May 14,15 2023 Flashcards
- __ is an annual event held from 15-21 May to raise awareness about road safety and the importance of taking steps to prevent accidents.
- The theme is __
- The slogan is __
- UN Global Road Safety Week
- sustainable transport
- # RethinkMobility
Significance of May 15
- International Day of Families
Theme: ‘Demographic Trends and Families’
- Renowned astronomer and founder director of IUCAA, __ , received the inaugural Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award from the Astronomical Society of India (ASI).
- Expand IUCAA
- President of the Astronomical Society of India
- Headquarters of ASI
- Founded in
- Prof Jayant V. Narlikar
- Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Prof. Dipankar Banerjee
- The Astronomy Department, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
- 1972
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has instructed financial institutions and banks to adopt an Alternative Reference Rate, primarily the (SOFR), and end their reliance on the scandal-shrouded (LIBOR) and (MIFOR) by __.
- Expand SOFR
- Expand LIBOR
- Expand MIFOR
- July 1
- Secured Overnight Financing Rate
- London Interbank Offered Rate
- Mumbai Interbank Forward Outright Rate
Praveen Sood, the Director General of Police __ in Karnataka, has been appointed as the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Praveen Sood
- The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) has achieved an outstanding accomplishment in securing the __ position among 66 ministries in the highly influential (DGQI) assessment for 2022-2023 Q3.
- Expand DGQI
- The DGQI survey is conducted by __
- second
- Data Governance Quality Index
- The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), Niti Aayog
IOC
1. Expand IOC
2. The IOC was established in __ and over the past six years, it has become the prominent consultative forum for nations in the region to discuss regional affairs.
3. Objective
4. The first IOC took place in __
5. The second conference was hosted in __
6. The third IOC was held in __
7. The fourth edition was hosted in __
8. The fifth IOC was held in __
9. The 6th IOC take place on __
- Indian Ocean Conference
- 2016
- to facilitate discussions on regional cooperation for Security And Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR) by bringing together important states and principal maritime partners of the region on a common platform.
- Singapore in 2016
- Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2017
- 2018 Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2019 Maldives
- 2021 in Abu Dhabi, UAE
- May 12-13, 2023, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
__ , a 15-year-old chess player from Telangana, achieved the title of Grandmaster, becoming the sixth from the state and the 82nd in India.
V.Prraneeth
In April, wholesale price-based inflation dropped to __% on a yearly basis, down from 1.34% in March, according to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
-0.92%
- __ temple, located in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, built by Pandavas declared national monument and the highest among the five Panch Kedar temples.
- What are the Panch Kedar temples?
- Tungnath temple
- Kedarnath, Madhmaheshwar, Tungnath, Rudranath, Kalpnath
- The __ project is a crucial part of the deep-sea ocean mission approved by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) in 2021.
- The __ , under the MoES, is responsible for undertaking this project.
- In recognition of India’s efforts, the __ has allocated a 75,000 sq km site in the Central Indian Ocean Basin for the exploration of polymetallic nodules from the seabed.
- This allocation is part of a __ contract.
- __ is the manned submersible vehicle designed for deep-sea exploration as part of the (1).
- It is capable of carrying __ individuals and can reach depths of up to 6000 meters.
- This indigenous submersible has been developed through a collaboration between the __
- Samudrayaan Project
- National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)
- International Sea Bed Authority (ISA)
- 15-year
- Matsya 6000
- three
- Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)
- Bank of Baroda, a public sector bank, has announced its partnership with NeSL, a government-backed information utility appointed by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, to launch the __ system.
- Expand NeSL
- Aim of this launch
- MD & CEO of NeSL
- Electronic Bank Guarantee (BG) system
- National E-Governance Services Limited
- to significantly reduce the turnaround time for issuing electronic bank guarantees compared to the conventional paper-based process.
- Debajyoti Ray Chaudhuri
India’s proposition to promote the expansion and adoption of its digital public infrastructure (DPI), comprising of Aadhaar, United Payments Interface (UPI), and DigiLocker, was accepted by the __ during a gathering of ICT development ministers chaired by India.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
- The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has established the __ to streamline the process of removing companies from the MCA Register.
- Purpose
- (1) will operate under the __
- __ , ICLS, has been appointed as the first registrar of (1)
- Centre for Processing Accelerated Corporate Exit (C-PACE)
- to reduce the burden on the registry and provide a convenient process for stakeholders to remove their company’s name from the register.
- Registrar of Companies (RoC)
- Harihara Sahoo
- __ successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 26th time, equaling the record set by another Nepalese guide.
- Nepal Capital
- Nepal Prime minister
- President of Nepal
- Nepal Currency
- Nepal Official language
- Pasang Dawa Sherpa
- Kathmandu
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal
- Ram Chandra Poudel
- Nepalese Rupee
- Nepali
