Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2023

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Hanuman Plover Bird has been reinstated as species after more than eight decades. This bird is endemic to India and Sri Lanka.
Hanuman Plover Bird was merged with the Kentish plover in the 1930s as both species were considered to be the same.

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Indian iron ore miner NMDC Ltd. is exploring lithium reserves, about 200 km off Perth, Australia.
NMDC is the majority owner of a mine located in Mt Bevan in Australia. India found lithium deposits for the first time in the country in February and is planning to auction a block for mining.

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The two-day EU-India Aviation Summit was held in New Delhi. It focuses on air transport relations and the mutually shared challenges and opportunities of the EU and India.
During the summit, a declaration of intent was signed by Airport Authority of India with Eurocontrol, and a letter of intent memorandum of understanding was signed by DGCA with the European Union Aviation Safety for closer cooperation.

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The Union Health Ministry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, has requested states and UTs to develop 100 food streets in 100 districts across India.
This pilot initiative seeks to ensure hygienic and safe food practices among food businesses and community members.

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A new India-Iran-Armenia trilateral grouping was announced recently. The first trilateral political consultation between the foreign affairs ministries of the three countries was held recently in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital.
For India, Armenia has emerged as a key geopolitical partner in recent years. This trilateral grouping is expected to open opportunities for cooperation in areas like energy, transportation, trade, among others.

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The GRX-810 is a 3D printed superalloy developed by NASA scientists. It is an oxide-dispersion-strengthened NiCoCr-based alloy.
It showed over 1,000-fold better creep performance, twofold improvement in strength and twofold improvement in oxidation resistance when compared with the traditional polycrystalline wrought Ni-based alloys.

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US Homeland Security recently announced the creation of the Task Force to figure out how to use the Artificial Intelligence to protect critical infrastructure and screen cargo to find products made with slave labour.
It is expected to play a role in the responsible use of the AI and defending the homeland against the malicious use of this technology.

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India has jumped six places and ranked 38 out of 139 countries in the 7th edition of World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2023.
As per the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India has seen remarkable improvement on 4 out of 6 LPI indicators. The 2023 LPI for the first time measures the speed of trade. The Index is topped by Singapore, followed by Finland.

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Montevideo Maru was a Japanese auxiliary ship used during World War II. It was sunk by the American submarine USS Sturgeon.
It a covert prisoner-of-war transport ship and was recently discovered after over eight decades in the South China Sea.

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Russian lender Sberbank released technology called GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT. GigaChat is an AI chatbot that was launched recently by Russian lender Sberbank.
It is capable of communicating intelligently in Russian than other foreign neural networks.