Current Affairs Quiz - July 2022

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Tokyo Olympian Deepak Punia won a bronze medal in the 86kg freestyle weight category at the U23 Asian wrestling championships 2022 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
The 23-year-old wrestler after losing to Azizbek Fayzullaev of Uzbekistan and Nurtilek Karypbaev of Kyrgyzstan, settled for the bronze. India won 25 medals in all in the U23 meet in the event, including 10 gold medals.

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India has been celebrating 29th June as “Statistics Day”. This year, the theme was ‘Data for Sustainable Development’.
The Ministry released ‘Sustainable Development Goals-National Indicator Framework (NIF) Progress Report, 2022’. Along with the report, the updated NIF 2022 and Data Snapshot on SDGs NIF Report 2022 and “Youth in India 2022” publication were also released. Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis National Award in Official Statistics, 2022 was also awarded.

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The UN Ocean Conference 2022 concluded with the unanimous adoption of the Lisbon Declaration “Our Ocean, our future, our responsibility.”
More than 150 countries agreed to scale up science-based and innovative actions to address the ocean emergency. The Lisbon Declaration takes into account the capacity challenges being faced by the developing countries, mainly the Small Island Developing States and Least Developing Countries.

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The Reserve Bank has launched the next round of its order books, inventories and capacity utilisation survey (OBICUS) of manufacturing companies.
The results of the survey provide valuable inputs for monetary policy formulation. The 58th round of the OBICUS is for April – June 2022 period. The information collected in the survey includes data on new orders received during the reference quarter, backlog of orders, pending and total inventories among others.

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The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has barred hotels and restaurants from adding service charge ‘automatically or by default’ in the food bill.
The consumer may lodge a complaint on the National Consumer Helpline (NCH) 1915 or through the NCH mobile application, as per the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

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The privatisation of Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL) was completed as it has been handed over to Tata Steel Long Products (TSLP).
NINL is the second successful privatisation by the government, after Air India which was also bought by Tata Group. NINL, which is a joint venture of 4 CPSEs named MMTC, NMDC, BHEL, MECON and 2 Odisha government PSUs- OMC and IPICOL.

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Scientists have discovered the world’s largest water-lily belonging to the genus Victoria at Kew Gardens in south-west London.
The species has been named Victoria boliviana, in honour of Bolivian partners in the research. The leaves of the newly discovered waterlily species grow up to three metres. The current record for the largest plant of the species is held by La Rinconada Gardens in Bolivia, with leaves of 3.2 metres.

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World Kiswahili Day is celebrated on the 7th of July every year after a declaration by UNESCO member states in this regard.
Kiswahili is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa and the most widely spoken in sub-Saharan Africa. Kiswahili is also the only African language which is an official language of the African Union.

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Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has organised ‘Hariyali Mahotsav’ in New Delhi in the spirit of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
Hariyali Mahotsav, the ‘Tree Festival’ is organized to create awareness about the importance of trees and forest conservation. Hariyali Mahotsav is being organized by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in collaboration with the State Governments, Police Institutions and Schools of Delhi for undertaking plantation drives.

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A unit of Russian nuclear major Rosatom State Corporation has signed an agreement to supply thermocouples for four power units of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu.
LUCH Scientific Production Association, part of the R&D unit of Rosatom will provide the new sensors designed for thermal control of NPP process equipment.