Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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The Department of School Education and Literacy has released the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report which provides a comprehensive assessment of the learning ability of children in classes 3, 5, 8 and 10 in the country by conducting a comprehensive assessment survey with a cycle duration of three years. Assess the health of the system.
The last National Achievement Survey was conducted in 2017. Whereas NAS 2021 was conducted on November 12, 2021 at all India level which included government schools, government aided schools and private unaided schools. Around 34 lakh students from 1.18 lakh schools in 720 districts, both rural and urban, had participated in NAS 2021. The objective of NAS 2021 is to evaluate children’s progress and learning ability as an indicator of the efficiency of the education system, to take appropriate remedial actions at various levels.

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Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is held on 28 May to raise awareness about the challenges faced by women and girls around the world due to menstruation and to highlight solutions that address these challenges.

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INS Gomti (a guided missile frigate) was decommissioned at sunset on 28 May 2022 at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai after 34 years of service. INS Gomti takes its name from the vibrant river Gomti and was commissioned on 16 April 1988 by Defense Minister KC Pant at Mazagon Dock Limited, Bombay.

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On May 28, 2022, Russia took the city of eastern Ukraine under full control of Russian and Russian-backed forces in the Lyman region. Pro-Russian separatists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said on 27 May that they had completely captured the city, a railway hub west of Svyarodonetsk.

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The two-day NADI-3 (Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence) Asian Sangam River Conference was held in Guwahati from May 28-29, 2022. NADI, which means river, is an initiative to clarify and activate the collective vision of the sub-regional. Cooperation in the Bay of Bengal region and with Southeast Asia. It recognizes the region south of the Himalayas as a contiguous confluence of river valleys from the Ganges and the Brahmaputra to the Mekong.

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The National Women Legislators Conference was organized in Thiruvananthapuram on May 28, 2022. The participants demanded immediate steps to pass the long pending Women’s Reservation Bill, which envisages 33% reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

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The Department of Posts delivered mail using a drone as part of a pilot project in Gujarat’s Kutch district, for the first time. The project covered a distance of 46 km in 25 minutes, from Bhuj taluk to Bhachau taluk of Kutch district by the postal department under the guidance of the Union Ministry of Communications. The pilot project studied the cost of delivery by drones and geographical location between the two centres.

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The United States overtook China to become India’s top trading partner in the year 2021-22. According to Commerce ministry, in 2021-22, bilateral trade between the US and India stood at USD 119.42 billion as against USD 80.51 billion in 2020-21.
Both imports from USA and exports to the USA increased in the year. During 2021-22, India’s trade with China stood at USD 115.42 billion as compared to USD 86.4 billion in 2020-21.

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Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on International Solar Alliance (ISA) with the Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto in New Delhi.
In the bilateral meeting, the Ministers discussed global affairs on the sidelines of the India-Hungary Business Forum. The ISA is a multilateral organisation which aims for increased deployment of solar energy technologies around the world.

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The Uttarakhand government has formed a five-member expert committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
The committee has been mandated to check all laws that control personal matters for those living in the state. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai also heads the Delimitation Commission of India at present.