Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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The Union Government has promoted Ajay Kumar Srivastava, the present Executive Director of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) as the bank’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.
He will hold the post for a period of three years with effect from January 1, 2023. Indian Overseas Bank is a public sector bank headquartered in Chennai.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched new initiatives to stop the spread of invasive malaria vectors in Africa.
Anopheles stephensi is the primary mosquito vector, responsible for causing malaria in urban environments. The initiative aims to support a regional response to Anopheles stephensi on the African continent. The WHO had also released Global Vector Control Response 2017-2030.

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Telangana won the first prize under the Large States category under Swachh Survekshan Gramin (SSG) 2022.
Indian President Droupadi Murmu presented the awards which looked into the sanitation status of rural areas. Haryana was named the second and Tamil Nadu the third best state in the SSG Awards 2022.  In the second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin, the aim is to make all six lakh villages in India free of open defecation.

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Akash Tripathi, a 1998 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MyGov, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
Senior bureaucrat Ajay Bhadoo has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner. As many as 35 civil servants from different services have been appointed as joint secretaries in various union government departments.

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Rabaris are part of a nomad community who follow the rain in search of pasture for cattle, travelling from Gujarat to Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
The annual Bhed Mata Mela, the camel fair is celebrated in villages where the nomad communities reside near Bhuj in Kutch, Gujarat. ‘Bhed Mata’ is the goddess of the community.

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President Droupadi Murmu launched ‘herSTART’, a startup platform for women entrepreneurs created by Gujarat University in Ahmedabad.
The platform dedicated to women entrepreneurs, will boost innovation and startup efforts of women entrepreneurs and connect women entrepreneurs with various government and private enterprises.

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Rohit Sharma recorded his 400th appearance in the T20 International version, as he became the first Indian player to feature in 400 T20 games.
The 35-year-old opener is also the first Indian captain to score 500 T20I runs in a calendar year. Rohit is the first Indian skipper lead India to a T20I series win over the South African team at home.

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Ace tennis player Novak Djokovic won the Tel Aviv Open title in 2022 held in Israel. It is regarded as the biggest prize in tennis.
The 35-year-old Serbian beat Croatia’s Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-4 in the final to win his first title since Wimbledon in July. He was handed a large three-foot-tall trophy.

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The Union Finance Ministry allowed airlines to avail of up to Rs 1,500 crore loan under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS).
Earlier, an airline could not avail of a loan more than Rs 400 crore under the ECLGS. In 2020, the ECLGS was launched to provide collateral-free and government-guaranteed loans to businesses affected by the Covid pandemic. This new decision would help airlines tackle cash flow problems.

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das launched a new SupTech initiative named ‘DAKSH’.
The Reserve Bank’s Advanced Supervisory Monitoring System aims to make the Supervisory processes more robust. DAKSH is a web-based end-to-end workflow application through which RBI shall monitor compliance requirements to improve the compliance culture in Supervised Entities (SEs) like Banks, NBFCs.