Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) released the guidelines for ‘Early identification and intervention for mental health problems in school going children and adolescents’.
The guidelines include setting up of a mental health advisory panel, school based mental health programme and pedagogical support to ensure mental well- being of students and engaging parents.

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India Post Payments Bank has partnered with Koo to promote financial literacy in tier-2, tier-3 cities and remote cities
The partnership with Indian micro-blogging platform Koo, aims to promote financial literacy in remote cities. Koo is a multilingual platform that allows users to communicate in 10 languages.

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Indian city Varanasi has been recently nominated as the first-ever SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital.
It was nominated for the period 2022-2023 at the 22nd Meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of State in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

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The European Parliament declared Hungary as ‘a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy’ in serious breach of EU democratic norms.
Hungary is ruled by populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who maintains close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lawmakers raised concerns about Hungary’s constitutional and electoral systems, judicial independence, as well as media, academic and religious freedoms.

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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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Tropical Cyclone Fiona strengthened into a hurricane as it hit Puerto Rico, a Caribbean island and unincorporated U.S. territory.
The National Weather Service warned that the Blanco River in the southeast coastal town of Naguabo had surpassed its banks and urged people living nearby to move immediately.

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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.

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Union Minister of Education and Skill Development Dharmendra Pradhan launched the SCALE (Skill Certification Assessment for Leather Employees) app.
It provides a one-stop solution for skilling, learning, assessment, and employment needs of the leather industry. He launched the application during a visit to CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai.

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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.