Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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As per the recent data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), the Indian economy expanded at the quickest pace in a year.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal year grew by 13.5%. This is lower than RBI’s projections of 16.2% economic growth. GVA for the first quarter of FY23 (April-June) has come in at 12.7%.

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The Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri presented Smart Solutions Challenge & Inclusive Cities Awards 2022. They were launched in April 2022.
These awards are an initiative of the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and the United Nations (UN) in India to address city-level accessibility and inclusion challenges faced by persons with disabilities (PwD), women, girls and the elderly.

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September 2 is observed as World Coconut Day across the world. This year’s theme for World Coconut Day is ‘Growing coconut for a better future and life.
Coconuts are some of the most popular and versatile food product in the world. This day highlights the significance of coconuts in our daily lives and its benefits for health.

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The Mizoram cabinet allowed the locally grown grapes to be processed as wine and sold in the market freely.
Natural grapes are mainly grown in Champhai and Hnahlan areas in eastern Mizoram. The Chief Minister announced that the Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition) Draft Rules, 2022 should be continued to be implemented strictly in the state.

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The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United State.
It is a small box sent with the Perseverence rover of the NASA has produced oxygen in Mars with components from the planet’s atmosphere. It splits carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere to produce pure oxygen. This is the first time materials needed for human missions on Mars were generated with resources not those carried from Earth.

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The Gujarat Science Conclave of State Science & Technology (S&T) Ministers is set to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Science City, Ahmedabad.
The conclave will include discussions on the theme of ‘Doubling Private Sector investment in R&D by 2030’. All States and UTs will be asked to have individual STI policy on the lines of National STI policy.

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USA’s NASA has released a recent update to its “Eyes on the Solar System’ visualization tool. The browser-based visualization tool allows users to rotate objects, compare them side by side, and modulate the perspective and lighting. Users can also explore interactive simulations of missions undertaken by Voyager, Perseverance, and other spacecraft.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first-ever image of an exoplanet, or planet outside the solar system.
The telescope’s observations of the exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, were revealed, which is also called as  ‘Super-Jupiter’ as it’s a gas giant that is six to eight times more massive than Jupiter. It orbits an A-type star twice the size of the sun and around 349 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

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Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has topped amongst all Ministries/Departments for resolving Public Grievances in the ranking report published by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) for the month of August 2022.
UIDAI has been a top performer in resolution of cases received through Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS).

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The government has approved an Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) in Pune at a cost of Rs 500 crore.
The proposal, approved by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, is expected to attract investments of up to Rs 2,000 crore. The cluster will be set up over an area of 297 acres.