Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2023

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Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur launched the themes of the Y20 summit, logo and website in the curtain raiser event of Y20 Summit India
Themes of Y20 India are Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation & 21st Century skills, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Sustainability a way of life, Peace-building and Reconciliation: Ushering in an era of No War, Shared Future: Youth in Democracy and Governance and Health, Wellbeing &Sports: Agenda for Youth.

 

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Kevin McCarthy was elected as the House speaker after days of painstaking negotiations and failed votes.
Earlier, the Republicans in the House of Representatives failed to elect the Speaker amid faction of holdouts continued to not vote for Kevin McCarthy. This was the time since 1923 that a nominee of the majority party in the House wasn’t able to win the first vote for the position of Speaker.

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Deepor Beel, the only Ramsar site of Assam, recorded over 26,000 birds of 97 different species during a recent bird count.
The site recorded 10,289 birds of 66 species recorded in 2021. It is troubled by developmental projects and urban waste. A spot bird photography contest was also held during the event and  repeat of the bird count exercise is scheduled during the Asian Waterfowl Count.

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The UK attempted its first orbital space launch from UK soil, making it the privately-owned Virgin Orbit’s first international launch.
The repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft, named ‘Cosmic Girl’ took off from Cornwall, UK. However, the mission dubbed ‘Start Me Up’ failed due to an anomaly in a satellite launch. The rocket was carrying nine small satellites.

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As per a data by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), Gujarat and Rajasthan are the top Indian states in the area of investments.
Both the states were successful in attracting investments from both domestic and international businesses. Fresh investments worth Rs 3.98 trillion were announced for Gujarat during 2021-22 while Rajasthan attracted new investments worth Rs 2.37 trillion.

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Uttarakhand Governor Gurmit Singh consented to a Bill providing 30 per cent horizontal reservation to domiciled women of the state in government jobs.
Uttarakhand Public Services (Horizontal Reservation for Women) Bill, 2022 was passed by the state assembly.

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Bangladesh has registered a sharp decline of over 75 percent in the under-5 child mortality rate since 1990, as per the recent report released by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on behalf of the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
In 1990, the under-5 child mortality rate was 146 per thousand live births which declined to 86 in 2000 and 27 in 2021.

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The Centre has named the new Integrated Food Security Scheme as Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana, PMGKAY.
The Union Cabinet had approved new integrated food security scheme for providing free foodgrains to Antodaya Ann Yojna (AAY) and Primary Household (PHH) beneficiaries.

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The Union Cabinet has approved setting up and promoting three National Level multistate cooperative export societies under the Multi State Cooperative Societies (MSCS) Act, 2002.
The cooperative society on export, national level cooperative society for organic products, national level multi-state seed cooperative society will serve as umbrella organisations for taking forward the respective sectoral interests of cooperatives from across the country.

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President of India Droupadi Murmu recently presented the seventh edition of the Digital India Awards 2022.
22 Innovative Digital Initiatives by Government entities under 7 categories received Digital India Awards 2022. West Bengal government’s ‘Duare Sarkar’ scheme, to provide services at the doorstep of citizens, won the platinum award and the CBSE won Gold award for its ‘Digital Academic Repository – Parinam Manjusha’.