Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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The University Grants Commission (UGC) has formulated ‘Draft Guidelines for Transforming Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) into Multidisciplinary Institutions’.
It has been released in line with the National Education Policy, 2020, which seeks at least one large multidisciplinary higher education institute in or near every district by 2030.

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Indian women’s cricket team skipper Mithali Raj became the first woman, and only the third cricketer ever, to appear at six ICC Women’s Cricket World Cups.
Mithali Raj is leading Indian in the Women’s World Cup 2022. She is only after two cricketers namely- former Pakistan cricketer Javed Miandad and India’s ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.

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The Commerce and Industry ministry reopened the application window for the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for White Goods- ACs and LED Lights.
The Union Cabinet approved the PLI scheme for White Goods for manufacture of components in April 2021. The scheme, to be implemented from FY22 to FY29, has an outlay of Rs 6,238 crore and offers incentives of 4-6% on incremental sales of goods made in India.

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The Financial Action Task Force has appointed T Raja Kumar of Singapore as the next President for a fixed two-year term.
He succeeds Marcus Pleyer, Deputy director-general of Germany’s federal ministry of finance. Raja is the first Singaporean appointed to the top role at FATF. He is currently a Senior advisor at the Ministry of Home affairs in Singapore.

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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das launched UPI for feature phones called UPI123Pay. He also launched 24×7 helpline for digital payments named ‘DigiSaathi’.
UPI 123Pay will allow customers to use feature phones for all transactions except scan and pay. It doesn’t need an internet connection for transactions while customers have to link their bank account with feature phones to use this facility.

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The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed “PARAM Ganga”, a supercomputer at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops.
NSM is driven jointly by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeiTY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and implemented by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

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‘Dharma Guardian 2022’ is an annual military training exercise being conducted in India since 2018 between Indian and Japanese Army.
This year, the joint military exercise ‘Dharma Guardian 2022’ was held at Belagavi, Karnataka. The annual military exercise between Indian and Japanese Army commenced on February 27 continued till March 10.

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NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission has partnered with camera firm Snap Inc, which owns social media platform Snapchat, to drive Augmented Reality (AR) skilling among youth.
Snap Inc is expected to train over 12,000 teachers affiliated with the Atal Tinkering Labs on Augmented Reality, over a two-year timeframe. Snap will conduct special workshops to introduce young women in India to AR as part of its ‘Lensathon’.

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The Union Cabinet approved the setting up of the National Land Monetization Corporation (NLMC) to monetise surplus land and building assets of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and other Government agencies.
NLMC will be fully owned by the Centre, under the administrative jurisdiction of the Finance Ministry. It will have an initial authorised share capital of Rs 5,000 crore and paid-up share capital of Rs 150 crore.

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International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently released a report “Care at work: Investing in care leave and services for a more gender-equal world of work”.
As per the report, three in ten women of reproductive age (649 million women) have inadequate maternity protection. Making more investments in care services and policies could create almost 300 million jobs by 2035.