Current Affairs Quiz - September, 2022

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India observes National Nutrition Week from September 1 to September 7 every year to raise awareness about the importance of consuming nutritious food.
Ministry of Women and Child Development is celebrating the 5th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2022 across the nation from 1^st to 30th September. This year, the objective of the Poshan Maah is to celebrate Poshan Maah through Gram Panchayats as Poshan Panchayats with key focus on ‘Mahila aur Swasthya’ and ‘Bacha aur Shiksha’.

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PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) was announced in the National Educational Policy (NEP).
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the state education boards are collaborating to draw up a ‘benchmark framework’ to bring uniformity across state and central boards. PARAKH will be the national single-window source for all assessment-related information. It will oversee the periodic tests like the National Achievement Survey (NAS) and State Achievement Survey.

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Alappuzha has become the fifth fully digital banking district in the State of Kerala. This was declared by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Kerala.
As part of the initiative, at least one digital transaction facility, such as debit-credit card, Internet banking, mobile banking, UPI etc, has been enabled in 26 lakh bank accounts in 29 banks in the district. Banking services in Thrissur, Kottayam, Palakkad and Kasaragod have already become digital.

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According to figures from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India passed the United Kingdom (UK) to become the fifth-largest economy in the world in the last quarter of 2021.
The United States, China, Japan, and Germany are the only nations ahead of India. However, in terms of per capita income, which is a measure of how much money is made per person in a country, India is ranked 122 out of 190 countries.

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USA’s NASA has released a recent update to its “Eyes on the Solar System’ visualization tool. The browser-based visualization tool allows users to rotate objects, compare them side by side, and modulate the perspective and lighting. Users can also explore interactive simulations of missions undertaken by Voyager, Perseverance, and other spacecraft.

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The third International Day of Clean Air for blue skies is held on 7 September 2022, under the theme of ‘The Air We Share’.
It focuses on the trans-boundary nature of air pollution highlighting the need for collective action. The 74th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 7 September as the ‘International Day of Clean Air for blue skies’.

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The Uttarakhand education department recently launched an e-governance portal named ‘Samarth’, to make the education system more transparent in the state.
The portal will provide all administrative and educational updates including information about entrance exams, salary, appointments from state universities and public schools.

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Tripura government has successfully set up five ‘Bio-Villages’ for promoting sustainable development, climate change mitigation and climate adaption.
As per the Compendium of Best Practice on Climate Action from Indian states, in Tripura, over 500 households have been benefited with the successful implementation in five ‘Bio-Villages’. The concept of ‘Bio-Village’ was introduced by the Directorate of Biotechnology, Tripura in 2018 for promoting organic farming.

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The government has issued orders for setting up an expert committee to study the human rabies deaths in Kerala.
As per the statement issued by Health Minister Veena George, a seven-member Expert Committee has now been formed with Dr Thomas Mathew, the Director of Medical Education. The Committee will assess the efficacy of the rabies vaccines and will submit its report in a month.

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Two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) were signed between India and Bangladesh to deepen the inter-governmental railway cooperation between the two countries.
The MoUs were signed and exchanged during the visit of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina to India. The two MoUs signed include ‘Training of Bangladesh Railway Employees in the Training Institute of Indian Railways’ and ‘Collaboration in IT Systems such as FOIS and other IT applications for Bangladesh Railway’.