QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 18 April 2018

Solution: a.

It is a digital platform for MSME exporters.

• The Federation of Indian Export Organisations GlobalLinker has been set up with a view to make the business growth of SMEs simpler and more profitable.
• It is a growing global network currently comprising over 140,000 SME firms, who are seeking business collaboration and growth opportunities through the use of their electronic business card and digital profiles created on the platform.
• It is available free of cost and it offers exporters a range of features and benefits like:
  • Business opportunities
  • Up-to-date business knowledge
  • Improved efficiencies
  • FIEO services

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=178720;

Solution: a.

Explanation 1, In the news (TH): The Indian board game of Gyan Chaupar, from which Snakes and Ladders is believed to have been born, can be traced back to 5 BC. Instead of 100 squares, it has anything from 72 to 300. The board can be made either of cloth or paper, and contains hyper-textual references from Buddhist and Hindu teachings.

Explanation 2 (Livemint): Gyan Chaupar, or the game of knowledge, was invented in India as a didactic game where the stairs represented virtue and elevated you towards moksha, while the snakes of vices were impediments in the path. It reflected the common karmic themes of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, but lost its spiritual significance on reaching the West where, retaining only its bare mechanics, it became Snakes and Ladders.

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Solution: b.

With a view to achieve total digitisation of postal operations in the country, under the IT Modernisation Plan, Department of Posts (Ministry of Communications)  has launched Digital Advancement Of Rural Post Office For A New India (DARPAN) Project, which aims at connecting all 1.29 lakh Rural Branch Post Offices in the country to enable them to do online Postal and Financial Transactions. Another aim of DARPAN project is to achieve financial inclusion of rural population.

In the news: DARPAN-PLI App, which will help in collection of premium for PLI and RPLI policies at Branch Post Offices anywhere in India, was recently launched.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=174674;

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Solution: d.

There is a provision for setting up of a National Council on India’s Nutritional Challenges under the Chairmanship of Vice-Chairman NITI Aayog. The mandate of the National Council on India’s Nutritional Challenges is as under:

• Provide policy directions to address India’s nutritional challenges through coordinated inter-sectoral action.
• Coordinate and review convergence between Ministries.
• Review programmes for nutrition on a quarterly basis.
• The Council will submit its report to the Prime Minister every 6 months.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=178746;

From January: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=175324;

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Solution: c.

China’s top planning body is the National Development and Reform Commission.

TH1; TH2; TH3;

Solution: a.

The MsDP (Ministry of Minority Affairs) was conceived as a special initiative as part of the follow up action on the Sachar Committee recommendations. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) approved by the Government in the beginning of the 11th five Year Plan and launched in the year 2008-09 in 90 Minority Concentrations Districts (MCDs). It is an area development initiative to address the development deficits of minority concentration areas by creating socio-economic infrastructure and providing basic amenities.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=178728;