Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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Calcutta University has been ranked first among all the central and state-aided public universities in the country by Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2022.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was placed at 41st place in the overall table. India is the fourth most-represented nation across the rankings, with 64 universities featuring in total along with Turkey. Australia’s Western Sydney University is ranked at the top spot in the overall ranking, which includes 1,406 institutions.

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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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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the ‘Report on Currency and Finance (RCF)’ for the year 2021-22.
As per the report, price stability is a necessary precondition for strong and sustainable growth. It also proposed a seven-point blueprint for reforms. The Indian economy may take 12 years to overcome the losses emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic, which account to Rs 52 Lakh Crores.

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The International Dark Sky Week is an annual event hosted by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA). This year, astronomers and sky enthusiasts marked the 2022 International Dark Sky Week from April 22-30.
Hundreds of events were conducted across the globe where participants learn astrophotography, take night walks, and observe night sky without light pollution and learn how it negatively impacts our ecosystem.

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The Odisha State ST and SC development department signed an MoU with the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar, to set up a tribal health observatory (TriHOb).
This is said to be the first in the country, for ensuring equity in tribal health in Odisha. TriHOb will establish a repository on the health of tribal population of Odisha. Odisha Tribal Family Health Survey was also launched.

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Maip macrothorax, the newly identified megaraptor dinosaur, has been unearthed in South American country Argentina.
The dinosaur which inhabited the Argentinian Patagonian70 million years ago is displayed at the Bernardino Rivadavia Argentine Museum of Natural Science, in Buenos Aires. It is the largest megaraptor unearthed to date. The ‘Maip macrothorax’ measured between 9 and 10 meters long with sharp, curved claws.

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Lusophones are peoples and countries that recognize Portuguese as an official language. May 5 was officially established in 2009 by the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP), an intergovernmental organization that has been in official partnership with UNESCO since 2000.
In 2019, the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference decided to proclaim 5 May of each year as “World Portuguese Language Day”.

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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched a Vehicle Movement Tracking System (VMTS) mobile app fortracking vehicles carrying sand and other mining material.
The app will be used at different checkpoints in all the districts of Haryana and it will have all vehicle details like vehicle number, vehicle type, source and destination and driver details like mobile number and driver license number.

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Telangana state Government has issued orders to extend insurance coverage of Rs 5 lakh for handloom and power loom weavers under the Nethanna Bima Scheme on par with farmers Rythu Bima insurance scheme.
The insurance coverage would be extended to weavers in the age group of 18 to 59 years. In its latest budget, Rs.12,000 crore was allocated for textiles sector and of these, Rs.300 crore was allocated for handloom weavers.

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The 19th Asian Games, which was originally scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 10 to 25, 2022, has been postponed amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in China.
The Olympic Council of Asia has postponed the Games, which is also the second biggest sporting event after the Olympics in size.