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1) Every year, World Food Day has been observed on which of the following day?

(a) 12 October

(b) 14 October

(d) 17 October

(e) 15 October

2) When is the first World Anaesthesia Day observed?

(a) 1919

(b) 1934

(d) 1952

(e) 1949

3) What is the theme of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2022?

(a) Building Forward Together

(b) Dignity for All in Practice

(d) Acting together to empower children and communities to end poverty

(e) Coming together with those furthest behind to build

4) The Union Cabinet approved a project to develop a container terminal at Tuna-Tekra, Deendayal Port in _______under the public-private partnership mode.

(a) Gujarat

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Rajasthan

(e) Haryana

5) The central government scrapped the privatization of the Steel Authority of India’s (SAIL) Bhadravathi steel plant. Where is the Bhadravathi steel plant located?

(a) Karnataka

(b) Andhra Pradesh

(d) Madhya Pradesh

(e) Gujarat

6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off India’s fourth Vande Bharat express train from __________ to New Delhi.

(a) Una, Himachal Pradesh

(b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(d) Chandimandir, Haryana

(e) Surat, Gujarat

7) By which year, the Union Government has set a target of electricity transmission for renewable energy capacity of about 233 GW?

(a) 2027

(b) 2025

(d) 2030

(e) 2035

8) Where was Narendra Modi inaugurated Phase 1 of Modi Shaikshanik Sankul, an educational complex for needy students?

(a) Pune, Maharashtra

(b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(d) Noida, Uttar Pradesh

(e) Ahmedabad, Gujarat

9) Which organization has partnered with Arya?ag & Friends of Women’s World Banking India (FWWB India) to improve the incomes of 10,000 households?

(a) UNDP

(b) UNEP

(d) WHO

(e) UNESCO

10) Which state government has launched the SAACAR Portal for quick justice for SC/ST victims of atrocities?

(a) Assam

(b) Haryana

(d) Jharkhand

(e) Maharashtra

11) Which state has the top performer in agri and allied Grass Value Output (GVO), as per the report of the National Statistical Office (NSO)?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Andhra Pradesh

(d) Gujarat

(e) Karnataka

12) India’s only business museum set to undergo a makeover will soon go digital. This museum was located in which of the following institute?

(a) IIT Madras

(b) IIM Kozhikode

(d) IIT Mandi

(e) IIT Kanpur

13) Which is the first State in southern India and only the second state in India to get the Plan prepared and approved as per the new CRZ notification?

(a) Telangana

(b) Andhra Pradesh

(d) Kerala

(e) Karnataka

14) Which organization has extended an unconditional loan of $250 million for the SALT project in Andhra Pradesh?

(a) NDB

(b) ADB

(d) AIIB

(e) IMF

15) RBI has issued consolidated guidelines on unhedged foreign currency exposure(UFCE) Directions. These instructions shall come into force from _________.

(a) 01 April 2023

(b) 01 January 2023

(d) 01 December 2022

(e) 31 July 2023

16) Which of the following company has adopted Tung village, in the Maval sub-district of Maharashtra?

(a) Universal Sompo General Insurance

(b) Oriental Insurance Company Limited

(d) United India Insurance Company

(e) Edelweiss General Insurance

17) What is its rank of India in the 14^th annual Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index (MCGPI)?

(a) 26

(b) 41

(d) 57

(e) 73

18) Which of the following has signed an MoU with IIFCL to strengthen cooperation in financing railway infrastructure projects?

(a) IRCTC

(b) NTPC

(d) SAIL

(e) BHEL

19) Infosys President Mr. Ravi Kumar S resigned recently. He was a former scientist in __________.

(a) BHEL

(b) SAIL

(d) ISRO

(e) HAL

20) Which country’s parliament has elected Abdul Latif Rashid as its new President?

(a) Iraq

(b) UAE

(d) Vietnam

(e) Israel

21) Which of the following INS has reached South Africa for maritime exercise IBSAMAR?

(a) INS Talwar

(b) INS Sahyadri

(d) INS Satpura

(e) INS Shivalik

22) Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in ______________.

(a) Hyderabad, Telangana

(b) Indore, Madhya Pradesh

(d) Pune, Maharashtra

(e) Kochi, Kerala

23) Eastern Naval Command conducts offshore security exercise named ___________.

(a) Vidhan

(b) Sulthan

(d) Kathan

(e) Manthan

24) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a rocket named NGLV to replace the PSLV. What does ‘N’ denotes in NGLV?

(a) Nation

(b) New

(d) Number

(e) Near

25) What is the currency of Iraq?

(a) Dirham

(b) Euro

(d) Dinar

(e) Shekel

Answers :

1) Answer: C

World Food Day 2022 is observed annually on the 16th of October 2022.
World Food Day 2022 theme is, “Leave No One Behind”
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a specialized body of the United Nations, created World Food Day in 1945.
However, it would take another 34 years until the 20th FAO conference in November 1979, when it was declared a global holiday.
Following this, 150 nations continued to commemorate the day once it was given official UN recognition.

2) Answer: C

World Anaesthesia Day 2022 is observed on the 16th of October 2022. Since 1903, unique occasions have been planned to commemorate this momentous day.
World Anaesthesia Day 2022 theme is, “Anaesthesia and children: Caring for your kids”. World Anaesthesia Day is observed on October 16 in remembrance of W.T.G. Morton, who made the first successful official demonstration of ether as an anesthetic on this date 173 years ago. This event ushered in the practice of anesthesiology.

3) Answer: B

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2022 is observed on the 17th of October 2022.
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2022 is an opportunity to recognize the challenges and efforts of those who are poor, give them a voice, and highlight that they are the ones who fight against poverty first.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2022 theme, “Dignity for All in Practice”
The first commemoration of this day took place in 1987 at the Trocadéro in Paris, where more than 100,000 people gathered to remember those who had died from extreme poverty, violence, and hunger at the unveiling of a memorial stone by a French priest and humanitarian activist named Joseph Wresinski.

4) Answer: A

The Union Cabinet approved a project to develop a container terminal at Tuna-Tekra, Deendayal Port in Gujarat under the public-private partnership mode.
The estimated cost of ₹4,243.64 crore will be on the part of the concessionaire and an estimated cost of common user facilities of ₹296.20 crore will be on the part of the concessioning authority toward the development of common user facilities.
From 2025, a net gap of 1.88 million TEUs shall be available which can be catered by tune Tekra Development of a state-of-the-art container terminal at Tuna-Tekra will give it a strategic advantage as it will be the closed container terminal serving the vast hinterland of the northern part of India (Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan).

5) Answer: A

The Central government scrapped the privatization of the Steel Authority of India’s (SAIL) Bhadravathi steel plant.
This is due to insufficient bidder interest.
The government had invited an Expression of Interest (EoI) for divesting SAIL’s 100 percent stake in Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant (VISP), Bhadravathi in Karnataka in July 2019.

6) Answer: A

PM Shri Narendra Modi flagged off the country’s fourth Vande Bharat express train.
This express train was launched from Himachal Pradesh’s Una. The new Vande Bharat Express will run from Amb Andaura to New Delhi.
It accelerates to 100 km per hour in just 52 seconds. The Integral Coach Factory has set a target of manufacturing 75 Vande Bharat trains by August 2023.
It also has a photocatalytic ultraviolet air purification system in the roof-mounted package unit (RMPU) for air purification.

7) Answer: D

The government is mulling electricity transmission for renewable energy capacity of about 233 GW, the latest by 2030, across the country.
Planning of a transmission system for integration of an additional 52 GW potential REZ (renewable energy zone) by 2026-27 has been carried out transmission schemes for another 181.5 GW by 2030 have been planned and the same would be taken up for implementation in a progressive manner.
At present, the installed capacity of the national grid is 404 GW and the peak demand met is 216 GW.

8) Answer: E

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Phase 1 of Modi Shaikshanik Sankul, an educational complex for needy students in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
The project will help provide facilities to students for holistic development.
He highlighted that Labour has tremendous power and a large section of our ‘samaj’ belongs to the hard-working class.
The foundation stone was also laid for one Agro Food Park, Sea Food Park, and MSME Park by the Prime Minister. He also dedicated 800 TPD Caustic Soda Plant at Dahej.

9) Answer: A

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has partnered with the integrated grain commerce platform Arya. ag and Friends of Women’s World Banking India (FWWB India) for agri-value chain intervention, enterprise promotion, and skilling in the agriculture sector.
The UNEP is implementing Project Excel in the Jamnagar and Dwaraka Devbhumi districts of Gujarat to improve the incomes of 10,000 farmer households through enterprise promotion, agri-value chain interventions, skilling, employment, and social protection.

Aim :

To create a group of community resource persons for mentoring and supporting entrepreneurs and promoting individual and group enterprises by December 2023.

10) Answer: C

Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik launched a web portal ‘Single Window Application Atrocity Compensation Assistance and Relief’ (SAACAR ) for end-to-end processing of atrocity cases registered in various police stations.
The departments of Home, ST & SC Development, and Revenue & Disaster Management have developed the portal.
The portal will facilitate faster investigation and payment of compensation in the first phase to the victims of SC-ST atrocity cases within 21 days.

11) Answer: B

Andhra Pradesh (AP), with ₹2,03,638.5 crore combined gross value output (GVO) in the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors, has registered more than 90% growth in 9 years to 2019-20, the highest among all the states, while Kerala is the only state to have recorded negative growth of over 10%.
According to the report on the value of output from agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors released recently by the National Statistical Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Uttar Pradesh, a leading producer of paddy, wheat, and sugarcane, the GVO in agri and allied activities recorded at ₹3,05,615.24 crore in 2019-20, up 8% from ₹2,44,884.44 crore in 2011-12

12) Answer: B

The Indian Business Museum, housed inside the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) campus and the only one of its kind, will soon offer visitors a slice of history digitally. The museum intends to collect, consolidate, and conserve the rich business history of India. Conceptualized in 2010 and officially opened in 2013, the museum traces the subcontinent’s business history from the time of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
The museum, spanning over 23,000 square feet (2,100 m²), also has a Malabar Pavilion sponsored by the Malabar Chamber of Commerce

13) Answer: E

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation for 8 projects worth Rs 3,800 crore at Goldfinch city and approved the New Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) for
This Plan would give a boost to the economy and tourism in the coastal region of Karnataka.

Key Highlights :

As per the 2019 CRZ notification, the new Coastal Zone Management Plan has been approved by the Ministry of Forest, Environment, and Climate Change.
Karnataka is the first State in southern India and only the second state in the country to get the Plan prepared and approved as per the new CRZ notification.

14) Answer: C

The World Bank (WB) has extended an unconditional loan of $250 million to Support Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT) project in appreciation of the path-breaking reforms implemented by the Andhra Pradesh (AP) government.
The SALT is the first project in the school education sector to be funded by the World Bank without any precondition.
The facilities in schools were vastly improved under the Nadu-Nedu program to provide an atmosphere that was conducive to teaching and learning.
Approximately ₹53,000 crores had been spent on school education in the last 3 years and a major chunk of it (₹22,617 crores) had gone to Amma Vodi and the first phase of the Nadu-Nedu scheme.

15) Answer: B

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued modified and consolidated guidelines to the banks on Unhedged Foreign Currency Exposure (UFCE) Directions in 2022.
These directions will apply to all commercial banks (excluding Payments Banks & Regional Rural Banks).
These instructions shall come into force from January 1, 2023.
Entities that do not hedge their foreign currency exposure can incur significant losses during a period of heightened volatility in foreign exchange rates.

16) Answer: A

Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Ltd adopts Tung village, in the Maval sub-district of Maharashtra. Universal Sompo committed to pledging INR 50 Lakh in developmental activities in the village.
This was followed by sharing details of the project with the village chief and the entire community and simultaneously introducing the physician who would supervise healthcare-related activities.

Aim:

To educate the women in the village on digital literacy and farm animal (veterinary) treatment.

17) Answer: B

Mercer and the CFA Institute released its 14th annual Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index (MCGPI) which comprises a list of 44 countries with the best and worst pension systems in the world.
India ranked 41st and has the fourth-lowest retirement income system in the world, according to the report.
It comprises an earnings-related employee pension scheme, a DC employee provident fund (EPFO), and supplementary employer-managed pension schemes, which are largely DC in nature.
According to the report, Iceland’s retirement income system has once again topped the list, followed by the Netherlands and Denmark respectively while Thailand has been ranked lowest.

18) Answer: C

Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL) to strengthen cooperation in financing railway infrastructure projects.
The MoU was signed to strengthen cooperation in financing railway infrastructure projects with forward and backward linkages to the Indian Railways sector.
Through this MoU, IRFC, and IIFCL plan to amplify each other’s capabilities, enabling them to jointly leverage the financing opportunities for viable infrastructure projects.
India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL) was set up in 2006, as a wholly-owned Government of India enterprise to cater to the long-term financing needs of the infrastructure sector in India.

19) Answer: C

IT services major Infosys has announced that its president Mr. Ravi Kumar S has resigned from his post.

About Mr. Ravi Kumar S :

Ravi Kumar S started his career as a nuclear scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center.
In 2017, he was named the Deputy Chief Operating Officer (COO).
According to the 2021-22 annual report of Infosys, Mr. Kumar was the third highest-paid senior executive of the company after CEO Mr. Salil Parekh and former COO UB Pravin Rao.

20) Answer: A

The Iraqi parliament elected Kurdish former minister Mr. Abdul Latif Rashid as the new president of Iraq.
He became 9th president of Iraq, following the 2022 Iraqi presidential election.
Rashid received 162 votes in the second round of voting, defeating Mr. Barham Salih who gained 99 votes, while 8 votes were considered invalid.
According to the Iraqi constitution, the President-elect needs to gather at least two-thirds of the votes of the 329 parliament members.

21) Answer: C

INS Tarkash reached Port Gqeberha (also known as Port Elizabeth), South Africa to participate in the 7th edition of IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise among Indian, Brazilian, and South African Navies.
The Indian Navy is represented by the Teg class guided missile frigate, INS Tarkash, a Chetak helicopter, and the personnel from the Marine Commando Force (MARCOS).
INS Tarkash reached Port Gqeberha (also known as Port Elizabeth), South Africa to participate in the 7th edition of IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise among Indian, Brazilian, and South African Navies.

22) Answer: E

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant at Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) in Kochi, Kerala.
Also, during the event, the PM unveiled the new Naval Ensign (Nishaan), doing away with the colonial past and befitting the rich Indian maritime heritage.
He dedicated the new ensign to Chhatrapati Shivaji.

23) Answer: C

An offshore security exercise, ‘Prasthan’ was conducted in the Krishna Godavari Basin (KGB) Offshore Development Area (ODA) under the aegis of Headquarters, Eastern Naval Command.

Aim :

To integrate the efforts of all maritime stakeholders involved in offshore defense.

About the Exercise :

The exercise is conducted every six months and is an important element of ensuring offshore security.

24) Answer: C

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a rocket named Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV) to replace the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
This was announced by ISRO chairman Shri S Somanath on the sidelines of the ‘Engineers Conclave 2022’ at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Valiyamala.
Currently, India has two operational launchers, PSLV and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

25) Answer: D

Iraq :

Prime Minister : Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
Capital: Baghdad
Currency: Iraqi dinar

Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 16th & 17th October 2022

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