Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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Tamil Nadu government celebrates the birthday of reformist leader E V Ramasamy (Periyar) as ‘Social Justice Day’ in the state.
On that day every year, employees in all government offices including the State Secretariat would take pledges to follow values based on the leader’s ideals which include, brotherhood, equality, self-respect and rationalism.

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Indian private sector bank Federal Bank was ranked 63rd on the Best Workplaces in Asia 2022 list. It becomes the only bank in India to be listed by Great Place to Work, the international authority on workplace culture.
The report assesses employee experiences of trust, innovation, company values and leadership. Companies are also evaluated on how well they are creating workplace experience, inclusive of all employees.

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Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh is set to lead an Indian delegation at Global Clean Energy Action Forum at Pittsburg in the US.
Ministers from over 30 countries will participate in the event to discuss ways to accelerate clean energy innovation and deployment.

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced that there will be two percent reservations in government jobs for sportspersons in the state.
The government has increased the prize money for players who won international medals to Rs 3 crore. Participants of all age groups across the state have participated in the Rural Olympic Games.

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Kazakhstan is set to host Conference on Confidence Building Measures and Interaction in Asia (CICA) Summit in capital Astana.
The country has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the CICA Summit. This year’s summit, which is to be held in the year of the 30th anniversary of CICA, will give Central Asian countries an opportunity to expand ties with India. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee attended the first CICA Summit in July 2002 in Kazakhstan.

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National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson, retired Justice Arun Kumar Mishra has been elected as a member of the Governance Committee of the Asia Pacific Forum (APF).
He has also been elected as a member of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) Bureau. The GANHRI is one of the world’s largest human rights networks.

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The Central government notified the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, which would enable investigating Police Officers to collect the biometric details of prisoners.
The law was passed by the Parliament in April 2022. The law also empowers a magistrate to order the documenting of measurements or photographs of a person during the probe of an offence.

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As many as 3,696 Bru families displaced from Mizoram have been resettled in Tripura since signing of the Bru agreement in January 2020.
The Union Home Minister chaired a review meeting of the Bru Agreement and the processes of resettlement. Out of the total 6,959 rehabilitated families in Tripura with 37,136 Bru migrants, 3,696 have been resettled.

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As per Commerce Ministry’s notification, India has set up a new ‘Exports Promotion Council for Medical Devices’.
The council will be under the department of pharmaceuticals and will be headquartered in Noida and will have offices in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The council will help exporters in promoting their products in international markets. India exported Rs. 23,766 crore of medical devices in 2021-22.

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QUAD countries recently signed Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief Guidelines at a meeting in New York.
The Foreign Ministers of Australia, India and Japan and Secretary of State of the United States signed the Guidelines for the ‘Quad Partnership on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) in the Indo-Pacific’. This partnership was announced by Quad Leaders in Tokyo in May 2022.