Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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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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Union Minister of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) launched Three One District One Product (ODOP) brands under the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme in New Delhi.
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries has signed an agreement with National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) for developing 10 brands of selected 20 ODOPs under the ‘branding and marketing component’ of the PMFME scheme.

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The Health department in Kerala has developed a mobile application named Shylee for population-based screening for lifestyle diseases.
It is one of the components of the ‘Nava Kerala Karma Padhati’. The app has been developed to enable ASHAs to collect information on diabetes, blood pressure, heart diseases, respiratory diseases, cancer and other lifestyle diseases and its risk factors among all those above 30 years.

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The 24th Summer Deaflympics is being held in Caxias do Sul, Brazil from 1st May 2022. A strong Indian contingent of 65 athletes is participating in the Games.
Dhanush Srikanth clinched gold in the men’s 10m air rifle competition while Shourya Saini won bronze. India’s badminton team also won gold beating Japan 3-1 in the final.

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Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh emerged champion in the 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Open 2022 chess tournament.
It was a hat-trick of titles for him as previously won the La Roda tournament and the Menorca Open in recent weeks. The 15-year old Gukesh remained unbeaten through the nine rounds. With this victory, he moved up to no.64 in the world rankings.

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Marcos Junior, the son of late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos won a landslide Presidential election victory.
Marcos Junior secured over 30 million votes, more than double the tally of his nearest rival, liberal candidate Leni Robredo. In 1986, Marcos senior and his family were chased into exile by the People Power revolution in the country.

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The Hungarian Parliament has elected Katalin Novak as the country’s first-ever female president. The 44-year-old Minister is also Hungary’s youngest-ever head of state
Novak, who recently served as a minister for family policy. She was known for the government policies including tax breaks and handouts designed to encourage young families to have more children.

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Indian Army signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish “Red Shield Centre for Excellence and Wellness” in Bishnupur district of Manipur.
Red Shield Division under Spear Corps signed MoU with corporate partner State Bank of India Foundation (SBIF) and training partner National Integrity and Educational Development Organization (NIEDO). The Centre will coach underprivileged students of Manipur to make them eligible for admission to the best colleges and universities in India.

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Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Global Insurance Leader AXA, announced the launch of its financial literacy campaign ‘InspiHERs- enabling an empowered future’.
It is a special initiative to spread financial awareness among women and enable them to make informed financial decisions. The company aims to engage with women, especially mothers, their families, and 1 million citizens, to raise awareness about a financially secure future for women.

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Beverage major PepsiCo and US Agency for International Development (USAID) have awarded six women farmers of West Bengal for breaking gender stereotypes and implementing best practices related to collaborative potato farming.
The awards were provided as a part of a programme for women farmers’ economic empowerment. PepsiCo procures around 70 per cent of its total potato requirement for food processing from nearly 27,000 farmers in West Bengal.