Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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World Day Against Child Labour is marked every year on 12 June across the world. The day aims to raise awareness about the exploitation of children who are engaged in child labour.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) declared the World Day Against Child Labour in the year 2002. The theme for this year is “Universal Social Protection to End Child Labour”.

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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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Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw has launched ‘Innovation Policy for Indian Railways’, to encourage participation of start-ups.
Also referred as ‘Start-Ups for Railways’, the policy seeks to provide up to Rs. 1.5 Crore to innovators on equal sharing basis. Indian Railways will support in the form of 50 percent capital grant, assured market, scale and ecosystem.

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Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev became the World No. 1 men’s player in the ATP rankings for a second time in his career, replacing the 20- time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic.
Germany’s Alexander Zverev jumped to a career-high 2nd spot pushing Novak to third place. Medvedev is unable to compete at this year’s Wimbledon as Russian and Belarusian players have been banned after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For the last 19 years, the ‘Big Three’ -Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer were occupying the first two spots.

 

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Neeraj Chopra bettered his national record in Javelin throw, in the Paavo Nurmi Games held in Turku, Finland.
With a throw of 89.30 metres, he created a new national record, better than his Tokyo Olympics performance of 87.58m. It made him India’s first track and field gold medallist. His recent throw, which fetched him a silver medal, is also the fifth best throw by an athlete this year.

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Union Minister of Civil Aviation awarded the first Type Certificate (TC) under Drone Rules, 2021 to IoTechWorld Avigation.
The Gurugram based company received the TC within 34 days after submission of its online application on the ‘DigitalSky Platform’ of DGCA. There are 14 drone prototypes that are undergoing the certification tests. The Drone Rules, 2021 were notified in 2021 and the ‘Certification Scheme for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CSUAS)’

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India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from a test range off the Odisha coast.
The missile was developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation of India. It has a range of around 250 km and can carry a one tonne payload. The test comes around 10 days after India tested its Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Agni-IV, which can travel as far as 4,000 km.

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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘Kranti Gatha’, a Gallery of Indian Revolutionaries inside an underground bunker at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.
The Prime Minister also inaugurated ‘Jal Bhushan’, the new residence and office of the Governor of Maharashtra.

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India is the host of FIFA under-17 Women’s World Cup 2022, whose schedule was released recently. India will play all its group stage matches of the World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.
The quarterfinals will be held in Navi Mumbai and Goa on October 21 and 22. The Nehru Stadium in Goa and D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai will host maximum matches.

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The United States has announced a funding of USD 122 million for India, to prevent avoidable epidemics, early detection of disease threats, and rapid and effective response.
The total funding will be distributed to three top health research institutions- ICMR, National Institute of Virology (NIV) and National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE) over a period of five years.