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1 .
A GoM panel headed by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister on employment has drafted many proposals that includes land pooling to corporatise agriculture, opening up EPF and ESIC for the unorganised sector. Who is current Social Justice and Empowerment Minister?
A)
Ravi Shankar Prasad
B)
Thawar Chand Gehlot
C)
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
D)
D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Correct Answer :   Thawar Chand Gehlot

A Group of Ministers(GoM) panel headed by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot on employment and skill development has drafted a set of proposals that includes land pooling to corporatise agriculture, opening up Employees' Provident Fund(EPF) and Employees State Insurance Corporation(ESIC) for the unorganised sector, merging the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ,2005(MNREGA). with skill development programmes to create a wage subsidy programme.

Published On : July 17, 2021
2 .
Lt. General PS Rajeshwar has commissioned the 103rd Landing Craft Utility (LCU) MK IV class vessel 'INLCU L 57' into the Indian Navy at which port?
A)
Port Blair Port
B)
Mumbai Port
C)
Tuticorin port
D)
Mormugao Port

Correct Answer :   Port Blair Port

Lt. General PS Rajeshwar PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC, Commanding-in-Chief of Andaman & Nicobar Command, has commissioned the 103rd Landing Craft Utility (LCU) MK IV class vessel 'INLCU L 57' (Yard no: 2098) into the Indian Navy at Port Blair in a low-profile ceremony. It was the 7th in the series of 8 such vessels being indigenously made by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) for the Navy.

Published On : July 17, 2021
3 .
According to a report "Updated Assessment of the Potential Economic Impact of COVID-19" released by Asian Development Bank (ADB), global economy is expected to lose how much money?
A)
Between $ 1.8 trillion to $ 3.8 trillion
B)
Between $ 2.8 trillion to $ 4.8 trillion
C)
Between $ 5.8 trillion to $ 8.8 trillion
D)
Between $ 6.8 trillion to $ 9.8 trillion

Correct Answer :   Between $ 5.8 trillion to $ 8.8 trillion

According to a report "Updated Assessment of the Potential Economic Impact of COVID-19" released by Asian Development Bank (ADB), global economy is expected to lose between $ 5.8 trillion to $ 8.8 trillion, which will be 6.4 % to 9.7 % of global gross domestic product (GDP), due to the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Published On : July 17, 2021
4 .
Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda launched the "Going Online As Leaders (GOAL) programme" in partnership with which company on 15 May?
A)
Amazon
B)
Flipkart
C)
Google
D)
Facebook

Correct Answer :   Facebook

Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda launched the "Going Online As Leaders (GOAL) programme" of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) in partnership with Facebook at a Webinar in New Delhi on 15 May.

Published On : July 17, 2021
5 .
Kundoli Proposed Reserve Forest, where 18 elephants have recent died, is situated in which state?
A)
Himachal Pradesh
B)
Karnataka
C)
Kerala
D)
Assam

Correct Answer :   Assam

On the night of May 12, as many as 18 elephants died in the Bamuni hillock in the Kundoli Proposed Reserve Forest under the Kathiatoli range, Assam.
Initial findings from the post mortem indicate that the reason for the death was a lightning strike. The samples have been sent to laboratories for further microbiological and toxicological examination.

Published On : July 17, 2021
6 .
Which institution has set up a dedicated portal – CovAid, to track aid coming from individual organisations?
A)
ICMR
B)
NITI Aayog
C)
Give India Foundation
D)
Supreme Court of India

Correct Answer :   NITI Aayog

The NITI Aayog has set up a dedicated portal named ‘CovAid’, to track all aid coming via missions or by individual organisations, with a detailed SOP (standard operating procedure).
At present, there are three channels for receiving aid – government to government, routed via the Ministry of External Affairs to the Health Ministry; Private to government, through COVAID portal and donations through states, NGOs and CSO.

Published On : July 17, 2021
7 .
‘The Christchurch Call’ was an initiative of which country?
A)
New Zealand
B)
Australia
C)
Germany
D)
France

Correct Answer :   New Zealand

The Christchurch Call to Action Summit or the Christchurch Call, was a political summit initiated by New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, in 2019 in France. It was conducted after the Christchurch mosque shootings. Global leaders and tech companies pledged to eliminate social media usage to end online terrorism.
Recently, PM Ardern was speaking at a virtual summit to mark the second anniversary of the global initiative to end online hate.

Published On : July 17, 2021
8 .
What is the theme of the International Day of Families 2021?
A)
Families during Covid
B)
Family during Quarantine
C)
Families and New Technologies
D)
Social Distancing for Families

Correct Answer :   Families and New Technologies

In 1993, the UN General Assembly declared that 15 May of every year should be observed as The International Day of Families.
The theme of this year’s observance is ‘Families and New Technologies’. It focuses on the impacts of new technologies on the well-being of families.

Published On : July 17, 2021
9 .
A bank mentioned in the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act is known as ?
A)
Small Finance Bank
B)
Scheduled Commercial Bank
C)
Co-operative Bank
D)
Foreign Bank operating in India

Correct Answer :   Scheduled Commercial Bank

A bank mentioned in the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act is known as ‘Scheduled Commercial Bank’.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has excluded Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) from the Second Schedule of the RBI Act after it was merged with DBS Bank India Ltd (DBIL) last year.

Published On : July 17, 2021
10 .
What is the name of a new rare new Super-Earth planet towards the centre of the galaxy discovered by team of Astronomers at the University of Canterbury(UC),New Zealand, led by Dr. Antonio Herrera Martin and Associate Professor Michael Albrow?
A)
OGLE-2019-BLG-0611
B)
OGLE-2018-BLG-0677
C)
OGLE-2015-BLG-0677
D)
OGLE-2012-BLG-0611

Correct Answer :   OGLE-2018-BLG-0677

Team of Astronomers at the University of Canterbury(UC),New Zealand, led by Dr. Antonio Herrera Martin and Associate Professor Michael Albrow discovered a new rare new Super-Earth planet towards the centre of the galaxy which is one of the planets similar to the size and orbit compared to the Earth and the work is published in The Astronomical Journal. The rocky planet in question, named OGLE-2018-BLG-0677, is between the size of Earth and Neptune and orbits a star- in the same way that Earth orbits the sun- that is one-tenth the size of the sun. One big difference is that this newly discovered planet has 617-day years.

Published On : July 17, 2021