ALL EXAM QUIZ 27.07.2024

Explanation:

• Every year on 24 July, Income Tax Day is celebrated.
• It is celebrated to spread awareness around the importance of taxes and encourage more and more people to pay taxes for the development of the nation.
• This year, the 165th Income Tax Day was celebrated.
• On 24 July 1860, Sir James Wilson introduced income tax in India to compensate the British government for the losses incurred at the time of the First War of Independence in 1857.
• In 2010, Income Tax Department decided to mark 24 July as Income Tax Day.

Explanation:

• The Bihar Public Examinations (PE) (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill, 2024 has been passed in the assembly.
• It was presented by the state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary.
• Its main aim is to curb malpractices in competitive examinations, including the leak of question papers.
• The Bill proposed severe punishment for those involved in such malpractices, including a prison term of three to five years and a fine of Rs 10 lakh.
• If any service provider is found involved in malpractice, it will face a fine of Rs 1 crore and a four-year termination of its services.
• A portion of the total cost of conducting the examination will also be recovered from the offending service provider.

Explanation:

• A renowned economist, C.T. Kurien, passed away.
• C.T. Kurien is a distinguished economist and former professor at Madras Christian College.
• He died at the age of 93 due to age-related ailments.
• He pursued a Master’s degree in Economics from Madras Christian College in 1953.
• He served as a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies from 1978–1991 and as its Director from 1978–1988.
• He served as president of the Indian Economic Association in 2000.
• He has written 15 books on various aspects of economics and approaches economics from the viewpoint of fighting poverty.

Explanation:

• 2024 World Leaders Summit was held in the UK Parliament's House of Lords.
• Global diplomacy has reached a pivotal point with the 2024 World Leaders Summit at the House of Lords.
• It offers the perfect setting for talks that will determine global policy.
• This summit shows a commitment to collaboration among world leaders.
• Key topics discussed at the summit were sustainable development, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, health care access and technology’s role in shaping future policies.
• Throughout these discussions, the effect of digital revolution on public participation and governance emerged as a major theme.
• Notable attendees were Dr Vivek Lall, Osama Ben Saleh Bukhari and others.
• Baroness Sandy Verma, a well-known British politician and member of the House of Lords, was the Guest of Honour.
• Vikash Sorout, the founder of VS International Limited, was significantly involved in organizing the summit.
• The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Explanation:

• C-DOT joined hands with IIT Roorkee and Mandi for the “Development of ‘Cell-Free’ 6G Access Points”.
• IIT Roorkee and IIT Mandi are collaborating for the development of ‘Cell-Free’ 6G Access Points.
• The agreement has been signed under the Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) scheme of the Department of Telecommunications.
• This fund has been designed to provide funding support to domestic companies, Indian startups, academia and R&D institutions involved in technology design, development, commercialization of telecommunication products and solutions.
• This scheme aims to provide affordable broadband and mobile services.
• This 6G project will focus on developing APs for enabling the upcoming 6G radio access networks.
• C-DOT is a telecom R&D centre of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) under the Ministry of Communications.

Explanation:

• Department of Post has released the beta version of the digital National Addressing Grid.
• DIGIPIN (Digital Postal Index Number), a beta version of the National Addressing Grid, has been released by the Department of Post.
• DIGIPIN will use one of the 16 alphanumeric symbols (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,G,J,K,L,M,P,W,X).
• The entire country will be divided into 16 regions (4X4), including the maritime EEZ.
• The first character for the DIGIPIN will identify one of these 16 regions.
• The second character in DIGIPIN will give the location of a place in the first region.
• The postal department and IIT Hyderabad have developed this system.
• This code will then be used as the “offline addressing reference” for any specific location within the DIGIPIN system.
• DIGIPIN can also be used for emergency rescue operations and national disasters such as floods.

• It will act as a robust pillar of Geospatial Governance

Explanation:

• According to the FAO report, China, Australia and India registered most increased forest areas.
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report titled “The State of the World’s Forests”.
• In 2020, the global forest covered approximately 4.1 billion hectares (ha), or 31 per cent of the land area.
• India secured the third position among the top 10 countries with the most forest area gains.
• Between 2010 to 2020, India gained 2,66,000 hectares of forest area annually.
• As per the FAO report, China secured the first spot with a maximum forest area gain of 19,37,000 hectares, followed by Australia with 4,46,000 hectares.

Explanation:

• European Space Agency will launch a mission to study Apophis asteroid
• The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch a mission to study the Apophis asteroid when it passes very close to Earth in 2029.
• ESA is the second major space agency to launch a space mission to study Apophis asteroid.
• Apophis will pass within 32,000 km of the Earth in 2029. It will opportunity to space agencies to study an asteroid from such a close distance.
• An asteroid of such a large size comes this close to the Earth only once in about 5,000 to 10,000 years.
• The Ramses spacecraft would approach the asteroid before it comes to the closest distance to Earth.
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has also expressed its intention of sending a mission to study Apophis.
• The main aim of the study of the asteroids is to develop capabilities to protect the Earth from possible collisions.

Explanation:

• Indian tennis legends Leander Paes and Vijay Amrtiraj became the first Indian and first Asian men's tennis players to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in the United States of America. India became the 28th country in the world whose tennis players have been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
• Along with Leander Paes and Vijay Amritraj, British sports journalist Richard Evans was also inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
• The total number of tennis legends inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame is 267 from 28 nations.
• Leander Paes was inducted into the Player Category, while Amritraj and Evans were recognised as part of the Contributor Category.

Explanation:

• The prestigious Darbar Hall and Ashoka Hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan have been renamed as Gantantra Mandap and Ashoka Mandap respectively.
• The concept of 'Republic' has been associated with Indian society since ancient times. The national emblem of the Republic of India is the Lion Capital of Ashoka of Sarnath.