Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Every year, March 8 is celebrated as International Women’s Day across the world to promote women’s rights. It also seeks to honour their achievements across the political, economic, social and cultural spheres.
The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is, “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.”

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The Union Home Ministry set up a taskforce to look into cases of suicide in the central armed police forces (CAPFs).
It is headed by IPS officer V S K Kaumudi, the special secretary (internal security), with representatives from BSF, ITBP, CISF, SSB and Assam Rifles. The task force will also prepare a comprehensive report on incidents of fratricide.

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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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The Gujarat government marked 100 years of the Pal-Dadhvav killings, citing it a massacre “bigger than the Jallianwala Bagh”.The killings had also been featured on the state’s Republic Day tableau.
The massacre took place on March 7, 1922, in the Pal-Chitariya and Dadhvaav villages of Gujarat.  When Villagers gathered as part of the ‘Eki movement’, led by Motilal Tejawat, around 1000 were shot down by the British. Their aim was to protest against the land revenue tax.

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Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane awarded the USI MacGregor Memorial Medal to two Indian Army personnel and one each from Indian Navy and Indian Air force.
MacGregor Memorial Medal commemorates the memory of Major General Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, an officer of British Indian Army and founder of United Service Institution (USI). It recognises operational reconnaissance and extreme adventure sports.

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The Haryana government recently presented a Rs 1.77-lakh-crore Budget for the financial year 2022-23.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar also announced the ‘Sushma Swaraj Award’ for women, which aims to honour their significant contribution or achievements in different fields in national and international spheres

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The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (WHO GCTM) in Jamnagar, Gujarat under the Ministry of AYUSH.
A Host Country agreement was signed between the Government of India and the World Health Organization (WHO). This would be the first and only global out-posted Centre for traditional medicine across the world.

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The Kerala budget presented by Finance Minister KN Balagopal included infrastructure development of the IT sector.
The Minister announced that four IT corridors will be made parallel to the existing NH 66 as part of decentralising the IT sector in the state. He also announced a new IT park to be constructed at Kannur. An ‘IT facility’ covering an area of 5,00,000 square feet will also be set up in Kollam.

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‘The Smithsonian Institution’ is a group of museums and education and research centres created by the U.S Government. It is the largest such complex in the world located in Washington D.C.
The Smithsonian museum has recently announced it will return most of its collection of Benin Bronzes to their homeland Nigeria. There have been calls to return plundered artefacts to their countries of origin.

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Researchers at Australia’s La Trobe University in Melbourne tested an ‘Autism Early Screening Tool’ for children.
It has been developed after a five-year study of more than 13,500 children. They found that 83% of children aged between 12 and 24 months, who were identified by the tool were later diagnosed with autism.