Current Affairs Quiz - July 2022

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The PSLV Orbital Experimental Module is a platform which is used to perform in-orbit experiments using the final stage of ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
In the PSLV rocket, first three stages fall back into the ocean and the final stage (PS4) ends up as space junk, after launching the satellite into orbit.  POEM has a Navigation Guidance and Control (NGC) system for attitude stabilisation.

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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 Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue in June rose to ₹144,616 crore, the second-highest since the inception of GST five years ago.
The new high collection is on the back of rapid economic recovery and stricter compliance, as per the Union Finance Ministry said. In April, the collection was the highest ever at ₹1,67,540 crore. This is the fifth time the monthly GST collection crossed the ₹1.40 lakh crore mark and fourth month at a stretch since March 2022.

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NITI Aayog and World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a report titled ‘Take Home Ration-Good Practices across the State/Union Territories’.
The report presents a set of good and innovative practices adopted in the implementation of the Take Home Ration (THR) value chain by the States and UTs. Take Home Ration has been provided in Indian under the Supplementary Nutrition component of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).

 

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Tanuja Nesari, Director of All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) was awarded with the Ayurveda Ratna Award by the UK Parliament.
The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Indian Traditional Sciences (ITSappg) conferred the award recognising her contribution to prmoting the growth of Ayurveda in India and abroad.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar in Gujarat. The theme for Digital India Week is Catalyzing New India’s Techade.
The Prime Minister also launched ‘Digital India Bhashini’ to enable easy access to the internet and digital services in Indian languages. ‘Digital India GENESIS’ – a National Deep-tech Startup Platform, to support successful start-ups in Tier-II and Tier-III cities with a total outlay of 750 crore rupees was also launched. A global repository of key projects implemented under India Stack ‘Indiastack.global’ was launched.

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Tamil Nadu and the Singapore-based IGSS Ventures signed a MoU, for establishing a 300-acre semiconductor high-tech park and a semiconductor fab unit in the State.
The company will invest Rs 25,600 crore in the project in the next five years, generating direct employment for 1,500 people. The MoU was signed with ‘Guidance’, the State’s nodal agency for investment promotion and single-window facilitation.

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Every year, National Doctor’s Day is observed on July 1 in the memory of Dr Bidhan Roy, the former Chief Minister of Bengal, since 1991.
The theme this year is ‘Family doctors on the front line.’ The day honours the contributions made by the doctors and healthcare professionals, along with the sacrifices they have made to save millions of lives.

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National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is a regulatory body that controls the prices of pharmaceutical drugs in India.
It functions under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. NPPA has recently fixed the retail prices for 84 drug formulations, including those used for treatment of diabetes, headache and high blood pressure.

 

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a design framework to build next-generation analog computing chipsets.
The prototype is named ARYABHAT-1 (Analog Reconfigurable Technology And Bias-scalable Hardware for AI Tasks). Its chipset can be reconfigured and programmed so that the same analog modules can be ported across different generations of design and across different applications.