Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is set to capture the surface of the Moon, which is to be smacked by a rocket booster at around 6,000 mph. The up-close view of the smoldering crater is expected to shed some light on the mysterious physics of planetary impacts.

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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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International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations for information and communication technologies, and is head quartered at Geneva.
India has recently signed the Host Country Agreement (HCA) with International Telecommunication Union for the establishment of an Area Office & Innovation Centre of ITU. The office would be established in New Delhi.

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The Study in India (SII) programme was launched in the year 2018 and is implemented by the Union Ministry of Education. The scheme aims to encourage the global student community to undertake higher education in India.
Study in India (SII) 2022 meet was recently launched and conducted in Dhaka by High Commission of India.

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Mercom India Research recently released a report titled ‘Annual 2021 India Solar Market Update’. As per the report, India installed a record 10 gigawatt (GW) of solar capacity during 2021, registering a year-on-year rise of 212 per cent.
The country made 3.2 GW of solar capacity installations during 2020. Cumulative solar installed capacity in India was approximately 49 GW at the end of December 2021.

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Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Textiles are jointly organizing “Jharokha-Compendium of Indian handicraft/ handloom, art and culture”.
Jharokha is a celebration of the traditional Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and art & culture. It is scheduled to be held across the country at 16 locations in 13 states and UTs. The first event under this celebration is being organized in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

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‘Stonehenge’ is a prehistoric monument located on the Salisbury Plains in England. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet high. Stonehenge is believed to 3000 BC to 2000 BC old.
Recently, a study claims that Stonehenge was designed as Solar Calendar. Each of the 30 stones in the sarsen circle represents a day within a month, which is divided into three weeks each of 10 days.

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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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‘Dalit Bandhu scheme’ is an initiative of the Telangana state Government. Rs 17,800 crore was allocated for the scheme in this year’s state budget.
Under the scheme, 100 members for each constituency are selected and ₹ 10 lakh is handed over to each beneficiary family to start a livelihood of their choice. The government has allocated ₹ 1,190.8 crore for the scheme and it will expanded across the state next year.

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Leading fertiliser manufacturer Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd (SPIC) has set up a floating solar project at Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu.
The plant will generate 42 million units of clean energy per year and will help curbing water evaporation reduction on its reservoir. The plant has been set up at an estimated cost of ₹150 crore.