Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2022

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The Bihari Puraskar is given every year for an outstanding work published in the last 10 years by a Rajasthani author in Hindi or Rajasthani.
Veteran writers Madhu Kankariya and Dr Madhav Hada were awarded the 31st and 32nd Bihari Puraskar. It is one of the three literary awards instituted by KK Birla Foundation in 1991 and is named after the famous poet Bihari.

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Sir David Butler, former BBC election analyst who pioneered exit polls and the concept of vote swing, has passed away at the age of 98.
Called as “the father of election science”, he co-invented the swingometer, a graphics device used to show the shift of votes from one party to another.

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China recently launched a cargo spaceship carrying supplies for its new Tiangong space station. A Long March 7 rocket carrying the cargo ship Tianzhou 5 launched. Two hours later, the cargo ship docked with the newly built Tiangong space station.
The cargo ship was carrying 1.4 tonnes of propellant for the space station complex and about five tonnes of supplies. Shenzhou 15 manned spacecraft is scheduled to launch, later this year.

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Cochin Shipyard has signed an MoU with Inland Waterways Authority of India to build the country’s first hydrogen fuel cell catamaran vessel for Varanasi.
The air-conditioned hydrogen fuel cell catamaran vessel will have a seating capacity for 100 passengers. The vessels will contribute to the reduction in pollution levels in the National Waterways. Cochin Shipyard also signed an MoU for construction of six electric catamaran vessels for Uttar Pradesh and two such vessels for Guwahati.

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World Diabetes Day is observed every year on November 14 by the World Health Organisation. It aims to raise awareness of diabetes as a global public health issue and solutions for prevention, diagnosis and management of the condition.
This year’s theme “Access to diabetes education” follows the multi-year theme of “Access to care.” As per WHO, there were about 8.4 million individuals worldwide with type-1 diabetes in 2021.

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The Indian Navy began the largest nationwide Coastal Defense Exercise Sea Vigil-22 from the Paradip port of Odisha.
This is the third edition of the ‘Pan-India’ Coastal Defence Exercise ‘Sea Vigil-22’ and will be conducted over two days. This national level coastal defence exercise was conceptualized in 2018 towards enhancing maritime security. The exercise is being conducted by the Indian Navy in coordination with the Coast Guard and other related ministries.

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State Bank of India topped the EASE  5.0 Reform Index for the first quarter of FY 2022-23. It is followed by the Union Bank of India.
The Index has various parameters including Digitally enabled customer offerings, Big data & analytics, Modem technology capabilities, Collaborative banking and Employee development and governance.

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India and Sweden hosted the LeadIT Summit, on the side-lines of COP27. The LeadIT (Leadership for Industry Transition) initiative was launched by the governments of Sweden and India at the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019 and is supported by the World Economic Forum.
It focuses on low carbon transition of the hard to abate industrial sector. The summit was followed by the public launch of the LeadIT Summit Statement 2022 in the India Pavilion at COP27.

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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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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.