Current Affairs Quiz , 27 Feb 2020

1) Raja Ravi Varma State Award for the year 2020 is awarded to

a) M. V. Devan
b) A. Ramachandran
c) Karuvattu Mana Vasudevan Namboothiri
d) Vasudev Kamath

Answer: d
• The Raja Ravi Varma State Award was conferred to Vasudev Kamath for the year 2020 at a programme organized in the institute premises located on Narasaraja Road in Chamundipuram, Mysore, Karnataka.

2) Ease 3.0, recently seen in news, is to improve

a) Insolvency resolution
b) Banking
c) Property registration
d) None of the above

Answer: b
• FM Nirmala Sitharaman launches Ease 3.0 for tech-enabled banking. This move is expected to change the customer’s experience at the Public Sector Banks (PSBs).

3) Indradhanush Air Exercise is conducted between India and

a) Russia
b) US
c) UK
d) None of the above

Answer: c
• Indradhanush is a joint military exercise between the air forces of India and the United Kingdom.

4) Recently launched Market Intelligence and Early Warning System (MIEWS) Web Portal aims to monitor

a) Extreme fall in share prices
b) Prices of tomato, onion and potato (TOP)
c) Open market operations by RBI
d) None of the above

Answer: b
• The MIEWS Dashboard and Portal is a ‘first-of-its-kind’ platform for ‘real time monitoring’ of the prices of tomato, onion and potato (TOP).

5) World NGO Day is celebrated on

a) 27th February
b) 29th January
c) 5th February
d) None of the above

Answer: a
• In 2011, Oxford University researchers devised the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to capture poverty using 10 indicators: nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling, school attendance, ownership of assets, and access to proper house, electricity, drinking water, sanitation, and clean cooking fuel.
• Poverty is measured in terms of deprivation in at least a third of these indicators.