Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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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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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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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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The Government has appointed Madhabi Puri Buch as the new chairperson of market regulator -Securities and Exchange Board of India.
She is the first woman chairperson of SEBI. Ms Madhabi Puri Buch, the former head of ICICI Securities, replaces Ajay Tyagi. Mr Tyagi, a 1984 batch IAS officer, was appointed as SEBI Chairperson in 2017.

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DIKSHA, SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds), PMeVIDYA (One Class One Channel) and NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement) are flagship initiatives of Ministry of Education.
Union Minister of State for Education recently presented National ICT Awards to 49 teachers across the country.

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Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani launched the new motto of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, NCPCR on its 17th foundation day at Red Fort, New Delhi.
The New Motto is ‘Bhavishyo Rakshati Rakshit’. The Minister also complemented the collaboration between NCPCR & Border Security Force for the initiative called ‘SAHARA’, which provides psycho-social counselling to children of BSF jawans who laid down their lives.

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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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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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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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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.