Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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‘Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme’ is jointly implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the United Nations Development Programme and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
It provides financial and technical support to projects that restore environment while enhancing lives of local communities. The project aims to work on biodiversity, climate change and land degradation through funding of NGOs.

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FICCI is organizing the thought Leadership initiative of India, LEADS (Leadership, Excellence, Adaptability, Diversity, Sustainability) in New Delhi.
It will have more than 250 participants from around 50 countries. The 3rd edition will include the discussions by 36 global thought leaders exchanging ideas on 11 themes including manufacturing; food for all; innovation; mobility etc. Indian Union Ministers and their counter-parts from Germany and New Zealand will address various thematic sessions.

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The Indian Navy has recently revived its training area at the Manasbal Lake in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.
It was closed following the eruption of terrorism before 33 years in 1989 and the training areas were shifted to Mansar Lake in Jammu. The facility at the Manasbal Lake in the central Kashmir district was excellent for naval training of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in Jammu and Kashmir.

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The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Rajeev Chandrasekhar, is set to inaugurate India’s first lithium cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
The unit has been set up by Chennai-based Munoth Industries with an outlay of Rs 165 crore. At present, India imports 100 percent of its lithium-ion batteries primarily from China, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

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Jean-Luc Godard, one of the important figures of the French New Wave cinema, recently passed away at the age of 91.
He is said to have chosen to end his life through assisted suicide, a practice allowed under Switzerland law. Jean-Luc Godard is recognised as the one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema and he was awarded several prestigious awards including the Honorary Academy Award.

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‘National Conference of Tourism Ministers of States & UTs’ is organised in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala.
The conference is being organised by the Ministry of Tourism to discuss issues related to development of tourism in the country. Development of tourism infrastructure and sustainable tourism will be the focus of the conference.

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As per the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), the death toll of Lassa fever in Nigeria this year has risen to 171.
Even after the measures by the government to reduce infections across the country, there have been a total of 917 confirmed cases, with 6,660 suspected cases recorded since the beginning of the year.

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The Ethereum crypto-currency has announced a shift of its consensus algorithm from proof-of-work (PoW) to environment-friendly proof-of-stake (PoS).
With this event called ‘The Merge’, the energy used to maintain the whole Ethereum network will drop by 99.9 percent, which will result in a 0.2 percent decrease in world electricity use.

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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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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has unveiled a detailed framework for Social Stock Exchange (SSE).
It specifies minimum requirements for a Not-for-Profit Organisation (NPO) for registration and disclosure requirements. The capital markets regulator SEBI earlier notified rules for Social Stock Exchange (SSE) to provide social enterprises with an additional avenue to raise funds.