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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The United States hosted a historic summit and signed a partnership agreement with more than a dozen Pacific island nations including Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga among others.
US President Joe Biden announce that the country was committed to increasing its presence in the region amidst growing concern about China’s growing military and economic influence. Australia and New Zealand also participated in the summit as observers.

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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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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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Every year, on 2 October, the International Day of Non-Violence is observed across the world. This special day marks the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
The main objective of this day is to spread awareness about the idea of non-violence. In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed the resolution to commemorate the International Day of Non-Violence. This year, the UN has selected the slogan of ‘Say No to Violence’.

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Sri Lankan government has slashed taxes on female sanitary products, to help women and girls who are unable to afford them because of the country’s economic crisis.
As per study this year by a policy advocacy group, ‘period poverty’, which is being unable to afford sanitary products, was about 50 per cent among Sri Lanka’s 5.3 million women of reproductive age.

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The Australian government has announced a zero extinctions target for the country’s plants and animals. This is the first time a federal government announcing such a target.
The goal forms part of a 10-year plan to improve the trajectory of 110 species and 20 places, and protect an additional 50m hectares of land and sea area by 2027. The number of priority species has increased from 100 to 110 and locations have increased from six to 20.

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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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The Wildlife Week is being celebrated across the country from October 2 to October 8. It aims to bring awareness among the citizens to preserve the wildlife.
Every year on October 4th, National Wildlife Day honours animal rights and welfare all across the world.

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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur launched the ‘Satya Nishtha’ application for the state police.
The application will help police prepare a database of criminals and study various offences that take place under different police stations in the district. It is a database of information on migrant labourers, foreigners and suspicious persons.