Current Affairs Quiz - July 2022

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The ancient Buddhist city, Mes Aynak was a vast city organised around the extraction and trade of copper. It was carved out of peaks near Kabul in Afghanistan.
It was believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old. In 2007 the Chinese mining giant Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) signed a USD 3 billion contract to mine ore over 30 years. The project is once again a priority for Talibans and China.

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ReNew recently became the first Indian Renewable Energy Company to refinance dollar-denominated bonds
This refinancing has cut the INR interest cost of the bonds by 200 basis points. ReNew Energy Global has successfully refinanced its 2024 maturity dollar-denominated bonds with amortising project debt from an Indian non-bank financial company.

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National Skill Development Mission, which is also known as Skill India Mission, was launched on July 15 in the year 2015.
The 7th Anniversary of the Skill India Mission was celebrated this year. Under the Pradhanmantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna, more than one crore 36 lakh young persons have been trained so far. The scheme aims to empower the youth with skill sets, making them more employable.

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SpaceX’s 25th cargo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA was launched recently. It is also called as CRS-25 (Commercial resupply services).
The robotic Dragon launched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, which delivered Dragon to low Earth orbit.

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After a week-long gang violence in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, at least 89 people dead. Raising prices, fuel shortages and gang warfare accelerated worsened the security situation in Port-au-Prince.
The violence erupted between two rival factions in Cite Soleil, an impoverished and densely populated neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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The US House of Representatives has passed a legislative amendment that approves waiver to India against the punitive CAATSA sanctions for its purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia.
Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) is a US law that authorises the US administration to impose sanctions on countries that purchase major defence hardware from Russia in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi is organizing a festival “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav – 22nd Bharat Rang Mahotsav, 2022.
NSD is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture. The festival aims to remember and pay tribute to our freedom fighters, under ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav 2022’. The festival will be inaugurated in New Delhi and it will be organized in 5 other cities of Bhubaneswar, Varanasi, Amritsar, Bengaluru and Mumbai.

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Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, an infectious disease in the same family as the virus which causes Ebola.
The two patients died and 98 people are under quarantine as suspected contact cases.  No treatment yet exists for Marburg. The virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads between humans through the transmission of bodily fluids.

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Veteran playback singer Bhupinder Singh, who is famous for his Bollywood songs, passed away recently at the age of 82 in Mumbai.
He is a renowned ghazal singer with a five-decade-long career. He began his career working in the All India Radio, Delhi, as a singer and musician.

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The Sierra de Mijas is a mountain range located in southern Spain. Recently the wildfire in the mountains has caused severe damages.
The fires across France, Greece, Portugal and Spain destroyed thousands of hectares of land, forced thousands from their homes and killed several emergency personnel.