10 August 2020, DAILY QUIZ

1.Who will launch Atma Nirbhar Bharat Saptah today ?

Narendra Modi
Rajnath Singh
Narendra Singh Tomar
Nitin Gadkari

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2.Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate video conferencing the submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) on 10th August, 2020, to provide high speed broadband connectivity with which state/ UT?

Lakshadweep
Rameswaram
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Mizoram

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3. PM Modi launched a financing facility under Agri-Infra Fund; for setting up storage & processing facilities, which will help farmers get higher prices for their crops for an amount of

$1 lakh crore
INR 1 lakh crore
$ 17000 cr
INR 17000 crore

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4.Quit India movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, demanding an end to British Rule of India, and asking Indians to “do or die” after the failure of _______

Simon Commission
Cripps Mission
Cabinet Mission
Hunter Commission

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5.Which institute in collaboration with Imperial College, London have joined hands to develop a tailored ‘meta-grid’ of nanoparticles that could make LEDs more efficient ?

IIT Kharagpur
IIT Guwahati
IIT Kanpur
IIT Delhi

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6.Who is the newly appointed Chairman of UPSC?

Arvind Saxena
Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank”
Pradeep Kumar Joshi
K Kasturirangan

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7.Under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, Defence ministry will introduce an import embargo on _________ items beyond the given timeline to boost indigenisation of defence production.

100
101
103
99

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8.What is the name of the portal launched by Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Z Irani for weavers and organisations to apply for benefits under various handloom schemes?

MyHandloom
HandloomMark(HLM)
#Vocal4Handmade
MakeinIndia

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9.Who has been appointed as the head coach of Italian Football club Juventus ?

Maurizio Sarri
Andrea Pirlo
Antonio Conte
Jose Mourinho

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10. According to the Ministry of Health, tele-consultation by eSanjeevani and eSanjeevani OPD have been implemented by ___ states in India.

20
21
22
23

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11.Western Railways, is transporting Cloth, Dye & Chemicals in a special train loaded from Kankaria in Gujarat, to which place in Bangladesh ?

Dhaka
Benapol
Rajshahi
Khulna

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12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 6th installment of Rs 17,100 crore to about 8.5 crore farmers under which scheme ?

PM KISAN
PM SVANIDHI
PM GKAY
PM KUSUM

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10 August 2020 QuiZ Answers + Notes

1.Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched Atma Nirbhar Bharat week. The initiative was further to recently imposed import embargo on 101 items, to boost indigenisation of defence production.

2.Andaman &Nicobar Islands

PM Modi inaugurated the first ever undersea optical fibre project for Andaman and Nicobar Islands which will provide high speed broadband connections in the Union Territory.

 On December 30, 2018, Prime Minister had laid the foundation for the 2,312-Kilometers long submarine optical fibre cable project connecting Chennai - Andaman and Nicobar Islands (CANI).

Work of laying undersea cable has been executed by BSNL.

internet speed of 400 gigabyte (Gb) per second will be provided at Port Blair and for other islands it will be 200 Gb per second.

Lt. Governor of A&N Islands Admiral D.K. Joshi

3. INR 1lakh crore

PM Modi launched a financing facility of Rs 1 lakh cr under Agri-Infra Fund; for setting up storage & processing facilities, which will help farmers get higher prices for their crops.

4. Cripps Mission

Quit India movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, demanding an end to British Rule of India.

Mahatma Gandhi gave the call for the Indians to “do or die” to make this happen, after the failure of Cripps mission.

5. IIT Guwahati 

Researchers from IIT Guwahati and Imperial College, London have joined hands to develop a tailored ‘meta-grid’ of nanoparticles that could make LEDs more efficient.

6.Pradeep Kumar Joshi

Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)~ Prof (Dr.) Pradeep Kumar Joshi. 

Arvind Saxena, the outgoing chairman of the UPSC.

7.101

Rajnath Singh said Defence ministry will introduce an import embargo on 101 items in a phased manner,to boost indigenisation of defence production

8. MyHandloom

On August 7, 2020, on the occasion of National Handloom Day, ‘My handloom portal’ was launched. It will act as a single platform for all the information and schemes related to the handloom industry, and one stop for weavers and handloom producers.

9.Andrea Pirlo

Serie A champions Juventus named former midfielder Andrea Pirlo as the new coach. Pirlo was a World Cup winner with Italy in 2006.

He takes over from Maurizio Sarri.

10.23

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan reviewed meeting with states &UTs over the ''eSanjeevani'' and ''eSanjeevaniOPD'' platforms.

This eSanjeevani platform has enabled two types of telemedicine services -  Doctor-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani) and Patient-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani OPD) Tele-consultations.

1.5 lakh tele-consultations (In 23 States) were completed on the tele-medicine service platforms of the Health Ministry. 

11. Benapole

Western Railway Zone has achieved a unique record after deciding to run a parcel train from Ahmedabad division in Gujarat to neighbouring country Bangladesh. It will be traversing 2110 km to reach Benapole in Bangladesh.

12. PM KISAN

PM Modi released the 6th installment of Rs 17,000 cr to over 8.5 cr beneficiaries under PM-KISAN scheme.

Pradhan Mantri KIsan SAmman Nidhi -PM-KISAN.