ALL EXAM QUIZ 12.04.2024

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• According to a report released by World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) ,India reported the highest number of doping cases in the world in 2022.
• In sports, doping refers to the use of banned performance enhancing drugs by the athletes to gain an unfair advantage over its competitors.
• According to the report published in The Hindustan Times newspaper, 3,865 samples, including urine, blood, and dried blood spot (DBS) of Indian athletes, were tested from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022.
• 125 of the samples returned Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs), which means that banned performance-enhancing drugs were found in these samples.

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• Renowned author Sam Pitroda has written a new book titled ‘The Idea of Democracy’, which explores the current state of democracy in countries and its potential challenges.
• Renowned author Sam Pitroda has written a new book titled ‘The Idea of Democracy’, which explores the current state of democracy and its potential challenges in countries like India and the United States.
• Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal and other eminent personalities from the literary world attended the book release programme.

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• Indian-origin neurologist Dr. Ashwini Keshavan has been made a part of Britain's world-class research team.
• This team has been entrusted with the task of conducting research towards detecting dementia through blood tests and collecting more evidence in this direction.
• The results of this research team can be used more widely in the coming five years.
• Due to dementia, memory becomes weak in the people affected by it.
• Dr. Ashwini Keshavan is part of a team focusing on p-tau217, a promising biomarker for Alzheimer's disease. At the same time, another team of researchers from Oxford and Cambridge universities will test various proteins to detect diseases that cause dementia.
• Both teams will aim to make the treatment affordable and recruit participants from across the UK.

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• Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi has taken oath as judicial member of Lokpal.
• Justice AM Khanwilkar, Chairman of the Lokpal of India, administered the oath of office and secrecy.Central Vigilance Commissioner Praveen Kumar Srivastava and other senior officers of CBI and Enforcement Directorate were also present at the swearing-in ceremony.
• Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi served as the Chairperson of the 22nd Law Commission of India before joining as Judicial Member of the Lokpal of India. Earlier, he was the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court.
• Pankaj Kumar is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre. Before joining as a member of the Lokpal of India, he was the Chief Secretary of Gujarat.

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• Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) will organize the Clean Energy Investor Forum in Singapore. IPEF was launched in May 2022 and currently consists of 14 partners.
• IPEF Clean Energy Investor Forum is an initiative under IPEF. India is also included in IPEF.
• IPEF Forum has sought applications from technology companies and startups to showcase Indian investment sustainable infrastructure projects on EV, solar energy.

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• Sangeet Natak Akademi will organize 'Shakti - Festival of Music and Dance' from April 9 to 17 in seven different Shaktipeeths of the country.
• 'Shakti Utsav' is starting from Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati. Sangeet Natak Akademi is the National Academy of Performing Arts and an autonomous institution of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
• SNA, under the Kala Pravah series, is organizing an event named 'A Festival of Shakti Music and Dance' to revive the temple traditions in the country. This celebration is being held during the holy Navratri in April 2024.
• Since Navratri symbolizes the power of nine goddesses.

This festival will be organized in seven different Shaktipeeths of the country. These mainly include:

1. Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati (Assam)
2. Mahalakshmi Temple of Kolhapur (Maharashtra)
3. Jwalamukhi Temple of Kangada (Himachal Pradesh)
4. Tripura Sundari Temple of Udaipur (Tripura)
5. Ambaji Temple of Banaskantha (Gujarat)
6. Jai Durga Shaktipeeth of Deoghar (Jharkhand)
7. Shaktipeeth Maa Harsiddhi Temple of Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)

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• Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) launched India's first privately built sub-meter resolution surveillance satellite TSAT-1A.
• TASL in collaboration with Satellogic launched it on April 7 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida with the help of Spacex's Falcon 9 rocket.
• A total of 11 satellites were launched by the SpaceX rocket. American billionaire Elon Musk owns the Space X company.
• The satellite weighs 50 kg and has been placed in a low earth orbit. The TSAT-1A satellite is a sub-meter resolution earth observation satellite. According to the company the satellite has 0.5-0.8-metre resolution, which can be enhanced to 0.5-0.6-metre super-resolution using the software.

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• Sittwe Port in Myanmar will now be operated by India.
• After Chabahar Port of Iran, this is the second foreign port which will be operated by India.
• A proposal of India Ports Global (IPGL) has been approved to take over the operations of this port located on the Kaladan River.
• Sittwe port of Myanmar became the second international port after the Shahid Beheshti Port, Chabahar of Iran to come under the control of India Ports Global Limited.
• However, unlike the Chabahar port, where India controls only two terminals, India has full control over the Sittwe Port.

Explanation:

• Indian Navy has announced to organize half marathon race in Delhi on 06 October 24. The main objective of the event is to strengthen the Navy's relationship with the civil society and spread awareness about the vital role of the Navy in defence.
• The Navy also organizes such events every year in Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Kochi.

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A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4