CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 24^TH SEP 2019

1.        Where was the 35th Tri-Services Commanders Conference for the year 2019 held?

A) Kochi, Kerala

B) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

C) Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

D) New Delhi, Delhi

E) None of these

2.        Where did NTPC ltd (formerly National Thermal Power Corporation Limited) announced to set up a India’s biggest 5GW (gigawatt) solar national park?

A) Gujarat

B) Assam

C) Uttar Pradesh

D) New Delhi

E) None of these

3.        Where was the 63rd annual Regular Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference held?

A) Washington D.C., United States

B) Geneva, Switzerland

C) Canberra, Australia

D) Vienna, Austria

E) None of these

4.        What is the timeline of auto reversal of transaction for a bank, when the amount debited from one card but did not reach another card(card to card transfer) as per new guidelines of Reserve Bank of India(RBI)?

A) 1 day after failed transaction

B) 2 days after failed transaction

C) 7 days after failed transaction

D) 15 days after failed transaction

E) None of these

5.        How much compensation will the bank has to pay if they fail to settle the amount debited during the failed transaction after the completion of time period?

A) Depending upon the amount

B) No Compensation

C) Rs 1000 per day

D) Rs 100 per day

E) None of these

6.        How many days deadline was given to bank when the customer’s amount was deducted from the account but did not reach the recipient’s account through the IMPS (Immediate Payment System)?

A) 7 days after failed transaction1

B) 30 days after failed transaction

C) 1 day after failed transaction

D) 15 days after failed transaction

E) None of these

7.        Expand CRA?

A) CRA – Credit Rate Agency

B) CRA – Credit Rating Agency

C) CRA – Credit Reserve Agency

D) CRA – Credit Repository Agency

E) None of these

8.        What is the increased loan limit for small exporters sanctioned by Reserve Bank of India(RBI) in order to boost credit to the export sector?

A) Rs 30 crore

B) Rs 20 crore

C) Rs 25 crore

D) Rs 40 crore

E) None of these

9.        As per the new Good and Service Tax (GST) rates, how much GST is required to pay for the hotel accommodation service when it was less than or equal to Rs.1000?

A) 3%

B) No GST

C) 5%

D) 12%

E) None of these

10.    Name the Indian institute, which topped in the latest QS(Quacquarelli Symonds) Graduate Employability Rankings 2020 among the Indian Institute?

A) Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Delhi

B) Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bengaluru

C) Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay

D) Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kanpur

E) None of these

11.    Who was elected as the chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the year 2019-20?

A) Vikram Sakhuja

B) Devendra Darda

C) Riyad Mathew

D) Madhukar Kamath

E) None of these

12.    What was the theme of the International Day of Peace or World Peace Day for the year 2019?

A) Theme – ‘Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for all’

B) Theme – ‘The Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Peace’

C) Theme – ‘The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70’

D) Theme – ‘Climate Action for Peace’

E) None of these

13.    On which date, World Alzheimer’s Day (WAD) is observed?

A) September 21

B) September 20

C) September 19

D) September 18

E) None of these

14.    Who was appointed as the first Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax(Pr.CCIT) of newly formed National e-Assessment Centre (NeAC)?

A) P.K. Dash

B) Krishna Mohan Prasad

C) Akhilesh Ranjan

D) Pramod Chandra Mody

E) None of these

15.    Which was rated as the world’s best real-time payment service as per FIS’s ‘Faster Payments Innovation Index 2019’ recently?

A) Immediate Payment Service (IMPS)

B) National Electronic Fund Transfer(NEFT)

C) Unified Payments Interface (UPI)

D) Aadhaar enabled Payment System(AePS)

E) None of these

16.    Who is the director of the film ‘Gully Boy’, which was nominated for the Oscar 2020 Film Awards from India?

A) Rajkumar Hirani

B) Anurag Kashyap

C) Zoya Akhtar

D) Karan Johar

E) None of these

17.    World Rhino Day is observed annually on __________?

A) September 19

B) September 20

C) September 21

D) September 22

E) None of these

18.    Name the Campaign launched by Cricketer, Rohit Sharma for rhino protection in association with WWF India and Animal Planet?

A) ProtectRhinos campaign

B) Rohit4Rhinos campaign

C) RohittoprotectRhinos campaign

D) LetsProtectRhinos campaign

E) None of these

19.    On which date, World rose day is observed?

A) September 22

B) September 21

C) September 20

D) September 19

E) None of these

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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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