Daily Current Affairs Quiz 12 March 2023

c) Reserve Bank of India

Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the Central Bank will encourage local entrepreneurs to enable digital payments across 75 villages in the country. This Digital Village Program will be initiated with the help of merchants. It started during Digital Payments Awareness Week. Along with this, the ‘Har Payment Digital’ mission was also launched. Under this, Payment System Operators (PSOs) will select villages across the country and work to increase awareness of digital payments.

a) Doda

The Army hoisted the tallest ‘iconic national flag’ in the hilly Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir today i.e. March 09, 2023. The tallest tricolour was lifted by the GOC which is 100 feet high. During the ceremony, the GOC said that the flag is a tribute to the countless soldiers of the Chenab region who have made the supreme sacrifice protecting the unity and integrity of the nation. Doda is a district of the Jammu division.

d) UK

The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill, introduced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, aims to tackle the issue of illegal immigration by preventing thousands of migrants from crossing the English Channel on small boats.
The bill empowers the UK government to detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally, with few exceptions. It allows the British Parliament to set a quota on the number of immigrants allowed in the country.

d) Both 1 and 2

Project Greensand is a carbon storage project in Denmark’s North Sea.
· Project Greensand will be the world’s first cross-border carbon storage project. Hence, statement 1 is correct.

· The project aims to bury vast amounts of planet-heating carbon dioxide gas beneath the North Sea floor.
· It hopes that it can help the Nordic nation and others meet climate targets.

· It reverses the traffic in the pipes by pumping CO2 into the depleted reservoir of the Nini West oil field in Denmark. Hence, statement 2 is correct.

Denmark hopes to pump some climate gas beneath the sea floor.

b) India

Indian Navy’s major Operational level exercise TROPEX 2023 was recently conducted across the Indian Ocean Region culminated in the Arabian Sea.
The exercise recently culminated this week in the Arabian Sea. The overall exercise construct included Coastal Defence exercise Sea Vigil and the Amphibious Exercise AMPHEX. These exercises also witnessed significant participation from the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force, and the Coast Guard.