Current Affairs Quiz - June 2022

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The Tenth Schedule, which is popularly known as the Anti-Defection Act, became part of the Indian Constitution as the result of the 52nd Amendment Act, 1985. It sets grounds for the disqualification of legislators on the grounds of defection to another political party. It was recently making news due to Maharashtra Political Crisis.

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A draft notification was approved by the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways recently for the introduction of Bharat New Car Assessment Program (Bharat-NCAP). Under this initiative, cars will be given star ratings based on their performance in crash tests.

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The 1973 Roe v Wade ruling of the US Supreme Court held that laws that severely restrict or deny a woman’s access to abortion violates the Constitution’s right to privacy. The US Supreme Court had recently reversed this landmark ruling, allowing individual states to permit or restrict the procedure themselves.

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Launched in 2018, BepiColombo is the joint mission of the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The mission has two individual orbiters – ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Jaxa’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter.
It is the first European mission to Mercury and the first to send two spacecraft to take complementary measurements of the planet and study its environment at the same time. This joint mission recently made its second gravity assist flyby of the Mercury.

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Iran has launched a solid-fueled rocket into space named ‘Zuljanah’. It is a a 25.5 meter-long rocket, capable of carrying a satellite of 220 kilograms.
The satellites will gather data in low-earth orbit. Zuljanah is named after the horse of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

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The Himachal Pradesh is set to implement a buy-back scheme in schools and colleges to purchase single-use plastic items from students.
Under the new scheme, the government will pay students Rs 75 for a kg of single-use plastic items they deposit with the school. The scheme aims to inculcate a habit of environment conservation among the youngsters

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday urged the Group of Seven (G7) countries to consider investing in India’s emerging market for clean energy technologies.
He represented India as a partner country in the G7 Summit in Germany  after being invited by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Indonesia, Argentina, Senegal and South Africa also attended the summit as partner countries. G7 is an informal grouping of industrialised economies- the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

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National Statistics Day is observed in India on June 29 each year, on the birth day of Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.
The aim is to raise public awareness of the role statistics play in formulating and affecting public policy. The veteran statistician, PC Mahalanobis, is recognised for his contributions to economic planning and statistics. He is the founder of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and member of India’s first Planning Commission.

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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) released a report titled ‘Heat Wave 2022: Causes, impacts and way forward for Indian Agriculture’.
The report provided suggestions for opting for the right crop varieties, bathing animals, adopting mulching technique etc. The report also highlights ways to fight heat wave, protect crops.

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Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) provided Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) India’s first home-grown mRNA Covid-19 vaccine by Gennova Biopharma.
The vaccine can be administered for emergency use in 18 years and above. Unlike other mRNA vaccines which require being stored at sub-zero temperatures, this mRNA vaccine can be stored at 2-8 degrees.