Current Affairs One-Liner: 9th February 2021

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected SpaceX to launch its SPHEREx Mission. The mission will perform an all-sky survey in order to measure near-infrared spectra approx. 450 million galaxies across the universe and 100 million stars inside our Milky Way Galaxy.
• 8th ASEAN-India Tourism Ministers Meet 2021: India was represented by Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel.
• Rishabh Pant: He is Indian wicketkeeper-batsman and has won inaugural ICC Player of the Month Award 2021.

• South Korea announced to construct the world’s largest wind power plant by 2030. It will have a max capacity of 8.2 gigawatts.
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• Capital of South Korea: Seoul
• Currency of South Korea: South Korean Won
• Books and Authors: Title of Book: ‘Platform Scale: For A Post-Pandemic World’
• Author: Sangeet Paul Choudary
• Title of Book: ‘By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life’
• Author: Former Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
• Himachal Pradesh: It has become the first state in India to set up e-cabinet with an aim to make cabinet processing works in a paperless manner.
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• WLS in HP: Bandli WLS, Chail WLS, Gamgul WLS, Sainj WLS, Talra WLS, Lipa Asrang WLS
• A new intergovernmental organisation named Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) was launched. This organisation is meant to be dedicated to radio astronomy. The launch came after the meeting of Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) Council. The council approved the establishment of the world’s largest radio telescope.
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• HQ of SKAO: United Kingdom
• Mukhyamantri Vigyan Pratibha Pariksha Scheme: It was approved by Delhi. Under this scheme Rs, 5000 will be provided as a science scholarship to 1000 merit students of 9th class in the Delhi’s schools. The scheme was launched with an aim to promote science education at the school level.
• Obituaries: Akhtar Ali: He was India’s Tennis player.
• 16th Yudh Abhyas
• Triton Electric Vehicle signed MoU with BEL
• Goa to Become Fisheries Hub of India
• RBI to conduct OMO of Rs 20,000 Crore
• Asom Mala Programme

Question: 

Q.1 Akhtar Ali, who passed away recently belonged to which profession?
a. Author
b. Filmmaker
c. Sitar musical instrument player
d. Tennis Player