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Dear Readers, Daily Current Affairs Questions Quiz for SBI, IBPS, RBI, RRB, SSC Exam 2022 of 26th August 2022. Daily GK quiz online for bank & competitive exam. Here we have given the Daily Current Affairs Quiz based on the previous days Daily Current Affairs updates. Candidates preparing for IBPS, SBI, RBI, RRB, SSC Exam 2022 & other competitive exams can make use of these Current Affairs Quiz.
1) Which Union Minister has launched ‘Azadi Quest’, a series of online educational mobile games developed in collaboration with Zynga India?
(a) Narayan Tatu Rane
(b) Bhupender Yadav
(c) Pralhad Joshi
(d) Anurag Singh Thakur
(e) Ashwini Vaishnaw
2) Where did PM Modi inaugurate Amrita Hospital which is considered to be the largest in Asia?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Haryana
(c) Gujarat
(d) Madhya Pradesh
(e) Andhra Pradesh
3) ___________ and Indian Navy successfully flight tested Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile in Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
(a) VSSC
(b) ISRO
(c) DRDO
(d) HAL
(e) Bharat Dynamics
4) Which Country has recently appointed Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga as the Prime Minister?
(a) Nigeria
(b) Mali
(c) Burkina Faso
(d) Senegal
(e) Chad
5) Which Public sector bank has launched an Overdraft facility and pre-qualified credit card with a host of features, including insurance coverage?
(a) Indian Bank
(b) Bank of Baroda
(c) State Bank of India
(d) Punjab National bank
(e) Canara Bank
6) Vikram Doraiswami has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to which country?
(a) Australia
(b) the United Kingdom
(c) Germany
(d) Japan
(e) India
7) Which Insurance Company has entered with Repco Home Finance Ltd to offer insurance against home loans?
(a) HDFC ERGO
(b) IFFCO Tokio
(c) Tata AIG
(d) Universal Sompo General
(e) Acko
8) Which state has accounted for the highest share in the total cost of projects sanctioned by banks and financial institutions in 2021-22?
(a) Punjab
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Madhya Pradesh
(e) Andhra Pradesh
9) Which General Insurance has signed an MOU with Union Health Ministry to help create digital health IDs for all in the country
(a) Bharti AXA General
(b) Tata AIG
(c) HDFC Ergo Health
(d) Edelweiss General Insurance
(e) ICICI Lombard
10) Which of the following has released the discussion paper on charges in Payment Systems?
(a) RBI
(b) SEBI
(c) NPCI
(d) IRDAI
(e) NABARD
11) When was Women’s Equality Day is celebrated every year?
(a) August 23
(b) August 26
(c) August 24
(d) August 22
(e) August 25
12) Where did the Union Home Minister Amit Shah Presided over the Central Zonal Council meeting?
(a) Bhopal
(b) Raipur
(c) Ranchi
(d) Dehradun
(e) Noida
13) Which Country President has been selected for the 2022 Liberty Medal?
(a) Israel
(b) Ukraine
(c) Lithuania
(d) Turkey
(e) Iran
14) Recently Four people have been selected for the 2022 Pulitzer prize under the category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, Who is not one of them?
(a) Walt Hickey
(b) Fahmida Azim
(c) Anthony Del Col
(d) Josh Adams
(e) Paul David
15) Which state has launched the ‘Make India No 1’ mission at the Talkatora stadium covering five targets?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Odisha
(c) Delhi
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e) Maharashtra
16) Which State has decided to set up 300 rural industrial parks to create a source of additional income for rural poor families?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Odisha
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Jharkhand
(e) Uttar Pradesh
17) Reserve Bank of India turned net seller of the US currency in June after it sold _________ billion on a net basis.
(a) USD 3.719
(b) USD 5.179
(c) USD 7.179
(d) USD 4.179
(e) USD 6.179
Answers :
1) Answer: D
Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur launched ‘Azadi Quest’, a series of online educational mobile games developed in collaboration with Zynga India. The gaming sector has grown by 28% in 2021 alone. The number of online gamers has risen by eight percent from 2020 to 2021 and by 2023 the number of such gamers is expected to reach 45 crores.
These games are an effort to tap into the huge market of online gamers and to educate them through games. Various arms of the Government of India have collected information about unsung freedom fighters from the corners of the country.
2) Answer: B
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Amrita Hospital in Haryana’s Faridabad. Equipped with cutting-edge technology, including a centralized fully-automated laboratory, the hospital is being seen as a major boost to healthcare infrastructure in the National Capital Region.
This hospital is a blend of modernity and spirituality and will become a medium of accessible and affordable treatment for needy patients. It is incomparable in every aspect, be it the building and modern technology or the spirit of compassion and care.
3) Answer: C
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy successfully flight tested Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
The flight test was carried out from an Indian Naval Ship against a high-speed unmanned aerial target for demonstration of vertical launch capability. The missiles, equipped with indigenous Radio Frequency (RF) seekers, intercepted the target with high accuracy. The VL-SRSAM system has been indigenously designed and developed by DRDO.
4) Answer: B
Mali has appointed Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga as interim Prime Minister after the country’s civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga was admitted to hospital. Before this appointment, Colonel Maiga was working as a Government Spokesman and Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation.
In recent months, Maiga had come under criticism from many of his former allies for following the Junta’s line. Military Junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita had himself appointed transitional president after the May 2021 coup.
5) Answer: D
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has introduced a new facility of overdraft against fixed deposit and pre-qualified credit card with a host of features, including insurance coverage.
Customers can avail of the loan without visiting a bank branch, it said, adding there is a concession of 0.25 percent on the interest rate when applied through digital platforms like PNB One. his facility will be available for salary account customers and they shall be able to apply through the mobile banking app PNB One, website, or Internet Banking Service.
6) Answer: B
Mr. Vikram Doraiswami has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom. Mr. Doraiswami is presently the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh.
Mr. Doraiswami is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1992 batch. Earlier, the ministry had announced the appointment of Mr. Pranay Kumar Verma, an IFS officer of the 1994 batch as India’s next High Commissioner to Bangladesh. He is currently serving as India’s Ambassador to Vietnam.
7) Answer: D
Universal Sompo General Insurance said it has partnered with Chennai-based Repco Home Finance Ltd to offer insurance against home loans.
This partnership will, additionally, disburse affordable insurance solutions from Universal Sompo General Insurance like Group Credit Protection, Long-Term Fire, and Personal Accident policies to Repco’s customers. Also, the partnership would see over 155 branches and 24 satellite centers of Repco Home Finance in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Puducherry offer customized general insurance products to its customers.
8) Answer: C
Rajasthan accounted for the highest share in the total cost of projects sanctioned by banks and financial institutions in 2021-22, retaining the top place for two consecutive years, as per an article published in the RBI bulletin.
Rajasthan was followed by Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. The article uses data on investment intentions by the private corporate sector based on the phasing plans (ex-ante) of their project proposals to arrive at the aggregate investment intentions and assess the outlook for investment activity in the near term.
9) Answer: D
Edelweiss General Insurance has partnered with the Union Health Ministry to help create digital health IDs for all in the country. Ayushman Bharat Health Account is a 14-digit number that helps users to share and access their health records digitally with registered healthcare providers.
The program would empower people to access medical diagnosis, treatment, and financing from verified healthcare providers and payors, from across the country.
10) Answer: A
The Reserve Bank sought views from the public on fees in payment systems, to make such transactions affordable as well as economically remunerative for the entities involved.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sought public views on 40 specific questions about charges and levies in the payment system. The focus of RBI’s initiatives in the payment systems has been to ease frictions that may arise from systemic, procedural, or revenue-related issues.
11) Answer: B
Women’s Equality Day is celebrated every year on August 26 in the United States to honor the women of America for gaining the constitutional right to vote. The day was chosen to be honored as Women’s Equality Day after a resolution put out by New York congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1973.
The day honors the ‘Nineteenth Amendment’ made to the US constitution in 1920 to give equal voting rights to women. This year’s theme for Women’s Equality Day is “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.”
12) Answer: A
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a Central Zonal Council meeting in Bhopal where issues like connectivity, power, sharing of river water, and other matters of common interests will be discussed.
It is an important meeting in which the welfare of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, farmers’ welfare, crime against women and children, internal security and prevention of terrorism, and Naxalism will be discussed at length, which will benefit all four states. The Central Zonal Council comprises Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.
13) Answer: B
The 2022 Liberty Medal will be awarded this fall to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The National Constitution Center announced that Zelenskyy will be honored in a ceremony in October for what it called “his heroic defense of liberty in the face of Russian tyranny.”
Zelenskyy, who has served as the nation’s president since May 2019, has also been the recipient of awards such as the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award and the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award as well as honors from the governments of the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia.
14) Answer: E
Bangladesh-born Fahmida Azim working for the Insider online magazine in the United States has been selected for the 2022 Pulitzer prize under the category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. She is among the four journalists including Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Walt Hickey of Insider being published from New York, selected for their work on the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs.
The citation for the award said that they have been selected for the prize for using graphic reportage and the comic medium to tell a powerful yet intimate story of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, making the issue accessible to a wider public.
15) Answer: C
AAP Leader and Delhi CM Shri Arvind Kejriwal unveiled Aam Aadmi Party’s ‘Make India No 1’ mission at the Talkatora stadium, New Delhi. The nationwide mission has been rooted in 5 targets by the AAP Convenor, namely — Free and quality education for all; Free and quality healthcare for all; Equality & safety for women; Jobs for all youth; & Fair price for all farmers.
Making a pitch towards all Deshbhakts, the AAP Convenor sought the support of BJP & Congress workers alike for the mission and envisioned an India free of hatred and enmity. CM Shri Arvind Kejriwal called for an alliance of 130 crore Indians at the event and termed the national mission to be larger than the scope of partisan politics.
16) Answer: C
For strengthening the rural economy and making the “gauthan” (cattle shed) a center of livelihood, the Chhattisgarh government will set up 300 rural industrial parks in the state. The first such park in Chhattisgarh came up in Kulgaon, Kanker district, which has been named Gandhi Gram. The district administration, along with women’s self-help groups, has developed the park.
The forest department has started a residential training center, based on the value addition of minor forest produce. Chhattisgarh has set up 8,404 gauthans of the 10,624 sanctioned. The state government is procuring cow dung at Rs 2 a kg for making vermicompost. Production will increase once the 300 parks take shape.
17) Answer: A
Reserve Bank of India turned net seller of the US currency in June after it sold USD 3.719 billion on a net basis. The central bank purchased USD 18.96 billion from the spot market and sold USD 22.679 billion, according to the RBI monthly bulletin for August 2022.
During fiscal 2022, the central bank had net purchased USD 17.312 billion. It had bought USD 113.991 billion and sold USD 96.679 billion in the spot market in FY22.
