Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 11th October 2019

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1) Which of these months is observed as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month?

a) August

b) September

c) October

d) November

e) December

2) What is the theme for the 2019 International Girl Child Day?

a) A Skilled Girl force

b) Empower girls: emergency response and resilience planning

c) Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable

d) Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: What Counts for Girls

e) The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030

3) Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme. What is the name of the programme?

AMAR

b) DHRUV

c) SHANKAR

d) SHIVA

e) SAKET

4) Goa goa) vernment has replaced the traditional Dial 100 service for police facility to which of these emergency number?

a) 109

b) 112

c) 118

d) 121

e) 122

5) What is the latest GDP growth estimate of India by India Ratings and Research for the fiscal 2019-20?

a) 6.3%

b) 6.9%

c) 6.6%

d) 6.1%

e) 6.0%

6) What is Moody’s GDP forecast for the fiscal year ending in March 2020?

a) 6.8%

b) 5.8%

c) 6.1%

d) 7.1%

e) 6.5%

7) RBI has approved the amalgamation of how many district cooperative banks with Kerala State Cooperative Bank to form the new entity Kerala Bank?

a) 9

b) 10

c) 11

d) 12

e) 13

8) RBI has recently rejected the proposal of which of these banks to merge with the lndiabulls Housing Finance?

a) Lakshmi Vilas Bank

b) RBL Bank

c) City Union Bank

d) Karnataka Bank

e) Punjab National Bank

9) Who won the Nobel literature prize for 2019?

a) Peter Handke

b) Olga Tokarczuk

c) Akira Yoshino

d) James Peebles

e) William G Kaelin

10) Who is the author of the book titled “Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India” ?

a) Preeti Shenoy

b) Siddhartha Sarma

c) Khushwant Singh

d) Mulk Raj Anand

e) None of these

11) Which among these companies has formed joint venture with National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to roll out smart meters across India?

a) Electronics Corporation of India Limited

b) Power Grid Corporation of India

c) NTPC Limited

d) Energy Efficiency Services (EESL)

e) None of thse

12) Indian sports person Nirmala Sheroen has recently been banned on doping charges for 4 years. She represents India in which sports?

a) Cricket

b) Wrestling

c) Running

d) Hockey

e) Golf

Answers :

1) Answer: C)

The month of October is observed as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month every year. The annual campaign aims to raise awareness of the disease. It also helps to increase attention and support for awareness, early detection, and treatment as well as palliative care of this disease.

2) Answer: C)

Since 2012, 11 October has been marked as the International Girl Child Day by UN. Its main objective is women empowerment. In the world Conference on women that took place in 1995 countries adopted the Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action.2019 theme is “Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable”

3) Answer: B)

The Union Minister for Human Resources Development (HRD), Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank, launched an ambitious initiative named ‘Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme – DHRUV’ at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) headquarter at Bengaluru on October 10, 2019

4) Answer: B)

The Goa government launched ”112” as the new integrated emergency number for police, fire and medical emergencies replacing the traditional dial number ”100”. In the first phase, the dial ”112” service will cover only police department.

5) Answer: D)

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) on Thursday revised its forecast of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in current financial year downward to 6.1 per cent following the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) estimating Q1 growth to be 5 per cent, much lower than Ind-Ra’s estimate of 5.7 per cent. This is Ind-Ra’s second downward revision. The agency revised its GDP growth estimate to 6.7 per cent from its earlier forecast of 7.3 per cent.

6) Answer: B)

Moody’s cuts India’s GDP growth to 5.8 % in the fiscal year ending in March 2020, from 6.8 % in 2018. This is lowest projection after the RBI cut the GDP growth to 6.1 % earlier this month. It also predicts deficit of 3.7 % of GDP in fiscal 2019. Moody’s is an American business and financial services company.

7) Answer: E)

The Reserve Bank of India has given approval to the Kerala state government to amalgamate 13 district cooperative banks (DCBs) with the Kerala State Cooperative Bank and form the new entity named “Kerala Bank”. (Total of 14 banks). The Kerala Bank will begin its services from November 1.

8) Answer: A)

Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd the central bank has not approved its merger with Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. In September, RBI had placed Lakshmi Vilas Bank under Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) due to high level of bad loans, lack of sufficient capital to manage risks and negative return on assets for two consecutive years.

9) Answer: A)

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk & for the year 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke. Literature Nobel prize was suspended in 2018 after a sexual assault scandal.Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize last year.

10) Answer: B)

Book titled “Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India” written by Siddhartha Sarma was released. It is published by Penguin Hamish Hamilton India. It examines the history of Christianity in India in the context of local and global events.

11) Answer: D)

Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) have entered into a joint venture for the deployment of smart meters across India. The new joint venture, named IntelliSmart Infrastructure will implement, finance and operate the smart meter roll-out programme of power distribution companies. This venture will support the ambitions of ongoing government programmes, such as UDAY and National Smart Grid Mission.

12) Answer: C)

Indian sprinter Nirmala Sheroen has been stripped off her two Asian Championships gold medals and banned for four years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which manages track and field doping cases. The AIU came out with the order to ban Nirmala for testing positive for the steroids drostanolone and metenolone at a competition back home in June 2018. The period of her ban will start from June 28, 2018. Her results from August 2016 to November 2018 were also disqualified.

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