Smart Cities Mission •It is an initiative of the MoHUA launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on June 25, 2015. •To promote cities that provide core infrastructure, and a clean and sustainable environment, 100 cities (to be developed as Smart Cities) have been selected through a two-stage competition (from January 2016 to June 2018). •66 […]
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(a) Citibank (b) Visa Inc (c) LinkedIn Corporation (d) American Express (e) Mastercard Ans. (e) Exp. Indian-Origin Ajay Banga appointed as next World Bank president. The World Bank’s 25-member executive board has elected former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to a five-year term as president, effective June 2. Banga, 63, was nominated for the post by
(a) Paraguay (b) New Zealand (c) Australia (d) South Africa Ans. (a) Exp. Paraguay’s Colorado Party’s Santiago Peña wins presidential election. An economist from Paraguay’s ruling conservative Colorado partySantiago Peña won the country’s presidential election. Peña got more than 42 percent votes. Efraín Alegre, the candidate of the Concertación Nacional coalition, had nearly 28 percent.
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(a) Ministry of Corporate Affairs (b) Ministry of Ayush (c) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (d) Ministry of Finance Ans. (d) Exp. Government launches Vivad se Vishwas scheme. The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, has launched the scheme, “Vivad se Vishwas I – Relief to MSMEs” for providing relief to Micro, Small and
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(a) Tripura (b) West Bengal (c) Assam (d) Manipur Ans. (d) Exp. Manipur CM launches facial recognition system for Inner Line Permits Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has launched the Facial Recognition System (FRS) for Inner Line Permit (ILP) system and flagged off two camera-mounted mobile FRS vehicles. The system has been implemented on
(a) Iran (b) Maldives (c) Bhutan (d) Sri Lanka Ans. (d) Exp. Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata and Bharti Airtel sign binding term sheet Sri Lanka’s top mobile telecommunication firm, largest telecommunications provider Dialog Axiata and India’s Bharti Airtel have signed a binding term sheet for the merger of their Sri Lankan subsidiaries. With this merger,
(a) Maharashtra (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Goa (d) Himachal Pradesh Ans. (c) Exp. Foreign Ministers meeting of SCO member countries begins in Goa A two-day meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) begins in Goa. This crucial meeting will set the stage for the SCO Leaders’ Summit to be held in July
(a) Bengaluru (b) New Delhi (c) Hyderabad (d) Ahmedabad (e) Mumbai Ans. (b) Exp. 60th Foundation Day of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi has celebrated its Diamond Jubilee on its 60th Foundation Day on 3 May. On the occasion, Vice-Chancellor of IIFT Prof. Satinder Bhatia released the
(a) France (b) Thailand (c) UK (d) Israel Ans. (d) Exp. India, Israel sign MoU on Industrial R&D Cooperation India has signed an MoU with Israel on Industrial Research and Development Cooperation with focus on several key technology areas. These are aerospace, Electronics Instrumentation, Civil, Infrastructure and Engineering, Environment, Mining, Chemicals, and Petrochemicals and Agriculture.
(a) 8.51% (b) 7.41% (c) 6.51% (d) 8.11% (e) 7.51% Ans. (d) Exp. India’s unemployment rate at a four-month high in April 2023 According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), the unemployment rate of India has surged to a four-month high of 8.11% in April, compared to 7.8% in March 2023. Urban unemployment
