Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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The ‘India TB Report 2022’ was recently released by the Union Health Minister. As per the report, India reported a sharp 19 per cent rise in tuberculosis cases in 2021 over the previous year.
The total number of incident TB patients notified during 2021 were around 19 lakhs as opposed to that of 16 lakhs in 2020. There has been an increase in the mortality rate due to TB between 2019 and 2020 by 11 per cent in India.

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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das inaugurated the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) in Bengaluru. It has been set up to encourage and nurture financial innovation, with an initial capital contribution of Rs 100 crore.
Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan is the first Chairperson while it has eminent persons from industry and academia as members.

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‘Kambala’ is an annual buffalo-race held in the state of Karnataka. The fifth annual Mangaluru Kambala is set to be organised in Mangaluru City.
After lawsuits filed by animal welfare organizations, the Supreme Court of India ordered a ban on Kambala in 2014. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 re-legalized the Kambala festival.

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The ‘International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery’ is observed every year on March 25.
The theme of the day in 2022 is “Stories of Courage: Resistance to Slavery and Unity against Racism”.   For more than 400 years, over 15 million men, women and children became the victims of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Yoga Mahotsav 2022 is a campaign for 100 days, 100 organizations at 100 places, with an objective to give wider promotion to various dimensions of Yoga.
It also aims to promote the 100 days countdown campaign to IDY-2022 for Health, Well-being and World Peace. National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Ministry of Ayush, will conduct a yoga session on ‘Common Yoga Protocol’ at Aga Khan Palace, a Gandhi Heritage site at Pune.

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Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh launched the Data-Driven Research to Eradicate TB named “Dare2eraD TB” by the Department of Biotechnology, on World TB Day.
“Dare2eraD TB” will be the umbrella TB program comprising initiatives like, Indian Tuberculosis Genomic Surveillance Consortium, Indian TB Knowledge Hub- Webinar Series and Host Directed therapies against TB and Evidence-based procedure for treating extra-pulmonary TB.

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Earth Hour was observed from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m on March 26. It is the world’s largest movement for the environment where people across the globe unite to take a stand against climate change by turning off non-essential lights for one hour.
It commenced as a symbolic lights-out event in Sydney in 2007, and then was observed every year on the last Saturday of March in more than 180 countries. It unites millions of people in the effort to decarbonise the planet. The theme for this year’s global event is “Shape our Future”.

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Railway collisions were the second-largest reason for the unnatural deaths of elephants while Electrocution was the first most reason.
The Union Environment Ministry has constituted a permanent coordination committee that includes the Ministry of Railways and the Environment Ministry to prevent elephant deaths on railway tracks. 19 elephants were killed across the country on railway tracks in 2018-19, 14 in 2019-20 and 12 in 2020-21.

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The National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS) was established under Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) in 2019.
NESTS recently celebrated its 4th Foundation Day on 2nd April in Jharkhand. The Institution was created to provide high quality education to the tribal students in their own environment. Ministry of Tribal Affairs and NESTS have targeted to complete construction of all 452 new schools and pending schools under the old scheme by 2025.

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In the ‘Hurun global U-40 self-made billionaires 2022’, India is ranked at fourth place. USA leads the list with 37 billionaires, China second with 25 and UK is at third with 8.
India had 6 U-40 self-made billionaires. Globally, there are 87 self-made billionaires, up 8 in year and almost double in 5 years. Mark Zuckerberg (37) is the world’s no.1 under 40 years with USD 76bn. Tiktok founder Zhang Yiming (39) is the second with USD 54bn.