Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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The UN refugee agency, UNHCR released the ‘2022 Global Trends Report’. As per the report, 100 million people have now been forced to flee their homes globally.
UNHCR also highlighted worldwide food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine and other emergencies from Africa to Afghanistan as leading causes. As per the report, the number displaced by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses stood at 89.3 million, by the end of 2021.

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India hosted the SCO’s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (SCO-RATS) Meeting in its capacity as chair of the SCO-RATS.
The meeting aims to deliberate on security challenges, including threats of terrorism. Delegations from China, Pakistan and other member nations of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) attended the meeting in New Delhi. India hosted a meeting of counter-terror experts from the SCO countries in May 2022.

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Minister for Power, New and Renewable Energy R K Singh addressed the ‘India Energy Transition Summit’ in New Delhi.
The Minister said that India is leading in energy transition and it is fastest growing Renewable Energy capacity in the world. He also affirmed that India can achieve 700 GW of Renewable energy by 2030 if we manage to achieve the vision of green hydrogen, green ammonia and Electric Vehicles EV.

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A team of scientists has discovered a new species of bamboo-dwelling bat from a bamboo forest in Meghalaya.
It was named as ‘Glischropus meghalayanus’ after the state of Meghalaya, which is celebrating its 50 years of statehood. With this discovery, the total number of bat species from India stands at 131 species with Meghalaya registering the highest bat diversity with 67 species.

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India and other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) supported an initiative of China to organise a joint border operation ‘Solidarity-2023’ for the border agencies of the member countries next year.
India’s Border Security Force (BSF) Director announced this at the conclusion of the eighth meeting of the heads of border authorities of the competent bodies of SCO member states, which was held in Delhi, under the chairmanship of India.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently released a document titled “Payments Vision 2025”, with guidelines on payments.
The document also focussed on the architecture of digital finance. It includes regulations for BigTechs and fintechs in payments; guidelines on payments involving ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL) services; introducing the central bank digital currency (CBDC); and linking credit cards and credit components of banking products to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

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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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During the launch of the Agnipath scheme, the Centre had said those between the of 17-and-a-half and 21 years would be inducted for a four-year tenure in the tri services of Army, Navy and Air Force.
As per the latest order by the Defence Minister, the age limit for recruitment has now been raised to 23 for the 2022 batch only. There have been nation-wide protests against the new model for recruitment of soldiers.

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‘CERT-In’, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team is an office within the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It is the nodal agency to deal with cyber security threats.
‘CERT-In’ recently issued threat alerts for multiple software including Adobe and Microsoft products on their website, shared multiple vulnerabilities affecting products from Citrix, Adobe, Microsoft, and Zimbra webmail.

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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.