Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 6th June 2019

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1) Which state government launches India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution?

a) Gujarat

b) Maharashtra

c) Punjab

d) Kerala

e) Delhi

2) Which city Metro becomes India’s first project to receive power from waste-to-energy?

a) Bangalore

b) Delhi

c) Mumbai

d) Hyderabad

e) Noida

3) The government of Jharkhand has inaugurated the Haj House in which of these cities recently?

a) Jamshedpur

b) Dhanbad

c) Ranchi

d) Bokaro

e) None of these

4) What is the rank of the Reserve Bank of India in terms of Gold Reserves Holding by the global central banks?

a) 10th

b) 9th

c) 8th

d) 7^th

e) 6^th

5) The Life Insurance Corporation of India has recently extended the maternity leave for its female employees to ___________ months during the entire period of the employee’s service.

a) 15 months

b) 12 months

c) 18 months

d) 21 months

e) 24 months

6) Which of these institutions has approved USD 287 million loan for Tamil Nadu Health System Reform Programme?

a) Asian Development Bank

b) World Bank

c) New Development Bank

d) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

e) World Health Organisation

7) Which of these port has been declared as wilful defaulter by the Bank of Baroda?

a) Krishnapatnam Port

b) Okha Port

c) Dighi Port

d) Chennai Port

e) Kakinada Port

8) ICAI has mandated to mention UDIN number in audit reports with effect from which date?

a) 1 November 2019

b) 1 December 2019

c) 1 July 2019

d) 1 September 2019

e) 31 July 2019

9) Who among these has been selected for the prestigious Global Leadership Awards 2019?

a) Indra Nooyi

b) Mukesh Ambani

c) Adena Friedman

d) Sunder Pichai

e) Both (c) and (d)

10) The Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 will be held in which city?

a) Prague

b) Brussels

c) The Hague

d) Copenhagen

e) Geneva

11) The 2nd Global Disability Summit 2019 will take place in which city?

a) New Delhi

b) Buenos Aires

c) London

d) Beijing

e) Mascow

12) Who has been elected as the new President of FIFA?

a) Pierluigi Collina

b) Michel Platini

c) Gianni Infantino

d) Sepp Blatter

e) None of these

13) The Indian Army’s Kharga Corps conducted the training exercise “Kharga Prahar” recently. This corp is based in which city?

a) Roorke

b) Jaipur

c) Ambala

d) Jodhpur

e) Udaipur

14) Dinyar Contractor, who passed away recently was a well known ______________

a) Journalist

b) Actor

c) Author

d) Singer

e) Film Producer

Answers:

1) Answer: A)

• Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani launched India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution on World Environment Day 2019, which has air pollution as its theme.
• The programme is a market-based system where the government sets a cap on emissions and allows industries to buy and sell permits to stay below the cap.

2) Answer: B)

• To establish an environment-friendly network, the Delhi Metro has become the first ever project in the country to receive power generated from a waste-to-energy plant.
• The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has started receiving 2 MW power from a 12 MW capacity waste-to-energy plant set up in Ghazipur.
• DMRC will take approximately 17.5 million units per annum from this plant. However, the energy offtake will depend upon the actual generation of the plant.
• The waste-to-energy plant set up by East Delhi Waste Processing Company Limited (EDWPCL) is based on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) involving the Delhi government and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), besides the EDWPCL.

3) Answer: C)

• Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das inaugurated the Haj House in Ranchi on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr.
• Inaugurating the Rs-50 crore Haj House, which can accommodate about 1,000 people for offering Namaaz.
• This is the reason that the state government has fulfilled an old demand of members of the Muslim community – constructing a modern and grand Haj House.

4) Answer: A)

• The Reserve Bank of India has moved to rank 10th in terms of gold reserves with the central banks.
• The Reserve Bank of India purchased 52.3 tonnes gold in FY19 to augment its foreign exchange reserves, according to the latest data released by the World Gold Council.
• It has entered league of world’s top-10 gold holding central banks. RBI currently holds 612.6 tonnes of the metal as part of its foreign exchange reserves.
• The United States is the top holder of Gold Reserves.

5) Answer: A)

• Female employees of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) will now get three more months of maternity leave during their service period.
• According to the revised rules for maternity leaves notified by the Finance Ministry, an employee will get a maximum of 15 months of maternity leave during her service period.
• As of March 31, 2018, out of LIC’s total employee strength of nearly 1.12 lakh, 24,000 were women.

6) Answer: B)

• The central government, Tamil Nadu and the World Bank have signed a $287 million loan agreement for the state’s Health System Reform Programme that aims to improve the quality of health care, reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and fill equity gaps in reproductive and child health services.
• Tamil Nadu ranks third among all Indian states in the NITI Aayog Health Index.

7) Answer: C)

• State-owned lender Bank of Baroda (BoB) has declared Vijay Goverdhandas Kalantri, chairman and managing director of Dighi Port, as a “wilful defaulter” for not repaying his loans.
• The leading industrialist Vijay Goverdhandas Kalantri and his son Vishal Kalantri, director of Dighi Port, owe nearly Rs 3,334 crore to a consortium of 16 Indian banks, including BoB, and Bank of India is the lead lender.
• The bank had reportedly placed a public notice in a Mumbai-based newspaper, with photographs of Dighi Port Limited (borrower), Vishal Vijay Kalantri (Director) and Vijay Kalantri (Director and Guarantor), declaring them as “wilful defaulters”.

8) Answer: C)

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has mandated the mention of the Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) in audit reports starting July 1.
• The UDIN would help to verify online whether a certificate or audit report that has been submitted has actually been signed by a chartered accountant.
• DIN is a unique number, which will be generated for every document certified/attested by Practising Chartered Accountants and registered with the UDIN portal. The portal is available at https://udin.icai.org/.

9) Answer: E)

• In United States, Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai and Nasdaq president Adena Friedman have been chosen for the prestigious Global Leadership Awards 2019 by business advocacy group USIBC in recognition of the two companies’ contribution as the leading technology-driven platforms.
• The award by Washington-based US-India Business Council (USIBC) would be conferred upon Indian-American Pichai, 46, and Friedman, 50, during the next week’s ‘India Ideas Summit’.
• USIBC Global Leadership Awards recognise top corporate executives from the United States and India whose companies play a major role in catalysing growth in the US-India commercial corridor.

10) Answer: C)

• Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the American Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo opened the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Hague.
• Some 2 thousand entrepreneurs, investors and representatives of government organizations from 134 countries will meet and make deals at the business summit.
• The Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2019 is an initiative of the government of United States of America to bring together global leaders in entrepreneurship, innovation, investment and policy to support deals that matters to everyone.

11) Answer: B)

• The 2nd edition of the Global Disability Summit will be held at Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6-8 June 2019.
• Social Justice and Empowerment minister Thaawarchand Gehlot has left for Buenos Aires in Argentina to participate in 2nd Global Disability Summit.
• The objective of the three-day summit is to deliberate on issues across the world concerning empowerment and inclusion of Persons with Disabilities and to work out a mechanism for enabling them to live an independent and dignified life.
• The 1^st Global Disability Summit was held in London in July 2018.

12) Answer: C)

• Gianni Infantino was re-elected as FIFA president unopposed at the congress of world football’s governing body in Paris.
• The 49-year-old Swiss-Italian lawyer will be incharge for a period of four years until 2023.

13) Answer: C)

• The exercise “Kharga Prahar”, which began on May 27, was undertaken in the plains of Punjab by various units and formations of Army’s Kharga Corps.
• A major training exercise conducted by the Indian Army in Punjab ended.
• The components of the Indian Air Force also participated in the exercise.
• The exercise setting also incorporated aspects of joint training wherein para drops from Indian Air Force aircraft were carried out and simulated battlefield air strikes were conducted in support of ground forces

14) Answer: B)

• Veteran actor and theatre legend Dinyar Contractor, who appeared in films such as Baadshah and Khiladi, passed away. He was 79.
• The actor was best known for his comic roles in films and was awarded a Padma Shri, earlier this year.