ALL EXAM QUIZ 21.11.2023

Explanation:

• India International Science Festival (IISF) 2023 is being organised at Faridabad, Haryana.
• IISF 2023 will be organised from 17th-20th January, 2024. IISF 2023 is the ninth edition of IISF.
• The theme of IISF 2023 is 'Science and Technology Public Outreach in Amrit Kaal'.
• IISF 2023 is being organised at the Campus of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) and the Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) of the Department of Biotechnology in Faridabad.
• IISF 2023 will have a total of 17 themes to showcase scientific achievements.

Explanation:

• 66 Indians got Cyprus’s Golden Passport between 2014 and 2020.
• Indian Express, in partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), reported this, as part of Cyprus Confidential.
• Cyprus Confidential is a worldwide offshore probe of 3.6 million documents.
• The golden passport scheme was launched in 2007. It was also known as the ‘Cyprus Investment Programme’.

Explanation:

• The International Students' Day is observed every year on 17 November.
• It is observed to mark the Nazi invasion of a university in Prague in 1939. The Nazis imprisoned many students and killed and tortured several others.
• It is observed to raise awareness about the challenges faced by students.
• It is observed to celebrate multiculturalism, diversity and cooperation among students across the globe.
• World Students Day is observed on 15 October in India in honour of former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

Explanation:

• Norms for unsecured personal loans for banks and NBFCs have been tightened by RBI.
• A decision has been taken to increase the risk weights with regard to consumer credit exposure of commercial banks, both outstanding as well as new, including personal loans.
• It excludes housing loans, education loans, vehicle loans, and loans secured by gold and gold jewelry.
• The risk weight on consumer credit for banks and NBFCs has been increased by RBI from 100% to 125%.
• Under the current rules, the banks must keep ₹8 for every ₹100 lent for personal loans.
• Under the new rules, they will keep 25% higher, or ₹10 on every ₹100 lent.
• RBI has also raised the risk weights on credit receivables by 25 percentage points to 150% and 125% for banks and NBFCs, respectively.

Explanation:

• The Indian Navy has finished its second anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Offshore Patrol Vessel INS Sumedha participated in a 31-day anti-piracy patrol in the Atlantic Ocean along the West Coast of Africa.
• INS Sumedha deployment will promote the Indian Navy's connection with regional navies, including Senegal, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Angola and Namibia.
• India and the EU conducted their first joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Guinea on October 24.
• INS Sumedha is the third of the indigenously developed Naval OPV of the Saryu class. It had recently taken part in Operation Kaveri for the evacuation of Indian people from Sudan.

Explanation:

• Global Fisheries Conference India 2023 will held in Ahmedabad on 21st-22nd November.
• Union Minister for Fisheries Parshottam Rupala announced that the Global Fisheries Conference India 2023 will held in Ahmedabad.
• It will be organized on the occasion of World Fisheries Day with the theme of 'Fisheries and Aquaculture Wealth'.
• He said that in the last 9 years, total spending in the fisheries sector has reached 38,000 crore rupees.
• India has become the 3rd largest fish-producing country in the world with an 8% share in total global fish production.
• The fisheries sector provides livelihood to more than 2.8 crore people in India.
• An average of 38 lakh fishers per year are insured under the Group Accident Insurance Scheme.
• The main objective of the conference is to reach out to the various domestic and global fisheries sector stakeholders.

Explanation:

• State Bank of India will soon launch the Yono Global app in Singapore and the US.
• With this, SBI will offer digitalized remittance and other services to its customers.
• Vidya Krishnan, Deputy MD (IT), SBI held talks with Singapore-based digital platform enablers and local regulators and the central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
• Presently, SBI offers Yono Global services in 9 countries. In September 2019, it started with the UK operations.

Explanation:

• Cyclone Midhili hit the coast of Bangladesh.
• Cyclone Midhili has weakened from a ‘deep depression’ into a ‘depression’ after hitting the coast of Bangladesh.
• It will further reduce into a Well Marked Low-Pressure Area (WML).
• Cyclonic Storm Midhili brought rainfall in Mizoram, Tripura and Assam.
• The cyclonic storm is also expected to bring heavy rainfall to the coastal districts of West Bengal.
• IMD said that Cyclone Midhili is moving at a speed of 26 km per hour.
• Governments of northeastern states issued alerts as the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm ‘Midhili’.
• A cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong centre of low atmospheric pressure. It moves counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Explanation:

• The Punjab and Haryana High Court struck down the Haryana government's decision to reserve 75 per cent of the jobs for locals in the private sector.
• A bench comprising Justice GS Sandhawalia and Justice Harpreet Kaur Jeewan was hearing the petitions against the Haryana government’s decision to give 75% reservation in private sector jobs paying up to Rs 30000 per month.
• The High Court said that the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020 is unconstitutional and violate fundamental right.
• The court ruled that “The State cannot direct the private employers to do what has been forbidden to do under the Constitution of India”.
• The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act was passed in 2021.

Explanation:

• Uttar Pradesh government will soon implement changes in school schedules.
• Uttar Pradesh government will implement new education policy (NEP), which will cut down the study hours in schools.
• As per the NEP, the government will be cutting down study hours in schools.
• The schools will have 29 hours of teaching and classes will be 5 to 5.5 hours long from Monday to Friday.
• On all second Saturdays of every month, the classes will be for 2 to 2.5 hours. Other two Saturdays will be holidays.
• Maximum time limit will be fixed for the classes. According to the NEP, maximum time limit for classes on general subjects will be between 45 to 35 minutes.
• Classes for major subjects will be conducted for 50 minutes.
• As per the reports, the government has ordered Education Department to make new rules for schools under the National Curriculum Framework of the NEP.
• The aim of NEP is to ease student burden by permitting 10 bag-free school days annually.

Explanation:

• In the final match of the World Cup 2023, Australia defeated the Indian team captained by Rohit Sharma by 6 wickets.
• In this victory of Australia, left-handed opener Travis Head made an important contribution by playing a brilliant inning of 137 runs. Apart from this, Labuschagne scored 58 runs.
• In the title match, Australia dominated India from the very beginning.
• This was Australia's sixth ODI World Cup title. In the match, Australia won the toss and decided to bowl. Batting first, the Indian team was all out on the score of 240 runs in 50 overs.
• Chasing the target of 241 runs, Australia won the match in 43 overs. Australia, captained by Pat Cummins, was excellent in all three departments including batting, bowling and fielding.