Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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The Gujarat government unveiled Sports Policy 2022-27, which seeks to set up four new High Performance Centre (HPC) with training facilities of international standards.
Of the four new HPCs, one will be specifically for para-athletes. It also seeks to set up a Sports Goods manufacturing cluster in the state. Private sector participation will be encouraged in setting up HPCs and eight centres of excellence.

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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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China has recently developed a microwave machine “Relativistic Klystron Amplifier (RKA)”, that could jam or destroy satellites in space.
The device can generate a wave burst measuring 5-megawatts in the Ka-band. It is a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum used for both civil and military purposes. Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) use concentrated electromagnetic energy to destroy enemy equipment or personnel.

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India advocated the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
India announced that it attaches high importance to the BTWC Convention as a key non-discriminatory disarmament Convention, prohibiting an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.

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The policy, titled “India and the Arctic: building a partnership for sustainable development” was released by Union Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh.
The Arctic policy seeks to deepen the country’s partnership with the resource-rich Arctic region. India is one of the 13 countries holding the observer status in the Arctic Council. It also seeks to study the linkages between polar regions and the Himalayas.

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The Indian Coast Guard (ICR) has commissioned ICGS ‘Saksham’, the fifth Coast Guard Ship in the series of 105 M-Class offshore patrol vessels.
ICGS Saksham is the fifth and last Offshore Patrol Vessel designed and developed by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) for Coast Guard. The vessel uses totally indigenous steering gear and gearbox, which was being imported earlier.

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Indian Tennis player Lakshya Sen won second place in the All England Open Badminton Championship 2022.
World No.1 Viktor Axelsen defeated Lakshya Sen in the men’s singles final match held in Birmingham. Women’s singles title was clinched by Japan’s Yamaguchi Akane. Men’s doubles title was won by Indonesia. Women’s doubles title and Mixed doubles title are won by Japan.

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Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya launched the BRICS Vaccine R&D Centre and Workshop on Vaccine Cooperation with other BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) leaders.
The BRICS Vaccine R&D Centre was proposed to be set up as part of the 2018 Johannesburg Declaration. In the New Delhi Declaration of the XIII BRICS Summit, the leaders committed to launch BRICS Vaccine R&D Centre in virtual format. WHO’s R&D blueprint and International Health Regulations will be the guiding principles for this Centre.

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The Abel Prize for the year 2022 has been awarded to Professor Dennis Parnell Sullivan. It is awarded annually to outstanding mathematicians.
The award was established by the Norwegian Government in 2002, and is managed by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Professor Sullivan was awarded the prize “For his contributions to topology, in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.”

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The Chief of the United Nations announced a project, along with Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization.
It aims to put every person on Earth in range of early weather-warning systems within five years. It aims to make the alert systems, which are already used by many rich countries available to the developing countries.