Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Rafael Nadal defeated Cameron Norris 6-4, 6-4 to win the Mexican Open 2022. He also extended his best-ever start of his career at 15-0 as he won his 91st ATP title.
Nadal won his third title in 2022, including the Australian Open for his record 21st Grand Slam singles title. At present, he is three victories from tying Ivan Lendl’s total of 94 for third place for most championships in Open Era. Jimmy Connors (109) and Roger Federer (103) are at first 2 places.

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The world’s largest aircraft, An-225, nicknamed ‘Mriya’ or ‘Dream’ was owned by Ukraine and it was destroyed during the Russian invasion.
During the Russian assault, the aircraft was stationed at the Antonov Airport for maintenance work. Antonov is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company, headquartered at Kyiv, Ukraine.

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India’s Union Ministry of Earth Science launched the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) on the occasion of National Science Day 2022. The International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) will be hosted at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)- Pune, an institution under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, initially for five years.
It would undertake activities related to international monsoon research, under the leadership of the World Climate Research Programme and the World Weather Research Programme.

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Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0, under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), organised a National conclave on ‘Social Enterprises for Garbage Free Cities: Encouraging Women Entrepreneurs in Waste management’.
The conclave was organised in collaboration with the Chhattisgarh Government in Raipur.

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In May 2008, 107 states concluded an international treaty prohibiting the cluster weapons, named the ‘Convention on Cluster Munitions’.
Recently, Russia has been accused for using cluster bombs and vacuum bombs in the ongoing war against Ukraine. As per the convention, the cluster munitions release explosive sub-munitions each weighing less than 20 kilograms, and includes those explosive sub-munitions. They are non-precision weapons designed to injure or kill human beings over a large area.

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Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala inaugurated the ‘Sagar Parikrama’ in Gujarat.
It is organised along with National Fisheries Development Board, Department of Fisheries, Gujarat, Indian Coast Guard, Fishery Survey of India, Gujarat Maritime Board and fishermen representatives. It aims to understand the problems of Coastal Fisher folk.

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The first potential case of deer-to-human COVID-19 transmission has been reported in Canada, according to a new study.
The researchers identified highly mutated clusters of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in white-tailed deer.  For the study, the researchers analyzed 300 samples from white-tailed deer in South-western and Eastern Ontario. They found that 17 of the deer in South-western Ontario tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

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Every year, 3rd March is celebrated as World Wildlife Day by the United Nations and this year, the day is celebrated under the theme “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”.
This aims to conserve some of the most critically endangered species of wild fauna and flora and form solutions to conserve them.

 

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The Tourism Department of Rajasthan is set to host the three-day Holi festival “Braj Holi Mahotsav” from March 12 to 14 in the state.
The celebration events would be held in Bharatpur, Deeg and Kaman cities. The celebration is aimed to entertain tourists of all ages with the colours, local sports, traditional dance and music.

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‘Glycosmis albicarpa’, a new gin berry species, was recently discovered from Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu.
A team of scientists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has discovered the species with a distinct large white fruit. The species is endemic to the southern Western Ghats and it belongs to the Orange family, Rutaceae.