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Current Affairs questions and answers 18.08.2020

Current Affairs  Questions and Answers

Question 1. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the proposal to increase the scope of NCC to how many border and coastal districts?

92 border and coastal districts
107 border and coastal districts
153 border and coastal districts
173 border and coastal districts

Answer: 173 border and coastal districts - India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has recently approved the proposal to expand the National Cadet Corps (NCC) scope to 173 border and coastal districts. According to which, 1 lakh new cadets will be recruited.

Question 2. Odisha has ranked first in the ranking of states released by the Central Government under which scheme recently?

Ayushman Yojana
Query plan
Self-reliant india scheme
Amrit Yojana

Answer: Amrit Yojana - Odisha has been ranked first with 85.67 percentile score in the recently released rankings of states under the "Amrit Yojana" by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The purpose of this scheme is to provide piped water supply to households in urban areas of the state.

Question 3. How many years has been banned for the failure of three Pakistan athletes in dope test?

1 year
2 years
3 year
4 years

Answer: 4 years - South Asian Games medals have been withdrawn last year after all three athletes of Pakistan failed in dope test and all three have been banned for 4 years. Of these, 2 athletes won gold and one bronze in last year's games.

Question 4. How many Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel have been awarded the Director General's Commendation?

55 seals
171 seals
294 seals
315 seals

Answer: 294 jawans - Recently 294 soldiers of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) for showing bravery in the conflict with Chinese soldiers in Ladakh.

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Historical events of 17 August

Historical events of 17 August
1858 - The first bank was opened in the American province of Hawaii.
1869 - The first international sailing competition was held on London's Thames River.
1907 - Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination, the historic district registered in Seattle was opened.
1909 - The great revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra was hanged.
1908 - The first animated cartoon, produced by Enmiel Kohl, was shown in Fantasmagori, Paris, France.
1914 - World War I: Battle of Stalupon: The German army of General Herman von François defeated the Russian army commanded by Paul von Renenkamp near Russia's modern-day Nestorov.
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1942 - World War II: US Marines attack Japanese-based Pacific island of Makin.
1943 - World War II: U.S. The Eighth Air Force suffered the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
1943 - World War II: Winston Churchill's first Quebec conference, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Leon Mackenzie King began.
1943 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launched Operation Hydra, the first air raid of Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapons program.
1945 - Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta declare Indonesia's independence, highlighting the Indonesian national revolution against the Dutch Empire.
1945 - The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell was first published.
1947 - Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, was revealed.
1947 - After British independence, the first British army unit went home.
1953 - Addiction: Narcot in Southern California

 CURRENT AFFAIRS :-


1. President Joe Biden has said his $2 trillion investment proposal, touted as a "once-in-a-generation" plan, would boost the US global competitive edge, modernise aging infrastructure and address the challenge posed by climate change.


2. Actor Rajinikanth will be conferred with the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke award.


3. In consultation with the Government of India, that the limits for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the first half of the financial year 2021-22 (April 2021 to September 2021) will be Rs 1,20,000 crore,' the central bank said in a statement.


4. Billionaire Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Ltd plans to set up a coastal copper smelter plant in India for Rs 10,000 crore.


5. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the timeline by six months to comply with its guidelines related to recurring online transactions with Additional Factor of Authentication (AFA).


6. Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar flagged off the field work of All India Survey on Migrant Workers and All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES).


7. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will be the chief guest at the function to mark the conclusion of the 25-day long Dandi yatra in Gujarat on April 6.


8. The World Trade Organization (WTO) said that global trade is primed for a strong but uneven recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic shock, forecasting an increase in the volume of world merchandise trade of 8 per cent this year.


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CURRENT AFFAIRS: 13.06.2020

CURRENT AFFAIRS: 13.06.2020
1. Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR has met up with Atal Innovation Mission, AIM to advance a culture of development and enterprise in different segments. 

2. IIT-Hyderabad specialists guarantee to have created COVID-19 test pack that can convey results inside 20 minutes. 

3. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has asked safety net providers not to concede credit reestablishments or upgrades if the borrowers don't get the LEI code from the Legal Entity Identifier India Ltd. 

4. Business-to-business showcasing veteran Tim McDonough has joined Intel as the Vice President and General Manager of advertising for purchaser and business PCs. 

5. The Trichy Railway Junction has been given the covetable Gold rating by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for actualizing different condition benevolent measures. 

6. Government has comprised a team to look at issues identified with period of parenthood, bringing down Maternal Mortality Rate and improvement of healthful levels. The team will be going by Jaya Jaitly. 

7. The leading group of Larsen and Toubro Ltd. has given its gesture for reappointment of A M Naik as non-official administrator for a time of three years. 

8. Reddit fellow benefactor Alexis Ohanian has left the tech company's board.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: 16.06.2020

CURRENT AFFAIRS :- 

1. In a critical move towards citizen assistance, the Government has onwards permitted documenting of NIL GST month to month return in FORM GSTR-3B through SMS. 

2. India and Denmark have marked a MoU for creating participation in the force area. 

3. Madhya Pradesh has developed the top state in the nation in wheat acquisition on help cost by buying more than one crore metric tons from ranchers. 

4. The worldwide economy, which has dove into an extreme constriction, will contract by 5.2 percent this year because of the huge stun of the coronavirus pandemic and the shutdown measures to contain it, the World Bank said. 

5. India's economy will shrivel by 3.2% in the current monetary, the World Bank said as it joined a chorale of global offices that are anticipating a compression in development rate due to the coronavirus lockdown stopping financial movement. 

6. S&P Global Ratings said the Indian economy will contract 5 percent in the current financial, saying the monetary upgrade worth 1.2 percent of GDP won't be sufficient to give noteworthy development support. 

7. The Indian Air Force has structured, created and accepted an Airborne Rescue Pod for Isolated Transportation (ARPIT). This unit will be used for departure of basic patients with irresistible illnesses including COVID-19 from high height zone, confined and remote spots. 

8. Priest of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr Jitendra Singh introduced the eighteenth Bench of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh through a Video Conference. 

9. To make e-learning increasingly productive, NCERT and Rotary India carefully marked MoU for e-learning content broadcast for class 1-12 over all NCERT TV diverts within the sight of Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal 'Nishank' in New Delhi. 

10. Association Minister for Road Transport and Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari declared further augmentation of the legitimacy date of engine vehicle records till 30th September, 2020. 

11. Driving FMCG major Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL)said its overseeing chief and Chief official Vivek Gambhir has surrendered refering to "individual reasons". 

12. As indicated by Mercer's '2020 Cost of Living Survey', Mumbai is the 60th most costly city for ostracizes all around, while it positions nineteenth in Asia. 

13. The Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR-IHBT) and the Department of Agriculture of Himachal Pradesh government, have manufactured a vital and usage organization, in an offer to expand the creation of heeng and saffron in the nation. 

14. Bharti Airtel said its auxiliary has gained an extra 6.3 percent stake in Bangladesh's' telecom administrator Robi Axiata from NTT Docomo. 

15. The Indian hard of hearing cricket crew is set to participate in the 'DICC Cricket ODI World Cup - 2021', booked to be held in UAE from October 19 to 29. 

16. Bollywood on-screen character Sushant Singh Rajput has passed on at 34 years old.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

CURRENT AFFAIRS: 20.06.2020

CURRENT AFFAIRS :- 

1. The previous world light heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk has resigned. 

2. Burundi's' President Pierre Nkurunziza has kicked the bucket at age 56. 

3. The Finance Ministry discharged Rs 6,195 crore income shortfall award to 14 states to improve their assets during Covid-19 emergency. 

4. Standard and Poor's (S&P) Global Ratings attested India's least speculation grade (BBB-) FICO score with stable viewpoint holding that the nation's economy and monetary position will settle and start to recoup from 2021 onwards. 

5. The World Accreditation Day (WAD) is commended on ninth June consistently to feature just as advance the job of accreditation in exchange and economy. 

6. The coronavirus pandemic kept on negatively affecting the universal badminton schedule with the world body (BWF) dropping the Swiss Open and European Championships in the wake of neglecting to discover appropriate spaces to have the occasions this year. 

7. STIP 2020 Town Hall Meet, the Track-I open and master interview process for the definition of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) 2020 propelled by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Professor K Vijay Raghavan and Secretary, DST Professor Ashutosh Sharma on June 12, 2020. 

8. V. Satya Venkata Rao has assumed responsibility as new Deputy Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). 

9. Saqib Yousuf, an Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) official hailing from Budgam region of Jammu and Kashmir, has gotten the primary nearby to accept charge as boss region administrator, Srinagar. 

10. IDBI Bank said its board has endorsed the arrangement of Anshuman Sharma as government chosen one executive with impact from June 11, 2020. 

11. Darjeeling and Kalimpong slopes, Siliguri, Terai and Dooars locale come into 'Consortium of Central Universities in Himalayan Studies'. 

12. Goodbye AutoComp Systems has tied up with US-based Tellus Power Green to set up electric vehicle charging stations in the nation. 

13. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Executive Board has affirmed the minor change for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, which will currently be held between July 28 and August 8. 

14. Ride-hailing major Uber said Pradeep Parameswaran will take on an extended job in the organization as Regional General Manager for Asia Pacific. 

15. VST Mobility Solutions, a Startup headquartered at Cochin, has propelled a robotized veil removal machine as a feature of endeavors to create items assisting with combatting the Covid-19. 

16. The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has topped the rundown of advanced education establishments in the general class, in the National Institutional Rankings Framework list 2020, discharged by the Minister of Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal. 

17. On the event of 'World Day against Child Labor', Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath propelled the Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana under which monetary help will be given to the offspring of laborers so that there is no obstruction in their instruction procedure. 

18. Famous Indian-American soil researcher Rattan Lal was named the current year's beneficiary of $250,000 World Food Prize, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praising his exploration in soil science, saying he is helping a huge number of little ranchers around the globe with his work on expanding food creation and reusing of supplements. 

19. Manure major IFFCO has consented to an arrangement with government's ranch research organization ICAR for joint exploration, testing and approval of various items. 

20. After a progression of preliminaries, the single crisis helpline number 112, which will interface individuals in trouble with the police, has been made operational in five urban areas of Maharashtra. 

21. The New Zealand city of Hamilton evacuated a bronze sculpture of the British maritime official for whom it is named — a man who is blamed for killing indigenous Maori individuals during the 1860s. 

23. State Bank of India, the nation's biggest loan specialist, will strip more than 2 percent stake for in any event Rs 1,522.50 crore in its auxiliary SBI Life. 

24. Indian Railways makes another world benchmark by charging first skyscraper Over Head Equipment(OHE), which has contact wire tallness of 7.57 meter and effectively run twofold stack holders in zapped an area on Western Railway. 

26. Administration of India has affirmed ₹1,829 Crore for execution of Jal Jeevan Mission in Maharashtra in 2020-21.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: 22.06.2020

CURRENT AFFAIRS :- 

1. HDFC ERGO General protection firm has banded together with UK based tech firm TropoGo Limited to dispatch India's first 'Pay as you Fly' protection for drone-proprietors in India. 

2. Govt. to dispatch 'Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan' to give work to more than 6,000,000 vagrant specialists in six states — MP, UP, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and Rajasthan — through government plans in the following four months. 

3. The Asian Development Bank has anticipated Indian economy to decrease by 4% in Fiscal Year 2021. 

4. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund to put ₹11,367 crore in Jio Platforms for 2.32% stake. 

5. World Economic Forum (WEF) has reported its 2020 companion of Technology Pioneers which likewise involved 2 Indian firms to be specific: ZestMoney and Stellapps. 

6. 'The Room Where It Happened', a book by US President Donald Trump's previous National Security Adviser John Bolton, to discharge on June 23. 

7. "Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan" will be propelled by the Government of India from Village Telihar, Block Beldaur of Khagaria District of Bihar.

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27th April Current Affairs 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS :-

1. Vishakha Mulye has been selected as the following Chief Executive Officer of Aditya Birla Capital.

2. India has been chosen for the United Nations Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) four significant bodies, remembering the Commission for Science and Technology for Development.

3. The public authority reported a foodgrain creation focus of 328 million tons for 2022-23. The objective was reported at the National Conference on Agriculture: Kharif Campaign 2022, which was initiated by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.

4. The 24th Summer Deaflympics will be held in Brazil's Caxias Du Sul from first to fifteenth May 2022.

5. The 39th version of "Badminton Asia Championships" 2022, the greatest on the Asian landmass has start off on 26 April 2022 in Manila, Philippines.

6. Rural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) in relationship with the India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) has coordinated Asia's greatest worldwide food and neighborliness fair AAHAR-2022 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.

7. World Book Day and Copyright Day, Celebrates the delight of perusing. World Book and Copyright Day is commended on April 23 consistently to advance the delight of perusing. April 23 is representative for world writing as it is an accolade for notable scholars like Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, who passed on this date.

8. Guard Minister Rajnath Singh will initiate DefConnect 2.0 coordinated by Innovations for Defense Excellence, Defense Innovation Organization (iDEX-DIO) in New Delhi. The occasion will draw in an enormous number of trend-setters and financial backers from nation's driving ventures in the safeguard area. It will incorporate meetings with stalwarts of the business, different declarations and static presentations of a variety of new companies upheld by iDEX-DIO.

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- April 27, 2022

Current Affairs questions and answers 18.08.2020

Current Affairs  Questions and Answers Question 1. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the proposal to increase the scope of NCC...

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