August 2020 Top Questions And Answer
- Question: Which continent was declared as wild polio-free by WHO?
Answer: WHO’s Africa Regional Certification Commission-certified 47 nations of Africa to be free of wild polio.
- Question: Which state is to set up India’s first Skill University at a cost of over Rs 850 crores?
Answer: The new University which would be set up at a cost of over Rs.850 crore, will be called as “Skill City”. It would have a capacity of 10,000 seats.
- Question: What is the name of India’s solar-powered ferry that has won the prestigious Gustave Trouve Award?
Answer: Aditya has been named the best electric boat in the category of ferries designed for paid passenger service. It was the first solar-powered ferry of the country when it began its operations in 2017 in Kerala.
- Question: Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has been awarded International Booker Prize 2020, for which novel?
Answer: “Discomfort of Evening”.
The novel has been translated to English by Michele Hutchison. This prize is announced annually for the best book translated into English and published in UK or Ireland.
- Question: What is the corpus of the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund that was launched by the Prime Minister?
Answer: Rs 1 lakh crore worth Agriculture Infrastructure Fund. The fund assists farmers, PACS, FPOs and agri-entrepreneurs to build community farming assets and post-harvest infrastructure. The Prime Minister also released Rs 17000 crore as the 6th instalment of PM KISAN.
- Question: Which zone of the Indian Railways operated the first-ever Vyapar Mala Express train?
Answer: Northern Railway operated the first-ever Vyapar Mala Express train from Delhi to Jirania in Tripura. It has 46 wagons and 34 of them were loaded with wheat and the remaining with rice and pulses.
- Question: Which Indian state has signed an MoU with leading MNCs such as ITC, P&G and Hindustan Unilever, for women empowerment?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh. The MoU seeks to conduct skill-based training programmes for women in rural areas of the state aged between 45-60 years.
- Question: Who is the Chairperson of the Expert Committee on Debt resolution, constituted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
Answer: KV Kamath.
The committee would recommend on the financial parameters and their sector-specific benchmark ranges, for deploying in Debt resolution plans.
- Question: The Prime Minister of India inaugurated a submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) to provide fast and reliable mobile and landline telecom services to which UT?
Answer: The 2300km project which connects Chennai and Port Blair was announced in the year 2018.
- Question: Which State/UT Government has entered into a MoU with IIT Bombay and Tata Projects Ltd for construction of Smog Tower?
Answer: The proposed 20 meter-high smog tower would be fitted with several air purifiers to purify the air. The construction would be completed in 10 months.
- Question: Which Union Ministry implements Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)?
Answer: Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The scheme aims to provide basic infrastructure for water supply, sewage and seepage management in 500 Mission cities.
- Question: Which organisation is deploying ‘Ninja’ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance?
Answer: The Railway Protection Force is deploying the Ninja UAVs to improve monitoring and provide safety to railway assets and passengers. RPF has recently procured nine drones worth over Rs 30 lakh.
- Question: What is the allocation made for ‘Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme’(ECLGS)?
Answer: The Government launched ‘Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme’(ECLGS), as a part of the Rs 20 lakh crore economic stimulus package. The allocation made for the ECLGS scheme was Rs 3 lakh crore for five months till October 31st.
- Question: Which company has partnered with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to offer free Digital skill training?
Answer: IBM India. The training focuses on recent technologies like cybersecurity, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning and professional development skills. The online courses will be offered to the learners between 18 to 22 years.
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