Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

Notes:
The Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) has been approved for continuation till 2025-26 with the total outlay of Rs 13,554.42 crore.
The extension of the scheme is over the 15th Finance Commission Cycle for five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26. The scheme will create sustainable employment opportunities for about 40 lakh persons in five financial years. It is implemented by the Ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises.

Notes:
Israel has signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates, its first big trade pact with an Arab state.
The agreement, which aimed at boosting trade between the two Middle Eastern nations, would encourage more Israeli companies to set up offices in the UAE, particularly in Dubai. The deal with Israel is UAE’s second bilateral free trade agreement after a similar accord with India in February.

Notes:
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the RBI Annual Report 2021-22. As per the report, the total number of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) of all denominations detected in the banking sector increased to 2,30,971 pieces.
There was an increase of 16.4 per cent, 16.5 per cent, 11.7 per cent, 101.9 per cent and 54.6 per cent in the counterfeit notes detected in the denominations of Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 200, Rs 500 and Rs 2,000, respectively. The total expenditure on security printing during 2021-2022 was ₹4,984.8 crore as against ₹4,012.1 crore in the previous year.

Notes:
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award will be introduced in the state for sportspersons.
The Chief Minister also said the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympics’ will start from August 2022 and over 27 lakh players of all ages will participate in it. He also inaugurated Rajasthan High Performance Sports and Rehabilitation Centre.

Notes:
‘Frontier’ became the world’s fastest supercomputer, according to the Top500 list of world’s most powerful supercomputers with Linmark benchmark score of 1.1 exaflops.
It is a supercomputer built using Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) architecture and equipped with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors. It surpassed Fugaku, Japan’s supercomputer jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu Ltd., which topped the supercomputer benchmarking index in 2020.

Notes:
Andhra Pradesh government’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has developed a mobile application named “ACB 14400” for lodging complaints against corruption.
The ‘ACB 14400’ application, once opened, will feature two categories – Live Report and Lodge Complaint. In the ‘Live Report’ section, users can click photographs, record audio or videos of live acts of corruption and submit complaints instantaneously.

Notes:
The United Nations has welcomed the first commercial flight from Yemen’s Sanaa airport to Egypt, as per a UN spokesman.
This was the seventh flight operating under the terms of the UN brokered two-month nationwide treaty. Around 2500 Yemenis have travelled so far between Sanaa, Amman and Cairo. As per the UN, nearly 19 million people will go hungry this year and more than 160,000 will face famine-like conditions in Yemen.

Notes:
Tata Projects will build the national capital region’s new airport at Jewar, after outbidding the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and Larsen & Toubro for the contract.
Tata Projects will construct the terminal, runway, airside infrastructure, roads, utilities, landside facilities and other ancillary buildings at the Noida International Airport. The new airport is expected to be functional by 2024.

Notes:
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a global initiative Lifestyle for the Environment (LiFE) Movement, on the occasion of World Environment Day through video conferencing.
The idea of LiFE was originally introduced by the Prime Minister during the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP-26 in Glasgow. ‘LiFE Global Call for Papers’ was initiated inviting ideas and suggestions to adopt an environment-conscious lifestyle.

Notes:
The Punjab and Himachal Pradesh governments announced to impose a ban on single-use plastic from July.
The Central government has decided to stop single-use plastic from July 1, 2022. Himachal Pradesh is the first state in the country to ban plastic envelopes.