The CCEA has approved the proposal of DIPAM for strategic disinvestment. What does “DIPAM” stands for?
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Correct Answer: B [Department of Investment and Public Asset Management]
Answer Explanation:
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has recently
approved the proposal of Department of Investment and Public Asset
Management (DIPAM) for the strategic disinvestment. The approval will
help in speedy completion of strategic disinvestment transactions. The
department will set up an alternative mechanism comprising of the
Finance Minister, Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Minister
of Administrative Department, to decide on the matters relating to terms
and conditions of the sale from the stage of inviting of Express of
Interests till inviting of financial bid. It will also empower the Core
Group of Secretaries to take policy decisions with regard to procedural
issues and to consider deviations as necessary from time to time for
effective implementation of decisions of CCEA.
Who has won the 2017 Kalpana Chawla Award for courage and daring enterprise?
Correct Answer: A [Preethi Srinivasan]
Answer Explanation:
Preethi Srinivasan, the former State under-19 cricket captain, has
bestowed with the 2017 Kalpana Chawla Award for courage and daring
enterprise from Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami during the 71st
Independence Day celebrations at Fort St. George in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Beside her, the Government of Tamil Nadu has also awarded S.P.
Thyagarajan with the APJ Abdul Kalam award for discovering a patented
drug to treat hepatitis B.
Which Indian shuttler has won the men’s singles 2017 Bulgaria Open International Series tournament?
Correct Answer: D [Lakshya Sen]
Answer Explanation:
Young Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen has clinched the 2017 Bulgaria Open
International Series title after defeating Croatia’s Zvonimir Durkinjak
in the men’s singles final by 18-21 21-12 21-17 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Desert National Park (DNP) is located in which state?
Correct Answer: C [Rajasthan ]
Answer Explanation:
The Desert National Park (DNP) is located near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
and covers an area of 3162 km². The park is an excellent example of the
ecosystem of the Thar Desert. The sand dunes form around 20% of the
Park. It is home to desert fox, Bengal fox, desert cat, wolf, hedgehog,
blackbuck and chinkara.
Which country has been declared the world’s most liveable city by The Economist’s Global Liveability Report-2017?
Correct Answer: A [Melbourne ]
Answer Explanation:
Melbourne has been declared the world’s most liveable city for the
7th consecutive year by The Economist’s annual global liveability
survey, despite soaring housing costs and serious congestion challenges.
The annual survey assesses 140 cities and ranks them according to their
stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and
infrastructure. Others in the 10 most liveable cities in the world
include Vienna (3rd), followed by Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Adelaide,
Perth, Auckland, Helsinki and Hamburg. As per the survey, the least
liveable city was Damascus at 140th place, followed by Lagos (139),
Tripoli (138), Dhaka (137), Port Moresby (136), Algiers (135), Karachi
(134), Harare (133), Douala (132) and Kiev (131).
Which country to host the steering committee of the proposed TAPI Gas pipeline?
Correct Answer: D [India]
Answer Explanation:
India will host the next steering committee meeting of the proposed
1,814 kilometre-long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas
pipeline in New Delhi. The decision was taken during the 6th joint
Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) meeting on trade, economic,
scientific and technological cooperation. The benefit of the TAPI
project is that it will give an opportunity to India to secure its
interest in Central Asia. The project’s success will also ensure that
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan find ways of cooperating on other issues
as well.
India’s first museum on the Partition of the Indian Sub-continent will open in which state?
Correct Answer: C [Punjab]
Answer Explanation:
India’s first museum on the Partition of the Indian Sub-continent
will soon open in Amritsar, Punjab, which focuses on stories and display
memorabilia of survivors. The museum will include newspaper clippings
and donated personal items meant to tell the story of how the region’s
struggle for freedom from colonial rule turned into one of its most
violent episodes, as communal clashes left hundreds of thousands of
Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs dead and another 15 million displaced from
their ancestral homes. It will also have ‘The Gallery of Hope’, where
visitors can scribble messages of love and peace. Tickets are priced low
at Rs10 for Indians and Rs150 for foreigners.
NABARD has conferred the ‘best performance award’ for 2016-17 to which regional rural bank?
Correct Answer: C [Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank]
Answer Explanation:
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has
conferred the ‘best performance award’ for 2015-16 and 2016-17 to
Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB) for its work in the field of
credit-linking joint liability groups (JLGs). The KVGB is sponsored by
syndicate bank.
Which state government has launched “Indira Canteen” for urban poor?
Correct Answer: A [Karnataka]
Answer Explanation:
The Karnataka government and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi
have launched ‘Indira Canteen’ in Bengaluru with an aim to reach out to
the poorer sections of the society. The canteens will offer breakfast at
Rs 5 and lunch and dinner at Rs 10 per plate. Of a total of proposed
198 canteens, 101 were launched on August 16, 2017 and the rest would
start functioning from October 2, 2017.
Who has authored the book “The Adivasi Will Not Dance”?
Correct Answer: A [Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar]
Answer Explanation:
The book “The Adivasi Will Not Dance” has been authored by Hansda
Sowvendra Shekhar. It is a mature, passionate, intensely political book
of stories, made up of the very stuff of life. Recently, the book is in
news because the Jharkhand government has banned the book on the grounds
that it portrayed the Santhal women in a bad light. The writer himself
belongs to the Santhal adivasi community, which is numerically among the
largest indigenous groups. Shekhar won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva
Puruskar in 2015 for his novel ‘The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey’.
