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 📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 03 October 2021 

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1) The world's largest Khadi national flag was installed in Leh, Ladakh on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 152nd birth anniversary. 

➨ It was inaugurated by Ladakh Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur.

➨ The tricolor, which is 225-feet long and 150-feet wide, weighs around 1,000 kg.

➨Hemis National Park  is a high altitude national park in Ladakh.

➨Ladakh (UT) -  Shri Radha Krishna Mathur (Lieutenant Governor)

2) Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today launched the second phases of SWACHH BHARAT MISSION-URBAN (SBM-U) and ATAL MISSION FOR REJUVENATION AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION (AMRUT) in New Delhi.

3) Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has named geologist Najla Bouden Romdhone as the country’s first-ever female Prime Minister-designate.

4) RV Suchiang has become the first-ever native woman Chief Secretary of Meghalaya. 

➨ Rebecca Vanessa Suchiang is a 1989 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Services and has been appointed by the State Government.

▪️Meghalaya :-

👉Governor - Satya Pal Malik

👉Conrad Kongkal Sangma

👉Umiam Lake 

👉Nartiang Durga Temple

👉Khasi, Garo and Jaintia hills

5) The Power Ministry has given approval to the “Dispute Avoidance Mechanism” through an ‘Independent Engineer’ (IE) for hydro projects.

6) The National Basketball Association (NBA) today named Bollywood star Ranveer Singh the NBA Brand Ambassador for India. Singh will work with the NBA to help grow the league's profile in India throughout its 75th anniversary season in 2021-22.

7) Saurav Bhattacharya of Delhi Golf Club emerged as the winner of the first Andhra Pradesh Amateur Golf Championship while Arjun Bhati of JP Greens Noida and Rohan Dhole Patil of Pune Golf Club were declared as the first and second runners-up respectively.

8) The fifth edition of the Elite Women’s National Championships will be held in Hisar between October 21-27.

➨ This event will also mark the return of Elite women’s national championships after a gap of more than one year due to COVID-19 pandemic.

9) Scientists have discovered two new species of large, predatory dinosaurs with "unusual, crocodile-like skulls" on England's Isle of Wight. The dinosaurs are believed to be species of spinosaurids, and are the first skeletons of the dinosaur family to be uncovered in the United Kingdom since 1983.

10) Prominent Indian industrialists Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan have been chosen by a top India-centric business advocacy group as the recipients of its 2021 Global Leadership Award.

11) Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology, Jaipur.

➨This comes at a time when there is a shortage of petrochemicals in the country with prices going up amid a growing interest in India’s petrochemicals sector.

▪️ Rajasthan:-

CM - Ashok Gehlot

Governor - Kalraj Mishra

➭Amber Palace

➭Hawa Mahal

➭Ranthambore National Park

➭City Palace

➭Keoladeo Ghana National Park

➭Sariska National Park.

➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort

12) Vice Admiral Adhir Arora, NM has taken charge as the Chief Hydrographer to the Govt of India from Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar, AVSM, NM who superannuated on 30 Sep 21. 

➨Vice Admiral Adhir Arora was commissioned in the Executive branch of the Indian Navy in 1985.

▪️Ministry of Defence :-  

➨Headquarters - New Delhi

➨Founded - 15 August 1947

➨Navy day - 4 December 

 ➨Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):- General Bipin Rawat

➨ Chief of the Navy Staff - Admiral Karambir Singh

13) Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Jal Jeevan Mission App with the view to improve awareness among stakeholders in order to facilitate greater transparency and accountability of schemes under the Jal Jeevan Mission.

14) The Uttar Pradesh government named actor Kangana Ranaut as the brand ambassador of its ambitious 'one district-one product' programme.

▪️Uttar Pradesh :- 

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister -  Yogi Adityanath

Governor - Smt. Anandiben Patel

➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary

➨Dudhwa National Park

➨National Chambal Sanctuary

➨Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake

➨Kashi Vishwanath Temple

Q.1. Which institute in India has developed the first option of cornea transplant?

Ans. IIT Hyderabad

Q.2. The Lucy Mission, which was in news recently, is associated with which space agency?

Ans. NASA

Q.3. Which technology company has launched 'Creator Education Program' in India?

Ans. Facebook

Q.4. What is the foreign debt ratio of India's GDP as of March 2020?

Ans. 21.1%

Q.5. On which date Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated?

Ans. 02 October

Q.6. On which day is the World Smile Day celebrated?

Ans. First Friday of October

Q.7. International Translation Day is celebrated on which day?

Ans. 30 September

Q.8. Recently which country has discussed joining Taliban-led Afghanistan in multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects?

Ans. Pakistan

Q.9. All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has developed a kit to increase immunity in children up to how many years?

Ans. 16 years

Q.10. A Paris court has sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to imprisonment for how many years for spending twice the amount in the 2012 elections?

Ans. One Year