October 2020 Current Affairs Test

India is far from getting herd immunity-pm. In this context consider the following:

1) Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection.

2) Herd immunity is obtained through vaccination only.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

Recently the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) celebrated its 79th Foundation Day. Consider the following statements in this regard:

(1) CSIR was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the largest research and development organisation in India .

(2) JIGYASA - ‘a student - scientist connect programme’ is one of the major initiatives taken up by CSIR at national level.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding ‘Khelo India Phir Se’

1) It was launched by the Sports Authority of India.

2) It aims to resume the sports activities and events at national level in a phased manner.

Select the correct option

Which of the following is/are correctly matched?

1) Shinku La – Arunachal Pradesh

2) Zoji La – Ladakh

3) Fotu La – Uttarakhand

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

With reference to the Standards for Safety Evaluation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells vehicles, consider the following statements:

1) The Standards were notified through an amendment to Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989

2) The hydrogen fuel specification for fuel cell vehicles will be in accordance with ISO 14687

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

With regards to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) consider the following statements:

1) TRAI has recently proposed creation of multi-stakeholder body (MSB) for adherence to the provisions of net neutrality.

2) The net neutrality principles adopted by DoT will not be applicable to 5G technology.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding River Ganga:

1) It flows through the 5 states from Himachal Pradesh to West Bengal.

2) It plays a significant role in sustaining the lives of about 50 percent of the country’s population

3) Ganga Avalokan Museum was recently inaugurated in Haridwar.

Which of the following statements is /are correct?

Recently EPFO has started facility enabling EPS members to apply for Scheme Certificate under Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 through UMANG App. Consider the following statements in this regards:

(1) Scheme certificate is issued to members who withdraw their EPF contribution but wish to retain their membership with EPFO, to avail pension benefits on attainment of retirement age.

(2) A member becomes eligible for pension only if he has been, cumulatively, a member of the Employees’ Pension Scheme,1995 for at least 20 years.

(3) Upon joining a new job, Scheme Certificate ensures that previous pensionable service is added to pensionable service rendered with the new employer thereby, increasing the amount of pension benefits.

Which of the above statements are correct:

Recently the Pune based Serum Insti¬tute of India (SII) committed to producing an additional 100 million doses of the vaccines it is testing. Consider the following statements about Serum Insti¬tute of India (SII):

(1) Serum Insti¬tute of India (SII) is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) runs under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

(2) Serum Institute of India was founded in 1966 with the aim of manufacturing life-saving immuno-biologicals, which were in shortage in the country and imported at high prices.

(3) Serum Institute of India is now the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally.

Which of the above statements are correct:

Migingo island often seen in news is a disputed territory between:

Consider the following statements regarding the Consumer Price Index - Industrial Workers (CPI-IW):

1) It is compiled and released quarterly by the Labour Bureau.

2) It is utilized primarily for measuring Dearness Allowance (DA) payable to workers in the organized sector including PSUs, Banks and Insurance companies besides Govt. employees.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Aqaba is the only coastal city of Syria

2. Beirut is an important city of Israel

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

Which of the following is/are correctly matched?

1) Palk Strait – Sri Lanka

2) Bab-el-Mandeb Strait – Yemen

3) Malacca Strait – Indonesia

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Abraham accord recently seen in news is between:

Recently Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (POWERGRID) has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ministry of Power, Govt. of India.

(1) POWERGRID is a Maharatna Company.

(2) It is India’s second largest Electric Power Transmission Utility.

(3) It is Listed Company since 2007

Which of the following statements regarding Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (POWERGRID) is/are correct:

Recently India got its first ever Brand & Logo for its Cotton on 2nd World Cotton Day. Consider the following statements regarding this :

1) Now India’s premium Cotton would be known as ‘Kasturi Cotton’ in the world cotton Trade.

2) India is the 3rd largest cotton producer and the largest consumer of cotton in the world.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are incorrect?

With reference to the monetary policy committee (MPC), consider the following statements:

1) The new members nominated have been given a four-year term.

2) The six-member MPC has the mandate to maintain annual inflation at 4 percent, with an upper tolerance of 6 percent and a lower tolerance of 2 percent.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1) Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

2) POPs are identified chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate in living organisms, adversely affect human health/ environment

3) POPs have the property of long-range environmental transport (LRET).

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

With reference to the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART), consider the following statements:

1) SMART is a missile assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operations far beyond the Torpedo range.

2) It has been successfully flight tested from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Recently a MoU was signed between Indian Sign Language Research and Training Center-ISLRTC and NCERT to make education materials accessible for Deaf children in their preferred format of communication viz Indian Sign Language.

Consider the following statements in this regard :

1) ISLRTC is an autonomous National Institute of DEPwD, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

2) NCERT is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Education, which is responsible for ensuring qualitative improvement in school education.

3) As per the 2011 Census, the total population of deaf persons in India numbered about 50 lakh.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding Precision Agriculture:

1) The focus is to enhance farm productivity with increased input use efficiency and environmental sustainability.

2) It utilizes a wide array of technologies like sensors, remote sensing, deep learning, artificial intelligence and IoT for monitoring and quantification of soil, plant and environment.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the Positive Pay mechanism:

1) The mechanism involves cross checking the financial instrument with the details provided by the issuing party or individual.

2) It has potential to make cheque payments more secure from altering, counterfeiting and forging.

Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?

Which of the following statements regarding PM SVANidhi Scheme is/are correct?

1) It aims to provide working capital loans to the street vendors impacted by COVID -19 lockdown.

2) The Scheme targets only those street vendors who are in urban areas.

Select the correct option

GST Council meeting is headed by the

With reference to the Diffie–Hellman key exchange, consider the following statements:

1) Diffie–Hellman key exchange is a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel

2) The method allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure channel.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following statements is/are correct about RAISE 2020 ?

1) It is a summit on utilizing Artificial Intelligence for the purpose of social transformation, inclusion and empowerment.

2) It is organised by Ministry of Science and Technology and NITI Aayog.

Select the correct option

With reference to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020, consider the following statements:

1) Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S. won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping “scissors”.

2) The first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding Indian Gas Markets:

1) The share of natural gas in the energy mix was 15% in 2019

2) The domestic gas production has complete marketing and pricing freedom.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

“Protection against arrest and detention in certain cases ’’ falls under which of the following categories:

With reference to the ‘Natural Gas Marketing Reforms’, consider the following statements:

1) The policy aims to provide standard procedure for sale of natural gas in a transparent and competitive manner to discover market price by issuing guidelines for sale by contractor through e-bidding.

2) The policy has also permitted Affiliate companies to participate in the bidding process in view of the open, transparent and electronic bidding.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the Zozila Tunnel :

1) Zojila Tunnel will provide all-weather safe connectivity between Srinagar, Dras, Kargil and Leh regions.

2) It will be the longest road tunnel in Asia once completed.

The Voices of the Hungry (VOH) project is an initiative of which of the following organization?

Consider the following statements regarding International Monetary and Financial Committee:

1) It is a Ministerial-level committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

2) The Committee discusses matters of common concern affecting the global economy and advises the IMF on the direction of its work.

3) The IMFC meets twice a year.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Which of the following statements is/are correct.

1.The STAR project is being implemented to strengthen the education system of school and to provide education to all under the New Education Policy (NEP).

2.The project is being started on the basis of partnership between India and New Development Bank ( NDB).

“India Component” of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)–Transport Initiative for Asia (TIA) is launched by which of the following?

Recently the Government launched the KAPILA programm with the aim of :

Consider the following statements with regards to the Regional Raw Drug Repository (RRDR) for ASU&H Medicine:

1) Ministry of AYUSH, through the National Medicinal Plants Board, initiated establishment of National Raw Drug Repository and Regional Raw Drug Repositories.

2) NMPB have identified National Institute of Siddha as the lead Institute with the Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine, Chennai and the Siddha Central Research Institute, Chennai as the Collaborating Institutes.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

ENFUSER (ENvironmental information FUsion SERvice) has been recently in the news. It is related to

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding recently released the Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020?

1) It has been prepared by the NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Institute of Competitiveness.

2) Tamil Nadu has emerged as the top-performing state in the ‘Coastal States’ category.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Recently a pilot ‘Aquaponics facility’ developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mohali at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary University (GADVASU), Ludhiana was inaugurated. Which of the following statement(s) regarding Aquaponics is / are correct?

1) Aquaponics is an emerging technique in which both fishes as well as the plants are grown in an integrated manner.

2) The fish waste provides fertilizer for growing plants and the plants absorb nutrients and filter the water.

Which of the following statements regarding the Blue Flag Certification is/are correct?

1) It is an eco label for the beaches only.

2) It is accorded by The Foundation of Environment Education, FEE Denmark.

3) Shivrajpur, Ghogla, Rushikonda are some of the blue flag certified beaches.

Select the correct option.

With reference to the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering, consider the following statements:

1) APG is a regional affiliate of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

2) The APG Secretariat is located in Sydney, Australia.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding “BEAMS” (Beach Environment & Aesthetics Management Services) :

1) It is a project launched under the Integrated coastal zone management project by SICOM.

2) Objective of the BEAMS program is to promote sustainable development of beach amenities/ facilities.

Which of the following statements is /are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding ‘SVAMITVA’ scheme:

1) It aims to provide rural people with the right to document their residential properties so that they can use their property for economic purposes.

2) The scheme is for surveying the land parcels in rural inhabited area using Drone technology.

3) The survey shall be done across the country in a phase wise manner over the period of four years (2020 -2024)

Which of the following is/are correct?

The International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (ICCAR) is an initiative launched by

Consider the following statements with regard to Life in Miniature project:

1) Several hundred miniature paintings from the National Museum, New Delhi can be viewed online by people around the world through the “Life in Miniature”project .

2) The project uses technologies like machine learning, augmented reality and digitization with high-definition robotic cameras

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the Scramjet engines:

1) It operates by combustion of fuel in a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft itself.

2) The airflow through the engine remains supersonic, or greater than the speed of sound.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements with regard to INS Kavaratti.

1) INS Kavaratti is an anti-submarine warfare corvette (ASW) of the Indian Navy built under Project 75(I).

2) It is the last of four indigenously-built ASW under Kamorta-class corvettes of the Navy.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding Consumer Price Index for Industrial Worker (CPI-IW) :

1) New series of Consumer Price Index for Industrial Worker (CPI-IW) has base year 2016

2) The weight of Food & Beverages has increased in the new series.

3) The weight of housing has also increased in the new series.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Which of the following country(s) is/are participant to the East Asia Summit?

1) Canada

2) New Zealand

3) Russia

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Consider the following statements regarding PSMA PET-CT technology:

1) It is a combination of CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET).

2) This technology has helped in identifying new cancer cells in the throat region.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1) Malabar Exercise started as a bilateral Japan-India naval exercise in 1995

2) USA(United States of America) has never participated in the Malabar Exercise before 2020

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Recently, India has successfully flight tested an indigenously developed Stand-off Anti-tank (SANT) missile from a ground-based platform off Odisha coast. Consider the following statements in this regard:

1) The SANT missile is an air-to-air missile developed by DRDO for the Indian Air Force.

2) The SANT missile is an upgrade on India’s Helina missile believed to have a range of 7 to 8 km.

3) The SANT missile has both lock-on before launch and lock-on after launch capability.

Which of the above statements is/ are correct ?

Consider the following statements regarding the recently launched Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center (CIC):

1) It has been developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

2) It will enable government stakeholders, start-ups, and local organizations in India to access cloud-based technologies.

Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?

Consider the following statements regarding ‘ Abraham Accords’ which was recently in news:

1) It refers collectively to the peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

2) This was the first time any Arab country had normalized relations with Israel since Jordan in 1994

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Which of the following statements regarding the Ayushman Sahakar Scheme is/are correct?

1) It is a unique scheme to assist cooperatives play an important role in creation of healthcare infrastructure.

2) It is formulated by National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC).

3) NCDC is the apex autonomous development finance institution under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Select the correct option

Consider the following statements regarding CRISPR - Cas - 9:

1) It is a gene - editing tool which was awarded the 2020 Nobel prize in medicine.

2) It can be used to identify specific sequences of DNA.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding Financial Action Task Force (FATF):

1) It was formed in 1989 by the G- 20 group of countries.

2) One of its objectives is to stop funding for weapons of mass destruction.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Which of the following areas of business regulation are covered in Doing Business Report (DB) of the World Bank?

1) Trading across borders

2) Getting Electricity

3) Resolving Insolvency

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With reference to State Development Loans (SDLs) consider the following statements:

1) Reserve Bank of India will conduct its first-ever Open Market Operation (OMO) purchase of State Developments Loans (SDLs) on 22nd October.

2) State Development Loans (SDLs) are dated securities issued by states for meeting their market borrowings requirements.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?