Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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After Mauritius and Singapore, the Netherlands was the third largest investor in India in FY 2019-20, with USD 6.5 billion in FDI inflows.
This year India and the Netherlands are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.  A special logo was unveiled to commemorate the occasion. The Netherlands presented 3,000 fresh tulips to India, which were planted in the Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan gardens.

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The India Global Forum (IGF) event is scheduled at Bengaluru. Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar is set to attend the event and interact with the founders and CEOs of 30 unicorns during the event.
The IGF event shall also see participation of Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture, Meenakshi Lekhi as well as CEOs and leaders from the industry.

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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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India is the world’s second biggest producer of Wheat, only after China. India is set to export a record 7 million tonnes of wheat this financial year.
The rally in global prices gives an opportunity to gain market share, as per the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. By the end of February, India had exported 6.6 million tonnes of wheat.

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‘The Queen of Indian Pop’ is the autobiography of the veteran singer Usha Uthup. In a musical career spanning five decades, she has sung songs in over 22 languages.
The biography is originally written in Hindi by the journalist Vikas Kumar Jha. It captures the journey of her career, spanning fifty years.

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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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India, Bangladesh and Nepal finalised an enabling Memorandum of understanding (MoU) for implementing the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA).
Bhutan participated in the meeting as an observer. The MoU was finalised “pending ratification of the MVA by Bhutan”. BBIN aims to boost the regional trade and connectivity.

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Smart Event Tracking System (SETS) is the in-house software of Ministry of Railways. It is a new tool on Google Maps-based planning and analysis, which has been deployed to tackle the problem of cattle getting run over by trains.
The software is made functional in Agra Division and will be adopted by other divisions in the future. The Prayagraj-based North Central Railway saw over 6,500 of the 26,000 cases of cattle run over that were recorded in 2020-21. This zone also hosts parts of the Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai corridors.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has successfully launched its second military satellite, the Noor 2, into orbit. It is orbiting at an altitude of 500 kilometres. The three-stage Qased, or ‘Messenger’ carrier launched Noor 2.
The first military satellite- Noor, or “light” in Persian, was launched in April 2020.

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The Union Cabinet approved Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Oxford University, the UK.
MoU signed between ICMR and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG), Germany and that between ICMR and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) were also approved.