CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23RD SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23^RD SEP 2019

1.        Which organization has partnered with National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) and Skill India to introduce the job-centric Spot codes to offline locations and NSDC centres?

A) Microsoft

B) IBM

C) Facebook

D) Google

E) None of these

2.        Name the integrated exercise conducted by Indian army in the Eastern Ladakh region in order to test and improve its capabilities in war fighting?

A) Ekuverin

B) Ajeya Warrior

C) Chang Thang

D) Vajra Prahar

E) None of these

3.        What is the revised corporate tax rate for domestic companies that is reduced from earlier 30%, for those not availing tax incentives/exemptions?

A) 20%

B) 22%

C) 15%

D) 25%

E) None of these

4.        The reduced tax rate for the new domestic manufacturing companies was 15%, what was the previous tax rate for those companies?

A) 18%

B) 22%

C) 25 %

D) 27%

E) None of these

5.        Who won the Young Scientist Award for the year 2018 for the significant work in the fields of petrology, volcanology and geochemistry?

A) M.S. Dayanand

B) Nandkumar Mekoth

C) Annapurna Sakhardande

D) Sohini Ganguly

E) None of these

6.        Name the first Indian defence minister, who fly (for 30 minutes) in the indigenously-built light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas?

A) Manohar Parrikar

B) Rajnath Singh

C) Chidambaram Subramaniam

D) Nirmala Sitharaman

E) None of these

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DAILY GK 23 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 23 SEPT 2019

1.    Krishna Mohan Prasad as its first Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax of NeAC

ü  Central Board of Direct Tax(CBDT) has newly set up National e-Assessment Centre (NeAC) for electronically assessing the tax returns which would reduce the human interventions.

2.    IMPS rated as the world’s best real-time payment service

ü  US based research firm Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) in its 6th annual Flavours of Fast report for 2019 rated India’s Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) as the world’s best real-time payment service.

ü  It is an instant payment inter-bank electronic funds transfer system in India managed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)

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DAILY GK 22 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 22 SEPT 2019

1.     The 35th Tri-Services Commanders Conference for 2019 was held in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.

2.    General Conference of IAEA

ü  The 63rd Annual Regular Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference was held in Vienna, the capital of Austria with participation from 171 IAEA member states.

3.    Reserve Bank new order regarding ‘failed’ transactions

ü  Under this, the time period has been fixed for the disposal of grievances and auto reversal of the amount on the failed transaction for the banks, which has been termed as Turn Around Time (TAT).

ü  Banks will have to pay compensation to the customers if there is no settlement or reversal of the transaction within this time period. This compensation will be as per Rs 100 per day after completion of the time period.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 22ND SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 22^ND SEP 2019

1.        Name the 12th century bronze statue that was returned to India by United Kingdom (UK), which was stolen 57 years ago from the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) Nalanda site museum in August 1961?

A)  Buddha statue

B)  Swami Vivekananda statue

C)  Mahavira statue

D)  Bodhidharma statue

E)  None of these

2.        Which country has topped the United Nations(UN)’s report titled ‘The International Migrant Stock 2019’ with 17.5 million migrants globally for the year 2019?

A)  China

B)  India

C)  Mexico

D)  Russia

E)  None of these

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DAILY GK 21 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 21 SEPT 2019

1.    PMMVY scheme crossed 1 crore beneficiaries

ü  Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) achieved a mark of reaching 1 crore (1,00,11,200) beneficiaries in India. The total amount disbursed under the scheme crossed Rs. 4,000 crores.

ü  PMMVY is a flagship scheme of the Government for Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PW&LM). It is a direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme under which PW&LM receive a cash benefit of Rs. 5,000 in three installments on fulfilling certain conditions.

2.    NEAT Scheme for Higher Education learning

ü  Union Ministry HRD has announced a new scheme named National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) for better learning outcomes in higher education and is expected to be operational in early november 2019.

ü  The main objective of this scheme is to use Artificial Intelligence(AI) in making personalized learning and will be developed through Public-private partnership (PPP) model.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 21ST SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 21^ST SEP 2019

1.        Where was the first International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) 2019 held?

A) Beijing, China

B) Geneva, Switzerland

C) New Delhi, India

D) Washington D.C., U.S.

E) None of these

2.        In which city, Asia’s first environment school named “World Environment School (WESc)” will be set up & to become operation by 2021?

A) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

B) Coorg, Karnataka

C) New Delhi, Delhi

D) Pune, Mumbai

E) None of these

3.        In which city, India’s first Central Police University will be established?

A) Guwahati, Assam

B) New Delhi, Delhi

C) Kolkata, West Bengal

D) Greater Noida , Uttar Pradesh

E) None of these

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 20TH SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 20^TH SEP 2019

1.        What is the maximum limit for an individual to receive gifts upto which they are not required to inform the government as per the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), 2011 new amendment?

A) Rs 1 lakh

B) Rs 2 lakh

C) Rs 3 lakh

D) Rs 5 lakh

E) None of these

2.        Where was the India’s first Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) setup?

A) Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

B) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

C) Indian Institute of Science- Bengaluru

D) Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi

E) None of these

3.        Where was the 1st edition of the 5 days maiden trilateral exercise of Singapore, India and Thailand named SITMEX (Singapore-India-Thailand Maritime Exercise) held?

A) Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar islands

B) Bukit Timah, Singapore

C) New Delhi, India

D) Bangkok, Thailand

E) None of these

4.        To how much amount of aggregate savings deposits in the Indian private and public sector banks (PSBs) reached as on March 31, 2019 as per the Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy 2018-19?

A) Rs 33.72 lakh crore

B) Rs 35.72 lakh crore

C) Rs 37.72 lakh crore

D) Rs 39.72 lakh crore

E) None of these

5.        What is the GDP(Gross Domestic Product) growth of India in Q1(Apr-June) for the year 2019-20 as per the Reserve Bank of India(RBI)?

A) 5%

B) 7%

C) 6.5%

D) 5.5%

E) None of these

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DAILY GK 20 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 20 SEPT 2019

1.    Agreement between Skill India and IBM for Train-the-Trainer program in AI

ü Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, has signed a pact with the world’s leading IT(Information Technology) company IBM (International Business Machines Corporation), under which a nationwide program to train trainers in Basic Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be carried out.

2.    India to achieve $26 billion defence industry target by 2025

ü The Defence Minister of India Mr Rajnath Singh at the 2nd annual session of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) for 2019 in New Delhi addressed that India will achieve $26 billion defence industry target by 2025.

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DAILY GK 19 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 19 SEPT 2019

1.       Conference on Sustainability Education 2019

ü  International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) 2019 was held in New Delhi.

ü  Asia’s first environment school named World Environment School, Coorg (WESc) was launched on the occasion. It is set up in Coorg, Karnataka.

2.       India’s first Central Police University will be established in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 

3.       India’s first National Antimicrobial Resistance Hub

ü  The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) inaugurated India’s first National Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Hub in Kolkata, West Bengal.

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DAILY GK 18 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 18 SEPT 2019

1.       SITMEX- Trilateral Maritime exercise

ü  5 days maiden trilateral exercise of Singapore, India and Thailand named SITMEX (Singapore-India-Thailand Maritime Exercise) was commenced at Port Blair.

2.       SCO exercise “Tsentr (centre) 2019”

ü  Opening ceremony of exercise “TSENTR 2019” which forms part of the Russian Armed Forces’ annual training cycle, under the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) and Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), was conducted at the DONGUZ ranges  near Orenburg, Russia. 8 SCO member countries are participating .

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