Current Affairs Quiz - July 2022

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Two days’ National Conference of State Agriculture & Horticulture Ministers was inaugurated in Bengaluru, Karnataka
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched “Platform of Platforms (PoPs) under e-NAM”. The conference is organised by Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, to commemorate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.

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National Statistical Office (NSO), under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme implementation (MoSPI), releases the the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growth data.
The IIP growth rose to 19.6% in May as against 7.1% in April. The manufacturing sector’s output grew 20.6% in May this year, while the mining output climbed 10.9%, and power generation increased 23.5%.

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The annual Kanwar Yatra began recently after a gap of two years. It was cancelled for the last two years due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Kanwar Yatra is celebrated by Hindus and it will pass through Meerut, Saharanpur, Ghaziabad, Shamli, and Bhagpat districts in Uttar Pradesh. It will conclude in Haridwar, Gomukh, and Gangotri in Uttarakhand.

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Nord Stream 1 is a 1,224 km underwater gas pipeline, which runs from Vyborg in northwest Russia to Lubmin in northeastern Germany via the Baltic Sea.
Russian energy giant Gazprom owns the majority shares in the pipeline. It is the primary route through which its gas enters Germany. The pipeline was shut down for 10 days of scheduled maintenance work and there are growing concerns in Europe that Russia would extend the temporary suspension in retaliation against the sanctions.

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Filmmakers Aparna Sen and Nandita Das have been awarded the Icon Award at the 2022 London Indian Film Festival for their contribution to Indian and global cinema.
The London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) was held across four cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

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A joint declaration on US-Israeli strategic cooperation has been signed by President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
The statement has been claimed as historic in the strategic US-Israel partnership and the commitment of the United States to Israel’s security. The Jerusalem Declaration also refers to the Israeli-Palestinian relations.

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The Ministry of Education has released the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for the year 2022.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras has retained its first position for the fourth consecutive year in the overall category and for the seventh consecutive year in Engineering. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi was ranked second while Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, is ranked third.

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Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma signed a pact to end the decades-old border dispute between the two states.
They also agreed on restricting the number of ‘disputed villages’ to 86 instead of 123. Arunachal Pradesh borders Assam and Nagaland to the south, shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east, and a border with China in the north at the McMahon Line.

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South European countries including Spain, Greece and France have been witnessing huge wildfires and heat-wave.
Hundreds of deaths were reported due to rising temperatures that are related to climate change. France has evacuated over 16,000 people threatened by wildfires in the south-west and fires spread in Spain, Croatia and Greece.

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‘Nelson Mandela Day’ is observed on July 18 every year. The United Nations (UN) had declared July 18 as Nelson Mandela Day to honour the leader in 2009.
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first President from 1994 to 1999.  He was the first black head of state and the first elected President in a fully democratic election in South Africa.