Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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India’s agricultural products export touched a new milestone by crossing USD 50 billion in the year 2021-22.
This is also the highest level ever achieved for agriculture exports from India. The agricultural exports have grown by 19.92% during 2021-22 to touch USD 50.21 billion. As per the data, the highest ever exports have been achieved for staples like rice (USD 9.65 billion), wheat (USD 2.19 billion), sugar (USD 4.6 billion).

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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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The twelfth edition of the UK-based Quacquarelli Symonds’s (QS) latest World University Rankings by Subject was released recently.
35 programmes offered by 16 Indian higher education institutions have featured in top 100 in the world, compared to 25 courses by 12 institutions listed last year. Programmes from six of the eight Public ‘Institutes of Eminence’ (IoE) of India have figured in the top 100.

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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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‘Project Kuiper’ is a flagship project of the ace multi-national technology company Amazon. It is Amazon’s proposed internet-from-space initiative.
Amazon announced that it has booked new launches on three different rockets to get its satellites into orbit. The satellites will fly on rockets currently being developed by European launch provider Arianespace, US-based United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the guidelines on setting up of digital banking units (DBUs). Commercial banks (other than RRBs, payment banks and LABs) with past digital banking experience are permitted to open DBUs in tier 1 to tier 6 centres
The Budget speech for 2022-2023 announced setting up of 75 DBUs in 75 districts to commemorate 75 years of independence of the country.

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China successfully launched a new Earth observation satellite named ‘Gaofen-3 03’ by a Long March-4C rocket.
The satellite will become part of its land-sea radar satellite constellation and capture fine-resolution images to help the country safeguard its maritime interests. The satellite will be networked with the Gaofen-3 and Gaofen-3 02 satellites to form a land-sea radar satellite constellation.

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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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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has scrapped the charges levied on USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Services Data) messages.
USSD enables financial and banking transactions in feature phones. So far, the charge was 50 paise per USSD session. A charge of 50 paise per USSD session has been deducted so far.

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As per RBI, Card-less cash withdrawal, which was offered only by a few banks, will now be made available across all banks and ATMs via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
UPI will be used for customer authorisation and this step is expected to enhance ease of transactions and eliminate frauds.