Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2022

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National Health Authority (NHA) has announced performance based fund allocation to States and UTs for strengthening the registries of healthcare professionals and health facilities.
This performance based fund allocation will help in structured implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. R 500 crores was allocated for setting up of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission’s offices at State and UTs by the financial year 2025-26.

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Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has launched the fifth phase of setting up of 300 Swavalamban Silai Schools across 10 districts of 6 States.
This was launched under its flagship initiative Mission Swavalamban. It will cover Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Goa, Puducherry, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, to empower women making them independent while pursuing entrepreneurship culture (Udyam Se Azadi).

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Chhattisgarh government announced to set up rural industrial parks in the state. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel announced that the project will be launched on Gandhi Jayanti.
It aims to strengthen the rural economy and make the ‘gau-than’ (cattle shed) a centre of livelihood. Under the programme , in the first year there will be 300 rural industrial parks. The first such park in Chhattisgarh came up in Kanker district, which has been named Gandhi Gram.

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Special Protection Group, which guards very very important persons (VVIPs), including the Prime Minister and Central Ministers have inducted Mudhol hound pups.
Mudhol hound is a breed of hunting dogs native to north Karnataka and are known for their hunting and guarding skills. They got their name from the kingdom of Mudhol (present-day Bagalkot), whose rulers began to breed them initially.

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Young Indian footballer Manisha Kalyan recently became the first Indian footballer to play at the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
She made her debut for Apollon Ladies FC in the European Club competition in Cyprus. She has also become the fourth Indian woman footballer to sign for an overseas club. Recently, she was awarded the AIFF Woman Footballer of the year for 2021-22.

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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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Punjab and Haryana has agreed to name Chandigarh International Airport after Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh.
Both the states had a decade-old tussle for renaming the international airport. Earlier Punjab Vidhan Sabha had passed a resolution to name the airport as ‘Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh International Airport, Mohali’. The Haryana Vidhan Sabha passed a resolution on renaming the terminal, with the use of ‘Chandigarh’.

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The state government of Chhattisgarh set up English-medium colleges across the State named Swami Atmanand English Medium Model Colleges.
At present, there is no English medium government college in the state. The state has already set up English-medium schools across the state.

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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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Union Minister of State for Textiles Darshana Jardosh inaugurated the Silk Mark Expo in New Delhi. The expo is being organised by the Silk Mark Organisation of India under Central Silk Board, Ministry of Textiles.
Silk Mark is a quality assurance label launched by government to determine that the product is made up of pure natural silk.