Current Affairs Quiz - January 2022

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Cabinet has approved the decision of the Government to infuse ₹ 1,500 crore in the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA), which will raise its lending capacity to ₹ 12,000 crore.
IREDA is a Mini Ratna Government of India Enterprise under the administrative control of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

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The United Nations Development Programme-India announced Content creator and actor Prajakta Koli as their first UNDP India Youth Climate Champion.
The UNDP recognised her contribution towards mental health, women’s rights and girl child education through various global social campaigns. As UNDP India Youth Climate Champion, Koli will be responsible for interacting with young minds to create awareness on climate issues.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi topped the global rating survey among the world leaders as the most popular leader, with an approval rating of 71 percent.
The survey was released by Morning Consult Political Intelligence and it is based on data collected from January 13-19, 2022. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrado came second with 66 percent rating and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi ranked third with 60 percent rating.

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The Jammu and Kashmir administration has declared Jerri settlement in Reasi district as the first ‘milk village’ of the Union Territory.
It has sanctioned 57 more dairy farms under the Integrated dairy development scheme (IDDS) for the village. Under the scheme, dairy units of five animals are provided with a 50 per cent subsidy. It also includes provision for various machineries in value addition of milk.

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) implemented 3-D Virtual Diplomacy. Members of the UNSC went on a virtual field trip to Columbia, as they watched Columbia with the help of Virtual Reality (VR) technology.
This is the first-ever Security Council session to use a virtual reality, to use innovative solutions to understand peacekeeping and peace-building.

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Twitter announced a new way for users to authenticate their profile pictures, created by non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The microblogging platform released an official verification mechanism for NFT profile pictures. NFT owners have been uploading jpeg images of their digital assets as profile pictures recently. The authentic NFT profile pictures will be shown with a new hexagon-shaped mask.

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Mumbai- based think-tank People’s Research on India’s Consumer Economy (PRICE) conducted ‘ICE360 Survey 2021’.
As per the survey, the annual income of the poorest 20% of Indian households, which has been constantly rising since 1995, fell 53% in the pandemic year 2020-21 from their levels in 2015-16. While, the richest 20% saw their annual household income grow 39%. This is seen as a ‘K-shaped recovery’.

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India celebrates National Girl Child Day on January 24 every year. It is an initiative undertaken by the Ministry of women and child development, to create awareness and provide opportunities to the girls of India.
The government of India, in 2008, declared January 24 to be celebrated as the National Girl Child Day every year.

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Professor Vinod Sharma, the founder co-ordinator of the National Centre of Disaster Management, has been selected for this year’s Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar, under individual category.
The Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM) was selected under the institutional category. Minister Narendra Modi presented the awards in an event, commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

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According to the G20 People’s Climate Vote 2021 report, which was recently released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), around 67 per cent of the youth in India consider the climate crisis as a global emergency.
The youth are also vocal about the need for urgent policy creation and change. Whereas, India has only about 58 per cent adults, who consider climate change a global emergency.