Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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25­-year-­old Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has been appointed as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
She created a platform called Rise Up Movement to support African climate activists. She led an initiative to stop the deforestation of African rainforests and launched ‘Vash Greens Schools Project’, which aims to install solar panels in remote areas of her home country, Uganda.

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India’s Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry co-chaired the 19th ASEAN-India Economic Ministers’ meeting held in Siem Reap City, Cambodia.
The representatives from all 10 ASEAN countries Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam attended the meeting. The bilateral trade between ASEAN and India reached USD 91.5 billion in 2021 increasing by 39.2 per cent year-on-year.

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The Union Ministry of Power has proposed for the Market-Based Economic Dispatch (MBED) mechanism.
The MBED mechanism seeks a centralized scheduling for dispatching the entire yearly consumption of electricity. However this system is expected to interfere in the autonomy of states in managing their electricity sector. Distribution companies, owned by the state governments will become dependent on the centralized mechanism.

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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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The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal announced recently that India’s longest river cruise service for over 4,000 km will start in 2023.
The river cruise service will be operated between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Bogibeel in Assam. The route will connect rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra via Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route (IBRP). The Union Minister also inaugurated Bogibeel Riverfront Passenger Jetty built by Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR).

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Indian IT major Wipro has terminated the services of 300 employees, who were found to be working for its competitors simultaneously.
The act is also called as ‘Moonlighting’. Companies worry that this practice might create a conflict of interests, data breaches, and mis-use of company’s Intellectual Property (IP) and assets.

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The Union Government has formed a five-member committee to consider a legally enforceable mechanism for regulating the marketing practices of pharmaceutical firms.
It is chaired by V K Paul, member (health) of NITI Aayog. At present, the publicity and promotion made by pharma companies is supervised under Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP), the Indian Medical Council Regulations, 2002, and by the Central Board of Direct Tax.

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World Rhino Day is celebrated every year on September 22 to raise awareness about the five rhino species including the greater one-horned rhino, Sumatran rhino, Javan rhino, black rhino and white rhino.
The theme for this year’s World Rhino Day is ‘Five Rhino Species Forever.’ The rhino species is on the verge of extinction due to poaching, climate change and disturbance in the natural habitat.

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The Breakthrough Prizes was created in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including a venture capitalist Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, of Facebook and Sergey Brin of Google.
The 2023 winners of the Breakthrough Prizes, also known as the ‘Oscars of Science’ were announced recently in the life sciences category, one for mathematics and one for physics. The winners will split a total of more than USD 15 million.

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Researchers in China have discovered a new type of crystal in the volcanic debris of the near side of the moon.
They also discovered potential fuel source for production of clean and efficient energy on Earth. The small, transparent crystal has been named Changesite-(Y), after the Chinese moon goddess Chang’e.