Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) released the guidelines for ‘Early identification and intervention for mental health problems in school going children and adolescents’.
The guidelines include setting up of a mental health advisory panel, school based mental health programme and pedagogical support to ensure mental well- being of students and engaging parents.

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Norway’s Central bank- the Norges Bank released the open source code for the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) sandbox based on Ethereum technology.
The sandbox is designed to offer an interface to interact with the test network. It also has enabled functions like minting, burning, and transferring tokens. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 97 countries, (more than half of the global central banks) are developing CBDCs.

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Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson announced her resignation recently after losing the election.
Andersson, who conceded defeat, is also leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party. She will now lead a transitional government until the new one has been set up. She took over from Stefan Lofven as leader of the Social Democrats and the country’s Prime Minister in November 2021.

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Andhra Pradesh emerged as India’s top investment destination in the first seven months of 2022, as per the recent Department for Promotion of Industries and Internal Trade (DPIIT) report.
The state attracted investments amounting to Rs 40,361 crore in the first seven months of 2022, out of India’s investment of Rs 1,71,285 crore. Andhra is followed by Odisha with Rs 36,828 crore.

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The second edition of the international conference ANGAN 2022 (Augmenting Nature by Green Affordable New-habitat) was recently held on the title “Making the Zero-Carbon Transition in Buildings”.
ANGAN 2.0 is being organised by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, in collaboration with Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC) under the Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP). The Conference had discussions related to building energy efficiency and reducing carbon emission from buildings.

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Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) recently approved the merger of Exide Life Insurance with HDFC Life Insurance.
Earlier this year, HDFC Life had announced acquisition of 100 per cent stake in Exide Life from its parent Exide Industries. The amalgamation is subject to the final approval of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI).

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Minister of Science & Technology Jitendra Singh presented INSPIRE awards to 60 startups and financial support to 53,021 students.
The award is instituted by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), and these innovators will be extended complete incubation support along their entrepreneurship journey. The annual INSPIRE Awards MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge) competition was launched during 2020-21.

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The European Parliament declared Hungary as ‘a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy’ in serious breach of EU democratic norms.
Hungary is ruled by populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who maintains close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lawmakers raised concerns about Hungary’s constitutional and electoral systems, judicial independence, as well as media, academic and religious freedoms.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Logistics Policy (NLP), which aims to promote seamless movement of goods across the country, by reducing logistics cost.
It also aims to improve its competitiveness of Indian goods in domestic as well as global markets. India’s logistics cost as a proportion of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated to be around 13-14 per cent.

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World Patient Safety Day is observed on September 17. In 2019, World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared September 17 as the World Patient Safety Day.
This year, the theme of World Patient Safety Day 2022 is ‘Medication Safety’ along with the slogan ‘Medication Without Harm’.