Current Affairs Quiz - February 2022

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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.”

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The Northern Mariana Islands, a United States territory, is located only 2500km southeast of Japan.
Japan has planned to dump more than 1 million tonnes of treated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station into the Pacific Ocean. The Northern Mariana Islands has proposed another viable solution to the plan to be considered.

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The Tata Group has appointed Ilker Ayci, former Turkish Airlines Chairman, as Air India’s Managing Director and CEO.
The decision is in line with the Tata Group’s plans to appoint an expatriate chief to run Air India, which it took over from the Indian government recently.

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The National Health Authority (NHA) is the nodal agency for the implementation of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri–Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY).
The Union Health Ministry announced that the National Health Authority (NHA) is working to integrate the database of Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011 beneficiaries with the National Food Security Act (NFSA) portal.

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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is an international organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states. It is headquartered at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The Union government of India described the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) remarks on the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka as ‘motivated and misleading’.

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The Union Government has approved the ‘New India Literacy Programme’ for financial years 2022-27 which will cover all aspects of Adult Education in the country.
The program has been announced in line with National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. ‘Adult Education’ will now be called ‘Education For All’. As per 2011 Census, the number of non-literates in the country (15 years and above) was 25.76 crore (9.08 crore male and 16.68 crore female).

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The U.K. announced that it is scrapping its ‘Golden Visa’ Route, which is a visa program for millionaire investors, as part of efforts to cut down on fraud.
It is also so-called Tier 1 investor visa, as a part of its renewed crackdown on fraud and illicit finance. This was announced by the U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel.

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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has prohibited the sharing of top secret or secret documents by its officials over Internet.
The officials have been told not to use digital assistant devices such as Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s HomePod and Google Home in office and turn off digital assistants, including Alexa and Siri, in smartphones or watches. Such practices violate the Departmental Security instructions and the National Information Security Policy Guidelines.

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Under the “Operation Nanhe Farishte”, the Railway Protection Force has rescued more than 1000 children in the month of January 2022, who were either abandoned or were found alone in stations. The RPF has undertaken this task to prevent child kidnapping and trafficking.
Other notable operations of the RPF are “operation Mahila Suraksha” and “Operation Matrishakti”.

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The Union Ministry of Agriculture will conduct a campaign named ‘Meri Policy Mere Hath’, which aims to provide information to all farmers regarding their existing Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PM-FBY) policy, land records, the process of claim and grievance redressal. The policy related information would be furnished at the door steps of farmers.
The PM FBY was launched in the year 2016 and has entered into the 7th year of implementation in 2022.