Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2023

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Navegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve is situated in Maharashtra’s Gondia district. It is currently witnessing a slight surge in tiger population.
Two tigresses captured recently in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur by the forest department will be released into the Navegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR), as part of a tiger translocation programme.

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China has approved the Russian port of Vladivostok as a transit hub for transporting goods from its Jilin Province to the eastern regions of the country. This decision aims to reduce transportation costs and support the revitalization of Northeast China’s industrial base.
By using Vladivostok as a cross-border transit port, China aims to facilitate the movement of domestic trade goods and implement its national strategic plan.

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Rayyanah Barnawi is the first Arab woman astronaut to go to space as part of Saudi Arabia’s maiden space mission.
She is part of a team which recently went to the International Space Station (ISS) in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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Dangerously hot areas are regions that fall outside the human niche, having a mean annual temperature of more than 29°C.
A new study revealed that a third of the global population will be living in dangerously hot conditions by 2080 if the world continues the current trajectory.

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently released the updated data in the Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water-related hazards.
It revealed that Bangladesh and India witnessed the highest number of deaths caused by climate-related disasters between 1970 and 2021.

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Seven US states have reached a consensus on conserving the Colorado River. This is a major breakthrough in the region that constantly experiences drought.
Funding from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda combined with voluntary commitments will conserve 3-million-acre feet of water through 2026.

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Article 123 of the Indian Constitution allows the President to promulgate the ordinance during recess of the Parliament. The ordinance has the same force and effect as the Act of Parliament.
President of India exercised legislative power under Article 123 of the Constitution, during the period Parliament was in recess, to promulgate The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023 (Ordinance).

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Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals is organizing the ‘International Conference on Chemicals and Petrochemicals’ for the global business community, in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
The B20 conference was held in New Delhi to improve the safety and sustainable ecosystem for chemicals and petrochemicals industry across the four pillars of De-carbonization, Circular Economy, Biodiversity and Water Conservation.

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The Union Ministry of Oil is currently taking steps to merge the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) into Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL).
The MRPL and HPCL are two listed subsidiaries of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). It is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

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‘Kaveri 2.0’ web-based property registration application is set to be rolled out by the Revenue Department in all 43 sub-registrar offices in Bengaluru.
Out of 256 offices, the Karnataka state government so far has launched the app in 165 offices in 24 districts.