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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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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England hit a world record one-day international score of 498 against Netherlands and won the match by 232 runs in Amstelveen.
The England team beat their previous mark of 481-6 set against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2018. In the recent match, three England players scored centuries with Liam Livingstone making the fastest half-century in England’s ODI history off just 17 balls. Player of the match Jos Buttler finished on 162 not out, with century off 47 balls.

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Vaikom Muhammed Basheer was a famous writer of Malayalam literature. He was a recipient of the Sahitya Academy Fellowship and Padma Shri award.
The 28th death anniversary of writer Vaikom Muhammed Basheer is set to be marked at his residence at Beypore with a range of programmes named ‘Basheer Fest’. The event will be organised in association with Chalachitra Academy, Folklore Academy and Sahitya Akademi and others.

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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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Spain has been facing wildfires amid an unusual heat wave in the Western Europe region. In Spain’s northwest province of Zamora, over 30,000 hectares have been consumed. The fire in the north-western Sierra de Culebra mountain range has caused significant damage.
Germany has also been hit by wild fires and heat wave due to climate change.

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Article 263 of the Indian Constitution allows the President to establish the Inter-State Council, which brings together government entities on a common platform for discussing various governance issues. The Inter-State Council was established in 1990. Its chairman is the Prime Minister and its members include chief ministers and administrators of states and union territories.

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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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Theri Desert in located in Tamil Nadu. It derives its name from Tamil term “theri”, which means red dunes. Red sand dunes in this desert have sediments dating back to the Quaternary period that commenced some 2.6 million years ago.