21 August Daily Quiz

1.Which city has been adjudged as the cleanest city of India, with more than 10 lakh population, for the fourth time in a row in the Swachh Survekshan awards 2020?

Chandigarh
Surat
Navi Mumbai
Indore

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2.Swachh Survekshan is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in cities and towns across India. It is a part of which Govt of India initiative?

Digital India
Skill India
Swachh Bharat Mission
Make in India

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3.The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), is a statutory advisory body advising the Government of India's Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is headquartered in ______

Surat, Gujarat
Ballabhgarh, Haryana
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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4.FIAPO, officially founded in the year 2010,is a collaboration of collection of over 100 organizations across India, works towards the protection of animal rights. What is the full form of FIAPO?

Federation of International Animal Protection Organisations
Federation of Indian Animal Produce Organisations
Federation of Indian All Animal Produce Organisations
Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations

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5.Mukhyamantri Slum Swasthya Yojana’ will be launched in urban areas of which state?

Chattisgarh
Jharkhand
Bihar
Gujarat

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6."Namath Basai", an unique programme of teaching tribal children in their mother tongue is a programme by which state government ?

Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala
Karnataka

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7. The ‘National Strategy for Financial Education 2020-2025′ (NSFE),is a ‘5-Core Actions’ multi-stakeholder-led approach for promoting financial education and awareness for empowering India. It was released by _____

NITI ayog
SEBI
RBI
FICCI

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8.Which company has announced a MoU with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna to help create industry-focused applied research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). ?

Amazon
Flipkart
Dell
Google

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9.Reliance Industries Ltd has acquired a majority stake in which online pharmacy?

Medplus
Medlife
Netmeds
Apollo Pharmacy

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10.According to a joint report by which organisations "As many as 41 lakh youth in India have lost jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while construction and farm sector workers account for the majority of job losses" ?

ADB & ILO
UNICEF & WHO
NITI Ayog & CSO
UNESCO & EU

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21 August 2020, Quiz answers + Notes

 1.Indore 

 Indore was adjudged as the cleanest city of India for the fourth time in a row in the Swachh Survekshan awards 2020 announced by Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs. 

Gujarat's Surat takes second spot & Navi Mumbai ranked third in the category of cities with more than 10 lakh population.

Bihar's Patna was adjudged as the dirtiest city. 

2. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Swachh Survekshan is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene & sanitation in cities and towns across India. It was launched as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission.

3. Ballabhgarh ,Haryana

The Animal Welfare Board of India is headquartered at Ballabhgarh in Haryana state.

AWBI is a statutory advisory body advising the Government of India's Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

It was established in 1962 under Section 4 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, by  Late Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale

4. Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations

FIAPO was officially founded in the year 2010, a collaboration with more than 80 members, 200 supporter organisations and 400 individual activists in over 40 cities – hoping to change the lives of animals across the country, through education, research, lobbying, mobilisation, training and direct action.

5. Chattisgarh

“Mukhyamantri Slum Swasthya Yojana’ will be launched in urban areas under which people will be provided health facilities at their doorstep through 70 mobile medical units in all the 14 municipal corporations.

6.Kerala

Namath Basai, the Kerala govt unique programme of teaching tribal children in their mother tongue is being implemented by Samagra Siksha Kerala (SSK) 

The SSK has distributed some 50 laptops exclusively for Namath Basai. Pre-recorded classes are offered through a YouTube channel.

7.RBI

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) came out with a '5-Core Actions' approach for promoting financial education, which among other things include development of relevant content for school children and adults, community participation and collaboration.

The ‘National Strategy for Financial Education 2020-2025’ (NSFE), released by the RBI, has suggested a multi-stakeholder-led approach for creating a financially aware and empowered India.

The five Cs, outlined by the strategy paper, are: Content, Capacity, Community, Communication and Collaboration.

8.Flipkart

Flipkart has announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna to help create industry-focused applied research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML).

9.Netmeds

Reliance Industries Ltd has acquired a majority stake in online pharmacy Netmeds .

Vitalic and its subsidiaries, collectively known as Netmeds, were incorporated in 2015. Netmeds is a licensed e-pharma portal that offers authenticated prescription and over the counter (OTC) medicine along with other health products in India.

10.  ILO-ADB

 ILO-ADB has released a report, titled 'Tackling the COVID-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific

"For India, the report estimates job loss for 4.1 million youth. Construction and agriculture have witnessed the major job losses among seven key sectors” the report said.

ILO - International Labour Organization

ADB - asian Development Bank