Daily Current Affairs Quiz : July 23-24, 2023

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The Union Ministry of Culture will organize a two-day event, ‘Festival of Libraries’, at Pragati Maidan next month.
Droupadi Murmu, the President of India, is set to officially open the ‘Festival of Libraries 2023’. The festival will include exhibitions, book-author sessions, workshops for children, and panel discussions on the digitization of libraries. The aim is to celebrate knowledge, bridge the gap between history and the future, and foster a love for reading.

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An agreement has been reached between the Ministry of Culture and the Indian Navy to restore the traditional “Tankai method” of shipbuilding.
The complete project will be supervised and carried out by the Indian Navy. This initiative aims to revive and preserve the 2,000-year-old technique of shipbuilding known as the ‘stitched shipbuilding method’.

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DG Rakesh Pal, an alumnus of the Indian Naval Academy, has been designated as the 25th Director General of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). He joined the Indian Coast Guard in January 1989.
Rakesh Pal holds the recognition of being the first gunner of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). He has also been conferred with the Tatrakshak Medal (TM) in the year 2013 and President Tatrakshak Medal (PTM) for his distinguished service in 2018.

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Recently, the Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying inaugurated an International Symposium on Sustainable Livestock Transformation.
It was inaugurated at the National Dairy Development Board’s (NDDB), Anand in Gujarat. The event took place as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and under the Agriculture Working Group (AWG) of G20.

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Recently, the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023 was presented by the state government, aiming to provide guaranteed wages or pension to the entire adult population in the state.
The Bill ensures that all families receive 125 days of guaranteed employment annually, while the elderly, disabled, widows, and single women receive a minimum monthly pension of Rs 1,000.