Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) organized an eight-day long mango festival in Bahrain to boost the export of Mangoes.
Commerce and Industry Ministry said, 34 varieties of mangoes from states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha are being displayed at eight different locations of Bahrain’s Al Jazira group supermarket.

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U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people from laws of conservative states that increasingly targets the rights of gays, lesbians, transgender youth and others.
The order seeks to use the force of the federal government to prevent inhumane practices of conversion therapy. It will also seek to expand access to suicide prevention and mental health resources for L.G.B.T.Q. people.

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The Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru was named the best regional airport in India and South Asia title in the 2022 Skytrax World Airport awards.
The award is based on the feedback from the customers in a globally conducted survey about experience from check-in to arrivals, transfers, shopping, security, immigration and arrangements in the departures gates. The Bengaluru airport had also won the Best Airport and Aviation Innovation Award at Wings India Awards earlier.

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World number-18 Golfer England’s Matt Fitzpatrick captured his first major title by winning the US Open in a thrilling fight.
The 27-year-old player, who has won the 2013 US Amateur, has bagged his first professional US victory. Americans Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris were the other ace players who participated in the event.

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Hampi, located at the banks of the Tungabhadra River, is an ancient village in Karnataka’s Vijayanagara district. This UNESCO World Heritage Site was the capital of the Vijayanagar Empire in the 14th century.

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NEtworking TRaffic Analysis (NETRA) was developed by the DRDO laboratory Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR). It is a software network used for intercepting and analysing internet traffic passing through software such as Skype and Google Talk.

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According to the latest data of the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the United States is India’s largest trading partner. The bilateral trade is worth 119.42 billion USD. India’s second largest trading partner is China.

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Ukraine’s Snake Island or Zmiinyi Island is situated in the Black Sea, close to the Danube Delta. This X-shaped island is less than 700 meters from end to end. A village named Bile was founded in 2007 to reaffirm the status of the island as being inhabited.

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Santhal or Santal are India’s third largest scheduled tribe community after Gonds and Bhils. The Santhali population is mainly distributed in Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. NDA Presidential election candidate Droupadi Murmu’s home district, Mayurbhanj, is one of the districts having dense concentration of the Santhali people. Droupadi Murmu belongs to Santhal tribe. Apart from her, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Girsh Chandra Murmu, who was the first Lt Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Union Jal Shakti Minister Biseswar Tudu also belong to Santhal community.

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The UNGA adopted a resolution in December 1987 to declare June 26 as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. It is also known as World Drug Day.
The objective of this day is to combat drug abuse and illegal drug trade across the world and to strengthen global cooperation. The theme for this year is “Addressing drug challenges in health and humanitarian crises”. It focuses on the existing and emerging global drug-related challenges that are caused by the pandemic, climate crisis, supply chain disruption and inflation.