Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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‘Technotex 2023’, India’s premier show on Technical Textiles will be held in Mumbai. The event is being organized by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce Industry, under National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM).
This is the largest event of technical textile industry in India, which will be attended by top CEOs, manufacturers, industry peers, purchase managers and suppliers from India and around the globe.

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Chinese leader Jiang Zemin passed away recently at the age of 96. He was China’s first head of state to have visited India in 1996, and played a key role in signing a crucial agreement to reduce the tensions along their disputed border.
Jiang was the President of China and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) from 1989 to 2002.

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Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code that criminalizes sex outside marriage.
The new code, which also applies to foreign residents and tourists, bans cohabitation before marriage, apostasy, and provides punishments for insulting the president or expressing views counter to the national ideology.

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Supreme Court exempted Maharashtra’s Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary (TWS) from its earlier order mandating the creation of a 1 km eco-sensitive zones (ESZ) around all protected areas in India.
It also stated that practical difficulties and ground realities will have to be taken into account before having a uniform order for creating ESZs as mandated. The Sanctuary is located in the suburbs of Mumbai.

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The government permitted complete Work From Home (WFH) options to the employees of IT units in special economic zones.
The government has amended Special Economic Zones (SEZ) rules and permitted IT/ITeS units in SEZ, subject to certain conditions. The notification increases the duration of WFH, which could be extended up to 50% of the total employees.

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Indian shuttler Anish Thoppani clinches silver medal in U-15 category at Badminton Asia Junior Championships, in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
Anish lost the men’s singles final against Chinese Taipei’s Chung-Hsiang Yih to settle for silver. India’s under-17 men’s duo Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Sraswat secured a silver medal.

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Ministry of Culture has set up seven Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs) with headquarters at seven places namely Patiala, Nagpur, Udaipur, Prayagraj, Kolkata, Dimapur and Thanjavur.
These centers aim to conserve and develop art, culture and crafts across the country. The government provides regular annual grant-in-aid for conducting various activities and programmes to ZCCs. ZCCs organize a minimum 42 Regional Festivals for promotion of art and culture every year.

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The Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region (MoDoNER) in collaboration with North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) under the department of space has developed a project-monitoring mobile application.
Out of 588 identified projects, 562 projects at 1,664 different locations across North-Eastern Region (NER) have been geo-tagged through satellite images and mobile app.

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US scientists announced a major scientific breakthrough in the research to harness nuclear fusion energy.
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction that was used to ignite it, which is also called net energy gain. This achievement will pave the way for developments in defence and future of clean power.

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The Group of Seven economies have created an open, international climate club for countries to cooperate in the fight against global warming,
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who holds the presidency of the G-7 until the end of the year, announced the decision. Germany will pass the Presidency to Japan. The club will work to help accelerate the industrial transition to cleaner forms of energy and to further develop emission-reduction measures