Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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The National Health Authority (NHA) and NASSCOM jointly organized the NHA-NASSCOM Conclave 2022 on Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission – Revolutionizing Digital Health.
The Conclave was held in Bengaluru as a hybrid event with participation of over 400 stakeholders. The Conclave also included a brainstorming session on ways to increase the adoption of tele-consultation in India.

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated a cancer diagnostics and research centre, which is the country’s first oncology laboratory for comprehensive cancer diagnostic services.
Karkinos Healthcare’s advanced centre for cancer diagnostics and research will serve as a central lab. The focus is on early diagnostic tools, molecular assays for precision medicine. The Tata Group is investing Rs 110 crore in Karkinos while other stake holders are Rakuten Medical, Mayo Clinic and Reliance Digital Health.

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Karnataka government has launched software for Aadhar-based, single-window registration for the schemes, to provide easy access to farmers to benefits distributed under various government schemes.
The ‘Farmer Registration & Unified Beneficiary Information System’ (FRUITS) software facilitates single registration using an Aadhar card and Karnataka’s Bhoomi digitised land record system. The state departments of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, revenue, food, civil supplies and fisheries are covered under the initiative.

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Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari announced that construction of a cable-stayed bridge across Chambal river on the Kota bypass of East-West corridor in Rajasthan has been completed.
The 1.4-km-long cable stayed bridge across Chambal is built with a total CAPEX of Rs 214 crore. The bridge was part of the Kota bypass and East-West corridor from Porbandar (Gujarat) to Silchar (Assam). The cables of the bridge are aerodynamic in nature and have the ability to be neutral during storms.

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US President Joe Biden signed a bill to establish a commission to study the creation of a national museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture in Washington.
This move comes amid a push to mitigate the long-prevailing anti-Asian hate crisis.  Washington D.C also houses ‘National Museum of the American Latino’ and the ‘National Museum of African American History and Culture’.

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Indian men’s football team captain Sunil Chhetri became the joint fifth highest goalscorer in international football history.
He is also third on the list of active international goal-scorers, just behind Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina’s Lionel Messi. Chhetri achieved this feat during India’s AFC Asian Cup Qualifier match against Hong Kong, which was won by India.

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The Himachal Pradesh government has approved Himachal Pradesh Drone Policy, 2022 which seeks to create a holistic drone ecosystem built upon the foundation of Governance And Reforms Using Drones (GARUD).
The drone policy aims to ensure future readiness of students and to empower them to access job opportunities in the drone sector. It also aims to harness digital sky opportunities through institutional linkages with the NEP 2020, NSQF and other state government policies

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Egypt has hosted the Eighth Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians in Sharm El Sheikh. The conference is jointly organized by the House of Representatives and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
Around 200 young MPs, from 60 countries are participating to discuss strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change. Nagaland’s first woman elected as Member of Parliament to Rajya Sabha S. Phangon Konyak is representing India at the Conference.

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India hosted the Special ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (SAIFMM) to commemorate 30 years of ASEAN-India Dialogue Relations.
ASEAN Foreign Ministers and Secretary General participated in the meeting. The Meeting was co-chaired by External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Singapore Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan.

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Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) organized an eight-day long mango festival in Bahrain to boost the export of Mangoes.
Commerce and Industry Ministry said, 34 varieties of mangoes from states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha are being displayed at eight different locations of Bahrain’s Al Jazira group supermarket.