Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2023

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India is ranked at 47th position in Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the year 2022.
The index includes sectors like air transport, road freight cover and government regulations. The STRI indices takes into consideration the government policies in several sectors that define the ease of trading in those sectors and industries. Based on these factors, STRI indices assign value to countries between zero and one.

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Kuno National Park is a wildlife sanctuary and national park located in Madhya Pradesh. It is named after the Kuno River and was initially established in 1981 as a wildlife sanctuary. In 2018, it was granted national park status.
As part of the Cheetah Reintroduction Project, 12 more cheetahs were released into the Kuno National Park, bringing the total number of cheetahs to 20.

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World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released the ‘Global Security Outlook Report 2023’ in collaboration with Accenture.
It warned that the cyber-attacks are expected to cause an unprecedented threat in the coming 2 years. The report also predicts catastrophic cyber events mainly due to the present geopolitical instability.

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The APJ Abdul Kalam Satellite Launch Vehicle Mission-2023 was launched from Pattipolam village in Tamil Nadu by the Martin Foundation in association with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation and Space Zone India.
More than 5,000 students from grades six to twelve across the country designed and developed 150 PICO satellites, which were launched.  The selected students were taught about satellite technology.

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The Sansad Ratna Awards recognize and felicitate the top performing Members of Parliament based on their work in the apex legislative body.
These awards were instituted in 2010 based on the concept initialised by former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam. The inaugural edition of these awards was launched by the former President APJ Abdul Kalam. The 13th edition of the Sansad Ratna Award ceremony will be held in March this year in New Delhi.

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A new low-cost vertical farming structure has been developed by the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR) for growing crops such as cabbage and cauliflower, as well as flowers like lilium and gerbera.
The structures consist of vertically stacked layers, allowing for high planting density and utilization of the available unit area in the poly-house by up to 5-6 times.

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Micrometeoroid is a small space rock that weighs less than 1 gram. It is responsible for the coolant leakage of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule.
This prevented the spacecraft from being either used as a refuge or a return vehicle as its cabin temperature cannot be regulated. As per International Astronomical Union (IAU), the term ‘meteoroid’ is used to describe any solid object that is found to be moving in space while being less than 1 meter in size.

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Tribeni Kumbho Mohotshav is an age-old festival that is celebrated on the banks of Ganga River. However, it was stopped 700 years ago and revived only 2 years ago by locals.
Its origins can be traced back to thousands of years and it finds mention in Bengali literary works like Mangalakavya, Vaishnava literature, Shakta literature and others. Various Bengali traditional genres like Kirtan, Baul, Godiyo Nritto, Sree-Khol, Poter Gaan, and Chou-Nach were included.

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The 2nd Edition of the Secretariat Reforms report for January 2023 shows significant progress in various areas of government operations like decision-making and public services.
It was released by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).  The report focused on areas such as Swachhata Campaign, efficiency in government decision-making, e-Office implementation and the government’s best practices.

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New Zealand created a Recovery Visa recently to help bring in specialist workers required to support the rebuilding efforts in the disaster-hit regions of the country.
It was launched after the Gabrielle cyclone and Auckland flooding. It covers experts such as insurance assessors, infrastructure and utilities engineers and technicians, heavy machinery operators and debris removal workers.