Daily Current Affairs Quiz : November 17, 2022

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India and Sweden hosted the LeadIT Summit, on the side-lines of COP27. The LeadIT (Leadership for Industry Transition) initiative was launched by the governments of Sweden and India at the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019 and is supported by the World Economic Forum.
It focuses on low carbon transition of the hard to abate industrial sector. The summit was followed by the public launch of the LeadIT Summit Statement 2022 in the India Pavilion at COP27.

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American space agency NASA has launched its most powerful rocket ‘Artemis’ to the Moon.
The 100m-tall Artemis vehicle has an objective to send an astronaut capsule in the direction of the Moon. The spacecraft, comprises the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule.

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Vostro account is the name of the account that a bank holds on behalf of another, often a foreign bank.
The Union government has given approval to nine banks to open special Vostro accounts, three months after the Reserve Bank of India allowed trade settlement in Indian rupees. Out of the nine, three have opened accounts- Gazprombank with UCO Bank (Kolkata), VTB and Sberbank with their own branch offices. The move will facilitate India’s exports to Russia.

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India will assume G20 Presidency for one year, beginning December 1, 2022, taking over from Indonesia.
‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’ has been selected as India’s theme of G-20 Presidency. The Indian Prime Minister announced that principle of ‘Data for development’ will be an integral part of overall theme of our Presidency.

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The 19th Conference of the Parties to CITES is being held in Panama, a Central American country. CITES is an agreement regulating the movement across international borders of certain wild animal and plant species.
India has proposed to protect a species of freshwater reptile called the red-crowned roofed turtle under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The turtle, native to India and Bangladesh, is at a high risk of extinction.