staunchest opponents, going on a hunger strike in November 2000 and continuing her vigil till August 2016. Her trigger was an incident in the town of Malom in Manipur, where ten people were killed waiting at a bus stop.
• The 5^th report of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission on public order has also recommended the repeal of the AFSPA.

The correct answer is Rani Kamlapati Station, Bhopal.

Key Points

• The station has been redeveloped at a cost of around Rs 100 crore with private participation — the first such large-scale PPP model in station redevelopment in India, in the works for the past few years.

Rani Kamlapati:

• Rani Kamlapati was the widow of Nizam Shah, whose Gond dynasty ruled the then Ginnorgarh, 55 km from Bhopal, in the 18^th century.
• Kampalati is known to have shown great bravery in facing aggressors during her reign after her husband was killed.
• Kamlapati was the “last Hindu queen of Bhopal”, who did great work in the area of water management and set up parks and temples.
• The Gond are one of the largest tribal communities in India, spread across Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar and Odisha.

The correct answer is A - 2, B - 1, C - 3, D - 4.

Key Points

Satya Narayana Nadella

• An Indian-American business executive.
• He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman.

Pichai Sundararajan

• Better known as Sundar Pichai is an Indian-American business executive.
• He is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google.
• Born in Madurai, India, Pichai earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering.

Parag Agrawal

• An Indian-American software engineer who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter Inc.
• Parag Agarwal, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, joined Twitter in 2011 and worked his way to becoming the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) by 2018.
• He is also an alumnus of Stanford University where he studied Computer Science and earned a PhD in Philosophy.
• Besides, the new Twitter CEO has also given his services to companies like Microsoft and AT&T.

Shantanu Narayen

• An Indian-American business executive.
• He has been the chairman, president, and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe Inc. since December 2007.

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The correct answer is Noida International Airport at Jewar.

Key Points

• Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi lay the foundation stone of the largest airport in Asia in November 2021 in at Noida , Jewar.
• The Uttar Pradesh government signed a concession agreement with representatives of Zurich Airport International for designing, building and operating Noida International Airport at Jewar.
• The airport will be developed as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and is scheduled to open in 2024.

Additional Information

• Zurich Airport International AG (ZAIA) won the contract to build and operate the airport in Greater Noida for a period of 40 years.
• When phase 1 development is completed in 2024, we will provide capacity for 12 million passengers per year.
• When fully built by 2040, the airport will have two runways, two terminal buildings, parking bays for 102 aircraft and will be able to handle 7 crore passengers per annum.
• Yamuna International Airport Private Limited (YIAPL) was formed as a special purpose vehicle in January this year for the development and the operations of the Noida International Greenfield Airport at Jewar.