Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 31st August, 2022

Parivar Kalyan Card scheme is the Uttar Pradesh government’s Family ID plan. It was announced to establish a comprehensive database of the state’s family units and identify beneficiaries for its various schemes.

The Philippines has been hit by the tropical cyclone Ma-on that has damaged the main Luzon Island in the country.
The cyclone has killed at least three people and injured four others, as per the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Ma-on was the sixth tropical cyclone to hit this Southeast Asian country this year.

India’s first indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus was developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune. It was unveiled by Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology.
The hydrogen fuel cell uses hydrogen and air to generate electricity, producing only heat and water in the process. FCEVs (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles) are the most environment-friendly mode of public transportation.

The Indian Railways recently conducted a test run of the 3.5-km-long freight train named ‘Super Vasuki’.
This is the longest and heaviest freight train ever run by the Railways. It has wagons carrying over 27,000 tonnes of coal between Korba in Chhattisgarh and Rajnandgao in Nagpur.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated the Rajiv Gandhi Centre of Advance Technology (R-CAT).
R-CAT will conduct training programmes on advanced and emerging Information technologies for graduates. The centre will give industry standard certificates to successful candidates.