Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 26th June 2019

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1) International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is observed every year on _____.

a) June 26

b) June 25

c) June 24

d) June 23

e) June 22

2) When does the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking observed every year?

a) June 26

b) June 25

c) June 24

d) June 23

e) June 22

3) Mata Vaishno Devi shrine is set to get a dedicated in-house disaster response force by_____________

a) December 2019

b) January 2020

c) August 2019

d) September 2020

e) December 2020

4) 32nd International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) Congress is hosted by which city?

a) Vijayawada

b) Hyderabad

c) Bangalore

d) Mumbai

e) Delhi

5) Which among the following countries has secured a bailout package of USD 3 billion from oil-rich Qatar recently?

a) India

b) Pakistan

c) Bangladesh

d) Sri Lanka

e) Nepal

6) Who among these has been elected as the new Director General of Indian Coast Guard?

a) Krishnaswamy Natarajan

b) K. R. Nautiyal

c) Vijay Chafekar

d) Maneesh V Pathak

e) None of these

7) Who has been named as the new Chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)?

a) Sanjay Chauhan

b) Amit Agarwal

c) Anshul Mehta

d) Devendra Chopra

e) Deepak Saran

8) Who has bagged the prestigious RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’ 2019?

a) Rachna Khaira

b) Srujan Agarwal

c) Mahesh Bhutt

d) Saranya Goswamy

e) Nanditha Verma

9) Which Indian film has won the Outstanding Artistic Achievement award at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival?

a) Ennu Ninte Moideen

b) Chithram

c) Veyil Marangal

d) Bharatham

e) None of these

10) Which state took the top spot among larger states for overall performance on health indicators in a NITI Aayog report?

a) Kerala

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Maharashtra

d) Uttar Pradesh

e) Bihar

11) Based on the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report, which country is the cheapest producer of solar power in the world?

a) China

b) United States

c) India

d) Italy

e) South Korea

12) Garuda VI is a bilateral air exercise of Indian Air Force with which country?

a) France

b) Vietnam

c) Indonesia

d) Singapore

e) Sri Lanka

13) Who is the author of the recently released book ‘The New Delhi Conspiracy’?

a) Shazia Ilmi

b) Meenakshi Lekhi

c) Saroj Pandey

d) Nupur Sharma

e) Nidhi Agarwal

14) Which country will host the 2026 Winter Olympics?

a) Japan

b) China

c) Italy

d) France

e) Russia

15) Famous personality Mohan Ranade passed away recently. He was a ___________

a) Freedom fighter

b) Journalist

c) Director

d) Sportsman

e) Politician

16) Swami Satyamitranand Giri Maharaj who passed away recently was the founder of Bharat Mata Mandir. It is situated in which state?

a) Uttarakhand

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Karnataka

d) Uttar Pradesh

e) Andhra Pradesh

Answers:

1) Answer: a)

• The UN general Assembly proclaimed 26 June as International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 12 December, 1997 to eradicate torture and the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

2) Answer: a)

• The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is observed annually on 26 June.
• The decision to mark the day was taken on 7 December 1987 via resolution 42/112 of the United Nations General Assembly in order to strengthen global action and cooperation to achieve its aim of making the international society free of drug abuse.
• Theme 2019 – ‘Health for Justice. Justice for Health’

3) Answer: d)

• The Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, a religious pilgrimage atop a hilltop that attracts lakhs of devotees from across the world every year, will get a dedicated in-house disaster response force by September next year.
• They are planning to train 180 employees by September next year to prepare a dedicated disaster response force for the shrine.
• The shrine board and the NDRF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) early this year keeping in mind the hilly terrain and need to impart advanced disaster management training to the shrine board staff in batches to keep them in a state of readiness for effectively and promptly responding to any disaster situation.

4) Answer: b)

• International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) set to hold its 32nd Congress in Hyderabad beginning June 26
• Telangana State enjoys 60 per cent share in seed supply market in the country and has been exploring ways to expand its presence in India as well as export seeds to other nations.
• The 32nd ISTA Congress to be held from June 26 to July 3, is expected to help the State to implement its plans into actions.
• The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and the Telangana government are jointly hosting the eight-day conference

5) Answer: b)

• Pakistan has secured a bailout package of USD 3 billion from oil-rich Qatar, a day after Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad concluded his visit to Islamabad and agreed to cooperate in the fields of trade, anti-money laundering and curbing terror financing.
• The Gulf state is the fourth nation that has come forward to rescue Pakistan
• Earlier, China gave USD 4.6 billion in shape of deposits and commercial loans and Saudi Arabia provided USD 3 billion cash deposit and USD 3.2 billion oil facility on deferred payments. The United Arab Emirates also provided USD 2 billion cash deposit.

6) Answer: a)

• Krishnaswamy Natarajan was appointed as the next Director General of the Indian Coast Guard replacing Rajendra Singh, who was the first cadre officer to head the force.
• Natarajan, the second Coast Guard officer to lead the force, would take over on June 30.

7) Answer: b)

• Amazon India head Amit Agarwal has been appointed as the new chairman of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
• He will replace former Google India MD Rajan Anandan. Yatra co-founder and CEO Dhruv Shringi will take over as the new vice-chairman of IAMAI

8) Answer: a)

• Rachna Khaira, who wrote for The Tribune, has bagged the prestigious RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’ for her far-reaching expose during Calendar 2018 on the functioning of the Unique Identification Authority of Indian (UIDAI) and its Aadhar data cache.
• The RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism has been instituted by Mumbai Press Club to encourage good quality reporting and analysis, fair play and high ethical standards in Indian journalism.

9) Answer: c)

• Veyil Marangal (Trees Under the Sun), directed by Bijukumar Damodaran, won the award for ‘Outstanding Artistic Achievement’ at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival, becoming the first Indian film to win a major award at the festival.
• The film was one among the 3,964 entries submitted from 112 countries in the prestigious Golden Goblet Award competition.

10) Answer: a)

• Kerala took the top spot among larger states for overall performance on health indicators in a NITI Aayog report, followed by Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, while Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Odisha languish at the bottom.
• The index analyses overall performance and incremental improvement in the States and the Union Territories for the period with 2015-16 as the base year and 2017-18 as the reference year.
• The “Healthy States, Progressive India” report is an annual systematic performance tool to measure the performance of the States and UTs on their year on year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as, their overall performance with respect to each other.
• Among the smaller states, Mizoram ranked first in overall performance, while Tripura and Manipur were the top two states in terms of incremental performance. Sikkim and Arunchal Pradesh had the biggest decrease in overall health index scores.
• Among the UTs, Chandigarh ranked first in overall performance, while Dadra and Nagar Haveli improved the most.
• Haryana, Rajasthan and Jharkhand are the top three ranking states in terms of annual incremental performance
• The report has been prepared by NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with technical assistance from the World Bank.
• The Index ranks the States and Union Territories based on 23 health-related indicators

11) Answer: c)

• India is now the forerunner in producing solar power at lowest cost globally and is far ahead of other nations in low average production costs.
• Beating countries like China, which usually is the cheapest manufacturer of everything, India has also left behind the US, UK, Canada and France among others.
• India was estimated to have the lowest total installed costs for new utility-scale solar PV projects that were commissioned in 2018 at USD 793/kW, 27% lower than for projects commissioned in 2017.

12) Answer: a)

• The Indian Air Force (IAF) will participate in a bilateral exercise with the French Air Force called exercise, Garuda-VI, from July 1-12.
• This is the sixth edition of exercise Garuda and is being planned at French Air Force Base, Mont-de-Marsan in France.
• The last exercise, Garuda V, was held at Air Force Station Jodhpur in June 2014.
• IAF contingent comprises of 120 air-warriors and four Su-30 MKI along with an IL-78 Flight Refueling aircraft, which shall participate during the exercise.

13) Answer: b)

• BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi has written her debut novel, which talks of undercurrents of Delhi’s political landscape and attempts to lay bare what is influencing the course of the nation’s political trajectory.
• The New Delhi Conspiracy, co-authored with Krishna Kumar and published by HarperCollins India, is slated for release on July 8.

14) Answer: c)

• Milan-Cortina has won the right to host the 2026 Winter Olympics after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach announced the decision.
• The announcement marks the Winter Olympics’ return to Europe, with the event having been hosted by Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018 and the Chinese city of Beijing staging the Games in 2022.
• Italy has twice hosted Winter Olympics in the past — Cortina in 1956 and Turin in 2006 — but it will be the first held in Milan.

15) Answer: a)

• Veteran freedom fighter from Goa and Padmashri Mohan Ranade (89) died, after a prolonged illness.
• He also participated in the Goa liberation movement.

16) Answer: a)

• Swami Satyamitranand Giri Maharaj, a renowned seer, passed away at Dehradun in Uttarakhand after a prolonged illness.
• The famous seer was the founder and head of Bharat Mata Mandir, a famous temple in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.