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1) The National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development (NCCCR&D) has been inaugurated at which of these institutions?
a) Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
b) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
c) Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru
d) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
e) Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2) Name the scheme introduced by ECGC to enhance loan availability and ease the lending process.
a) NIRVIK
b) NIRMUK
c) NIRTRA
d) CHETAN
e) None of these
3) Name the automated system launched by the government to provide advance information about steel imports to Government and stake holders.
a) Steel Import Management and Analysis Solution
b) Steel Import Management Solution
c) Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis System
d) Steel Import Monitoring System
e) None of these
4) Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region said that the Railway link service between the Agartala-Akhaura in Bangladesh will be completed by _________ for Development of Northeastern Region (DoNER).
a) 2020
b) 2021
c) 2022
d) 2023
e) 2025
5) GST Network has decided to make Aadhaar authentication or physical verification mandatory for new dealers from ________.
a) Jan 2020
b) Feb 2020
c) June 2020
d) Dec 2019
e) Nov 2019
6) ______________& BillDesk recently partnered to roll out interface for recurring payments.
a) RBI
b) Visa
c) Mastercard
d) SBI
e) None of these
7) Name the IPS Officer who has been chosen along with six others for the 2019 Asia Society Game Changers Award?
a) Netri Sharma
b) Usha Patwari
c) Chhaya Sharma
d) Mrudula Sinha
e) None of these
8) Name the bollywood actress who wins two awards at Indian International Film Festival of Boston?
a) Sanjana Gupta
b) Neena Gupta
c) Meenu Gupta
d) Masaba Gupta
e) Sanya Gupta
9) Who was conferred with the Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award 2019 in Dhaka?
a) Sheikh Hasina
b) KP Sharma Oli
c) Lotay Tshering
d) Jetsun Pema
e) Ranil Wickremesinghe
10) The 38th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) will be organized from 30th of October to 9th of November 2019. What is the theme of the fair for this year?
a) Open Books, Open Minds
b) Books and culture complement each other
c) Environment and Climate Change
d) Books for future World
e) None of these
11) Which city Tops In World’s Safest Cities List?
a) Singapore
b) Toronto
c) Tokyo
d) Osaka
e) Melbourne
12) The navies of the Republic of Singapore, India and _________ are taking part in the inaugural SITMEX exercise.
a) Thailand
b) Phillipines
c) Taiwan
d) Vietnam
e) None of these
13) Who wins Myanmar International Series men’s singles title?
a) Sourabh Verma
b) Sun Fei Xiang
c) Lakshya Sen
d) Kim Bruun
e) Kaushal Dharmamer
14) Sivaraman Cheriyanad who passed away recently was a renowned writer of which language?
a) Bengali
b) Kannada
c) Telugu
d) Malayalam
e) Marathi
15) Kodela Sivaprasada Rao has passed away. He is the former speaker of the Legislative Assembly of which state?
a) Telangana
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Karnataka
d) Kerala
e) Tamil Nadu
Answers :
1) Answer: C)
The National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)-Bengaluru has opened. The Central Government through Department of Science & Technology, has set up the the National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development as a national-level consortium on clean coal R&D, led by IISc.
Dr Vardhan also opened an Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) equipped with facilities for conducting a wide spectrum of energy research by knowledge network of elite researchers.
2) Answer: A)
Ministry of Commerce & Industry through Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) has introduced a new Export Credit Insurance Scheme (ECIS) called NIRVIK to enhance loan availability and ease the lending process.
The Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC) provides credit guarantee of up to 60 percent loss. Under the new ‘NIRVIK’ (Niryat Rin Vikas Yojna) scheme, the insurance cover guaranteed will cover up to 90 percent of the principal and interest. The insurance cover will include both pre and post-shipment credit.
The main aim behind introducing the scheme was to enhance accessibility and affordability of credit for exporters. The decision will help make Indian exports competitive and make ECGC procedures exporter friendly, benefiting MSME exporters with a new scheme for reimbursing taxes, reduced insurance cost and ease of doing business.
3) Answer: D)
The government launched a steel import monitoring system (SIMS) to provide advance information about steel imports to various stakeholders including producers and importers to have effective policy interventions.
Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Hardeep Singh Puri launched the system developed in consultation with Ministry of Steel on the pattern of US Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) system.
Importers of specified steel products will register in advance on the web portal of SIMS providing the necessary information. The registration will be online and automatic with no human intervention.
The information about the steel imports provided by importers on the SIMS will be monitored by the Steel Ministry.
SIMS will require importers to submit advance information in an online system for import of 284 steel tariff lines at 8-digit HS code in order to obtain an automatic registration number by paying a prescribed registration fee.
4) Answer: A)
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region said that the Railway link service between the Agartala-Akhaura in Bangladesh will be completed by 2020 for Development of Northeastern Region (DoNER).
The declaration was announced during the meeting by the Minister of DoNER Dr Jitendra Singh and senior officers of the Ministry which was held in Delhi.
The Bangladesh railway link project is funded by the Ministry of DoNER. The cost allocated for the project is Rs 972.52 crores. The project can link Agartala with Bangladesh Railway Network at Akhaura.
It will cut the traveling time period for passenger and goods movement from Kolkata to Agartala of 38 hours to 15 hours. Maitree categorical is already running between Kolkata and Dhaka which is now extended to Agartala.
Out of 15.19 Acre of land at Nischintpur Yard, 2.30 Acre has been handed over a month before Dec 2019 by Government of Tripura.
5) Answer: A)
GST Network has decided to make Aadhaar authentication or physical verification mandatory for new dealers from January 2020.The decision was taken in order to check malpractices in GST
Those who don’t want Aadhaar authentication, physical verification will be carried out, which will be completed in three days. The GSTN also decided the much simplified new return system may be launched on January 1, 2020. Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi is head of the group of ministers of GST Network
6) Answer: B)
Visa, a global leader in payments technology, and BillDesk, leader in the Indian payments business, have partnered to roll out of SI-Hub, a seamless and secure way to make recurring payments using cards with a one-time enrollment.
With this, the banks and merchants will be able to offer recurring payments/ standing instructions (SI) services (powered by BillDesk’s SI-Hub and Visa’s global recurring transaction framework for merchant-initiated transactions) to their cardholders to help manage payment across utilities, subscription services, and mutual fund SIPs, among others.
The RBI had recently released guidelines for e-mandate on cards for recurring transactions.
Visa is glad to partner with BillDesk to offer SI-Hub to its clients and enable cardholders to decide when, how much and the duration of their recurring payments through a simple dashboard interface.
The SI-Hub is a plug-n-play offering by BillDesk that banks can roll out to their customers with minimal integration effort.
7) Answer: C)
IPS officer Chhaya Sharma, who led the investigation into the brutal 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape, has been chosen along with six others for the 2019 Asia Society Game Changers Award for redefining the role of female police officers.
The awards were announced by the city-based leading cultural organisation Asia Society and will be presented at a special ceremony next month.
Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among people, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.
8) Answer: B)
Bollywood actor Neena Gupta registered a double victory at Indian International Film Festival of Boston. The Badhaai Ho actor won Best Actress award while her film The Last Color emerged victorious in Best Feature Film category.The directorial debut of world-renowned chef Vikas Khanna The Last Color deals with taboo surrounding widows in Vrindavan and Varanasi in India.
9) Answer: A)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina conferred the Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award 2019 in Dhaka
The award citation lauded Prime Minister Hasina for her vision of a peaceful and prosperous South Asia, free of tension, conflicts and terrorism.
The award has been instituted in the memory of former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The award is given every year to honour statesmen or leaders who have shown excellence in respective fields to achieve the best for their countries.
The Presidents of the Maldives, Ghana and Mauritius earlier received the prestigious award since its introduction in 2015.
10) Answer: A)
The 38th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) will be organized from 30th of October to 9th of November this year, where authors, publishers, intellectuals and artists worldwide will bring their experiences and expertise to this prominent event and partake in a vibrant cultural programme.
UNESCO has named Sharjah as the World Book Capital City for the year 2019 in recognition of the city’s continuous efforts in promoting books and literacy. SIBF will be organized under the theme ‘Open Books, Open Minds’.
11) Answer: C)
Mumbai and Delhi ranked 37 and 41 respectively on the parameter of non-public safety and 45 and 52 total on a world’s most secure cities record that ranked 60 international locations worldwide throughout 5 continents. Japanese capital Tokyo topped the record and it additionally included six cities of Asia-Pacific area within the high 10.
12) Answer: A)
The navies of the Republic of Singapore, India and Thailand are taking part in the inaugural Singapore-India-Thailand Maritime exercise (SITMEX)
The exercise comprises a shore phase held at Port Blair, and a sea phase in the Andaman Sea.
The host country is contributing guided missile destroyer INS Ranvir, missile corvette INS Kora, and OPV Sukanya in addition to maritime patrol aircraft.
The Republic of Singapore Navy is participating with the Formidable-class frigate RSS Tenacious while Thailand is represented by frigate HTMS Kraburi.
13) Answer: E)
Indian shuttler Kaushal Dharmamer beat Indonesia’s Karono Karono to win the Myanmar International Series men’s singles title. The 23-year-old from Mumbai, who had won the Hatzor International in October last year
14) Answer: D)
Writer Sivaraman Cheriyanad passed away. He was 78.He started his career as an upper primary school teacher. Sivaraman wrote several novels, stories, besides contributing to children’s literature.
He received the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award in 1988 and the A.P. Kalakkad Award in 2009. He bagged Kerala Sahithya Akademi scholarship in 1990-91 for his study on the works of writer Parappuram. He was a recipient of the National Teachers Award in 1989.
15) Answer: B)
Former speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Kodela Sivaprasada Rao has passed away. He was one of the senior most leaders of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Kodela was six time MLA from Narsaraopet constituency in Guntur district. In 2014, post-bifurcation of AP, he was made the first Speaker of the Assembly.
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