Daily GK and Current Affairs Quiz – 25th & 26th October 2020

Correct Answer: E. Both B & C

Explanation: Election Commission of India has constituted a committee to examine the issues concerning the expenditure limit. The committee is comprised of Harish Kumar, Ex. IRS and DG (Investigation), Umesh Sinha, Secretary-General and DG (Expenditure). The ECI has limited the campaign expense per candidate in the assembly election to ₹28 lakh.

Correct Answer: C. 20,000 Crores

Explanation: RBI will conduct the purchase of Government securities under Open Market Operations (OMOs) for an aggregate amount of Rs. 20,000 cr on 29 October 2020. OMOs refer to the sale or purchase of govt securities by RBI to commercial banks with a view to adjust liquidity conditions in the economy. The State Development Loans (SDLs) are defined as securities issued by the states to manage their own finances.

Correct Answer – A. Mandi

Explanation: Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district has bagged top position among 30 districts of India in the successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. It has also secured the second position at the national level for construction of roads under PMGSY. 6 more districts of Himachal have secured positions among top.

Correct Answer – B. Maharashtra

Explanation:  Maharashtra’s Women and Child welfare department has launched a new initiative to fulfil the nutritional requirements of lactating mothers and children in the state. The platform ‘TARANG SUPOSHIT MAHARASHTRACHA’ is based on the interactive voice response system. The platform is equipped with the facilities like a helpline, broadcast call, WhatsApp chatbot etc.

Correct Answer – D. January 2021

Explanation: The Department of Science and Technology announced that the third phase of National Supercomputing Mission will start by January 2021. The third phase of the mission is to increase computing speed to around 45 petaflops. The C-DAC and the National Supercomputing Mission signed agreement with the leading institutes of India. According to the agreement, manufacturing units and assembly units of super computers are to be established in the Premier Institutes of the country. This is considered as a major step towards Atma nearby Bharat Abhiyan. The mission is being implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing C-DAC.

Correct Answer – C. Peru

Explanation: The Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered a 37 metre long cat on the famous Nazca lines of Peru. It is a world known UNESCO Heritage site. The Nazca lines consists of hundreds of gigantic geoglyph that date back more than 2000 years. The newly discovered cat Geoglyph is older than the ones discovered earlier. The cat figure was 37 metres long and date from the Paracas Era 500 BC to 200 AD. The Geoglyphs in the region are still intact mainly due to the dry climate of the region.

Correct Answer – A. World Economic Forum (WEF)

Explanation: The world economic forum recently released the third edition of the future of jobs report 2020. According to the report the covid-19 and its impacts will disrupt more than 85 million jobs by 2025. The report is based on the future of jobs. The report has been prepared by the forum based on the projections of Senior Business leaders from more than 300 Global firms.

Correct Answer – B. UNICEF

Explanation: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare along with UNICEF launched the anaemia Mukt Bharat index. The anaemia Mukt Bharat is an initiative to reduce the prevalence of anaemia in India. Haryana topped the anaemia free India index or the anaemia Mukt Bharat Index with a score of 46.7. The index was released during the eighth governing body meeting of National Health Mission in Chandigarh. The state of Haryana has achieved 93% of immunization in the year 2019-20. It is one of the 11 states of India that has achieved the national health policy targets well before 2020. The institute deliveries of the state has increased to 93.7 percentage.

Correct Answer – D. IIT Kharagpur

Explanation:  The Indian Council of Medical Research recently approved the covid-19 test called COVIRAP. It is a Diagnostic machine that was developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This kit gives close test results as produced by RT-PCR. COVIRAP is user friendly and is of low cost. It determines the results in less than an hour. It does not require air conditioned laboratory and thus can be set up even in the middle of a field.

The testing kit consists of three mixtures that confirm the presence of the virus. In this testing method, after the sample is inserted into the kit, it is mixed with master mixers and heated to a certain temperature. This phase of testing is quite common to that of the other tests.

Correct Answer – D. Amrit Mohan Prasad

Explanation: The Indo Tibetan Border Police has recently posted the first officer to head the newly created Guwauhati based Eastern command. The ADG Amrit Mohan Prasad has been posted to the Guwahati headquarters of the ITBP. The Indo Tibetan Border Police guards the line of actual control. The Eastern command overlooks the Indo Tibetan Border Police battalion posted along the line of actual control in states such as Assam, Sikkim, arunachal pradesh.

The frontiers of the command are located at Lucknow and Itanagar. The new ITBP headquarters of the command was inaugurated recently. The Eastern command also supervises the Indo Tibetan Border Police Battalion deployed for anti-naxal operations in Chhattisgarh.

Correct Answer – B. 59th

Explanation: Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has observed his 59th raising Day on 24th October. The ITBP was raised in the aftermath of the 1962 Chinese aggression and it has a strength of about 90,000 personnel with 60 battalions on the ground. ITBP is one of the five bodies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). It keeps Vigil on the northern borders and prevents border violations. It checks illegal immigration, trans-border smuggling, and maintains peace.

Correct Answer – B. Neena Malhotra

Explanation: Indian diplomat Dr Neena Malhotra, 1992-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, appointed as next Ambassador to the Republic of San Marino. She will have a residence in Rome. Presently, she is serving as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Italy.

Correct Answer – C. Jajini Varghese

Explanation:  UK-based Indian-origin plastic surgeon, Dr Jajini Varghese has been named an ‘Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020’ by a non-profit NGO for her “incredible” scientific contributions to diagnosing and treating breast cancer. Varghese has been recognised in the “Medical Innovation” category for making it her personal mission to attempt to restore the lives of millions of women affected by breast cancer and will be presented with the award at a ceremony at the 2020 Junior Chamber International (JCI) World Congress in Yokohama, Japan. In the UK, she is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Plastic Surgery (FRCS) and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS). She is also on the Board of Examiners for the MSc in Plastic Surgery at University College London (UCL).

Correct Answer – B. Samsung

Explanation: The chairman of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, Samsung Group, Lee Kun-hee has passed away. Lee helped to transform Samsung from a small trading business to become the world’s largest producer of smartphones and memory chips. The firm’s overall turnover today is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea’s GDP. Lee was also the richest person in South Korea, according to Forbes, with a net worth of nearly $21bn.