Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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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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Every year International Translation Day is observed on September 30 to honour the work of translators and language professionals across the world.
The theme for this year’s International Translation Day is ‘A world without barriers’. September 30 was chosen as it also coincides with the feast of the Bible translator, St. Jerome.

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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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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 Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) regulates the ‘National Pension System’ in India.
To encourage pension and retirement planning among Indian residents, PFRDA is marking October 1 as National Pension System (NPS) Diwas. On this day, people will be inspired to make strategies for building a pension corpus.

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Dr. A K Anil Kumar, Senior Scientist in ISRO is elected as the Vice President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), during its Annual Conference held in Paris.
International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is the world’s leading space advocacy body with 433 members in 72 countries. IAF encourages development of astronautics for peaceful purposes and supports dissemination of scientific information.

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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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An international team of researchers has found acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than ocean waters elsewhere.
They also found a strong correlation between the accelerated rate of melting ice in the region and the rate of ocean acidification. This is the first analysis of Arctic acidification that includes data from more than two decades.

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The Nobel Prize for Physics 2022 is being shared by three scientists, Alain Aspect, John F Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, for their work on quantum mechanics.
The three scientists conducted a series of experiments on entangled quantum states, where two separate particles behave like a single unit. Their results will have implications in the fields of quantum computers, quantum networks and secure quantum encrypted communication.

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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.