Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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After the recent Monetary Policy Committee Meeting of RBI, the Central Bank cut the 2022-23 growth projection to 7 per cent from its previous estimate of 7.2 per cent.
RBI also made the fourth rate hike in this financial year, as the Repo rate was hiked by 50 bps to 5.9%. The standing deposit facility (SDF) rate stands adjusted to 5.65 per cent and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate to 6.15 per cent.

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Uttar Pradesh cabinet approved a Micro Small Medium Enterprises Promotion Policy (MSME) 2022 and Uttar Pradesh Bioenergy Policy-2022.
The state cabinet also approved a proposal to reorganise the State Planning Commission as the State Transformation Commission (STC) on the pattern of the Niti Aayog. STC would act as a policy think tank to the government as well as perform the work of planning commission.

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Uttarakhand received the first prize in two categories, for the best adventure tourism destination and all-around development of tourism from the Ministry of Tourism.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar presented National Tourism Awards 2018-19, on the occasion of World Tourism Day. He also launched photography and videography contest during the event.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express train Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the third in the Vande Bharat series.
The two other Vande Bharat Express trains were introduced in the months of February and October 2019, run from New Delhi to Varanasi and Katra, respectively. The ‘Vande Bharat 2.0’ Gandhinagar-Mumbai Express train covers a distance of about 540 kilometres in 6 hours 30 minutes.

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Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), a body under the Department of Telecommunications, (Ministry of Communication) officially launched Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) scheme.
The scheme aims to promote indigenous manufacturing and innovation in the sector. TTDF aims to fund research and development in rural-specific communication technology applications.

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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Odisha state government to sanction budgetary allocation of Rs 4967 lakh towards rejuvenation of Sukapaika Drainage Channel project by March 2023.
The NGT directed to rejuvenate the dead river, to mitigate the drinking water crisis of at least three blocks of Cuttack district.

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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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The Bannerman’s Turaco, known in the Oku language as the Fen, is a bird deep cultural value for the people in Cameroon.
It has a heavy yellow bill with a dark red culmen and exposed nostrils. It also has a loud, distinctive call that can be heard up to 1 kilometre. As per experts, the bird, which is already under IUCN List of Threatened Species, could disappear entirely, if forest disappears. The number of birds estimated to be 1,500, are falling due to habitat destruction and tradition of hunting birds for feathers.

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World Habitat Day is observed on the first Monday of October, which marks the beginning of Urban October.
This year it falls on October 3 and World Habitat Day 2022 is observed under the theme ‘Mind the Gap. Leave No One and No Place Behind’. World Habitat Day was first celebrated in 1986 in Nairobi, Kenya, with the theme ‘Shelter is my right’.

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India’s Mars orbiter craft has completed eight years in its orbit, beyond its designed mission life of six months.
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is the maiden interplanetary mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in September 2014 in its first attempt. ISRO is yet to announce its plans on a follow-on ‘Mangalyaan’ mission to the Mars.