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1) Government has introduced a new mobile app namely _______________ in order to to assist farmers
a) Ghana
b) Vrishti
c) Varsha
d) Meghdoot
e) Indrani
2) Which state has launched the ‘Vhali Dikri Yojna’, scheme for the welfare of girl child?
a) Gujarat
b) Maharashtra
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Punjab
e) Kerala
3) Which Indian state is going to get the world’s first ultra-fast hyperloop transportation system?
a) Maharashtra
b) Gujarat
c) Telangana
d) Tamil Nadu
e) Andhra Pradesh
4) Which Metro has constructed the first-ever transport tunnel in the country which will pass through underwater?
a) Delhi
b) Kolkata
c) Mumbai
d) Bangalore
e) Chennai
5) The National Housing Bank (NHB) has decided to infuse an additional Rs ____________ crore into housing finance companies (HFCs) to improve liquidity in the sector.
a) 15,000
b) 10,000
c) 20,000
d) 7,000
e) 5000
6) Name the Chinese Bank which has recently received the approval of RBI to start providing regular banking services in India
a) China Construction Bank
b) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
c) Bank of China
d) Agricultural Bank of China
e) None of these
7) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a fine of ______ rupees on Punjab National Bank for delay in flagging the fraud in the account of Kingfisher Airlines.
a) Rs. 25 lakh
b) Rs. 50 lakh
c) Rs. 75 lakh
d) Rs. 100 lakh
e) Rs. 150 lakh
8) The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a collective penalty of _______ rupees on seven public sector banks for violating norms on current account opening.
a) Rs. 11 crore
b) Rs. 15 crore
c) Rs. 21 crore
d) Rs. 25 crore
e) Rs. 29 crore
9) Which e-commerce company launches ‘Samarth’ to empower Indian artisans, weavers and craftsmen?
a) FlipKart
b) Amazon
c) Snapdeal
d) Myntra
e) Jobang
10) Who has been sworn in as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of LIC Housing Finance (LIC HFL)?
a) Siddhartha Mohanty
b) Shaji Varghese
c) Vinay Shah
d) Kapish Jain
e) None of these
11) Who has assumed charge of the office of Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)?
a) Arunveer Singh
b) Rudrapratap Sahoo
c) Guruprasad Mohapatra
d) Chetan Vajra Pratap
e) None of these
12) Who has assumed charge of the office of Secretary, Ministry of Textiles in New Delhi?
a) Ravi Capoor
b) Anand Capoor
c) Vijay Capoor
d) Kiran Capoor
e) None of these
13) President Kovind was recently honoured with National order of Merit, the highest award of which nation in the African Continent?
a) Ghana
b) Niger
c) Senegal
d) Guinea
e) Mozambique
14) Name the Indian origin contestant who has won the 2019 Miss England beauty Pageant?
a) Panchi Bora
b) Chitra Shukla
c) Namrata Purohit
d) Bhasha Mukherjee
e) None of these
15) ISRO has laid the foundation stone to build a centre to protect High Value Assets from Space Debris in _____________.
a) New Delhi
b) Pune
c) Hyderabad
d) Chennai
e) Bengaluru
16) The QR-SAM surface-to-air missile was successfully test-fired by India on August 4, 2019. The missile has been developed by DRDO and _____________
a) Bharat Dynamics Limited
b) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
c) Bharat Electronics Limited
d) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
e) None of these
17) Name the winner of Hungarian Grand Prix 2019
a) Max Verstappen
b) Lewis Hamilton
c) Sebastian Vettel
d) Vatteri Bottas
e) None of these
18) Who among the following has bagged the gold in Women’s 53 kg category the Poland Open wrestling tournament?
a) Ritu Phogat
b) Vinesh Phogat
c) Neha Rathi
d) Alka Tomar
e) Navjot Kaur
19) Devadas Kanakala who passed away recently was a veteran actor of which film industry?
a) Telugu
b) Malayalam
c) Marathi
d) Bengali
e) Kannada
20) Anant Setalvad who passed away recently was a veteran commentator of which of these sports?
a) Football
b) Golf
c) Hockey
d) Cricket
e) Running
21) What was the profession of Kanti Bhatt who died recently?
a) Actor
b) Scientist
c) Journalist
d) Painter
e) Sports Person
Answers :
1) Answer: D)
- The ministries of Earth Sciences and Agriculture have launched a mobile application — Meghdoot — that will provide location, and crop and livestock-specific weather-based agro advisories to farmers in local languages.
- At the launch, minister for Earth Science, Science and Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan introduced the app. Meghdoot app will provide forecast to farmers relating to temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind speed and direction, which play critical roles in agricultural operations and how to take care of the crops and livestock. The information would be updated twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.
- To begin with, the service would be available for 150 districts in different parts of the country. It will be extended to rest of the country in a phased manner over the next one year.
- It has been developed by the India Meteorological Department and Indian Institute of Tropical meteorology and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
2) Answer: A)
- Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has launched the ‘Vhali Dikri Yojna’ from his home town Rajkot. The scheme for the welfare of girl child has been launched to mark the 63th birth day of Chief Minister.
- It is a statewide cash incentive scheme for every girl child born in Gujarat, with a view to raising the female birthrate at par with male to achieve gender equality.
- According to scheme, the State Government will pay Rs. 4,000 to every girl child at the time of admission to Standard 4th, Rs. 6,000 at the time of taking admission to Standard IX, Rs. 1-lakh at the time of taking admission for higher education at the age of 18 and another Rs. 1-lakh at the time of marriage.
- Chief Minister Rupani said that Rs.133-crore has been allocated for this scheme.
3) Answer: A)
- The Government of Maharashtra – one of the first proponents of hyperloop technology in the world – has deemed hyperloop a public infrastructure project, setting it up to be the first passenger hyperloop project in the world.
- The MahaIDEA Committee has also approved Virgin Hyperloop One-DP World (VHO-DPW) Consortium as the Original Project Proponent (OPP). This is a landmark announcement for building the Pune-Mumbai hyperloop transportation system, recognising hyperloop technology alongside other more traditional forms of mass transit.
- The hyperloop project will link central Pune to Mumbai in under 35 minutes, as opposed to the current three-and-a-half hours by road.
- The project will generate hundreds of thousands of new high tech jobs, bringing over $36 billion in wider socio-economic benefits, and creating new hyperloop component and manufacturing opportunities for Maharashtra to export to India and the rest of the world.
4) Answer: B)
- Kolkata Metro has constructed the first-ever transport tunnel in the country which will pass through underwater.
- The train passes through an underwater tunnel which is 520 meters in length, built 30 meters below the riverbed of the Hooghly River, for about a minute at 80 kilometers per hour. The project’s foundation stone was laid in 2009.
- Kolkata metro is spending Rs 8,572 crore on this entire project.
5) Answer: B)
- National Housing Bank (NHB) will provide additional liquidity infusion facility of Rs 10,000 crore to Housing Finance Companies (HFCs). This will be an additional liquidity infusion for individual loans for affordable housing.
- The Finance Ministry launched the Liquidity Infusion Facility (LIFt) Scheme for Housing Finance. This new scheme will cater to the demand of HFCs to address the housing finance requirements in the affordable housing finance sector.
- The objective of the refinance scheme is to support HFCs in creating individual housing loan portfolio that falls under the priority sector, as defined by the Reserve Bank of India.
- The maximum amount that can be drawn under this scheme shall not exceed ₹ 500 crore per HFC.
6) Answer: C)
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allowed Bank of China to offer regular banking services in the country.
- All commercial banks, like SBI, HDFC Bank, Punjab National Bank and ICICI Bank, are in the Second Schedule. Banks falling under this schedule have to adhere to the norms of the RBI.
- “Jana Small Finance Bank Limited” has been included in the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
- “National Australia Bank” excluded from the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
- Name of “The Royal Bank of Scotland plc” altered to “NatWest Markets Plc” in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
7) Answer: B)
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on Punjab National Bank for delay in flagging the fraud in the account of Kingfisher Airlines.
- RBI observed from the fraud monitoring report-1 submitted by Punjab National Bank on July, 10 2018
- The fine was imposed In exercise of the powers conferred under section 47(A)(1)(c) read with section 46(4)(i) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
- In a separate filing, Bank of Baroda said the RBI has imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on it for delay in reporting fraud in an account.
8) Answer: A)
- The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a collective penalty of Rs. 11 crore on seven public sector banks for violating norms on current account opening
- Allahabad Bank and Bank of Maharashtra have been imposed a fine of Rs. 2 crore each
- Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank and United Bank of India have been slapped with fines of Rs. 1.5 crore each
- While Oriental Bank of Commerce has been imposed with a penalty of Rs. 1 crore.
9) Answer: A)
- Flipkart, India’s leading e-commerce marketplace launched ‘Flipkart Samarth’ – a breakthrough initiative aimed at bringing India’s artisans, weavers, and handicrafts producers onto e-commerce.
- The initiative was launched by Minister of state for Finance & Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh Thakur along with Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy in New Delhi.
- Flipkart Samarth has been designed to support the e-commerce journey for artisans from on-boarding until they reach familiarity with the process of selling online.
- The host of initiatives and benefits under Flipkart Samarth include dedicated support for onboarding, cataloguing, account management, business insights, dedicated seller support, reduced commission where eligible, and warehousing support.
10) Answer: A)
- LIC Housing Finance (LIC HFL) stated that Siddhartha Mohanty has assumed charge as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the NBFC.
- Before joining LIC HFL, he was Executive Director – Legal with LIC of India.
11) Answer: C)
- Guruprasad Mohapatra has assumed charge of the office of Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
- Prior to taking over as DPIIT secretary he was served as chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI)
- He replace Ramesh Abhishek as the new DPIIT Secretary
12) Answer: A)
- Ravi Capoor has assumed charge of the office of Secretary, Ministry of Textiles in New Delhi.
- Ravi Capoor worked as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India from 2011 to 2016
- Ravi Capoor has vast experience of working in international agencies like the World Bank, European Union, United Nations, Department for International Development in the Primary Education Project with Government of India.
13) Answer: D)
- President Ram Nath Kovind has been awarded the National order of Merit by the President of Guinea for his exceptional contribution to the advancement of overall relations and development of mutual cooperation between India and Guinea and for promoting friendship and partnership between the people of both the countries.
- This is the highest award of Republic of Guinea.
- Three MoUs were signed between the two countries, Cooperation in the Field of Traditional System of Medicine, e- Vidhyabharati – e-Aarogya Bharati Network Project and Renewal Energy. President also announced a new Line of Credit of US$ 170 million for Water Supply Project of Conakry city.
14) Answer: D)
- A 23-year-old Indian-origin doctor has been crowned Miss England after fending off competition from dozens of other models.
- Bhasha, who moved to the UK from India aged 9, will now compete in the 69th Miss World contest to be held in December 2019 in London.
15) Answer: E)
- The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) laid the foundation stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre in Bengaluru.
- The control centre would host a range of activities related to the protection of Indian Space assets from inactive satellites, pieces of orbiting objects, near earth asteroids and adverse space weather conditions.
16) Answer: C)
- India test-fired a sophisticated all-weather and all-terrain Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) from a test range in Odisha.
- The state-of-the-art missile has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian army.
- QRSAM uses solid-fuel propellant and has a range of 25-30 km.
17) Answer: B)
- Mercedes driver, Lewis Hamilton has won the Formula 1, Hungarian Grand Prix 2019.
- This is the 8th win for him in this season. Also, this was his seventh win in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
- Max Verstappen was second followed by Sebastian Vettel at third.
18) Answer: B)
- Star India grappler Vinesh Phogat has bagged her third consecutive gold in women’s 53kg category after winning the Poland Open wrestling tournament in Warsaw
- This was her third consecutive gold in the 53 kg category after winning Gold at Grand Prix of Spain and at the Yasar Dogu International at Istanbul, Turkey last month.
19) Answer: A)
- Noted Telugu actor Devadas Kanakala has passed away
- Devadas was 74 years old and was reported to be suffering from some health issues.
- Besides movies like Chali Cheemalu and Nagamalli, which he had directed, O Seeta Katha, Gang Leader, Manchu Pallaki, Gorintaku, Manasantha Nuvve, Josh and Nee Sneham are the movies where he was acclaimed for his acting.
20) Answer: D)
- Yesteryear cricket commentator Anant Setalvad has passed away
- Anant was commentator for AIR in Ranji Trophy and other BCCI tournaments and also for Test matches
- He used to draw pictures of the game’s progress on airwaves with his fine command of the English language.
21) Answer: C)
- Veteran Gujarati journalist, author and columnist Kanti Bhatt has passed away
- Bhatt started his journalism career in the late 1960s as a financial journalist in Mumbai. He later became a freelance journalist and also wrote columns for various publications
- As per an estimate, he must have written more than 45,000 articles in his journalistic career.
- Bhatt was also founding editor of one of the leading Gujarati magazines, Abhiyan, launched with his wife Sheela
