Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2023

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Recently, the India Post, Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and Tripta Technologies entered into an agreement to facilitate the operationalization of the Bharat EMart Portal.
This portal will provide the facility to pick up consignments from the premises of the traders and ensure the door-step delivery for the consignees across India.

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International Cricket Council (ICC) recently named Pakistani cricketer Fakhar Zaman as ICC Men’s Player of the Month for April 2023.
This comes after Zaman produced match-winning performance for Pakistan in ODI.

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The piezoelectric MEMS technology has been jointly developed by researchers at DRDO and IIT Madras.
This sensor technology has the potential to be used for underwater communications by the Indian Navy.

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Sathyabhama Das Biju, who is popularly known as ‘the Frogman of India’, has been chosen for Harvard University’s prestigious Radcliffe fellowship.
The Delhi University professor is one of the 50 scholars who were awarded the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for 2023-24.

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Big Ben is the nickname given to the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, United Kingdom. It had failed to bong on May 10, when the dials of the clock on top of the Elizabeth Tower briefly stopped.
For hundreds of years, it was called the Clock Tower, and was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

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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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AT2021lwx is the largest cosmic explosion to be ever observed. It was observed by a group of astronomers led by the University of Southampton.
The explosion is said to be ten times brighter than any known supernova, the explosions that occur as massive stars die.

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White Knight Corps, headquartered in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nagrota Cantonment, was raised on June 1, 1972.
General Officer Commanding (GOC) White Knight Corps Lieutenant General Manjinder Singh recently reviewed the security situation and operational preparedness along the LOC in Poonch and Rajouri Sector.

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Samudra Shakti-23 is a bilateral exercise between India and Indonesia. It is being held from May 14 to 19 this year.
INS Kavaratti, indigenously designed and built ASW Corvette is participating in the 4th edition of Bilateral exercise. Exercise Samudra Shakti is aimed at enhancing interoperability, jointness and mutual cooperation between both navies.

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The inaugural ministerial meeting of the India- EU Trade and Technology Council will be held on May 16 in Brussels.
The formation of the Trade and Technology Council was announced in April 2022. It is the second bilateral forum for the EU and the first one established with any partner for India.