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Question of the Day ( Current Affairs)
Who is the current chief Economist of World Bank?
Who is the current chief Economist of World Bank?
Answer
Aart Kraay is Acting Vice President of DEC and World Bank Group Chief Economist. He is Director of Research in the Development Research Group at the World Bank.
Aart Kraay is Acting Vice President of DEC and World Bank Group Chief Economist. He is Director of Research in the Development Research Group at the World Bank.
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Question of the Day (Static GK)
The objective of the Morley-Minto Reforms was;
The objective of the Morley-Minto Reforms was;
Answer A
Explanation
Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909 was primarily aimed at extending Provincial Assemblies. The number of elected members in the Imperial Legislative Council and Provincial Legislative Councils was increased. ... The elected members were also not directly elected, they were to be indirectly elected.
Explanation
Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909 was primarily aimed at extending Provincial Assemblies. The number of elected members in the Imperial Legislative Council and Provincial Legislative Councils was increased. ... The elected members were also not directly elected, they were to be indirectly elected.
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Question of the Day (Current Legal GK)
Disaster Management Act ,which is in the news ,was Enacted in which year?
Disaster Management Act ,which is in the news ,was Enacted in which year?
Answer B
Explanation
The Disaster Management Act, 2005, (23 December 2005) was passed by the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India on 28 November, and the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, on 12 December 2005. It received the assent of The President of India on 9 January 2006. The Act extends to the whole of India. The Act provides for "the effective management of disasters and for matters connected there with or incidental thereto."
Explanation
The Disaster Management Act, 2005, (23 December 2005) was passed by the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India on 28 November, and the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, on 12 December 2005. It received the assent of The President of India on 9 January 2006. The Act extends to the whole of India. The Act provides for "the effective management of disasters and for matters connected there with or incidental thereto."
ARTEMIS programme
NASA unveils plan for Artemis ‘base camp’ on the moon beyond 2024.
Artemis Base camp:
Artemis Base Camp is meant to be a long-term foothold for lunar exploration, perhaps in Shackleton Crater at the moon’s south pole.
The Camp itself would be a lunar foundation surface habitat that could host four astronauts at the south pole for visits of perhaps a week.
In the long term, the facility would also require infrastructure for power, waste disposal and communications, as well as radiation shielding and a landing pad.
The base could also be a site for testing new techniques for dealing with pesky lunar dust and the long, cold lunar nights, turning local materials into resources like water, and developing new power and construction technologies.
What is Artemis?
Artemis– Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon’s Interaction with the Sun. It is NASA’s next mission to the Moon.
NASA unveils plan for Artemis ‘base camp’ on the moon beyond 2024.
Artemis Base camp:
Artemis Base Camp is meant to be a long-term foothold for lunar exploration, perhaps in Shackleton Crater at the moon’s south pole.
The Camp itself would be a lunar foundation surface habitat that could host four astronauts at the south pole for visits of perhaps a week.
In the long term, the facility would also require infrastructure for power, waste disposal and communications, as well as radiation shielding and a landing pad.
The base could also be a site for testing new techniques for dealing with pesky lunar dust and the long, cold lunar nights, turning local materials into resources like water, and developing new power and construction technologies.
What is Artemis?
Artemis– Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon’s Interaction with the Sun. It is NASA’s next mission to the Moon.
Objective: To measure what happens when the Sun’s radiation hits our rocky moon, where there is no magnetic field to protect it. Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology.
Significance of the mission:
With the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024.
Mission details:
NASA’s powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft nearly a quarter million miles from Earth to lunar orbit.
Astronauts will dock Orion at the Gateway and transfer to a human landing system for expeditions to the surface of the Moon.
They will return to the orbital outpost to board Orion again before returning safely to Earth.
Background- Artemis 1, 2:
The agency will fly two missions around the Moon to test its deep space exploration systems. NASA is working toward launching Artemis I, an uncrewed flight to test the SLS and Orion spacecraft together, followed by the Artemis II mission, the first SLS and Orion test flight with crew. NASA will land astronauts on the Moon by 2024 on the Artemis III mission and about once a year thereafter.
Scientific objectives:
Find and use water and other critical resources needed for long-term exploration.
Investigate the Moon’s mysteries and learn more about our home planet and the universe.
Learn how to live and operate on the surface of another celestial body where astronauts are just three days from home.
Prove the technologies we need before sending astronauts on missions to Mars, which can take up to three years roundtrip
Significance of the mission:
With the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024.
Mission details:
NASA’s powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft nearly a quarter million miles from Earth to lunar orbit.
Astronauts will dock Orion at the Gateway and transfer to a human landing system for expeditions to the surface of the Moon.
They will return to the orbital outpost to board Orion again before returning safely to Earth.
Background- Artemis 1, 2:
The agency will fly two missions around the Moon to test its deep space exploration systems. NASA is working toward launching Artemis I, an uncrewed flight to test the SLS and Orion spacecraft together, followed by the Artemis II mission, the first SLS and Orion test flight with crew. NASA will land astronauts on the Moon by 2024 on the Artemis III mission and about once a year thereafter.
Scientific objectives:
Find and use water and other critical resources needed for long-term exploration.
Investigate the Moon’s mysteries and learn more about our home planet and the universe.
Learn how to live and operate on the surface of another celestial body where astronauts are just three days from home.
Prove the technologies we need before sending astronauts on missions to Mars, which can take up to three years roundtrip
Passage
The first batch of Indian pilgrims travelled to Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan on the Kartarpur Corridor, opened on November 9, 2019. This comes almost 20 years after the idea was proposed by PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee when he took a bus ride to Lahore as a part of(X).
1.Which was the boundary demarcation line between Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal
provinces of British India?
(a) Durand Line (b) McMahon Line (c) Radcliffe Line (d) Operating Zero Line
2., which will replace '[x]'?
(a) Shimla Agreement (b) Indo-Pakistani Treaty of Friendship
(c) Panchsheel Policy (d) Delhi-Lahore Bus diplomacy
3.PM Modi described the corridor to Kartarpur was a kin to an event surrounding which of the following?
(a) Great Wall of China, China (b) Berlin Wall, Germany
(c) Wall of Babylon, Iraq (d) Western Wall, Jerusalem
4.who was the founder of Amritsar city?
a)Guru Nanak B)Guru Teg Bahadur c)Guru Arjun dev d)Guru Ram singh
5.Guru Nanak Dev born in;
a)1469 B)1550 c)1605 d)1738
The first batch of Indian pilgrims travelled to Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan on the Kartarpur Corridor, opened on November 9, 2019. This comes almost 20 years after the idea was proposed by PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee when he took a bus ride to Lahore as a part of(X).
1.Which was the boundary demarcation line between Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal
provinces of British India?
(a) Durand Line (b) McMahon Line (c) Radcliffe Line (d) Operating Zero Line
2., which will replace '[x]'?
(a) Shimla Agreement (b) Indo-Pakistani Treaty of Friendship
(c) Panchsheel Policy (d) Delhi-Lahore Bus diplomacy
3.PM Modi described the corridor to Kartarpur was a kin to an event surrounding which of the following?
(a) Great Wall of China, China (b) Berlin Wall, Germany
(c) Wall of Babylon, Iraq (d) Western Wall, Jerusalem
4.who was the founder of Amritsar city?
a)Guru Nanak B)Guru Teg Bahadur c)Guru Arjun dev d)Guru Ram singh
5.Guru Nanak Dev born in;
a)1469 B)1550 c)1605 d)1738
Kelkar Commitee
Kelkar committee to evaluate PPP in India was a committee set up to study and evaluate the extant public-private partnership (PPP) model in India. The committee was set up by India's central government and headed by Vijay Kelkar. The committee was set up following 2015 Union budget of India by the then finance minister of India Arun Jaitley. It comprised 10 members.
Recommendations :
Establishment of 3P India.
Case based risk allocation formula for various project participants.
Establishment of independent regulating agencies.
An amendment in the Prevention of corruption act to differentiate between errors of judgement and willful corrupt practices.
Use the PPP model for airport, port and railway projects.
Banks and other financial institutions be allowed to issue zero-coupon bonds.
The number of banks in a consortium be restricted.
Banks develop improved capabilities for risk assessment and appraisal.
Specific guidelines for encashment of bank guarantees.
Kelkar committee to evaluate PPP in India was a committee set up to study and evaluate the extant public-private partnership (PPP) model in India. The committee was set up by India's central government and headed by Vijay Kelkar. The committee was set up following 2015 Union budget of India by the then finance minister of India Arun Jaitley. It comprised 10 members.
Recommendations :
Establishment of 3P India.
Case based risk allocation formula for various project participants.
Establishment of independent regulating agencies.
An amendment in the Prevention of corruption act to differentiate between errors of judgement and willful corrupt practices.
Use the PPP model for airport, port and railway projects.
Banks and other financial institutions be allowed to issue zero-coupon bonds.
The number of banks in a consortium be restricted.
Banks develop improved capabilities for risk assessment and appraisal.
Specific guidelines for encashment of bank guarantees.
Question of the Day (Current Affairs)
Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for the year 2020-21?
Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for the year 2020-21?
Anonymous Poll
20%
Atul Sobti
37%
UB Pravin Rao
21%
Vinod k.Dasari
22%
Àmitabh chaudhury
Question of the Day (Static GK)
Under whose leadership was the all India Muslim League set up?
Under whose leadership was the all India Muslim League set up?
Anonymous Poll
66%
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
20%
Sayyid Ahmed Khan
12%
Aga Khan
1%
Alivardi Khan
Question of the Day (Current Legal GK)
Supreme court of which country recently upholds law Criminalising Homosexuality?
Supreme court of which country recently upholds law Criminalising Homosexuality?
Anonymous Poll
20%
Australia
28%
South Africa
30%
Singapore
21%
Indonesia
Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED)
: A mammoth Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED) has been proposed to protect millions of people and
important economic regions of 15 Northern European Countries from rising seas as a result of climate change.
About the proposed dam:
Two dams of a combined length of 637 km will be constructed.
• First dam will be built between northern Scotland and western Norway, measuring 476 km and with an average depth of 121 m and maximum depth of 321 m
.
• The second dam will be built between France and southwestern England, of length 161 km, and average
depth of 85 m and maximum depth of 102 m.
: A mammoth Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED) has been proposed to protect millions of people and
important economic regions of 15 Northern European Countries from rising seas as a result of climate change.
About the proposed dam:
Two dams of a combined length of 637 km will be constructed.
• First dam will be built between northern Scotland and western Norway, measuring 476 km and with an average depth of 121 m and maximum depth of 321 m
.
• The second dam will be built between France and southwestern England, of length 161 km, and average
depth of 85 m and maximum depth of 102 m.
Costs involved:
Researchers have estimated the total costs associated with
NEED at between €250 billion and €550 billion. If construction is spread over a 20-year period, this will work out to an annual
expense of around 0.07%-0.16% of the GDP of the 15 Northern
European countries that will be involved.
Implications:
The construction will “heavily impact” marine and terrestrial
ecosystems inside and outside the enclosure, will have social
and cultural implications, and affect tourism and fisheries.
Need for such measures:
• Such protection efforts are required if mitigation efforts fail to limit sea level rise.
• And, separating the North and Baltic Seas from the Atlantic Ocean may be the “most viable option” to protect Northern Europe against unstoppable sea level rise (SLR).
Researchers have estimated the total costs associated with
NEED at between €250 billion and €550 billion. If construction is spread over a 20-year period, this will work out to an annual
expense of around 0.07%-0.16% of the GDP of the 15 Northern
European countries that will be involved.
Implications:
The construction will “heavily impact” marine and terrestrial
ecosystems inside and outside the enclosure, will have social
and cultural implications, and affect tourism and fisheries.
Need for such measures:
• Such protection efforts are required if mitigation efforts fail to limit sea level rise.
• And, separating the North and Baltic Seas from the Atlantic Ocean may be the “most viable option” to protect Northern Europe against unstoppable sea level rise (SLR).
Passage
World Wetlands Day is celebrated on February (1) each year to mark the Day the Convention on Wetlands was adopted in Ramsar city in 1971. India is a party to the Convention since (2) and committed to the Ramsar approach of wise use of wetlands. The theme for 2020 is ‘Wetlands and Biodiversity’.
Status of wetlands in India:
The bad news is that India’s cities have lost 25 ha of wetland for every one sq. km’s increase of built-up area in the last four decades. The good news is that 10 more wetland sites around India have been added to the Ramsar Convention, rendering them sites of ‘national importance
1.which will replace (1)?
A)2nd B)5th c)1st D)10th
2."Ramsar Convention " was held in which country?
A)Italy B,)Iran c)Iraq D)Bangladesh
3.Which will replace (2) in passage?
A)1982 B)1986 c)1999 D)1989
4.How many Indian sites which are part of Ramsar convention.?
A)37 B)39 c)36 D)42
5.Which state has maximum number of Ramsar sites?
A) Manipur B)Gujarat c) Rajasthan D)Uttar Pradesh
World Wetlands Day is celebrated on February (1) each year to mark the Day the Convention on Wetlands was adopted in Ramsar city in 1971. India is a party to the Convention since (2) and committed to the Ramsar approach of wise use of wetlands. The theme for 2020 is ‘Wetlands and Biodiversity’.
Status of wetlands in India:
The bad news is that India’s cities have lost 25 ha of wetland for every one sq. km’s increase of built-up area in the last four decades. The good news is that 10 more wetland sites around India have been added to the Ramsar Convention, rendering them sites of ‘national importance
1.which will replace (1)?
A)2nd B)5th c)1st D)10th
2."Ramsar Convention " was held in which country?
A)Italy B,)Iran c)Iraq D)Bangladesh
3.Which will replace (2) in passage?
A)1982 B)1986 c)1999 D)1989
4.How many Indian sites which are part of Ramsar convention.?
A)37 B)39 c)36 D)42
5.Which state has maximum number of Ramsar sites?
A) Manipur B)Gujarat c) Rajasthan D)Uttar Pradesh