May 21 2023

Question 1

Significance of May 21

Answer 1

1. World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, also known as Diversity Day, is an annual celebration held on May 21st.
2. National Anti-Terrorism Day
   History: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on this day in 1991.
3. International Tea Day. The day is observed annually on May 21 per a resolution made by the UN General Assembly.

Question 2

MGNREGA
1. Full form
2. When the MGNREGA Scheme officially launched?
3. When passed?
4. What was MGNREGA earlier called?
5. Are MGNREGS and MGNREGA the same?
6. Number of Districts covered under the MGNREGA Scheme?
7. Key Stakeholders under MGNREGA
8. What is MGNREGA Job Card?
9. Mandate of Mahatma Gandhi NREGS
10. In March 2023, the government declared new wage rates for __ workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.
11. As per the wage revisions carried out, the highest rate of wage, which is Rs. 357 per day has been fixed for __.
12. The lowest wage of Rs. 221 per day has been fixed for __.
13. The Union Government has made it mandatory for payments to be made for MGNREGA beneficiaries through the __.

Answer 2

1. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
2. 2nd February 2006
3. 23rd August 2005
4. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
5. MGNREGS is a scheme which is based on the MGNREGA (Act)
6. As of 11th February 2021; 708 districts are covered
7. Wage seekers
   Gram Sabha (GS)
   Three-tier Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)
   Programme Officer at the Block level
   District Programme Coordinator (DPC)
   State Government
   Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD)
   Civil Society
   Other stakeholders (In line departments, convergence departments, Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
8. It is a document that renders a worker entitled for work under the MGNREGA Scheme
9. Provision of at least 100 days of work that provides guaranteed wage in a financial year
10. unskilled manual
11. Haryana
12. Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
13. Aadhar-Based Payment System or ABPS

Question 3

Quad leaders’ meeting would be held in India in __.

Answer 3

2024

Question 4

1. G7 2023 meeting held in __.
2. Quad 2023 meeting held in __.

Answer 4

1. Hiroshima, Japan
2. Hiroshima, Japan

Question 5

The World Health Organization on 20/05/23 launched a global network to help swiftly detect the threat from infectious diseases, like COVID-19, and share the information to prevent their spread. Name it.

Answer 5

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) will provide a platform for connecting countries and regions, improving systems for collecting and analysing samples, the agency said.

Question 6

1. Expand SARS-CoV-2
2. This virus previously had two provision names. What are they?
3. In place of antivirals that directly target the virus in question, the team, co-led by researchers at __, attempted the host-directed therapy.
4. Expand DPUD

Answer 6

1. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
2. 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and human coronavirus 2019 (HCoV-19 or hCoV-19)
3. IISER Mohali and IIT Ropar
4. diphenylurea derivative

Question 7

1. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,700 years, so the technique cannot determine the age of objects older than around __.
2. New technique welcomes __ to radiometric dating.

Answer 7

1. 50,000 years
2. Calcium -41

Question 8

What are the ‘Five Freedoms’ recognised for animals by the World Health Organization for Animal Health?

Answer 8

freedom from hunger, thirst and malnutrition; freedom from fear and distress; freedom from physical and thermal discomfort; freedom from pain, injury and disease; and freedom to express normal patterns of behaviour

Question 9

G7
1. Expand G7
2. Background of G7 formation
3. Formed in and name.
4. Which country was later included in which year and the name.
5. Annual/Biennial
6. Predecessor of EU
7. Is EU also a member of G7?
8. Which country was included in G7 in which year?
9. This country was excluded from the grouping in which year? State the reason.
10. What are the G7 countries?

Answer 9

1. Group of 7
2. Collapse of the Breton Woods fixed exchange system(1971) and 1973 oil crisis. These both led to financial crisis. To tackle these type of situations six leading industrial countries met.
3. G6-1975
4. G7-1976, Canada
5. Annual
6. European Economic Community
7. No, it just participates in the annual meetings.
8. Russia- G8- 1997
9. 2014- Russia excluded following its annexation of Crimea.
10. Canada, USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.