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1) When is the World Breastfeeding Week held?
a) August 1-7
b) July 25-31
c) August 10-17
d) July 30-August 5
e) July 28 – August 3
2) Who is the head of the task force on employment set up by Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)?
a) Bibek Debroy
b) Rajiv Kumar
c) Amitabh Kant
d) V. K. Saraswat
e) None of these
3) Who is the head of the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Mob lynchings?
a) Ravi Shankar Prasad
b) Amit Shah
c) Nitin Gadkari
d) S. Jaishankar
e) None of these
4) Governmentt launched One Nation-One Ration Card scheme on a pilot basis in 4 states. Which among the following is NOT one of them?
a) Telangana
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Madhya Pradesh
e) Gujarat
5) The ‘Save Green, Stay Clean’ campaign has been launched by which state to preserve the greenery of the state?
a) West Bengal
b) Mizoram
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
e) Meghalaya
6) Recently, which city got its first ‘Pink Toilet’ dedicated to women with facilities for sanitary napkins and baby care.
a) Mumbai
b) Bengaluru
c) New Delhi
d) Chennai
e) Noida
7) SBI, Shanghai became the first Indian bank to link up with China’s CNAPS system. What does A stands for in CNAPS?
a) Actual
b) Attribution
c) Assest
d) Advance
e) Artificial
8) Bharti Airtel is going to shut down its 3G network across India’s 22 telecom circles by _____.
a) March 2020
b) April 2020
c) May 2020
d) June 2020
e) July 2020
9) Journalist and News Anchor Ravish Kumar was recently awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award. Ramon Magsaysay was a former president of ______________________.
a) Thailand
b) Vietnam
c) Singapore
d) Malaysia
e) Philippines
10) Name the India-born doctor who was crowned Miss England 2019 at a ceremony in Newcastle.
a) Bhasha Mukherjee
b) Nivetha Mukherjee
c) Himaja Mukherjee
d) Poonarnavi Mukherjee
e) None of these
11) Based on the Water Stress Index 2019, India is the ___________ highest risk country globally in water crises
a) 50th
b) 46th
c) 32nd
d) 68th
e) 72nd
12) According to the data by the World Bank, India has emerged as ____________ largest economy in the global GDP rankings in 2018.
a) 6th
b) 7th
c) 5th
d) 8th
e) 4th
13) Wahab Riaz is reportedly set to retire from Test cricket. He represents which country?
a) Afghanistan
b) Pakistan
c) India
d) Bangladesh
e) South Africa
14) Malcolm Nash who passes away is associated with which sports?
a) High Jump
b) Badminton
c) Cricket
d) Archery
e) Golf
Answers :
1) Answer: A)
- World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world.The theme of the World Breastfeeding Week 2019 is “Empower Parents, Enable Breastfeeding”.
- It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government policymakers, WHO, UNICEF and other organizations to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.
2) Answer: A)
- The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has set up a task force on employment.
- The task force is headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy.
- The task force will suggest ways to revive growth and employment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The EAC-PM is an independent body to give advice on economic and related issues to the Government of India.
3) Answer: B)
- Union home minister Amit Shah will head a panel of ministers to combat mob lynchings in the country.
- He has replaced Rajiv Gauba as the head.
- An empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted last year to suggest measures to combat lynchings will continue functioning.
- The other members of the GoM are external affairs minister S. Jaishankar, transport minister Nitin Gadkari, law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and social justice and empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot.
4) Answer: D)
- In a major boost to national food security government, launched the One Nation-One Ration Card scheme on a pilot basis in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
- Families who have food security cards can buy subsidized rice and wheat from any ration shop in these states. Their ration cards should be linked with Aadhar Number to avail this service.
- The white Ration Card holders in Telangana have been getting the portability facility, enabling them to buy their subsidized rice and other food grains from any Fair Price Shop in the state.
- The same facility can be utilized anywhere in Andhra Pradesh now through PoS machines under the One Nation One Ration Card scheme which has come into force in the two states.
- More than 56 lakh beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act in the state will be benefited from the facility. The same will be the case with consumers in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat which are identified for implementation of the pilot project.
5) Answer: A)
- The West Bengal Government has launched an awareness campaign for preserving the greenery and keeping the environment clean.
- The State Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched the campaign named as ‘Save Green, Stay Clean’ in Kolkata.
- The State Government will distribute more than 1 lakhs saplings throughout the state for spreading of greenery.
6) Answer: E)
- Noida got its first ‘Pink Toilet’ dedicated to women with facilities for sanitary napkins and baby care.
- The toilet, located in the Sector 50 market, was inaugurated by the Noida Authority.
- At least 10 more such toilets are expected to come up within the next two months.
7) Answer: D)
- The State Bank of India’s Shanghai branch is now connected to China’s National Advance Payment System (CNAPS), becoming the first Indian Bank to operationalise.
- CNAPS is a real-time settlement services for all payments cleared in mainland China, as well as in all clearing banks in offshore yuan centers, such as Hong Kong.
- The CNAPS system is complemented by its international counterpart, the CIPS (China International Payments System or Cross-Border Inter-Bank Payment System), launched in 2015 with the aim of boosting international use of the Chinese currency, yuan.
- SBI is the only Indian Bank to have obtained the license to do business in local currency and also inducted to the CNAPS.
8) Answer: A)
- Bharti Airtel will shut down its 3G network across India’s 22 telecom circles by March 2020, and increase its focus on providing 4G services, a top company official said.
- The company started the process last month, when it wound down the 3G network in the Kolkata circle. It, however, continues to provide 2G services for feature phone users.
9) Answer: E)
- Indian journalist Ravish Kumar was awarded this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
- Kumar, 44, who is NDTV India’s senior executive editor is one of India’s most influential TV journalists.
- Overall 5 people have been selected for the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award. The other four are: Ko Swe Win from Myanmar, Angkhana Neelapaijit from Thailand, Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab from Philippines and Kim Jong-Ki from South Korea.
- The award is the highest award given to Asian individuals and organizations and is named after former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.
10) Answer: A)
- India-born doctor Bhasha Mukherjee was crowned Miss England 2019 at a ceremony in Newcastle.
- The 23-year-old moved to England with her parents at the age of nine and settled in Derby.
- Mukherjee holds two different medical degrees, one in medical sciences and the other in medicine and surgery.
11) Answer: B)
- India has been ranked as the 46th highest risk country in the world in the Water Stress Index 2019, formulated by London-based risk analytics firm Verisk Maplecroft.
- As per the index, 11 of 20 largest Indian cities face an ‘extreme risk’ of water stress while 7 of them are in the ‘high risk’ category.
- The Water Stress Index has taken into consideration the projected population growth trends to rank the cities facing the biggest threat to their water resources.
- It measures the water consumption rates of households, industries and farm sectors and the available resources in rivers, lakes and streams.
12) Answer: B)
- India has slipped one notch in the World Bank’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rankings in 2018, and is now the seventh-largest economy with the United Kingdom and France ahead of India, data from the international lending institution
- India is the seventh-largest economy (GDP of $2.72 trillion) with the UK ($2.82 trillion) and France ($2.77 trillion) ahead in the pecking order
- The top economies in the list include the US ($20.5 trillion), followed by China ($13.6 trillion), Japan ($4.9 trillion) and Germany ($3.9 trillion)
13) Answer: B)
- Pakistan’s 34-year-old pacer Wahab Riaz is reportedly set to retire from Test cricket.
- Riaz, who last played in the Test format against Australia in October 2018, has played 27 Test matches and picked 83 wickets.
- Former Pakistani cricketers like Wasim Akram, Ramiz Raja and Shoaib Akhtar had earlier criticised Mohammad Amir for announcing his retirement at the age of 27.
14) Answer: C)
- Former England county cricketer and coach Malcolm Nash, who is famous for being hit for six sixes in one over by West Indies batsman Garry Sobers, has died at the age of 74.
- The former cricketer played for Glamorgan and took the maximum number of wickets in 1969. Nash was known for his medium-pace seam bowling.
