Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) ‘Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’.
It was also called an “Atlas of human suffering”, as per the UN Head. The report was compiled by 270 authors from 67 countries. As per the report, Cities which house more than half of the world’s population — are at the highest risk from climate change.

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China recently launched a Long March-8 rocket to place 22 satellites in space, setting a domestic record for the most spacecraft launched by a single rocket.
These satellites will be used for commercial remote sensing services, marine environment monitoring, forest fire prevention and disaster mitigation.

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The world’s largest aircraft, An-225, nicknamed ‘Mriya’ or ‘Dream’ was owned by Ukraine and it was destroyed during the Russian invasion.
During the Russian assault, the aircraft was stationed at the Antonov Airport for maintenance work. Antonov is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company, headquartered at Kyiv, Ukraine.

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The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located along the northern coasts of Norway and Russia. It is also called as the Murman Sea in Russia.
Russian nuclear submarines sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers were seen among snow forests in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his country’s nuclear forces put on high alert over tensions with the West amidst the invasion of Ukraine.

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The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) launched the ‘Stree Manoraksha Project’ to improve the mental health of women in India.
The project has been launched in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru. The project would focus on building on capacity building of One-Stop Centers on how to handle the cases of women who have suffered violence and distress.

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Meghalaya has recently withdrawn consent to the CBI to investigate cases in the state, becoming the ninth state in the country to have taken this step. CBI will not be able to investigate cases in the state without the state government’s permission.
Mizoram was the first state to withdraw consent in 2015. The other states that have withdrawn consent are Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Kerala

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NASA has started assembling the ‘Europa Clipper spacecraft’ in the mission’s final phase before the launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa in 2024.
The main body of the spacecraft is a giant 10-foot-tall propulsion module, designed and constructed by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter and conduct multiple close flybys of Europa to gather data on the moon’s atmosphere, surface, and interior structure.

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Airports Authority of India has undertaken the work of constructing a Greenfield Airport in Hollongi, in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
It is located at 15 kms from the state’s capital city of Itanagar. The Greenfield Airport will be constructed with an estimated amount of Rs 645 crores and will be operational from 15 August 2022.

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The Tourism Department of Rajasthan is set to host the three-day Holi festival “Braj Holi Mahotsav” from March 12 to 14 in the state.
The celebration events would be held in Bharatpur, Deeg and Kaman cities. The celebration is aimed to entertain tourists of all ages with the colours, local sports, traditional dance and music.

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Kavach is the indigenously developed ‘Automatic Train Protection System’, which was recently tested on South Central Railway.
As per the Union Budget, the system is scheduled for complete rollout on 2,000 km in 2022-23. It is India’s own automatic protection system in development since 2012, under the name Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), which got renamed to Kavach.