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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off 100 farmer drones in different cities and towns of India to help farmers spray pesticides in their fields.
A) This scheme was announced in the Union Budget 2022.
B) Under the scheme, start-ups will be promoted to facilitate ‘Drone Shakti’ for Drone-as-a-Service (DRaaS).
C) This step will prove to be a milestone in the development of the drone sector and will also open the skies to unlimited possibilities.
2. The city of Mumbai will host the 2023 International Olympic Committee session.
A) The announcement confirms that India will host the prestigious IOC meeting for the first time since 1983.
B) It will help in building links between the Olympic Movement and the youth of the nation.
3. Japan introduced its first hydrogen-powered train.
A) The main objective of starting the hydrogen train is to make the country carbon neutral by 2050.
B) The train has been developed by East Japan Railway in collaboration with Hitachi and Toyota Motor Corporation.
C) In hydrogen-powered trains, Europe has been the leader.
D) The “Hybari” two-car train costs more than 4 billion yen and can travel up to 140 kilometres at a top speed of 100 kilometres per hour on a hydrogen-fuel one.
4. World Social Justice Day is celebrated every year on 20 February.
A) The day works towards promoting social justice, including efforts to tackle issues such as exclusion, poverty, unemployment, gender inequality, social security and human rights.
B) The United Nations General Assembly declared 20 February as the World Social Justice Day on 26 November 2007.
C) The theme of World Social Justice Day 2022 is ‘Achieving social justice through formal employment.
5. Indian Institute of Technology Madras Research Park in collaboration with the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) hosted the “Oceans 2022 Conference”.
A) The Ocean Conference is a bi-annual event of global marine researchers.
B) It was organized in India for the first time.
C) Inspiration-Innovation-Sustainable was the theme of this year’s “Ocean 2022” conference.
6. Under the ‘Waste Free City’ vision, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has sanctioned Rs 235 crore to Andhra Pradesh.
A) One of the primary objectives of the mission is to clean up 16 crore metric tonnes of old garbage dump sites, which are occupying about 15,000 acres of municipal land.
B) Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 on October 1, 2021, to achieve a “garbage-free city” by the year 2026.
7. The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) was used for the first time to map the distribution of atomic hydrogen gas from the host galaxy of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB).
A) National Center of Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune and U.S.A. of the University of California for this. Astronomers used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in 2008.
B) Rapid radio bursts are extremely bright radio pulsations lasting only a few milliseconds from distant galaxies that were first detected fifteen years ago.
C) The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is a sizable giant consisting of 27 antennas of 25 meters in diameter.
8. Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the “Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG) Plant” in Indore.
A) The Prime Minister said that in the coming two years, Gobar Dhan Bio CNG plants will be set up in 75 major municipalities.
B) This campaign will go a long way towards making Indian cities clean, pollution-free and clean energy.
9. National Tribal Research Institute, New Delhi and Indian Tribal Service Organization (BAJSS) signed an MoU to develop BAJSS as a resource centre for NTRI.
A) Conservation and digitization of rare books in BAJSS library and development of it as e-library and revival of Tribal Museum, digitization of artefacts and creation of interactive kiosks have been approved by the ministry
B) An amount of Rs 150 lakh has been approved for making an e-library.
10. A 69,000-year-old temple has been found at a remote Neolithic site found in Jordan.
A) The temple has anthropomorphic stripes on two carved standing stones.
B) The ritual complex was found in a Neolithic camp near large structures known as “desert kites” or collective nets.
