Current Affairs Quiz - February 2022

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The Cyclone Batsirai has recently hit the towns of Madagascar. It killed 21 people and displaced more than 60,000 before moving away.
The UN Food Aid Agency announced that the cyclone also destroyed crops of rice, fruits and vegetable. The towns were already struggling with the consequences of a severe drought.

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Yash Dhull captained the Indian team which won the ICC U19 World Cup in 2022. India defeated England by 4 wickets to win the final held in Antigua.
It was also a record fifth U-19 title for India. Other players who contributed to the success include Nishant Sindhu, Shaik Rasheed, Raj Bawa and Ravi Kumar among others. England was bowled out for 189 in 44.5 overs.

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Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 4.0 virtually. IMI was launched in 2017 to intensify the immunisation programme.
India is implementing the largest immunisation programme as it covers more than 3 crore pregnant women and 2.6 crore children through the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) annually. IMI 4.0 will have 3 rounds and will be conducted in 416 districts across 33 States/UTs.

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The United States has approved a USD 100m support contract with Taiwan to boost the island’s missile defence systems amid tensions with China.
The funds would be used to improve the self-ruled island’s Patriot missile defence system, as per the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

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The country’s first commercial-scale biomass-based hydrogen plant is being developed up in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh.
The plant will produce a tonne of hydrogen per day from 30 tonnes of biomass feedstock. It will also produce biochar and methane.

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Pratham Foundation annually conducts an extensive survey in schools, to analyse the learning outcome of students.
Recently, it released the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER, West Bengal). As per the report, the basic reading and numerical abilities of school children in West Bengal have reduced during Covid-19, without class rooms.

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India is the fifth largest exporter of millets in the world, according to 2020 data, with exports increasing at around 3 per cent CAGR in the last five years ending with 2020.
In 2020-21, India exported millets worth USD 26.97 million against USD 28.5 million in 2019-20. World export of millet has increased from USD 380 million in 2019 to USD 402.7 million in 2020.

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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union road transport and highways Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the Munger Ganga Bridge.
It is named after the state’s first Chief Minster Sri Krishna. It is the third rail-cum-road bridge across the Ganges, at Munger in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog in collaboration with UNDP, India launched the Community Innovator Fellowship (CIF).
It was launched on the occasion of the “International Day of Women & Girls in Science”. It is a one-year-long fellowship program, developed as a pre-incubation model to guide innovators set up their social enterprise focusing on SDG based solutions.

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The birth anniversary of Tilka Manjhi, a revolutionary freedom fighter and tribal leader was observed recently.
He organized Adivasis into an army and led the famous Santhal Hool in 1784, to loot the treasury of the East India Company and distributed it among the poor and needy during severe famine. It is referred to as Santhal Hool, the revolt of the Santhals.