Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Tripura government has announced a new scheme named “Mukhyamantri Chaa Srami Kalyan Prakalpa”.
It aims to ensure social security of over 7,000 tea garden workers of Tripura. The scheme assures housing, rations and financial support to the tea garden workers. It also provides them with facilities of state and central government schemes in a consolidated format.

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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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N Chandrasekaran, the Chairman of Tata Sons, has been officially appointed as the chairman of Air India, the airline entity recently acquired by Tata group from the Indian Government.
Alice Gee Varghese Vaidyan, former CMD of General Insurance Corporation, and Sanjiv Mehta, chairman of Hindustan Unilever, were also inducted as Independent Directors on the board.Tata Sons will soon announce a new Air India CEO to replace Turkey’s Ilker Ayci who withdrew from accepting the position.

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Karnataka Government implements the ‘Jyothi Sanjeevini Scheme’. It is a cashless scheme meant for serious diseases/illnesses extended to serving Government employees and their family members.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai recently assured the Legislative Council that the Government would review if State Government pensioners could be brought under the Jyothi Sanjeevini scheme.

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World Sleep Day is observed on the Friday before the March equinox every year to highlight the importance of quality sleep on body and mind. This year, the World Sleep Day falls on March 18.
‘Quality Sleep, Sound Mind, Happy World’ is the theme for World Sleep Day this year. World Sleep Day is organised by the World Sleep Society and was first observed in 2008.

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The Vishakapatnam station is be the first station in the East Coast Railway to implement the “One Station One Product” concept.
The concept has been announced in the recent budget. Etikoppaka toys and handicraft products from the village will be showcased and sold at the Vishakapatnam station, on a pilot basis for a period of 15 days.

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Golden Langur (Trachypithecus geei) is an endangered primate species that is distributed along the boundary of Bhutan and India.
As per a recent study, there is a significant decline in the habitat of Golden Langur and the intensity of human-langur conflict is increasing due to enhanced human footprints in the habitat of the species.

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Lamitiye 2022 is the ninth edition of the Joint Military Exercise between the Indian Army and Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF).
The Indian Army contingent arrived in Seychelles for the exercise, to be conducted at the Seychelles Defence Academy (SDA) from March 22 to 31. The Indian Army comprises troops from the 2/3 Gorkha Rifles group (Prikanthi Battalion).

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N Biren Singh was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Manipur for the second consecutive term. The oath of office was administered by Manipur Governor La Ganesan.
In the recently held Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won an absolute majority by winning 32 seats in the 60-member House.

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The ‘World Poetry Day’ is observed every year on March 21. The day was first started by UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) at its 30th General Conference in Paris in the year 1999.
The World Poetry Day aims to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increase the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.