Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2023

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The ‘National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG)’ has signed MoU with the Government of Maldives to enhance the skills and capabilities of 1,000 civil servants in the field of public administration and governance by 2024.
NCGG has already imparted training to 685 officers from Maldives. It has recently trained the 24th batch of civil servants from Maldives.

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Indian golfer Diksha Dagar won her second Ladies European Tour (LET) title as she grabbed a four-shot win at the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open.
The 22-year-old won her first LET title back in 2019 in her rookie year and in 2021 she was part of the winning team at the Aramco Team Series in London. This was Diksha’s 79th start on the LET and she now has two individual wins and nine Top-10 finishes.

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The Union Cabinet of India approved the introduction of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Bill, 2023 in the Parliament.
The approved Bill will pave the way to establish National Research Foundation (NRF) that will promote Research and Development (R&D) and promote a culture of research and innovation throughout India’s universities, colleges, research institutions, and R&D laboratories.

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The Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications recently announced the ‘5G & Beyond Hackathon 2023’.
It is aimed at shortlisting India-focused cutting-edge ideas that can be converted into workable 5G & beyond products and solutions. Hundred winners of the hackathon will share a total prize pool of Rs one crore.

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The International Conference on Green Hydrogen is scheduled to take place in New Delhi from July 5 to 7, 2023.
The primary objective of the conference is to establish a comprehensive Green Hydrogen Ecosystem and accelerate progress towards global decarbonization goals by leveraging the potential of Green Hydrogen.

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The 6G Vision Framework has been officially approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
The Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, representing India, has played a pivotal role in formulating this framework. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had released India’s 6G Vision “Bharat  6G Vision” document on March 23, 2023

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MOVEit is a managed file transfer application used throughout the financial sector to securely transfer large volumes of sensitive data between systems.
Recently, hackers have gained access to personal data of more than 15.5 million individuals by exploiting a security vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer tool. The victim organisation includes U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) among others.

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At a London auction held by Sotheby’s, the final portrait created by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was sold for USD 108.4 million or 885 crores, making it the highest-priced artwork ever sold at a European auction.
Regarded as one of the most influential decorative painters of the 20th century, Gustav Klimt’s oil on canvas painting, “The Kiss,” created between 1907 and 1908, depicts two lovers in an embrace and is recognized as one of his most iconic masterpieces.

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The Greater Chennai Police has introduced the country’s first ‘Police Drone Unit’ in order to conduct aerial surveillance in the capital city of Tamil Nadu.
The unit consists of nine drones across three categories, operated by 20 trained police personnel.

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The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has recently created National Defence Mobilisation Offices (NDMO) and introduced significant revisions to its Reserve Personnel Law.
NDMOs are being established in in Beijing, Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian, Wuhan, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, etc which are primarily influenced by the insights gained from the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.