Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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An MoU was signed between iCreate (International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
iCreate is the Government of Gujarat’s flagship technology incubator. The MoU will promote rapid economic development and help create world-class start-ups. CSIR will explore new ways of financially supporting innovative start-ups.

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As part of ‘Operation Matysa’, as much as 3,645.88 kg of stale and chemical-laced fish has been seized and destroyed in the state of Kerala.
Over 100 inspections were conducted across the State, as per the statement from the office of Health Minister Veena George. Fish samples were collected and sent to the Food Safety department’s laboratories for analysis.

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As per the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Madhya Pradesh government will give Rs 900 per month for farmers for rearing indigenous cows to promote natural farming.
Another objective of the scheme is to deal with the problem of stray cattle, which has become an issue of concern for farmers in Madhya Pradesh. There are about 8.5 Lakh stray cattle in the state, according to the 20th Livestock Survey. To support natural farming, the state will appoint five workers in every block, who will motivate the farmers to take up natural farming.

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Flipkart has signed a memorandum of understanding with the West Bengal government to train and support local artisans, weavers and handicraft makers.
The local artisans would leverage its e-commerce platform to scale up their businesses nationally. The agreement was signed with the state’s Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and textiles department.

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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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Watering hole attack, also known as a supply chain attack, is one of the forms of Cyber Attacks.
The watering hole is a technique in which the attacker observes the websites an organisation often uses and infects them with malware. Top websites such as Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Twitter were exploited to execute watering hole attacks recently.

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Chief Justice of India NV Ramana chaired the 39th conference of Chief Justices of various High Courts of the country, at the premises of the Supreme Court, New Delhi.
The first Chief Justices’ conference was held in November 1953 and 38 such conferences have been organised so far. The last Conference was held in the year 2016. It aims to address the issues concerning the judiciary and to discuss the steps to be taken to improve the justice delivery system.

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The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has launched a revamped Zero Defect Zero Effect (ZED) Certification Scheme.
The first phase of the programme will focus on manufacturing MSMEs while the second would be for those MSMEs in the services sector. The number of parameters required for a Gold category ZED certificate has been recently reduced from 50 to 20.

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In the West Darfur province of Sudan, violent clashes left more than 200 people dead and 103 injured. At least eight men belonging to the African Masalit tribe and seven Arab men were killed in the attack.
The Kreinik town in Darfur was stormed by a large group of heavily armed individuals, who looted the houses and killed people. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Sudan to protect the population and take steps to prevent further outbreaks of communal violence.