Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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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 Haryana Vidhan Sabha has passed a resolution seeking completion of the Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal (SYL) Canal.
There has been a long-pending dispute of sharing of river waters between Haryana and Punjab. To counter the resolution passed by Punjab Vidhan Sabha staking a claim on Chandigarh, Haryana Assembly unanimously passed a resolution. It demanded that the central government should not take any steps that would disturb the existing balance between the two states.

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The United Arab Emirates has been selected as the host country of COP28 Climate Summit 2023. The UN Climate Summit is to be held at Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi announced that it would start banning single-use plastic bags from June. It plans to completely get rid of single-use styro-foam cups, plates and food containers by 2024. UAE has also declared it aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

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The BRICS nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, launched a collaborative ‘BRICS Vaccine R&D Centre’
The Centre will comprise basic research and development, preclinical and clinical studies and strengthen BRICS countries’ laboratory capacities to develop infrastructure for testing vaccine candidates.

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The ‘World Homoeopathy Day’ is observed every year on April 10 to commemorate the Birthday of Dr. Hahnemann, the Founder of Homoeopathy.
Homoeopathy is one of the most popular medical systems in India and a part of the AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) services. Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), Ministry of AYUSH organised a scientific convention on the theme of ‘Homoeopathy: People’s Choice for Wellness’.

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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting constituted Animation, visual effects, gaming and comic (AVGC) Promotion task force, which will recommend a national curriculum framework for higher studies in these segments.
The AVGC Promotion task force will be headed by the Secretary of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. It will have Secretaries of–Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; Department of Higher Education; Ministry of Education; Ministry of Electronics and IT, and DPIIT.

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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit has authored the ‘Expanding Heat Resilience’ report.
As per the report, extreme temperatures are being recorded in Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, the states with no history of heat-waves. The number of states affected by heat-waves was at 28 in 2019, up from 19 the year before.

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The Ministry of Earth Sciences informed the Lok Sabha that 34% of the 6,907.18 km long Indian coastline of the mainland is under varying degrees of erosion.
26% is of the coastline is of an accreting nature, and the remaining 40% is in a stable state. The National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Chennai, an attached office of the Ministry of Earth Sciences is monitoring shoreline erosion since 1990 using remote sensing data and GIS mapping techniques.

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Dipika Pallikal teamed up with Saurav Ghosal, in her first competitive event since October 2018 and clinched the mixed doubles title with win over England’s Adrian Waller and Alison Waters.
Dipika and Joshna Chinappa won in the women’s doubles final, against England’s Sarah Jane Perry and Waters. Dipika achieved this feat less than six months after giving birth to twins.

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The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated a two-day National Judicial Conference on Mediation and Information Technology, being organised by the High Court of Gujarat.
The Conference is being organised at Ekta Nagar, Narmada district of Gujarat. The President pointed out that ‘Mediation’ is yet to find wide acceptance across the country. He lauded the Mediator and Conciliation Project Committee of the Supreme Court, for organising training programmes.