Daily Current Affairs Quiz : August 27, 2022

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Parivar Kalyan Card scheme is the Uttar Pradesh government’s Family ID plan. It was announced to establish a comprehensive database of the state’s family units and identify beneficiaries for its various schemes.
The PKC will provide a unique 12-digit ID number for each family. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has allowed the state government to link Aadhaar data with the PKC.

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Veteran Scientist Dr. Samir V Kamat has been appointed as the new Chairman of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
He succeeds Dr. G Satheesh Reddy who will take charge as Scientific Advisor to the Union Defence Minister. Earlier, Dr. Samir V Kamat was the Director General of Naval Systems & Materials at DRDO since 2017.

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The Philippines has been hit by the tropical cyclone Ma-on that has damaged the main Luzon Island in the country.
The cyclone has killed at least three people and injured four others, as per the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Ma-on was the sixth tropical cyclone to hit this Southeast Asian country this year.

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Former Chief Economic Adviser KV Subramanian has been appointed as the Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Subramanian’s term will continue for a period of three years or until further orders. The tenure of economist Surjit S Bhalla as ED (India), IMF has been curtailed up to 31 October, 2022.

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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change recently published the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022.
New rules will replace Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001, to ensure environmentally sound management of waste batteries. The rules cover all types of batteries including Electric Vehicle batteries, portable batteries, automotive batteries and industrial batteries.