Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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The United States has announced a funding of USD 122 million for India, to prevent avoidable epidemics, early detection of disease threats, and rapid and effective response.
The total funding will be distributed to three top health research institutions- ICMR, National Institute of Virology (NIV) and National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE) over a period of five years.

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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.

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The Shriram Group has secured RBI approval for the merger of Shriram City Union Finance and Shriram Capital Ltd with Shriram Transport Finance Company.
This consolidation is set to create the largest retail finance NBFC in the country. The merger would help the group bring together all its lending products. The Group announced that it would focus on digital lending, with distribution on a newly built super application.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the main tunnel and five underpasses of Pragati Maidan Integrated Transit Corridor Project in New Delhi.
The project is fully funded by the central government and is built at a cost of over ₹920 crore. The project is aimed at providing hassle free access to the new exhibition and convention centre being developed at Pragati Maidan. It is a part of Pragati Maidan Redevelopment Project.

 

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Union Minister Bhupender Yadav addressed the Plenary Session of 110th International Labour Conference in Geneva.
The International labour Conference sets the international labour standards and the broad policies of the ILO. It is the largest international gathering attended by representatives of governments, employers and workers from the 187 ILO Member States.

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The Haryana state government and Israel have signed a joint declaration in the field of integrated water resources management and capacity building.
The Joint Cooperation Agreement was signed by the Project Director of Atal Bhujal Yojana, Haryana with the representative of Israel, to make significant transformation in water management sector.

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Mumbai based Swal Corporation has introduced a new paddy product in the market, named ‘Kar Max’
The company has introduced the product in order to effectively control the stem-protruding worm that affects paddy crop and to increase the productivity of the crop.

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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) notified the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for telecom in 2021, aimed towards incentivising design-led manufacturing in the sector.
Recently the DoT has extended the PLI scheme by one year, and has amended the scheme to raise the incentive rate by an additional 1 per cent. The Centre will provide additional incentives of over Rs 4,000 crore.

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UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize or the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education was established in 2005 with the help of the Kingdom of Bahrain. It gives recognition to the innovative use of ICT in the education sector.

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The first case of monkeypox was recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the year 1970. It is a rare zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which belongs to the Poxviridae family. Its symptoms are similar to smallpox but milder.