Current Affair Questions for OSSSC Junior Assistant / Panchayat Officer
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Q.1. ‘Proba-3 Mission’, which will be launched aboard ISRO’s PSLV, is associated with which space agency?
a) NASA
b) ESA
c) JAXA
d) CNSA
e) None of these
Q.2. Which institution is to set up the ‘Corporate Debt Market Development Fund’?
a) RBI
b) SEBI
c) NSE
d) BSE
e) None of these
Q.3. ‘National League for Democracy’ is a famous political party based in which country?
a) India
b) Myanmar
c) Sri Lanka
d) Pakistan
e) None of these
Q.4. ‘Lynx-U2 System’ is an indigenously developed naval gun fire control system, manufactured by which institution?
a) HAL
b) DRDO
c) BEL
d) BHEL
e) None of these
Q.5. World Bank approved 100 million USD loan for implementation of State Capability and Resilient Growth Program of which state?
a) Odisha
b) Kerala
c) Goa
d) Gujarat
e) None of these
Q.6. ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice’ is associated with which country?
a) USA
b) Australia
c) Greece
d) Italy
e) None of these
Q.7. Which company signed deal with Indian Army for procuring ‘Akash Weapon System’?
a) Bharat Dynamics
b) BEL
c) BHEL
d) DRDO
e) None of these
Q.8. Which city is the host of the ‘Combined Commanders Conference’?
a) New Delhi
b) Bhopal
c) Gandhi Nagar
d) Chennai
e) None of these
Q.9. Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) is a joint venture of Education Ministry and which bank?
a) State Bank of India
b) HDFC Bank
c) Canara Bank
d) ICICI Bank
e) None of these
Q.10. ‘Chengodumalaensis’ which was recently discovered, belong to which species?
a) Gecko
b) Spider
c) Snake
d) Turtle
e) None of these
Answers
Q.1 b) ESA
Notes:
The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 Mission will be launched aboard the ISRO’s PSLV in 2024. Its two satellites will study the Sun’s faint corona and surrounding atmosphere.
The 340-kilogram spacecraft will be deployed by PSLV in a high Earth orbit with an orbital period of 19.7 hours.
Q.2 b) SEBI
Notes:
SEBI decided to set up a corporate debt market development fund in the form of an Alternative Investment Fund.
Corporate Debt Market Development Fund will be set up with an initial corpus of Rs 3,000 crore. It will function as a backstop facility for buying investment grade corporate debt securities during stressful times.
Q.3 b) Myanmar
Notes:
National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, has been dissolved after it refused to comply with a tough new party registration law imposed by Myanmar’s military.
The military, which seized power in a coup in February 2021, set a deadline for political parties to re-register under the restrictive new law. It has promised to hold an election, though such a vote has been widely dismissed as lacking in any credibility.
Q.4 c) BEL
Notes:
Lynx-U2 System is an indigenously developed naval gun fire control system. The Union Defence Ministry recently signed a contract with BEL for the procurement of 13 of these systems for the Indian Navy.
The purchase under the Buy Indian – IDMM (Indigenously Designed, Developed, and Manufactured) category will be placed on new-gen offshore patrol vessels to be constructed indigenously at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers and Goa Shipyard Limited.
Q.5 a) Odisha
Notes:
The World Bank approved 100 million USD loan for the implementation of the Odisha State Capability and Resilient Growth Program.
This program will help the state strengthen early forecasting system for disaster management and provide social protection coverage for vulnerable households.
Q.6 b) Australia
Notes:
First Peoples of Australia are people who lived in the Australia’s continental mainland and surrounding islands for tens of thousands of years before the arrival of first Europeans in the early 17th century.
A referendum will be issued this year by the Australian government to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. It will decide whether these people should be formally consulted in the law making process.
Q.7 a) Bharat Dynamics
Notes:
Akash Weapon System is a short-range surface to air missile air defence system. The Indian government has signed a contract to procure this system for the Indian Army.
Defence PSU Bharat Dynamics won orders worth over Rs 8,400 crore for production and supply of Akash Weapon System to two regiments of the Indian Army.
Q.8 b) Bhopal
Notes:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in the Combined Commanders’ Conference in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
He will also flag off a Vande Bharat Express service to Delhi. Combined Commanders Conference is a biennial event that brings together India’s top military brass to discuss issues related to military and national security.
Q.9 c) Canara Bank
Notes:
Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) is a joint venture of Education Ministry, Government of India and Canara Bank for financing creation of capital assets in premier institutions.
A Parliamentary panel has recently directed the Education Ministry to fast track the process of disbursing sanctioned loans by the HEFA.
Q.10 a) Gecko
Notes:
‘Coastal Kerala Geckoella’ is a newly discovered species of ground-dwelling gecko. It is endemic to the low hills and coastal forest in northern Kerala.
Chengodumalaensis is a small, nocturnal species that is found on the ground among leaf litter and rocks in forests. Scientists have discovered the new species of ground-dwelling gecko, from the coastal forests of northern Kerala.
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