19 February 2024- 58th Jnanpith Award

Present Affairs for UPSC: Jagran Josh presents Each day Present Affairs Quiz for all devoted college students and readers getting ready for varied aggressive exams. In as we speak’s session, get briefings concerning the vital matters given in Q&A codecs similar to 58th Jnanpith Award and so forth.

1. By which state did Prime Minister Narendra Modi lay the muse stone of ‘Shri Kalki Dham Temple’?

(a) Bihar

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Maharashtra

2. Towards which nation did the Indian group register the most important win in Check cricket?

(a) England

(b) Sri Lanka

(c) Australia

(d) New Zealand

3. Which nation’s girls’s group received the gold medal within the Badminton Asia Crew Championship?

(a) India

(b) China

(c) Malaysia

(d) Singapore

4. Well-known Jain saint Acharya Vidyasagar Maharaj handed away, during which state was he born?

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Assam

(c) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Karnataka

5. Who has been nominated for the 58th Jnanpith Award?

(a) Gulzar

(b) Jagadguru Rambhadracharya

(c) Amitabh Chaudhary

(d) each a and b

6. With whom has IREDA signed an settlement for co-financing renewable power tasks?

(a) Punjab Nationwide Financial institution

(b) Bandhan Financial institution

(c) HDFC Financial institution

(d) IDFC First Financial institution

7. ‘PM Vishwakarma Yojana’ has been launched by which ministry?

(a) Ministry of Agriculture

(b) Ministry of Rural Improvement

(c) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

(d) Ministry of Rural Improvement and Panchayati Raj

Reply:-

1. (b) Uttar Pradesh

Prime Minister laid the muse stone of the Hindu pilgrimage web site ‘Shri Kalki Dham Temple’ in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh. This temple is being constructed by Shri Kalki Dham Nirman Belief, whose president is Acharya Pramod Krishnam. Lord Kalki is taken into account to be the tenth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Shri Kalki Dham temple advanced shall be accomplished in 5 acres, which can take 5 years.

2. (a) England

The Indian group has created historical past by registering a spectacular victory of 434 runs over England within the Check match performed in Rajkot. That is India’s greatest win (by way of runs) thus far within the Check format. Earlier within the 12 months 2021, India had defeated New Zealand by 372 runs at Wankhede. That is England’s second greatest defeat by way of runs in Check cricket.

3. (a) India

Indian girls’s group carried out brilliantly and received the gold medal within the Badminton Asia Crew Championship. That is the primary time that India received a gold medal within the girls’s occasion. Earlier, the lads’s group had received bronze medals within the 2016 and 2020 editions. PV Sindhu, Trisa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand and Kharab gave India the lead by successful their respective matches.

4. (d) Karnataka

Well-known Jain saint Acharya Vidyasagar Maharaj handed away at Chandragiri Tirtha in Dongargarh, Chhattisgarh. Acharya Vidyasagar Maharaj was probably the most well-known saint of the Digambar Jain neighborhood. Jain saint Vidyasagar Maharaj was born on 10 October 1946 in Sadalga village of Belgaum, Karnataka.

5. (d) each a and b

The Jnanpith Choice Committee has nominated well-known Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya for the 58th Jnanpith Award. Gulzar’s actual title is ‘Sampoorna Singh Kalra’. He’s thought of probably the greatest Urdu poets of this period. Gulzar has additionally made vital contribution to Hindi cinema. Rambhadracharya is the founding father of Tulsi Peeth in Chitrakoot.     

6. (a) Punjab Nationwide Financial institution

Indian Renewable Vitality Improvement Company Restricted (IREDA) and Punjab Nationwide Financial institution have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the purpose of taking ahead renewable power initiatives throughout the nation. Indian Renewable Vitality Improvement Company Restricted is an Indian public sector enterprise, established in 1987.

7. (c) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

‘PM Vishwakarma Yojana’ is a central sector scheme launched by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. This scheme encourages artisans and craftsmen to get low-cost loans, ability coaching, fashionable tools, digital transactions. A funds of Rs 13,000 crore has been saved for this scheme. 18 companies have been included underneath this scheme. PM Vishwakarma will initially be applied over a interval of 5 years until the monetary 12 months 2027-28.  

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