Tuesday, August 4, 2020
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
Monday, August 3, 2020
03 August 2020 Daily Quiz Key + Notes
1. Launch America
Launch America is a public–private partnership between NASA and multiple space companies, for the Commercial Crew Development program.
The first space launch under the Launch America was on May 30,2020 by SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 space mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2. IIT Kanpur
Haryana forest department officials said drone for aerial seeding to increase green cover in Aravallis.
The seed pallets were showered by 'seeding drone' designed by a by IIT-Kanpur backed startup.
3. Great Eastern Shipping Company
Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd’s board has appointed former RBI Governor Urjit Patel as an additional & independent director for a term of 5 years.
Urjit Patel served as the 24th governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2016 to 2018.
4. MobiKwik
mpay.me - a UPI payment link service to send and receive money from any UPI payment app
users and merchants can set up a single link using their mobile number to start receiving money.
5. Israel
India-Israel joint cooperation started trial for rapid testing, to find if the result in less than 30 seconds is successful.
Trials started three days ago at a special testing site at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital.
developed jointly in cooperation with DRDD Ministry of Defence Israel and DRDO, CSIR and PSA, India, while being coordinated by respective Foreign Affairs Ministries.
Ron Malka, Ambassador of Israel to India
6. Open Defecation free
Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) has moved towards its second phase which is also called ODF-Plus, and will continue till 2024-25.
Launch of Swachh Bharat Mission was on 2nd October 2014.
7. CREDAI
The CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India) Awaas App is a residential project discovery online platform that will help buyers to virtually explore RERA approved projects by CREDAI, from 220 cities in India.
8. HousingforAll.com
The NAREDCO (National Real Estate Development Council) web portal 'HousingForAll.Com' will help buyers to access the best priced inventory of builders and will display only RERA approved projects.
RERA - Real Estate Regulatory Authority under Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016.
9. Narendra Singh Tomar
released a booklet on “Best Practices in Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP)” of Department of Land Resources (DoLR)
Under the DILRMP, computerization of registration of land, cadastral maps and land records have been completed in more than 90 %of the states, Union Rural Development Ministry Announced.
10. 28
Under the PMGSY-2 scheme, 28 road projects will be constructed in Jammu and Kashmir costing nearly Rs.175 crore.
Dr. Jitendra Singh laid foundation stone virtually through video conferencing.
11. August 3,2020
World Sanskrit Day, also known as “Viswa Samskrita Dinam”, promotes the revival of ancient Indian language Sanskrit.
According to the Hindu calendar, it is celebrated on the poornima (full moon) of the ‘Shravana‘ month. In 2020, it was celebrated on August 3.
12. eSamadhan
The prestigious and highest Digital India Platinum Award at the 66th Skoch Summit, was for West Bengal was for eSamadhan which is the CMO Public Grievance System.
13. PayTM Money
PayTM CEO - Vijay Shekhar Sharma
PayTM Money CEO- Varun Sridhar
MobiKwik CEO -Bipin Preet Singh
Swiggy CEO- Sriharsha Majety
Zomato CEO -Deepinder Goyal
PhonePe - Sameer Nigam
14. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)
Khadi Agarbatti Aatmanirbhar Mission (KAAM) - Union Minister for MSME Nitin Gadkari has approved a unique employment generation program proposed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission
15. Rajasthan
SMILE (Social Media Interface for Learning Engagement)
Saturday, August 1, 2020
30th July Daily Quiz Key + Notes
1. IIT Mumbai
It has been ordered by the Supreme Court of India to install a smog tower in Delhi to fight
air pollution
2.National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986
Was replaced by New Education Policy (NEP)2020
3. 5+3+3+4
Under ECCE of NEP 2020, the 10+2 structure of school curriculum is to be replaced
by a 5 +3+ 3 +4 curricular structure, corresponding to ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years
respectively.
4.NCERT
The national council of educational research and training (NCERT) will develop
a national curricular and pedagogical framework for ECCE up to the age of 8.
A new and comprehensive National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education
(NCFTE) will be formulated by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) in
consultation with the NCERT.
5.K Kasturirangan
A panel led by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Kasturirangan
had submitted the draft of the new NEP to Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'
6. Kothari Commission
National Education Commission (1964-1966),was an ad hoc commission set up by
the Government of India to examine all aspects of the educational sector in India
Sarkaria Commisssion
The Sarkaria Commission's charter was to examine the central-state relationship on various
portfolios and suggest changes within the framework of Constitution of India. Set up in 1983
to by Government of India
Sattanathan Commission in 1971, which directed that the "creamy layer" should be excluded
from the reservations (quotas) of civil posts.
The Mandal Commission, or the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission, was established
in India on 1 January 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with
a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward classes" of India.
It recommended that 27 percent of central and state government jobs should be reserved for OBCs
7. Andhra Pradesh
Commerce and Information Technology (IT) Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy held a
videoconference Amazon and discussed the Amazon's 'Saheli' programme to empower women
by making them entrepreneurs.
An Amazon Centre of Excellence will be set up in one of the 30 skill development colleges
(SDCs) to come up in AP.
8. USA
The Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Act was authored by John Lewis,
the civil rights leader Democratic member of the House who recently passed away.
The Act seeks to set up, in cooperation with the Indian government, an educational forum
for scholars from the two countries focused on studying Gandhi and King.
9. July 30
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, was designated by UNGA resolution in 2013.
The 2020 theme for the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons will focus on the
first responders to human trafficking.
10. National Clinical registry of COVID-19
The plan is to bring a database of Coronavirus in order to understand ways to improve
treatment in hospitals.
The database, also known as a national clinical registry for COVID-19 patients, to conduct
clinical trials and study the effectiveness of new therapies that are being introduced for treating
corona virus and 15 institutions will be involved to create this network.
11. Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
CHRI in collaboration with global anti-slavery organisation Walk Free,
launched of a major new international report "Eradicating Modern Slavery: An assessment
of Commonwealth government progress on achieving SDG Target 8.7".
It shows the existing gaps in Commonwealth government responses to modern slavery
& provides roadmap.
12. Drones
Bombay Flying Club becomes India’s first DGCA-approved drone training school.
It is the oldest flying club in India, set up in 1928 and located at the Juhu aerodrome, Mumbai.
13. 6%
The Centre and the States will work together to increase the public investment in the
education sector to reach 6% of GDP, as per National Education Policy 2020.
14.Jaipal Reddy
Padi Bhavajaalalu - a Telugu translation of 'Ten Ideologies' is a book authored by
former Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy, was released on his first death anniversary.
It was unveiled by Vice President of India Shri Venkaiah Naidu online.
15. Aashray
Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), has developed a medical bed isolation
system, Aashray, to combat COVID-19.
16. IIT Kanpur
Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of
Technology- Kanpur for training, research, and entrepreneurship development in smart grid
technology.
PFC will provide financial assistance of ₹2.38 crore to IIT-K under its CSR initiative.
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