Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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Four holy relics of Lord Buddha are flown from India to Mongolia, as part of celebrations of Mongolian Buddh Purnima falling on June 14.
A 25-member delegation from the Ministry of Culture led by Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju will carry the sacred relics to Mongolia and will be kept in the country for 11 days. The relics will be displayed at the Batsagaan temple in the Gandan Monastery. The Buddha relics, currently placed in the National Museum, are known as the ‘Kapilvastu Relics’.

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Canada is set to become the first country in the world to require that a warning be printed on every cigarette.
The move adds on Canada’s mandate to include graphic photo warnings on the packaging of tobacco products. This policy of Canada started an international trend when it was introduced two decades ago.

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“Abridged life tables” 2015-19 of the sample registration system (SRS) report was released recently.It showed that India’s life expectancy at birth rose to 69.7 during 2015-19.
The rate is still below the estimated global average life expectancy of 72.6 years. It has taken ten years to add two years to life expectancy. Odisha has had the highest increase, of over 24 years, from 45.7 to 69.8 years followed by Tamil Nadu. Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh had the lowest life expectancy in 2015-2019.

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The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal of the Department of Telecommunications for the auction of 72 GHz of spectrum for a 20-year-period.
It will make way for providing 5G services to public and enterprises. 5G services is said to be about 10 times faster than 4G.The Cabinet also decided to enable the development of ‘Private Captive Networks’ to promote innovation in industry 4.0 applications.

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The leaders of the West Asian QUAD – India, Israel, the US and UAE will meet for the first ever virtual summit. The meeting has been called by the White House and will be addressed by the US President Joe Biden.
US President Joe Biden is also making a visit to West Asia – Israel and Saudi Arabia. The White House has given a new acronym to identify the new grouping as I2U2: India, Israel and UAE and the US. Recently, UAE and Israel had signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), while India and the UAE too have signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

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Union Steel Minister Ram Chandra Prasad Singh inaugurated a six-lane highway in Surat made of steel slag, a first-of-its kind.
The road constructed using 100 per cent slag, which is a by-product of steel manufacturing. The road has been jointly made with the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), which is a laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel (AMNS).

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The BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR) Innovation Center signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB).
The MoU aims to facilitate bilateral cooperation in such fields as artificial intelligence, industrial internet, energy conservation and environmental protection. The BRICS PartNIR Innovation Center was launched in Xiamen in December 2020.

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The International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) is observed on 16 June every year. It recognises the importance of over 200 million migrant workers who send money home.
According to the United Nations, over 800 million people receive money as foreign remittances from their loved ones. According to the World Bank, remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will reach a record USD 630 billion this year.

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A team of scientists has discovered a new species of bamboo-dwelling bat from a bamboo forest in Meghalaya.
It was named as ‘Glischropus meghalayanus’ after the state of Meghalaya, which is celebrating its 50 years of statehood. With this discovery, the total number of bat species from India stands at 131 species with Meghalaya registering the highest bat diversity with 67 species.

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India and other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) supported an initiative of China to organise a joint border operation ‘Solidarity-2023’ for the border agencies of the member countries next year.
India’s Border Security Force (BSF) Director announced this at the conclusion of the eighth meeting of the heads of border authorities of the competent bodies of SCO member states, which was held in Delhi, under the chairmanship of India.