Top 10 Current Affairs Questions with Answers of 09th January 2021
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Top 10 Current Affairs Questions with Answers: 09th
January 2021
👉 (1) Avian influenza or bird flu is a highly contagious viral disease
caused by ………… virus?
Answer
- Influenza Type A Virus ✔️
Important Point -
·
Avian
influenza or bird flu is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the influenza
type A virus that usually affects poultry birds such as chickens and turkeys.
·
There
are many strains of the virus — some of them mild and can only cause egg
production or other mild symptoms among chickens, while others are severe and
fatal.
Why in the news?
·
Bird
geese have been reported among wild geese in Himachal Pradesh, crows in
Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and ducks in Kerala.
·
In
Haryana, about one lakh poultry birds have mysteriously died in the last few
days.
👉 (2) ………… .. India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding relating
to participation in respect of specified skilled workers with the country?
Answer:
Japan ✔️
Important Point -
·
The
Union Cabinet recently approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding
between the Government of India and the Government of Japan regarding
participation of specified skilled workers.
·
key
features:
·
India
will send skilled laborers to Japan.
·
The
only condition is that workers must qualify in the required skills test and the
Japanese language test.
·
Qualified
Indian workers can work in fourteen designated areas in Japan.
·
Indian
workers are to be accorded a new status of residence of "designated skilled
laborers" as per the agreement.
👉 (3) Chattargala tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir state of Kathua and
……………. Will add the district?
Answer:
Doda ✔️
Important Point -
·
The
proposed Chattaragala tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir will connect Kathua district
to Doda district via a new highway passing through Basohli-Bani via Chattargala
touching Bhadarwah and Doda.
·
It is
going to be a historic project, which will provide an all-weather alternative
road connectivity between two remote areas and reduce the time taken from Doda
to Lakhanpur on the Punjab border to just four hours.
·
It
will be a 6.8 km long tunnel. This tunnel will take about 4 years to complete
after the work starts.
👉 (4) To act as a small finance bank ……………. Shivalik Mercantile
Co-operative Bank has become UCB to get license from bank?
Answer:
Indian Reserve Bank ✔️
Important Point -
·
Uttar
Pradesh-based Shivalik Mercantile Co-operative Bank (SMCB) has become the first
Urban Co-operative Bank (UCB) of India
·
Which
has received a license from the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a small
finance bank (SFB).
·
SMCB
obtained a commercial banking license from the banking regulator Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) on 06 January 2021 for operation in SFB under the voluntary
transition scheme.
·
Shivalik
Small Finance Bank (SSFB) will start its banking operations from April 2021.
·
Shivalik
Mercantile Co-operative Bank (SMCB) is headquartered in Saharanpur, Uttar
Pradesh.
👉 (5) The country's first double-stacked 1.5 km long container train
from Atteli (Haryana) to ………… started?
Answer:
Kishangarh (Rajasthan) ✔️
Important Point -
·
The
country's first double-stack 1.5 km long container train from Atteli (Haryana)
to Kishangarh (Rajasthan) started.
·
Prime
Minister Modi flagged it off on 7 January 2021.
·
The
double stack long hall container train operations will be an increased axle
load of 25 tonnes.
·
It is
designed for DFCCIL by the Wagon Department of RDSO. Trial runs of the BLCS-A
and BLCS-B wagon prototypes have been completed.
·
On a
long haul double-stack container train on the WDFC, this wagon will be able to
carry up to four times in terms of container units compared to the current
traffic of the Indian Railways.
👉 (6) …………… .. University will develop new technique of surveying
African elephants using Artificial Intelligence?
Answer:
Oxford University ✔️
Important Point -
·
An
international team of researchers led by the University of Oxford has developed
a new technique for surveying African elephants using satellite imagery and
artificial intelligence.
New Technology:
·
This
technology uses satellites in space that are capable of capturing more than
five thousand square kilometers of images.
·
Captured
images are processed through intensive learning models that will detect
elephants and this method eliminates the risk of double counting.
·
The
international team used a customized dataset to cover more than a thousand
elephants in South Africa.
👉 (7) India and …………… successfully test-fired a medium-range
surface-to-air missile (MRSAM) defense system?
Answer:
Israel ✔️
Explanation –
·
India
and Israel successfully tested a medium-range surface-to-air missile (MRSAM)
defense system.
·
The
MRSAM missile defense system has been jointly developed by DRDO and Israel
Aerospace Industries (IAI) to combat air strikes by enemy countries.
·
MRSAM
is an air and missile defense system that can shoot down enemy aircraft from 50
to 70 km. It provides ultimate protection against various types of air attacks.
👉 (8) Which of the following ………… has the Global Economic Prospects
Report released?
Answer:
World Bank ✔️
Important Point -
·
The
World Bank has released a Global Economic Prospect Report.
·
Highlights
of the report:
·
According
to the report, the Indian economy has to contract by 9.6% in 2020-21.
·
The
Indian economy will recover 5.4 percent in 2021-22.
·
The
contraction in the Indian economy will be mainly due to a sharp decline in
domestic spending and private investment.
·
The
informal sector has been badly affected for four fifths of employment in the
country.
·
The
global economy will expand 4% in 2021.
👉 (9) 'Kisan Kalyan Mission Scheme' ………… .. launched by the state
government?
Answer:
Uttar Pradesh ✔️
Important Point -
·
Chief
Minister Yogi Adityanath has launched 'Kisan Kalyan Mission' as part of the
campaign to double the income of farmers by developing agriculture and
agro-based activities in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
👉 (10) According to the recent New Delhi school bag policy, the weight
of school bags of class 1 and class 10 students should not exceed …………% of
their body weight?
Answer
- 10% ✔️
Important Point -
·
The
Delhi government recently issued guidelines to reduce the weight of school bags
of students in the National Capital Region under its Delhi School Bag Policy.
·
As per
the New Delhi School Bag Policy, the weight of school bags of class 1 and class
10 students should not exceed 10% of their body weight.
Other information:
·
Only
one notebook should be taken by the students of class 1 and class 2. For
students in other classes, a notebook should be set per subject.
·
No
homework should be issued for the students of class 1 and class two.
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