Current Affairs Quiz - March, 2023

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The ICMR released the Ethical Guidelines for AI in Healthcare and Biomedical Research to guide the effective and safe development, deployment and adoption of AI-based technologies.
Artificial intelligence has wide range of applications in the healthcare sector, like diagnosis, preventive treatments, clinical decision-making and more.

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Euoplos dignitas is a new species of giant trapdoor spider. It was found by researchers in Queensland, Australia.
The tarantula-like creature is a type of golden trapdoor spider belonging to the genus Euoplos.

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Asia’s largest 4-meter International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) was launched recently at Devasthal in Uttarakhand.
The ILMT was inaugurated recently in Aryabhatt Research Institute of Observational Sciences. ILMT is the first liquid mirror telescope designed exclusively for astronomical observations and is the first optical survey telescope in India.

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450 MW Seti River-6 Hydropower Project is a proposed project that will be constructed in Doti and Achham districts of Nepal.
Recently, NHPC Limited, India, has been permitted by Investment Board Nepal to study this project.

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The National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Chennai is a research institute under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
NCSCM was set up in 2011 as a research institute to support the conservation, protection, restoration, and management of Indian coasts. The first General Body Meeting of NCSCM was held recently.

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World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, is designed to build awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease.
In 2018, 10 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.5 million died from the disease. On this occasion, ‘One World TB Summit’ will be organized in Rudrakash Convention Centre in Varanasi.

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Marburg virus is an Ebola-like virus that causes viral hemorrhagic fever. It has recently killed five people in Tanzania’s north-western Kagera region.
The highly-infectious disease is like Ebola, with symptoms including fever, muscle pains, diarrhoea, vomiting and, in some cases, death through extreme blood loss. Hundreds of people have died from the virus in recent years, with almost all cases in Africa.

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The Indian government has sanctioned a project for doubling of Gooty-Pendekallu section of the Hyderabad-Bengaluru railway link.
This section is a major link for trains operating between the northern and southern parts of India. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 352 crore. The Gooty-Pendekallu section is essential in the Guntakal Division, which has frequent train traffic from Bengaluru to Hyderabad.

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Chenab Bridge is expected to be completed by the end of March 2023. It is the world’s highest railway bridge.
The bridge spans the Chenab River at a height of 359 m (1,178 ft) above the river, which is 35 meters taller than Paris’ Eiffel Tower.

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Hopi are a Native American ethnic group who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in north-eastern Arizona, United States.
The Water and Heritage Shield was conferred recently by the International Committee On Monuments and Sites International Science Committee to Black Mesa Trust (BMT) – a Hopi grassroots organization.