1 INDIAN AFFAIRS 1. Who heads the Group of Transport Ministers (GoM), On August 1, 2019, The Parliament passed the which recommends the Motor Vehicles Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to address the issue of road (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It provides a 330-day safety ? timeline for insolvency resolution process and 1) Raj Kumar Singh 2) Rao Inderjit Singh specifies minimum payouts to operational creditors 3) Yoonus Khan 4) Narendra Singh Tomar in any resolution plan. The amendments will bring 5) None of these greater clarity to mergers, demergers, and amalgamations as part of the resolution process. 1. Answer – 3) Yoonus Khan Earlier, the timeline was 270 days. It provides On July 31, 2019, Rajya Sabha passed the Motor greater clarity on permissibility of corporate Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It will amend the restructuring schemes, clarity on the rights and provisions under the 1988 Motor Vehicles Act. duties of authorized representatives of voters.It Background: The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, gives committee of creditors of a loan defaulting 2019 is based on the recommendations of the company an explicit authority over the distribution Group of Transport Ministers (GoM) headed by Shri. of proceeds in the resolution process. Yoonus Khan, the then Transport Minister of Rajasthan, to address the issue of road safety and to 4. Who inaugurated the Indian Airforce improve the facilitation of the citizens while Facilitation-cum-Publicity Pavilion in National Bal dealing with transport departments. Vehicle Bhawan, New Delhi ? Fitness: The Bill mandates automated fitness 1) Piyush Goyal testing for vehicles and provides for compulsory 2) Ramesh pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ recall of defective vehicles and power to examine 3) Arjun Munda irregularities of vehicle companies. 4) Prakash Javadekar 2. Name the bill passed by Parliament which helps to 5) None of these tackle the threat of illicit deposit taking activities 4. Answer – 2) Mr Ramesh pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ like exploiting regulatory gaps and lack of strict The Union Minister for Human Resource administrative measures to dupe poor and gullible Development (MHRD) Mr Ramesh pokhriyal people of their hard-earned savings. ‘Nishank’, inaugurated the Indian Airforce 1) Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, 2019 Facilitation-cum-Publicity Pavilion in National Bal 2) Banning of Illicit deposit Scheme Bill, 2019 Bhawan, New Delhi to motivate students to join 3) Banning of Illegal deposit Scheme Bill, 2019 Indian Air Force. 4) Banning of deposits by Black Money Bill, 2019 5) None of 5. Which country has partnered with India & these launched the “Innovation for Clean Air” (IfCA) 2. Answer – 1) Banning of Unregulated Deposit initiative in Bengaluru to test interventions related Schemes Bill, 2019 to equality and support India’s transition to EV On July 29, 2019, Parliament unanimously passed (electric vehicles) integration ? the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, 1) United States(US) 2) Japan 2019 which will replace the Banning of Unregulated 3) United Kingdom(UK) 4) Russia Deposit Schemes Ordinance, 2019, promulgated on 5) None of these February 21, 2019. It will help to tackle the threat of 5. Answer – 3) United Kingdom(UK) illicit deposit taking activities in the country like A two-year UK-India joint initiative, the “Innovation exploiting regulatory gaps and lack of strict for Clean Air” (IfCA) was launched by the British administrative measures to dupe poor and gullible Deputy High Commissioner DominicMcAllister in people of their hard-earned savings. Bengaluru to test interventions related to equality 3. How many days are provided as a timeline for and support India’s transition to EV (electric insolvency resolution process and specifies vehicles) integration.The air quality is measured by minimum payouts to operational creditors in integrating satellite and sensor data.The program recently passed Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code is led by Innovate UK, which is a part of UK research (IBC) (Amendment) Bill, 2019 ? and innovation (UKRI). The UKRI is funded by 1) 350 day 2) 310 day 3) 270 day 4) 330 day Newton Fund and by various other partners. 5) None of these 6. Name the languages that will be included in the 3. Answer – 4) 330 day Sub-Field of Field “Literature” in the scheme 2 component ‘Award of Senior/Junior Fellowships to implemented by August next year.A trial run of the Outstanding Artistes in the Fields of Culture’ . project was conducted by the Telangana Civil 1) Nepali and Santhali 2) French and Portuguese Supplies Corporation last week where consumers 3) Portuguese and Hausa 4) Javanese and Quechua from Andhra Pradesh bought their commodities 5) None of these from the fair price shop in Hyderabad. 6. Answer – 1) Nepali and Santhali 9. Name the state, which has launched a special On July 30, 2019, The Union Minister of State for digitized policing system called “Automated Culture and Tourism Shri Prahlad Singh Patel Multi-modal Biometric Identification System informed that 2 languages- Nepali and Santhali (AMBIS)” to aid police investigations . from the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution 1) Gujarat 2) Kerala 3) Maharashtra will be included in the Sub-Field of Field 4) Karnataka 5) None of these “Literature” in the scheme component ‘Award of 9. Answer – 3) Maharashtra Senior/Junior Fellowships to Outstanding Artistes On July 29,2019, Maharashtra Chief Minister(CM) in the Fields of Culture’. The Ministry of Culture Devendra Fadnavis has launched a special digitized regulates a scheme component namely Award of policing system called “Automated Multi-modal Senior/Junior Fellowships to Outstanding Artistes Biometric Identification System (AMBIS)” to aid in the Fields of Culture.The Nodal institute for police investigations & it will soon be expanded handling the Scheme of Sr. /Jr. Fellowship till across the country.Detection: AMBIS adopted by the selection process is the Centre for Cultural Maharashtra Police, is an advanced crime detection Resources and Training (CCRT), Dwarka, Gujarat. database, detects crime based on the available 7. What is the position of India among the highest risk fingerprint, palmprint and iris scan data of country in the world as per the Verisk Maplecroft’s criminals on record as well as accidental finger/ Water Stress Index 2019 ? palm-prints collected from crime scenes.AMBIS: It 1) 38th 2) 35th 3) 40th 4) 46th is an updated version of Automated Fingerprint 5) None of these Identification System (AFIS), which has limited utility, providing only one-to-one fingerprint Answer – 4) 46th 7. matches has been used by Indian law enforcement According to the Water Stress Index 2019, agencies to explore finger and palm prints. formulated by London-based risk analytics firm Verisk Maplecroft, India is the 46th highest risk 10. Name the bill, which received Presidents assent to country in the world. It measured the water empower the Centre to make rules to decide the consumption rates of households, industries and tenure, salary, allowances and other terms of farm sectors and the available resources in rivers, service of central and state Information lakes and streams and plotted the index with Commissioners . projected population growth trends to rank the 1) Right to Approve(Amendment) Act, 2019 cities facing the biggest threat to their water 2) Right to Decide(Amendment) Act, 2019 resources. Chennai is the “tip of the iceberg” for 3) Right to Information (Amendment) Act, 2019 India’s water-stressed cities.11 out of India’s 20 4) Right to Act (Amendment) Act, 2019 5) None of these largest cities face an ‘extreme risk’ of water stress 10. Answer – 3) Right to Information (Amendment) Act, and 7 are in the ‘high risk’ category. Delhi, Chennai, 2019 Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Nashik, Jaipur, Ahmedabad On August 1, 2019, President of India Ram Nath and Indore are among the cities facing ‘extreme Kovind gave his assent to Right to Information risk’. (Amendment) Act, 2019. It will amend the Right to 8. In which four states, One Nation One Ration Card Information Act (RTI), 2005. The Right to scheme was launched in order to boost the National Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was Food Security ? introduced in Lok Sabha by the Minister of State for 1) Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Mr. Gujarat Jitendra Singh, on July 19, 2019. Changes: 2) Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat Amendments are made in Section 13, Section 16 and Section 27 of the Right to Information Act, 3) Telangana, Kerala, Maharashtra and Gujarat 2005. Term of Information Commissioners: Under 4) Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka and Gujarat the Act, Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and 5) None of these Information Commissioners (ICs) are appointed at 8. Answer – 2) Telangana , Andhra Pradesh, the national and state level to implement the Maharashtra and Gujarat provisions of the Act. They will hold office for a In order to boost the National Food Security, the term of 5 years. The Bill removes this provision and pilot basis of One Nation One Ration Card scheme states that the central government will notify the was launched by the government in four states term of office for the CIC and the ICs. namely Telangana , Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, 11. Which bill has recently passed in parliament that and Gujarat. Families holding this card can buy provides special procedures to deal with terrorist subsidized rice and wheat from any ration shop in activities, and empowered the government ? these four states. This program is expected to be 1) Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 3 2) Legal Representatives(Amendment)Suits Bill, 2019 This was the first meeting of PRAGATI chaired by 3) Indian Police (Amendment) Bill, 2019 the Prime Minister in his second term in office. 4) Indian Security (Amendment) Bill, 2019 15. How many years of jail term will be rewarded for 5) None of these practicing instant ‘triple talaq’ among Muslims as 11.