Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2023

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The Historical ‘Kharchi Puja’ started at the revered fourteen gods temple in Khayerpur. The event brought together devotees from various locations, symbolizing the revival of age-old customs and traditions.
Kharchi Puja is a festival celebrated in Tripura and is performed in Agartala in July or August. The festival is centred around the worship of Chaturdasa Devata, the ancestral deity of the Tripuri people.

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The Centre approved a new scheme PM-PRANAM to incentivise states to promote alternative fertilisers and reduce the use of chemical fertilisers.
PM-PRANAM stands for PM – Programme for Restoration, Awareness, Generation, Nourishment and Amelioration of Mother Earth scheme. It also decided to continue the current urea subsidy scheme for three years ending March 2025, with an outlay of Rs 3.68 lakh crore.

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Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala launched the ‘Report Fish Disease(RFD)’ App.
The app has been developed by ICAR-NBFGR under National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases (NSPAAD), funded under Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana. It is a centralized platform that integrates fish farmers, field-level officers, and fish health experts.

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Senegal has become the fourth country after South Africa, Indonesia and Vietnam to sign the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P) deal.
“Just Energy Transition Partnership” (JETP) was evolved at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow. JETPs are a financing cooperation mechanism, to help heavily coal-dependent emerging economies make a just energy transition.

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The Department of Expenditure has given a boost to reforms by the States in power sector by providing financial incentives, under which an additional borrowing space of up to 0.5 percent of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is available to the States annually for a four-year period from 2021-22 to 2024-25.
A total of 12 states have received Rs. 66,413 crores in incentives for their efforts in implementing power sector reforms.

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A group of researchers from China, Pakistan, Australia, Germany, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and the United States has discovered epidemiological proof indicating a potential link between high ambient temperature and the risk of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against women.
Each 1 °C increase in the annual mean temperature was associated with a mean increase in IPV prevalence of 4.49%.

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The current account deficit (CAD) quantifies the disparity between the exports and imports of goods and services in an economy.
In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022-2023, India witnessed a reduction in its current account deficit (CAD) to 0.2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), compared to 2 percent in the previous quarter.

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CERT-In issued “Guidelines on Information Security Practices” for Government Entities for a Safe and Trusted Internet.
The guidelines serve as a roadmap for both government entities and the industry, facilitating the establishment of a secure and trusted cyber space.

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Researchers from Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have identified the cause of an over three million square kilometres-wide ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean.
It is here that the Earth’s gravitational pull is at its weakest and as a result, the sea level is a 100 metres lower than the global average. The Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) represents the most prominent gravitational anomaly on Earth.

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Vienna-based Wiener Zeitung, one of the world’s oldest newspapers, ceased its daily print edition after more than three centuries, marking the end of an era in journalism.
The newspaper’s final front page paid tribute to its remarkable legacy, highlighting 320 years of publication encompassing multiple presidents, emperors, and republics.