Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) created by the United States in 2004, offers large grants to support economic growth.
Recently, Nepal’s Parliament has approved a USD 500m US grant, in spite of several street protests and opposition in the country. Nepal signed the US government’s MCC pact in 2017 to fund infrastructure projects. But its ratification was not made due to divisions within political parties.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) ‘Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’.
It was also called an “Atlas of human suffering”, as per the UN Head. The report was compiled by 270 authors from 67 countries. As per the report, Cities which house more than half of the world’s population — are at the highest risk from climate change.

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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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As per the Union Budget 2022-23, the data exchange among all mode operators will be brought on the Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP).
Recently, in the post-budget webinar on Gati Shakti, it was announced that about 24 Digital Systems of 6 Ministries are being integrated through ULIP. With involvement of private sector entities, the government is set to create a ‘National Single Window Logistics Portal’, to reduce logistics cost.

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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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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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C-17 Globemaster of the Indian Navy took off for Romania to bring back Indians under Operation Ganga. The flights under the operation have also been increased.
Three more Indian Air Force aircraft are scheduled to visit Poland, Hungary and Romania. Four Ministers are deployed by the Government of India as ‘special envoys’ to oversee the evacuation process of Indian nationals in Ukraine’s neighbouring countries.

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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.

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The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) launched the ‘Stree Manoraksha Project’ to improve the mental health of women in India.
The project has been launched in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru. The project would focus on building on capacity building of One-Stop Centers on how to handle the cases of women who have suffered violence and distress.

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MyGov, which is the Government of India’s citizen engagement platform has launched “Sabka Vikas MahaQuiz” series commencing from 1st March 2022. This quiz would continue for the entire year and comprise 14 episodes.
This initiative aims to build awareness amongst citizens about good governance, various government schemes and initiatives.