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Dear Readers, Daily Current Affairs Questions Quiz for SBI, IBPS, RBI, RRB, SSC Exam 2022 of 29th June 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) V Krishnamurthy has passed away recently, he is the Former Chairman of?
(a) GAIL
(b) BHEL
(c) SAIL
(d) NTPC
(e) ONGC
2) Which organization has Inked an MOU with Defense Initiatives (DI), Belarus for the production of ADS for Indian Air Force’s helicopters?
(a) Bharat Dynamics
(b) HAL
(c) DRDO
(d) BEL
(e) BHEL
3) According to CRISIL India’s data center capacity is expected to double to 1,700 to _______megawatt (MW) in FY2025.
(a) 1900
(b) 2100
(c) 1800
(d) 2200
(e) 2000
4) Where did NASA has launched a rocket outside the United States for exploring Alpha Centauri A and B constellations?
(a) Australia
(b) the United Kingdom
(c) Germany
(d) Japan
(e) India
5) Mohammed Jaloud former general secretary has been appointed as the new President of?
(a) International Boxing Association
(b) World Archery Federation
(c) International Table Tennis Federation
(d) International Weightlifting Federation
(e) International Gymnastics Federation
6) Nitin Gupta IRS Officer has been recently appointed as the Chairman of?
(a) PFRDA
(b) CBDT
(c) AMFI
(d) NSDL
(e) CBIC
7) Tata Power Solar Systems has recently launched the floating solar power project in which state?
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Karnataka
(d) Telangana
(e) Kerala
8) Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, a scheme for migrant workers in COVID-19 has been completed for two years, what is the amount assured in the scheme?
(a) 15,000
(b) 25,000
(c) 35,000
(d) 75,000
(e) 50,000
9) Recently the Government has issued fresh surrogacy rules, health insurance cover for surrogate mothers has been for how many months?
(a) 24
(b) 12
(c) 60
(d) 36
(e) 48
10) Which bank has a plan to start operations support subsidiary for bringing down the cost-to-income ratio?
(a) Yes Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) ICCI Bank
(d) Axis Bank
(e) State Bank of India
11) Which Finance Company has made an agreement with World ine for developing point-of-sale (POS) payments networks?
(a) Bajaj Finance Limited
(b) Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Service
(c) Mahindra Finance
(d) HDB Financial Services
(e) Tata Capital
12) SEBI has imposed a penalty totaling Rs 30 lakh on Reliance Industries and two persons regarding the stock exchange information to Private firms, Who is the Chairman of SEBI?
(a) Ravi Mittal
(b) Ram Sewak Sharma
(c) Madhabi Puri Buch
(d) Debasish Panda
(e) Sivasubramanian Ramann
13) IRDAI has reduced the solvency margin requirement to unlock how many crores for undertaking more business?
(a) 1500
(b) 1700
(c) 1300
(d) 1600
(e) 1400
14) According to the report of NASSCOM India’s GDP can increase ____________ by 2025?
(a) $400
(b) $600
(c) $300
(d) $700
(e) $500
15) India’s life expectancy at birth has increased up to _________ in the 2015-2019 period according to the data provided by the sample registration system?
(a) 68.7
(b) 71.7
(c) 70.7
(d) 69.7
(e) 72.7
16) RBI has Introduced an Award scheme for writing books on which language on various Subjects?
(a) Dogri
(b) Marathi
(c) Hindi
(d) Telugu
(e) Sanskrit
17) Sekar Dhanalakshmi has won 200m gold at the Qosanov Memorial Athletics 2022 athletics meet in?
(a) Uzbekistan
(b) Turkmenistan
(c) Kazakhstan
(d) Tajikistan
(e) Kyrgyzstan
18) Chowalloor Krishnankutty, a Poet who has passed away recently, belongs to which state?
(a) Telangana
(b) Tamilnadu
(c) Kerala
(d) Karnataka
(e) Andhra Pradesh
Answers :
1) Answer: C
Former chairman of government-owned steel company SAIL, V Krishnamurthy passes away at the age of 97 in Chennai. Krishnamurthy was chairman of SAIL from 1985 to 1990.
His leadership quality and successful contribution to turning around BHEL, Maruti Udyog, SAIL, and GAIL into the most profit-making industry not just in the country but also globally – earned him the title of “Father of PSUs in India”.
2) Answer: D
(BEL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Defense Initiatives (DI), Belarus, and Defense Initiatives Aero Pvt Ltd, India (a subsidiary of DI Belarus) to build cooperation amongst the three companies for the supply of Airborne Defense Suite (ADS) for Indian Air Force’s helicopters.
ADS is used for protecting helicopters. BEL will be the prime contractor and will be supported by DI with manufacturing and maintenance for the supply of advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) suites for helicopters under the ‘Make in India’ category.
3) Answer: C
India’s data center capacity is expected to double to 1,700 to 1,800 megawatt (MW) in FY2025, up from 870 MW in last FY, said CRISIL Ratings, a rating and research company, in its latest report.
The rating agency also pointed out that India’s data protection laws that require companies to store sensitive data on Indian servers will further boost demand for data storage. The anticipated rollout of 5G services by the end of FY 2023 will also play a key role. During the 2022 union budget, the data center industry in India was granted infrastructure status by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
4) Answer: A
NASA has successfully launched a rocket from Australia’s remote Northern Territory, making history as the agency’s first commercial spaceport launch outside the United States. The rocket blasted off at just past midnight local time from the Arnhem Space Centre on the Dhupuma Plateau, near the township of Nhulunbuy, according to Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA).
The rocket is expected to travel more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) into space on its mission to observe the Alpha Centauri A and B constellations — the nearest star systems to the Earth.
5) Answer: D
Mohammed Jaloud of Iraq was elected the new President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) president, becoming the first Asian president in the IWF’s history in elections over the weekend in Tirana, Albania. Jaloud, former general secretary of the Asian Weightlifting Federation was a weightlifter himself for 13 years, and also holds citizenship status in Kazakhstan.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartered in Lausanne, is the international governing body for the sport of Olympic weightlifting. The IWF was founded in 1905 and has 192 Member Federations.
6) Answer: B
The Union government has appointed Nitin Gupta, a 1986 batch Indian Revenue Service official, currently a Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), as the new chairman of the apex direct tax policy-making body. Sangeeta Singh, who currently holds the additional charge of the chairman, will continue to be a Member, of CBDT.
CBDT has been effectively using social media platforms to urge taxpayers to meet various due dates and employs data analytics and information reported by third parties to check the under-reporting of income.
7) Answer: E
Tata Power Solar Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has commissioned a floating solar power project in Kayamkulam, Kerala on a 350-acre water body, backwaters area, having an installed capacity of 101.6-megawatt peak.
With the completion of this floating solar project, Tata Power Solar will not only reduce carbon emissions but also exhaust the unutilized area atop a water body to generate energy. This project is also one of the first by Tata Power Solar to be monitored and tracked by 24×7 CCTVs for added security and malfunction detections.
8) Answer: E
Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan completed two years.The government of India launched GKRA on 20th June 2020 for 125 days with a resource envelope of 50,000 crore rupees to boost employment and livelihood opportunities for returnee migrant workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To boost the income generation activities and enhance long-term livelihood opportunities by giving focus on 25 works in 116 selected districts across six states Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.
9) Answer: D
The government has issued fresh surrogacy rules, making it mandatory for couples who wish to become parents through surrogacy to buy health insurance plans for surrogate mothers.
According to the new provisions, the intending couples will need to purchase a general health insurance cover in favor of a surrogate mother for 36 months from an insurance company or an agent recognized by IRDAI. for an amount that is sufficient to cover all expenses for all complications arising out of pregnancy and also covering postpartum delivery complications.
10) Answer: E
State Bank of India has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India for its proposed operations support subsidiary aimed at bringing down the cost-to-income ratio. The bank will soon start a pilot run in a few regions before launching the new subsidiary pan India.
SBI‘s cost-to-income ratio increased by 240 basis points from FY19 levels to 53.3% in FY22.In contrast, the top three private banks have cost-to-income ratios that are between 35 and 40% lower than SBIs. Therefore, the subsidiary designed to increase operational effectiveness can eventually aid India’s largest bank in significantly increasing its profitability.
11) Answer: A
Bajaj Finance Limited (BFL), the lending arm of Bajaj Finserv Limited and India’s largest and highly diversified NBFC company, has partnered with Worldline, a global leader in payment services, to develop point-of-sales (POS) payments acquiring solutions for its merchant network.
With this tie-up, Bajaj Finance Limited aims to enhance its relationship with both its existing and new network of merchant partners, by providing point-of-sale terminals and enabling acceptance of a wide range of payment instruments such as EMI cards, credit cards, UPI, and wallets on those terminals.
12) Answer: C
Capital markets regulator SEBI imposed a penalty totaling Rs 30 lakh on Reliance Industries and Savithri Parekh and K Sethuraman for not making prompt clarification to the stock exchange about the Jio-Facebook deal, which was disclosed through the newspaper.
Accordingly, Sebi held them liable for the violation of the provisions of principles of fair disclosure for purposes of the code of practices and procedures for Fair Disclosure of UPSI under LODR Regulations.
Headquarters: Mumbai
Chairperson: Madhabi Puri Buch
13) Answer: E
Regulator IRDAI reduced the solvency margin requirement for general insurers providing crop insurance, a decision expected to unlock Rs 1,400 crore of funds for them to undertake more business.
The decision is part of a series of reforms it has undertaken to increase insurance penetration in the country. This move will increase the capacity of general insurers to underwrite more business. It said the number of off-line returns being submitted by life insurers has been reduced from 40 to 4 and the number of online returns would come down from 8 to 5.
14) Answer: E
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and data utilization strategies can add $500 billion to India’s GDP by 2025, according to a report by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM).
AI adoption in four key sectors—Consumer Goods and Retail (CPG), Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Energy & Industrials, and Healthcare—can contribute 60 percent of AI’s potential value-add of $450-500 billion to India’s GDP by 2025. This creates a massive opportunity for Indian enterprises to accelerate investments. India’s goal of having a $1-trillion GDP by FY2026-2027
15) Answer: D
India’s life expectancy at birth has increased up to 69.7 in the 2015-2019 period, data from the sample registration system (SRS). The country’s life expectancy at birth, which has inched up after 10 years, is still well below the global average of 72.6.
The data released by the demographic survey suggests that high infant mortality and under-five mortality could be one of the reasons India finds it difficult to raise life expectancy at birth. In Madhya Pradesh, which has the highest IMR of 43, surviving the first year after birth raises life expectancy by 2.7 years.
16) Answer: C
To encourage original and outstanding writings in Hindi in the field of Economics/Banking/Finance, the Reserve Bank of India has introduced an ‘Award scheme for writing books originally in Hindi on Economics/Banking/Financial subjects.
The author awarded for 2 consecutive years will be in the cooling period for the third year. In the fourth year, he will be again eligible to participate in the scheme. Rajbhasha Vibhag, CO, RBI will function as Secretariat for the Committee. The Prize amount is ₹1,25,000.
17) Answer: C
Ace sprinter Sekar Dhanalakshmi ran her personal best time to win 200m gold at the Qosanov Memorial Athletics 2022 athletics meets in Almaty, Kazakhstan. shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor and javelin thrower Rohit Yadav returned to India without competing due to formalities for a USA visa for the World Championships
Dhanalakshmi ran a creditable sub-23 second, clocking 22.89s to better her earlier personal best of 23.14s she had come up with last year. Another Indian Dutee Chand was third with a time of 23.60s. She had won a 200m gold in the national Inter-Sate Championships in Chennai
18) Answer: C
Chowalloor Krishnankutty,86 passed away at a private Medical College Hospital in Thrissur, Kerala. He was a noted lyricist, author, and journalist. A former Staff Artist with AIR, Krishnankutty penned over 3000 devotional songs and authored more than 200 books. He retired as an Assistant Editor with the Malayala Manorama daily.
Krishnankutty is a recipient of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi and Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards, Krishnankutty also served as the vice-chairman of the Kerala Kalamandalam.
