Current Affairs Quiz 6 September 2018
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- Which Payments Bank has tied up with Empays for Card less withdrawals at ATMs?
A) Paytm Payments Bank
B) Airtel Payment Bank
C) Fino Payments Bank
D) Jio Payments Bank
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Option B
Explanation: Airtel Payment Bank, India’s first payments bank, has tied up with Empays to enable card-less cash withdrawals at over 100,000 ATMs across India.
- The India-Sri Lanka joint exercise SLINEX 2018 will take place in which city?
A) Trincomalee
B) Visakhapatnam
C) Colombo
D) Bhubaneswar
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Option A
Explanation: Indian navy ships and aircraft have arrived in Sri Lanka to take part in the joint exercise SLINEX-2018 to be held at Trincomalee, Sri Lanka from 07 -13 September 2018.
- The government has extended the Centrally Sponsored Umbrella Scheme of Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats (CSS-IDWH) beyond the 12th Plan for the period ending_________
A) 2020-21
B) 2018-19
C) 2019-20
D) 2021-22
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Option C
Explanation: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved continuation of the Centrally Sponsored Umbrella Scheme of Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats (CSS-IDWH) beyond the 12th Plan period from 2017-18 to 2019-20. The Scheme consists of Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Project Tiger (CSS-PT), Development of Wildlife Habitats (CSS-DWH) and Project Elephant (CSS-PE). The total outlay is Rs.1731.72 crore
- A seminar on “Leveraging IT for Mobility” was organised by Ministry of Railways in which city?
A) Mumbai
B) New Delhi
C) Lucknow
D) Indore
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Option B
Explanation: The Ministry of Railways in collaboration with Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) had organised a seminar on “Leveraging IT for Mobility” in New Delhi. Minister of Railways & Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The seminar focused on discussing how IT can be leveraged to enhance mobility for the Railways such as continuous information availability to customers, network optimisation, end-to-end visibility of cargo, and maintenance of assets using IoT.
- Indian government has approved to establish and operationalize permanent campus of 7 new IIMS by which year?
A) June 2021
B) June 2020
C) June 2019
D) June 2022
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Option A
Explanation: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the establishment and operationalization of permanent campus of seven new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) by June 2021 at a total cost of Rs 3775.42 crore.
- Name the company which has launched the “Speech Corpus” for Indian language recogintion
A) Apple
B) Google
C) Facebook
D) Microsoft
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Option D
Explanation: To help researchers and academia build Indian language speech recognition for all applications where speech is used, Microsoft India launched its Indian language “Speech Corpus”, offering speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati.
- The Defence & Homeland Security Expo and Conference – 2018 has been organised in which city?
A) Hyderabad
B) Mumbai
C) New Delhi
D) Bengaluru
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Option C
Explanation: The 3-day Defence & Homeland Security Expo and Conference – 2018 was inaugurated by the Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh in New Delhi. The conference was organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in association with Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
- How much amount has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Tourism for development of cruise tourism project in Kerala under Swadesh Darshan scheme?
A) Rs. 80.37 Crores
B) Rs. 80.47 Crores
C) Rs. 80.57 Crores
D) Rs. 80.67 Crores
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Option A
Explanation: The Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned the project “Development of Rural Circuit: Malanad Malabar Cruise Tourism Project’ in Kerala under Swadesh Darshan Scheme for Rs. 80.37 Crores. The project envisages development of three thematic cruises in and around Valapattanam and Kuppam Rivers of Kannur District.
- Name the app launched for e-tendering and e-auction related activities of Indian Railways.
A) SIDDHI
B) PARITOSH
C) SAMMAAN
D) AAPOORTI
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Option D
Explanation: “AAPOORTI’ mobile App of ‘Indian Railways e-procurement system’ has been launched by Indian Railways. The Aapoorti App provides information and data related to e-tendering and e-auction related activities of Indian Railways.
- The first ever India-United States 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue was held in which city?
A) New York
B) New Delhi
C) Mumbai
D) Chicago
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Option B
Explanation: The first-ever India-United States 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue was held in New Delhi on September 6, 2018 with main focus on Defence Cooperation and counter terrorism. US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo and Defence Secretary James N Mattis visited India to hold talks with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the dialogue. A Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) was inked between the two parties.
