Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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The world’s largest electric cruise ship has made its maiden voyage in China, after cruising up and down the Yangtze River and settling into port in Yichang. It is developed by China Yangtze Power.
It is powered by a massive 7,500 kilowatt-hour marine battery from the top battery manufacturer for electric cars, Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL). The ship will go into commercial operations from next month, to be used mainly for sightseeing trips.

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The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced over one lakh internship opportunities through AICTE internship portal to enhance employability. The programme was launched by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Technical students as well as higher education students can apply for the internships provided by Salesforce, CISCO, and Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education (MGNCRE) among others.

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Jammu and Kashmir is the first India’s first Union Territory to launch its MyGov platform. It was launched by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
The platform aims for citizen engagement and achieve the goal of ‘Good Governance’. It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014. At present, MyGov has more than 2.29 Crore registered users named MyGov Saathis.

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Scientists from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium have published the first complete human genome.
Researchers in 2003 released what was then claimed as the complete sequence of the human genome. But about 8% of it had not been fully deciphered. With this, more researches may be undertaken regarding disease-causing mutations.

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Directorate General of Foreign Trade, under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries is responsible for the Foreign Trade Policy (DGFT) of India.
Recently, the DGFT announced that the existing Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20, which is valid upto March 31, 2022 is extended up to September 30, 2022. After the outbreak of Covid-19, the policy was first extended by a year to the end of March 2020.

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About sixty Artificial Intelligence-based cameras are to be installed around the Kozhikode city of Kerala, as a part of the State-level road safety project.
This step is to be implemented for the purpose of exposing traffic rule violations and book them with solid digital evidence. Across the State, there will be 726 cameras linked to special control rooms of the enforcement squads. The state government will spend ₹225 crore for the project.

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NASA and SpaceX are set to launch astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 is the fourth crew rotation mission that will carry an international crew of four astronauts on a science expedition. The mission will fly a new Crew Dragon spacecraft and will launch on a Falcon 9 booster. The spacecraft has been named “Freedom” by the Crew-4 astronauts.

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The Union Culture ministry launched a new portal named Temple 360, through which devotees can perform online rituals of prominent pilgrimage sites.
Live camera feeds across temples of India will be made available on the website. At present, live streaming of rituals from four temples: Somnath (Gujarat), Kashi Vishwanath (UP), Trimbakeshwar and Ghrishneshwar (both in Maharashtra) can be viewed on the portal.

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Two Indian musicians were among the winners at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
Composer Ricky Kej won his second Grammy Award as he won the award for Best New Age Album, jointly with Stewart Copeland for their album ‘Divine Tides’. Indian-American singer-songwriter Falguni Shah, called as Falu won in the Best Children’s Music Album category for her album ‘A Colorful World’.

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Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal announced that India’s merchandise exports rose to a record high of USD 418 billion in the 2021-22 fiscal.
The rise is due to the higher shipments of petroleum products, engineering goods, gems and jewellery and chemicals. India’s goods trade (exports and imports) crossed USD 1 trillion during 2021-22. India’s imports also touched an all-time high of USD 610 billion.