Current Affairs - 2019-20

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Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the state of Madhya Pradesh. In the year 2018, it received the status of national park. It was selected as a probable location to implement the Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project, with an objective of establishing a second lion population in India.

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Ayushman Bharat -National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) is a centrally sponsored scheme under Ayushman Bharat Mission. The scheme will provide insurance cover of Rs. 5 Lakh per family per year. The scheme will benefit more than 10 crore families belonging to poor and vulnerable population. AB-NHPM will subsume the on-going centrally sponsored schemes –Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) and the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS).

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AB = 10cm
BD = 5 cm
∠ADB = 90°
∴ AD =




Hence option [C] is the right answer.

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Orang National Park is located on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River in the Darrang and Sonitpur district of Assam. It is also known as the mini Kaziranga National Park since the two parks have a similar landscape made up of marshes, streams and grasslands.

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By convention, the Secretary General, Lok Sabha or the Secretary General, Rajya Sabha is appointed as the Returning Officer, by rotation. Two other senior officers of the Lok Sabha/ Rajya Sabha Secretariat and the Secretaries and one more senior officer of Legislative Assemblies of all States including NCT of Delhi and Union Territory of Puducherry, are also appointed as the Assistant Returning Officers. The Election Commission of India makes such appointments. For the Presidential Election, 2017 the Secretary General Lok Sabha was the Returning Officer.

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WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) classifies domestic support or subsidies given by the government to farmers into three different categories viz. Green box, Blue box and Amber box. Among these, the most trade-distorting form of farm subsidies known in WTO parlance is Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS) or “Amber Box”. The AMS means annual level of support (subsidies) expressed in monetary terms.

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Joint Lenders’ Forum is a group of lenders bank which is formed when an asset (loan) of more Rs 100 crore or more turns out to be a stressed asset. In other words, it can be said a tool by RBI for fighting the Non-Performing Assets (NPA) in the country. Under new norms, any resolution plan agreed to by 60% of creditors by value and 50% creditors by number in a joint lenders’ forum is binding on everyone in the group and no bank board will have the power to overrule the decision.

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Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya was born on September 25, 1916, in a village Nagla Chanderabhan in district Mathura of Uttar Pradesh. He was regarded as an ideal Swayamsevak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He is known for starting a monthly magazine “Rashtra Dharma”, a weekly “Panchajanya”, and a daily “Swadesh”. He conceived the political philosophy called “Integral Humanism”. Recently, the government celebrated his 100^th birth anniversary on 25^th September 2017.

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Finance Minister proposed five special tourism zones in the upcoming financial year 2017-18 to boost tourism and travel in the country. Five special tourism zones anchored on SPV (Special purpose vehicle) will be set up in partnership with the states and the Incredible India’s second campaign will be launched across the world.

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VPM1002 is a new vaccine for tuberculosis