DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ: 16 AUG 2021

1. Ghaznavi is a nuclear-capable surface-to- (a) Infosys surface ballistic missile of which (b) Tech Mahindra country? (c) HCL Technologies (a) UAE (d) Tata Consultancy Services (b) Iran (e) Wipro (c) Qatar 7. Identify the points that are correctly (d) Bangladesh related to the newly amended Plastic (e) Pakistan Waste Management Rules, 2021. 2. The Union Minister of Agriculture A) Manufacture, import, sale and use of recently addressed the 6th Agriculture single-use plastic items like polystyrene Ministers meet of Shanghai Cooperation commodities is prohibited Organization (SCO) member states. Who B) Identified Single Use Plastic items will is the incumbent minister? be banned from 31st December 2021 (a) C) The proposal increased the thickness (b) of Plastic Carry bags to 120 microns from (c) Thawar Chand Gehlot 31st December 2022 (d) (a) All A, B & C (e) (b) Only C 3. Which of the following bank has signed a (c) Only A & C Mou with Paralympic Committee of (d) Only B to provide financial assistance to (e) Only B & C Paralympic athletes in Tokyo? 8. Who will be benefited through the Rs (a) UCO Bank 1625 crore financial assistance announced (b) Canara Bank by PM during the (c) Bank of India ‘Atmanirbhar Narishakti se Samvad’ (d) State Bank of India organised under DAY-NRLM? (e) Indian Bank (a) Women Self Help Groups 4. Which bank has inked an MoU with (b) MSME exporters Indian Navy to initiate ‘Honour FIRST’ (c) Farmer Producer Organisations banking solutions? (d) Solar Panel Manufacturers (a) IDFC First Bank (e) Children Orphaned by Covid-19 (b) Axis Bank 9. In August 2021, the Environment (c) ICICI Bank Ministry included 4 wetland sites to the (d) HDFC Bank Ramsar Convention List. What are the (e) IndusInd Bank points that are correctly related to the 5. Who among the following has released initiatives? the book ‘Accelerating India: 7 Years of A) Odisha’s Thol Lake Wildlife Modi Government’? Sanctuary and Punjab’s Wadhvana (a) Wetland were among the newly added (b) M Venkaiah Naidu sites (c) Ram Nath Kovind B) The entry of Sultanpur National Park (d) Narendra Modi & Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary led to (e) Amit Shah the creation of 1st Ramsar Sites in 6. Which of the following company has Haryana become 4th Indian IT firm to hit Rs 3 C) With the addition of 4 sites, India now trillion market-cap? has a total of 39 Ramsar Sites

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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ: 16 AUG 2021

(a) All A, B & C B) Indian Residents are prohibited from (b) Only C making Overseas Direct Investments in (c) Only A & C Real Estate & Gambling (d) Only B C) Indian Entities can invest in debt (e) Only B & C instruments of foreign entities with a 10. Which State(s) were ranked 1st in “The backup loan agreement Transparency Index: Rating of Pollution (a) All A, B & C Control Boards on Public Disclosure” (b) Only C report released by Centre for Science and (c) Only A & C Environment? (d) Only B (a) Odisha (e) Only B & C (b) Gujarat 14. Identify the financial institution that was (c) Telangana imposed with a penalty of Rs 1 crore by (d) Both 1 & 2 RBI (in Aug’21) for non-compliance with (e) Both 1 & 3 directions on transfer of reserve funds. 11. In August 2021, India participated in the (a) Cooperatieve Rabobank UA 7th IBSA Academic Forum 2021 that was (b) Saraswat Cooperative Bank organised virtually by the autonomous (c) Cosmos Cooperative Bank think-tank, Research & Information (d) TJSB Cooperative Bank System for Developing Countries (RIS). (e) Shamrao Vithal Cooperative Bank RIS belongs to which country? 15. Name the bank that partnered with (a) India KerditBee & RuPay to launch the virtual (b) Brazil prepaid card – “KreditBee Card”. (c) South Africa (a) RBL Bank (d) Saudi Arabia (b) CSB Bank (e) Jointly under India, Brazil & South (c) DBS Bank India Africa (d) Citibank 12. Name the Organisation that recently (in (e) Axis Bank Aug’21) became the co-organiser of “International Climate Summit (ICS) 2021” ANSWER KEYS (a)National Informatics Centre 1 e 9 d (b)Quality Council of India 2 b 10 e (c)Invest India 3 e 11 a (d)Indian Institute of Foreign Trade 4 a 12 c (e)Bureau of Indian Standards 5 b 13 a 13. In August 2021, RBI issued the draft 6 c 14 a documents on Foreign Exchange Management (FEM) Rules, 2021 and 7 c 15 a FEM (OI) Regulations, 2021. 8 a What are the points that are correctly related to the initiatives made in the draft documents? A) Overseas Investments can be made only on foreign entities that are FATF Compliant Countries

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