Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2023

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Mount Etna erupted recently in Italy. It is the Europe’s most active volcano, situated on the eastern coast of Sicily near Catania city.
Italian authorities then declared that the new eruption on Mount Etna was officially over and there were no injuries.

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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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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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Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River in Morigaon district in Assam.
The Supreme Court has recently asked the Central Government and the Assam government to respond to a plea seeking directions to declare the area around the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary an eco-sensitive zone.

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INDUS-X is a joint initiative of the United States and India. Under this initiative, the two countries will collaborate to co-produce jet engines, infantry vehicles and long-range artillery.
It also aims to promote partnerships between the two countries’ defence innovation ecosystems. Some high-technology initiatives are expected to be announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S. in June 2024.

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ITF Transport Outlook 2023 was released recently by the International Transport Forum at the OECD. It was released during the at the ITF Summit in Leipzig, Germany.
The analysis covers the movement of passengers and freight across all transport modes. It examines the impacts of different policy measures on global transport demand and carbon dioxide emissions to 2050.

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The French government recently banned domestic flights on short routes that can be covered by train in less than two-and-a-half hours.
It is expected to minimize emissions from the aviation sector. Though the provision had been included in a 2021 climate law and was already in use, the ban has been mandated only now.

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USS Gerald R. Ford is the largest aircraft carrier in the world. It recently made its first foreign call.
The ship is named after the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford. The ship sailed into Oslo, a first for such a U.S. ship, in a show of NATO force at a time of heightened tension between NATO and Russia over the war in Ukraine.

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The overdose of Fentanyl has resulted in deaths of one in five youngsters aged between 15 to 24 in California.
It is a highly potent drug mainly used as an analgesic. The US sanctioned more than a dozen people and entities in China and Mexico that are linked to the production and distribution of counterfeit and fentanyl-laced pills.

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Plastic fall is a weather phenomenon that involves the downpour of microplastics from the sky. The first-ever plastics pollution weather forecast predicted a plastic fall in Paris.
According to the report, the city will experience about 40-48 kilograms of free-floating plastic bits daily.