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1) When is the World Metrology Day observed?
a) May 18
b) May 19
c) May 20
d) May 21
e) May 22
2) When is The National Anti-Terrorism Day is observed?
a) May 21
b) May 20
c) May 19
d) May 18
e) May 17
3) Which among the following Gramin Bank among top banking performers in country?
a) Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank
b) Allahabad UP Gramin Bank
c) Telangana Grameena Bank
d) Tripura Gramin Bank
e) Vananchal Gramin Bank
4) World Bank had partnered with which business bank to enable blockchain-based secondary market bond recording?
a) African Development Bank
b) Asian Development Bank
c) European Investment Bank
d) Reserve Bank of Australia
e) Commonwealth Bank of Australia
5) NITI Aayog has proposed a plan worth _____________to create an institutional framework for artificial intelligence (AI).
a) Rs 2,500 crore
b) Rs 7,500 crore
c) Rs 5,500 crore
d) Rs 1,500 crore
e) Rs 6,500 crore
6) Which company has registered a new financial technology company, Libra Networks, in Geneva, Switzerland.
a) Microsoft
b) Facebook
c) Alphabet
d) Amazon
e) Instagram
7) FSSAI has relaxed certification norms for small organic food producers with annual turnover of Rs _____________ to sell their produce directly to end consumers without certification
a) Rs 12 lakh
b) Rs 10 lakh
c) Rs 15 lakh
d) Rs 8 lakh
e) Rs 13 lakh
8) Recently, which telecom company has partnered with Google to increase access to its WiFi footprint in the country?
a) BSNL
b) IDEA
c) AIRTEL
d) RELIANCE
e) None of these
9) Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been sworn in as the new President of which country?
a) Mozambique
b) Bolivia
c) Poland
d) Ukraine
e) Uganda
10) Joko Widodo elected as President of which country?
a) Israel
b) Indonesia
c) Khazikistan
d) Phillippines
e) Malaysia
11) Who among the following has received the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award?
a) Paul Ryan
b) Nancy Pelosi
c) Joe Biden
d) Robert Mueller
e) None of these
12) Name the Late Malawian soldier who will be honoured with the UN’s highest peacekeeping award by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the UN headquarters in New York.
a) Chancy Chitete
b) Prafull Chitete
c) Nirdosh Chitete
d) Vidrecy Chitete
e) None of these
13) Which country tops in the recently the KidsRight Index?
a) Poland
b) Portugal
c) Iceland
d) Austria
e) Greece
14) Who among the following has won the men’s single title at the 2019 Italian Open?
a) Rafael Nadal
b) Novak Djokovic
c) Juan Sebastián Cabal
d) Dominic Thiem
e) Rodger Federer
15) Niki Lauda who passed away recently was one of the well known ____________ of the world
a) Journalist
b) Comedian
c) Singer
d) Painter
e) Formula One driver
16) Which of the following units of measurement have been redefined?
a) Kg, Kelvin
b) Mole
c) Ampere
d) Candela
e) Only (a), (b) & (c)
17) Which of these is true about the newly introduced AirBadminton and Triples games of BWF?
I. They will be an outdoor game
II. They shall be men’s tournament only
III. The new format of games will have unique shuttlecock called Airshuttle
a) Only I & III
b) Only II & III
c) Only I & III
d) Only I & II
e) All I, II & III
18) IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company Ltd. has appointed _______ as its chief executive officer
a) M. Vikram Reddy
b) Alluri Ananta Venkata Ranga Raju
c) Kazim Raza Khan
d) Mr. Sathiraju
e) None of these
19) According to the Reserve Bank of India‘s weekly statistical supplement, the overall forex reserves rose to $________ billion from $418.687 billion
a) $430.055
b) $422.055
c) $420.055
d) $425.055
e) $433.055
Answers:
1) Answer: C)
May 20 is World Metrology Day, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. The theme for World Metrology Day 2019 is The International System of Units – Fundamentally better. This treaty provides the basis for a coherent measurement system worldwide that underpins scientific discovery and innovation, industrial manufacturing and international trade, as well as the improvement of the quality of life and the protection of the global environment.
2) Answer: A)
National Anti-Terrorism Day is observed every year on 21 May to spread awareness about the violence caused by the terrorists and also in the memory of former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi who passed on this day.
3) Answer: D)
Posting net profit for seven consecutive years, the Tripura Gramin Bank (TGB) is among India’s top three out of 46 regional rural banks (RRBs) in terms of profit, business and growth. TGB Chairman is Mahendra Mohan Goswami. After some of them merger with commercial banks, currently India has 46 RRBs against the earlier 56. The Central government has a 50 percent stake in TGB, the United Bank of India (UBI) has 35 per cent, while the 15 per cent is held by the Tripura government. Like other nationalised banks, the TGB has been providing all modern facilities to the customers, including computerised, online financial transactions and mobile banking, besides ATM (Automated Teller Machine) services.
4) Answer: E)
World Bank had partnered with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) to enable blockchain-based secondary market bond recording. The secondary trading project was performed on the Blockchain Operated New Debt Instrument (bond-i), a platform based on the Ethereum blockchain. It was reportedly developed by CommBank’s Blockchain Centre of Excellence at the CommBank’s Innovation Lab in Sydney as part of the global banking institutions mission to explore and build on the potential of distributed ledgers. Just last year, the World Bank issued the bond-i, claiming that it was created, allocated, and managed with the use of blockchain technology.
5) Answer: B)
Niti Aayog has circulated a cabinet note to provide Rs 7,500 crore for the establishment of AIRAWAT, a cloud computing platform along with research institutes. This is part of the policy think tank’s proposal to create an institutional framework for artificial intelligence (AI) in the country. The expenditure Finance Committee is expected to take up the note soon. According to the proposal, the funding would be used to set up five institutes or centres of research excellence (CORE), 20 international centres for transformational AI (ICTAI), along with AIRAWAT, a cloud computing platform that can be accessed by anyone. It is estimated that AI will add $957 billion to India’s GDP by 2035, boosting India’s annual growth by 1.3 percentage points.
6) Answer: B)
Facebook has registered a new financial technology company, Libra Networks, in Geneva, Switzerland. The new subsidiary, with Facebook Global Holdings as the stakeholder, aims to provide financial and technology solutions and develop related hardware and software. It focus on “investing, payments, financing, identity management, analytics, big data, blockchain, and other technologies.” Facebook was working on “Facebook Coin.” – a stablecoin pegged to a basket of different foreign currencies. The cryptocurrency project even reached the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
7) Answer: A)
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has decided to relax certification norms for small original producers or producer organisations with an annual turnover of up to Rs. 12 lakh till April 1, 2020. According to the regulations, all organic food sold in the country needs to be certified either under National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) or Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India). However, these small organic producers and aggregators will not be allowed to use ‘Jaivik Bharat logo’ on their products. The Jaivik Bharat logo is an identity mark to distinguish organic products from non-organic ones.
8) Answer: A)
BSNL has partnered with Google to increase access to its WiFi footprint in the country. With the launch of this service, people across the country will be able to enjoy BSNL’s free WiFi services. This initiative will allow customers use BSNL’s high speed internet services on WiFi. There are 38,000 BSNL Wi-Fi hotspot locations operational in India. One can access these by buying Wi-Fi vouchers that are priced starting at Rs 19. Google has previously completed the rollout of RailWAccording to an Analysys Mason study, public Wi-Fi will connect 40 million new users to the internet by 2019
9) Answer: D)
Ukraine has sworn in comedian Volodymyr Zelensky as the country’s sixth president. Immediately after the swearing in of oath, 41 year old Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced the dissolution of the parliament of the country which is known as Verkhovna Rada.
10) Answer: B)
Indonesia’s Joko Widodo has been re-elected as president of the country. Widodo – widely known as Jokowi – and his vice-presidential running mate, Ma’ruf Amin, won the April 17 election by a 55.5 percent to 44.5 percent margin over Prabowo and Sandiaga Uno
11) Answer: B)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is being honored with the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Pelosi is being recognized for her efforts to pass former President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care law and for helping Democrats reclaim control of the U.S. House during last year’s elections. The award is being presented to Pelosi at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
12) Answer: A)
The United Nations announced that it will honour the “brave and selfless” action of a late UN peacekeeper from Mali, who sacrificed his life while saving his fellow comrade during an operation against a local armed group last year. Late Malawian soldier Chancy Chitete will be honoured with the UN’s highest peacekeeping award by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the UN headquarters in New York. The award, officially named the “Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage,” which was established in 2014 for uniformed and civilian personnel who meet the criteria, is named after the late UN peacekeeper Captain Diagne, who saved hundreds of lives in Rwanda in 1994, before being killed
13) Answer: C)
India stands in a lowly 117th position out of 181 countries in the KidsRight Index, the annual global index which ranks how countries adhere to and are equipped to improve child rights. Countries are judged on five indicators: right to life, right to education, right to health, right to protection and enabling environment for child rights. India has scored 0.57 and ranks 85.93. Iceland secured the top position in the index with a score of 0.967, followed by Portugal with a score of 94.8.
14) Answer: A)
The 76th edition of Italian Open which is also known as “Rome Masters” or “the Internazionali BNL d’Italia”held at Foro Italico in Rome, Italy from May 13 to 19, 2019. Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic to win a ninth Italian Open title and a record 34th Masters.
15) Answer: E)
The former Formula One driver and three-time world champion Niki Lauda has passed away He hailed from Austria. Lauda won the F1 drivers’ championship in 1975 and 1977 with Ferrari and again in 1984 with McLaren He competed in 171 races and won 25.
16) Answer: E)
- After decades of ground-breaking laboratory works, the world’s scientific and technical community, in a landmark and historic decision taken in the recent open session of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) at BIPM, has unanimously adopted the resolution to redefine four of the seven base units, the kilogram (SI unit of weight), Kelvin (SI unit of temperature), mole (SI unit of amount of substance), and ampere (SI unit of current).
- This decision has now enabled scientists and researchers to base the SI units entirely on fundamental properties of nature, which will ensure their ongoing refinement and improvement for years to come. The fundamental constants are invariants of time and space and successfully replaced the artifact based units, and aptly opened up the new era for quantum world by linking all seven base units to fundamental constants/quantum standards.
- The new SI is being implemented worldwide from 20th May 2019 i.e. the World Metrology Day. The World Metrology Day (WMD) is celebrated annually on this very day as the Metre Convention was signed by representatives of seventeen nations on May 20, 1875. The Convention set the framework for global collaboration in the science of measurement and in its industrial, commercial and societal applications
- The new SI is being implemented worldwide from 20th May 2019 i.e. the World Metrology Day. The World Metrology Day (WMD) is celebrated annually on this very day as the Metre Convention was signed by representatives of seventeen nations on May 20, 1875. The Convention set the framework for global collaboration in the science of measurement and in its industrial, commercial and societal applications.
- On this occasion CSIR-NPL also published a book entitled, “Redefined SI Units and Glimpses of NPL Metrological Activities” of almost 100 pages to percolate and disseminate the information accommodating details on new changes
17) Answer: A)
The world body governing Badminton, BFA, has launched two new formats of the game –AirBadminton and Triples with new dimensions of the court and an innovative shuttlecock called Airshuttle. Traditional competitive badminton has been an indoor game. The new formats launched globally at Guangzhou last week, AirBadmintion will be outdoor sports. In Triples format, the match will be played between a team of three players each with presence of at least one female
18) Answer: C)
IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company Ltd. has appointed Kazim Raza Khan as its chief executive officer. Mr. Khan was appointed as the manager and key managerial personnel of the company on December 24, 2018. Khan has an overall professional experience of over three decades in the technical field focused on infrastructure. He will continue to be key managerial personnel of the company.
19) Answer: C)
According to the Reserve Bank of India‘s weekly statistical supplement, the overall forex reserves rose to $420.055 billion from $418.687 billion.India‘s forex reserves comprise of Foreign Currency Assets (FCAs), gold reserves, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and India‘s reserve position with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Foreign Currency Assets (FCAs), the largest component of the forex reserves, edged higher by $1.358 billion to $392.227 billion. Besides the US dollar, FCAs consist of 20-30 per cent of the other major global currencies.
