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- Which of the following products has recently (in August ‘23) received the Geographical Indication(GI) tags status from Geographical Indications Registry?
1) Bhaderwah Rajmash of Jammu & Kashmir(J&K)
2) Ramban Sulai Honey of Jammu & Kashmir(J&K)
3) Chokuwa Rice (Magic Rice) of Sikkim
4) Both 1 & 2
5) Both 2 & 3Answer-4) Both 1 & 2
Explanation:
Chennai(Tamil Nadu) based Geographical Indications Registry has granted Geographical Indication(GI) tags to Bhaderwah Rajmash(Red kidney beans) and Ramban Sulai Honey of Jammu & Kashmir(J&K) and Chokuwa rice(Magic Rice) of Assam.
• The Geographical Indication Registry functions under the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry(MoCI). - Name the ministry that has recently (in August ‘23) signed an MoU with the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) to enhance the socio-economic upliftment of Safai Karamcharis, manual scavengers, waste pickers, and their families.
1) Ministry of Rural Development
2) Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
3) Ministry of Home Affairs
4) Ministry of Panchayati Raj
5) Ministry of Housing and Urban AffairsAnswer-2) Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Explanation:
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MoSJE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) to enhance the socio-economic upliftment of Safai Karamcharis, manual scavengers, waste pickers, and their families.
• The MoU signed for the fiscal years (FY) 2023-24 and 2024-25 will focus on empowering the marginalized communities across India.
i. The collaborative effort aims to expand activities that promote safety, education, skill development, entrepreneurship, and long-term employment prospects, enabling the overall growth of sanitation employees.
ii. This collaboration aims to share expertise and resources in order to effectively implement programmes that empower marginalised communities.
iii. The MoU emphasises the objective to accelerate inclusive growth by allocating and utilising money for targeted welfare programmes more effectively. - Which country, along with India, has recently (in August ‘23) launched the Renewable Energy Technology Action Platform (RETAP) under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership?
1) United Kingdom
2) France
3) United States
4) Brazil
5) United Arab EmiratesAnswer- 3) United States
Explanation:
The United States (US) Department of Energy (DOE) and India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in a meeting togetherly launched the US-India Renewable Energy Technology Action Platform (RETAP) under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership.
i. RETAP was announced in June 2023 to advance new and emerging renewable technologies.
ii. The meeting was led by DOE Deputy Secretary David Turk and MNRE Secretary Bhupinder Singh Bhalla. - Name the open-source Hyperledger Fabric Deployment Helper that was recently (in August ‘23) launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to streamline the deployment and management of Hyperledger Fabric based blockchain networks on Kubernetes clusters.
1) Falcon
2) Iroha
3) Tron
4) Corda
5) SawtoothAnswer-1) Falcon
Explanation:
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) launches ‘Falcon’, an open-source Hyperledger Fabric Deployment Helper, to streamline the deployment and management of Hyperledger Fabric based blockchain networks on Kubernetes clusters.
• The primary goal of introducing ‘Falcon’ is to simplify the complex process of establishing, configuring, and managing various components of the Hyperledger Fabric network within a Kubernetes environment.
• These components include Fabric nodes, peers, orderers, and channels.
About the Falcon:
i. Falcon is an open-source project created under General Public License (GPL) licence (GPL-3.0).
ii. Falcon is expected to help blockchain developers to use the distributed ledger technology to facilitate efficient, reliable, and automated deployment of network as well as Web3 solutions.
Note: NPCI has launched blockchain technology based “Vajra Platform” to make payments fast and secure in 2020. - In August 2023, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved the acquisition of shareholding in ____________ (company) by Orogen-Brunson L.P.
1) Deloitte Technology
2) Brillio Holdings, Inc.
3) IBM Global Business Services
4) Accenture Technology Consulting
5) Capgemini SEAnswer-2) Brillio Holdings, Inc.
Explanation:
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the acquisition of a certain shareholding in Brillio Holdings, Inc. by Orogen-Brunson L.P.
i. Acquirer: Orogen-Brunson L.P. is a limited company formed in the United States of America(USA) to enable the proposed combination.
• This is a part of the group of Orogen Holdings LLC and the group of Atairos Group, Inc.
ii. Target: US-based Brillio Holdings, Inc. is a global technology consulting and business solutions provider that focuses on big data analytics.
• It is present in India through its subsidy “Brillio India Technologies Private Limited”. - Name the union minister who has recently (in August ‘23) launched the e-resource web portal of the Inter-State Council Secretariat.
1) Amit Shah (Union Minister of Home Affairs)
2) Nirmala Sitharaman (Union Minister of Finance)
3) Pralhad Joshi (Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs)
4) Virendra Kumar (Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment)
5) Jitendra Singh (Mos of Science and Technology)Answer-1) Amit Shah (Union Minister of Home Affairs)
Explanation:
Union Minister, Amit Shah, Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA), launched the e-resource web portal of the Inter-State Council Secretariat, MHA, during the 26th Meeting of the Western Zonal Council at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. This portal will enable the functions of the zonal councils.
• The meeting chaired by Amit Shah was attended by Bhupendrabhai Patel, Chief Minister(CM) of Gujarat, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Goa CM Pramod Sawant and Praful Khoda Patel, Administrator of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu and other dignitaries from the states in the Western Zone.
i. The portal is a repository of important documents like the minutes and agenda of the meetings of the Inter-State Council & its Standing Committee since its constitution on 28th May 1990 and Zonal Councils & their Standing Committee since their inception in 1957.
ii. This will be used by the Central Ministries/Departments and the State government/Union Territories(UTs) for policy interventions. - In August 2023, Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan launched an innovative comic book titled “Let’s Move Forward” in New Delhi, Delhi.
Which of the following autonomous organisations of GoI/organisation has developed the comic book?
1) United Nations Children’s Fund
2) National Council of Educational Research and Training
3) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
4) Both 1 & 2
5) Both 2 & 3Answer-5) Both 2 & 3
Explanation:
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Ministry of Education(MoE) launched an innovative comic book titled “Let’s Move Forward” in a ceremony at Kaushal Bhawan in New Delhi, Delhi. The book aims to promote the health and well-being of school-going children across India,
• The comic book was jointly developed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), under the Department of School Education and Literacy, MoE and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) New Delhi.
• The book is available in both print as well as digital formats in Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil and Telugu.
• It is designed to be an interactive and educational tool to complement the implementation of the School Health and Wellness Programme(SHWP). under Ayushman Bharat Campaign.
• An electronic version of the comic book will also be accessible on the Ministry of Education (MoE), NCERT, UNESCO, and DIKSHA websites. - The ________ International Day for People of African Descent 2023 observed across the globe by the United Nations (UN) on 31st August 2023.
1) 5th
2) 3rd
3) 6th
4) 4th
5) 2ndAnswer-2) 3rd
Explanation:
The United Nations (UN)’s International Day for People of African Descent is annually observed across the globe on 31st August to promote the extraordinary contributions of people of African descent all around the world.
• This day also aims to promote and protect the human rights of people descended from African victims of enslavement.
i. 31st August 2023 marks the 3rd observance of International Day for People of African Descent.
ii. The first-ever International Day for People of African Descent was observed on 31st August 2021. - When was World Sanskrit Day/ Vishva-Samskrita-Dinam 2023 observed across India?
1) 29th August 2023
2) 27th August 2023
3) 30th August 2023
4) 28th August 2023
5) 31st August 2023Answer-5) 31st August 2023
Explanation:
World Sanskrit Day, also known as ‘Vishva-Samskrita-Dinam’, is annually observed across India on the Poornima Tithi (Full Moon day) of Shravana month in the Hindu Calandar, to honour Sanskrit, the world’s oldest known languages and the mother of all languages, originated in India around 3500 years ago.
• World Sanskrit Day 2023 was celebrated on 31st August 2023.
• The first World Sanskrit Day was celebrated in 1969. - Which state government has recently (in August ‘23) launched the Mukhyamantri Nishulk Annapurna Food Packet (MNAFP) Scheme?
1) Gujarat
2) Maharashtra
3) Rajasthan
4) West Bengal
5) OdishaAnswer-3) Rajasthan
Explanation:
Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister (CM) of Rajasthan launched the Mukhyamantri Nishulk Annapurna Food Packet Scheme (MNAFP) (Chief Minister’s Free Annapurna Food Packet Scheme) on the occasion of Independence Day (15th August 2023).
• The scheme is one of the major welfare schemes of the Rajasthan government, which seeks to distribute free food packets to more than 10.4 million families for free every month.
• The scheme would benefit up to 50 million individuals.
i. Under the scheme, families covered under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) will receive the Annapurna food packets every month from the fair price shops (FPS) for free.
ii. Each food packet will contain 1 kilogram each of Chana dal, Sugar, Salt, 1 liter of Soybean refined edible oil, 100 grams each of Chili powder and Coriander powder, and 50 gm of Turmeric.
- Which of the following products has recently (in August ‘23) received the Geographical Indication(GI) tags status from Geographical Indications Registry?
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