Daily GK & Current Affairs Quiz – 22nd April 2020

Correct Answer – B. Tata Power Ltd

Explanation: Tata Power bags Edison Award for social innovation. The company bags the awards for its ‘Club Enerji #Switchoff2SwitchOn’ campaign. It has brought about 533 participating schools across India, saving over 29.8 million units of power since its inception in 2007. Tata Power is India’s largest integrated power company and has an installed capacity of 10,763 megawatts together with its subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities.

Correct Answer – C. Rajasthan

Explanation: Rajasthan became the first state in the country to carry out Rapid Testing for Covid 19. State’s urban primary health centre of TopkhanaDesh (also known as Jaju Dispensary) in Jaipur started rapid tests at 5pm where 52 persons were tested and all were found COVID-19 negative.

Correct Answer – B. 7300 crores

Explanation: The Centre Government has released 7,300 crore rupees to the States and Union Territories (UT) under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to liquidate pending dues of last financial year but also the wages dues for the first fortnight of 2020-21.

Correct Answer – B. WardBot

Explanation:  IIT Ropar (Punjab) has developed & designed a ‘WardBot’ to deliver medicines and food to COVID-19 patients in isolation wards without human intervention.

Correct Answer – C. Uttar Pradesh

Explanation:  Uttar Pradesh became the first state in India to geotag its 7,368 community kitchens and community shelters across 75 districts which produce 12 lakh food packets a day. The UP state government has partnered with Google to ‘Geo-map’ the locations of all these establishments on the Google Maps app for ease of beneficiaries. The state government has established community kitchens in adequate numbers in each of the 75 districts. Out of these 7,368 community kitchens in the state, 668 are being run by NGOs and religious institutions.

Correct Answer – B. 1.8%

Explanation: Fitch Solutions has declined India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the Financial Year (FY) 2020-21 (April 2020 to March 2021) to 1.8% from 4.6% previously as they expect private consumption to contract against a previously weak expansion & the net exports will continue to drag heavily, due to the large-scale loss of income across the economy because of the impact of a worsening domestic outbreak of COVID-19.

Correct Answer – B. Dipankar Datta

Explanation:  The Supreme Court (SC) Collegium led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde has recommended the appointment of new Chief Justices for the Bombay, Orissa and Meghalaya High Courts (HC). The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the name of Justice Dipankar Datta of the Calcutta High Court for appointment as the new Chief Justice (CJ) of the Bombay High Court. Justice Datta will replace Justice BP Dharmadhikari, who is due to retire as the acting Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court later this month.

Correct Answer – B. 10 lakh

Explanation: The Central Government has decided to provide a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to all postal employees succumbing to COVID-19 on duty. The guidelines will come into effect immediately and continue for the entire period till the crises of COVID-19 is over. The Department of Posts comes under essential services. The Postal employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks are performing various duties to provide customers mail delivery, Post Office Saving Bank, Postal Life Insurance, the ease of money withdrawal at his/her doorstep from any bank and any branch under the AePS facility. Additionally, the Post Office is also delivering COVID-19 kits, food packets, rations and essential medicines etc. across the country by liasioning with local State administration and police authorities. Thus, Post Office is performing departmental duties as well as serving the social cause in the COVID-19 crisis times.

Correct Answer – D. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

Explanation: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has created a video to promote wearing masks in public places and help the country to fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The ‘Team Mask Force’ has been formed to spread awareness about wearing masks in public places. The ‘Team Mask Force’ has shot a video message and featured Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Smriti Mandhana, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Harmanpreet Kaur, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid and Mithali Raj. All of them speaking about the importance of wearing masks.

Correct Answer – C. Bengaluru

Explanation: A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), a premier institute devoted to research in astrophysics based in Bengaluru, (Karnataka), have discovered hundreds of Lithium (Li) rich giant stars, which proves it is being produced in the stars and accounts for its abundance in the interstellar medium.The study has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.