Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 1st July 2019
1. Which of the following statements are true:
1. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Mission is a space telescope for NASA’s Explorers program.
2. The mission is for an all-sky survey for transiting exoplanets.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans:c
Justification:
- It is a space telescope for NASA’s Explorers program.
- The mission is led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(with seed funding from Google).
- The mission is for an all-sky survey for transiting exoplanets.
- Transiting planets are those that go in front of the star as seen from the telescope and, to date, is the most successful discovery technique for finding small exoplanets.
2. Kaziranga National Park is located at?
(a) Assam
(b) Sikkim
(c) Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Meghalaya
Ans: a
Justification:
- Kaziranga National Park is a protected area in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Spread across the floodplains of the Brahmaputra River, its forests, wetlands and grasslands are home to tigers, elephants and the world’s largest population of Indian one-horned rhinoceroses. Ganges River dolphins swim in the park’s waters. It’s visited by many rare migratory birds, and gray pelicans roost near Kaziranga village.
3. NASA’s PUNCH mission is associated with?
(a) Analyse Saturn’s Rings
(b) Image the Sun
(c) Comprehensive study of Mercury
(d) Search for exoplanets
Ans: b
Justification:
- PUNCH, which stands for “Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere,” is focused on understanding the transition of particles from the Sun’s outer corona to the solar wind that fills interplanetary space.
4. Which of the following statements are true:
1. GST enabled harmonising taxes, elimination of cascading effect of tax, widening the scope of input tax credit and for achieving a uniform tax rate for a product or service across the country.
2. Tangible benefits of GST include faster refunds, less interaction with tax authorities, abolition of checkposts, etc.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans:c
Justification:
- The industry loves GST for harmonising taxes, elimination of cascading effect of tax, widening the scope of input tax credit and for achieving a uniform tax rate for a product or service across the country.
- Tangible benefits include faster refunds, less interaction with tax authorities, abolition of checkposts, etc.
- Under GST, a supplier can supply goods from any part of India and tax or input tax credit is no longer an arbitrage in competition.
- The customer is now in a position to source from any supplier and the latter is in a position to access markets across India.
5. Project UNNATI is related to?
(a) Eco friendly Mining Promotion
(b) Water Ways Development
(c) Port Transformation
(d) Rural Development
Ans: c
Justification:
- Project UNNATI was launched by the Ministry of shipping in 2014.
- In nutshell it is a port transformation project.
- Under the project, the global benchmarks were adopted to improve the efficiency and productivity, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of major ports
