Daily Current Affairs Quiz : July 13, 2023

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14th July is celebrated as the Fête Nationale Française, or the National Day in France. It is also known as the Bastille Day.
For this year’s celebrations, the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi has been invited as the Guest of Honour at the Bastille Day Parade in France.

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The Reserve Bank recently constituted a working group on to accelerate the pace of internationalisation of the rupee, which is headed by RBI Executive Director Radha Shyam Ratho.
The working group has submitted its report and has recommended various measures, including inclusion of the rupee in the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket and recalibration of the foreign portfolio investor (FPI) regime etc.

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The International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations, hosted the AI for Good global summit in Geneva from July 4-7.
During the event, a panel of robots and their creators were invited to attend a press conference to answer questions from reporters on job automation, artificial intelligence (AI) leadership and collaboration with humans etc.

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The Government of India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has planned to introduce compulsory quality control and safety standards for various household electrical appliances. The targeted appliances are classified under 6 categories.
This initiative is aimed at reduction in import of sub-standard products from countries such as China and promote domestic manufacturing.

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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb) which is a medication designed to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
However, this decision raises difficult issues concerning the safety and affordability of the drug.