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1) Name the campaign launched by The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for change management and e-Course on Vulnerability Atlas of India
a) Angikaar
b) Ashirvad
c) Hrudayostav
d) Amodam
e) None of these
2) Central Government released over Rs _____________ crore from Compensatory Afforestation Fund to various states for wildlife management.
a) 66,000
b) 47,000
c) 74,000
d) 76,000
e) 54,000
3) According to KPMG’s report ‘Fintech in India – Powering Mobile Payments’ Digital Payments growing in India at ____ compound annual growth rate?
a) 13.2%
b) 14.5%
c) 12.7%
d) 10.3%
e) 9.8%
4) Which bank has opened its first MSME CPC (centralised processing centre) in Chennai?
a) Canara Bank
b) Indian Bank
c) South Indian Bank
d) State Bank of India
e) None of these
5) Which state Dindigul locks and Kandangi sarees have received Geographical Indication (GI) tags?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Meghalaya
e) None of these
6) Which state government announced the launch of a mega 10-week campaign against dengue and chikungunya?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Delhi
d) Punjab
e) Gujarat
7) Who among the following to be honoured with 2019 UEFA President’s Award?
a) George Best
b) Roy Keane
c) Alex Ferguson
d) Eric Cantona
e) None of these
8) Soprts person Virgil van Dijk is associated with which sport/game?
a) Foot Ball
b) Basket Ball
c) Golf
d) Badminton
e) None of these
9) Name the Indian documentary that bags the top award in the ‘Under 30 minute’ category at the 14th edition of the ‘We Care Film Festival on Disability Issues’
a) ‘I’m Jeeja
b) Easy Tech
c) India’s Daughter
d) Children of the Pyre
e) None of these
10) National Urban Livelihoods Mission was conferred with the prestigious SKOCH Governance Gold Award. The mission is implemented by which of the following agency?
a) Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
b) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
c) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
d) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
e) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
11) Which automobile company has launched ‘Service On Wheels’ doorstep repair, service programme in India?
a) Maruti Suzuki
b) VokesWagon
c) Renault
d) Tata Motors
e) None of these
12) Name the mobile application launched to help Paralympians to look up accessible places in Tokyo?
a) IndTokyo
b) JapTokyo
c) RusTokyo
d) GerTokyo
e) None of these
13) Name the social media company that has partnered with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) to rain students on online safety?
a) Facebook
b) Instagram
c) Twitter
d) Helo
e) Tik Tok
14) Who written the book titled, “Obama: The Call of History” ?
a) Philip Rucker
b) Maggie Haberman
c) Susan Glasser
d) Peter Baker
e) None of these
15) Which armed force has signed an MoU with India Meteorological Department(IMD) for occupying the unused Cyclone Detection Radar(CDR) building for meteorological purposes ?
a) Indian Army
b) Indian Coast Guard
c) Indian Air Force
d) Indian Navy
e) None of these
16) Which of the following city recently came at the top position in the recently released Safe City Index?
a) Osaka
b) Singapore
c) Jakarta
d) Bengaluru
e) Tokyo
17) Which country’s Cricketer, Ajantha Mendis retires from all forms of cricket recently?
a) Pakistan
b) Bangladesh
c) Sri Lanka
d) India
e) None of these
18) Who won gold medal in women’s 400m race that held at the International Athletic Meeting – Josef Seckar Memorial (MJS) in Brno, Czech Republic ?
a) M. R. Poovamma
b) VK Vismaya
c) Hima Das
d) Dutee Chand
e) None of these
19) Name the deceased bengali actor, who was well known by the National award winning movie Ganadevata .
a) Madhabi Mukherjee
b) Monu Mukhopadhyay
c) Nimu Bhowmik
d) Anamika Saha
e) None of these
20) Who won the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2018 under Life Time Achievement category ?
a) Dipankar Ghosh
b) Prabhat Raju Koli
c) Wangchuk Sherpa
d) RameshwerJangra
e) None of these
Answers :
1) Answer: A)
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched “angikaar” a campaign for change management and e-Course on Vulnerability Atlas of India
‘Angikaar campaign’, a move aimed at bringing beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY- U) (urban) into the fold of other central schemes such as Ujjawala and Ayushman Bharat.
Under PMAY (U) about 88 lakh houses has been approved till now as against demand of 1.12 crore.
The campaign will officially be rolled out in all cities with PMAY(U) on October 2 and culminate on December 10.
The e-course on Vulnerability Atlas is offered by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs in collaboration of School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi and Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC).
It is a unique course that offers awareness and understanding about natural hazards, helps identify regions with high vulnerability with respect to various hazards (earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, floods, etc.) and specifies district-wise level of damage risks to the existing housing stock.
2) Answer: B)
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar has handed over forty seven thousand crore rupees from Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) to 27 states
Out of a total allocation of Rs 47,436 crores to the states, Odisha received Rs 5,933.98 crores while Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh got Rs 5,791.70 crores and Rs 5,196.69 crores respectively
The fund will be utilized for the compensatory afforestation, catchment area treatment, wildlife management, natural regeneration, forest fire prevention, soil and moisture conservation, improvement of wildlife habitat.
3) Answer: C)
According to KPMG’s report ‘Fintech in India – Powering Mobile Payments, Digital payments are seeing a thriving growth and gaining traction with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.7% in the number of non-cash transactions (forecast, 2016-21).
The global digital payments market size is expected to touch $10.07 trillion by 2026.
The mobile wallet market is expected to continue its expansion at a CAGR of nearly 52.2 per cent by volume during 2019-23
The volume of UPI transactions have increased at a CAGR of 246 per cent during the period from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
The Reserve Bank of India has forecast an outcome of 50 per cent increase in mobile-based payment transactions as per its ‘2021 vision document’
4) Answer: B)
Indian Bank has opened its first MSME CPC (centralised processing centre) in Chennai
It was inaugurated by the bank’s MD and CEO Padmaja Chunduru
MSME centralised processing centre will give a boost to its MSME portfolio
The bank had deployed skilled manpower in the CPC to improve credit quality and shorten transaction processing time.
5) Answer: A)
Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul locks and Kandangi sarees have received Geographical Indication (GI) tags
The products were given the GI tag by the Geographical Indications Registry in Chennai
The famous Dindigul locks are known throughout the world for their superior quality and durability, so much so that even the city is called Lock City. The abundance of iron in this region is the reason for the growth of the lock-making industry.
The Kandangi sarees are usually around 5.10 meters – 5.60 meters in length. It exude brilliant colours like bright yellow, orange, red and a minimal black in the traditional pattern of stripes or checks with broad borders woven in coarse cotton
6) Answer: C)
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the launch of a mega 10-week campaign against dengue and chikungunya
The initiative is named ‘10 Hafte, 10 Baje, 10 Minute — Har Ravivar, dengue par war’
The government has asked residents to take 10 minutes from their schedule every Sunday to clear potential mosquito breeding spots from their homes.
7) Answer: D)
Former Manchester United and France legend Eric Cantona has been presented with the 2019 UEFA President’s Award
The UEFA President’s Award recognises outstanding achievements, professional excellence and exemplary personal qualities
Cantona is the third Manchester United player to receive the award after Bobby Charlton in 2008 and David Beckham last year
8) Answer: A)
Virgil Van Dijk beats Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to win 2018/19 UEFA Player Of The Year Award
Virgil van Dijk, has become the first defender, the first Premier League player, and the first Dutchman to win the prestigious Award
England’s Lucy Bronze named 2018/19 UEFA women’s player of the year
Messi won the award in 2011 and 2015 and Ronaldo in 2014, 2016, and 2017
The UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award was established all the way back in the 1997-98 season
The prize’s format changed for the 2010-11 season and became the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year instead
9) Answer: A)
Indian documentary film “I’m Jeeja” bags the top award in the ‘Under 30 minute’ category at the 14th edition of the ‘We Care Film Festival on Disability Issues’
The festival, touted to be one-of-its-kind international travelling film festival on disabilities, awarded a total of 10 films from nine countries.
The awards were given in categories based on the duration of the films—under five minutes, 30 minutes, and 90 minutes
“I’m Jeeja” directed by Swati Chakraborty tells the story of disability activist Jeeja Ghosh who suffers from cerebral palsy.
The film attempts to explore the lives and battles of people living with the disability.
10) Answer: B)
Deendayan Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) has been conferred the prestigious SKOCH Governance Gold Award for its Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access (PAiSA)
DAY-NULM a flagship mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
PAiSAis, a centralized IT platform which simplifies and streamlines release of interest subvention under the Mission, was launched in November 2018
It offers end to end online solution for processing, payment, monitoring and tracking of interest subvention claims from banks on a monthly basis.
The portal has been designed and developed through the Allahabad Bank.
As of now, 28 States/UTs and 74 Banks including 21 Public Sector, 18 Private and 35 Regional Rural Banks have been on boarded on the portal.
Till now approximately 1.50 lakh beneficiaries have been paid Rs. 27 Cr (approx.) as interest subvention through PAiSA.
11) Answer: A)
Maruti Suzuki has launched ‘Service On Wheels’ doorstep repair, service programme in India.
Under the program Maruti will offer paid and free services including repairs, underbody inspection, oil changing, filter cleaning etc.
All Maruti cars including petrol, diesel and CNG models are covered under this program.
12) Answer: A)
A mobile app was to help para-athletes to look up accessible places in Tokyo during their visit to the city for the 2020 Paralympics Games.
The application named ‘IndTokyo’, which was launched by Arhan Bagati, Awareness and Impact Ambassador of Paralympic Committee of India, at the ‘Countdown to Tokyo 2020’ event
13) Answer: E)
Chinese short-form video platform TikTok has partnered with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) to rain students on online safety
Under the partnership, TikTok and the IIMC will organise a series of workshops with students and professors of the educational institute across its six regional campuses over the next two months
As part of the partnership, TikTok and IIMC have curated a workshop in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz, India’s largest youth online community for social issues.
The initiative is part of TikTok’s ‘#WaitASecToReflect’ ongoing campaign to promote responsible online conduct among India’s netizens.
14) Answer: D)
A new book on Barack Obama will give an in-depth account of the former US President’s years in office
“Obama: The Call of History” written by Peter Baker, the Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times
15) Answer: D)
India Meteorological Department (IMD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Navy to hand over Cyclone Detection Radar (CDR) building to naval forces for meteorological purposes.
The CDR building was constructed during the period 1983-86 inside the Naval Base, having an S-band Cyclone Detection Radar installed by M/s Bharat Electronics Limited, an official release said.
The facility was operated by IMD from 1987-2017 to provide weather support for civil aviation at the old Kochi Airport – presently the Naval Air Station INS Garuda.
16) Answer: E)
Mumbai has been ranked as the 45th, while Delhi stood at the 52nd safest city on the Safe Cities Index (SCI) a report by Economist Intelligence Unit
Tokyo crowned world’s safest city
Cities in the Asia-Pacific (Apac) region made up six of the top-10 safest cities, APAC cities such as Tokyo, Singapore and Osaka continue to rank within the top-three cities in the Index
Lagos is the lowest scoring cities in the world
The Safe Cities Index (SCI) 2019 ranks 60 countries worldwide across five continents and measures the multi-faceted nature of urban safety, with indicators categorised as digital, infrastructure, health and personal security.
17) Answer: C)
Sri Lanka spinner Ajantha Mendis has announced his retirement from all forms of the game.
He was best known for his deceptive “carrom balls”, played 19 Tests, 87 ODIs and 39 T20Is for his country and picked up 288 wickets in the process.
18) Answer: B)
Indian sprinter V K Vismaya clinched the gold medal in the women 400m run at the International Athletic Meeting — Josef Seckr Memorial (MJS) in Brno, Czech Republic
She produced a personal best timing of 52.12s at the women 400m run
She had earlier scored a personal best of 52.48 at Nov Mesto nad Metuj (CZE) last month
19) Answer: C)
Veteran Bengali actor Nimu Bhowmik has passed away
He played different role in ‘Ganadebata’ (1979), ‘Baghini’ (1968), ‘Dadar Kirti’ (1980), ‘Guru Dakshina’ (1987). Bhowmick acted in over 60 films.
His last film, ‘Dash Mash Das Diner Galpo’, was released last month
20) Answer: C)
Shri Wangchuk Sherpa won the Life Time Achievement in the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2018.
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