Daily GK & Current Affairs Quiz – 8th May 2020

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Current Affairs Quiz – 8th May 2020 


1. Andhra Pradesh CM rolled out ‘CMAPP’  to monitor farming needs. What does ‘C’ stand for in CMAPP?
A. Comprehensive
B. Costly
C. Cooperative
D. Corporation
E. Conventional

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Correct Answer: A. Comprehensive

Explanation:

  • Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launched a mobile app ‘CMAPP’ to monitor the agriculture needs of farmers.
  • CAMPP stands for Comprehensive Monitoring of Agriculture, Price, and Procurement
  • It will display data related to the cost, procurement, and marketing facilities of the farmers for their agriculture produce.
  • The officials can monitor and review agriculture conditions including the sale and procurement of crops at the village level on a daily basis.
  • All the joint collectors assigned with agriculture will be trained through a quick session on the use of app.

2. Who among the following has assumed charge as the Director General of Labour Bureau?

  1. MS Negi
  2. DPS Negi
  3. RK Negi
  4. Mistha Negi
  5. Rahul Negi

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Correct Answer: B. DPS Negi

Explanation:

  • IES Officer DPS Negi assumes charge as Director General of Labour Bureau
  • Indian Economic Services officer D P S Negi took charge as Director General of Labour Bureau in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
  • He also assumed charge as Senior Labour & Employment Advisor of the ministry.
  • This is for the first time that a dual charge has been given to an IES officer, which is a tribute his career spanning 35 years.

3. Who among the following is first Pakistani Hindu youth to join the Pakistan Air Force?

  1. Rahul Dev
  2. Krishi Dev
  3. Raj Dev
  4. Ravi Dubey
  5. Kanhaiya Dev

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Correct Answer: A. Rahul Dev

Explanation:

  • Rahul Dev, a Pakistani Hindu youth has become the first person from the minority community to join the Pakistan Air Force.
  • He has been recruited as a General Duty Pilot Officer, the Pakistan Air Force.
  • He hails from Tharparkar, the largest district in Sindh province. Tharparkar is the place where a large population of the Hindu community resides.

4. Who among the following has received the Young Career Award 2020 in Nano Science and Technology?

  1. Saurabh Mehta
  2. Saurabh Lodha
  3. Saurabh Sharma
  4. Saurabh Mittal
  5. Saurabh Verma

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Correct Answer: A. Rahul Dev

Explanation:

  • Professor Saurabh Lodha from Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, has received the Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020.
  • It recognises his contributions in the development of logic transistor technologies beyond silicon and nanoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional Van der Waals materials.
  • His recent work in the area of advanced transistors has been driven by strong industry partnerships.

He is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and Purdue University, USA.

5. Who among the following has been reappointed as chairperson of the Parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC)?

  1. Ram Kripal
  2. Satya Pal
  3. Subhash Chandra
  4. Rajeev Chandrashekhar
  5. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
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Correct Answer: E. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Explanation:

  • Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been reappointed as chairperson of the Parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC).
  • He was reappointed the chairman of the committee by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
  • PAC was first set up in 1921 in the wake of the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms.
  • It is a 22 member panel and includes 15 members Members s from the Lok Sabha and 7 from the Rajya Sabha.

The members are elected every year under the Rule 308 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha.

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6. Tiagong is which country’s space program?

  1. Russia
  2. China
  3. France
  4. Germany
  5. United Kingdom
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Correct Answer: B. China

Explanation:

  • Tiagong is China’s Space Station Program.
  • It means Heavenly Palace and it will have three modules with living and working quarters and two annexes for scientific experiments.
  • China had launched its own space laboratory Tiagong 1 in the year 2011 and Tiagong 2 in the year 2016 .
  • Recently, Chinahas launched a new rocket- Long March 5B along with a prototype deep-space spacecraft.

This will pave the way for the country’s ambitions to operate a permanent space station and sending astronauts to Moon.

7. Who among the following has been appointed as the director on the central board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

  1. Tarun Bajaj
  2. Michael Patra
  3. Shaktikanta Das
  4. Viral Acharya
  5. Chetan Ghate
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Correct Answer: A. Tarun Bajaj

Explanation:

  • The government has appointed Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj as a director on the central board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
  • He will succeed Atanu Chakraborty, who retired on April 30.
  • The Reserve Bank’s affairs are governed by a central board of directors who are nominated/
  • appointed under Section 8(1) of the RBI Act, 1934. The board is appointed by the Government of India in keeping with the Reserve Bank of India Act.
  • They are appointed/ nominated for a period of four years.
  • The board meets once in every six months and nearly once in every quarter. It consists of the following
  1. Official Directors: Full-time-Governor and not more than four Deputy Governors
  2. Non-Official Directors: Nominated by Government-Ten Directors from various fields and two government Official And four directors each from four local boards

8. Mustafa al-Kadhimi has been appointed as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries?

  1. Mauritius
  2. Iraq
  3. Israel
  4. Ethiopia
  5. Algeria

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Correct Answer: B. Iraq

Explanation:

  • Mustafa al-Kadhimi has been appointed as the new Iraqi Prime Minister after the Iraqi parliament approved Kadhimi’s government at an emergency session.

He has become Iraq’s first proper Prime Minister after Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned in November 2019 due to massive anti-government protests.

9. Which of the following committees had recommended the abolition of posts in Military Engineering Service?

  1. DB Shekatkar committee
  2. MS Shikhawat committee
  3. Shekhar Ahuja committee
  4. Rawat committee
  5. Indu Shekhar Committee
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Correct Answer: A. DB Shekatkar committee

Explanation:

  • Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has approved the proposal of Engineer-in-Chief of Military Engineering Services (MES) for optimisation of more than 9,300 posts in the basic and industrial workforce.
  • The Union Ministry of Defence had constituted a Committee of Experts under Chairmanship of Lt Gen (Retd) DB Shekatkar for recommending measures to enhance the capabilities of the armed forces.
  • The committee had recommended measures to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed Forces.

One of the recommendations made by the Committee was to restructure the civilian workforce in a manner that the work of MES could be partly done by departmentally employed staff and other works could be outsourced.

10. Which of the following is the mobile application launched by Ministry of Ayush?

  1. Sanjivani
  2. Setu
  3. Arogya Kavach
  4. Setu Mitra
  5. Arogya Sanjivani

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Correct Answer: A. Sanjivani

Explanation:

  • The Ministry of AYUSH has developed Ayush Sanjivani mobile app with the purpose of generating data of a target of 5 million people.
  • The core expected outcomes includes to generate data on acceptance and usage of AYUSH advocacies and measures among the population and its impact in prevention of COVID 19.

11. With which of the following has CSIR-IGIB signed MoU for licensing ‘KNOWHOW’ for rapid diagnosis of COVID-19?

  1. Tata Sons
  2. Piramal Foundation
  3. Reliance Foundation
  4. Azim Premji Foundation
  5. Infosys

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Correct Answer: A. Sanjivani

Explanation:

  • An MoU was signed between Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) constituent lab, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) and TATA Sons for licensing of ‘KNOWHOW’ for FNCAS9 Editor Linked Uniform Detection Assay (FELUDA) for rapid diagnosis of Covid19.
  • It includes the transfer of the knowledge for scaling up the ‘KNOWHOW’ in the form of a kit that can be deployed for Covid-19 testing on ground as early as the end of May.
  • Fleuda is a completely indigenous scientific invention and has been designed for mitigating the ongoing Covid-19 situation and cater to mass testing.

It is a paper-based test strip that detects the latest coronavirus in an hour.

12. Which section of UP Public Health and Epidemic Disease Control Ordinance, 2020 defines mass affliction?

  1. 24
  2. 25
  3. 22
  4. 21
  5. 30

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Correct Answer: B. 25

Explanation:

  • The Uttar Pradesh Public Health and Epidemic Disease Control Ordinance, 2020 has been cleared by the Cabinet headed by the UP CM, Yogi AdityaNath.
  • It prescribes a maximum punishment of life term if “death be caused by intentional (COVID-19) affliction”.
  • The ordinance will be sent to the Governor for approval.
  • Section 25 defines “mass affliction” as infecting five or more persons.

13. According to the UP Public Health and Epidemic Disease Control Ordinance, 2020, how many authorities will be established for the prevention and treatment of disease?

  1. Three
  2. Two
  3. Four
  4. One
  5. Five
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Correct Answer: B. Two

Explanation:

  • The Uttar Pradesh Public Health and Epidemic Disease Control Ordinance, 2020 has been cleared by the Cabinet headed by the UP CM, Yogi AdityaNath.
  • The government will set up two authorities for prevention and treatment of the disease: the State Epidemic Control Authority chaired by the CM, and district-level epidemic control authorities chaired by the district magistrates.

While the state authority will advise the government on prevention and control, district authorities will coordinate with the different departments.

14. What is the name of the world’s largest repatriation exercise?

  1. Pyara Bharat
  2. Hamara Bharat
  3. Vande Bharat
  4. Hamare Log
  5. Desh Vapsi
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Correct Answer: C. Vande Bharat

Explanation:

  • India has formally launched the world’s largest repatriation programme ‘Vande Bharat Mission’.
  • Under this mission, the government will look into bringing back Indian nationals and those NRIs who want to return to their respective countries where they have family, jobs, etc.
  • The Ministry of Home Affairs has come out with ‘Standard Operating Protocols (SOPs)’ for the movement of Indian nationals to and from India.
  • Air India flights will start ferrying out passengers stranded in India.

Air India subsidiary, Air India Express, will also operate flights, mainly to the Middle-East.

15. Who among the following has been appointed as the as chairman and managing director (CMD) of India Infrastructure Finance Co. Ltd (IIFCL)?

  1. VN Nayar
  2. CD Nayar
  3. SB Nayar
  4. MT Nayar
  5. SG Nayar

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