Tuesday, August 25, 2020
25 August Quiz Answers + Notes
1. Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Government e-Marketplace, GeM, a Special Purpose Vehicle under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
GeM is an online platform for procurement of goods and services by government departments, public sector units, and other agencies.
GeM (formed in 2016), is a tool to promote Maximum Governance Minimum Government, Make in India, Ease of Doing Business and Digital India
2. Shinzo Abe
Shinzo Abe has become Japan's longest consecutive serving prime minister, reaching 2,799 days and breaking the 2,798-day record previously set by Eisaku Sato.
3. My IAF
Indian Air Force has launched a mobile application 'My IAF' to provide career related information and job details to candidates.
Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria,launched the app at Air Headquarters Vayu Bhawan on 24 August as a part of Digital India initiative.
The application has been developed in association with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
4.IIT & IIsc
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is an E-learning platform for university-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects, and is developed jointly by IIT & IIsc
These sessions were hosted by various industry leaders & renowned professors, discussing topics like career, technology, academics, etc.
5.Ministry of Tourism
Ministry of Tourism organised the 50th webinar titled “Cultural heritage of Hyderabad” under Dekho Apna Desh series.
6. August 24
August 24 is Gujarati poet, playwright and social reformer Narmadashankar Dave 'Narmad' birthday and is celebrated as a day dedicated to Gujarati language and literature as World Gujarati language Day.
7. Kerala
WWF-India Kerala State Office has joined with the Society for Odonate Studies (SOS) and Thumbipuranam for the first-ever state Dragonfly Festival in Kerala, called as ‘Thumbi Maholsavam 2020’.
8. NABARD
NABARD has introduced a dedicated debt and credit guarantee product to ensure unhindered flow of credit in rural areas hit by the COVID-19 pandemic called “Structured Finance and Partial Guarantee Programme to NBFC-MFIs”
NABARD signed a pact with Vivriti Capital & Ujjivan Small Finance Bank to roll out the initiative,providing partial guarantee on pooled loans extended to small and mid-sized micro finance institutions (MFIs)
9. Bayern Munich
Monday, August 24, 2020
24 august Quiz Answers + Notes
1. $500 million
The Government of India, the Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have signed a loan agreement for a $500 million Mumbai Urban Transport Project-III to improve the network capacity, service quality and safety of the suburban railway system in Mumbai.
2. section 16
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (40 of 2019), the Central Government has constituted a National Council for Transgender Persons vide notification dated 21st August, 2020.
The Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment will be Chairperson (ex-officio) and Union Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment will be Vice-Chairperson
The other members of the Council include representatives of various Ministries/Departments, five representatives of transgender community, representatives of NHRC and NCW, representatives of State Governments and UTs and experts representing NGOs.
3.Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment - Thaawar Chand Gehlot
4. Army Sports Institute, Pune
Army Sports Institute, Pune was identified and awarded with “Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2020” by the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt of India.
5.National commission for population
The National Commission on Population under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The report of the technical group on population projections titled Population projections for India and States 2011 – 2036 has observed that the population in 2036 is expected to be more feminine compared to the population as of 2011 when it came to sex ratio.
The country’s sex ratio of the total population (females per 1000 males) is expected to increase from 943 in 2011 to 957 during 2036.
6.Anand Mahindra, Shantanu Narayen to receive 2020 Leadership Awards from USISPF
It will be presented during the third Annual Leadership Summit, titled “US-India Week: Navigating New Challenges”, which will convene virtually from August 31, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) said.
7. ICICI Lombard, Bharti AXA
ICICI Lombard to merge Bharti AXA general insurance biz with self, to create 3rd largest player
8. Brahmaputra
India's longest river ropeway connecting Guwahati and North Guwahati over Brahmaputra river inaugurated in Assam.
The 1.8- kilometre long ropeway service will operate from Kachari Ghat in Guwahati to Dol Govinda temple in North Guwahati.
9.Indonesia
The 2,600-metre (8,530-feet) Sinabung was dormant for four centuries before exploding in 2010.
Sinabung is among more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia.
10. Justice Ranjana Desai
A new office premises for Delimitation Commission was inaugurated by Chairperson of the Commission, Justice Ranjana Desai
Saturday, August 22, 2020
22 August 2020 Daily Quiz Answers + Notes
Harit Path
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), has developed a mobile App called ‘Harit Path' to monitor location, growth, species details, maintenance activities, targets and achievements of each of its field units for each and every plant under all plantation projects.
The app was inaugurated by the Union Minister for RTH Shri Nitin Gadkari who has instructed to ensure E-tagging of plants
NHAI
NHAI Planted 25 Lakh Plants in 25 Days under ‘Harit Bharat Sankalp’ to Mark its Silver Jubilee Year
Under this initiative, NHAI planted over 25 lakh plants in 25 days along the stretches of the National Highways between 21st July to 15th August 2020.
ARCI
4. Rajasthan
5. Sarda Act
Sarda act or Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929 was passed by Imperial Legislative Council of India under Lord Irwin, which fixed the minimum age for girls as 14 years and that of boys as 18 years.
It is popularly known as the Sarda Act after its sponsor, Harbilas Sarda.
It was amended in 1978, to prescribe 18 and 21 years for women and men, respectively.
PM Narendra Modi in his 74th Independence Day speech said the Centre had set up a committee to reconsider the minimum age of marriage for women.
A task Force set up under the chairmanship of Ms Jaya Jaitly to examine matters pertaining to correlation of age of marriage and motherhood, imperatives of lowering MMR etc.
Friday, August 21, 2020
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