Current Affairs Quiz - July 2022

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Tata Motors and Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp have formed a strategic partnership to design, develop and manufacture semiconductor solutions.
Renesas will also work with Tejas Networks, another Tata Group firm, on wireless network technologies, including 5G, as part of the partnership. The primary market for the products will be India, with plans to expand to global markets.

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The World Bank approved two complementary loans of USD 500 million each to support India’s health sector.
Through this financing of USD 1 billion, the Bank will support India’s flagship Pradhan Mantri-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM). One of the loans will prioritize seven states including Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh.

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India’s largest floating Solar Power Project is made fully operational at Ramagundam, Telangana. NTPC declared Commercial Operation of the final part capacity out of 100 MW Ramagundam Floating Solar PV Project at Ramagundam, Telangana
With the operationalisation the project, the total commercial operation of Floating Solar Capacity in Southern Region rose to 217 MW. Earlier, NTPC declared operation of Floating Solar at Kayamkulam (Kerala) and at Simhadri (Andhra Pradesh).

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the ‘Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP), 2020’. Andhra Pradesh has topped the Business Reform Action Plan 2020 Rankings in the Ease of Doing Business.
It is followed by Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. The BRAP 2020 includes 301 reform points covering 15 business regulatory areas such as Access to Information, Single Window System, Labour, Environment, Land Administration etc.

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The National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA) is the statutory mechanism under GST law to check unfair profiteering activities by the registered suppliers.
The GST watchdog has held cosmetics and personal care company L’oreal guilty of not passing on the rate reduction benefits to consumers to the tune of ₹186 crore.  NAA has directed L’oreal to deposit the sum along with 18% interest in the consumer welfare fund.

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Every year on the third Saturday of September, the world celebrates ‘International Coastal Clean-Up Day.’
On September 17, 2022, the Government of India, in collaboration with other voluntary organizations and the local community, is set to launch the “Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar” cleanliness campaign along India’s entire coastline.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a 30-ft bronze statue of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju on his 125th birth anniversary.
The 15-tonne statue was carved out at a cost of Rs 3 crore and installed by the Kshatriya Seva Samiti in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh. The leader was known for the ‘Rampa Rebellion’ or ‘Manyam Uprising’, in the Rampachodavaram forest area, which was undertaken against the mighty British forces.

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Every year on July 2, the World Unidentified flying objects (UFO) Day is celebrated. It aims to create awareness to gather together and watch the skies for UFOs.
July 2 is marked after the ‘Roswell incident in 1947’ of the United States Army Air Forces, which was a supposed UFO crash. The day also encouraged governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the Centre has approved a mega cluster of mangoes in Lucknow and ₹100 crore will be spent on it in the next five years.
He also said that the Mangoes in this cluster will be known as ‘Kakori brand’. The Chief Minister announced this during the inauguration of ‘Uttar Pradesh Mango Mahotsav-2022’.released the Lucknow Mango Festival Souvenir-2022 and honoured progressive farmers of the state.

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The world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is set to function from July this year. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Geneva.
The Large Hadron Collider is a giant, complex machine built to study particles, the smallest known building blocks of all things.  Three years after it was shut down for maintenance and upgrades, the collider was switched back recently.