Current Affairs Quiz: February 16, 2022

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched the first colour souvenir coin on Panchtantra on the occasion of 17th foundation day of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL).

India will replace use of diesel in farming with renewables by 2024, union power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said. He said the country targets to make the agriculture sector diesel- free in the next two years.

Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has sanctioned 2.26 crore rupees for various activities pertaining to the festival of Medaram Jathara 2022. The Medaram Jathara is the second-largest fair of India, after the Kumbh Mela, celebrated by the second-largest Tribal Community of Telangana – the Koya tribe for four days. This year it is being celebrated from 16th till 19th Feb 2022.

The ministry of defence has signed up a design and development contract with NewSpace Research & Technologies, a Bengaluru-based company to develop a High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) which will be able to conduct surveillance operations and support communications by staying airborne for months at a stretch.

Government has banned 54 Chinese apps posing threat to national security. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued the list of banned apps. These include Beauty Camera: Sweet Selfie HD, Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera, Equalizer & Bass Booster, CamCard for SalesForce Ent, Isoland 2: Ashes of Time Lite, Viva Video Editor, Tencent Xriver, Onmyoji Chess, Onmyoji Arena, AppLock and Dual Space Lite to name a few.

The world-famous Jaisalmer Desert Festival is also known as Maru Mahotsav of the Golden City which began at Pokaran.

On the occasion of the One Ocean Summit taking place in Brest, France, UNESCO announced it has set itself the goal of including ocean education in the school curricula of its 193 Member States by 2025.

YES BANK announced the launch of an annual startup enabler program, YES BANK Agri Infinity, which seeks to co-develop digital financial solutions for the food and agriculture ecosystem by mentoring entrepreneurial ventures in the field.

In its biggest bank fraud case, the CBI has booked ABG Shipyard Ltd and its then Chairman and Managing Director Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal along with others for allegedly cheating a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India of over ₹22,842 crore.

Bill Gates is optimistic that “COVID-19 can be the last pandemic.” So much so that hes dedicated his next book to it. His new book will be “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.” and it will be published in May 2022.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been re-elected for a second term of five years by a special parliamentary assembly.

The Tata Group has appointed Ilker Ayci — former Turkish Airlines Chairman — as Air Indias Managing Director and CEO effective on or before April 1.

Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has released an amount of 1154.90 crore rupees to four states for providing grants to Urban Local Bodies. The States to which grants were released are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, and Sikkim.

Retail inflation jumped to 6.01 percent in January 2022 compared to 5.56 percent in December 2021. As per the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation data, rate based on the Consumer Price Index, CPI, Inflation in food and beverages rose to 5.58 percent compared to 4.5 percent in December.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Centres gross domestic product (GDP) deflator projection for 2022-23 is 3 to 3.5 per cent.