Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2023

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The 15th BRICS summit will take place this year in late August in South Africa’s Durban. The announcement was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei in Eritrea.
In 2013, the fifth annual BRICS summit was held in Durban, South Africa. BRICS was formed in 2006. In April 2011, for the first time, South Africa participated in the 3rd BRICS Summit.

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The Ministry of Education has recently released All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021.
The Ministry has been conducting AISHE since 2011, which collects detailed information on parameters such as student enrolment, teacher’s data, infrastructural information, financial information. The total enrolment in higher education has increased to nearly 4.14 crore in 2020-21 from 3.85 crore in 2019-20. The Female enrolment has increased to 2.01 crore and the Gross Enrolment Ratio increased to 27.3 from 25.6 in 2019-20.

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Indian President Droupadi Murmu graced the opening of Gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan in Udyan Utsav 2023.
The event includes opening of the Rashtrapati Bhavan gardens for general public once a year. The iconic Mughal Gardens at the Rashtrapati Bhavan was renamed Amrit Udyan to commemorate India’s 75th anniversary of independence.

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Google’s Threat Analysis Group has blocked the group known as ‘Spamouflage Dragon’ and ‘Dragonbridge’.
The group typically share contents, which are pro-China views and included a higher volume of content critical of the United States. Threat Analysis Group’s (TAG) mission aims to understand and counter serious threats, including actors engaged in coordinated information operations (IO).

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Tata Trusts are setting up endowment funding entities on the lines of the US-based Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
This is aimed at reducing dependence on dividend income earned from Tata Sons. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent foundation dedicated to advance medical sciences by supporting research.

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As per recent data, the High street rental prices in the top 8 cities in the world saw a significant rise in 2022.
As per the data, some cities experienced a 50% increase. The rise in rental prices is being attributed to a growing demand for prime retail locations, rise of e-commerce and shift towards online shopping.

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Researchers from tech giant Google have created Artificial Intelligence that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts.
The AI can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments.  The model is called MusicLM, and the company uploaded a bunch of samples that it produced using the model.

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Finland has invited Indian tech employees to migrate there for work, offering opportunities as global tech companies lay off thousands of employees. Over 10,000 Indians live in Finland for work and education.
Finland aims to double work-based migration and triple study-based migration by 2030. Business Finland, a government organisation for innovation funding and trade, travel and investments signed MoU with the Confederation of Indian Industry for talent mobility, in December 2022.

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Japan-based Toyota Motor Corp continues to be the world’s top-selling automaker, for a third straight year.
The company recently said it sold 10.5 million vehicles in 2022. Though the company was hit by chip-related supply constraints, strong demand in Asia and increase in production capacity helped it boost global production by 5% in 2022. Volkswagen Group is at the number 2 position, as it sold 8.3 million vehicles in 2022.

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As per the Union budget 2023-24, the government proposed to increase the agricultural credit target to ₹20 lakh crore with a focus on animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries.
The target has been increased from Rs 18 lakh crore, with an increase of 11.11% year on year. An Agriculture Accelerator Fund will be set up to encourage agri-startups by young entrepreneurs. The agriculture sector has been growing at an average annual growth rate of 4.6 per cent in the last six years.