Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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Insurance penetration is measured as the percentage of insurance premiums to GDP. In India, the insurance penetration is estimated at a little over 3 per cent.
HDFC Life, one of the country’s leading Insurance Companies, has recently launched the ‘Insure India’ campaign. The campaign aims to educate Indians on the benefits of life insurance as a product category.

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The ‘World Smile Day’ is observed on the first Friday of October every year. World Smile Day was first observed in 1999 by a famous artist named Harvey Ball, an artist who created the smiley face in 1963.
The theme of World Smile Day remains the same every year ‘Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile’. The objective behind observing Smile Day was to dedicate a day in a year to smiles and kind acts.

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The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has announced in its recent report that more than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year.
The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government last year. The report added that more than half of those forced to flee are in the country’s northwest Sagaing region.

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The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry has notified the establishment of the Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (CGSS).
The scheme aims for providing credit guarantees to loans extended by Scheduled Commercial Banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs).

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India’s Chandrayaan-2 X-ray spectrometer ‘CLASS’ has mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon for the first time. It has been hovering around the Moon since 2019.
The new findings provide a scope to study surface-exosphere interaction on the moon that would aid development of similar models for mercury and other airless bodies in our solar system.

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Power Foundation of India in association with Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA) has organised a campaign to create awareness on Agni Tattva under LiFE – Lifestyle for environment.
The first conference of the Agni campaign was organised in Leh, on the theme of ‘Sustainability and Culture’. Power Foundation of India is a Society formed under the aegis of the Ministry of Power and supported by leading CPSEs. It is involved in areas of advocacy and research.

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Indian indigenous sport Mallakhamb began at the 36th National Games. Mallakhamba is the display of aerial yoga and wrestling grips with vertical stationary or hanging wooden pole.
This is one of the five new sports to be played at the National Games this year. The sport made its debut at the Khelo India University Games earlier this year. Madhya Pradesh declared Malakhamb as the ‘State Sport’ in 2013.

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Virasat Arts and Heritage Festival’ is to be held in Jaipur for 15 days. This is the 26th anniversary of the festival
This is a platform for people to experience art, culture and music by the renowned classical music and dance maestros.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Modhera, a village in Mehsana district of Gujarat, as India’s first solar-powered village.
Modhera, is also associated with the Sun Temple. According to the Gujarat government, over 1000 solar panels have been installed on village houses, generating electricity for the villagers. They will be provided with solar electricity at zero cost.

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Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the mental health service called Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) initiative.
Tele MANAS will be the digital arm of the National Mental Health Programme. The nodal centre for  the program will be National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience (NIMHANS) with technological support from IIT-Bombay.