Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2023

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A report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva revealed that in 2022, approximately 2.5 million people in India were internally displaced as a result of natural disasters, particularly severe floods and cyclones.
The South Asia region experienced a total of 12.5 million internal displacements due to disasters, with floods accounting for 90% of the displacements in the area.

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To help investors make better decisions, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has announced a risk disclosure framework for individual traders in the equity Futures & Options (F&O) segment.
Starting from July 1, all stock brokers will be required to display risk disclosures on their websites and inform their clients accordingly.

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Rajaji Tiger Reserve is situated in Uttarakhand. A tigress that was relocated from the woodland region of Corbett Tiger Reserve was released within the Motichur forest area of Rajaji Tiger Reserve.
A female and another male were translocated to Rajaji from Corbett in December 2020 and January 2021, respectively.

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INDIAai is a central programme launched to promote artificial intelligence in India and beyond.  The National AI Portal of India is a joint venture by MEITY, NEGD and NASSCOM.
Seven working groups set up under INDIAai are expected to submit their recommendations for a comprehensive framework governing various facets of AI in the near future.

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Mukhyamantri Teerthdarshan Yojana is one of the flagship scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government.
It facilitates senior citizens of any religion to visit religious places of his or her choice on the state government expenses. Madhya Pradesh recently became the first state in India to send elderly people on pilgrimage by air under this scheme.

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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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Uttarakhand’s first Vande Bharat Express is set to be flagged off by Prime Minister Modi. It will travel from Dehradun to Delhi.
The train has been indigenously manufactured and is equipped with advanced safety features, including the Kavach technology.

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Hemidactylus pakka malaiensis is a newly discovered species of large-bodied gecko. It was found at the Pakkamalai hills, at Gingee in the southern Eastern Ghats.
The new species is closely related to H. graniticolus and the recently described H. easai, from which it can be distinguished by its lower femoral pores count.

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Sturisoma reisi is a newly discovered species of catfish. It was found in Madeira River basin in Bolivia and Brazil.
First described in 1838 with Loricaria rostrata as the type species, the genus includes 10 recognized species at present.

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South Korea recently launched its home-grown space rocket, Nuri. It successfully delivered a commercial-grade satellite into orbit.
The three-stage, 155-foot-tall rocket successfully deployed all of its payloads into their designated orbits, as per the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), South Korea’s space agency.