Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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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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Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) announced a collaboration deal with Google to promote Sanskrit.
ICCR and Google signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance the tech major’s artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) language technology for translating Sanskrit literature to many other languages and vice-versa.

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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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India has signed a USD 250 million deal to export arms and ammunition to Armenia, which is currently engaged in clashes with its neighbour Azerbaijan.
India will send indigenously developed multi-barrel Pinaka launchers, anti-tank rockets, and other range of ammunitions to Armenia, the former Soviet region. This is the first time, India is set to export its Pinaka missile system.

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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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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 Andhra Pradesh government notified fresh safety guidelines to institutionalise preventive measures to check accidental leakage of toxic gases and dangerous chemicals in factories.
The new guidelines were issued under the AP Fire Service Act, 1999. In May 2020, leak of styrene vapour from a Polymer plant near Visakhapatnam left 12 persons dead and around 1,000 people sick. There was a leak of poisonous gas from a apparel manufacturing unit two times this year.

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Vedanta founder Anil Agarwal was honoured with the Global Indian Award worth USD 50,000 by the Canada-India Foundation.
Agarwal donated the award money to a Canadian health charity working for the welfare of native Indians. Ratan Tata, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Deepak Chopra among the past recipients of the Global Indian Award.

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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.

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In 1999, the General Assembly proclaimed World Space Week, to celebrate the contributions of space science and technology for the betterment of human condition.
World Space Week is the largest annual space event in the world. The World Space Week 2022 theme is ‘Space and Sustainability’, focusing on achieving sustainability in space and achieving sustainability from space.