Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2023

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Narendra Modi will hold bilateral talks with the Presidents of Guyana and Suriname on the sidelines of the two-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in Indore.
Guyana President Irfaan Ali and Surinam President Chandrikapersad Santokhi will be the chief guest and special guest of honour at this year’s conclave.

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The ruling Taliban has signed a deal with a Chinese company to extract oil from northern Afghanistan’s Amu Darya basin.
The agreement is the first major international energy extraction deal the Taliban signed since taking control of Afghanistan in 2021.

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Kilauea Volcano, located in the Hawaii state of the USA is considered as one of the most active volcanoes on the planet.
The summit of Kilauea is located inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The Kilauea volcano has started erupting after a brief pause. Its neighbour named the Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world, erupted for the first time in 38 years last month.

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Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur launched the themes of the Y20 summit, logo and website in the curtain raiser event of Y20 Summit India
Themes of Y20 India are Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation & 21st Century skills, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Sustainability a way of life, Peace-building and Reconciliation: Ushering in an era of No War, Shared Future: Youth in Democracy and Governance and Health, Wellbeing &Sports: Agenda for Youth.

 

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Union Commerce minister Piyush Goyal is visiting New York and Washington DC to participate in India-US Trade Policy Forum.
After roundtable meetings with business leaders and think tanks in New York, he will attend the 13th Trade Policy Forum (TPF) meeting in Washington DC.  The 12th TPF Ministerial meeting was held on 23 November 2021 after a gap of four years in New Delhi.

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The first phase of the caste-based census kicked off in Bihar, in which the number of all households in the state will be counted.
The Bihar cabinet on June 2, 2022 decided to conduct the caste-based census in the state. The  decadal census conducted by the Union Government counts religious groups and Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).

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Delhi government is set to launch a new mobility card for commuters to pay fares electronically on both buses and the metro.
Delhi Transport department issued a notice inviting a tender for the project. The cards are part of the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC), which enables passengers from any part of the country to use NCMC-compliant RuPay debit card for travel.

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The 192nd birth anniversary of the pioneering social reformer Fatima Sheikh was observed recently. Fatima Sheikh was a teacher, anti-caste activist, proponent of girls’ education, and social reformer in 19th century Maharashtra.
Along with Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule, she started the first girls’ school in the country. Last year, Fatima Sheikh was honoured with a Google Doodle on her birth anniversary.

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The 26th National Youth Festival is scheduled in the twin cities of Hubballi – Dharwad in Karnataka from 12th to 16th January.
Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur said that the theme of this year’s Youth Festival is ‘Vikasit Yuva, Vikasit Bharat’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Youth Festival-2023 on 12th January, on the Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

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The research team from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, from the United States confirmed an exo-planet using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time.
Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own Earth.