ALL EXAM QUIZ 19.04.2024

Explanation:

• The US President’s Gold Volunteer Service Award presented to India's Jain spiritual leader Lokesh Muni.
• This award has been given to him for his contribution to public welfare and humanity.
• On April 9, senior Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman presented the Presidential Award Golden Shield and Certificate of Honor to Lokesh Muni at the US Capitol.
• Muni is the Founder of Ahimsa Vishwa Bharati and the World Peace Center in India.

Explanation:

• Every year on April 15, World Art Day is celebrated.
• In 2019, 15th April was proclaimed as World Art Day at the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference.
• In 2012, the first World Art Day was celebrated.
• It is celebrated on the birth anniversary of the Italian painter, sculptor, and architect Leonardo da Vinci.
• UNESCO celebrates this day together with the International Association of Art to promote creative activity around the world.
• There are seven official categories of the arts which include Architecture, painting, sculpture, music, literature, cinema, and dance.

Explanation:

• Government has set a target of producing 170 million tonnes for FY25.
• The government has set the target of producing 170 million tonnes of coal from captive and commercial coal blocks in the current financial year.
• In FY24, captive and commercial coal blocks produced 147.12 million tonnes (MT) of dry fuel. It is 26 per cent higher than the 116 MT produced in FY23.
• Power sector captive mines had produced around 121.3 MT Out of the total output of 147.2 MT in FY24.
• The coal production target for FY25 has been reviewed in a meeting. 74 coal mines were present in the review meeting.
• The country's coal import has increased to 244.27 MT in the April-February period of FY24 from 227.93 MT in the year-ago period.

Explanation:

• Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie’s memoir "Knife" has been released.
• In 'Knife', the Salman Rushdie has an imaginary conversation with his attacker.
• On this occasion, has spoken in detail about the moment he was attacked by a man with a knife on a stage in New York in 2022.
• In this attack, Rushdie's damaged liver and hands and nerves in his right eye.
• After the 1988 publication of the controversial 'The Satanic Verses', Rushdie had spent several years in hiding.
• Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981.

Explanation:

• India’s wholesale price inflation increased from 0.2% in February to 0.53% in March.
• In March, wholesale price inflation has increased to the three-month high level.
• Food index increased 4.65%. The increase in cereals prices mainly contributed to rise in food index.
• Cereals prices increased at 12-month high pace with the rise in inflation in paddy (11.7%), potato (53%) and onions (57%).
• Inflation in pulses and vegetables stood at 17.2% and 19.5%, respectively.
• Fuel, power and manufactured products have continued to show deflation.

Explanation:

• Bayer Leverkusen for the first time won the Bundesliga title.
• Bayern Munich's eleven-year championship run was ended by Bayer Leverkusen.
• Bayern is in second position, 16 points behind Leverkusen. Xabi Alonso is the head coach at Leverkusen.
• In October 2022, Alonso became Leverkusen's new coach while the team was in the relegation zone.
• Since 2012–2013, Bayern Munich has won 11 straight Bundesliga championships.
• This is the Bayer Leverkusen football team's second major German trophy.
• In 1993, the team took home the German Cup, or DFB-Pokal.

Explanation:

• According to the latest data from the Global Forest Watch monitoring project, 2.33 million hectares of tree cover have been lost since 2000. It is equivalent to a six per cent decrease in tree cover during this period.
• As per the data, 95 per cent of the tree cover loss in India between 2013 to 2023 occurred within natural forests.
• Between 2002 to 2023, India lost 4,14,000 hectares of humid primary forest (4.1 per cent), which is 18 per cent of its total tree cover loss in the same period.
• The Global Forest Watch tracks forest changes in real time by using satellite data and other sources.

Explanation:

• Kristalina Georgieva will be the managing director of the International Monetary Fund for a second five-year term.
• Georgieva is the second woman to head the IMF and the first person from an emerging market economy.
• This decision was unanimously approved by the board. She was the sole candidate for the position.
• She will continue to serve as managing director after the current term ends on 30 September 2024.
• She has led the IMF in a period of great turmoil in the global economy, from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• Traditionally, European countries recommend the managing director of the IMF.

Explanation:

• The Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi is ranked tenth in a list of the world's top 10 busiest airports.
• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has topped the list. Dubai and Dallas airports are at the second and third positions, respectively.
• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport handled 10.46 crore passengers in 2023.
• Dubai International Airport handled more than 8.69 crore passengers.
• Other airports on the list are- London's Heathrow Airport (4th spot), Tokyo's Haneda Airport (5th), Denver International Airport (6th), and Istanbul Airport (7th).
• The global total passenger forecast for 2023 was 8.5 billion (850 crore). It is 27.2 per cent higher than 2022.
• Delhi airport handled more than 7.22 crore passengers in 2023. In 2022, the airport was in the ninth position.
• The top 10 airports represent 10 per cent of global traffic (806 million passengers).

Explanation:

• The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare demanded that the relevant States' and Union Territories' authorities closely monitor these transplants.
• The Ministry asked them to take appropriate measures against any hospitals that are discovered to be breaking the law.
• The National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) registry data showed a significant rise in the number of foreign people receiving organ transplants from private hospitals.
• Investigations into transplants involving foreign persons will be handled by the authority designated under the Transplantation of Human Organs & Tissues Act (THOTA), 1994.
• The health authorities were urged by Director-General of Health Services (DGHS) Atul Goel to make sure that a distinct NOTTO-ID is produced by the hospital for both donor and recipient in all cases of organ transplants.
• Suspension of the hospitals' registration to undertake organ transplants may be one of the actions taken against them.