Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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Former Honorary Consul of Peru in Mumbai Ardeshir B.K. Dubash, received the Order of “Merit in the Diplomatic Service of Peru José Gregorio Paz Soldán”.
It is the highest distinction conferred by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru. He was designated as Honorary Consul of Peru in the year 1973 and his career as Honorary Consul spanned for almost half a century.

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‘Lingua Franca’ is a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
Recently CBSE announced to Kokborok in its curriculum. A confederation of 56 tribal organisations in the state hailed CBSE’s decisions while they called for Roman Script for Kokborok Choba. This is in the backdrop of Union Home Minister’s statements that ‘Hindi would be made compulsory for all Northeast states and Devanagari script will be introduced for all languages without a script.’

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Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) reduced the time taken for allotment and listing after closure of issue of REIT and InvIT units to six working days from 12 days at present.
The new rule will apply to a public issue of units of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT), which opens on or after June 1. The decision aims to streamline the process of public issue of units of REIT and InvIT.

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Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated 2nd Khelo Masters Games Delhi-2022 in New Delhi.
In this game, over 3000 master players of the age group over 30 to 95 years, from 23 State and Union Territories are participating in eight category of games. It concludes on May 3.

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According to the RSF 2022 World Press Freedom Index, India’s ranking has fallen down to 150th position from last year’s 142nd place.
This year, Norway (1st) Denmark (2nd) and Sweden (3rd) were ranked at the top positions, while North Korea remained at the bottom of the list of 180 countries and territories. Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) or Reporters without Borders, a global media watch-dog releases the report every year.

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated the country’s first greenfield grain-based ethanol plant in Purnea.
The 105-crore plant by Eastern India Biofuels is the first one developed since the Centre gave approval to Bihar’s ethanol production and promotion policy-2021. The state government has proposed opening at least 17 ethanol plants over the next two years.

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Bengaluru-based Jain (Deemed-to-be University), the host for the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) 2021, has bagged the top position in ‘Khelo India University Games (KIUG) 2021’.
The team won 20 gold, seven silver and five bronze medals. Lovely Professional University (LPU) and Punjab University bagged the first runner-up and the second runner-up positions respectively. In this edition, 2 national records and 76 previous Khelo India University games records were broken.

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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya released the National Report of the 5th round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) at the ‘Swasthya Chintan Shivir’ held at Vadodara.
The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) which is measured as the average number of children per woman has come down from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level between NFHS-4 and 5. There are only five states in India, which are above the replacement level of fertility of 2.1. This includes Bihar (2.98), Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Manipur.

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The report titled Politics of Disinformation has been released by the Delhi-based non-profit Future of India Foundation.
As per the report, the disinformation on social media platforms is harming youths in India with no serious efforts shown by companies to tackle the issue. The report also highlighted low digital literacy and low credibility of institutional media across the country.

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Adani Wilmar Ltd, a joint venture between the Adani group and Wilmar International of Singapore, has surpassed the 88-year-old Hindustan Unilever (HUL) which was the country’s largest FMCG firm.
Adani Wilmar reported Rs 54,214 crore revenue from operations for the financial year 2021-22, up 46.2% year-on-year, against HUL’s revenue Rs 51,468 crore. Edible oil business has contributed around 84 per cent to Adani Wilmar’s revenue.