Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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Indian private sector lender Axis Bank has acquired the Indian consumer banking businesses of US bank Citigroup.
The sale includes businesses of credit cards, retail banking, wealth management and consumer loans for Rs 12,325 crore, as part of plans to exit its retail operations in 13 markets. The sale excludes Citi’s institutional client businesses in India.

 

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As per the data from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) crossed the 500-crore mark in terms of volume.
In March this year, UPI was close to touching the ₹10-lakh crore milestone in value terms in March this year. There were around 315 banks live on the UPI platform by March this year.

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Arunachal Pradesh signed a pact with WWF India to develop the State Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (SBSAP).
The SBSAP will be aligned with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and Pakke Declaration. The state cabinet adopted the ‘Pakke Tiger Reserve 2047 Declaration on Climate Change Resilient and Responsive Arunachal Pradesh’, last year.

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel announced that a plan is being developed to rehabilitate those people who migrated to neighbouring states during the Salwa Judum movement around 15 years ago.
Salwa Judum, an anti-Naxal operation powered by vigilante groups, was kicked off in 2005-06 in Bastar. It forced several tribals to flee and settle in neighbouring states.

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Serbia’s incumbent President Aleksandar Vucic has declared victory in the recently held presidential election.
He has been serving as the President of Serbia since 2017 and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party since 2012. He announced that Serbia will try to preserve friendly relations in many areas with the Russian Federation.

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The Delhi Government has project to set up ‘Hobby Hubs’ in government schools. It includes after-school dance, music, arts and crafts activities.
For the 2022-2023 academic session, this project will be implemented in single shift government schools. The project aims to make optimum use of school infrastructure and to use it after school hours to promote extra-curricular activities.

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The Blue Nile, a subsidiary of the Nile River originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and travels through Ethiopia and Sudan.
A shipwreck on the Blue Nile River happened in Sudan’s Sennar province has killed 23 people, all of them female. The Blue Nile is an important transport route for people and goods in the African nations.

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The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD) has launched a pilot project in the state of Uttarakhand to implement the One Health Framework by One Health Support Unit.
The key objective of the Unit is to develop a national One Health roadmap based on the learnings of the pilot project implementation. Inter-ministerial One Health committee under the chairmanship of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India has been established to lead the implementation of the One Health Support Unit.

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‘Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Bill, 2022’ was introduced by the External Affairs Minister in Lok Sabha. The Bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha amends the original act of 2005.
The bill seeks to prohibit financing of any activity in relation to weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems and empowers the Central Government to freeze, seize or attach funds for preventing such financing.

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A group of lawmakers have introduced a bill in US Congress to recapture nearly 3,80,000 unused family and employment-based visas.
The ‘Jumpstart our Legal Immigration System Act’ seeks to reduce Green Card backlog, particularly affecting immigrants from countries like India and China. It would allow immigrant US residents eligible for adjustment to Legal Permanent Residence (LPR) status.