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Questions of the day:

Q.1 Which body has launched a rural e-mobility programme, which urges people to switch to electric vehicles?

Q.2 What is the name of the merged entity of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha channels? 

Q.3 What is the objective of ‘Kavach’ Technology announced for Indian Railways? 

Q.4 What is ‘Param Pravega’, which has been in the news recently? 

Q.5 What is the theme/slogan of the ‘World Cancer Day 2022’? 

Answers:

1) CSC e-Governance Service - CSC is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) under the Ministry of Electronics and IT. It manages over 3.5 lakh common service centres (CSCs) across the country. 

2) Sansad Channel - Indian Parliament has integrated its two TV channels for the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha to create a new entity named Sansad TV. 

3) Anti- Collision - network will be brought under ‘Kavach’ technology in 2022-23.

Kavach is an indigenously developed anti-collision device (ACD) network. It is SIL4 certified which means there is a probability of a single error in 10,000 years. 400 new Vande Bharat trains will be introduced, and 100 PM Gati Shakti cargo terminals will be built in the next three years.

4) Super Computer - Under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has installed and commissioned ‘Param Pravega’.

It is claimed to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the country. The system has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops. It is designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). 

5) Close the Care Gap - World Cancer Day is observed every year on February 4. The theme for World Cancer Day 2022 is ‘Close the Care Gap’.