Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2022

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ASEAN bloc has announced that it has agreed in principle to admit East Timor as the group’s 11th member
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia are the 10 member countries of ASEAN. The half-island nation, officially called Timor Leste, was officially recognised by the United Nations in 2002, making it Asia’s youngest democracy.

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The year 2022 has been declared as the ASEAN-India Friendship year, as ASEAN and India commemorate 30 years of partnership.
As a part of this programme, Indian media delegation is on a visit to Singapore and Cambodia under the ASEAN-INDIA Media exchange programme.

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The United Nation’s (U.N.) environment watchdog announced that it will launch a public database of global methane leaks detected by space satellites.
The system is called ‘MARS or Methane Alert and Response System’. It builds on a pledge signed by 119 countries to cut methane emissions by 30% this decade.

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India announced an additional contribution of USD 5 million to the ASEAN-India science and technology fund.
The contribution aims to enhance cooperation in sectors of public health, renewable energy and smart agriculture. ASEAN-India Science & Technology Collaboration started in 1996 with the establishment of the ASEAN India S&T working group (AIWGST).

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England claimed their second Twenty20 World Cup title with a five-wicket win over Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Ben Stokes scored an unbeaten half-century as the country won the title. Sam Curran was named the player of the match and the player of the tournament.

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India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched the ‘In Our LiFEtime’ campaign at a side event of the COP 27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.
The campaign launched by India aims to encourage youth to become message bearers of sustainable lifestyle. The concept of LiFE was introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at COP 26 in Glasgow in November 2021.

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Indonesia signed Just Energy Transition Partnership, or JETP, with international lenders and major nations on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Bali
The USD 20 billion agreement will provide funding to help the country increase its use of renewable energy and reduce its reliance on coal.

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G20 health and finance ministers launched a USD 1.4-billion fund to tackle the next global pandemic ahead of the G-20 leaders gathering for a summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
The 24-nation fund is viewed as one of the early global outcomes of the summit. However, the Indonesian President Joko Widodo said USD 31 billion was required to tackle the next global pandemic

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India and Finland have agreed to partner in Future ICT, Future Mobile Technologies and digital education.
The two countries emphasised on having institutionalised joint working groups. India has already identified four premier institutes -IISER, Pune, IIT Madras, TIFR Mumbai and C-DAC Pune to work with Finnish institutions on joint development of Quantum Computer.

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An International travelling exhibition ‘Vaccines Injecting Hope’ was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal.
It was inaugurated at National Science Centre in New Delhi. NCSM and Science Museum Group, London partnered to display the story of global effort to develop vaccines at higher speed.