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
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
Thursday, August 20, 2020
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