Insurance India

HDFC Life insurers has launched the ‘Insure India’ campaign that is aimed at educating Indians on the benefits of life insurance as a product category. Over the last three years, HDFC Life along with its vast network of distribution partners has established life insurance awareness month as an exclusive property to spread awareness about the category.

Which insurance company has launched the ‘Insurance India’ campaign?

World Space Week

The World Space Week 2022 theme is “Space and Sustainability” focusing on achieving sustainability in space and achieving sustainability from space. The theme is inspired by how sustainability in space relates to how humanity uses space, most pressingly, the orbital area surrounding Earth.

 What is the theme of United Nations World Space Week 2022?

India to Invest $30 billion for 4G, 5G Connectivity to Every Village.

Every year Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) is observed in the month of October, from 01 to 31. The annual international health campaign aims to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure. The pink ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness.

 Every year Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) is observed in the month of ____.

German-American Day 

German-American Day is observed every year on October 6 to celebrate the German-American heritage. The day also commemorates the founding of Germantown, Pennsylvania, which was established in 1683. The day is observed annually in the United States to celebrate the history of friendship with Germany as the United States’ German descendants contributed a lot to its culture and history.

On which day German-American Day is observed?

Scientists Win Physics Nobel Prize For Proving Einstein Wrong

Alain Aspect from Université Paris-Saclay in France, John Clauser from J.F. Clauser & Associates in the US, and Anton Zeilinger from University of Vienna in Austria, will share the prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (US$915,000) “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

The world of quantum mechanics appears very odd indeed. In school, we are taught that we can use equations in physics to predict exactly how things will behave in the future – where a ball will go if we roll it down a hill, for example.

Quantum mechanics is different from this. Rather than predicting individual outcomes, it tells us the probability of finding subatomic particles in particular places. A particle can actually be in several places at the same time, before “picking” one location at random when we measure it.

Even the great Albert Einstein himself was unsettled by this – to the point where he was convinced that it was wrong. Rather than outcomes being random, he thought there must be some “hidden variables” – forces or laws that we can’t see – which predictably influence the results of our measurements.

‘herSTART’, a startup platform for women entrepreneurs

President Droupadi Murmu launched ‘herSTART’, a startup platform for women entrepreneurs created by Gujarat University in Ahmedabad.
The platform dedicated to women entrepreneurs, will boost innovation and startup efforts of women entrepreneurs and connect women entrepreneurs with various government and private enterprises.

President Droupadi Murmu launched ‘herSTART’, a startup platform for women entrepreneurs in which city?

Angela Merkel to receive UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award 

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was named as the recipient of Nansen Award given by UN High Commissioner for Refugees
The former scientist, who led her country for 16 years, was awarded for offering haven to over 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers fleeing violence during Syrian conflict, when other countries were turning their backs on them.

Who is the recipient of 2022 Nansen Award given by UN High Commissioner for Refugees?

‘Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)’ 

The Standing Committee on Labour, Textiles and Skill Development chaired by Bhartruhari Mahtab submitted its report on ‘Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)’.
It is implemented by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. As per the report, Under PMKVY 3.0, in 2021-22, only 72 % was utilised.  Under PMKVY 3.0, out of about four lakh candidates, only 8% have been placed.  During PMKVY 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, about 20% of the total enrolled candidates dropped out of the training programme.

Which Union Ministry implements the ‘Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) ‘?

Gap between male and female infant mortality rates evened out in 2020

According to Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2020, Chhattisgarh had the highest gap in 2020, with a male infant mortality rate of 35 compared to female infant mortality rate of 41.
The male and female infant mortality rate (IMR) equalised in 2020 in India. Infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. In rural India, female IMR remained marginally higher than male IMR though the gap had reduced. In urban India, the female IMR fell below that of males by 2020.

As per recent government data, which state has the highest gap in infant mortality rate between boys and girls in 2020?

The honorary prize for physics goes to Anton Zöllinger

Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics of 2022. He is a professor of Physics emeritus at the University of Vienna and a senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Alain Aspect, and John F. Clauser were the other two winners of the Nobel Prize 2022 in Physics with Anton Zeilinger.

 Anton Zeilinger, one of the winners of the Nobel Prize 2022 in Physics, is from which country?