Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2022

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India and Australia held their fifth bilateral cyber policy dialogue, involving strategic priorities, cyber threat assessment, next-generation telecommunications capacity building and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Cyber Policy Dialogue was held under the aegis of the India-Australia Framework Arrangement on Cyber and Cyber-Enabled Critical Technology Cooperation and Plan of Action 2020-2025.

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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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Retired bureaucrat Arun Goel has been appointed as an Election Commissioner ahead of the assembly election in Gujarat.
Arun Goel will join Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey in the poll panel.

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The Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha launched the ‘Amar Sarkar’ web portal in the capital city Agartala.
This portal will act as a bridge between the government and the people. It ensures implementation of central and state government welfare projects at village and village committee level. Various problems and grievances of the people can be raised from village level to block, district and state level through this portal.

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Khalid Jawed’s book ‘The Paradise of Food’ has been awarded the JCB Prize for Literature 2022. The book has been translated into English from Urdu.
The Paradise of Food is the fourth translation to win the JCB Prize and the first work in Urdu.

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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.

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Venu Gopal Achanta, Director, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL) has been elected as a member of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM).
Professor Gopal was declared an elected Member of CIPM in the recently held 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) meeting at Paris, France. CGPM is represented by 64 member countries and meets every 4th year at International Bureau of Weight and Measure (BIPM), France.

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Ayush Ministry announced setting up of Academic Chair in Ayurvedic Science at Western Sydney University, Australia.
The Chair is set up at the University’s NICM Health Research Institute, with tenure for a period of three years, to undertake research activities in Ayurveda, including herbal medicine and yoga.

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Malaysia’s head of state is known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the position is filled on a rotational basis among the country’s royal households.
Recently, after the general elections which produced no outright winner, Malaysia’s king failed to reach a decision on whom to pick as Prime Minister. The opposition Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition led by Anwar Ibrahim has won 82 seats, leaving it 30 seats short of a 112-seat majority in parliament.

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The scientists from the United States have recently discovered a new oral drug for lowering cholesterol.
The research represents a previously unrecognised strategy for managing cholesterol and may also impact cancer treatments. The orally administered drug lowers cholesterol in animal models by 70%. These highly effective agents help the body pull excess cholesterol from the blood.