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1) Who has been allocated the Union Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs in the 17th Lok Sabha?
a) Piyush Goyal
b) Raj Nath Singh
c) Nirmala Sitharaman
d) Ravi Shankar Prasad
e) Dharmendra Pradhan
2) Who among the following has been appointed as new HRD Minister of India?
a) Smriti Irani
b) Dharmendra Pradhan
c) S. Jaishankar
d) Arvind Ganpat Sawant
e) Ramesh Pokhriyal
3) Which of these portfolio has been allotted to Thaawar Chand Gehlot?
a) Ministry of Women & Child Development and Textiles
b) Ministry of Human Resource Development
c) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
d) Ministry of External Affairs
e) Minister of Health and Family Welfare
4) The Cabinet has approved extension of Prime Minister Kisan Sammaan yojana to all farmers. Earlier the benefit of this scheme was applicable to farmers having how many hectacre land?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Five
e) Ten
5) What will be the rate of scholarship per month provided to girls students in revised ‘Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme’ under the National Defence Fund (NDF)?
a) Rs 2000
b) Rs 3000
c) Rs 2500
d) Rs 2200
e) Rs 2750
6) Under the Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme, the wards of martyred State Police officials will receive an annual scholarship of Rs ____________
a) Rs 1000
b) Rs 500
c) Rs 1500
d) Rs 2000
e) Rs 750
7) The issuance under the Sovereign Gold Bonds Scheme 2019-20 will begin from __________
a) September 2019
b) June 2019
c) July 2019
d) August 2019
e) October 2019
8) Who has been sworn in as the new Chairman of Chiefs of Staffs Committee (COSC)?
a) Birender Singh Dhanoa
b) Sam Manekshaw
c) Shirish Baban Deo
d) Bipin Rawat
e) None of these
9) Who is appointed as the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)?
a) Nirupama Rao
b) Anita Bhatia
c) Meera Shankar
d) Suchitra Durai
e) None of these
10) Who was appointed as Goa’s brand ambassador to promote the ancient system of physical and mental practices?
a) Namrata Menon
b) Namrata Kanal
c) Namrata Prasad
d) Namrata Kiran
e) Namrata Sharma
11) Which state is going to host 10th National Science Film Festival of India in 2020?
a) Tripura
b) Meghalaya
c) Mizoram
d) Manipur
e) West Bengal
12) Which IIT signs MoU with ISRO to set up first-of-its-kind space technology centre in the Northeast?
a) IIT Delhi
b) IIT Kharkpur
c) IIT Roorke
d) IIT Kanpur
e) IIT Guwahati
13) Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has partnered with which bank to provide financing solutions across the country?
a) ICICI Bank
b) IDFC First Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) Yes Bank
e) RBL Bank
Answers:
1) Answer: c)
Nirmala Sitharaman is the first Indian female to be appointed as full-time Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs.
2) Answer: e)
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has been appointed new HRD minister of India.
Smriti Irani -Women and Child Development & Textiles Minister,
Jaishankar-External Affairs Minister,
Arvind Ganpat Sawant -Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise,
Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum Minister.
3) Answer: c)
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowermenthas been allotted to Thaawar Chand Gehlot.
4) Answer: b)
- The Cabinet has approved extension of Prime Minister Kisan Sammaan yojana to all farmers. Earlier the benefit of this scheme was applicable to farmers having two hectacre land.
- Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said,nearly 14 crore 50 lakh farmers will benefit from the scheme.
- Under the PM-Kisan scheme six thousand rupees per year is being given in three installments to the farmers.
- The beneficiaries should be in the age group of 18 to 40 years. Under this scheme, the farmers will get a minimum fixed pension of 3 thousand rupees on attaining the age of 60.
- All small shopkeepers, self-employed persons and retail traders with GST turnover of 1.5 crore rupees in the age group of 18 to 40 years will be eligible to enroll for the scheme through the designated centres across the country.
5) Answer: b)
- PM Modi announced major changes to the Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme under the National Defence Fund.
- Major changes approved in PM’s Scholarship Scheme under the National Defence Fund including enhanced scholarships for wards of police personnel martyred in terror or Maoist attacks.
- The government has also changed the in rates of scholarship. The rates are now Rs 2,500 per month for boys and Rs 3,000 for girls. It was Rs 2,000 for boys and Rs 2,250 for girls earlier.
- The Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme, which is under the NDF, is implemented to encourage technical and post-graduate education of widows and wards of armed forces personnel. Around 5,500 wards are awarded the PMSS every year.
6) Answer: b)
- PM Modi announced major changes to the Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme under the National Defence Fund.
- Major changes approved in PM’s Scholarship Scheme under the National Defence Fund including enhanced scholarships for wards of police personnel martyred in terror or Maoist attacks.
- Ambit of the Scholarship Scheme is extended to the wards of State Police officials who are/were martyred during terror/naxal attacks. Rate of scholarship for wards of state police officials will be 500 in a year.
7) Answer: b)
- The Government of India, in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, has decided to issue Sovereign Gold Bonds for 2019-20 starting from June 2019 to September 2019.
- The Bonds will be sold every month between July and September only through:
Scheduled Commercial banks (except Small Finance Banks and Payment Banks),
Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL),
Designated post offices, and
Recognised stock exchanges viz., National Stock Exchange of India Limited and Bombay Stock Exchange Limited.
8) Answer: a)
- Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa received the baton of Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee from outgoing Chairman COSC and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba.
- Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa will be the Chairman COSC with effect from May 31, 2019 consequent to relinquishment of charge by Admiral Sunil Lanba upon superannuation.
9) Answer: b)
- Indian-origin Anita Bhatia has been the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for Resource Management, Sustainability and Partnerships.
- She was appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the global body’s agency focussed on women empowerment and gender equality.
- Veteran Indian diplomat and a gender equality champion Lakshmi Puri had previously served as the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
10) Answer: a)
- Yoga instructor and fitness expert Namrata Menon was appointed Goa’s brand ambassador to promote the ancient system of physical and mental practices in the coastal state.
- Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said Namrata Menon, who has been doing extraordinary work in the field of yoga, has been selected to promote it across the state.
11) Answer: a)
- In an effort to raise awareness about science and environment through films, the 10th National Science Film Festival of India (NSFFI) will be organised in Tripura on January and February 2020.
- The film festival is being held with the objective of highlighting science, technology, innovation, energy, environment, agriculture and traditional knowledge in a simple way that would bring science closer to common people through simple ways of explanation.
- The film festival would include films produced by UNICEF, UNESCO and filmmakers from different countries. It will also include entries from Tripura and other states.
- Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb will make an appeal to filmmakers and producers to participate in this film-making initiative in July this year.
12) Answer: e)
- IIT Guwahati has signed an MoU with The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to set up an IITG-ISRO Space Technology Cell (STC) at the institute where Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated a new academic complex and research and development building.
- IITG-ISRO STC would be first of its kind in the North-east region to augment research and capacity building processes in the field of space technology.
13) Answer: b)
- Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has partnered with IDFC FIRST Bank to provide financing solutions across the country.
- The two partners have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which facilities like loans up to 100 per cent of vehicle cost, zero processing fee, down payment of ₹999, and extended loan tenure of 48 months, among others will be offered to the two-wheeler maker’s customers.