Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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18-year-old top Table tennis player from Tamil Nadu D. Vishwa was killed in a road accident while on his way to Shillong to participate in the 83rd senior national championships.
He won the Youth U-19 boys’ singles title in the National-ranking tournament in January last year and finished runner-up in the South Zone ranking tournament in December 2021.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently visited the Command and Control Centre set up by the Education Department of Gujarat.
The Command and Control Centre 2.0 or ‘Vidya Samiksha Kendra’ was inaugurated in Gandhi Nagar in 2021. It is a surveillance system which tracks enrolment, attendance, learning outcomes, drop-outs, school accreditation. It also monitors schools, teachers and block and cluster resource centre co-ordinators.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its latest World Economic Outlook report, slashed its forecast for India’s FY23 gross domestic product growth to 8.2 per cent.
Earlier, IMF had forecasted 9 per cent growth for India during the said year. The rate cut is due to higher commodity prices weighing on private consumption and investment. RBI earlier cut its FY23 GDP forecast to 7.2 per cent from 7.8 per cent.

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‘World Liver Day’ is observed on every 19 April, to spread awareness about liver related diseases. AS per WHO data, one in five Indians is likely to suffer from a liver disease.
In 2018, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India launched National Viral Hepatitis Control Program. It aims at prevention and control of viral hepatitis in India in order to achieve Sustainable Developmental Goal 3.3 by 2030.

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U.S. President Joe Biden launched USD 6 billion ‘Civil nuclear credit program’, to rescue nuclear power plants at risk of closing.
It helps to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change. The U.S. Department of Energy opened the certification and bidding process for the program that is intended to bail out financially distressed owners or operators of nuclear power reactors.

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Veteran physicist Ajay Kumar Sood has been appointed as the principal scientific advisor (PSA) to the Government of India.
As per the Personnel ministry order, Sood, a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council to the Prime minister, has been appointed to the post for a period of three years. He will succeed the incumbent PSA and renowned biologist K Vijay Raghavan.

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On the occasion of Civil Services Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conferred the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration.
They were instituted to recognize the extraordinary work done by Districts/implementing units and Central/State organisations for the welfare of common citizens. A total of 16 awards for 5 identified Priority Programmes and for innovations in the sphere of public administration/delivery of services etc. were given this year.

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The Indian Coast Guard Ship (Auxiliary Barge) named Urja Pravaha has been inducted into the Indian Coast Guard at Gujarat’s Bharuch.
It will be under the operational command of Coast Guard District Headquarters-4 (Kerala and Mahe), in addition to auxiliary barge Urja Shrota, which was based here since 2017. The ship is 36 meters long and is designed to carry Cargo Ship Fuel, Aviation Fuel and Fresh Water.

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The Brazil Minister of Mines and Energy of Brazil, H.E. Mr. Bento Albuquerque paid an official visit to India, on the invitation of the Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas- Hardeep Singh Puri.
The leaders reviewed the existing bilateral cooperation across the energy sector and committed to enhance the partnership between the countries. The two sides also agreed to work towards developing an Indian-Brazil Alliance for Bioenergy and Biofuels.

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April 24 is observed by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj as the National Panchayati Raj Day (NPRD) to celebrate the constitutional status accorded to the Panchayati Raj system in the country.
73rd Constitutional Amendment Act in 1992 gave state governments the authority to formalize Gram Panchayats and enable them to function as self-governing bodies.