Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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Nikhil Kamath, the cofounder of Zerodha, topped the ‘IIFL Wealth Hurun India 40 & Under Self-Made Rich List 2022’ with a net worth of Rs 17,500 crore.
Bhavish Aggarwal (Rs 11,700 crore), the founder of Ola, came in second place and Divyank Turakhia (Rs 11,200 crore) of Media.net in third place. Kaivalya Vohra, the 19-year-old co-founder of Zepto, instant Grocery app, is the youngest self-made entrepreneur, while Neha Narkhede, co-founder of Confluent, streaming data Tech Company, is the youngest self-made woman entrepreneur.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially announced the launch of 5G in select cities, during the ‘Indian Mobile Congress’ held in 2022 in New Delhi.
Leading Telecom companies like Bharti Airtel and Jio confirmed that it will roll out 5 G services in select cities.

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The Delhi government announced a 15-point ‘Winter Action Plan’ to curb air pollution in the Capital region.
It would include the installation of 233 anti-smog guns and deployment of at least 150 mobile anti-smog guns. The government is carrying out research in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur to know the amount of pollution and its source at any given point of time.

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October 2 is celebrated as Swachh Bharat Diwas across India. Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), which organises Swachh Bharat Diwas-2022, implements two programmes -Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G) and Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
President of India Droupadi Murmu confers the awards for Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2022, Swachhta Hi Sewa 2022, Sujlam 1.0 and 2.0, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) Functionality Assessment, Har Ghar Jal certification and Start-up Grand Challenge.

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As per the draft guidelines issued by the Finance Ministry, Regional rural banks (RRBs) will be eligible to list on stock exchanges and raise funds if they have net worth of at least Rs 300 crore over the previous three years.
Such banks must have a capital adequacy of 9 per cent in each of the previous three years and recorded operating profit of at least Rs 15 crore for a minimum of three out of the preceding five years, among other norms.

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An international team of researchers has found acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than ocean waters elsewhere.
They also found a strong correlation between the accelerated rate of melting ice in the region and the rate of ocean acidification. This is the first analysis of Arctic acidification that includes data from more than two decades.

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As per the government data, over 69% of houses constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), are either wholly or jointly owned by women in rural areas.
The data also showed that as on September 29, 2022, a total of two crore houses had been constructed out of the 2.46 crore houses that were sanctioned.

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Shyamji Krishna Varma was a revolutionary freedom fighter, who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London to promote the cause of Indian nationalism and freedom.
He was born in Gujarat in 1857 and passed away in 1930 in  Geneva, Switzerland. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to revolutionary freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma on his birth anniversary.

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Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami announced the repeal of the decision to denotify the Shivalik Elephant Reserve.
Two years ago, the state decided to chop around 10,000 trees in the Shivalik Elephant Reserve reserve to ‘expand’ the airport in Dehradun. The decision was taken for the larger good of the state’s flora and fauna’.

 

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The Directorate General of Training (DGT) has launched Bharatskills Forum, a new feature allows sharing of books, notes, videos, question bank for skill learners.
It has been added to the Bharatskills learning platform developed by DGT. It is the apex organisation under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for coordination at national level for vocational training programmes.