Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), received the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation.
World Food Prize is a prestigious award conceived as the ‘Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture’. Rosenzweig was selected for the award for her research to understand the relationship between climate and food systems and forecast how they will change in the future.

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The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said that it is in discussions with India on procurement of wheat, as countries face food security challenges amid the Russia-Ukraine war.
World Food Program, IMF, World Bank recently encouraged governments not to put export bans on staple food grains. India has committed to supplying 50,000 tonnes of wheat grain to Afghanistan, which it has already started.

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Under ‘Mukhyamantri Muft Sewer Connection Yojna’, the New Delhi Government will provide 25,000 households of east Delhi with 100 per cent sewer connectivity for free.
The Government has developed out a plan to maximise the potential of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) through the development of free sewer connections, new sewer lines and reverse osmosis (RO) plants in the state.

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Tony Brooks, one of the significant Formula 1 drivers of the 1950s from the United Kingdom, has passed away at the age of 90.
The sportsperson participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix and won six grands prix and narrowly missed out on the world championship in 1959. Brooks retired from F1 racing in the year 1961.

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Germany has filed a case against Italy at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) because Italy continues to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from the German state even after the ruling that such claims violated international law.
As per Germany’s letter requesting the case’s withdrawal, Italian law requires Italian courts to lift measures of enforcement previously taken, and that no measures of constraint will be taken by Italian courts against German property used for government non-commercial purposes.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently gave security clearance to the new promoters of Jet Airways to resume commercial operations in the country.
The Jalan-Kalrock consortium is currently the promoter of Jet Airways, which was owned and run by Naresh Goyal for over 20 years before it became bankrupt.

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The Lokpal of India is set to move into a permanent office at World Trade Centre in south Delhi. Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh was appointed as India’s first Lokpal along with eight other members in 2019.
Lokpal is the anti-corruption ombudsman to investigate complaints against public functionaries, including the Prime Minister. The new office has been purchased for ₹254.88 crore, according to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the administrative department for the Lokpal.

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India’s biggest-ever initial public offering (IPO), by Life Insurance Corp (LIC), has been fully booked under all categories.
The portion set for policyholders was booked 6.11 times, employees by 4.39 times, retail investors by 1.99 times, non-institutional investors by 2.91 times and qualified institutional buyers (QIB) by 2.83 times. The government will raise ₹ 21,000 crore from selling a 3.5 per cent stake in the country’s top insurer. This is only a third of the original target fixed by the government.

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The Central government has released the Civil Registration System (CRS) report 2020 based on birth and death reports.
According to the report, the number of registered births has decreased from 2.48 crore in 2019 to 2.42 crore in the year 2020 showing a decrease of about 2.40 percent. The number of registered deaths increased from 76.4 lakh in 2019 to 81.2 lakhs in 2020 showing an increase of 6.2 percent.

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India celebrates National Technology Day on May 11 as it was on the same day in 1998 the country successfully conducted the famous Pokhran nuclear tests in the Pokhran region of Rajasthan.
India’s then prime minister, Atal Vihari Bajpai led the mission which was codenamed Operation Shakti to make India an independent nuclear power.  APJ Abdul Kalam supervised the mission as the chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation.