Daily Competitive Quiz Answers+Notes November 6, 2020

A1:

- National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) approved WhatsApp Pay in a limited manner and only allowed to have 20 million UPI users in India.

- NPCI said that the no third-party app part of UPI payment system would be allowed to carry out more than 30 per cent of all UPI transactions w.e.f January 1, 2021.

- NPCI is the nodal agency for retail payments system in India.

A2:

-The new entrants in ISL this season are Mohun Bagan and East Bengal.

- Mohun Bagan merged with ISL franchise ATK to become ATK Mohun Bagan.

- East Bengal sold a majority stake in the club to Shree Cement  to become SC East Bengal.

A3:

- Rafael Nadal became the 4th men's player to reach 1000 match wins to join Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer and Ivan Lendl.

A4:

- Shri Gadkari has asked Ministry of DoNER to formulate a comprehensive ''Bamboo Policy'' as most of the bamboo is produced in North East.

- Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) ~Shri Jitendra Singh

A5: one-time spectrum charge (OTSC)

A6:

- Under the Co-Lending Model (CLM), banks will be permitted to co-lend with all registered NBFCs (including HFCs) based on a prior agreement.

-The primary focus of "Co-Lending Model" (CLM), is to improve the flow of credit to the unserved and underserved sector of the economy.

A7:

- INS Airavat  has delivered 100MT of food aid to Sudan as part of COVID relief package as a part of Mission Sagar II.

-First Mission Sagar  was undertaken in May-June 2020, wherein India provided food and medicines to Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Comoros. 

- SAGAR ~ Security and Growth for All in the Region 

A8: 

- Goni made landfall as a super typhoon, at Philippines on November 1, 2020 with wind speed  of 225km/h (140mph).

- Goni is known as Rolly in the Philippines

- President of Philippines : Rodrigo Duterte

A9:

- Ganga was declared "National River' on November 4, 2008. 

- National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is organized a 3-day 'Ganga Utsav 2020' on virtual platforms from November 2,2020

- Director-General of NMCG ~ Rajiv Ranjan Mishra

A10:

- US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement  formally come into effect on November 4, 2020.

-Paris accord was adopted in 2015(signed in 2016), within United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is designed to boost greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation worldwide.