03,January, 2019 Current Affairs - Daily Current Affairs
03,January, 2019 Current Affairs - Daily
Current Affairs
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The number of complaints registered at
banking ombudsman offices for 2018 have increased with the percentage of;
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
The number of
complaints registered at banking ombudsman offices have seen a 25% increase
in the fiscal year 2018, with the majority of these complaints coming from
urban centres owing to increased awareness and poor internal redressal
mechanisms of banks. "The banking ombudsman offices in tier-1 cities
like New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad accounted
for more than 57% of the total complaints received by all BO offices",
the RBI Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India has stated.
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2.
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Pankaj Sharma was appointed as the chief
operations officerof this bank recently.
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Private sector
lender RBL Bank appointed Pankaj Sharma as its chief operations officer
(COO). Prior to this, Sharma was heading retail operations of Axis Bank.
Under his leadership, the ATM channel, phone banking and branch automation
and digital initiatives at Axis Bank took shape.
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3.
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Who of the following was appointed as the
Acting Chairman of LIC?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
The government
has appointed Hemant Bhargava, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation
of India, as the Acting Chairman. The move comes after VK Sharma retired from
the top job at LIC on December 31. While traditionally the senior-most MD is
appointed the chairman, Bhargava is due to retire in July 2019.
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4.
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Which ministry approved UP's proposal of
renaming Allahabad as Prayagraj?
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
The Union Home
Ministry approved a Uttar Pradesh government proposal to rename Allahabad as
Prayagraj. In October 2018, the UP government had proposed the change in name
of Allahabad to Prayagraj. The Home Ministry clears the name change proposals
after the Ministry of Railways, the Department of Posts and the Survey of
India confirm that no city, town or village has similar names.
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5.
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Veer Savarkar International Airport has
been declared as an authorized Immigration Check post for entry into/exit
from India with valid travel documents for all classes of passengers. It was
located in;
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Veer Savarkar
International Airport in Port Blair has been declared as an authorized
Immigration Check post for entry into/exit from India with valid travel
documents for all classes of passengers. The announcement was made by
Information, Public Relations and Tourism Division of Andaman and Nicobar
Administration. This decision of the Union Government will open up the Port
Blair Airport for direct international flight and immigration facilities.
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6.
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Veteran actor CH Lokanath who addressed
as 'Uncle Lokanath' was passed away at the age of 91. He belongs to which
film industry?
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Veteran Kannada
actor CH Lokanath passed away after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 91.
Lokanath was in the Kannada film industry for nearly six decades and was
affectionately addressed as 'Uncle Lokanath' by his fans. He had acted in
over 600 movies and more than 1,000 plays. His famous movies are Bhootayyana
Maga Ayyu, Minchina Ota, Nagarahaavu, Nodi Swami Navidru Heege, Katha Sangama
and Kittu Puttu.
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Which country ranked first as per the
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Climate Change
Performance Index (CCPI) reported that Sweden has been named the first best
performing country in the CCPI 2019 list. CCPI evaluates the climate
protection performance of 60 countries, responsible for over 90% of global
energy-related CO2 emissions. Morocco has been named second. Morocco, the
North African country significantly increased the share of renewables over
the past five years and increased new renewable energy capacity. Lithuania is
in the third position in CCPI 2019. The bottom five in the list are Saudi
Arabia, U.S., Iran, South Korea, and Taiwan. With the connection of the world's
largest solar plant to the grid, Morocco is on track for achieving its target
of 42% installed renewable energy capacities by 2020.
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Saurabh Kumar has been appointed as the
Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and chairman of this department.
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Saurabh Kumar
has been appointed as the Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and
chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). Kumar, a 1982-batch Indian
Ordnance Factory Service officer, is an M-Tech in mechanical engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. An expert in the
manufacture of ordnance, Kumar was on deputation to the Ministry of Defence
as the director of planning and coordination from 2002 to 2009.
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9.
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The West Bengal government announced
__________ welfare initiatives for farmers.
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
The West Bengal
government announced two welfare initiatives for farmers. Both initiatives,
which are part of the 'Krishi Krishak Bondhu' scheme, will come into effect
from 1st January 2019. The first of the two initiatives will provide Rs 2
lakh to the family of a deceased farmer. Under the second initiative, farmers
would get Rs 2,500 twice a year for growing a single crop on one acre of
land.
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10.
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Who received the Kabi Samrat Upendra
Bhanja National Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature?
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Manoj Das, an
eminent English and Odia writer, received the Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja
National Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. This ceremony was
instituted by the Berhampur University, Odisha. During the 53rd foundation
day ceremony, the university also honoured noted folk dance guru Nabaghana
Parida with Dakshin Odisha Loksanakruti Samman.
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11.
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The cabinet has approved the merger of
Vijaya Bank & Dena Bank with __________. And become the first ever
three-way merger in Indian banking.
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
The cabinet has
approved the merger of Vijaya Bank & Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda. After
this merger, Bank of Baroda will become the third biggest public sector bank.
The merger will be effective from April 1. This is also the first ever
three-way merger in Indian banking. Bank of Baroda (BoB) finalised the share
swap ratio for the merger of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with itself. As per
the Scheme of Amalgamation, shareholders of Vijaya Bank will get 402 equity
shares of BoB for every 1,000 shares held. In case of Dena Bank, its
shareholders will get 110 shares for every 1,000 shares of BoB.
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12.
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Name of the justice who has nominated as
Executive Chairman of NALSA by President Ram Nath Kovind.
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
President Ram
Nath Kovind nominated Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri as Executive Chairman of
National Legal Services Authority (NALSA). His appointment is effective from
December 31, 2018.
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13.
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How many space missions has been planned
by ISRO to launch in 2019?
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
ISRO Planning to
Launch 32 Space Missions in 2019. The missions include the second lunar
mission Chandrayaan-2 (Rs.800-crore mission) to land on the moon with lander
and rover. India's maiden human space mission in 2021-22, Gaganyaan, will
also be pursued this year. Among the ISRO's achievements in 2018 were launch
of the heaviest satellite GSAT-29 (3,423 kg) on November 14 and building the
heaviest communication satellite GSAT-11 (5,854 kg), launched on December 5
onboard the Arianespace space agency's rocket from French Guiana on the north
Atlantic coast of South America.
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14.
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Which state's women has recently formed
620-km-long 'wall' to uphold gender equality?
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
In Kerala,
around 50 lakhs of women assembled under the aegis of the Left Democratic
Front (LDF) to create an almost unbroken human wall that stretched 620 km
from Kasaragod in north Kerala to Thiruvananthapuram in the south on 1st
January 2019. Marshalled by the Kerala government and a section of Hindu
organisations, the wall was organised against the backdrop of the Supreme
Court verdict on Sabarimala. The programme ended with a joint pledge to
harness the power of renaissance principles to insulate society against
revanchist forces that sought to push Kerala back to the dark ages of
casteism and discriminatory religious practices. The event was organised by
the ruling CPI(M) along with over 176 other socio-political organisations,
including the CPI, Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam and the Kerala
Pulayar Maha Sabha.
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Who is the head of the RBI's MSME (Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises) panel?
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
The Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) set up a committee under former SEBI Chairman UK Sinha to
address issues regarding the sustainability of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs). This comes after RBI allowed one-time restructuring of
MSME loans of up to Rs.25 crore.
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Veteran cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar
passed away at the age of 87. For whom he trained?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Veteran cricket
coach Ramakant Achrekar, who trained Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod
Kambli, among others, passed away following a heart attack. He was 87 and
breathed his last at his home in Dadar. Achrekar, honoured with Padma Shri in
2010 and Dronacharya Award in 1990, was instrumental in shaping the careers
of Tendulkar, Kambli and over a dozen other top cricket stars.
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Name the Indian origin student who has
bagged two gold medals at the World Memory Championships in Hong-Kong.
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
A 12-year-old
Indian-origin student Dhruv Manoj from Singapore has bagged two gold medals
at the World Memory Championships held in Hong Kong from 20th December to
22nd December 2018. Dhruv Manoj won in the "names and faces" and
"random words" disciplines, beating 56 other contestants in the
"kids category". Dhruv has mastered the Roman memory technique of
creating "memory palaces", which works by associating the ideas or
objects to be memorized with scenes imagined at familiar locations, such as
one's house.
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Which spacecraft of NASA broke the record
for smallest space object ever orbited, after successfully entering into
orbit around the asteroid Bennu?
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
NASA's
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft broke a record after successfully entering into orbit
around the asteroid Bennu - the smallest cosmic object ever to be orbited by
a spacecraft. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 110 million kilometers away,
carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters. The manoeuvre
placed the spacecraft into orbit around the asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft
will circle Bennu about 1.75 kilometres from its centre, closer than any
other spacecraft has come to its celestial object of study.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
inaugurated the 106th Indian Science Congress in which of the following city?
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has inaugurated the 106th Indian Science Congress (ISC-2019) at
Jalandhar, Punjab. The ISC is an annual congregation that witnesses
deliberations by top scientific minds of the country. The theme for which is
'Future: India-Science and Technology'. This will be his 5th address to
Indian Science Congress after assuming office as Prime Minister. Three Nobel
laureates will participate in this conference. Students will showcase their
projects to scientists around the world.
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ISRO launched an initiative for students
to engage them on space science activities. It was named as;
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
The Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) has recently launched Samwad with Students as
part of its outreach programme. The Indian Space agency will engage
youngsters across the country in activities concerning space science under
this programme. The new conversation mission will inspire students cutting
across schools and colleges. During the inauguration in Bengaluru, 40
students and 10 teachers from select schools interacted with ISRO Chairman
Dr. K Sivan about the Indian Space Programme and their benefits to the common
man.
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