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Q.1. Union government has approved Rs 638 cr under the Namami Gange programme for how many projects?
Exp. Centre approves Rs 638 cr under Namami Gange programme
Eight projects worth approximately ₹638 crore were approved in the 48th meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).
In an attempt to clean River Hindon, which is a tributary of River Yamuna, four projects worth Rs. 407.39 crore were approved for pollution abatement in the Shamli district. These projects are part of the comprehensive Hindon Rejuvenation Plan.
Hindon River is identified as a Priority I polluted river stretch. The projects which were sanctioned are to prevent the flow of polluted water into Krishna River.
The four projects in Shamli district include the construction of 5 Million Litres per Day (MLD) Sewage Treatment Plant (Nirmal Jal Kendra), 5 KLD Septage Co-treatment Facility, Interception & Diversion (I&D) and other works in Babri and Bantikhera villages.
As part of preparations for the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, in 2025, one project for development of 7 ghats in Prayagraj was also approved in the EC meeting.
The ghats include Dashashmedh Ghat, Quila Ghat, Naukayan Ghat, Gyan Ganga Ashram Ghat, Saraswati Ghat, Maheva Ghat and Rasulabad Ghat. These ghats will have amenities such as area for bathing, change room, universal access ramp, drinking water points, flood lights for night, kiosks, landscaping etc.
About Namami Gange Programme
Namami Gange Programme’, is an integrated conservation mission, approved as ‘flagship programme’ by the Union Government in June 2014 with budget outlay of ₹20,000 crore.
This project is aimed at accomplishing the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution, conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga.
Q.2. Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda has launched the marketing and logistics development for PTP-NER scheme in Manipur. What is the meaning of the second P in PTP-NER?
Exp. Arjun Munda launched scheme to promote tribal products from northeast
Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda has launched Marketing and Logistics Development for Promotion of Tribal Products from the North-Eastern Region (PTP-NER) scheme in Manipur.
The scheme has been introduced for the benefit of Scheduled Tribes of the North-Eastern Region.
It has the vision to strengthen livelihood opportunities for tribal artisans through increased efficiency in procurement, logistics and marketing of tribal products from North Eastern States.
The scheme will apply to the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
As part of the scheme, it is planned to initiate empanelment of tribal artisans from North Eastern Region by organizing 68 Tribal Artisan Melas from today onwards in various districts of the region.
About Manipur
Capital – Imphal
Chief Minister – Biren Singh
Governor – Anusuiya Uikey
Q.3. Who has launched the ‘Sangathan Se Samriddhi’ campaign to bring marginalized rural women into SHGs network?
Exp. Jitendra Singh launches ‘YUVA PORTAL’ to identify potential young Start-Ups
Science and Technology Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh has launched – YUVA PORTAL in New Delhi, which will help in connecting and identifying potential young Start-Ups.
Dr. Singh also launched the One Week -One Lab programme.
The event emphasises the need for broad-based participation from stakeholders in the industry for startups to remain sustainable.
Each of the 37 CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) laboratories is dedicated to a different specialised area of work.
The One Week – One Lab program will provide an opportunity to CSIR laboratories.
Recent Inauguration by Jitendra Singh
Jitendra Singh inaugurated Asia’s largest 4-meter International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) at Devasthal in Uttarakhand.
Jitendra Singh launched a portal for research grants and funds for women scientists by CSIR council under CSIR-ASPIRE.
Jitendra Singh inaugurated a two-day Regional Conference in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Jitendra Singh launched “Geospatial Hackathon”
Jitendra Singh inaugurated Incubation Centre at NRDC
Q.5. The Centre has approved the project of development of an Oil Jetty at Deendayal Port, Kandla in Gujarat for how many crore rupees?
Exp. Centre approves over Rs 123 crore Oil Jetty development project at Deendayal Port
The Centre has approved the project of development of an Oil Jetty at Deendayal Port, Kandla in Gujarat for over 123 crore rupees.
The proposed project is designed to increase the cargo handling capacity of the port, which will attribute to a reduction in the turn-around time of liquid vessels.
This project will increase Deendayal Port’s income through the collection of Royalty from the Concessionaire.
About Gujarat
Capital- Gandhinagar
Chief Minister- Bhupendra Rajnikant Patel
Governor- Acharya Devvrat
Q.6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first Global Buddhist Summit in which city?
Exp. PM Modi inaugurated first Global Buddhist Summit in New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first Global Buddhist Summit in New Delhi.
The Ministry of Culture in collaboration with its grantee body International Buddhist Confederation host the two-day Summit.
The theme of the Global Buddhist Summit is Responses to Contemporary Challenges: Philosophy to Praxis.
For the first time, prominent Buddhist monks from various countries visit India and take part in the Summit.
This global Summit will mark the significance and importance of India in Buddhism, as Buddhism was born in India. This global summit will also be a medium to enhance cultural and diplomatic relationships with other countries.
PM Modi in News
PM Modi laid the foundation stone and dedicated to the nation various projects worth 10,900 crore rupees in Guwahati
PM Modi addresses 5th International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
PM Modi flagged off Bhopal-New Delhi 11th Vande Bharat Express
Fintech major CRED has launched its UPI-based peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, providing its users with a new payment option.
The feature allows CRED members access to ‘pay anyone’ through their contact list, phone numbers, or UPI IDs.
The new payment experience has been introduced after the launch of Scan & Pay in October 2022. As scan and pay gain traction, CRED expects the number of merchants to grow.
Now with the launch of P2P UPI payments, CRED members will have multiple payment options including offline payments (UPI P2P, Scan & Pay, Tap to Pay), online merchant payments (CRED Pay, CRED flash) and bill payments.
Q.8. Karnataka Bank has launched a special home loan campaign — ‘KBL Centenary Mahotsav’. Where is the headquarters of Karnataka Bank?
Karnataka Bank has launched a special home loan campaign — ‘KBL Centenary Mahotsav’ from April 17 to July 17.
Karnataka Bank has developed digital loan products for home loans allowing customers to enjoy seamless digital processing and immediate in-principle approvals at their convenience and comfort.
Customers can avail home loan with discount in upfront fee, attractive rate of interest starting from 8.75 percent, and nil processing charges for home loan under the ‘KBL Centenary Mahotsav’ campaign.
About Karnataka Bank
Founded- 18 February 1924
Headquarters– Mangalore, Karnataka
MD & CEO- Sekhar Rao
Recent Facilities Launched in Banks & Insurance Sector
SIDBI launches new financing solution “Mission 50K-EV4ECO” for electric vehicle space
ICICI Bank introduced easy EMI facility for UPI payments made by scanning QR code.
DBS Bank India launched DigiPortfolio
Canara Bank launches Premium Payroll Account
Axis Bank and VISA have jointly launched a mobile application ‘Digital Dukaan’
Axis Bank launched ‘MicroPay’ based on ‘Pin on Mobile’ technology for digital payments
Q.9. Which bank has recently launched India’s 1st Voice Biometric Authentication Banking App?
Exp. City Union Bank launches India’s 1st Voice Biometric Authentication Banking App
City Union Bank has launched the country’s first voice biometric authentication for logging into mobile banking app.
The voice biometric service was developed by Chennai-based deeptech start-up, Kaizen Secure Voiz Pvt Ltd, under the guidance of the 5G use case lab of the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT).
Customers have to register their voice once, which will be validated on various parameters.
The service will prevent fraud based on PIN / OTP and the technology is fool-proof against recorded or mimicked voices.
About City Union Bank
Founded- 1904
Founders- Santhanam Iyer; S. Krishna Iyer; V. Krishnaswami Iyengar
Headquarters- Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
CEO- Dr. N. Kamakodi
Q.10. Who has been appointed to a task force set up to expand partnerships between universities in the United States and India?
Exp. Neeli Bendapudi named to a US-India task force
Indian-origin academic Neeli Bendapudi has been appointed as one of five co-chairs of an Association of American Universities (AAU) task force focused on the expansion of research and academic partnerships among higher education institutions in the US and India.
AAU created the national task force in coordination with the Biden administration’s US-India initiative on critical and emerging technology, which seeks to grow technological and industrial collaboration between the two nations.
Bendapudi was president of the University of Louisville, where she oversaw a series of transformative efforts spanning academics; finance; health enterprise, philanthropy; athletics; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and more.
Bendapudi is the first woman to serve as president of the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Recent Appointment of Persons of Indian Origin
Warrant Officer of UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) – Subby Subramaniam
Deputy Secretary of State, Management and Resources in USA – Richard Verma
First Woman President of Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Rajasthan – Dr. Sheenu Jhawar
First Head of NASA’s ‘Moon To Mars’ Programme – Amit Kshatriya
First Assistant Police chief in USA’ Connecticut – Manmeet Colon (Indian-origin Sikh woman)
Q.11. Who has been awarded for the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023?
Exp. Utsa Patnaik wins Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023
A renowned economist of national and international repute, Utsa Patnaik has been selected for the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023.
The award is given every year by the Malcolm & Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust.
The prestigious national award honours outstanding social scientists selected by a national-level jury specially constituted for this purpose, from the nominations received.
The previous winner of the prize was Indian economist Prabhat Patnaik, who won it in 2022.
The award will be given with a citation and a prize money of ₹2 lakh at a function to be held in Chennai.
Recent Awards
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman – Raj Subramaniam
Business Leader of the Decade – Kumar Mangalam Birla
Maratha Udyog Ratna 2023 Award – Nilesh Sambare
Young Urologist of the Year Award by the American Urological Association (AUA) – Indian-American Dr. Nitya Abraham
Poland’s highest honour ‘Order of the White Eagle’ – Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky
Q.12. Who has become the first Indian woman to win Wisden Almanack’s Leading Cricketer of the Year Award 2022?
Exp. Suryakumar Yadav & Harmanpreet Kaur named Wisden’s leading T20I cricketer
Wisden Cricketers Almanack has released the list of top-5 cricketers of the year 2022.
Suryakumar won the honour of Wisden Almanack’s leading T20I cricketer while Harmanpreet Kaur became the first Indian woman to win the Cricketer of the Year award.
Apart from Kaur, the list also includes the names of Tom Blundell (New Zealand), Ben Foakes (England), Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand) and Matthew Potts (England).
Apart from this, Ben Stokes of England has been selected as the best cricketer in the world for the year 2022-23 among male players.
Harmanpreet has received this honor for her excellent performance last year. Harmanpreet scored an unbeaten 143 off 111 balls in the ODI against England in the year 2022.
Suryakumar Yadav is currently the world’s number-1 batsman in T20 cricket. He played 31 matches in the year 2022 and scored 1,164 runs at an impressive strike rate of 187.43. Which is the second most runs ever in a calendar year. During this, he had scored 2 centuries and 9 half-centuries.
Q.13. World Liver Day is observed every year on which day?
विश्वलीवरदिवसहरसालकिसदिनमनायाजाताहै?
(a) 20 April / 20 अप्रैल
(b) 21 April / 21 अप्रैल
(c) 17 April / 17 अप्रैल
(d) 18 April / 18 अप्रैल
(e) 19 April / 19 अप्रैल
Answer & Explanation
Ans.13.(e)
Exp. 19 April – World Liver Day
World Liver Day is observed every year on 19 April.
Objective – To spread awareness about liver-related disease.
Theme 2023 – Be vigilant, do a regular liver check-up, fatty liver can affect anyone.
The liver is one of the most complex organs in the human body. It plays a pivotal role in our body’s immunity, digestion and metabolism. Plus, it also carries out the filtration of toxins, stores vitamins and minerals, and produces bile, among other functions.
Liver is also the second largest and the most complex organ in the body, with the exception of the brain.
Human Liver Weight – 1.5 Kg
Q.14. Abdul Azeem passed away recently. Who was he?
अब्दुलअजीमकाहालहीमेंनिधनहोगया।वहकौनथे?
(a) Writer / लेखक
(b) Politician / राजनेता
(c) Actor / अभिनेता
(d) Cricketer / क्रिकेटर
(e) Historian / इतिहासकार
Answer & Explanation
Ans.14.(d)
Exp. Former Ranji opener Abdul Azeem passed away
Former Hyderabad cricketer and one of the finest openers in the domestic circuit, Abdul Azeem passed away.
In a career spanning 73 first-class games between 1980-95, the dashing opener scored 12 centuries and 18 fifties.
Making his first-class debut in 1979-80, he went on to play 73 matches, scoring 4,644 runs with 12 centuries including a triple century against Tamil Nadu at Gymkhana ground.
