Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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The Chilika Lake, located in Odisha is Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon. According to a census conducted by Chilika Development Authority (CDA) in collaboration with The Fishing Cat Project (TFCP), the lake has 176 fishing cats.
This is the world’s longest-running research and conservation project on fishing cats, which began in 2010 and is currently underway in two states in India: West Bengal and Odisha. West Bengal declared fishing cats the state animal in 2012 and the fishing cat was announced as Chilika Lake’s ambassador in 2020.

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As per recent reports, Russia overtook Saudi Arabia to become India’s second-largest supplier of crude oil last month.
The average daily rate of Russian oil exports to India stood at 819,000 barrels, as compared to 277,000 barrels exported in April. Indian buyers account for 18 percent of Russian crude oil exports. Russian crude has been trading at a discount reaching USD 30 to Brent since the start of the war in Ukraine.

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The 38th India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (IND-INDO CORPAT) between the Indian and Indonesian Navy is being conducted in the Andaman Sea and Straits of Malacca.
The Navy Units of Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) represent India. This is the first post pandemic Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) between the two countries. The two Navies have been carrying out CORPAT along their International Maritime Boundary Line since 2002.

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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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A new species of snail – Haploptychius sahyadriensis, a third in the genus Haploptychius, has been found in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra.
The species is endemic to Vishalgad Conservation Reserve in Kolhapur. Haploptychius sahyadriensis is different from the other Indian and South-East Asian species. It has been named after the type locality of the species in the northern part of the Western Ghats, which is Sahyadri in Sanskrit. India has 1,450 snails and slugs with the highest diversity in north-eastern 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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The Ministry of Education (MoE) announced the launch of a special three-year skill based bachelor degree programme for ‘Agniveers’.
The degree programme offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will be recognised both in India and abroad for employment and education. Agniveers are the defence personnel to be recruited under the newly launched ‘Agnipath’ scheme.

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The British Government has announced to deport asylum-seekers of various nationalities to Rwanda.
In April, British Prime Minister Johnson announced the Deportation Policy, which aims to deter people illegally entering the country. United Nations’ top refugee officials and Migrant advocacy groups have termed the policy as inhumane and illegal.

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The REN21’s Renewables 2022 global status report, which was released recently, said that India had the third highest addition of renewable power capacity in 2021.
India added around 15.4 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power capacity in 2021 after China (136 GW) and the United States (43 GW). India is the third-largest market in the world for new solar photovoltaics (PV) capacity and fourth in the world for total solar energy installations (60.4 GW).

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The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a unit of the NCERT has been awarded with the UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT (Information And Communication Technology) in Education for the year 2021.
The institution has used ICT under the ‘PM eVidya’ scheme during the Covid pandemic. The PM eVIDYA programme was launched as part of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan’ in May 2020 to unify all efforts related to digital, online, on-air education Each prize-winner receives USD 25,000, a medal and a diploma.