04 August 2020 DAILY QUIZ

1.Who has been appointed as the next CEO of HDFC Bank and the same has been approved by RBI ?

Kaizad Bharucha
Sashidhar Jagdishan
Sunil Garg
Aditya Puri

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2.Under the New Education Policy (NEP), which programme will be discontinued?

Integrated Masters program
Phd.
B Arch
MPhil

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3. W.e.f. 1st August 2020,how many number of States & UTs are now under the "One Nation,One Ration Card"?

24
25
26
23

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4.Who took over as the Director General of All India Radio (AIR) News?

Ira Joshi
Jaideep Bhatnagar
K S Dhatwalia
Prakash Javadekar

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5.Which technological supply chain system, ensures essential immunization services,that is being implemented under National Health Mission, by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

National Mobile Medical Units(NMMUs)
Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY)
Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN)
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA)

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6.Smart India Hackathon(Software)2020, is organised by Persistent Systems,i4c and the HRD ministry’s which division?

AICTE
CBSE
UGC
UPSC

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7.What is the name of the initiative is a national programme for popularizing science among school students of Class 6th to 11th,under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ?

Vigyan Prasar
Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA)
Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan(VVM)
Unnayan

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8. Special e-content is provided for visually and hearing impaired children,developed on DAISY and in sign language on NIOS website/ Youtube. What is the full form of DAISY?

Differently Abled Information System
Differently Audio Information System
Digitally Accessible Information System
Digitally Audio Information System

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9.SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 32 channels devoted to telecast high-quality _________ programmes.

Entertainment
Sports
Religious
education

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10.Which Ministry has been renamed as the Ministry of Education?

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY)
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

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11. Which company is set to exit as title sponsors of India Premier League(IPL),2020?

Oneplus
Oppo
Vivo
Realme

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12. Who was the first Director of National School of Drama (NSD)?

Naseeruddin Shah
Ebrahim Alkazi
Govind Namdev
Sai Paranjpye

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13.Who chaired the first General Council meeting of the Khelo India Scheme on 04 August,2020?

Narendra Modi
Sourav Ganguly
Kiren Rijiju
Sachin Tendulkar

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14.Ministry has identified state-owned sports facilities in eight states including Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala, Telangana, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland which will be upgraded into KISCE. What is the full form of KISCE?

Khelo India Skill Centre for Enhancement
Khelo India Sports Centre for Excellence
Khelo India Sports Certified Education
Khelo India State Centre of Excellence

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15. What is the brand name of phones by Google?

Slate
Pixel
Surface
Chromebook

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04082020 Quiz KEY +Notes

 1.Sashidhar Jagdishan

Sashidhar Jagdishan will be the  next HDFC Bank CEO. He will replace outgoing CEO Aditya Puri, who will step down in October 2020, after a 26-year stint at the bank

2. M Phil 

MPhil has been discontinued as part of the National Education Policy

Other NEP, 2020 Highlights:

National Education Policy is shifting from decades-old 10+2 format to 5+3+3+4, corresponding to age groups 3-8, 8-11, 11-14 and 14-18 years respectively.

NEP 2020 lays special emphasis on Early Child Care Education (ECCE) 

Ministry of Human Resource Development to be called the Ministry of Education.

K Kasturirangan (ex ISRO Chief) had submitted  NEP draftto Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ''Nishank''

replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986.

3. 24

W.e.f. 1st August 2020, now a total of 24 States/UTs are connected under One Nation One Ration Card.

4. Jaideep Bhatnagar

Shri Jaideep Bhatnagar takes over as Director General,All India Radio News, from Ms. Ira Joshi

5. eVIN

Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN), ensured essential immunization services during the COVID pandemic.

6. AICTE

Smart India Hackathon (Software) 2020 was organized by the HRD ministry’s All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Persistent Systems and i4c.

7. Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan(VVM)

VVM is an initiative of Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA), in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, Government of India and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), for popularizing science among school students of Class 6th to 11th.

8. Digitally Accessible Information System -DAISY 

DAISY is developed by NIOS(National Institute of Open Schooling) for differently-abled students.

9. Education 

 Swayam Prabha TV Channel

10.Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

Ministry of Human Resource Development to be called the Ministry of Education.

11. Vivo

12. Ebrahim Alkazi

Ebrahim Alkazi (18 October 1925 – 4 August 2020) was an Indian theatre director and drama teacher. 

13. Kiren Rijiju

Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju chaired the first General Council meeting of the Khelo India Scheme (04 August,2020)

14. KISCE - Khelo India State Centre of Excellence

State-owned sports facilities in eight states including Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala, Telangana, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland which will be upgraded into KISCE

15. Pixel