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1) World Population Day is celebrated on _______ day anually.
a) 11 July
b) 10 July
c) 12 July
d) 09 July
e) Second Sunday of July
2) The phase-II of the Direct Benefit Transfer of Fertilizer Subsidy (DBT 2.0) was launched by the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers.Who is the Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers?
a) Ananth Kumar
b) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
c) Ramvilas Paswan
d) Nirmala Sitharaman
e) Amit Shah
3) Government has planned to raise around Rs 10,000 crore from CPSE Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) launched on July 18, 2019. It will be which tranche of the CPSE ETF?
a) 4th
b) 5th
c) 6th
d) 7th
e) 8th
4) With which government body, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) inked a dealto fund large greenfield road projects?
a) RBI
b) State Bank of India
c) NIIF
d) NABARD
e) None of these
5) India’s first cow sanctuary in _____ to be privatised.
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Arunachal Pradesh
e) Himachal Pradesh
6) India’s first elephant rehabilitation centre opened in which state?
a) Kerala
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Karnataka
e) Telangana
7) Deposits in Jan Dhan accounts cross Rs _____
a) 1 lakh crore
b) 7 lakh crore
c) 5 lakh crore
d) 10 lakh crore
e) 20 lakh crore
8) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) will raise long-term funds of ________ crore rupees through nonconvertible debentures in the current financial year.
a) 60,000
b) 65,000
c) 62,500
d) 72,500
e) 63,500
9) Which is the first train of Indian Railways that will be handed over to private players for operation?
a) Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express
b) New Delhi – Chandigarh Tejas Express
c) Chennai Egmore – Madurai Tejas Express
d) Mumbai CSMT – Karmali Tejas Express
e) None of these
10) Who has been appointed as DGCA chief?
a) Arun Kumar
b) Suresh Ranjan
c) Rakesh Sethi
d) Vinay Bhandari
e) Brinda Thakkar
11) Who is the author of the book “War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930-1960”?
a) Devika Sethi
b) Laxman Rao
c) Manish Dubey
d) Mohanlal Bhaskar
e) None of these
12) Connaught Place 9th most expensive office location. Where does it located?
a) Mumbai
b) Delhi
c) Kolkata
d) Ahemadabad
e) Hyderabad
13) Which Indian player won 100m gold at World University Games?
a) Lolo Jones
b) Dutee Chand
c) Dafne Schippers
d) Chantae Mcmillan
e) Emma Coburn
14) Toran Yadav is an Indian para athlete who won 3 silver medals at 4th World Wealth Yoga Festival and Championship. He belongs to which state?
a) Maharashtra
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Assam
d) Chhattisgarh
e) Karnataka
Answers :
1) Answer: A)
- World Population Day is celebrated on 11 July annually to make people aware about the growing population issues and urgency of family planning.
- The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.
- The main aim behind having a World Population Day is to focus attention on consequence of population issues and how it affects overall development plans and programs.
2) Answer: A)
- The Centre launched three new technology initiatives to transfer over Rs 70,000-crore fertiliser subsidy directly to farmers’ bank accounts.
- These initiatives are — a dashboard with details of fertiliser supply, availability and requirement at national, state and district level; advanced version of point of sale (PoS) software and a desktop PoS version.
- These are part of the government’s effort to transfer the fertiliser subsidy directly to farmers’ bank accounts in the second phase of direct benefit transfer (DBT).
- In October 2017, the first phase of fertiliser DBT was rolled out, under which subsidy is being transferred to companies after checking retail sales data captured through the PoS machines.
- The government has developed the ‘PoS software version 3.0’ has a multi-lingual facility with a provision for Aadhar virtual identification option during use for registration, login and sale activity in the DBT software.
- Whereas the ‘DBT dashboard’ provides accurate information about the position of supply, availability and requirement of various fertiliser at national, state and district level. Even general public can access this and get the details.
- The Centre bears over Rs 70,000 crore annually as fertiliser subsidy to give cheaper farm nutrient to farmers.
3) Answer: C)
- The government is planning to raise up to Rs 10,000 crore from the sixth tranche of CPSE ETF which would be launched on July 18.
- The CPSE Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) tracks shares of 11 Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) — ONGC, NTPC, Coal India, IOC, Rural Electrification Corp, Power Finance Corp, Bharat Electronics, Oil India, NBCC India, NLC India and SJVN.
- The follow-on fund offer (FFO) 5 will have a base issue size of Rs 8,000 crore with an option to retain over subscription of another Rs 2,000 crore.
- Through the earlier five tranches of the CPSE ETF, the government has already raised Rs 38,500 crore — Rs 3,000 crore from the first tranche in March 2014, Rs 6,000 crore in January 2017, Rs 2,500 crore from the third in March 2017, Rs 17,000 crore in November 2018 and Rs 10,000 crore in March 2019.
- The government aims to raise a record Rs 1.05 trillion through disinvestment in 2019-20, up from Rs 85,000 crore raised last fiscal.
4) Answer: C)
- National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) inked a deal with quasi-sovereign wealth fund National Investment Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to fund large greenfield road projects, which will be executed by the highway authority in the future.
- The MoU with NIIF will provide innovative financial models including for the 24,000 km ₹7.5 lakh crore Bharatmala Pariyojana.
- The road sector can contribute in a big way in achieving Prime Minister’s vision to make India a $5-trillion economy in the next five years.
5) Answer: B)
- India’s first cow sanctuary, set up by the previous BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government in September 2017, will be privatised by the Congress-led government.
- Kamdhenu Gau Abhyaranya in Agar Malwa, 190 km north west of Bhopal, was developed by the MP Gau Samvardhan Board by spending about Rs 32 crore.
- Around 4,000 cows are living in the sanctuary which is spread across 472 hectares.
- The decision of privatisation is being taken due to financial crises. Soon, the department will issue a notification to invite interested organisations
6) Answer: A)
- The Kerala government is working to set up the country’s first elephant rehabilitation centre in Kottoor, an ecotourism village near the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. The first phase of the Rs 105 crore-project was launched last month by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
- The centre, expected to have an elephant museum, mahout training centre, super-specialty hospital, a retirement home and crematorium for the animals, will house orphaned, injured and older elephants. It is being planned on the lines of the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka.
- While the centre has only 15 elephants so far, officials expect the numbers will go up once work on the infrastructure is complete.
- The centre has set up with 65 hectares of natural forests area will have elephant safari and other activities to attract tourists.
7) Answer: A)
- Deposits in bank accounts opened under Jan Dhan scheme, launched about five years ago by the Modi-government, have crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore mark. As per the latest finance ministry data, the total balance in over 36.06 crore Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts was at Rs 1,00,495.94 crore as on July 3.
- The deposits in the account of the beneficiaries, which has been steadily rising, was Rs 99,649.84 crore on June 6 and Rs 99,232.71 crore in the week before.
- The PMJDY was launched on August 28, 2014, with an aim to provide universal access to banking facilities to the people in the country.
- Accounts opened under PMJDY are Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) accounts with additional feature of RuPay debit card and overdraft.
- The number of zero balance accounts under PMJDY declined from 5.10 crore (16.22 per cent of the total accounts) in March 2018 to 5.07 crore (14.37 per cent of the total accounts) in March 2019.
- There is no requirement of maintaining minimum balance in BSBD accounts.
- Enthused by the success of the scheme, the government enhanced the accident insurance cover to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 1 lakh for new accounts opened after August 28, 2018.
- The overdraft limit has also been doubled to Rs 10,000.
- The government also shifted the focus on accounts from ‘every household’ to ‘every unbanked adult’.
- The objective of PMJDY is to ensure access to various financial services like availability of basic savings bank account, access to need based credit, remittances facility, insurance and pension to weaker sections and low income groups.
8) Answer: A)
- National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) will raise long-term funds of Rs 60,000 crore through nonconvertible debentures in the current financial year.
- Its own requirements have been assessed at Rs 30,000 crore and the balance would be for the Centre to cover the shortfall in various schemes in rural development and sanitation in FY20.
- NABARD has already raised Rs 11,000 crore in the first quarter ended June 30, 2019.
9) Answer: A)
- The Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express is set to be the first train to be operated by private players .
- The train that is being considered for Indian Railways experimental initiative is the Lucknow-Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express.
- The move is part of Indian Railways plan to test private sector participation in the running of trains. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal-led Indian Railways has drawn up a 100-day roadmap for the national transporter, and the proposal to get private passenger train operators to provide world-class passenger services is part of that.
- The aim is to offer IRCTC two trains for operation on haulage concept, with onboard and ticketing services to be provided by the catering and e-ticketing arm. IRCTC will pay annual lease charges to Indian Railway The on-board services would be handed over to private players after an open bidding process. The routes, within 500-kilometres distance, will be identified on the basis of low congestion and tourist spots they can connect.
10) Answer: A)
- Arun Kumar, additional secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, will now be holding the full-time charge of the head of aviation regulator DGCA.
- Before Kumar, B S Bhullar was holding the full-time charge of DGCA chief.
11) Answer: A)
- The book named “War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930-1960” has been authored by Devika Sethi and published by Cambridge University Press.
- Sethi teaches modern Indian history at IIT-Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.
- This book recovers, narrates, and interrogates the history of censorship of publications in India over three crucial decades – encompassing the Gandhian anti-colonial movement, the Second World War, Partition, and the early years of Independent India.
12) Answer: B)
- New Delhi’s Connaught Place (CP) is the ninth most expensive office location in the world with an annual rent of nearly $144 per sq ft.
- CP, located in the heart of the national capital, was at the ninth position even last year.
- For the second year, Hong Kong’s Central district retained the top spot as the world’s most expensive market for prime office rents, with the prime occupancy costs valued at $322 per sq.ft.
- Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex and Nariman Point CBD slipped to 27th and 40th positions, respectively.
13) Answer: B)
- Dutee Chand is the first Indian woman track and field athlete to win a 100m gold in a global event.
- National record holder Dutee Chand became the first Indian woman track and field athlete to clinch a gold medal in the World Universiade after she won the 100m dash event in Napoli.
- The Universiade is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). It is held once in every two years. This year it is being held in Naples, Italy.
- Headquarters of International University Sports Federation (FISU)- Lausanne, Switzerland
14) Answer: D)
- Meet Toran Yadav, a para-athlete from Khatti village of Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh. He represented India at 4th World Wealth Yoga Festival and Championship in Europe.
- Yadav won three silver medals in the championship. Indeed, Toran Yadav is an inspiration to all the youth.
