Daily Current Affairs Date: 16 FEBRUARY 2021 1. What is the name of the android mobile 6. How many female scientists have been application, that has been launched by a team of conferred with SERB Women Excellence Award scientists, nature lovers and doctors in Kerala to 2021? help people and doctors treat snake bites? (A) 4 (A) Snakehelp (B) Medisnake (B) 3 (C) Snake Doctor (D) Snakepedia (C) 5 (E) None of these (D) 2 (E) 6 2. Who has been appointed as the pilot of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space 7. Starstruck: Confessions of a TV executive is a Station (ISS) assigned by NASA? memoir of which media personality? (A) Bob Hines (B) Loral O'Hara (A) Peter Mukerjea (C) Warren Hoburg (D) Zena Cardman (B) Sanjeev Khanna (E) Francisco Rubio (C) Mikhail Bora (D) Shabnam Mukerjea 3. Name the two Indian-Americans who has been (E) Siddharta Das appointed to key positions at AmeriCorps, the federal agency for volunteering and service? 8. Who has been sworn in as the new Prime (A) Rakesh Khurana and Neeli Bendapudi Minister of Italy? (B) Sonali Nijhawan and Sri Preston Kulkarni (A) Christine Lagarde (C) Jamshed Bharucha and Sonali Nijhawan (B) Jens Weidmann (D) Dinesh D'Souza and Neeli Bendapudi (C) Giuseppe Conte (E) Sonali Nijhawan and Jamshed Bharucha (D) Sergio Mattarella (E) Mario Draghi 4. As per recent announcement by Finance Ministry, the cabinet has decided to increase the 9. Which state/UT has launched the “Zero Covid by authorised share capital of National Insurance Feb28” campaign to ensure zero COVID-19 cases Company Limited (NICL) to: by 28 February 2021? (A) ₹7,000 crore (B) ₹7,300 crore (A) Lakshadweep (C) ₹7,800 crore (D) ₹7,500 crore (B) Goa (E) ₹7,900 crore (C) Kerala (D) Karnataka 5. Recently Labour Ministry has finalised rules (E) Puducherry under the four labour codes on wages, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety, 10. The three-day famous “Mandu Festival” has health and working conditions. In context to same recently begun in which state? who is the incumbent minister of the Ministry of (A) Maharashtra Labour and Employment? (B) Rajasthan (A) Rao Inderjit Singh (B) Rajnath Singh (C) Madhya Pradesh (C) Santosh Gangwar (D) Rajesh Agarwal (D) Chhattisgarh (E) Narendra Singh Tomar (E) Odisha ANSWERS: - 1(D) 2(A) 3(B) 4(D) 5(C) 6(A) 7(A) 8(E) 9(E) 10(C).