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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China emerged as the top buyer of Indian rice during the pandemic, importing 16.34 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) or 7.7 per cent of India’s total rice export in financial year 2021-22.
In 2021-22, India’s total rice export (both basmati and non-basmati) was 212.10 LMT. Out of China’s total rice import from India, nearly 97 percent was broken rice, which has seen a rise in demand from that country. India used to export broken rice mostly to African countries, earlier.

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The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will organise the Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela every month.
At the end of a candidate’s training period, they will be awarded an Apprenticeship certificate, acknowledged by the National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET). The primary objective of the Mela is to encourage the hiring of apprentices from the cities. A credit bank concept will be introduced, with a depositary of various credits accumulated by learners.

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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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Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a special postal stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mumbai Samachar, Asia’s oldest running newspaper.
The Prime Minister participated in ‘Dwishatabdi Mahotsav’ of Mumbai Samachar. The Gujarati newspaper was first published in 1822 as a weekly by Parsi scholar Fardunjee Marzban.

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The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently notified the cost inflation index (CII) for FY 2022-23 as 331.
For the previous year (FY 2021-22) CII was notified as 317. The CII is used to calculate an asset’s inflation-adjusted cost price, with which Long-term capital gains or losses are then calculated. This notification will apply to the Assessment Year 2023-24 and future years.

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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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Microsoft has shut down its iconic Internet Explorer (IE) browser after 27 years. It was one of the oldest browsers launched in the year 1995.
Microsoft has asked its users to switch to its modern Edge browser, while the virtual version of the older browser will be available to users. In 2022, Chrome is the most popular and widely used browser in the world with over 70 % market share.

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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.

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India’s top javelin thrower and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games gold medallist Neeraj Chopra has clinched the men’s javelin throw gold at the 2022 Kuortane Games.
He registered an impressive throw of 86.69 meters in the event. Recently, Neeraj Chopra won silver and set a national record at the Paavo Nurmi athletics meet.