Current Affairs Quiz - February 2022

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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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Businessman Gautam Adani overtook Reliance Industries Chairperson Mukesh Ambani as Asia’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
The real-time data on the index showed that Adani’s net worth stood at USD 88.5 billion (approximately Rs 6.6 lakh crore) and Ambani’s at USD 87.8 billion (approximately Rs 6.5 lakh crore). Adani was the 10th richest person in the world as on the date.

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“Winter Camp” is a regular military exercise by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This year’s exercise has commenced along NATO’s eastern border.
The exercise started in northeast Estonia, just 100 kilometres from the Russian border, included 1,300 British, Estonian and French troops operating in extreme conditions.

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National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) organized a National level meeting on Identification, Rescue and Rehabilitation of Children in Street Situations with NGOs and UN agencies.
NCPCR developed a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 2.0 for Care and Protection of Children in Street Situations. It also devised ‘Baal Swaraj portal – Children in Street Situations (CiSS)’. Earlier, NCPCR developed “Bal Swaraj (Covid-Care)” portal to track children who lost parent due to Covid-19.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation’s first launch mission of 2022 is scheduled for February 14. PSLV-C52 is designed to orbit the Earth Observation Satellite EOS-04.
The launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C52) is scheduled from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. EOS-04 is a Radar Imaging Satellite designed to provide high quality images under all weather conditions for agriculture, forestry, hydrology and flood mapping etc.

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According to figures released by the US Census Bureau, India-US bilateral goods trade was worth USD 113.391 billion from January to December 2021.
This is the largest volume of goods trade in a calendar year in India-US economic history. India exported goods worth over USD 73 billion, and imported goods worth over USD 40 billion dollars. In 2020 trade fell to USD 78.2 billion due to pandemic, from the high of USD 92.1 billion in 2019.

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Madhwacharya was a Hindu philosopher and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.
Madhvacharya was born in the Karnataka in 13th-century India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his tributes to  Madhwacharya on the occasion of Madhwa Navami.

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The Indian Railways has notified the Indian Railway Management System (IRMS) which will unify the eight existing services of the transporter.
IRMS is a new Group ‘A’ Central service and only the officers of IRMS will be eligible to become the functional members and chairman/CEO of the railway board.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs has recently recommended a ban on 54 Chinese mobile applications, including the popular game Garena Free Fire.
In 2020, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) banned TikTok and other popular short video apps from China. MeitY banned these apps under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, which states that the government has the “Power to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information through any computer resource.”

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India celebrates National Productivity Day on February 12 every year. The National Productivity Council (NPC) organises this special day.
NPC is an autonomous organisation established in 1958 under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. National Productivity Council celebrates productivity week February 12 to 18, across the nation under the theme “Self Reliance Through Productivity.”