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Pratibha Pages the final of the inaugural edition of the 17 World Test Championship. India will face New Zealand in the The world’s third most final of the ICC World Test Championship at in England between 18 June and 22 June 2021. National Vaccination Day The National Vaccination Day, also polluted country is? called the National Immunization Day, ñªëÅ]î¦ô¢Ù ÷«Ja 24, 2021 n e-mail:[email protected] is celebrated every year on March 16 to convey the importance of vaccina- tion to the entire nation. of Forests for 2021 is "Forest restora- National rated the digitization of 4.5 Crore New Vehicle scrappage policy tion: a path to recovery and well- The day was first observed in the pages of Records and Exhibition being." year 1995, the year on which India Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav On 18 March 2021, Union minister for based on “Mahatma Gandhi & the started Pulse Polio Programme. road transport and highways Nitin n 12 March 2021, Prime Minister Cooperation Movement” on 11 March India in the final of World Test O Gadkari announced the New vehicle Narendra Modi flagged off the 2021. scrapping policy in Parliament. Championship ‘Padyatra’ (Freedom March) from The National Archives initiated dig- Writer As per the new policy, in case of On 6 March 2021, India defeated Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad and itization Records. Amara Veeraswamy failure to get a fitness certificate, com- England in the final Cricket test match. inaugurated the curtain-raiser activi- On this occasion, he said that out of mercial vehicles will be de-registered With this win, India clinched the four- Subject Expert ties of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ the total archive of nearly 18 crore after 15 years and Private vehicles will match series 3-1 and sealed a place in (India@75). pages, about 4 crore 50 lakh pages be de-registered after 20 years. will be digitised in the first phase Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav is a The policy, which also recommends Model Questions 7. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari series of events to be organised by which is expected to get over in the announced that the Nag River the mandatory scrapping of all gov- next 3 years. the Government of India to commem- ernment vehicles over 15 years old. 1. Samia Suluhu Hassan sworn in as Pollution Abatement Project has orate the 75th Anniversary of India’s first female president of………. been approved at a cost of over Rs. The owners of old vehicles provide Agro-Sericulture and Samia Suluhu Hassan Independence. The Mahotsav will be 2,117 crore. The Nag river flows incentives to scrap their vehicles. 1) Congo 2) Libya celebrated as a Jan-Utsav in the spirit eradication of Thigh reeling through which city? The vehicle scrappage policy has 3) Georgia 4) Tanzania of Jan-Bhagidari. 1) Nagpur 2) Chennai been devised to promote sales of new On 7 March 2021, while attending a 5) Uganda He reminded the launch of the 3) Thiruvananthapuram vehicles with improved fuel efficiency National level programme on the con- General 2. Bihari Puraskar for 2020 conferred ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ 75 weeks and low pollution levels, as well as to vergence of Agro-Sericulture and on ……………… for his Hindi book 4) Patna 5) Gangtok before 15 August 2020 which will con- slash India's Rs. 10 lakh crore expen- eradication of Thigh reeling in New of Criticism, titled “Taslima: 8. India got which rank in the list of tinue till 15 August 2023. Awareness diture on crude imports. Delhi, the Union Textiles Minister Sangharsh aur Sahitya” UN World Happiness Report 2021? H On 13 March 2021, the Information Smriti Irani said that India will be fully 1) Raghu Ram Pillarisetti 1) 4 2) 39 3) 118 and Broadcasting Minister, Prakash Digitization of 4.5 Crore Aatmanirbhar in Silk production in the Others 2) Mohankrishna Bohara 4) 139 5) 34 Javadekar inaugurated the exhibi- next 2 years. 3) Biswajit Chatterjee 9. World Sparrow Day observed on pages of Records The International Day of Forests tion to commemorate 75 years of On the eve of International 4) Nikhil Srivastava 20 March 2021. Theme of 2021 India's Independence, Azadi Ka On the occasion of the 131st Women’s Day, Textiles Ministry dis- The International Day of Forests 5) Rajendra Kumar Bhandari World Sparrow Day is… Amrit Mahotsav at six places virtu- Foundation Day of the National tributes Buniyaad Reeling Machines observed on 21 March to celebrate 3. Kushinagar Airport located in which 1) “Sparrows for climate” ally. The six places are Jammu, Archives, the Union Minister of State to Women Silk Reelers to eradicate and raise awareness of the importance state that received the International 2) “Grow Sparrows” Imphal, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, for Culture and Tourism (Independent unhygienic and obsolete thigh reeling of all types of forests, Airport license from Director 3) “I LOVE Sparrows” Pune and Bengaluru. Charge) Prahlad Singh Patel inaugu- practice. The theme of the International Day General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)? 4) “Let live Sparrows” 1) UP 2) Maharashtra 5) “Sparrows and You” International up by the then Japanese Prime of PM 2.5 levels due to nationwide on 16th March, 2021. Ministers and 3) Bihar 4) West Bengal 10. Who is the Principal Scientific Minister Shinzo Abe back in 2007. coronavirus lockdown curbs imposed officials responsible for Women Affairs 5) Jharkhand Adviser to the Government of Quad Summit last year, India emerged as the world’s of IBSA Countries participated. The 4. National Safety Day observed on... India? World’s most polluted third most polluted country after Forum discussed key issues that con- 1) 12 March 2) 11 March 1) C. N. R. Rao The first historic virtual summit of Bangladesh and Pakistan. tribute to the transformation of 3) 18 March 4) 4 March 2) Shiva Ayyadurai Quadrilateral leaders began on 12 capital is Delhi women’s lives. 5) 10 March 3) Prof K. VijayRaghavan March 2021. Quad is an informal According to IQAir, a Swiss group that MRSAM to IAF and Army 5. Who got silver medal in the BWF 4) Balram Bhargava strategic forum comprising India, the measures air quality levels based on Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems International Conference on Swiss Open Super 300 at Basel? 5) Dr. Soumya Swaminathan United States, Japan, and Australia. the concentration of lung-damaging (KRAS) rolled out the first Medium Disaster Resilient Infrastructure 1) Saina Nehwal 2) Jwala Gutta 11. Who become the first Indian To ensure a free and open Indo- airborne particles known as PM 2.5, Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM) fencer to qualify for the 2021 Pacific region and to cooperate on New Delhi was the world’s most pollut- batch for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and On 17 March 2021, Prime Minister 3) PV Sindhu 4) Rituparna Das Summer Olympics in Tokyo? maritime, cyber and economic securi- ed capital for the third straight year in army on 16 March 2021. KRAS is a Narendra Modi addressed the opening 5) P.V.V Lakshmi 1) Simrithi Haresh Bathija ty, issues vital to the four democracies 2020. Prolonged exposure to PM 2.5 joint venture (JV) between Indian firm ceremony of the International 6. Who won the second edition of the in the face of challenges from China, can lead to deadly diseases, including Kalyani Group and Israel’s Rafael Conference on Disaster Resilient BBC Indian Sportswoman of the 2) Ruchi Trikha 3) Bhavani Devi Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cancer and cardiac problems. Advanced Defense Systems. Infrastructure (CDRI) through video Year award? 4) Kabita Devi 5) Padmaja Chinne President Biden (USA), Prime Minister On 16 March 2021, IQAir in its conferencing. PM pointed out that the 1) Harika Dronavalli IBSA Women’s Forum meeting KEY: 1-4 2-2 3-1 4-4 5-3 6-3 Scott Morrison (Australia) Prime report said that India was home to 35 year 2021 is particularly important as 2) Pratyusha Bodda Minister Yoshihide Suga (Japan) 7-1 8-4 9-3 10-3 11-3 of the world’s 50 most polluted cities Sixth India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) the world is approaching the mid-point 3) Koneru Hampi addressed the first Quad leaders virtu- which gathered data for 106 countries. 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