Current Affairs Quiz - March, 2023

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Yoga Mahotsav 2023 marks the start of the 100-day countdown of the 9th International Yoga Day. It is a three-day event that will be organized in New Delhi.
The International Day of Yoga was first proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 and was later adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The day is celebrated globally to raise awareness about the benefits of yoga and to promote its practice as a means of improving physical and mental well-being.

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A petition was filed by Telangana Government against Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan for creating a “constitutional impasse” by refusing to act on several Bills passed by the State legislature.
The Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud agreed to urgently hear the petition. Telangana urged the court to “declare that the inaction, omission and failure to comply with the constitutional mandate qua the assent of the Bills by the Governor is highly irregular, illegal”.

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South Korea says it will build an enormous facility to make computer chips in the greater Seoul area, with about $230 billion in investment from memory chip giant Samsung Electronics.
The plans were announced by President Yoon Suk Yeol and confirmed by the electronics giant. The world’s largest new ‘high-tech system semiconductor cluster’ will be built in the Seoul Metropolitan area and the total investment would be completed in about 20 years.

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Exercise Al-Mohed-Al Hindi-23 is a bilateral exercise between the naval forces of India and Saudi Arabia.
It is planned for May this year, to be held in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail. This will be the second such Naval Exercise, while the first one was held in August 2021.

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The ‘Saudi-Iran Détente’ is a peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia which was recently brokered by China.
It is seen as Beijing’s step towards gaining a major influence in West Asia, where it has economic and political interests and rivalry with the US and the western powers.

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INS Dronacharya is the Indian Navy’s gunnery school situated in Kerala. It recently received President’s Colour.
It is responsible for training 820 officers and 2100 ratings per year in small-arms, naval missiles, artillery, radar and defensive countermeasures.

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The Global Millets (Shree Anna) Conference is set to be held in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi digitally launched Compendium of Indian Millet (Shri Anna) Start-ups and Book of millet (Shri Anna) standards.
He also declared the Indian Institute of Millets Research of ICAR as a Global Centre of Excellence and inaugurated this conference and unveil a customised postal stamp and currency coin on the International Year of Millets (IYM) – 2023 during the event.

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Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) is commemorating its 40 years of operations. It was set up under Customs Act, 1962 in the year 1982.
CESTAT is mandated to hear appeals against orders passed by the Commissioners or Commissioners (Appeals) under Section 129A of the Customs Act,1962. As 80,000 cases are pending before CESTAT, the Government to set up committee to suggest steps to reduce litigation.

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Indian women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand advanced to the semi-finals of the All-England Badminton Championships in Birmingham.
The Indian team defeated their Chinese opponents, Li Wen Mei and Liu Xuan Xuan.

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The SCO Tourism Ministers’ Conference was held recently in Varanasi. During this event, India mooted an action plan to mark this year -2023- as the year of tourism.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization is an intergovernmental organisation currently comprising eight Member States – China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.