Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2022

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Indian-origin Nobel laureate Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been awarded the Order of Merit in recognition of his distinguished service to science.
Ramakrishnan is among six appointments made to the order by Queen Elizabeth II. Order of merit is an exclusive mark of honour conferred by the British sovereign. The 70-year old molecular biologist received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomal structure and was knighted in 2012.

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Tech major Google is developing a model that can support the 1,000 most spoken languages of the world.
Google is also working on an AI language model which can support around 400 languages. Google’s 1,000 languages initiative also aims to improve AI language models for diverse use cases across the world.

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Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi have been featured in Knight Frank’s list of top Data centre markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
These regions recorded a supply of just under 700 MW five years ago, to over 3,000MW as of date, with a growth of over 300%.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the silver jubilee edition of the Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS 22).
To mark the silver jubilee celebration Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai released a plaque. The inauguration ceremony was attended by French President Emmanuel Macron and ministers from UAE, Australia and Finland. The event was organised by the state Department of IT, Biotechnology and Science & Technology in association with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).

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Audit Diwas is celebrated on November 16 to mark the origin of the institution of CAG and the contribution it has made to the governance, transparency and accountability.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the second Audit Diwas celebrations. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) plays a critical role as external auditor at various UN organisations.

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India and the UK are set to unveil a new reciprocal visa arrangement whereby 3,000 degree-holding Indian nationals between the ages of 18 and 30 years will be allowed to come to Britain every year to live and work for up to two years.
The UK-India Young Professionals Scheme will be reciprocal and open in early 2023. It is set to be launched during the first bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Rishi Sunak on the margins of the G20 Summit in Bali. India is the first country to benefit from such a scheme.

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The State Bank of India (SBI) sold electoral bonds worth ₹10,246 crore since the instrument was launched in March 2018.
As per the recent data, majority of these bonds were of one crore while less than 10 per cent of subscriptions were of lower denominations including ten lakh, one lakh, ten thousand and one thousand.

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As per a recent a study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods and heatwaves is projected to rise manifold in India in the future due to climate change.
The research team studied the period from 1951 to 2020 to quantify India’s risk of sequential extremes. The study found that the risk will increase under the warming climate and variability in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

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Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama (87) was given the Gandhi Mandela Award of Gandhi Mandela Foundation in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.
The State Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar felicitated Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama with the Gandhi Mandela Award. The award, constituted by the Gandhi Mandela Foundation, recognised the persons who promote the values and ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the interest of global peace and freedom.

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The Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) and Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), are set to organise the 25th National Conference on e-Governance (NCeG) in Katra, Jammu & Kashmir.
The theme of this Conference is ‘Bringing Citizens, Industry and Government closer’. The National Awards for e-Governance (NAeG) will be presented under 5 categories of the NAeG Scheme – 2022.