Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2022

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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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India’s’ Grand Master Arjun Erigaisi won the Abu Dhabi Masters chess title by scoring two back-to-back victories.
As per the live ranking, Arjun is placed at a career-best 24th and third among Indians behind Viswanathan Anand (12th) and D. Gukesh (20th).

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The Civil Aviation Ministry has exempted Boeing 787 aircraft from GPS-aided GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) augmentation system compliance till 2025.
GAGAN is an augmentation system jointly developed by the Airports Authority of India and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). . It is capable of providing navigation services for departure, en-route and landing operations to equipped planes.

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Virat Kohli has become the first Indian and the second player overall in international cricket history to have played 100 matches each in all three formats of the game.
Kohli has now 100 T20Is to his name in addition to 102 Tests and 262 ODIs since he made his international debut in August 2008. The first player with the record was New Zealand batter Ross Taylor who retired recently.

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The 50th All Manipur Shumang Leela Festival 2021-2022 kicked off at Iboyaima Shumang Leela Shanglen in Imphal.
Manipur Governor La Ganesan and Chief Minister N. Biren Singh attended the inaugural function. Shumang Leela is a traditional form of theatre in Manipur and the roles of female artists are all played by male actors and male characters are played by female artists.

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The National Cancer Grid (NCG) is an initiative of the Government of India through the Department of Atomic Energy and its grant-in-aid institution, the Tata Memorial Centre.
The National Cancer Grid (NCG) has recently established the Koita Centre for Digital Oncology (KCDO) to promote use of digital technologies and tools to improve cancer care across India. NCG has over 270 hospitals in its network across India, at present.

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African health ministers recently adopted the updated Regional strategy for the management of environmental determinants of human health in the African Region 2022–2032.
It has been designed to promote coordination between the health and environment sectors, as recognised by the Libreville Declaration, 2008.

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The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report showed that the cases of crimes against women in Delhi accounted for 32.20% of total crimes among all 19 metro cities. Delhi is the most unsafe metropolitan city for women across the country, followed by Mumbai and Bengaluru.
The report also noted that the burden of deaths by suicide has increased in India  by 7.2 per cent from 2020, with a total of 1,64,033 people dying by suicide in 2021.

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National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved an allocation of Rs 230 crore for rural infrastructure projects in Mizoram.
The Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) was launched in 1995-96. NABARD has sanctioned aggregate loans amounting to Rs 1744.51 crore for critical rural infrastructure like rural roads, bridges, drinking water and health infrastructure.

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Veteran Economist Abhijit Sen, a former Planning Commission Member passed away at the age of 72 years.
Abhijit Sen was a member of Planning Commission from 2004 to 2014, when Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister. He was regarded as the country’s foremost experts on rural economy. He also served as the chair of the Commission of Agricultural Cost and Prices.