Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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The European Commission has recommended that Ukraine should be granted European Union candidate status.
The recommendation from the EU’s executive arm will be discussed by leaders of the 27-nation bloc during the upcoming summit in Brussels. The European Commission also proposed making Moldova, which shares a long border with Ukraine, an EU membership candidate.

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18 June is marked as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech. In July 2021, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution “promoting inter-religious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech”.
Hate speech goes against the core principles of the UN Charter such as equality, peace, and respect for human dignity leading to social disharmony.

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Red Bull racing driver Max Verstappen claimed his fifth win at the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix as Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton took his second podium of the season finishing the race in the third position.
Verstappen claimed his sixth victory of the season, and his 26th overall title. Spanish driver Carlos Sainz of Ferrari clinched the second position. Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time champion completed the podium, since the Bahrain season opener.

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Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri recently launched a project for skill training of construction workers called ‘NIPUN’ i.e. National Initiative for Promoting Upskilling of Nirman workers.
It is an initiative of Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). It aims to train over 1 lakh construction workers, through skilling and upskilling programmes and provides them with work opportunities also in foreign countries.

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According to a World Gold Council (WGC) report titled ‘Gold refining and recycling’, India has emerged as the fourth largest recycler in the world.
India has recycled 75 tonnes in 2021 while China topped the chart as it recycled 168 tonnes followed by Italy in the second position with 80 tonnes and the US at the third rank with 78 tonnes in 2021. India’s gold refining capacity increased by 1,500 tonnes (500 per cent) in 2021 from 300 tonnes in 2013.

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A giant stingray christened Boramy was caught on the Mekong River in the northeastern Cambodia. It measured almost 3 meters from snout to tail. The previous record for the largest fresh water fish was held by Mekong giant catfish discovered in Thailand in 2005.

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Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental organization that brings together the world’s top industrial nations. Its members are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. Its main purpose is to discuss global economic issues.

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Manipur’s Keibul Lamjao National Park is the world’s only floating national park. It is located on the Loktak Lake in the northeastern state of Manipur. It is the last natural habitat of the Sangai – the state animal of Manipur.

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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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A new species of jumping spider christened Pseudomogrus sudhii was discovered by a group of researchers in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan’s Desert National Park. The new species was named after the renowned arachnologist Sudhikumar.
This 4-millimetre-long spider is found only in India and United Arab Emirates. The male members of this species have dark brown head covered with small white hairs, black eye region and a dark band along the pale-yellow coloured abdomen. The females’ head is yellow with black eyes and white spotted light-yellow abdomen.