Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Operation Ganga is the name of the initiative launched by the Government of India to bring back Indians stranded in Ukraine.
So far, India has brought back more than 1,000 of its nationals from the country.  It has also set up 24×7 control centres to assist in the evacuation of Indians through the border crossing points with Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovak Republic.

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China recently launched a Long March-8 rocket to place 22 satellites in space, setting a domestic record for the most spacecraft launched by a single rocket.
These satellites will be used for commercial remote sensing services, marine environment monitoring, forest fire prevention and disaster mitigation.

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New Development Bank (NDB) is set to become the first multilateral agency to open an office in the Gujarat International Finance Tech City (GIFT).
NDB also expects to partner with the newly formed National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NBFID) to support important infrastructure projects in India.

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A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China named the ‘Yilan’ Crater holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years.
Before 2020, the only other impact crater ever discovered in China was found in Xiuyan, Liaoning, as per a statement from the NASA Earth Observatory. The Yilan crater measures about 1.85 kilometers across and likely formed about 46,000 to 53,000 years ago, based on radiocarbon dating.

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BharatPe’s co-founder and managing director Ashneer Grover has resigned from the fintech startup. Some days ago, the company terminated the services of his wife and the company’s head of controls, Madhuri Jain Grover, over alleged financial irregularities.
The company has been conducting a governance review and has roped in a risk advisory firm, consulting firm and law firm, to probe into alleged funds misappropriation and corporate governance issues.

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Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) commemorated its 20th Foundation Day by organising the National Innovation Conclave on Low Carbon Technologies.
Facility for Low Carbon Technology Deployment (FLCTD) is a project financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in association with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).

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Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated the 3rd edition of ‘NIC Tech Conclave 2022’.
NIC has been organizing Tech Conclave focused on Emerging Technologies applicable in e- Governance. The Theme for Tech Conclave this year is “Next Gen Technologies for Digital Government”.

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Niti Aayog is in the process of developing a National Gender Index, which will support policy action and advocacy around gender and will be aligned to the framework of Sustainable Development Goals.
Niti Aayog has also developed a draft State Energy and Climate Index to assess the performance of states on various parameters. The index will help states to efficiently manage their energy resources and provide people better access to energy.

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Google and the Ministry of Electronics and IT’s (MeitY’s) Startup Hub released the inaugural batch of 100 Indian startups as part of Appscale Academy.
It is Google’s initiative to train early to mid-stage startups across India and support them grow into global businesses. The 35% of the cohort come from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities; 58 % have women in leadership roles.

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The Union government has allowed manufacture and import of machine-made polyester national flags by amending the 2002 Flag Code of India.
The rules earlier permitted only flags made by “hand-spun and hand woven wool or cotton or silk khadi bunting”. The import of machine-made flags was banned in 2019.