ALL EXAM QUIZ 20.07.2024

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• The Best Ship of Eastern Fleet award presented to INS Delhi.
• At the annual "Fleet Awards Function-2024" held in Visakhapatnam, INS Delhi was selected as the best ship in the Eastern Fleet.
• On July 14, the event was held to acknowledge and celebrate the operational achievements of the Eastern Fleet during the past year.
• The Best Ship in Corvettes/ OPVs/ LSTs award was given to INS Kavaratti.

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• Roberta Metsola was re-elected Chief of the European Parliament.
• On 16 July, EU lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to give conservative Maltese politician Roberta Metsola another term as President of the European Parliament.
• Metsola was approved by a majority of EU parliamentarians to lead the EU Assembly for the next two and a half years, with 562 out of 623 supporting her reappointment.
• Metsola is a Maltese lawmaker who became the first woman in 20 years to lead the European Union Assembly in 2022.
• She is only the second president, after Germany's Martin Schulz, to win another term since the EU Parliament became a directly elected institution in 1979.

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• Government launched the ‘ASMITA' project to develop 22,000 books in Indian languages.
• The Union Ministry of Education and UGC launched the ASMITA project to produce 22,000 books in Indian languages in the next five years.
• The ASMITA (Augmenting Study Materials in Indian languages through Translation and Academic Writing) project has been launched by the secretary, Higher Education, Sanjay Murthy.

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• Government launched India's first toll-free national anti-narcotics helpline number.
• The government has launched the helpline 1933 also known as 'MANAS' (Madak Padarth Nisedh Asuchna Kendra' or Narcotics Prohibition Intelligence Centre).
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched it during the seventh apex-level meeting of the Narco-Coordination Centre (NCORD).
• It will allow people to tip off the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) about the illegal narcotics business and related issues.
• The helpline named MANAS aims to establish a user-friendly platform for every citizen to conveniently report drug-related matters 24×7.
• Amit Shah also inaugurated the NCB zonal office in Srinagar virtually. He also released NCB's 2023 annual report and compendium on “Nasha Mukt Bharat”.

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• Agniveers would be provided a 10% reservation in direct recruitment for the posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden, and SPO in Haryana, said Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.
• He said that Agniveers will also get a three-year age relaxation upon recruitment to group D. This relaxation would be five years for the first batch.
• Additionally, he announced a horizontal reservation of 1% for jobs in group B posts and 5% for Agniveers in group C posts.
• Agniveers seeking deployment in government agencies, boards, and corporations would receive preference in matrix scores, said the CM.

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• ADB retained India’s FY25 GDP growth forecast to 7%.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in its Asia Development Outlook, forecasted that India will grow by 7% with an inflation of 4.6% in 2025.
• India will remain the fastest-growing economy in this region.
• The ADB has predicted that India’s GDP will grow by 7.2% in 2025–26, with an average inflation rate of 4.5%.
• ADB has slightly raised its growth forecast for Asia and the Pacific for 2024 to 5 per cent from a previous projection of 4.9 per cent.

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• Government plans to launch the fourth phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
• Under the fourth phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, 50,000 habitations with a population above 250 in plain areas and 100 in special category states will be connected by roads.
• The step is part of the 100-day agenda of the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD).
• The outlay of this phase of the scheme will be Rs 1.9 lakh crore, of which Rs 1.3 lakh crore will be the central share and the remaining 60,000 crore will be contributed by states.
• The main emphasis of this phase will be on improving connectivity to villages and habitation within 50 km of the national highway network.
• The first phase of PMGSY was launched on December 25, 2000, by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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• India and Switzerland aim for a $100 billion investment and 1 million jobs in the next 15 Years.
• Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal was on a two-day visit to Switzerland.
• He encouraged Swiss companies to invest in the growing and dynamic market of India.
• The main objective of the visit was to discuss the next steps for the implementation of the historic India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) which was signed on March 10.
• Switzerland is India’s 20th largest trading partner globally with bilateral trade of USD 21 billion in 2023.
• It is also the 12th largest investor in India. It has invested SD 10 billion from April 2000 to March 2024 under FDI.
• Around 330 Swiss companies operate in India, and they have created over 1,66,000 jobs in India.
• An ambitious target of 100 billion dollars in investment and the creation of one million jobs in India has been by both sides in the next 15 years.

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• India’s first overseas Jan Aushadi Kendra has been inaugurated by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Mauritius.
• During the inauguration, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth joined him.
• Jaishankar said that the India-Mauritius health partnership project will supply cost-effective, made-in-India medicines.
• Earlier, the Mediclinic project at Grand Bois in Mauritius with Indian grant assistance was inaugurated by Dr. Jaishankar.
• Dr. Jaishankar said this will provide secondary health care for 16,000 people in the Grand Bois area.
• India has close relations with Mauritius, an island nation in the Western Indian Ocean.
• Indian-origin people make up about 70% of the island's population of 1.2 million.

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• Nelson Mandela International Day is observed annually on July 18 to honor Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa.
• Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president on May 10, 1994, and is celebrated as the 'Father of the Nation.'
• Theme for 2024:‘Combating poverty and inequality is in our hands.’
• Objective: Emphasizes collective responsibility in addressing poverty and inequality.

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• DD Robocon 2024 hosted by IIT Delhi and Prasar Bharati concluded successfully at Delhi’s Thyagaraj Stadium on July 13–14.
• The event featured 46 teams showcasing innovation and teamwork in robotics.
• The Institute of Technology, Nirma University Ahmedabad won the championship and will represent India at the ABU Robocon 2024 in Vietnam.
• Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering Pune secured the runner-up position.