Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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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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15-year-old chess player Pranav Anand from Bengaluru recently became India’s 76th Grandmaster. He crossed the 2,500 Elo mark in the ongoing World Youth Chess Championship in Mamaia, Romania.
To become a Grandmaster, a player has to secure three GM norms and cross the live rating of 2,500 Elo points. Pranav Anand scored the third and final GM norm at the 55th Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland in July 2022.

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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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Uzbekistan handed over the rotating presidency of the eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to India in Samarkand.
The SCO has eight full members, including its six founding members, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan joined as full members in 2017.

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s National space Agency (MBRSC) has signed memorandum of understanding with the China National Space Agency (CNSA) to work together on future lunar efforts.
The two agencies will collaborate on future moon missions which involve the landing of an MBRSC rover aboard a CNSA lander.

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Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar virtually inaugurated 9 model District Disability Rehabilitation centres(DDRC), which had been upgrading to model DDRCs.
DDRCs were established to provide effective rehabilitation services to the persons with disabilities (PwDs) for the last twenty years.

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The Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) has entered into an agreement with Biovet Private Ltd. for the commercial production of the indigenous vaccine of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) called ‘Lumpi-ProVacind’.
The agreement for transfer of technology is the first of the series of tie-ups that Agrinnovate are set to tie-up for grant of non-exclusive license of ‘Lumpi-ProVacind’. Agrinnovate is the commercial arm of ICAR.

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Poland has recently opened a new canal for ships to sail from Baltic Sea to Vistula Lagoon ports. The waterway is expected to give full sovereignty in the northeastern region of Poland.
The new canal would also mean that ships no longer must secure Russia’s permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.

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Indian Naval Ship Ajay (P34) was decommissioned recently after 32 years of distinguished services to the nation. The decommissioning ceremony was held at Mumbai’s Naval Dockyard.
INS Ajay was an Abhay class anti-submarine warfare corvette of Western Naval Command. The ship was commissioned on January 24, 1990. It was posted on various deployments including Operation Talwar during the Kargil War in 1999 and Operation Parakram in 2001.

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‘India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI)’ is a hypertension intervention under the National Health Mission of India. It is a collaborative initiative of Union Health Ministry, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), state governments and World Health Organization-India.
IHCI won the ‘2022 UN Interagency Task Force and WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award’ was announced at the UN General Assembly side event.