Current Affairs Quiz - July 2022

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The website of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been ranked first in the National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment.
The Digital Police portal was ranked second in the service delivery assessment of websites of central government ministries, conducted by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) in association with its knowledge partners NASSCOM and KPMG in 2021.

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Renowned filmmaker KP Kumaran was awarded the 2021 JC Daniel Award. It is Kerala’s highest award in Malayalam cinema.
The award is presented annually by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, a non-profit institution under the Department of Cultural Affairs.

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The state government in Chhattisgarh is set to start the purchase of cow urine at a minimum rate of Rs 4 per litre from local festival ‘Hareli’.
The state had launched the ‘Godhan Nyay Yojana’ on Hareli festival in 2020, under which cow dung is being procured at Rs 2 per kilogram to prepare vermi-compost.

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As per the data provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs, over 1.63 lakh Indian nationals renounced their Indian citizenship during 2021.
This is the highest during the last three years. The US was the top choice with almost half of Indians preferring to become US citizens. After the US, Indians preferred to get citizenship in Australia, Canada and the UK.

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The United Nations General Assembly had officially declared International Moon Day to be marked every year on 20 July.
It celebrates the day humans first walked on the moon in 1969. This was the day when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, Earth’s only satellite on 20 July 1969. Lunar module pilot Edwin Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong 19 minutes later and they spent about two and a quarter hours outside the spacecraft while collecting 21.5 kg of lunar material.

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Union Personnel Minister Jitendra Singh launched the “National Standards for Civil Service Training Institutions” (NSCSTI).
The standards are developed by the Capacity Building Commission (CBC), to create standards for civil service training institutions at national level.

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India’s largest public sector lender, State Bank of India (SBI), announced the launch of its WhatsApp Banking services
Customers of SBI may use WhatsApp to access banking services from the lender. Users can check your account balance and get Mini Statement. Through the platform, the State Bank of India also offers WhatsApp-based services to customers with credit cards.

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The Andhra Pradesh State Wildlife Department has commenced the first-ever survey of blackbucks along a stretch of islands in the Godavari between Dowleswaram and Yanam.
The survey aims of drawing up a conservation plan to protect the endangered species.

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The Government has prohibited import of human embryos in line with the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 and The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021.
This was announced by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade. Earlier, imports were prohibited except for research purposes based on the guidelines of the Department of Health Research. Surrogacy is a practice where a woman gives birth to a child for an intending couple with the intention to hand over the child after the birth to the couple.

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An MoU was signed by Union Environment Minister of India and Deputy Prime Minister of Namibia, in New Delhi.
It paves way for reintroduction of eight cheetahs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The MoU also covers cooperation on wildlife conservation and sustainable biodiversity utilisation. India will train Namibian candidates in wildlife management courses at the Wildlife Institute of India.