Daily Current Affairs Quiz 28 June 2022

a)Uttar Pradesh

A rare carnivorous plant named ‘Uticularia Furcellata’ has been discovered in the Mandal valley of Chamoli district by the research wing of the Uttarakhand Forest department. This is first sighting of the plant in Uttarakhand as well as the entire western Himalayan region, according to Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Chief Conservator of Forest (Research).

c) Odisha

Odisha’s Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) authority introduced the Mo Bus Service in November 2018 to promote smart technologies and safe transportation for women riders
It was recently recognised by the UN’s Public Service Awards for 2022.

c) Canada

Over 30,000 years old mummified body of a baby woolly mammoth with skin and hair has been discovered in the far north of Canada. It is believed to be a female and may have died during the Ice Age. It is a nearly-perfectly preserved mummified baby woolly mammoth with skin and hair. The rare and extraordinary discovery was made by a miner in Klondike gold fields.

a) Ministry of Education

The Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education today released the Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-19 and 2019-20which assesses the performance of school education system at the District level by creating an index for comprehensive analysis. The PGI-D structure comprises of total weight age of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under 6 categories viz., Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction, Infrastructure Facilities & Student’s Entitlements, School Safety & Child Protection, Digital Learning and Governance Process.

d) Tungabhadra River

The Varada River in central Karnataka is a tributary of Tungabhadra River. The state government of Karnataka is currently facing criticism from environmentalists for the proposed Bedti-Varada river linking project. The Bedti-Varada river-linking project seeks to pump about 524 million cubic metres (mcm) of water from Sirsi in Uttara Kannada to arid regions of Raichur and Koppal districts. It has met with strong opposition from local activists, who say that project will destroy 2,125 acres of forests in the ecologically sensitive parts of Western Ghats.