Daily Current Affairs Quiz: February 09, 2024

February 9, 2024

Consider the following statements:
1. World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) is the annual flagship Track II initiative of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
2. The theme of this year’s summit is "Sustainable Development for Everyone".
3. TERI is an independent, multi-dimensional organization, with expertise in research, policy, consultancy and implementation.
4. TERI headquarters are located in Bengaluru.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?

(A) 1 & 2 only
(B) 1 & 3 only
(C) 3 & 4 only
(D) 2 & 4 only

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ANSWER: B

Consider the following statements:
1. Rio de Janeiro has declared a public health emergency because of an outbreak of dengue fever.
2. Dengue fever occurs majorly in tropical and subtropical areas of the world.
3. A person cannot be infected with dengue more than once in their life.
4. Dengue is caused by the bacteria infected Aedes species mosquito.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?

(A) 1 & 2 only
(B) 1 & 3 only
(C) 3 & 4 only
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

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ANSWER: A

Consider the following statements:
1. Kilkari, launched by Ministry for Health and Family Welfare is a centralized interactive voice response (IVR) based mobile health service.
2. N. Women will work closely with Kerala to assist in Safe City Project.
3. Kokborok is the lingua franca of most of Manipur’s 19 tribal communities.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?

(A) 1 & 2 only
(B) 2 & 3 only
(C) 1 & 3 only
(D) 1, 2 & 3

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ANSWER: A

Consider the following statements:
1. Kilkari service is FREE of cost for States/UTs and beneficiaries.
2. Safe City Project is a CentralSector Scheme under Ministry of Women and Child Development.
3. Kokborok is an oral language and belongs to Tibeto-Burman family.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?

(A) 1 & 2 only
(B) 2 & 3 only
(C) 1 & 3 only
(D) 1, 2 & 3

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ANSWER: C

Consider the following statements:
1. Mobile Academy is a free audio training course designed to expand and refresh the knowledge of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs).
2. All metro cities are covered under the Safe City project.
3. Kokborok was first recognised as an official state language of Manipur in 1979.
Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

(A) 1 & 2 only
(B) 2 & 3 only
(C) 1 & 3 only
(D) 1, 2 & 3

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ANSWER: B

In the face of severe protests from different student organizations, civil societies and political parties, the Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) has allowed both Roman and Bengali scripts as the script of choice for writing answer scripts of Kokborok paper in the board examinations.

ABOUT KOKBOROK LANGUAGE

Kokborok is the lingua franca of most of Tripura’s 19 tribal communities.
It is an oral language like most indigenous languages of the region.
Kokborok was first recognised as an official state language of Tripura in 1979.
It belongs to Tibeto-Burman family.
Tripura’s primary Opposition TIPRA Motha party has been demanding the Roman script to be declared as the official script for the indigenous language and as one of the scripts allowed for board exams.

Consider the following statements:
1. Super 30 founder Anand Kumar has been granted the ‘Golden Visa’ by the Saudi Arabia
2. Anand Kumar was also awarded the Padma Shri in 2023.
Which of the following statements is/ are correct?

(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2

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ANSWER: B

Super 30 founder Anand Kumar has joined the elite list of Indian celebrities who have been granted the ‘Golden Visa’ by the United Arab Emirates government.
Kumar was nominated for the Golden Visa by the UAE Embassy in India.
The coveted Golden Visa, introduced by the UAE in 2019, grants long-term residency, permitting independent living, working, and studying.
Individuals in the fields of science, knowledge, culture, and art are granted the Golden Visa.
Kumar getting the coveted visa represents a noteworthy inclusion from the academic sector, traditionally dominated by Bollywood and sports icons.
Kumar, a Mathematics educator, started his Super 30 programme in Patna in 2002, known for coaching underprivileged students for JEE-Main & JEE-Advanced, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
He was named in Time magazine’s list of Best of Asia 2010.
In 2023, he was awarded the Padma Shri, fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India.

Consider the following statements:
1. As per Tomtom Traffic Index 2023, New York had the slowest traffic in 2023.
2. Two cities in India, Bengaluru and New Delhi, were among the ten worst for traffic in 2023.
Which of the following statements is/ are correct?

(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2

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ANSWER: D

The Tomtom Traffic Index 2023 was released by company called TomTom, which specialises in location technology.
The report looked at 387 cities in 55 countries, measuring how traffic affected travel time, fuel costs, and carbon emissions using data from over 600 million car navigation systems.
It showed that London had the slowest traffic in 2023.
Two cities in India, Bengaluru and Pune, were among the ten worst for traffic in 2023, according to the TomTom report.
Bengaluru was in 6th place, taking an average of 28 minutes and 10 seconds for a 10-kilometre journey, and Pune was in 7th place, taking 27 minutes and 50 seconds.
Bengaluru, known as the IT capital of India, was also named the second most congested city in 2023, with Dublin, Ireland being the only city worse.

Sebastián Piñera, who passed away recently in a helicopter crash, was the former President of-

(A) Argentina
(B) Bolivia
(C) Chile
(D) Denmark

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ANSWER: C

Chilean ex-President Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms and was also a billionaire businessman, has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 74.
Three other people aboard the aircraft survived when it came down in a lake near the southern town of Lago Ranco.
National mourning has been declared and tributes have poured in.
Piñera came to power in 2010, the first conservative politician to be elected president after the end of military rule 20 years earlier.

A 150-year-old water supply scheme is being rejuvenated in which of the following districts?

(A) Lhaul Spiti
(B) Shimla
(C) Solan
(D) Kangra

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ANSWER: B

Shimla Jal Prabandhan Nigam Limited (SJPNL) has decided to rejuvenate the 150-year-old Seog water supply scheme before monsoon winds hit the region this year.
It’s the first water scheme of the city, laid by the British around 1875.
A line from this scheme supplied water to the residence of the Viceroy of India.
In view of the scheme’s historical and heritage value, the SJNPL has roped in the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH).

Which of the following higher officials from HP has been awarded prestigious ‘National Highway Excellence Awards 2022’?

(A) Harish Pathak
(B) Ankit Prabhakar
(C) Bovin Kumar
(D) Shruti Mahajan

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ANSWER: C

Bovin Kumar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cube Highways and Transportation Assets Advisors, a subsidiary of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), has been awarded prestigious ‘National Highway Excellence Awards 2022’.
Bovin Kumar hails from Dhauladhar Colony in Palampur.
The award was presented by Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways.
This special recognition is a testament to Kumar’s exceptional leadership role in Ghaziabad Aligarh Expressway Private Limited (GAEPL), which achieved a groundbreaking feat and created a World Record.
Under his guidance, GAEPL successfully laid an astounding 112.5 lane km of bituminous concrete road within an unprecedented time frame of 100 hours.