Current Affairs Quiz - January 2022

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The Reserve Bank of India announced that SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank continue to be identified as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs).
These banks are Too big to fail and they need to maintain an additional Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital, in addition to the capital conservation buffer. The update is based on the data collected from banks as on March 31, 2021.

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Social worker Sindhutai Sapkal, who was also referred to as ‘Maai’ or ‘mother’ recently passed away. Her last rites were conducted with state honours.
She had raised over 1,050 children and received the Padma Shri award  in 2021 in Social Work category and several other awards and honours. She had also set up a well-equipped home for children in Pune.

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Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation, after nation-wide protests against fuel price increase.
The Oil-producing Central Asian country witnessed protests in which nearly 100 police were injured. Thousands of citizens were involved in the protests and a state of Emergency was declared earlier by the Government.

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A new tropical, evergreen tree from Cameroon has been named after Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
The critically endangered tree has been named ‘Uvariopsis dicaprio’ to recognise his campaigning efforts to protect Ebo forest from logging.  The tree was previously unknown to science and to local communities. It has glossy yellow-green flowers that grow on its trunk.

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Aquamation, or alkaline hydrolysis, is an environmentally friendly way of Cremation. It is also called as water cremation, green cremation or chemical cremation.
It is a process in body of the deceased is immersed in a mixture of water and alkali in a pressurized metal cylinder and heated to around 150 degree centigrade. The Nobel Peace Prize winning anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu was cremated using ‘Aquamation’.

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After the Government of France announced ‘Vaccine Pass’, over 1 lakh protestors rallied in the country to oppose the government’s plans to restrict the rights of the unvaccinated.
France recorded over 300,000 COVID-19 infections in a single day and the country’s lower house approved a government bill that will require individuals to prove they are fully vaccinated against Covid before they can move in public places. There were similar protests in Germany and Italy.

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‘The Bureau of Indian Standards’ is the National Standards Body of India under Department of Consumer affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
BIS, earlier known as the Indian Standards Institution (ISI), was founded in 1947. The Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) Act 2016, established the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as the National Standards Body of India. BIS recently celebrated its 75th anniversary.

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A 79-year-old man, who has pet ducks in England, recently became the first U.K. resident to catch the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
Although the H5N1 strain of avian flu primarily infects birds, on rare occasions it can jump to humans to cause severe disease and death.

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Pakistan’s popular hill station Murree was declared a calamity-hit area after at least 21 people, froze to death due to unprecedented snowfall.
Murree is a mountain town, located in the Pir Panjal Range, in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan. This unfortunate event occurred during the rush of tourists to the town. The Pakistan Meteorological Department had predicted heavy snowfall in Murree and Galiyat.

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Ace Tennis Player Rafael Nadal won the Melbourne Summer Set ATP 250 event title recently. The 20-time Grand Slam champion defeated American Maxime Cressy.
It was also Rafael Nadal’s 89th tour-level crown. Nadal made a successful return to competitive action as this was his first tournament since August 2021. He is also preparing to win the upcoming Australian Open Tournament.