Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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The Central Industrial Security Force is one of the Central Armed Police Forces in India. It provides security cover to over 300 industrial units, government infrastructure projects and establishments located across the country, including civil airports.
CISF was founded in 1969 and it celebrated its 53^rd raising day recently. It functions under the Union Home Ministry.

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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 Union Ministry of Labour and Employment is celebrating Iconic Week, as a part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
During the occasion, the Ministry of Labour and Employment launched ‘National Career Service (NCS) e-Book’. It provides a glimpse of the journey of NCS, along with success stories since its inception. The NCS Portal was launched by the Prime Minister in 2015.

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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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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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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.

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Union Minister for MSME Narayan Rane launched the MSME Innovative Scheme (Incubation, Design and IPR), as the combination of existing sub-schemes around incubation, design, and intellectual property rights (IPR) for MSMEs.
This will act as a hub for innovation activities facilitating development of ideas into viable business proposition which benefits society. The Minister also launched the MSME Idea Hackathon 2022.

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Russia’s biggest contribution to global trade is Energy especially Crude Petroleum (USD 123 billion). It is followed by Refined Petroleum and Gas.
Recently, Russia announced an export ban for more than 200 products after it was hit by sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Russia still remains a key energy supplier to European Union countries

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During April 2021, the United Nations General Assembly resolved to proclaim 10 March of each year as the ‘International Day of Women Judges’. The resolution was moved by Qatar in the UN General Assembly.
The Supreme Court of India celebrated the first ever ‘International Day of Women Judges’ with CJI NV Ramana and four women SC judges. They interacted with all women judges of the High Courts and the women judicial officers.

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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.