Current Affairs Quiz - December, 2022

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Uttarakhand state government tabled the Uttarakhand Public Service (Horizontal Reservation for Women) Bill 2022.
It seeks to implement the system of 30 per cent horizontal reservation for women in the state. The government also tabled ‘Uttarakhand Religion Freedom (Amendment) Bill 2022’, to introduce strict law regarding religious conversions in the state.

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Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has observed ‘Adoption Awareness Month’ in November.
As part of the ‘Adoption Awareness Month’, CARA organised 10 State orientation programmes, 200 special social media campaigns, held meets with Prospective Adoptive Parents. CARA is a statutory body of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

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The Indian Army is engaged in bilateral exercises with five countries under way in November 2022, to improve interoperability.
The 18th edition of India-U.S. Army exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ was held in Uttarakhand. Other ongoing exercises are ‘Ex Austra Hind’ with Australia in Rajasthan, ‘Ex Agni Warrior’ with Singapore at Deolali, ‘Ex Harimau Shakti’ with Malaysia and ‘Ex Garuda Shakti’ with Indonesia.

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The Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud mooted an idea to bring focus on a Project Great Indian Bustard similar to Project Tiger.
The apex court was informed about deaths of male and female Great Indian Bustard in priority areas. The bench directed the chief secretaries of Rajasthan and Gujarat to conduct assessment relating to transmission lines and bird diverters required to protect the Great Indian Bustard.

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Indian President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the International Gita Mahotsav (IGM)-2022 in Kurukshetra in Haryana.
This year, Nepal is the partner country, while Madhya Pradesh is the partner State of the event. The President also launched ‘Nirogi Haryana’, a health check-up scheme, and an e-ticketing system of public road transport facilities.

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The tenure of Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been extended for 16 months, beyond his date of superannuation.
This is informed Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. Vinay Mohan Kwatra assumed charge as the new Foreign Secretary of the country on May 1.

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In 2013, the Supreme Court had an all-woman bench for the first time, when Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai sat together.
The second occasion came in 2018. Recently, Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has constituted an all-women bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M. Trivedi to hear transfer petitions involving matrimonial disputes and bail matters. This is the third occasion in the history of the apex court of an all-women bench.

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Assam’s Silchar town is hosting the two-day Silchar-Sylhet Festival, to celebrate the linguistic and cultural ties between the Barak Valley region of Assam and the Sylhet segment of Bangladesh.
The Festival also coincides with the 75th year of India’s independence and the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistan.

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A new dialogue-based chatbot, ChatGPT has been developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research and development company.
The chatbot can interact in a ‘conversational way’, answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premise and also reject requests that it finds inappropriate. ChatGPT is based on the company’s GPT-3.5 technology model, which uses deep learning to make human-like conversations.

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The Kanger Valley National Park is located in Chhattisgarh. It is also home to a population of Chhattisgarh’s state bird, the hill myna.
Bird watchers and forest department officials recently counted 200 types of birds in Chhattisgarh’s first-ever inter-state bird survey conducted in the Kanger Valley National Park.