Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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Senior IAS officer Nidhi Chibber has been appointed as the chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Nidhi Chibber, a 1994 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, is currently Additional Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries. She succeeds the incumbent chairperson Dr Vineet Joshi IAS, as per the order issued by the Personnel Ministry.

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A high level delegation led by Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers visited Jordan for enhanced cooperation in Fertilizer Sector amid Global Fertilizers crisis.
An MoU was signed with Jordan for supply of 30 LMT Rock Phosphate, 2.50 LMT DAP, 1 LMT phosphoric acid for the current year. A long term MoU was signed with Jordan for annual supplies of 2.75 LMT of MoP.

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Government eMarketplace (GeM), CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd. (CSC-SPV), and Department of Posts, inked a MoU for the outreach and capacity-building of last-mileGovernment buyers, sellers and service providers in public procurement.
The MoU was signed after the successful integration of GeM and India Post on 5th May 2022. It would enable all last-mile Govt buyers, sellers and service-providers to avail the logistics services and facilities over GeM through the India Post facilities located in the remotest parts of India.

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Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the R&D centre of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications has signed a MoU with Vodafone Idea Limited, one of the major telecom operators of India.
The MoU was signed on the occasion of “World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD)”, to use their expertise to develop and deploy IoT/M2M solutions in India.

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The third advance estimates of production of major agricultural crops for 2021-22 have been released by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
As per the estimate, the production of Food-grains in the country is estimated at record 314.51 million tonnes which is higher by 3.77 million tonnes than the production of food-grain during 2020-21. The production during 2021-22 is higher by 23.80 million tonnes than the previous five years’ average production of food-grains.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked all banks and ATM operators to make cardless cash withdrawal facility, known as ICCW (Interoperable Card-less Cash Withdrawal), available at all ATMs across all banks in India.
UPI would be used for customer authorisation in such transactions, settlement would be through the National Financial Switch (NFS)/ATM networks. The card-less cash transactions shall be processed without levy of any charges.

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The Army Training Command signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Gandhinagar to develop a ‘War-game Research and Development Centre’ in New Delhi.
The project named ‘WARDEC’, will be a first-of-its-kind simulation-based training centre in India that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to design virtual reality war-games.

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8th BRICS Environment Ministers Meeting was held virtually under Presidency of China. Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav participated in the meeting.
The theme of the meeting was ‘Foster High-Quality BRICS Partnership, Usher in a New Era for Global Development’. Ministers from Brazil, Russia and South Africa also participated in the meeting. The Joint Statement for the 8th BRICS Environment Ministers Meeting was adopted in the meeting

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After severe protests by tribals, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel announced that the Par-Tapi-Narmada river-link project has been scrapped.
The project had proposed to transfer water from the water surplus regions of the Western Ghats to deficit regions of Saurashtra and Kutch. It also involved seven reservoirs proposed in north Maharashtra and south Gujarat.

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The World Economic Forum (WEF), during its Davos meeting has announced that it is building a “Global Collaboration Village” as the virtual future of public-private cooperation.
The initiative is being launched in collaboration with Accenture and Microsoft. WEF launched the initiative for Defining and Building the Metaverse and it will bring together key global stakeholders to address critical global issues.