Daily Current Affairs Questions
August 2022 Part 11
Why in News?
1.
Aarti
Prabhakar
2.
Agriculture
Infrastructure Fund (AIF)
3.
Andaman
Sea
4.
Antimicrobial
resistance
5.
Asia
Pacific Sustainability Index
6.
Association
of Indian Universities
7.
Atal
Bhujal Yojana
8.
Australia
9.
Ayurveda
Ratna Award
10.
Baltic
Sea
11.
Base
effect
12.
BCG
vaccine
13.
Bee
14.
Blockchain-based
digital degree
15.
Carbon
monoxide (CO).
16.
Cellular
Operators Association of India
17.
Central
Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
18. Chess Olympiad 2026
19.
Child
Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Act
20.
CII
Quality Ratna Award
21.
Common
Service Centres (CSCs)
22. Commonwealth Games 2022 table
23. Defence Expo
24. Deloitte
25.
Dolphins
26.
Economic
Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)
27. Exercise Skylight
28.
Financial
Action Task Force
29.
First
food safety museum
30.
First
Mountain Warfare Training School
31.
First
woman President of Indian Mountaineering Foundation
32.
Fly
ash
33. Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs)
34.
GAIL
35.
Gravitational
Waves
36. Gustavo Petro
37.
India
Innovation Index
38. India Ki Udaan’ project
39.
International
Court of Justice (ICJ)
40. International Day of the World’s
Indigenous Peoples
41.
International
Fund for Agricultural Development
42.
International
Space Station (ISS)
43.
Invasive
species
44. Javelin Throw Day
45.
Jonny
Bairstow
46. Karnataka Ratna’ award
47.
Kharchi
festival
48.
Kisan
Credit Card (KCC) scheme
49.
Malaria
50.
Mangrove
swamps
51.
Medicep
52. Michelle Li
53.
Mosses
54.
Mustafizur
Rahman
55.
NABARD
56. Nagasaki day
57.
Namibia
58. National Education Policy (NEP)
59. National Handloom Day
60.
National
High Speed Rail Corporation Limited
61.
National
Informatics Center
62.
National
Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive’
(PRASHAD)
63.
National
Stock Exchange
64.
Net
zero emissions
65.
NotPetya
66. Panchamrut Yojana
67.
PM-DAKSH
Yojana
68.
Pradhan
Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
69.
Pradhan
Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme
70.
Pramod
K Mittal
71.
Press
Council of India
72.
Prosthetic
knee
73.
Quick
Response (QR) code
74. Quit India Movement
75.
Raising
and Accelerating Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Performance (RAMP)
76.
Rajendra
Prasad
77.
Ramsar
Convention on Wetlands
78.
Regional
Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS)
79. Reserve Bank of India
80.
Saubhagya
scheme
81.
SBI
General Insurance
82.
semiconductor
park
83.
Sherpa
84.
Shiromani
Award
85.
Sri
Lankamalleswara Sanctuary
86.
Suranjan
Das
87.
SVAMITVA
Scheme
88.
Tihan
89. V Pranav
90.
Varun
91. World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS)
92. World Trade Organisation(WTO)
93.
World’s
Best SME Bank
94.
world’s
largest electric cruise ship
95. World’s longest land border
96. Wormholes
97.
Wormholes
98. writ of mandamus
99. Youth in India
100. Zero Budget Natural Farming
101.
zero coupon zero principal
instruments (ZCZP)
1.
Who
will be appointed as the Science Advisor to the President of America? – Aarti Prabhakar
2.
Consider
the following statements about the Agriculture
Infrastructure Fund (AIF).
1. It is a medium - long term debt
financing facility for investment in viable projects for post-harvest
management infrastructure and community farming assets through interest
subvention and credit guarantee.
2. Agricultural Produce Market
Committees are eligible to avail loans under AIF.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A. 1 only
- B. 2 only
- C. Both 1 and 2
- D. Neither 1 nor 2
Answer: C
Sol:
• The Government of India launched the
Central Sector Scheme of financing facility under the Agriculture
Infrastructure Fund (AIF) in 2020.
• Statement 1 is correct: AIF is a
medium - long term debt financing facility for investment in viable projects
for post-harvest management infrastructure and community farming assets through
interest subvention and credit guarantee.
• AIF aims at bringing farmers &
agribusinesses together with newer partnership models emerging for the creation
of distributed infra near farm-gate in a hub & spoke model. These assets
will enable farmers to get greater value for their produce as they will be able
to store and sell at higher prices, reduce wastage, and increase processing and
value addition.
• The duration of the scheme is from
FY2020 to FY2029 (10 years).
• Under the scheme, Rs. 1 Lakh Crore
will be provided by banks and financial institutions as loans with interest
subvention of 3% per annum and credit guarantee coverage under Credit Guarantee
Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) for loans up to Rs. 2
Crores.
o Launched in 2000, CGTMSE makes
available collateral-free credit to the micro and small enterprise sector. The
corpus of CGTMSE is being contributed by the Government of India and SIDBI in
the ratio of 4:1 respectively.
• Eligible beneficiaries: Farmers,
Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), Primary Agricultural Credit Society
(PACS), Marketing Cooperative Societies, Self Help Groups (SHGs), Joint
Liability Groups (JLG), Multipurpose Cooperative Societies, Agri-entrepreneurs,
Start-ups, and Central/State agency or Local Body sponsored Public-Private
Partnership Projects.
New Changes
• Last year, the Union Cabinet approved
modifications in the guidelines of the Rs 1-lakh-crore Agriculture
Infrastructure Fund.
• Statement 2 is correct: Eligibility to
avail loans from AIF has now been extended to state agencies/Agricultural
Produce Market Committees (APMCs), national and state federations of
cooperatives, federations of farmers producers organisations (FPOs) and
federations of self-help groups (SHGs).
• The overall period of the scheme has
been extended from 10 years to 13 years up to 2032-33.
3.
India
and which country has organized the 38th joint patrol exercise in the Andaman Sea? – Indonesia
4.
Which
of the following pathogens can develop antimicrobial
resistance?
1. Bacteria
2. Fungi
3. Parasite
4. Virus
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- A. 1 only
- B. 1 and 2 only
- C. 1, 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: D
Sol:
What is antimicrobial resistance?
• Antimicrobial resistance happens when
microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites) change when
they are exposed to antimicrobial drugs (such as antibiotics, antifungals,
antivirals, antimalarials, and anthelmintics).
• Microorganisms that develop
antimicrobial resistance are sometimes referred to as “superbugs”.
• As a result, the medicines become
ineffective and infections persist in the body, increasing the risk of
spreading to others.
What accelerates the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance?
• Antimicrobial resistance occurs
naturally over time, usually through genetic changes.
• However, the misuse and overuse of
antimicrobials is accelerating this process.
• In many places, antibiotics are
overused and misused in people and animals, and often given without
professional oversight.
• Examples of misuse include when they
are taken by people with viral infections like colds and flu, and when they are
given as growth promoters in animals or used to prevent diseases in healthy
animals.
• Antimicrobial resistant-microbes are
found in people, animals, food, and the environment (in water, soil and air).
• They can spread between people and
animals, including from food of animal origin, and from person to person.
• Poor infection control, inadequate
sanitary conditions and inappropriate food-handling encourage the spread of
antimicrobial resistance.
5.
Who
has topped the Asia Pacific Sustainability Index
recently released by Knight Frank? – Singapore
