Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2022

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the ‘NCB National Conference on Drug Trafficking and National Security’ at Chandigarh.
As a part of the conference, over 30,000 kg of drugs was burnt and disposed of by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) teams in Delhi, Chennai, Guwahati and Kolkata, which was telecast through video-conferencing.

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Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) introduced a new facility for pensioners to submit their digital life certificate.
Under the new ‘Face recognition facility’, pensioners can now submit their digital life certificate on the EPFO portal from anywhere in the country. Union Minister of Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav launched the face authentication technology.

 

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The Ministry of MSME launched the Udyam Registration Portal in 2020, after the adoption of the revised definition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
Since then, as many as 1 crore MSMEs have registered on the Udyam portal on a voluntary basis. The MSMEs have also declared that they employ 7.6 crore people, of which 1.7 crore are women. The Digi Locker facility for Udyam Registration was also launched.

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SEBI has restructured its market data advisory committee by reducing one member to 20. It recommends policy for access to securities market data.
NSE’s former MD and CEO Vikram Limaye has been replaced by newly appointed Ashishkumar Chauhan. MS Sahoo former IBBI Chairperson chairs the advisory committee.

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The Indian Cotton Federation in association with the Indian Cotton Association is organising a two-day Conference on Cotton Challenges Ahead 2022.
The conference will be held in city of Coimbatore in state of Tamil Nadu. There will be various panel discussions with all stakeholders from different segments of the cotton sector.

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As per the recent announcement of Renewable Energy Ministry, world’s largest floating solar power plant is going to be built in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa.
The plant is expected to generate 600 Megawatt power by 2022-23 and is estimated to be worth over Rs 3000 crores. At present, India’s largest floating solar power project is operational at Ramagundam in Telangana, being operated by NTPC.

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India is set to host diplomats of the 15-nation UN Security Council including US, China and Russia, in October for a special meeting on counter-terrorism.
India is an elected non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a two-year term. India’s tenure at the Council will end in December this year. India chairs the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee for 2022.

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A panel led by Justice Srikrishna, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, prepared a draft version of the Personal Data Protection Bill in 2018.
The draft was reviewed by the Joint Parliamentary Committee, which submitted its recommendations along with a draft Bill in November 2021. Recently, the government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill from Parliament citing that a comprehensive legal framework is being worked upon.

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Tejaswin Shankar became the first Indian to win men’s high jump medal in the Commonwealth Games.
The national record holder cleared 2.22m to finish third on the event winning bronze medal.  He holds the high jump national record of 2.29 metre.

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The Dutch government (Netherlands) has recently declared a water shortage, following an unusually dry summer with no rain forecast in the near future.
Intense heat-waves hit large parts of Europe and the United States last month, rising calls for more efforts to tackle global warming. As two-thirds of the Dutch population living below sea level, droughts can become an acute problem in the Netherlands. This may lead to silting up of rivers and hampering of water traffic.