Current Affairs - 2019-20

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India has recently signed a loan agreement of 36 million with the World Bank (WB) for Himachal Pradesh Public Financial Management Capacity Building Programme. The purpose of the project is to improve the efficiency of public expenditure management and tax administration in Himachal Pradesh. The programme size is 45 million, of which $36 million will be financed by the Bank, and the remaining amount will be funded out of State Budget. The programme duration is 5 years.

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The Union Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has inaugurated the first-ever Indian Railways Human Resources Round Table Conference in New Delhi on June 10, 2017. The aim of the Conference is to improve the productivity of the human resources through inter-change of ideas with various stakeholders and HR practitioners and academics. There are 3-themes of the conference viz. Stakeholders Expectations from HR, The Future of Work – HR Role and Creativity Within Constraints.

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Uttar Pradesh has become the first State to endorse the Central government’s draft bill that makes instant triple talaq a cognisable and non-bailable offence. The draft law, which provides for three-year imprisonment and a fine to a man trying to divorce his wife by uttering “talaq” three times, got the State government’s approval at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on December 5, 2017.

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In a major digital initiative to help plan the traffic flows and optimize freight operations, Ministry of Railways has launched Smart Freight Operation Optimisation and Real Time Information (SFOORTI) App for freight managers. The app provides features for monitoring and managing freight business using Geographic Information System (GIS) Views and Dashboard. With this application both passenger and freight trains can be tracked over Zones, Divisions and Sections in single GIS View. The app provides a bird’s eye view of all freight assets in a single window and end to end rake movement on Geospatial view. Expected traffic at interchange points can be viewed to evaluate daily performance. Position of rakes for specific type of stock can be viewed through this application.

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E = In-center, AD ⊥ BC
AB = 6 cm, BD = 3 cm
∠ADB = 90°
∴ AD =


∴ In-radius =

Hence option [B] is the right answer.

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Sahel region is an ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between Sahara Desert to the north and Sudanian Savanna to the south. It stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea. 12 African countries fall in this region including parts of (from west to east) Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea.

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All given statements are related to Indian Wild Ass

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“Ayushman Bharat” was recently announced in Budget 2018. This programme has been described by the government as the world’s largest government-funded healthcare programme. It is an umbrella scheme which includes two sub schemes viz. National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) and Health and Wellness Centre for preventive care. Under the National Health Protection Scheme, government aims to provide healthcare protection for over 10 crore “poor and vulnerable” families, or an estimated 50 crore individual beneficiaries — with coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year. Under the Health and Wellness Centre initiative, government aims to establish 1.5 lakh centres for preventive care services.

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Ministry of Communications has launched the Cool EMS Service. It is a one-way service that allows customers in India to import Japanese food for personal use. All the Food items will be carried by Japan Post in special cool boxes containing refrigerant to preserve the quality of the food items and then collected in India.

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Tamang and the Limbu communities of Sikkim have been placed in the ST category.