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Current Affairs - 2019
A)
Partima and Asad Ullah Khan
B)
Shaon Ray and Deshdeep Sahdev
C)
Neeraj Sharma and Pradeep Goyal
D)
Ashutosh Sharma and Shekhar C. Mande

Correct Answer :   Partima and Asad Ullah Khan


Visitor's award which is constituted since 2014 to create healthy competition among central universities, is provided under four categories in research field. They are, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Physical Sciences Biological Sciences and Technology Development. ii. Joint award: This year(2019) the award in the field of research in Biological science is jointly awarded to Dr.Partima and Prof. Asad Ullah Khan.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
7000 Centres
B)
6000 Centres
C)
5000 Centres
D)
4000 Centres

Correct Answer :   4000 Centres


Union Government has set a target of setting up 12,500 Ayush Health and Wellness Centres across the country. Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy Minister Shripad Yesso Naik announced this during the inauguration of a Unani Medical Centre and Siddha Clinical Research Unit. Out of 12,500 Ayush Health and Wellness Centres, 4000 centres will be set up in 2019.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
India
B)
Thailand
C)
Sri Lanka
D)
Malaysia

Correct Answer :   India


India's 'Yogi of the Racetrack' has won 'Best Video' award for the Asia & Pacific Region in the UNWTO Tourism Video Competition 2019. Yogi of the Racetrack is a short promotional film on Yoga, which was produced by the Union Ministry of Tourism.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
India
B)
Vietnam
C)
Sri Lanka
D)
Myanmar

Correct Answer :   Vietnam


Vietnam has inaugurated Southeast Asia's largest solar power farm which has the capacity to produce 688 million kWh of electricity annually. The Dau Tieng Solar Power Complex, a joint venture with the Thai industrial group B.Grimm Power Public Company, occupies 540 hectares in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. The complex was constructed on the Dau Tieng Reservoir the largest artificial lake in Vietnam and is expected to generate 10 per cent of the country's solar energy to guarantee supply to 320,000 homes. It will also prevent the emission of 595,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
Chhattisgarh
B)
Odisha
C)
Meghalaya
D)
Andra Pradesh

Correct Answer :   Meghalaya


India and Thailand will conduct the Joint Military Exercise MAITREE-2019 from 16-29 September 2019 at Foreign Training Node, Umroi, Meghalaya. Over 50 soldiers from each Navy will be participating in the exercise.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
Jhumpa Lahiri
B)
Padma Lakshmi
C)
Priyavrata
D)
Salman Rushdie

Correct Answer :   Priyavrata


Priyavratabecame the youngest person to pass the "Mahapariksha" at the age of 16. The Mahapariksha contains 14 levels and is conducted twice in a year at Tenali(Andhra Pradesh) for the students studying 'Shastras' (ancient scriptures).

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
Shri Piyush Goyal
B)
Shri Nitin Gadkari
C)
Shri Prakash Javadekar
D)
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Correct Answer :   Shri Piyush Goyal


Commerce & Industry and Railways minister Shri Piyush Goyal attended the 7th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) meeting of the 10members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) countries and its 6 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partners in Bangkok, Thailand from September 8-10, 2019. Along with this meeting, he also attended the 16th ASEAN India Economic Ministers (AEM) meeting and the 7th East Asia Economic Ministers Summit held at the same place. Piyush Goyal held bilateral talks with his counterparts from Japan, Singapore, China, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand and Russia.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
Farm At Hand
B)
NAC Mobile App
C)
Farmers Industry App
D)
CHC Mobile App

Correct Answer :   CHC Mobile App


The National Conference of Farmers on crop residue management 2019 was held in New Delhi. In the conference Custom Hiring Centre (CHC) Farm Machinery, a multilingual Mobile App, was launched for the farmers. The app will connect the farmers with Custom Hiring Service Centres in their area.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
Google
B)
Samsung
C)
Huawei
D)
Facebook

Correct Answer :   Samsung


South Korean tech giant Samsung, has unveiled two apps namely "Good Vibes" a communication tool for deaf and blind people and "Relumino" that helps the visually impaired people to see the images clearer. Good Vibes: It was developed in partnership with the Non-Profit Organisation(NPO) Sense India, and uses Morse code that converts vibrations into text and vice versa, where a deaf-blind person can communicate with the help of dots and dash combinations to send messages. Relumino app: It was developed by the Samsung employees in the global C-Lab programme in partnership with the National Association for the Blind (NAB), Delhi. The NAB will make use of this relumino in classrooms for students with low vision. This is expected to be a revolutionary move in communication to help the 253 million visually impaired people, 217 low vision people and 14million blind people as per 2017 data released by the World Health Organisation(WHO) of which there are about 5,00,000 deafblind people in India.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
A)
Mahindra
B)
Maruti suzuki
C)
Honda
D)
Hyundai

Correct Answer :   Maruti suzuki


Maruti Suzuki is the biggest automobile manufacturer in India that also holds 53% of the market share in Indian passenger car market. Maruti Suzuki has 3 manufacturing plants in India that produce vehicles like Alto K10, Swift, WagonR, Ciaz, Baleno and Vitara Brezza.

Published On : 07/09/2021 01:49:48
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