Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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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 European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN recently suspended the observer status of Russia. It is the international scientific laboratory which has the world’s largest atom smasher.
CERN announced that its 23 member states condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine is one of seven associate member states, and Russia, like the US, Japan and the European Union, had observer status in CERN.

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Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report 2020-21 on school education of India was released recently.
As per the report, the number of students enrolled in school education from primary to higher secondary has improved to 25.38 crore in the 2020-21 session. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) has improved in 2020-21 at all levels. The report also adds that as many as 39.7 lakh students of government aided, private school students have shifted to Government schools.

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Dubai has enacted its first law governing virtual assets and also formed an independent regulator to regulate the crypto-currency sector.
UAE is a federation of seven emirates and Dubai is the financial powerhouse of the region. The ‘Dubai Virtual Asset Regulation Law’ seeks to establish Dubai and the UAE as regional and global destinations for the virtual asset industry.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has successfully established the high-level Kyiv-Moscow Dialogue on Nuclear Safety.
This was announced by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. Ukraine informed the IAEA that the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant had been disconnected from the electricity grid.

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The Asansol division of Indian Railways has successfully commissioned a private siding of Maithan Power Limited at Thaparnagar
It is the first Gati Shakti Cargo Terminal of Indian Railways. The GCT Policy was published in December 2021. The Maithan Power Project began construction in 2009, and power generation began in 2011. Until now, coal was delivered to the power plant through a road.

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Pandrethan temple is an 8th century heritage site situated in Badamibagh, Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir).
The Chinar Corps of the Indian Army has rejuvenated the site recently. In this regard, the unit was accorded recognition by the National Monuments Authority (NMA) of the Ministry of Culture. The site hosts several figurines of2nd century in the form of two large monolithic rock shiva lingams, seven Gandhara-style sculptures among others.

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India’s third-largest private sector bank, Axis Bank, has been awarded IFR Asia’s Asian Bank of The Year, to acknowledge its performance in equity and debt issuance.
The bank has also won the ‘Best DCM House in India’ Award at the Finance Asia’s Country Awards, this year. The bank has 4,700 domestic branches (including extension counters) and 11,060 ATMs across the country as on December 31, 2021.

 

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Article 25 provides the fundamental right of ‘Freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion’ to all persons.
The High Court of Karnataka dismissed petitions filed by a group of Muslim girls seeking permission to wear hijab in classrooms. The government can interfere on essential religious practices on three grounds under Article 25(1): public order, morality or health.

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A Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) employee Prafull Singh has created Guinness World Records for recording the fastest time to travel to all metro stations in the city.
This makes him the first person in the world to travel to all 254 stations of the city covering 348 km in just 16 hrs and 2 minutes.