Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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Indian Author Salman Rushdie was appointed a Companion of Honour by the United Kingdom for services to literature.
The 74-year-old author of ‘Midnight’s Children’ was named on the occasion of the four days of celebrations to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee. He had earlier received a knighthood in 2007.
Companion of Honour is an exclusive club with membership limited to just 65 people at any given time, for services to literature.

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Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal represented India in the 12th Ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at Geneva.
The Minister while speaking at the plenary session of MC12, said that finding a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security should be the top-most priority. India co-sponsored a G-33 proposal for solution to permanent stock holding at WTO in 2021.

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Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations has been appointed as the Under Secretary General of the United Nations.
She will also be High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS). The Ambassador is the first woman diplomat from Bangladesh to be appointed to this post. Indian diplomat Amandeep Singh Gill was appointed by UN chief Antonio Guterres as his Envoy on Technology.

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The United States House of Representatives passed a ‘red-flag’ bill recently, which aims to bar those considered dangerous to themselves or others from possessing firearms.
The bill comes amidst two devastating mass shootings in the US that occurred within a fortnight. Recently, a gunman killed 19 children and two school teachers in an elementary school in Texas while 10 people were killed in racist attack in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

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The National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) is a system for digitising the legislative bodies of all Indian states and the Parliament through a single platform.
Nagaland became the first state in India to implement NeVA, in March this year. A delegation of MLAs from Gujarat visited the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, to learn about the e-Vidhan system for paperless proceedings that was recently adopted by the UP state assembly. Dubai is the world’s first government to go 100 percent paperless.

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The first-ever India-EU Security and Defence Consultations was held in Brussels, in continuation to a decision taken at the India-EU summit in July 2020.
India and the European Union discussed increasing maritime security cooperation and co-development of defence equipment. India’s participation in Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) was also discussed.

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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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National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, NCPCR is observing ‘Elimination of Child Labour Week’ in honour of World Day Against Child Labour (12 June) in 75 places from June 12 to June 20.
The NCPCR has developed a draft SOP on the rescue and post-rescue of child labour. Rescue operations in 75 places where children are involved in labour work across the country shall be conducted during this week, with the help of authorities like State Commission, District authorities, Child Welfare Committees etc.

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India’s Union Cabinet has approved the proposal on the agreement between the Government of India and the United Nations on a ‘Way Finding Application’ to be used in the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG).
The Office is housed at the historic Palais des Nations. In view of the complexity of buildings and huge participation, India announced to develop the ‘Way Finding Application’ to UN on the occasion of its 75th anniversary in 2020. The estimated outlay for development and maintenance of the App is USD 2 Million.

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Over 1200 cattle across five districts of Gujarat have been infected with Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), in the past one month.
LSD, an infectious viral disease, started in Dwarka and Jamnagar districts. Around 40 cattle have died in the state, as per the state animal husbandry department. Symptoms of LSD primarily consist of fever, fluid from eyes and nose, dribbling of saliva and blisters on the body.A vaccination drive is being carried out in a five kilometre radius across infected areas.