Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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As per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a higher ‘Species threat abatement and restoration (STAR)’ score indicates greater presence of threatened species.
India’s total national STAR score was 41,817, of which 11,585 was for mammals, 10,843 for birds and 19,389 for amphibians. Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka host 51 per cent of the country’s STAR score. India’s national STAR score represented 3.4 per cent of the global STAR.

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‘Lingua Franca’ is a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
Recently CBSE announced to Kokborok in its curriculum. A confederation of 56 tribal organisations in the state hailed CBSE’s decisions while they called for Roman Script for Kokborok Choba. This is in the backdrop of Union Home Minister’s statements that ‘Hindi would be made compulsory for all Northeast states and Devanagari script will be introduced for all languages without a script.’

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According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Finance, the government will soon issue a commemorative coin of Rs 100 denomination to mark the birth centenary of Jawaharlal Darda.
Born in 1923, he was a former Congress leader and founder of the Lokmat group of newspapers. The successful businessman and also served as a Minister in Maharashtra for several terms. He passed away in 1997.

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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved appointment of Tarun Kapoor, as an advisor to the Prime Minister, in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), in the rank and scale of Secretary to Government of India, initially for a period of two years
Former petroleum secretary and 1987-batch IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, superannuated as the Secretary of the Ministry of petroleum and natural gas in 2021.

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The Odisha State ST and SC development department signed an MoU with the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar, to set up a tribal health observatory (TriHOb).
This is said to be the first in the country, for ensuring equity in tribal health in Odisha. TriHOb will establish a repository on the health of tribal population of Odisha. Odisha Tribal Family Health Survey was also launched.

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Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), received the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation.
World Food Prize is a prestigious award conceived as the ‘Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture’. Rosenzweig was selected for the award for her research to understand the relationship between climate and food systems and forecast how they will change in the future.

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Border Roads Organisation or BRO celebrated its Raising Day on May 7. The Border Roads Organisation, a road construction force in India, is a part of the Indian Armed Forces.
BRO develops and maintains road networks in India’s border areas and friendly neighboring countries. It is celebrating its 63 years of glorious service to the nation. The headquarters of BRO is situated in New Delhi and Director General of BRO is Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry.

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John Lee was elected as Hong Kong’s next leader by an Election committee who cast their votes in a secret ballot. The committee included around 1,500 largely pro-Beijing members.
Lee, who was formerly Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary, will begin his five-year term replacing outgoing Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China which returned to Chinese rule in 1997 from the UK.

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Madhya Pradesh Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently launched ‘Ladli Laxmi Scheme 2.0’. A Ladli e-App Samvad was also launched.
The state government would pay full admission fee of girl students in medical colleges, IITs, IIMs or any other institute. A sum of Rs 25,000 will be given separately in two instalments to girl students who take admission in the college after passing class 12.

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To commemorate the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the World Red Cross day is celebrated every year on May 8.
The day also marks the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, the founder of ‘International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’ and the recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize. The theme for 2022 is ‘Be Human Kind’.