Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2022

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Ministry of Culture and Google launched an initiative, ‘India ki Udaan’ to celebrate the spirit of India and its achievements in past 75 years.
This celebration started in New Delhi. This joint venture was organised under the aegis of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Google Arts and Culture unveiled a exhibit created to honour the achievers of India in the last 75 years.

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Gustavo Petro, a former rebel fighter, has been sworn in as the first left-wing President of the South-American country Colombia.
Colombia’s first leftist President promised to fight inequality in the country hit by a long war between the government and guerrilla groups. He also promised to fight against inequality and climate change, and achieve peace with rebel groups and crime gangs.

 

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Rupal Chaudhary created history by becoming the first Indian athlete to win two medals at the World U20 Athletics Championship.
She clinched silver medal in the 4x400m relay as well as a bronze medal in the women’s 400m. Also known as the World Junior Championships, the event was held in Colombia.

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Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched the on-boarding of cooperatives into the Centre’s Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal.
The federally run digital public procurement system is made available for cooperatives for the first time.Over 300 cooperatives have been on-boarded as buyers on the GeM portal to enable them to purchase goods and services at competitive prices.

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Mizoram and Assam signed a joint statement, in a ministerial-level discussion to resolve the decades-old boundary dispute.
In the statement, they proposed to hold meetings of deputy commissioners of bordering districts at least once in two months. Mizoram and Assam will hold chief minister-level talks in New Delhi shortly to find a solution to the inter-state border dispute.

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Experts from the India and United States interacted to plan joint research projects that would be implemented through the Technology Innovation Hubs (TIH) in a work shop.
The DST-NSF Joint Research and Development Projects Kick-off Workshop was organised by IIT Delhi in association with Department of Science and Technology.

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Papua New Guinea’s Parliament has elected Prime Minister James Marape to power after elections in the South Pacific Island nation.
Marape was sworn in as the Prime Minister for a second time. The contenders to lead the new government were Marape and Peter O’Neill, his predecessor who resigned in 2019. Papua New Guinea is a diverse tribal society, which gained independence from Australia in 1975.

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Two institutes of agricultural research body, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), have developed an indigenous vaccine for Lumpy Skin Disease in cattle.
The disease has recently spread across many states in the last few months. The Centre has planned to commercialise this homologous live-attenuated LSD vaccine ‘Lumpi-ProVacInd’. Rajasthan has reported over 2000 deaths of cattle, followed by Gujarat and Punjab.

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The ‘Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022’ report was recently released by the International Labour Organisation.
As per the report, India experienced severe working-hour and employment losses in 2020 and 2021, and Indian youth employment deteriorated in 2021 compared to 2020. Youngsters in 15-24 age group experienced a much higher percentage loss in employment than adults since early 2020. The total global number of unemployed youth is estimated to reach 73 million in 2022.

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Malaysia is the host of the bilateral air exercise named ‘Udarashakti’. A contingent of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is participating in the exercise.
The four-day exercise includes various aerial combat drills between the two Air Forces. The first such bilateral Air Force exercise displaying the frontline Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft was conducted in 2018.