Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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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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India and Kyrgyzstan carried out a two-week-long Joint Special Forces Exercise, in reflection of growing defence ties between the two countries.
The exercise at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh concluded recently. Combat shooting, sniping, survival in mountains, hostage rescue drills and unarmed combat were practised during the exercise.

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The United Nations Human Rights Council is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. It is headquartered at Geneva, Switzerland.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) suspended Russia from Human Rights Council as 93 countries voted in favour of the draft resolution, 24 countries voted against it, and 58 countries abstained. India abstained from voting on the draft resolution to suspend Russia from UNHRC.

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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology formed a 17 member advisory committee to guide the Rs 76,000 crore-Semiconductor Mission.
The Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw will be the Chairperson of the committee. NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat, Principal Scientific Advisor, and Secretaries from the Ministry of External affairs, Departments of expenditure, economic affairs, and promotion of industry and internal trade, will be members of the committee.

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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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The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has recently launched Airport as Venue for skilled artisans Of The Region (AVSAR) scheme.
It aims to allocate space to Self Help Groups (SHGs) at its airports for selling or showcasing the self-made products of their region. Under this scheme, an area of 100-200 square feet has been earmarked at each AAI-operated airport.

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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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Pakistan conducted a successful flight test of Shaheen-III- surface to surface ballistic missile. The test flight was aimed to revalidate design and technical parameters of the weapon system.
Shaheen-III, the land-based missile has a range of 2,750 kilometres. Meaning White Falcon, the missile was test fired for the first time in 2015.

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Dozens of megalithic stone jars have been recently unearthed in the state of Assam, at four previously unknown sites.
The discovery has brought to focus the possible links between India’s Northeast and Southeast Asia, dating back to the second millennium BC. The study calls for more research to understand the cultural relationship between Assam, Laos and Indonesia, the only two other sites where similar jars have been found.