Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Road Transport and Highways Ministry notified ‘Compensation to Victims of Hit and Run Motor Accidents Scheme’. It shall come into force from April 1, 2022.
As per the scheme, the compensation to the kin of hit-and-run victims will be increased to Rs 2 lakh in case of death from April 1 (from 25000). The compensation to a person sustaining grievous injuries in a hit-and-run case will increase to Rs 50,000 from Rs 12,500.

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Odisha’s first tribal Chief minister as well as last Congress Chief minister of the state, Hemananda Biswal passed away.
In 1995, he was made deputy chief minister by JB Patnaik. He was elected to the Odisha assembly in 1974 from Laikera constituency. He was also elected to assembly as MLA six times from the same seat. In 2009 he was elected as an MP from Sundargarh.

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Australia has been hit by ‘Rain Bombs’, which caused evacuations and power outages. Australia’s third-most populous city Brisbane was most hit by the rains, which brought record flooding to some east coast areas and killed eight people.
The flooding in Brisbane and its surroundings is said to be the worst since 2011. The rainfall over Brisbane has been extraordinary and hence called as ‘Rain Bomb’.

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A special logo has been unveiled to commemorate 75 years of diplomatic relations between India and Belgium.
Belgium was among the first European countries to have bilateral relations with India. The logo is a peacock with national flags of both the nationals. The Belgian Royal family has led the economic delegations to India.

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Indian Wushu player Sadia Tariq has won a gold medal at a junior tournament being held in Moscow, Russia.
The 15-year-old player from Srinagar has been a gold medallist in the junior national championship for the last two years. A 38 member Indian contingent is competing at the event in Moscow.

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The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the Second Advance Estimates (SAE) of National Income, 2021-22 as well as Quarterly Estimates of GDP for the quarter October-December (Q3) of 2021-22
The growth in GDP during 2021-22 is estimated at 8.9 percent as compared to a contraction of 6.6 percent in 2020-21.

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The Indian Navy conducted ‘Operational Demonstration’ at Visakhapatnam and a colourful International City Parade. It showcased various operations including special operations and sky diving, rescue operations and fly-past by naval aircraft.
The event was conducted as part of the ongoing Multilateral Exercise MILAN 22. Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was the Chief Guest for the event.

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Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is celebrating its ‘Iconic week’ under ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahosav’ from 28.02.2022 to 06.03.2022.
Ministry of MSME will launch Phase II of its ‘National Level Awareness Programme – Sambhav’, through which more than one lakh students from 1300 colleges all across the country will be motivated to take up entrepreneurship. Phase I of the scheme was launched in 2021.

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The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) with 175 member countries, signed a mandate which makes it legally binding for the signatories to end plastic pollution.
The Global Plastics Treaty will be drafted and ratified in the next two years.  The mandate recommends measures to tackling plastic production and addressing the toxic burden of plastic.

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According to the official data the number of children affected due to Covid in India is 1,53,827. This is not restricted to children who lost their parents or caregivers.
Responding to a recent study by Lancet, which claimed that 19 lakh children in India lost a parent or caregiver to Covid 19, the Ministry of Women and Child Development said that the findings have no correlation to ground realities.