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    Who was appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)? [JAN 2018]
    Solution
    Dilip Asbe was appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Prior to this, Asbe was CEO-in-charge of NPCI. He succeeded A.P.Hota, who retired in August 2017. Asbe has been in the NPCI since its inception and has played a pivotal role in designing, building, operationalising and managing large-scale payment processing platforms like the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM), Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), India's home-grown card network RuPay, and several other initiatives.
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    Where is the headquarters of the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA)?
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    The Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) is located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It is an advanced research institute for freshwater aquaculture. It was founded in 1987 by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi. Its genesis lies in the Pond Culture Division of Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), Cuttack which started the training center at Kausalyaganga, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar for Developing and Training on Inland Fishery.
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    Which country hosted the 4th International Dharma Dhamma conference (IDDC-2018)? [JAN 2018]
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    The 4th edition of International Dharma Dhamma conference (IDDC-2018) was inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind in Rajgir, Bihar on January 11, 2018. This 3-day conference was jointly organised by India Foundation, Nalanda University, Ministry of External Affairs, ASEAN-India and Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha. The conference is an endeavour of Nalanda University as a bridge between India and other nations. Over one hundred dignatories and experts from 11 countries held deliberations and present research papers on various topics related to Buddhism and other religions and global peace. The conference brings together a wide array of dignatories who are responsible for governance, policy making and giving directions to countries. Sages, monks and Swamis will also share their spiritual views in different sessions.
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    The 2018 World Hindi Day (WHD) was observed on which date?
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    The World Hindi Day (WHD) is observed every year on January 10 to mark the first anniversary of World Hindi Conference (WHC) which was held in 1975. The first WHC was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Apart from India, the language is also spoken in Nepal, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Fiji, and Mauritius. Apart from this, the National Hindi Divas (NHD) is celebrated every year in India on September 14 to mark the day on which the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the Official Language of the Union.
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    Which state government had recently rolled out e-Raktkosh web portal in all government blood banks? [JAN 2018]
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    The Punjab government had rolled out e-Raktkosh web portal in all the 45 government blood banks. The web portal provides the guidelines and streamlines the workflow of blood blanks and storage centers across the nation and interconnects all blood banks with a single network. Brahm Mahindra, the State Health Minister, had stated that in the next phase all 59 private blood banks of the state will be linked with the e-Raktkosh application software.
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    Which Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) Committee on girl child education had recommended free education for girls up to PG level? 
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    The Union HRD Ministry recently constituted a sub-committee of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) under Chairmanship of Kadiyam Srihari to look into issues of girl’s education. Srihari is the Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister of Telangana. The terms of reference of the sub-committee would be to examine the reasons for the low participation of girls in education, including the socio-economic factors with resultant gender bias and suggest ways to reduce gender disparity so as to achieve better gender parity index. The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) sub-committee on girl child education had decided to recommend free and compulsory education for girls up to post-graduate level across the country. The committee also recommended the establishment of exclusive residential degree colleges for SC and ST women besides provision of health and hygiene kits to girls. 
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    Who was appointed as the Chef De Mission for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games (WOG-2018) by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA)? [JAN 2018]
    Solution
    The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) had appointed Harjinder Singh as the Chef De Mission for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games (WOG-2018) held in Pyeongchang, South Korea in February 2018. Currently, Singh holds the post of General Secretary in the Ice Hockey Association of India.
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    The 2018 National Youth Day (NYD) is celebrated on which date in India?
    Solution
    The 2018 National Youth Day (NYD) was celebrated in India on January 12 to mark the 155th birth anniversary of social reformer, philosopher and thinker Swami Vivekananda. He was considered a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India and bringing it to the status of a major world religion in the late 19th century. He became popular in the western world after his famous speech at the Worlds Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. He was the chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna and founder of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. In 1984, the Government of India (GoI) declared the day as the National Youth Day (NYD) and since 1985 the event is celebrated in India every year.
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    The Ministry of Railways has recently launched which app for freight managers? [JAN 2018]
    Solution
    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.
  • Question 10
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    The Uri Dam is located on which river in Jammu & Kashmir (J & K)?
    Solution
    The Uri Dam is a 480 MW hydroelectric power station on the Jhelum River near Uri in Baramula district of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). It is located very near to the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan. The station is largely built under a hill with a 10 km tunnel. It is of the run-of-the-river type without a large dam, since the Indus Waters Treaty gives Pakistan the exclusive right to regulate the Jhelum River.
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