Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 17th June 2022

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1) Recently in June PM Modi took part in the celebration of 200 years of which of the following newspaper?

A) Times Of India

B) Hindustan Time

C) Sanskrit Sandhya

D) Mumbai Samachar

E) None of these

2) Recently in June APEDA in association with the Indian Embassy and Al Jazira Group launched the Mango festival in ___________ on 13 June 2022.

A) Bahrain

B) UAE

C) Nepal

D) Maldives

E) None of these

3) International Day of Family Remittances is observed every year on _____________ .

A) 15^th June

B) 16^th June

C) 17^th June

D) 18^th June

E) None of these

4) Consider the following statement regarding the Prithvi-II missile.

1) DRDO and BDL have developed this missile under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).

2) Prithvi-II is a single-fueled short-range surface- to surface ballistic missile.

3) It has a range of around 250 km with a 1-tonne payload capacity. The range of the missile was extended to 350 km.

Which of the following statement is correct?

A) Only 1 & 2

B) Only 2 & 3

C) Only 1 & 3

D) All of the above

E) None of these

5) Recently ____________has become India’s first state to launch Balika Panchayat to promote the social and political development of the girls.

A) Madhya Pradesh

B) Uttar Pradesh

C) Gujarat

D) Bihar

E) None of these

6) World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed every year on _________to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat desertification.

A) 15^th June

B) 16^th June

C) 17^th June

D) 18^th June

E) None of these

7) Recently Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal with a throw of __________ at the 2022 Kuorten Games in Finland.

A) 89.30 m

B) 86.69 m

C) 87.30 m

D) 88.40 m

E) None of these

8) National Reading Day is celebrated on ____________ every year in honor of P N Panicker, regarded as the Father of Kerala’s Library and Literacy Movement.

A) 15^th June

B) 16^th June

C) 19^th June

D) 18^th June

E) None of these

9) Consider the following statement regarding the 44^th Chess Olympiad.

1) International Chess Federation (FIDE) has this year for the second time instituted the Chess Olympiad Torch.

2) India is the first country from where the journey of the Chess Olympiad torch started.

3) The 44^th Chess Olympiad will take place in Chennai from July 28 to August 10, 2022.

Which of the following statement is correct?

A) Only 1 & 2

B) Only 2 & 3

C) Only 1 & 3

D) All of the above

E) None of these

10) Every year on _____________ World Refugee Day is observed to honour refugees around the world.

A) 15^th June

B) 16^th June

C) 20^th June

D) 18^th June

E) None of these

11) Consider the following statement regarding the 2022 Skytrax World Airport Awards.

1) Kempegowda International Airport has won the best regional airport in India and South Asia title in the 2022 Skytrax World Airport Awards.

2) Hamad International Airport has been selected as the World’s Best Airport.

3) Tokyo Haneda Airport has won the ‘World’s Cleanest Airport’ award.

Which of the following statement is correct?

A) Only 1 & 2

B) Only 2 & 3

C) Only 1 & 3

D) All of the above

E) None of these

12) Recently in June _________________ has launched its third most advanced aircraft carrier ‘Fujian’.

A) Japan

B) Indonesia

C) Thailand

D) China

E) None of these

13) Recently in June PM Modi dedicated India’s first and only fully air-conditioned railway station named after Sir M Vishveshwarayya to the nation in ______________.

A) Hyderabad

B) Pune

C) Bengaluru

D) Mumbai

E) None of these

14) Recently PM unveiled a book titled ‘Bhartiya Samvidhan: Ankahi Kahani’ authored by _____________ .

A) HindolSen Gupta

B) Ram BahadurRai.

C) SavitaSen

D) Anupriya Ghosh

E) None of these

15) Recently in June Gustavo Petro has been elected as President of ___________.

A) Croatia

B) Colombia

C) Sudan

D) Singapore

E) None of these

16) Recently FIFA Annoounced 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the first World Cup to be hosted by three different countries. Which of the following countries is not the host country among the following?

A) USA

B) Brazil

C) Canada

D) Mexico

E) None of these

17) Recently in June, the Government has declared the IT resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and ______________ as ‘critical information infrastructure’.

A) State Bank Of India

B) NPCI

C) Reserve Bank Of India

D) SEBI

E) None of these

18) Recently ____________ has announced to attend NATO summit for the first time.

A) India

B) Japan

C) Ukraine

D) Sweden

E) None of these

19) Recently, the government has decided to implement the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) scheme in the entire country by which year?

A) 2022

B) 2024

C) 2026

D) 2028

E) None of these

20) Recently in June, A new air squadron was created in the Indian Coast Guard in Chennai. This new air squadron is named as ______________.

A) 420 squadron

B) 480 squadron

C) 820 squadron

D) 840 squadron

E) None of these

21) Recently in June _____________has won the UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Education for 2021.

A) Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET)

B) Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

C) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

D) National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

E) None of these

 

Answers :

1) Answer: D

• PM Modi took part in the celebration of 200 years of Mumbai Samachar on 14 June 2022.
• PM Modi also released a commemorative postal stamp on this occasion.
• He said that Mumbai Samachar is the philosophy and expression of India.
• Mumbai Samachar is a newspaper in Gujarati and English. The printing of Mumbai Samachar as a weekly was started on 1st July 1822 by Shri FardunjeeMarzbanji. Later on, it became a daily newspaper in 1832.

2) Answer: A

• To boost the export of mangoes, APEDA in association with the Indian Embassy and Al Jazira Group launched the Mango festival in Bahrain on 13 June 2022.
• For the first time, 34 varieties of mangoes from West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, UP, and Odisha are being displayed.
• Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka are the major producers of mango in India.

3) Answer: B

• International Day of Family Remittances is observed every year on 16 June.
• The day recognizes more than 200 million migrant workers, women, and men, who send money home to over 800 million family members.
• Family remittances are the money sent by people living in another country to their family members in their home country.
• The theme for International Day of Family Remittances 2022 is “Recovery and resilience through digital and financial inclusion”.
• As per World Bank data 2022, in 2021, remittances flow grew from US$ 540 billion in 2020 to US$ 605 billion sent to low-and middle-income countries.

4) Answer: D

• Training launch of Prithvi-II missile carried out successfully on 15 June 2022 from ITR, Chandipur.
• DRDO and BDL have developed this missile under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).
• Prithvi-II is a single-fueled short-range surface- to surface ballistic missile. It has a range of around 250 km with a 1-tonne payload capacity. The range of the missile was extended to 350 km.
• The state-of-the-art missile uses an advanced inertial guidance system with aneuvering trajectory to hit its target.
• The missile was inducted into India’s Strategic Forces Command in 2003.
• ‘Prithvi’ was the first missile developed under the IGMDP.
• Prithvi missile has 3 variants:
• Prithvi I (SS-150): Army version with 1000 kg payload capacity
• Prithvi II (SS-250): Air force version with 500 kg payload capacity
• Prithvi III (SS-350-2 stage fueled missile): Naval version with 1000 kg payload capacity
• Dhanush Missile is a variant of the Prithvi III missile which has been developed for the Indian Navy.

5) Answer: C

• Gujarat has become India’s first state to launch BalikaPanchayat.
• The BalikaPanchayat is run by girls in the 11-21 age group.
• BalikaPanchayat aims to promote the social and political development of the girls.
• This is an initiative of the Women and Child Development Welfare department of the Gujarat Government under the ‘BetiBachaoBetiPadhao’ campaign.
• The initiative of BalikaPanchayat was started in 4 villages in the Kutch district about a year ago. These villages are Kunaria, Maska, Motagua, and Vadsar.

6) Answer: C

• It is observed every year on 17 June to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat desertification.
• The theme of the International Day Against Desertification and Drought 2022 is “Rising from drought together”.
• Droughts are one of the greatest threats to sustainable development globally. It has been estimated that by 2050 droughts may affect over 75% of the world’s population.
• Around 55 million people globally are directly affected by droughts every year.
• As per WMO Data 2021, the number and duration of droughts have increased by 29% since 2000, as compared to the two previous decades.
• Droughts impacted 2.7 billion people in the world between 1900 and 2019 and caused 11.7 million deaths.
• India is making efforts towards achieving the national commitment of Land Degradation Neutrality and restoring 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.

7) Answer: B

• Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal with another stellar throw of 86.69m at the 2022 Kuorten Games in Finland.
• Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad won silver with an 86.64m throw, while Anderson Peters won bronze with an 84.75m throw.
• Sandeep Chaudhury of India finished eighth in the standings with a throw of 60.35 meters.
• At the beginning of this month, Neeraj participated in the PaavoNurmi Games in Finland. There, he won a silver medal and created a new national record with a throw of 89.30 meters.
• On June 30, Neeraj will participate in the Diamond League’s Stockholm leg.

8) Answer: C

• National Reading Day is celebrated on 19 June every year.
• The country commemorated the 27^th National Reading Day in 2022.
• The day is commemorated in honor of P N Panicker, regarded as the Father of Kerala’s Library and Literacy Movement.
• PM Modi launched the National Reading / Digital Reading Month in Kochi in 2017.
• After 2017, the theme of National Reading Day celebrations has remained the same: ‘Read and Grow.’

9) Answer: B

• PM Modi launched the historic torch relay for the 44^th Chess Olympiad.
• He launched the historic torch relay at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi on 19^th June 2022.
• International Chess Federation (FIDE) has this year for the very first time instituted the Chess Olympiad Torch.
• India is the first country from where the journey of the Chess Olympiad torch started.
• FIDE President ArkadyDvorkovich passed the torch to PM, who then passed it to Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand.
• This torch will be carried to 75 cities in 40 days. It will finally reach Mahabalipuram near Chennai.
• The 44^th Chess Olympiad will take place in Chennai from July 28 to August 10, 2022.
• PM Modi said that ancestors of the country invented the games like Chaturanga and Chess.

10) Answer: C

• Every year on 20 June, World Refugee Day is observed to honor refugees around the world.
• The day is an effort to empathize and understand the plight of refugees and recognize their resilience in building their lives.
• The theme of World Refugee Day 2022: “Whoever. Wherever. Whenever. Everyone has the right to seek safety.”
• The day was first observed on 20 June 2001 commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention that help protect refugees.
• It was originally known as Africa Refugee Day. But after UN General Assembly recognized the day in December 2000, it came to be known as World Refugee Day.
• India is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol and does not have a national refugee protection framework.

11) Answer: D

• Kempegowda International Airport has won the best regional airport in India and South Asia title in the 2022 Skytrax World Airport Awards.
• Hamad International Airport has been selected as the World’s Best Airport.
• Tokyo Haneda Airport has won the ‘World’s Cleanest Airport’ award.
• Copenhagen Airport won the World’s Best Airport Immigration Processing award.
• The award has been given on the feedback from the customers in a survey.
• The customer’s experiences from check-in to arrivals, transfers, shopping, security, and immigration are the main components of the survey.
• Earlier this year, Bengaluru airport won the Best Airport and Aviation Innovation Award at the Wings India Awards.
• Kempegowda International Airport is operated by Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL). It is the third busiest airport in India.
• The world’s Top 5 Airports for 2022 are as follows:
• Hamad International Airport
• Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)
• Singapore Changi Airport
• Narita International Airport
• Incheon International Airport

12) Answer: D

• China launched its third most advanced aircraft carrier ‘Fujian’.
• It is the most advanced and first “full domestically-built” naval vessel in China. Fujian is the name of China’s eastern coastal province.
• China’s first aircraft carrier is ‘Liaoning’ and the second aircraft carrier is ‘Shandong’.
• ‘Liaoning’ is the only Chinese aircraft carrier with the initial operational capability or the basic level of combat readiness.
• China’s first aircraft carrier was commissioned in 2012 followed by the second aircraft carrier in 2019.
• The next aircraft carrier that China plans to build will be nuclear-powered.

13) Answer: C

• PM Modi will inaugurate the Brain Cell Research Centre. It has been set up for 450 crore rupees.
• The Brain Cell Research Centre will work on relative functions of the brain and create a better understanding of diseases.
• He will lay the foundation stone for an 850-bed Bagchi-Parthasarathy Research hospital at IISc.
• He will lay the foundation stones of the Bengaluru Suburban Railway project and Multi-modal Logistics Parks.
• Bengaluru Suburban Railway project will connect Bengaluru city with its suburbs.
• He will unveil the statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar at the BR Ambedkar School of Economics campus.
• He will also dedicate India’s first and only fully air-conditioned railway station named after Sir M Vishveshwarayya to the nation.

14) Answer: B

• ‘BhartiyaSamvidhan: AnkahiKahani’ has been wriiten by Ram BahadurRai.
• PM Modi said that the Constitution of India is not just a book, but an idea and commitment.
• The book has been released on the day (June 18) when then-President Rajendra Prasad gave his assent to the first amendment to the Constitution in 1951.
• Ram BahadurRai is a journalist and former news editor of Hindi daily ‘Jansatta’.

15) Answer: B

• Gustavo Petro has won Colombia’s Presidential Elections by defeating Rodolfo Hernandez.
• Francia Marquez will become the first black woman Vice President of Colombia.
• She will be the country’s first Afro-Colombian woman Vice-President.
• Colombia: It is located in South America. Bogotá is its capital.

16) Answer: B

• 2026 men’s World Cup will be the first-ever world cup to feature 48 teams. It will be organized in US, Mexico, and Canada.
• FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup will be held in 11 US cities. It will be held at three host sites in Mexico and two in Canada.
• The US will host the World Cup for the second time. Mexico will host for the third time.
• It will be the first time a men’s World Cup match has been held in Canada. It hosted the Women’s World Cup in 2015.
• 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December 2022. It will be the last tournament to involve 32 teams.

17) Answer: B

• The government declared the IT resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and NPCI as ‘critical information infrastructure’.
• The Union Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) issued a notification in this regard on 16 June 2022.
• According to Information Technology Act 2000, “Critical Information Infrastructure” has been defined as a “computer resource, the incapacitation or destruction of which shall have a debilitating impact on national security, economy, public health or safety”.
• Government can declare any data, database, IT network, or communications infrastructure as Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) to protect the digital asset.
• The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) is the nodal agency to protect the Critical Information Infrastructure in India. It was formed in 2014.
• CIIs will be protected from unauthorized access, modification, use, disclosure, disruption, and incapacitation.
• Any person who attempts to get access to a protected system violates a law. He can be punished with a jail term of up to 10 years.

18) Answer: B

• Japan to attend NATO summit for the first time. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will attend the NATO summit in Madrid on 28-30 June.
• Sweden and Finland will also send their delegation to the summit.
• ‘Yoon Suk-yeol’ will be the first leader of South Korea to attend the NATO summit.
• Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has recently announced the strengthening of Japan’s military capability and budget.
• Japan is not a member of NATO. Sweden and Finland have recently applied to join NATO.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization:
• It is an intergovernmental political and military alliance of 30 countries.
• It was constituted in 1949 with the North Atlantic Treaty, which regulates the functioning of NATO.
• Its headquarters is located in Brussels, Belgium.

19) Answer: A

• Employees’ State Insurance Scheme to be implemented in the entire country by end of this year.
• The government has decided to implement the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) scheme in the entire country by the end of 2022.
• At present, ESI Scheme is fully implemented in 443 districts and partially implemented in 153 districts. Around 148 districts are not covered under ESI Scheme.
• ESI Corporation has decided to set up 23 new 100-bedded hospitals and 62 dispensaries across the country. 48 dispensaries will be opened in Maharashtra, 12 dispensaries in Delhi, and 2 dispensaries in Haryana.
• ESI Corporation has also decided to start Certificate Courses in its Medical Colleges for Health Care Link Workers.
• Two cath labs at ESIC Medical College and Hospital at Sanathnagar, Telangana, and Alwar, Rajasthan will be also established.
• Employees’ State Insurance Corporation:
• It was founded in 1952.
• It is a statutory body under the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
• It was set up under the ESI Act 1948 for the implementation of the ESI scheme.
• Mukhmeet S Bhatia is the Director-General of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC).

20) Answer: D

• A new air squadron was created in the Indian Coast Guard in Chennai on 20 June 2022.
• It is named 840 squadrons and Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mark-III aircraft inducted into it.
• The aircraft was received in presence of Inspector General AP Badola, Commander of the eastern Coast Guard Region.
• This is the first such aircraft to be deployed by the defense force in the eastern region.
• Three more Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) aircraft will be added to the inventory of the new Squadron (840 squadrons) shortly.
• The aircraft is having Beyond the Visual Range detection. It is an indigenous aircraft designed and developed by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

21) Answer: A

• Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) has won the UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize.
• CIET has won this award for the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Education for 2021.
• Two best projects are selected for the award annually by the international jury.
• The winner gets US$ 25,000, a medal, and, a diploma during a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
• The ceremony will be held on June 24, 2022. The prize rewards individuals and organizations.
• Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET):
• It is a constituent unit of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
• It is an autonomous organization formed in 1984 for promoting the use of mass media technology for expanding the quality of education at the school level.