Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2022

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The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved a night safari park in Lucknow district’s Kukrail forest area. Under the project, the government will establish a zoological park and night safari in the 2,027-hectare forest in the forest area.
The Uttar Pradesh government has identified 56 ecotourism sites in the state’s 56 districts under its One District, One Destination scheme, to boost ecotourism and increase employment opportunities.

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel recently launched a plantation drive named ‘Krishna Kunj’.
The scheme was launched on the occasion of Janmashtami. It aims at creating urban forests comprising ‘culturally significant and other useful trees’ across the state.

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The Indian Railways recently conducted a test run of the 3.5-km-long freight train named ‘Super Vasuki’.
This is the longest and heaviest freight train ever run by the Railways. It has wagons carrying over 27,000 tonnes of coal between Korba in Chhattisgarh and Rajnandgao in Nagpur.

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International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief is observed on 22 August.
Freedom of religion or belief, freedom of opinion and expression, right to peaceful assembly and right to freedom of association are enshrined in articles 18, 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Egypt released a commemorative postage stamp to celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations between Egypt and India.
Egypt’s recognition of the independence of India on 18 August 1947 marked the establishment of ties. It led to the historic Friendship Treaty in 1955. India and Egypt have had traditionally strong bilateral relations.

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India’s first commercial space situational awareness observatory is to be established in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand by Digantara, a space sector start-up.
The observatory aims to track objects as small as 10 cm in size orbiting the earth. This will improve the effectiveness of tracking and identifying pre-existing resident space objects, and will be used to create a hybrid data pool.

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The government has recently awarded geographical indication (GI) tag to ‘Mithila Makhana’, to help farmers get the maximum price for their produce. Its botanical name is ‘Euryale Ferox Salisb’ and it is a special variety of aquatic fox nut.
Mithila Makhana is cultivated in the Mithila region of Bihar and some parts of Nepal. It is the fifth product from Bihar after Bhagalpur’s Jardalu Mango, Katarni Dhaan (rice), Nawada’s Maghai Paan and Muzaffarpur’s Shahi Litchi.

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Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited commenced its Cow-dung to Compressed Biogas Project at Sanchore, Rajasthan.
The plant is the first such one under HPCL’s Waste-to-Energy portfolio, is proposed to utilise 100 tons of dung per day to produce biogas. The bio-gas can be utilised as automotive fuel and the project is being developed under GOBAR-Dhan scheme.

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Parivar Kalyan Card scheme is the Uttar Pradesh government’s Family ID plan. It was announced to establish a comprehensive database of the state’s family units and identify beneficiaries for its various schemes.
The PKC will provide a unique 12-digit ID number for each family. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has allowed the state government to link Aadhaar data with the PKC.

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The Philippines has been hit by the tropical cyclone Ma-on that has damaged the main Luzon Island in the country.
The cyclone has killed at least three people and injured four others, as per the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Ma-on was the sixth tropical cyclone to hit this Southeast Asian country this year.