Current Affairs Quiz - July 2022

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The National Statistical Office report said that from 2011-2019, the proportion of unmarried persons within the age bracket of 15-29 years has increased from 17.2 per cent to 23 per cent.
Among males the percentage of unmarried population raised from 20.8 per cent in 2011 to 26.1 per cent in 2019 while in female, increased from 13.5 per cent in 2011 to 19.9 per cent in 2019.

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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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The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the e-FIR facility and Uttarakhand Police App.
The launch of the e-FIR facility will help people file an online FIR in cases related to the theft among others. All online services provided by the State police to the public have been integrated in the Uttarakhand police app. These include Gaura Shakti, Traffic Eye, Public Eye, Meri Yatra and Lakshya Nasha Mukt Uttarakhand.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the Bundelkhand Expressway in Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh.
The Bundelkhand expressway will connect Chitrakoot in the underdeveloped Bundelkhand region with the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. The 296-km-long four-lane expressway, which can be later expanded into six lanes, has been constructed at a cost of Rs 14,850 crore.

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The US Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it has tested two different hypersonic missiles systems.
The AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) had its second consecutive successful test. ARRW is a boost-glide system that uses a rocket to accelerate a missile to hypersonic speeds before releasing a hypersonic glider.

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The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released the Second Advance Estimates of Area and Production of various Horticultural Crops for 2021-22
Total Horticulture production in 2021-22 is estimated to be 341.63 Million Tonne, an increase of about 7.03 Million Tonne over 2020-21. Increase in production of Fruits, Vegetables and Honey while decrease in production of Spices, Flowers, Aromatics & Medicinal Plants and Plantation Crops over previous year, is expected.

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Build-operate-transfer (BOT) and Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) are the public private partnership models that are being used in execution of national highway projects.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is set to return to funding through private investments and plans to offer over two highway up-gradation projects to private players using the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model during the current quarter.

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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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The British government launched an ‘Aviation Passenger Charter’ to help passengers know their rights when faced with problems at airports.
Long queues and cancelled flights caused by staff shortages have caused chaos, prompting airlines to cut back their schedules. The new charter helps passengers know what to do if they are confronted by cancellations, delays or missing baggage.

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Bhupender Yadav attends BRICS Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting 2022, which was held under the presidency of China.
Discussions were held on Promoting Green Jobs for Sustainable Development; Developing Skills for Resilient Recovery; and Protecting Workers’ Right in New Forms of Employment. The countries also adopted ‘BRICS Labour & Employment Ministerial Declaration’.