Current Affairs Quiz - February 2022

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The Delimitation commission also known Boundary commission of India is established under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act. Its main task is to redraw the boundaries of various assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies based on a recent census.
The Commission has recently proposed significant changes to the electoral map of Jammu and Kashmir.

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A team discovered a new species of spider from the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala. Named Carrhotus tholpettyensis, the nocturnal jumping spider was found from the deciduous forest of Tholpetty range of the sanctuary in Western Ghats.
Another new species of millipede was discovered from the University of Calicut campus. Named as Delarthrum anomalans, belongs to the group of minute millipedes.

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Railway Protection Force has recently launched a nationwide operation to curb human trafficking. As part of ‘Operation AAHT’, special teams will be deployed on all long-distance routes with focus on rescuing victims.
The teams would focus particularly on women and children from traffickers. The Railways operate about 21,000 trains across the country daily and Traffickers often moved their victims on long-distance trains.

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Jammu & Kashmir became the first Union Territory to be on-boarded the National Single Window System (NSWS).
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha launched the J&K Single Window Clearance System integrated with NSWS. NSWS is linked with India Industrial Land Bank (IILB), which hosts 45 industrial parks of J&K. This will help the Investors to discover available land parcels in J&K.

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The lighthouse at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, is being developed under the Public Private Partnership mode for tourism. Infrastructure includes a museum, amphitheatre, open air theatre, cafeteria, children play area, gazebo, landscaping, and lifts. The development is part of a national project identifying 75 lighthouse sites in India for tourism promotion. Work at Mahabalipuram is confirmed as started under PPP mode.

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The ACT Accelerator is a multinational and multi-institutional initiative launched by G-20. It includes WHO, CEPI, FIND, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, the World Bank and governments, to raise financial support of R&D, production and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, therapies and vaccines.
The ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council’s has called for ‘Fair share’ of financing that the richer countries should contribute to the ACT-Accelerator’s global response.

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The Department of Science & Technology (DST) has established the National Centre of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilisation (NCOE-CCU) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.
This is India’s first such centre centrally funded by the DST. This Centre of Excellence explores the potential of Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technologies, which will help India achieve its climate change goals.

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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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As per the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data, India reported an 11 per cent jump in cyber crime in 2020.
A total of 50,035 cases were registered under cyber crimes in 2020. This is an 11.8 per cent in registration over 2019 (44,735 cases). In 2020, 60.2 per cent of cyber-crime cases registered was for the motive of fraud. It is followed by sexual exploitation (6.6 per cent) and extortion (4.9 per cent).