Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2022

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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently dedicated Maze Garden and Miyawaki Forest in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat.
The Miyawaki Forest is named after the technique developed by a Japanese botanist and ecologist Dr Akira Miyawaki to plant saplings of various species close to each other which develops into a dense urban forest.

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The fourth edition of the Bangladesh Film Festival is being hosted in Kolkata. 37 films and documentaries from Bangladesh will be screened at the five-day event.
This will be the fourth year, that the Bangladesh Film Festival is being organised in Kolkata. The Cultural Events like book fairs and film festivals strengthen the bond between India and Bangladesh as well as West Bengal and Bangladesh.

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Union Education Ministry has recently signed MoU with FIFA and AIFF for implementing ‘Football4Schools’ initiative in India.
‘Football4Schools’ program is expected to be a positive tool to inspire children and ensure their holistic development, by main-streaming sports along with studies.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) released the Global TB Report 2022, which notes the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis, treatment and burden of disease for TB.
India’s TB incidence for the year 2021 is 210 per 100,000 population, compared to the baseline year of 2015. There has been an 18% decline which is 7 percentage points better than the global average of 11%. India is placed at 36th position in terms of TB incidence rates.

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Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal had a virtual meeting with his Australian counterpart.
The Meeting was held to discuss the status of ratification of IndAus ECTA (India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement), which was signed in April 2022. The pact’s early implementation was also deliberated upon.

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Department of Youth Affairs and Sports and its affiliate organizations namely Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) and National Service Scheme (NSS) organized Unity Runs on the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel in all districts.
Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur flagged off the Run for Unity from Mohali, Punjab. Across the country, 90,122 Runs for Unity were organized with participation of 55.32 Lakh, to generate awareness among citizens about the essence of national unity.

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As per a recent report released by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the UN children’s fund UNICEF and the World Food Programme, almost eight million people in South Sudan, or two thirds of the population in the deeply troubled country, are at risk of hunger.
As per the report, proportion of people facing high levels of food insecurity and malnourishment is at the highest level ever, surpassing levels seen even during the conflict in 2013 and 2016.

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China has released plans to further expand the global reach of its home-grown Beidou satellite navigation system.
It is named as the country’s alternative to America’s Global Positioning System (GPS). Beidou set up a first of three Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) for its network in Thailand in the year 2013.

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India’s defunct Radar Imaging Satellite-2 (RISAT-2) re-entered the earth atmosphere in an uncontrolled manner and hit the Indian Ocean near Jakarta.
The re-entry of the satellite was monitored by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with the Multi Object Tracking Radar (MTOR) at the Sriharikota rocket port. The 300 kg RISAT-2 surveillance satellite was launched in April 2009, using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), with a design life of four years.

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World Tsunami Awareness Day is observed every year on November 5 to raise awareness about the natural disaster. World Tsunami Awareness Day was first suggested by Japan and in December 2015, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) declared November 5 as World Tsunami Awareness Day.
Three weeks after the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004, the international community gathered in Kobe, Japan, and adopted the 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action.  In the past 100 years, about 58 tsunamis have claimed over 260,000 lives.