Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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The board of top micro-blogging company Twitter has agreed to a USD 44bn takeover offer from the billionaire Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is the world’s richest person, according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of USD 273.6bn. He runs the electric vehicle maker Tesla and the aerospace firm SpaceX.

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Kerala and Netherlands have signed an MoU for the Cosmos Malabaricus project to help illustrate the history of the southern state in the 18th century.
The agreement also aims to establish paint academics at two Kerala cities: Kollam and Malappuram. The Cosmos Malabaricas project is being implemented by the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), the National Archives of the Netherlands and the University of Leiden.  It aims to make the digitised Dutch archival material accessible to international scholars and the people of Kerala.

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NITI Aayog, as a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, organized a National Level Workshop on “Innovative Agriculture” in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said ‘Natural farming is the need of the hour and it is important to identify scientific ways to assure farmers higher incomes from natural farming.’ Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parushottam Rupala, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar and Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog -Dr. Rajiv Kumar also participated in the Workshop.

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India and Maldives are planning to set up a transmission interconnection for transfer of renewable power between the two countries, to facilitate energy transition programme of Maldives.
During the meeting between Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh and his Maldives counterpart, the leaders proposed two Memoranda of Understanding — on energy cooperation and on transmission interconnection under One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG).

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The Ministry of Steel recently announced that the country exported 13.5 million tonnes (mt) of finished steel amounting to ₹1 trillion and imported steel of around ₹46000 crores.
India also recorded an all time steel high consumption at around 106 million tonnes and production at 120 million tonnes. Government of India launched Production Linked Scheme (PLI) to produce speciality steel in our country.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) organises the World Immunization Week between 24-30 April, every year.
As per the WHO, Increasing awareness about vaccines and closing immunization gaps could protect millions of people worldwide from vaccine-preventable diseases, including polio. After global efforts, there were just six cases of polio caused by the wild poliovirus in 2021.

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The Ministry of Electronics and IT launched the ‘Digital India RISC-V Microprocessor (DIR-V)’ program. It aims to enable creation of Microprocessors and achieve industry-grade Silicon and Design wins by December 2023.
It also set milestones for commercial silicon of SHAKTI & VEGA and their design wins by December 2023.  DIR-V will see partnerships with Startups, Academia and Multinationals to make India, a RISC-V Talent Hub for the World as well as supplier of RISC-V SoC (System on Chips) for Servers, Mobile devices, Automotive, IoT & Microcontrollers.

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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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In the recent study published by Washington State University, the researchers have demonstrated the idea of incorporating old masks into a cement mixture to create stronger, more durable concrete.
As per the paper, the mixture using mask materials was 47% stronger than commonly used cement after a month of curing. Production of cement is a carbon-intensive process, responsible for 8% of carbon emissions worldwide.