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Current Affairs for UPSC: Jagran Josh presents Daily Current Affairs Quiz for all dedicated students and readers preparing for various competitive exams. In today’s session, get briefings about the important topics given in Q&A formats such as ‘Samman’ RuPay Credit Card etc.
1. Which Tiger Reserve has got the title of India’s first ‘Dark Sky Park’?
(a) Kaziranga Tiger Reserve
(b) Pench Tiger Reserve
(c) Namdapha Tiger Reserve
(d) Kamlang Tiger Reserve
2. Who inaugurated India’s longest bridge over the sea?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Amit Shah
(c) Rajnath Singh
(d) Anurag Thakur
3. Which bank has recently launched ‘Samman’ RuPay Credit Card?
(a) State Bank of India
(b) IndusInd Bank
(c) Punjab National Bank
(d) Axis Bank
4. Which two cities have received the ‘Cleanest Ganga City’ award in the ‘Clean Survey-2023’?
(a) Varanasi and Kanpur
(b) Varanasi and Prayagraj
(c) Kanpur and Prayagraj
(d) Prayagraj and Ghazipur
5. New generation ‘Akash’ missile was successfully tested, what type of missile is it?
(a) air from the surface
(b) air to surface
(c) surface to surface
(d) air to air
6. When is National Youth Day celebrated every year?
(a) 10 January
(b) 11 January
(c) 12 January
(d) 13 January
7. In which city did PM Modi inaugurate the 27th National Youth Festival?
(a) Agartala
(b) Nashik
(c) Bhopal
(d) Ahmedabad
Answer:-
1. (b) Pench Tiger Reserve
Pench Tiger Reserve of Maharashtra has become India’s first and Asia’s fifth tiger reserve with ‘Dark Sky Park’. ‘Dark Sky Park’ helps protect the night sky and reduce light pollution. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) emphasizes the importance of preserving natural darkness for nature conservation and maintaining ecology in protected areas.
2. (a) Narendra Modi
PM Modi inaugurated India’s longest bridge built on the sea in Mumbai. This bridge connecting Mumbai to Navi Mumbai has been named ‘Atal Setu’ after the former Prime Minister of India, late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Atal Setu is 21.8 km long and has six lanes. ₹18,000 crore has been spent on this entire project.
3. (b) IndusInd Bank
IndusInd Bank has recently launched “IndusInd Bank Samman RuPay Credit Card” equipped with UPI facility in partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). This card launched for government sector employees, this card is designed with various types of special offers.
4. (b) Varanasi and Prayagraj
Varanasi and Prayagraj of Uttar Pradesh have been selected as the cleanest Ganga cities. MHOW Cantonment Board awarded as the cleanest cantonment town in Madhya Pradesh. Swachh Survekshan, conducted by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Swachh Bharat Urban Mission since 2016, is the world’s largest survey on urban sanitation and hygiene.
5. (a) air from the surface
Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully test fired the new generation Akash (AKASH-NG) missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. This testing was done on high speed unmanned air targets at very low altitude. Akash is a new generation ‘Surface-to-Air’ missile defense system.
6. (c) 12 January
National Youth Day is celebrated all over India on 12 January every year. This day is celebrated on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. The Government of India officially declared National Youth Day in the year 1984 and it is being celebrated across the country since 1985. Swami Vivekananda’s real name was Narendranath Dutt. In 1898 he established Ramakrishna Math in Belur.
7. (b) Nashik
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 27th National Youth Festival in Nashik, Maharashtra on the occasion of National Youth Day. The event is organized on the birth anniversary of youth icon and one of India’s greatest philosophers and spiritual guru, Swami Vivekananda. During his Maharashtra visit, PM Modi also inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of several development projects worth more than Rs 30,500 crore.
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