Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Marathi Bhasha Diwas or Marathi Day is celebrated on February 27 every year on the birth anniversary of eminent Marathi poet Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar.
He was also called as ‘Kusumagraj’. His works including the Vishakha (1942) inspired people into the Indian freedom movement. He was the recipient of several State awards, and National awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award for Natsamrat, Padma Bhushan (1991) and Jnanpith Award.

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February 27 has been observed as World NGO Day in several countries across the world. It aims to create awareness about the sector and encourage people across the world who work in the NGO sector.
The Baltic Sea NGO Forum of the Council of the Baltic Sea State officially recognised this day in 2010. It was adopted in the forum’s Final Statement Resolution two years later. In 2014, February 27 was declared as World NGO Day.

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‘International Women’s Day’ was officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977. International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries, to recognise women for their achievement and create awareness about their rights.
This International Women’s Day, the campaign of UN is “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. Another campaign of International Women’s Day is ‘Break the Bias’.

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Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Jagan Mohan Reddy dedicated the destroyer INS Vishakhapatnam. It has been named after the City of Destiny.
This is India’s first of the four stealth guided missile destroyers under Project 15B. It has been designed in-house by the Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design. It has 75 percent indigenous content and was constructed by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited, Mumbai.

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The 193-member UN General Assembly adopted the resolution titled ‘Aggression Against Ukraine’, with support of 141 nations voting in favour and five against.
Nearly 100 UN Member States co-sponsored the resolution including Afghanistan, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. The resolution required a 2/3 majority and it demanded that Russia immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine and refrain from any further unlawful threat or use of force against any UN member state.

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Every year, 3rd March is organized as World Hearing Day by the World Health Organisation. This year the World Hearing Day is being organized with the theme “To hear for life, listen with care!”.
This year, WHO will focus on the importance of safe listening as a means of maintaining good hearing across the life course.

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The Delhi government launched the ‘Award for College Lecturers’ scheme to acknowledge the contribution of lecturers.
They are selected on the basis of student feedback, improvement in results, research work, extra-curricular activities and other areas of academics. Recently, the Delhi government honoured 17 lecturers for their outstanding work in colleges and state universities.

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National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
The Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and the National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) have signed a memorandum understanding (MoU) to develop a sustainable model for promoting entrepreneurship at the grass roots by initiating the ‘start-up village entrepreneurship programme’ (SVEP).

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Biologists have described a new species named ‘Acetabularia jalakanyakae’ from a rocky habitat of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It belongs to the unicellular green algal genus Acetabularia. It is also called ‘mermaid’s wineglass’ because of its umbrella-shaped cap. The alga has a height of 0.5 to 10 cm. Four species of the genus are known from India, including three from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and the Union Environment Ministry commenced a two-day interactive session in Gurugram, titled “Dialogue Towards Clean Air”.
It aims to find solutions to the problem of air pollution with the help of technologies and involving stakeholders. The dialogue included discussions on the National Mission for Clean Air (NMCA).