Current Affairs Quiz - February 2022

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The Indian Embassy in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, issued advisory, saying Indian nationals particularly students whose stay is not essential, may consider leaving temporarily.
It also advised them to avoid all non-essential travel. This came at the backdrop of repeated warnings from US officials that Russia could launch an invasion of Ukraine. There are more than 20,000 Indians in Ukraine, including professionals, businessmen and some 18,000 students.

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DefExpo 2022, India’s biennial flagship defence exhibition is scheduled to be held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat in the month of March.
More than 900 defence firms and 55 countries have so far confirmed their participation in the Expo. It is also claimed to be Asia’s largest defence exhibition. Out of the 900 exhibitors at the event, more than 100 are foreign players. The 2020 edition of the Expo was held at Lucknow

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The U.K. announced that it is scrapping its ‘Golden Visa’ Route, which is a visa program for millionaire investors, as part of efforts to cut down on fraud.
It is also so-called Tier 1 investor visa, as a part of its renewed crackdown on fraud and illicit finance. This was announced by the U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel.

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Eminent Kannada writer and poet Dr Chennaveera Kanavi passed away at the age of 94 after age-related complications.
The Karnataka government ordered police honours for his last rites. The litterateur won the Sahitya Akademi award for his book ‘Jeevadhwani’. He received various awards including Rajyotsava Award, Pampa Award, Nadoja title, Nrupathunga award, Sahitya Bangara Award.

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The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, under the ‘Garbage Free Cities’ vision has approved “legacy dump site remediation” proposal amounting Rs 235 crore to the state of Andhra Pradesh. The Government of India’s share in this would be Rs.77.66 crore.
This is considered to be the Ministry’s largest one-time approval of funds for legacy dumpsite remediation.

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As per a recent study, Moths are vital to pollination in the Himalayan ecosystem of northeast India. The study highlights 91 species of moths as potential pollinators of 21 plant families in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
Diurnal are Day-Active Pollinators including bees and butterflies while nocturnal pollinators are active during the nights like moths and bats. Majority of the pollination-related studies are based on diurnal pollinators, so far.

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‘Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)’ is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes. It is located near Pune at Khodad in Maharashtra.
Astronomers from the National Centre of Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used GMRT to map the distribution of atomic hydrogen gas from the host galaxy of a fast radio burst (FRB).

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‘World Day of Social Justice’ is observed on February 20 every year. The main objective of celebrating ‘World Day of Social Justice’ is to raise a voice against social injustice and to bring various communities together to eliminate poverty, discrimination, illiteracy, to make a socially integrated society
The theme for World Justice Day 2022 is ‘Achieving Social Justice through Formal Employment’.

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As the Supreme Commander of our armed forces, the President of India reviews the Indian Naval Fleet once during their term.
The ‘Fleet Review’ aims to assure the Indian Navy’s preparedness, morale and discipline. President Ram Nath Kovind conducted Fleet Review of the Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam. This is the second Fleet Review of Visakhapatnam. The first was in 2006 by the then President APJ Abdul Kalam.

 

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A 5,300-year-old skull has been found in a Spanish tomb ‘Dolmen de El Pendon’ by a group of archaeologists.
It is claimed to be the oldest evidence of ear surgery carried out in the world. Several cut marks are visible in the skull around the left ear canal, which shows mastoidectomy, a surgical procedure possibly performed. The skull belonged to a middle-aged woman, who lived in the Neolithic Age.