Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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UNESCO released a list of 50 exclusive and iconic heritage textile crafts of India named ‘Handmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding Traditional Indian Textile’.
It describes the processes behind their making, mentions the causes for their declining popularity and provides strategies for their preservation. Toda embroidery and Sungadi from Tamil Nadu, Himroo weaves from Hyderabad and Bandha tie and dye weaving from Odisha are some of the crafts included.

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NASSCOM Foundation and American Express have partnered to train and upskill 700 women graduates through an employment-linked training project, ‘
Under the ‘Women Empowerment Through Technology’ project, technology-based skill development and entrepreneurship training will be given to women. The technical courses include Cloud and Data Analytics, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

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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 1 is observed as the International Day of Older Persons across the world every year. It was introduced by the United Nations General Assembly with an aim of honouring the contribution of older persons and focussing on the problems they face.
This year, the theme for the International Day of Older Persons is ‘Resilience of Older Persons in a Changing World’.

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The Ministry of Education’s Department of Higher Education inaugurated YUVA 2.0 (Young, Upcoming and Versatile Authors) on October 2.
It is the Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors. YUVA 2.0 is an author mentorship programme to train young and aspiring writers under 30 years old in order to nurture Indian literature internationally.

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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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Power Finance Corporation has partnered with Valley of Words initiative to present PFC-VoW Book Awards.
The sixth edition of the award was presented recently. Anees Salim’s The Odd Book of Baby Names and Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together were adjudged the best books of the year in English fiction and English non-fiction categories.

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Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Narayan Rane inaugurated the Khadi Fest – 2022 Exhibition in Mumbai.
The Khadi Fest – 2022 has been organized by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. This time the exhibition has been organized after a gap of two years. In 2021-22, KVIC registered record exports of more than Rs.257 crore.

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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates India’s economy to grow 5.7% in 2022 and 4.7% in 2023.
In its annual Trade and Development Report 2022, it said that world economy is expected to grow 2.6% in 2022. As per the report, the world is headed towards a global recession and stagnation unless we quickly change the current policy course of monetary and fiscal tightening in advanced economies.