Daily Current Affairs Today MCQ : 11 February 2023 Quiz

Indian Olympian Aditi Ashok won the 2023 Magical Kenya Ladies Open Title with a final-round score of 74.

This is the fourth Ladies’ European championship of Aditi Ashok overall.

Her first LET title comes after winning the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open in Abu Dhabi in 2017.

The golf player, Aditi Ashok, played one of the most dominant matches of her career.

She was competing in her first event in over two months, took a three-shot lead in the first round, increased it to five after two rounds, and increased it to six after the third.

At the end of every round, Aditi kept adding the points on the table that showed a clear lead at the end of the final round.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit 2023 in Lucknow.

The 10-12 February event is expected to be attended by several ministers of the Union and the state government and a host of leading industrialists.

More than 300 renowned industrialists are expected to participate.

The event is important for the state which initially set a target to attract investment proposals of Rs 10 lakh crore at the UPGIS-2023, and later revised it to Rs 17.3 lakh crore.

Along with partner countries including Singapore, Denmark, Japan, UAE, Australia and the UK, space has been allocated to different government departments and private companies to put up exhibitions there.

Drugmaker Pfizer Limited has announced the appointment of Meenakshi Nevatia as an Additional Director and Managing Director for five years.

She comes in the place of S Sridhar, who announced his early retirement in August 2022.

Sridhar, the current India country President, will step down as Managing Director and board member from March 31, 2023.

The Board of Directors of Pfizer Limited, at their meeting held on 9 th February 2023, considered the recommendation of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee, and approved the appointment of Meenakshi as the Managing Director with effect from 3rd April 2023.

The commencement of a public campaign to strengthen cyber security in these four countries has been announced by The Quad, a plurilateral structure made up of India, Australia, Japan and the US.

These resources include fundamental cybersecurity knowledge and training.

The Quad partners are striving to guarantee that everyone has access to the information required to make wise decisions when using the internet and mobile devices.

This effort is being coordinated in India by the National Security Council Secretariat and the office of National Cyber Security Coordinator.

Oxford-based Tokamak Energy created a new generation of high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets and are being manufactured and tested in situations that are pertinent to fusion power plants.

Strong magnetic fields are needed to contain and manage the extremely hot, positively-charged hydrogen fuel, which creates a plasma several times hotter than the sun, in order to produce clean, sustainable fusion energy.

Nearly a million times stronger than the magnetic field of the Earth, Demo4’s magnetic field will have a strength of over 18 Tesla.

It will need to be tested at minus 253 C, which is merely 20 degrees above absolute zero.

Large electrical currents are carried through arrays of electromagnet coils that will surround the plasma in future power plants to produce powerful magnetic fields.

India’s national accreditation system under the Quality Council of India (QCI) has been ranked 5th in the world in the recent Global Quality Infrastructure Index (GQII) 2021.

The GQII ranks the 184 economies in the world on the basis of the quality infrastructure (QI).

India’s overall QI system ranking continues to be in the Top 10 at the 10th position, with the standardization system (under BIS) at 9th and the metrology system (under NPL-CSIR) at 21st position in the world.

According to the report, the top 25 countries in the world are mainly located in Asia-Pacific, North America, and Europe.

Some of these include India, Australia, Turkey and Brazil.

Quality Council of India (QCI) was set up in 1997 by Government of India.

It was set-up jointly with Indian Industry as an autonomous body under the administrative control of the Department to establish and operate the National Accreditation Structure for conformity assessment bodies.

Ravichandran Ashwin has picked up his 450th Test wicket during the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur.

He achieved the feat when he bowled Alex Carey in the 54th over.

He also became the fastest Indian to scale the landmark, going past former leg-spinner Anil Kumble.

Ashwin took 89 Tests to reach the milestone as compared to Kumble’s 93.

Overall, he is the second-fastest to reach the milestone.

Former Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is only ahead of him, having reached the landmark in 80 matches.

Top 05 bowlers with the most test wickets -

Muttiah Muralitharan - Sri Lanka - 133

Shane Warne - Australia - 145

James Anderson - England - 177

Anil Kumble - India - 132

Stuart Broad - England - 159

’State of Disaster’ over electricity crisis declared in South Africa.

Since 2008, the nation has struggled with electricity shortages that have reached historic heights, resulting in rolling blackouts every day of this year.

Since he assumed office in February 2018, Ramaphosa has promised to overhaul the monopoly state power provider Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.

The central bank of the country has reduced its estimate of economic growth for 2023 from 1.1% to 0.3% last month and expects blackouts to subtract two percentage points from output growth.

Recently, the Ministry for Electronics & Information Technology launched the "Digital Payments Utsav".

It is a comprehensive campaign promoting digital payments across India along with the launch of several significant initiatives.

The campaign will showcase India’s journey of digital transformation, with a series of events and initiatives to be held from 9th February to 9th October 2023.

28 DigiDhan Awards were presented to top-performing banks, bankers, and fintech companies in different categories for their performance in the digital payments space.

Other Digital Initiatives -

Digital India Bhashini: Digital India BHASHINI is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform.

Digital India GENESIS: Digital India GENESIS’ (Gen-next Support for Innovative Startups) is a national deep-tech startup platform.

My Scheme: It is a service discovery platform facilitating access to Government Schemes.

Meri Pehchaan: It is National Single Sign On (NSSO) for One Citizen Login.

Digital Locker (DigiLocker): It enables paperless governance by providing digital space for users for their document verification and storage.

Ministry of Steel seeks to reduce carbon emissions in steel industry through promotion of Green Steel.

Green Steel is the manufacturing of steel without the use of fossil fuels.

This can be done by using low-carbon energy sources such as hydrogen, coal gasification or electricity instead of the traditional carbon-intensive manufacturing route of coal-fired plants.

It eventually lowers greenhouse gas emissions, cuts cost and improves the quality of steel.

Low-carbon hydrogen (blue hydrogen and green hydrogen) can help reduce the steel industry’s carbon footprint.

Status of Steel Production in India -

Production: India is currently the world’s 2nd largest producer of crude steel, producing 120 Million Tonnes (MT) crude steel during financial year 2021- 2022.

Reserves: More than 80% of the country’s reserves are in the states of Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and the northern regions of Andhra Pradesh.

Consumption: India is the 2nd largest consumer of finished steel in 2021 (106.23 MT), preceded by China as the largest steel consumer as per World Steel Association.