Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted an India-sponsored resolution on multilingualism that mentions the Hindi, Bangla and Urdu language for the first time.
The resolution encourages the UN to provide important communications and messages in official and in non-official languages, including in Hindi language. ‘Hindi @ UN’ project was launched in 2018 to enhance the public outreach of the UN in the Hindi language.

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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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Australia’s new Centre-Left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently named his cabinet. A junior Minister Matt Thistlethwaite was named as ‘Assistant minister for the republic’, for the first time ever.
This is seen as a significant step, as Australia is a Constitutional Monarchy. The United Kingdom’s 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her platinum jubilee, and her recently-elected government in Australia took a symbolic step toward her removal.

 

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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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Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf’s family clarified that he is suffering from a severe ailment called Amyloidosis.
Amyloidosis is a rare disease that occurs when an abnormal protein called ‘amyloid’ builds up in a person’s organs, affecting their functioning. Amyloid deposits can build up in the heart, brain, kidneys, spleen and other parts of the body, leading to organ failure. Some varieties are hereditary, while others are caused by factors such as inflammatory diseases or long-term dialysis.

 

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The Union Cabinet has approved a memorandum of association (MoA) by India for the establishment of BIMSTEC Technology Transfer Centre in Colombo.
The MoA was signed by the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation member countries at the 5th BIMSTEC Summit held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in March 2022.

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Union Minister for External Affairs Dr. S Jaishankar and Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated the Squash Courts at the Major Dhyanchand Stadium in New Delhi.
These are the first-ever Squash courts opened by the Sports Authority of India across the country. The construction of the Squash Courts was sanctioned for a total cost of Rs 5.52 crore. The state-owned National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) completed the project.

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The first-ever girl Panchayat of India named ‘Balika Panchayat’ was organised in several villages of Gujarat’s Kutch district.
This is an initiative of the Women and Child Development Welfare department of the Gujarat Government under the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ campaign. Balika Panchayat is managed by people in the 11-21 age group and aims to promote the social and political development of girl children.

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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is marked every year on 17 June across the world. The day focuses on turning degraded land into healthy or fertile soil to combat desertification.
The theme for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is – Rising up from drought together. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought.

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European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a set of new data, which has revealed the phenomena of ‘starquakes’.
Starquakes are massive movements on the surface of stars similar to earthquake. The star-mapping Gaia probe has covered almost 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The data has also revealed the largest chemical map of the entire Milky Way, showing the DNA of millions of stars.