Monthly Current Affairs Quiz_April 2023

1) NATO is a military alliance formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, UK, Canada and France.

2) Finland and its neighbour Sweden ended decades of military non-alignment and decided to join NATO in May 2022.

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1. This is the first time when a woman will join a mission for the moon.

2. The mission will be joined by a member of the Canadian Space Agency also.

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1. The plan notes the need for an additional coal-based capacity of 28 GW by 2031-32.

2. The 25 GW of coal-based capacity is currently being built.

3. The 1st National Electricity Plan was published in 2007.

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1. Black carbon reportedly contributes to near-surface composite aerosol mass concentrations.

2. An increase in black carbon contributes to faster melting of glaciers.

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1) The United Nations 2023 Water Conference held in New York on March 22-24 was the first such meeting on water after 46 years.

2) The theme of the conference was “Our watershed moment: uniting the world for water”.

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1) The scheme has been launched to provide counseling and solutions to farmers on problems related to water, soil, seeds and marketing.

2) Biotech-Agriculture Innovation Science Application Network (Biotech-KISAN) is a Department of Biotechnology, Science and Technology initiative to empower farmers, especially women farmers.

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1) PV, the technology which converts sunlight directly into electricity.

2) Large scale PV plants are used for electricity generation that is fed into the grid.

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1) Trade volume growth in 2022 was slower than expected.

2) Trade volume growth in 2022 was still stronger than worst-case scenarios considered at the start of the war in Ukraine.

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1. a Centre-backed initiative to sequence 10,000 Indian human genomes and create a database.

2. It is an initiative focused on the Whole Genome Sequencing of the population in north India.

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1) The 2023 International Prize in Statistics, which is regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in statistics, has been awarded to Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, an Indian-American statistician.

2) Rao’s research on Information geometry has recently been used to aid the understanding and optimization of Higgs boson measurements at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

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1). It has been initiated by the Union Ministry of Culture.

2). Under the Scheme, festivals of India are organized in other countries.

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1). In April 2023, it has planned to create a pool of experts in 10 languages from some neighbouring countries and others who share a cultural heritage with India.

2). It was founded in 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to actively participate in the formulation and implementation of policies and programmes pertaining to India’s external cultural relations.

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1). On April 12, Neil Armstrong arrived at the surface of the moon.

2). The United Nations has recognized April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight.

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1) Under this scheme, high-level platforms will be delivered for all categories of railway stations.

2) Infrastructural development will be ensured for more than 1,000 stations under this scheme.

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1). United States of America was the largest export destination of India.

2). India's total exports of goods and services grew by 6 percent during the fiscal year.

3). Major commodities exported by India were Petroleum and electronics goods.

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1). It is the most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe.

2). It has been built in Finland.

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1) PM Modi will inaugurate the first Global Buddhist Summit in New Delhi on April 20th and 21st.

2) The Global Buddhist Summit will be moderated by the Ministry of Culture + International Buddhist Confederation (IBC).

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1) This scheme is applicable in all the states of India.

2) This scheme has been launched for the benefit of the Scheduled Tribes of the North-Eastern region.

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1). By 2050, India’s population will be much more than that of China.

2). According to UN estimates, India's population is expected to grow for the next three decades, after which it will start declining.

3). The report finds that life expectancy among men is lower than that among women.

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1). The Bombay Natural History Society, World Wide Fund for Nature-India and The Naturalist School have partnered to lead the event.

2). The event was first organized in the US in 2016 by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Academy of Sciences of San Francisco.

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1). The HakkiPikki tribes are semi-nomadic tribal people.

2). The origin of HakkiPikki tribal communities belongs to Rajasthan.

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1) The State of the Global Climate Report is an annual publication of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that presents the latest findings on the state of climate change around the world.

2) The report combines observations as well as modelling studies from a global network of weather and climate stations, ocean buoys and satellites to provide a comprehensive assessment of Earth's climate system.

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1) CARICOM is an intergovernmental organisation that is a political and economic alliance of 15 member states throughout the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean.

2) Its objective is to promote economic integration and cooperation among the members.

3) It has 20 member countries.

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1) The Logistics Performance Index is released by the International Monetary Fund.

2) India is ranked 38th out of 139 countries, up six places from the previous index.

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1) It is a gas pipeline project.

2) The Urja Ganga gas pipeline project was inaugurated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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The Indian Union Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways will inaugurate the National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts (NTCWPC) at which of the following institutes?

1. Kolkata

2. Gaya

3. Varanasi

4. Prayagraj

5. Ujjain

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1) According to the SIPRI report, total global military expenditure increased by 3.7 percent in real terms in 2022 to reach a new high of $ 2240 billion.

2) India’s military expenditure in 2022 was $81.4 billion, the fourth highest in the world.

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1) The Times Higher Education World University Rankings includes 1,799 universities from 104 countries and territories.

2) The Times Higher Education World University Rankings/THE Rankings are annually published by the UK-based Times Higher Education magazine.

3) Himachal Pradesh’s Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences (351-400 in total) has been ranked second among Indian institutions, which has been ranked for the first time.

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1) A total of 6,448 schools from 28 states and Union territories have been selected for upgradation under the Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PM-SHRI) scheme.

2 It is a centrally sponsored scheme announced in 2022

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