Current Affairs Quiz - May 2022

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Eminent Odia writer Rajat Kumar Kar, a Padma Shri awardee, passed away recently at the age of 88, due to heart-related ailments.
The veteran writer was conferred with Padma Shri in 2021 for literature and education. He was known for his commentary during the annual Ratha Jatra for six decades. He also played a huge role in the revival of Odisha’s dying art of Pala.

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Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur said that a budget of Rs 363 crore has been allotted to take up the world’s largest film restoration project.
The project is undertaken under National Film Heritage Mission of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. About 2200 Indian films would undergo restoration at the National Film Archive of India (NFAI).

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India’s biggest-ever initial public offering (IPO), by Life Insurance Corp (LIC), has been fully booked under all categories.
The portion set for policyholders was booked 6.11 times, employees by 4.39 times, retail investors by 1.99 times, non-institutional investors by 2.91 times and qualified institutional buyers (QIB) by 2.83 times. The government will raise ₹ 21,000 crore from selling a 3.5 per cent stake in the country’s top insurer. This is only a third of the original target fixed by the government.

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Alagille Syndrome is a rare genetic liver disease, which is said to occur 1 in 60,000 children. It is an inherited condition in which bile builds up in the liver because of too few bile ducts, causing liver damage.
Recently, a Hyderabad-based hospital successfully undertook crowd-funding to buy drugs to operate on an 11-month-old boy suffering from Alagille Syndrome.

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Legendary musician and Santoor player Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed away recently at the age of 84. He is known for popularising the santoor instrument.
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma received the prestigious Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001. He has composed music for many hindi films and produced a famous concept album ‘Call of the Valley’.

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‘Intersolar Europe 2022’ is organised by the Indo-German Energy Forum (IGEF) in Munich. It is the world’s leading exhibition series for the solar industry and its partners.
The exhibition aims to increase the share of solar power in our energy supply. It will be represented by several countries and major multinational companies of the Renewable Energy sector. Union Minister of State for Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Shri Bhagwant Khuba represents India.

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Annada Shankar Smarak Samman is presented by the Pashimbanga Bangla Academy for literary works of Bengali language.
Recently, a Bengali folk culture researcher Ratna Rashid Banerjee returned the award as a mark of protest against the academy’s decision to confer a special award to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s book Kabita Bitan.

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NASA’s InSight Mars lander detected the largest quake that was ever observed on another planet. The rover landed on Mars in November 2018 and has heard 1,313 quakes so far, of which the largest “Marsquake” was detected in August 2021.
On Earth the quakes are caused by shifts in tectonic plates, but Mars does not have tectonic plates and its crust is a giant plate. As per the NASA, the ‘marsquakes’ are caused due to stresses that cause rock fracture in its crust.

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The Department of Consumer Affairs recently organised a one-day ‘National Workshop on Legal Metrology Act, 2009’.
The Act was passed to establish and enforce standards of weights and measures, regulate trade and commerce in weights, measures and other related goods. Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal said that there is a need for decriminalisation of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009.

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International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12, to mark the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, who is considered as the founder of modern nursing.
This year the theme for International Nurses Day is “A Voice to Lead- Invest in Nursing and respect rights to secure global health.”.