Daily Current Affairs Quiz 10th August 2024

The international day of indigenous peoples is observed annually on august 9 since 1995 and aims to raise awareness about the contributions and rights of indigenous or tribal peoples who are among the most vulnerable globally the un general assembly declared this day in 1994 to mark the first meeting of the

The world health organization hosted an emergency meeting to address a surge in monkeypox cases especially in the congo mpox is a viral zoonotic disease related to smallpox first identified in 1970 in the democratic republic

” Notes:the RBI recently introduced continuous clearing of cheques under the cheque truncation system (CTS) for faster cheque clearance. Cts is an online system that captures and transmits cheque images and magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) data electronically, eliminating the need for physical cheque movement. Cts uses a pki-based security system with dual access control, user id, passwords, cryptobox, and smart card interfaces. Only cts-2010 compliant cheques, with standard security features like watermarks and invisible ink logos, are accepted for clearing. Standardization helps banks in processing and recognizing cheques efficiently.”

” Notes:neeraj chopra won a silver medal in men’s javelin throw at the paris 2024 olympics with a throw of 89.45 meters, his best of the season. Pakistan’s arshad nadeem won gold with a record-breaking throw of 92.97 meters, marking pakistan’s first gold in javelin throw. Grenada’s anderson peters secured the bronze with a throw of 88.54 meters. The podium highlighted the fierce competition and diversity of the games.”

” Notes:recently, scientists conducted a comprehensive survey of lake turkana in kenya’s remote northern region. Lake turkana is in northern kenya, extending into ethiopia. It lies in the eastern rift valley and is fed by three rivers, with the omo river contributing 90% of its water. It is africa’s fourth-largest lake and the world’s largest permanent desert lake, also recognized as a unesco world heritage site. The surrounding region supports about 1 million people, relying on pastoralism, fishing, and some farming. The lake’s semi-saline waters, high evaporation rates, and fluctuating levels have hindered sustainable development, with past fishery commercialization attempts failing due to unpredictable conditions.”

” On 6th august 2024, nobel peace prize winner muhammad yunus, a bangladeshi banker, has been appointed as the chief adviser of bangladesh’s interim Government by the bangladesh president mohammed shahabuddin. Muhammad yunus and his grameen bank won the nobel peace prize for 2006 for their work to “create economic and social development from below” the appointment comes a day after bangladesh prime minister(PM) sheikh hasina resigned and fled bangladesh following a violent crackdown on a student-led uprising. Sheikh hasina was the longest serving pm in bangalseh history, until her resignation on 5 august 2024. She served as 1st term as pm from 1996 to 2001 and again from january 2009 to august 2024.”

” On august 6, 2024, ‘tarang shakti (wave of power) 2024′, largest multilateral air exercise began at the sulur air base in coimbatore, tamil nadu (TN). It is the first multinational air exercise to be conducted on India soil after 61 years. The tarang shakti 2024 exercise is being conducted in two phases.

The first phase being held in sular, tamil nadu(TN) from august 6 to 14, 2024 and the second phase to be held in jodhpur, rajasthan from august 29 to september 14. Around 30 countries, including the united states of america (USA), germany, france, australia, the united arab emirates (UAE), the united kingdom (UK), and singapore, will showcase their fighter jets. 10 countries which will participate with their assets, and 18 countries as observers.”

” Muthoot capital services limited (MCSL) has announced its partnership with the united kingdom (UK) based development financial institution (DFI) for raising long term debt funds to promote its electric vehicle (EV) portfolio. It is one of muthoot capital’s largest partnership deals for sustainability and environmental initiatives. The partnership is facilitated by mumbai(MAHARASHTRA) based axis bank limited, is worth rs100 crore, provides sustainable mobility solutions and promotes the use of electric vehicles in India, particularly among lower middle-class consumers.”

On august 7th each year the national handloom day is celebrated across India to honour the handloom weaving community engaged in the handloom sector and highlight the handloom industrys contribution to India’s socioeconomic

” The ministry of coal (MOC) in collaboration with the ministry of power and natural gas (mop & ng) has facilitated a joint venture (JV) agreement between two maharatna cpses, coal India limited (CIL),kolkata (west bengal, wb) and gail (INDIA) limited (GAIL),new Delhi, (DELHI) to set up a coal-to-synthetic natural gas (SNG) project in west bengal utilising surface coal gasification (SCG) technology.I.The sng plant which is set to be located in the raniganj area of eastern coalfields limited(ECL), wb will have a production capacity of 80,000 normal meter cubed(NM3) per hour of sng, translating to an annual output of 633.6 million nm3.Ii.As per the agreement, cil will hold 51%, while gail will own the remaining 49%.”

” On 6th august 2024, the deendayal antyodaya yojana–national rural livelihoods mission (day-nrlm) launched the ‘million designers, billion dreams’ initiative in collaboration with leap designs. This initiative aims to empower individuals across India with systems design know-how to tackle complex societal challenges. The launch event was chaired by charanjit singh, additional secretary, rural livelihoods (RL), ministry of rural development (MORD).”

” The quality council of India (QCI), an autonomous body set up by the ministry of commerce and industry (moc&i), is introducing the qci surajya recognition & ranking framework, designed to drive excellence among states to improve citizens’ quality of life for viksit bharat. This framework is categorised under 4 pillars namely, shiksha (EDUCATION), swasthya (HEALTH), samriddhi (PROSPERITY), and sushasan (GOVERNANCE). The surajya recognition acknowledges the outstanding performance and commitment to quality by states and organisations in these 4 vital areas.Click here to read more”

” Mumbai (MAHARASHTRA) based SBI general insurance company limited (SBI general insurance) and the hongkong and shanghai banking corporation limited, India (hsbc India) have entered into a bancassurance partnership for the distribution of non-life insurance products.I.Under this partnership, SBI general insurance aims to provide innovative insurance solutions to hsbc India’s customers across India and the hsbc India will provide its customers with the entire suite of SBI general insurance’s non-life insurance products, including health, property, motor and travel.”

” On 30th july 2024, the reserve bank of India (RBI) issued a master directions on the treatment of wilful defaulters and large defaulters , under which banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCS) are required to scrutinize all non-performing asset (NPA) accounts which have outstanding amounts of rs 25 lakh and above for wilful default.

These directions will come into effect after 90 days from the date of publication. Aim: to set up a transparent and non-discriminatory framework for classifying borrowers as “wilful defaulters” and also disseminate credit information about wilful defaulters to caution lenders against extending further finance to them. RBI issued these directions in exercise of powers given under section 45-l of the RBI act, 1934, section21, section 35-a and section 35-a read with section 56 of the banking regulation act, 1949 and section 11 of the credit information companies (CICS) (REGULATION) act, 2005.”

” Nobel prize-winning chinese-american physicist tsung-dao lee passed away at the age of 97 in san francisco, california, the united states of america (USA). He was born on 24th november 1926 in shanghai, china. In 1957, lee (31) became the second youngest scientist to receive the nobel prize for physics.

He shared the prize with chen ning yang (c n yang), chinese theoretical physicist “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles”. Tsung-dao lee is well-known for lee–yang theorem, theory of particle physics, the theory of the nucleus, and statistical physics. He developed a model, which is a framework for studying various quantum phenomena known as the ‘lee model’.”