Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2023

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two skill development programmes for quantum computing in India.
The company is collaborating with academic institutions and learning platforms to integrate Amazon Braket — a fully managed quantum computing service.

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State visit is a visit to foreign countries led by the head of the state or a government, acting in their sovereign capacity.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to go to the US on a state visit on June 22 following an invitation from President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.

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The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) released the Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 (GRID-2023).
As per the report, disasters have increased the number of displaced people by 40 percent in 2022. As many as 32.6 million people were displaced because of disasters.

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Comb jellies, also known as ctenophores, are marine organisms known for the groups of cilia they use for swimming.
A new study revealed that the nerve-net neurons of the comb jellies are not connected by synapses but by a single plasma membrane.

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The RBI has directed banks and other regulated entities to transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) from 1st July.
The LIBOR is a set of interest rates calculated from submissions by large global banks. The global transition from Libor was necessitated after British financial authorities decided to phase it out in 2017 after discovering that some banks manipulated the reference rate by providing false data.

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Husky –Ichor is the world’s first integrated machine for manufacturing blood collection tubes. It was set up recently by Angamaly-based CML Biotech Ltd.
The machine is manufactured by Canada-based Husky Technologies, a global leader in injection moulds and moulding machines.

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The Training Programme on Legislative Drafting will be inaugurated by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The programme was organised by the Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies (ICPS), in collaboration with the Parliamentary Research and Training Institute for Democracies (PRIDE).

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Ahead of the third Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) summit, Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka made a public apology for his role in the 1987 military coup.
This coup was a pivotal moment in the country’s history, resulting in the overthrowing of the elected government of Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra.

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Kerala recently became the first state in the country to introduce a welfare fund for Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers.
Under this initiative, individuals above the age of 60 will be eligible for pension under this fund. The welfare fund has been formed as per the Kerala Employment Guarantee Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 2021.

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The demand for the creation of a separate Kukiland has been happening since the late 1980s.
After clashes between Manipur’s Kuki-Zomi tribes and the majority Meitei community left more than 70 people dead, the state’s 10 Kuki-Zomi MLAs demanded a separate administration under the Constitution.