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1) Recently, ______________ Government commemorated Happiness Utsav on the fourth anniversary of its Happiness Curriculum for schools.

(a) Bihar

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Assam

(e) Delhi

2) Which of the following States/UTs inked a pact with Flipkart to launch the initiatives of the Supply Chain Operations Academy (SCOA)?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Assam

(e) Bihar

3) Which of the following States/UTs has inaugurated a center for excellence in advanced manufacturing at the cost of Rs 212 crore?

(a) Bihar

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Assam

(e) Delhi

4) What amount will be provided to each girl student from the middle school of Tamil Nadu under the Penkalvi portal?

(a) ₹1,000

(b) ₹2,000

(d) ₹4,000

(e) ₹5,000

5) Recently, the Central Government has declared _______________ as securities for the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956.

(a) zero coupons instruments

(b) zero principal instruments

(d) All of the above

(e) Other than these options

6) As per Morgan Stanley, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is lowered to ___________ in 2022-23.

(a) 7.1%

(b) 7.2%

(d) 7.4%

(e) 7.5%

7) Recently, the Good and Services Tax (GST) Compensation levy to states has been extended to ___________________.

(a) March 31, 2025

(b) March 31, 2029

(d) March 31, 2027

(e) March 31, 2026

8) Recently, ___________________ and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have collaborated on a de-carbonization and sustainability plan.

(a) JSW Steel

(b) Reliance Industries

(d) BHEL

(e) BEML

9) Which of the following companies successfully tested the country’s first 5G private network at the Bosch Automotive Electronics facility in Bengaluru?

(a) Bharti Airtel

(b) Vodafone Idea

(d) Jio

(e) All of the above

10) Which of the following Institutes has been given the Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institute Award 2021?

(a) National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM)

(b) IIT Delhi

(d) IIT Kanpur

(e) IIT Guwahati

11) Recently, Lleyton Hewitt has been inducted into the International _________ Hall of Fame.

(a) Table Tennis

(b) Tennis

(d) Chess

(e) Other than these options

12) Recently, ____________ signed an agreement with Safran Helicopter Engines to create a new joint venture (JV) for developing helicopter engines for India’s future needs.

(a) HAL

(b) BHEL

(d) BEL

(e) SAIL

13) Who amongst the following has been appointed as the new Ethics Officer and Ombudsman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?

(a) Uttam Pathak

(b) Aditya Tiwari

(d) Deepak Singh

(e) Kamal Mishra

14) Who amongst the following has been appointed as the new Chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)?

(a) Uttam Pathak

(b) Manoj Kumar

(d) Deepak Singh

(e) Kamal Mishra

15) Recently, Jayanti Prasad has been appointed as the Whole-time Member of _______________ for five years.

(a) SEBI

(b) IBBI

(d) Department of Financial Services

(e) SIDBI

16) In which of the following States/UTs does the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have created its first mountain-warfare training center?

(a) Bihar

(b) Sikkim

(d) Assam

(e) Uttar Pradesh

17) Who amongst the following has unveiled ‘SPRINT challenges’ in New Delhi?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Amit Shah

(d) M.V. Naidu

(e) Other than these options

18) Recently, Jitendra Singh inaugurated the ISRO System for Safe and Sustainable Operation (IS4OM) at ISRO Control Centre in _________________.

(a) Bengaluru

(b) Mumbai

(d) Delhi

(e) Nagpur

19) Recently, SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying more than 5,800 pounds of science experiments from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in ________________.

(a) France

(b) the USA

(d) Russia

(e) Japan

20) Which of the following countries will host the Summer Olympic Games 2024?

(a) France

(b) the USA

(d) Russia

(e) Japan

21) Ben Stokes of _____________ has recently announced his retirement from international cricket.

(a) England

(b) West Indies

(d) Bangladesh

(e) South Africa

22) Recently, Denesh Ramdin announced his immediate retirement from international cricket. He used to play for ____________________.

(a) India

(b) West Indies

(d) Bangladesh

(e) South Africa

23) Phagu Chauhan is the Governor of which of the following States/UTs?

(a) Bihar

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Assam

(e) Uttar Pradesh

24) Barasingha is the State Animal of which of the following States/UTs?

(a) Bihar

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Assam

(e) Uttar Pradesh

25) What is the percentage share of Central Government in the Regional Rural Banks (RRB)?

(a) 10%

(b) 15%

(d) 50%

(e) 75%

Answers :

1) Answer: E

The Delhi government commemorated Happiness Utsav to commemorate the fourth anniversary of its Happiness Curriculum for schools, according to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. Life coach Gaur Gopal Das spoke on the complexities of happiness during a special session for students at Kautilya Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in Chirag Enclave on this occasion.

2) Answer: E

E-commerce marketplace Flipkart has inked a pact with the Bihar State Skill Development Mission (BSDM) to launch the initiatives of the Supply Chain Operations Academy (SCOA) in Bihar. This will help bridge the skill gap and create job opportunities in the expanding supply chain industry in the country.

3) Answer: C

Tamil Nadu (TN) Chief Minister Shri MK Stalin has inaugurated the Tamil Nadu center for excellence in advance manufacturing (TANCAM) established at the cost of Rs 212 crore in Tidel Park in Taramani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The TN government launched a series of initiatives to help the state become a $1 trillion economy by 2030, with a contribution of around $250 billion by the manufacturing sector.

4) Answer: A

The Tamilnadu Government’s Higher Education department has launched a portal https://penkalvi.gov.in where beneficiaries may register themselves. Under this, the TN government will provide ₹1,000 annually to each girl student from middle school till she completes college education under a financial assistance scheme. The students who studied in government schools from Class VI to Class XII and college students who fulfill the criteria can avail themselves of the facility.

5) Answer: D

The Central Government has declared “zero coupons zero principal instruments” as securities for the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. Zero coupons zero principal instrument means an instrument issued by a Not for Profit Organization (NPO) that will be registered with the social stock exchange segment of a recognized stock exchange.

6) Answer: B

American brokerage Morgan Stanley has lowered India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 7.2% in the 2022-23 financial year (FY23), 40 basis points (bps) lower than their previous estimates of 7.6%. It has also cut the real GDP forecast for FY 2023-24 (FY24) by 30 bps from 6.7% to 6.4%. However, Morgan expects the policy repo rate to stabilize at 6.5% by April 2023, 160 bps higher.

7) Answer: E

The Union Finance Ministry announced that the Good and Services Tax (GST) Compensation levy to states has been extended by nearly four years from July 1, 2022, to March 31, 2026. It recalled the GST (Period of Levy and Collection of Cess) Rules, 2022. The compensation cess is applicable on specific goods, including tobacco, cigarettes, hookah, aerated water, high-end motorcycles, aircraft, yachts, and motor cars. The cess is levied on notified luxury goods falling in the 28 percent GST slab.

8) Answer: A

JSW Steel and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have collaborated on a de-carbonization and sustainability plan. BCG will leverage its exclusive CO2 AI platform as well as its top-tier digital and analytics capabilities to support JSW Steel on its journey to being a net-zero carbon emitter. BCG will also prioritize staff training and enhancing the sustainable culture across all of our manufacturing locations during this period. This revolutionary project will need them to ramp up their sustainability efforts.

9) Answer: A

At the Bosch Automotive Electronics facility in Bengaluru, Bharti Airtel successfully tested the country’s first 5G private network. The trial takes place in the middle of a dispute between telecom and IT companies over the distribution of airwaves for private networks, ahead of a 5G spectrum auction. Airtel developed two industrial-grade use cases at Bosch’s facilities for operational effectiveness and quality improvement using the government-allocated trial spectrum.

10) Answer: A

The Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institute Award 2021 (in the Large Institute Category) has been given to the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) in recognition of its overall accomplishments. In New Delhi, Ch Srinivasa Rao, Director of NAARM, accepted the honor from Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. At a celebration honoring the 94th Foundation Day of the ICAR, the prizes were presented.

11) Answer: B

Lleyton Hewitt, a former world number one and two-time Grand Slam winner, was admitted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Hewitt maintained the top place for 80 weeks, which ranks as the 10th-longest period in history, before Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic rose to the top of the sport. The Australian legend defeated Ivo Karlovic to win the Hall of Fame Open in 2014, which was his final ATP championship after winning his first in Adelaide in 1998. Hewitt won the US Open in 2001 and Wimbledon in 2002.

12) Answer: A

HAL signed an agreement with French engine-maker, Safran Helicopter Engines, to create a new joint venture (JV) that will develop helicopter engines for India’s future needs. Amongst the most ground-breaking technological successes notched up by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) are its single-engine and twin-engine helicopters in the former segment, the eponymous Light Utility Helicopter (LUH); and in the latter, the Dhruv advanced light helicopter (ALH), the Rudra attack helicopter and the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH).

13) Answer: C

Former Supreme Court judge Mr. Vineet Saran has been appointed as the new ethics officer and ombudsman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He will be taking over from Justice (Retd) D K Jain whose term ends in June 2021. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 7 August 2018 & he retired on 10 May 2022.

14) Answer: B

Former expert member of marketing at Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Shri Manoj Kumar has been promoted to take charge as Chairman of the Government of India’s statutory body KVIC. KVIC’s former Chairman Shri Vinay Kumar Saxena has moved on to take charge as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.

15) Answer: B

The central Government has appointed Shri Jayanti Prasad as a Whole-time Member of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) for five years. He was the Chief Auditor at the UN for six years and also served as the Custodian under the Special Court (TORTS) Act, 1992 in the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance.

16) Answer: B

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) created its first mountain-warfare training center in northeast India (Sikkim). The training center is the ITBP’s second overall center to skill its troops in high-altitude combat and survival tactics as part of their mandate to guard the Line of Actual Control with China. The facility has come almost five decades after the establishment of its first such school called mountaineering and skiing institute (M&SI) during 1973-74 at Auli near Joshimath.

17) Answer: A

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi unveiled ‘SPRINT challenges’, during Naval Innovation and Indigenization Organization (NIIO) seminar ‘Swavlamban’(self-reliance) in New Delhi, Delhi to engage Indian industry and academia towards achieving self-reliance in the defense sector. This collaborative project is named SPRINT – Supporting Pole-Vaulting in R&D through iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence), NIIO, and TDAC (Technology Development Acceleration Cell).

18) Answer: A

Union Minister of State (MoS) for Science and Technology Shri Jitendra Singh inaugurated the ISRO System for Safe and Sustainable Operation (IS4OM) at ISRO Control Centre, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Around 60 startups have registered with the Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) since the agency started promoting the country’s space sector. Some of these space start-ups include launch vehicles, nano-satellites, research facilities, and ground systems.

19) Answer: B

A SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying more than 5,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States (US). The Cargo Dragon spacecraft was launched through the Falcon 9 rocket. This is SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply services mission to the ISS for NASA.

20) Answer: A

The United States city of Los Angeles will play host to the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Los Angeles Olympics’ opening ceremony will begin on July 14, 2028, and last until July 30. The Paralympic Games are being held in Los Angeles for the first time. It should be remembered that Paris, France will host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

21) Answer: A

Ben Stokes, an all-rounder for England, has announced his retirement from one-day international cricket. At his home stadium in Durham, the 31-year-old will play his final ODI match against South Africa. Because of his Player-of-the-Match performance in the 2019 World Cup final at Lord’s versus New Zealand, Stokes’ ODI career will live on in infamy. Stokes has amassed 2919 runs, including three centuries, and 74 wickets in ODIs since making his debut against Ireland in 2011.

22) Answer: B

Denesh Ramdin, a former captain of the West Indies, announced his immediate retirement from international cricket. In a T20I in December 2019, he participated in his final game for the West Indies. He will still play franchise cricket, though. He participated in 139 ODIs, 71 T20Is, and 74 Test matches.

23) Answer: A

About Bihar:

Governor: Phagu Chauhan
Chief Minister: Nitish Kumar
Capital: Patna
Formation or Statehood Day (Bihar Diwas): March 22, 1912
Total Districts: 38g
State Animal: Bull
State Bird: House Sparrow
State Flower: Kachnar
Main Painting: Madhubani
Main Festival: Chhath Puja
Folk dances – Kathghodwa, Chhau, Launda, Dhobia, Jhijhiya, Jharni, Karma, and Domkach.
Assembly Seats: 243
Rajya Sabha Seats: 16
Lok Sabha Seats: 40

24) Answer: E

About Uttar Pradesh:

Governor: Anandiben Patel
Chief Minister: Yogi Adityanath
Capital: Lucknow
Formation: 24 January 1950
District: 75
State Bird: Sarus Crane (Grus Antigone)
State Animal: Barasingha (Rucervus Duvaucelii)
State Flower: Palash
State Tree: Ashoka
Major rivers flowing in the state: Ganga, Yamuna, Ramganga, Gomti and Ghaghra.
Assembly Seats: 403
Rajya Sabha Seats: 31
Lok Sabha Seats: 80
Area: 240,928 km² (4^th Rank in India)
Population: 241,066,874 (1^st Rank in India)
Speaker of the 18th Legislative Assembly: Shri Satish Mahana
State legislature: Bicameral legislature
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently inaugurated the 296 km-long Bundelkhand Expressway in a program organized in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district.

25) Answer: D

About Regional Rural Banks (RRB):

These are special types of commercial Banks that provide concessional credit to agriculture and the rural sector.
RRBs were established in 1975 and are registered under the Regional Rural Bank Act, 1976.
RRBs are joint ventures between the Central government (50%), the State government (15%), and a Commercial Bank (35%).
196 RRBs have been established from 1987 to 2005.
From 2005 onwards government started merger of RRBs thus reducing the number of RRBs to 82
One RRB cannot open its branches in more than 3 geographically connected districts.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 21st July 2022

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