Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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Gangaur Festival is predominantly celebrated in the state of Rajasthan. Rajasthan Tourism Department organised the festival after two years gap due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival commenced on April 3 and continues for 18 days. The Tourism Department of the state has made special arrangements to make the foreign tourists aware of the culture of the state.

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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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As per the provisions of National Education Policy-2020, the University Grants Commission(UGC) has developed a draft curricular framework and credit system for Four Years’ Undergraduate Programme (FYUGP).
The framework aims to equip students in one or more subject areas.  The draft framework has been placed in public domain for seeking suggestions from stakeholders.

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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 United Nations designated April 5 as the International Day of Conscience. It aims to remind people to self-reflect to improve themselves, their communities, and the world. At the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Kingdom of Bahrain sponsored the initiative to designate 5 April as an International Day of Conscience.
The third International Day of Conscience was observed in the year 2022. The Day is led by the campaign of ‘Promoting the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience’.

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World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved a loan of Rs 7500 Cr for the Gujarat government’s Mission School of Excellence project.
Under the Mission School of Excellence project, the state government will spend Rs 10,000 crore in the next five years, to be spent on building new classrooms, smart classrooms, new computer labs and tinkering labs in government and grant-in-aid schools across the state.

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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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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports released USD 72,124 to UNESCO Fund for Elimination of Doping in Sport.
For the first time in 2021, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports made contribution of USD 28172 towards the UNESCO Fund. Copenhagen Declaration on Anti-Doping in Sport was agreed to by the Government of India in 2003. India is a signatory to the ‘UNESCO Anti-Doping Convention’.

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On 7 April, UNESCO commemorates the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
The day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003. The date marks the beginning of the genocide perpetrated against members of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu extremist-led government. Over 1 million Tutsi were systematically murdered along with Moderate Hutu and others who opposed the massacres.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Ax-1, a mission from Houston-based Company Axiom Space. It is the first fully private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
The four-member crew officially began a ten-day journey that will include eight days aboard the International Space Station. Their capsule is known as Endeavour.