Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2022

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The ‘53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India’ will be hosted in the state of Goa in November 2022.
Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award is to be given to Spanish film director Carlos Saura. France is the ‘Spotlight’ country of the event. The second edition of ‘75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow’, an initiative by the Ministry of Broadcasting and Information will also be organised.

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Senior IAS officer Gaurav Dwivedi was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.
Dwivedi will have a five-year tenure from the date he assumes charge. Shashi Shekhar Vempati was the CEO of Prasar Bharati for five year tenure from 2017 to 2022. Earlier, Dwivedi was the Chief Executive Officer of MyGovIndia platform.

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Indian Navy conducted ‘Prasthan’, structured exercise to evaluate organisational effectiveness in protecting offshore assets off Mumbai on an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) platform.
‘Prasthan’ is conducted twice a year under the aegis of Western Naval Command. The Indian Navy is the lead agency and is entrusted with the responsibility of protecting the oil production platforms off the coasts of India.

 

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American space agency NASA has launched its most powerful rocket ‘Artemis’ to the Moon.
The 100m-tall Artemis vehicle has an objective to send an astronaut capsule in the direction of the Moon. The spacecraft, comprises the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule.

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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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The ‘Women Entrepreneurship Day’ is observed every year on November 19 by the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization.
The first-ever Women Entrepreneurship Day has observed in around 144 nations in the year 2014. It commemorates women on the front lines doing their part to break the outdated stereotypes.

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Purnima Devi Barman, an Assam-based wildlife biologist, was awarded the ‘Champions of the Earth’ award this year.
It is presented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Barman won the award in the ‘Entrepreneurial Vision’ category, for her work in protecting the ‘Greater adjutant stork’, called ‘hargila’ in Assamese.

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SARANG, the 10th Indian Film Festival was organized by the Indian Embassy in Busan, South Korea. The festival screened selected critically acclaimed regional films with Korean sub-titles at Busan Cinema Centre.
The Film Festival is a part of the ongoing annual flagship cultural programme of Embassy of India, Seoul.