Current Affairs Quiz - January 2022

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The All India Co-ordinated Research Project (AICRP) on poultry breeding, Mannuthy, under the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Science University (KVASU), bagged the ‘National breed conservation award’ for 2021.
ICAR – National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR) presented the award for conservation and research activities on the Tellicherry breed. It is the only registered native chicken breed from the state of Kerala.

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Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo’s statue has been unveiled in Panaji, Goa to motivate the younger generation towards sports.
This is the first time that the statue of Cristiano Ronaldo has been installed in India. The statue, which weighs around 410 kgs cost around Rs 12 Lakhs.

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The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) announced that it will add Egypt as its new member. NDB was established by BRICS nations, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, in the year 2015.
Egypt is the fourth new member admitted into NDB, after Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Uruguay. Marcos Troyjo is the President of the NDB.

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Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM).
ISM is an independent business division within the Digital India Corporation. It aims to build a robust semiconductor and display ecosystem in India. A financial support of up to 50 per cent of the project cost is approved for setting up variants of semiconductor fab in India. A financial support for six years is given from the date of approval.

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China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the “standardised” names of 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh.
China has been claiming around 90,000 sq km of Arunachal Pradesh as its own territory. It had even called the state as “South Tibet” back in 2017. India, in response announced that the renaming does not take away the sovereignty of India from the state.

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Ladakh is celebrating, Losar, the traditional new year. Losar festival is being celebrated by Buddhist Community in the region.
The festival began with the celebration of Birth and Nirvana Anniversary Je Tsongkhapa. People celebrated the festival at religious places like Monasteries, Stupas and other places. The festival is celebrated in Tibetan Buddhism in the month of February or March.

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The country paid tributes to Rani Velu Nachiyar on her birth anniversary. She was the queen of Sivagangai, in Tamil Nadu and waged war against the British.
Born in 1730, she is known as the first queen to have fought against the British colonial power. She was trained in archery, horse riding, martial arts, and even weapon handling. After the British troops killed his husband, she fought and recaptured her kingdom and ruled Sivagangai for over 10 years.

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Nalbana Bird Sanctuary is the core area of the Ramsar designated wetlands of Chilika Lake, Odisha. Chilika Lake is the largest brackish water lake in India.
As per the water bird status survey-2022 conducted in the Chilika, a total of 10,74,173 birds of the 107 water bird species and 37,953 individuals of 76 wetland dependent species were counted. It also included the rare Mongolian gull. The count was over 12 lakh, last year. A total of 3,58,889 birds of 97 species were counted in Nalabana Bird Sanctuary.

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‘Plan Bee’ was first implemented by the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) as a unique method to keep elephants away from railway tracks.
Union Minister for Railways  Ashwini Vaishnaw informed that the Railways is set to implement ‘Plan Bee’ throughout the country. It uses an amplifying system to imitate the buzz of a swarm of honey bees.

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A team of Scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to observe a newborn star (protostar) in the WB89-789 region.
It is located in the extreme outer Galaxy. Scientists have detected carbon-, oxygen-, nitrogen-, sulfur-, and silicon-bearing molecules were detected. The protostar and the associated cocoon of chemically-rich gas were detected at the edge of our Galaxy, for the first time.