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

Solution: a.

In 2017 the General Assembly decided to establish a new process for the selection of the President of the General Assembly. The Assembly decided to conduct informal interactive dialogues with candidates for the position of President of the General Assembly, thus contributing to the transparency and inclusivity of the process. Furthermore, the General Assembly called upon candidates to present to the Assembly their vision statements.

In accordance with the rules of procedure, the Assembly shall elect a President and twenty-one Vice-Presidents at least three months before the opening of the session over which they are to preside. The election of the President of the 73rd session of the General Assembly took place in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Tuesday, 5 June 2018.

Election of 73rd President of UNGA;

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Solution: a.

e-Aksharayan is desktop software for converting scanned printed Indian Language documents into a fully editable text format in Unicode encoding. The goal is to have real-time translation capability in each of the Indic languages.

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Vikaspedia: JULY

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Solution: c.

Rajya Sabha has, for the first time in 76 years since it came into being, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a foreign counterpart (Rwanda) for promoting inter-parliamentary dialogue.

The MOU with 6 articles of cooperation seeks to promote Inter-Parliamentary dialogue, Capacity building of parliamentary staff, Organisation of conferences, forums, seminars, staff attachment programmes, workshops and exchanges, Collaboration in mutual interest in regional and international multilateral parliamentary bodies in furtherance of bilateral relations and friendship between the two countries.

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Vikaspedia: JULY

Solution: a.

Mob lynching – Rajiv Gauba;

Reducing import dependence – PK Sinha;

Standards for metro rail systems in the country – E Sreedharan;

Vikaspedia: JULY;

Vikaspedia: JUNE;

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Solution: b.

About Institute for Economics and Peace: It is the world’s leading think tank dedicated to developing metrics to analyse peace and to quantify its economic value. It does this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analysing country level risk and understanding positive peace.

In the news (June TH): India’s rank has marginally improved in “global peacefulness”, at a time when there is an overall decline of global peace owing to escalation of violence in West Asia and and North Africa. Pakistan too has improved marginally, according to the Global Peace Index (GPI), released by Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

Vikaspedia: JUNE;