Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has provided the approval for Rs 600 crore to the Maharashtra government under the SIDBI Cluster Development Fund. The state will revive and upgrade various ITIs /polytechnics to create skilled manpower.
SIDBI is the principal financial institution engaged in the promotion, financing and development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.

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President Joe Biden commemorated the 107th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide. The President used the term genocide for the first time during last year’s anniversary.
In 1915, Ottoman officials arrested Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople, the present-day Istanbul. He issued a statement in memory of the 1.5 million Armenians ‘who were deported, massacred or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination’.

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‘Pranahita Pushkaralu’ is a mega river festival dedicated to worshipping the Pranahita, a tributary of the River Godavari, in Telangana.
The festival was celebrated for the first time following the creation of Telangana state. It started at the venues created on the shores of Pranahita. Over 6 lakh devotees from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka states took part in the 12-day long festival.

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Microsoft recently announced that it had disrupted cyber-attacks from a Russian nation-state hacking group called ‘Strontium’.
The Hacking Group targeted Ukrainian firms, media companies, government bodies, and think tanks in the U.S. and the EU. Apart from Microsoft, security firms, government agencies and researchers have been watching the attack group, which has been operational for over one and a half decades.

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The ‘e-Proposal system’ of Meghalaya’s Planning department has won the prestigious UN Award-World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) Prizes 2022.
The system is a part of the Meghalaya government’s flagship programme, Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture (MeghEA). Meghalaya’s project was awarded as ‘Champion Project’ in the category “The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development”.

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As per the ACI Worldwide Report, India’s real-time transactions touched 48.6 billion, almost three times of China with 18 billion transactions, which is at second place.
India’s real-time transactions also recorded seven times greater than the combined real-time payments volume (7.5 billion) of U.S., Canada, U.K., France and Germany. The adoption of real-time payments resulted in cost savings of USD 12.6 billion for Indians in 2021, which helped to unlock USD 16.4 billion of economic output.

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Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Shri Narayan Rane inaugurated the Ministry’s Mega Event- “Enterprise India” under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
It is a series of commemorative entrepreneurship development events and activities being organised to promote entrepreneurship culture and create awareness about the schemes and initiatives of Ministry of MSME across the country.

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An H3N8 strain of bird flu has been detected in humans for the first time, in China’s Henan province. Avian influenza or bird flu is a highly contagious viral disease with the first reports of human cases in the 1990s.
As per the country’s National Health Commission, the four-year-old boy infected had been in contact with chickens and crows raised at his home. Some strains of the bird flu have been passed to humans in rare conditions. H3N8 viruses circulate in birds and in horses and have also been detected in dogs.

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Ministry of Development of North-East Region is organising North-East Festival across all the eight North Eastern States from as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
The Seven-day Festival aims to showcase the achievements of North Eastern Region with the Spirit of ‘Hum Kisi Se Kam Nahi’. The programmes will cover the critical areas including infrastructure, investment potential, energy needs and role of women.

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IndiGo became the first airline in Asia to use the indigenously developed satellite-based navigation system ‘GAGAN’ during landing.
The system has been jointly developed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Indian Space Research Organisation. It provides corrections to the global positioning system (GPS) signal to improve air traffic management, with the help of reference and uplink stations.