Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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World Alzheimer’s Day is being observed on September 21. This year the theme for world Alzheimer’s month 2022 is ‘Know dementia, Know Alzheimer’s’.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. It is a progressive brain disease which results in loss of memory and thinking skills. It destroys the brain cells leading to memory loss, memory changes, erratic behaviour, and loss of body functions.

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Defence Accounts Department (DAD) signed a memorandum of understanding with Bank of Baroda and HDFC Bank, to onboard them as Service Centres under the System for Pension Administration (SPARSH) initiative.
The MoU will onboard around 8000 branches of Bank of Baroda and 6000 branches of HDFC Bank as Service Centres to provide last mile connectivity to pensioners.

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The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Professor Ajay Sood, and British High Commissioner unveiled the book titled ‘She Is–Women in STEAM’.
The book honours 75 women in STEAM (fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). It is supported by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, FICCI FLO, and British High Commission of India.

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As per the latest World Bank assessment, Sri Lanka ranks 5th in the highest food price inflation in the world. The list is led by Lebanon followed by Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Turkey.
Sri Lanka’s inflation surged to 70.2 per cent in August from 66.7 per cent a month ago as the country is grappling with the worst economic crisis. According to official data, food prices have risen by 84.6 per cent. In mid-April, Sri Lanka declared its international debt default due to the forex crisis.

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Central Public Sector Enterprise- REC Limited, formerly called as the Rural Electrification Corporation has been accorded the ‘Maharatna’ status.
An order to this effect was issued by the Department of Public Enterprises, under the Ministry of Finance. REC is a Non-banking Finance Company which focuses on Power Sector Financing and Development across India. With the grant of ‘Maharatna’ status, REC can also enter into technology Joint Ventures or other strategic alliances.

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NASA’s DART mission was launched in November 2021 to test the use of a kinetic impactor to change the orbit of an asteroid.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART mission is set to make history when it crashes into an asteroid in the world’s first planetary Defense test. In the test, the spacecraft will hit the moonlet, called Dimorphos, and snap images until the moment of impact.

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Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany.
The Hermann Kesten Prize honours personalities who stand up for the rights of persecuted authors and journalists. Her notable works include The Gypsy Goddess, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, Ayaankali, Tamil Tigresses and poems such as Touch, and Ms Militancy.

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Indian Railways has installed the Real-Time Train Information System (RTIS), developed in collaboration with ISRO, on locomotives and trains.
It provides automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, timing of arrival and departure or run-through. They get automatically plotted on the control chart of the trains in the Control Office Application (COA) system.

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Bathukamma is the official floral festival celebrated by women of the state Telangana. It is celebrated to deepen our relationship with nature.
The main celebrations of nine-day festival will be held on 3rd October, as Saddula Bathukamma. During the annual festival, women and girls sing and dance around specially arranged flowers.

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The United States launched a spy satellite named NROL-91. The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the satellite for the U.S. from California.
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the country.