Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2022

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) ‘Foreign Ministers Meeting’ was held in the city in Tashkent, under the presidency of Uzbekistan.
India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart as well as the Afghanistan’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

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The United States and Japan have decided to launch a new joint international semiconductor research hub.
The U.S and Japanese economic talks was recently held to work on joint research for next-generation semiconductors and to establish a secure source of the vital components.

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Market regulator SEBI has named Ashish Chauhan as the new MD and CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
Ashish Chauhan is currently the MD and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). He is known for reviving the exchange, which was on the edge of a shutdown in 2009. BSE and its subsidiary CDSL, launched successful IPOs under his leadership.

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Australia is the host of ‘Pitch Black’, an international Air Combat Exercise. India is set to participate in the 17-Nation Exercise.
It includes the participation of around 100 aircraft and 2,500 military personnel from 17 countries. Other participants include Australia, Canada, India, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, the UAE, the UK and the US.

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Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw also launched ‘Responsible AI for Youth 2022′ program, which was created by National E-Governance Division (MeitY) in collaboration with Intel India and the Ministry of Education. The program is for school students studying in classes 8-12 across India to foster a deeper understanding of AI-tech.
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and IT also inaugurated the event to celebrate ‘8 Years of MyGov’ in New Delhi.

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently launched the Mission Bhumiputra Portal. The aim of this portal is to provide digitalized caste certificates to the students within a month.
The state government also launched Mission Basundhara in October 2021 with the aim of disposal of land-related problems.

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The Indian Cotton Federation in association with the Indian Cotton Association is organising a two-day Conference on Cotton Challenges Ahead 2022.
The conference will be held in city of Coimbatore in state of Tamil Nadu. There will be various panel discussions with all stakeholders from different segments of the cotton sector.

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Larsen & Toubro signed a MoU with the Gujarat state government to set up an IT and IT-enabled service (ITeS) Technology Park in Vadodara.
L&T will develop this IT Park in the next five years with an investment of Rs 7,000 crores. It will provide jobs for 2,000 engineers and other positions in a year and 10,000 direct and indirect employments in the next five years.

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National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS) is an autonomous institution working under Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
NESTS and CBSE in collaboration with TATA trusts and other stake-holders launched Experiential Learning for 21st Century Programme for Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) Principals and Teachers virtually.

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In the recently released Fortune 500 list, State Bank of India is the only bank to be featured from India in 236^th rank. US retailer Walmart topped the 2022 list.
The Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has been named for the first time in the Fortune Global 500 list at rank 98. Reliance Industries jumped 51 places to rank 104 while oil and power PSUs including IOC, ONGC, BPCL were also featured in the list. The list has nine Indian companies – five state-owned, and four from the private sector.