Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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Panini code is the 2500-year-old grammatical algorithm in Sanskrit, which has been cracked by an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
Rishi Rajpopat solved the algorithm in his thesis, titled ‘In Panini, We Trust: Discovering the Algorithm for Rule Conflict Resolution in the Astadhyayi’. Panini was a Sanskrit scholar, philologist and grammarian who lived around the 5th Century BCE in India.

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As per the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Science & Engineering Indicators 2022 report, India has jumped from 7th to 3rd global ranking in scientific publications.
This was informed by the Union Minister for Science & Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh. India’s scholarly output has increased from 60,555 papers in 2010 to 1,49,213 papers in 2020.

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The Speedtest Global Index for November has been released by network intelligence company Ookla.
In November, India jumped 40 ranks to the 71st spot globally in terms of mean download speed to 50.26 Megabits per second (Mbps), nearly double 27.13 Mbps in October. Qatar had the highest media mobile download speed. Chile, meanwhile, had the highest fixed broadband download speed.

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Delhi has the highest crypto adoption in India, measured in terms of value invested, as per the annual investor report by crypto investing platform CoinSwitch.
Delhi at 7.87 per cent, Bangalore at 4.87 per cent and Hyderabad at 3.27 percent were the metro cities with the highest crypto adoption. Jaipur has the highest adoption among tier-2 cities. CRE8 or Crypto Rupee Index (CRE8) is a benchmark index to measure the performance of the Indian Rupee-based crypto market.

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Maritime logistics arm of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Singapore-based AG&P signed agreement to use Liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier as a floating storage unit in India.
The LNG carrier is owned by ADNOC Logistics and Services (ADNOC L&S). It will be used at AG&P’s LNG import terminal in India which will be commissioned in the second half of 2024. It is the third agreement is for a floating storage unit lease in India and the Philippines.

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Taliban has banned women from working for domestic and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Afghanistan.
This order by has been condemned by the United Nations, which said the move violated fundamental rights.  The order of Taliban comes just days after female students were banned from universities.

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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar mentioned that families with annual incomes up to 1,80,000 are being brought under ‘BPL family category’ and around 29 lakh cards will be made in this regard.
He also announced that the government’s official portal Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) will begin its Citizen Facilitation Center. The state government will celebrate 2023 as ‘Antyodaya Arogya Varsh, and under the ‘Chirayu Yojana’ 29 lakh families shall be given health insurance.

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Union Ministry of Power and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up early warning systems for vulnerable hydro projects or power stations.
Specific tasks will be formulated between DRDO and respective project developer, under this agreement.

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British Indian Army Memorial is set to be built in the Scottish city of Glasgow, to commemorate the sacrifice of millions of Indian soldiers who fought for the British during the two World Wars.
The memorial is visualised as Scotland’s first permanent memorial wall to recognise the service and sacrifice of the British Indian Army. Approximately 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in World War One, and over 74,000 of them lost their lives.

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Uttar Pradesh has set up a five-member commission, which will conduct a survey to ensure that the OBCs are provided reservation on the basis of the triple test, as mandated by the Supreme Court. Earlier, the Allahabad High Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to hold urban local body elections without reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) because the ‘triple test’ requirement had not been fulfilled.