Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2022

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Sri Lanka’s cabinet has approved a proposal to downgrade the country’s economic status to “low income country”.
This decision was taken in order to get access to concessional funding from international organisations. According to the World Bank, the per capita GDP was USD 3,815 in 2021, and the country was placed in the lower-middle economy category.

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S Shrikrishna of India became the new World 6-red snooker champion when he defeated Habib Sabah of Bahrain in the final.
The 22-year-old Shrikrishna is the reigning National 6-Reds Snooker Champion and he has won the National Billiards Championship in 2019.

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The Union Cabinet approved projects worth over ₹13,000 crore, including a Rs 6,600 crore-scheme for developing physical and social infrastructure in the North-East.
The ‘Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE)’ will be implemented during the remaining four years of the 15th Finance Commission from 2022-23 to 2025-26. It is a Central sector scheme and will be administered by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER).

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Ace footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has reached 700 club career goals after scoring in Manchester United’s Premier League win over Everton.
Ronaldo’s 700 goals have come in 944 games for Sporting Lisbon, United, Real Madrid and Juventus. He is also the highest men’s international scorer with 117 goals in 189 games for Portugal. As many as 129 of Ronaldo’s club goals were scored from the penalty spot.

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The ‘Living Planet Report’ published by WWF stated that the Monitored wildlife population (including mammals, amphibians, fish, reptiles) has seen a drop of 69% in last five decades between 1970 -2018. The cause of such decline can be attributed to drastic & devastating climate change, pollution, land & habitat degradation, diseases, invasive species & more.

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been appointed as the chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemical & Fertilizers as notified by Lok Sabha Secretariat. He was earlier chairing the panel on Information & Technology.

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India’s nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant on October 14, 2022 carried out a successful launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in the Bay of Bengal with a “very high accuracy”. The Arihant-class submarines are nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines built under the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) project. They will be the first nuclear submarines designed and built by India.

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India’s Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil scored a sensational come-from-behind victory in the men’s 10m Air rifle final, beating Italy’s Danilo Sollazzo 17-13 in a shootout, to win the gold medal at the ongoing World Championships in Cairo on October 14, 2022. India’s last World Champion in the men’s air rifle was Abhinav Bindra at Zagreb in 2006.

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Recently, India finished fifth with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Shotgun in Osijek, Croatia.

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World Standards Day was established by international standards bodies like the International Organization for Standardization, International Electrotechnical Commission and International Telecommunication Union. The theme for World Standard Day 2022 is ‘Shared Vision For a Better World.’ It is observed to raise awareness about the importance of using standardized measurements, and technologies.