1. Who will lead the 15-member trust named ‘Sri Ram Janma Bhoomi Tirtha Kshetra trust’ for the construction of Ram Mandir?
a. Kesava Iyengar Parasaran
b. Amit Shah
c. Narendra Modi
d. Ashok Mishra
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra trust, announced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, will have representatives from several Hindu maths across the nation, Nirmohi Akhara, Ayodhya locals - including a Dalit, and state and central governments.
• The 15-member trust will be led by a man who is referred to as God's advocate - K Parasaran. Kesava Iyengar Parasaran is the man who fought the Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute in Supreme Court.
• He was the lead counsel for the Hindu parties in the temple-mosque land dispute in Ayodhya and he successfully argued for possession of the entire disputed land in the Supreme Court in favour of the deity "Ram Lalla Virajman".
• The 92-year-old senior lawyer has also allowed his house in Delhi's Greater Kailash to be used as the trust's office.
• The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra trust will have nine permanent members and six nominated members.
2. Where was the Hornbill festival 2020 held?
a. Tripura
b. Nagaland
c. Mizoram
d. Arunachal Pradesh
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• Chief Minister (CM) Biplab Kumar Dev inaugurated the 2 day hornbill festival at Baramura hill (in western tripura).
• The aim of the festival is to raise awareness among people for bird conservation & to boost tourism.
• The Hornbill festival is a celebration held every year from December 1 to 10, in Nagaland, Northeast India. For the first time the Hornbill festival was celebrated in Tripura.
• It is also called the ‘Festival of Festivals’.
• Arunachal Pradesh & Manipur also started organising Hornbill festival following Nagaland
3. Where was the second BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise-2020 (BIMSTEC DMEx-2020) held ?
a. Maharashtra
b. Odisha
c. Himachal Pradesh
d. Uttarakhand
S-b
EXPLANATION-
• The “2nd BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise-2020 (BIMSTEC DMEx-2020)” was held at Bhubaneswar/Puri, Odisha.
• The themes of the exercise was “A cultural heritage site that suffers severe damage in the Earthquake” & “Flooding or Storm”.
• Organized by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), on behalf of the Government of India, BIMSTEC DMEx-2020 was inaugurated by Chief Minister Odisha, Shri Naveen Patnaik.
4. The Government of India decided to renamed the National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) after whom?
a. Sushma Swaraj
b. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
c. Arun Jaitley
d. Sardar Vallabhai Patel
S-c
EXPLANATION-
• The government has decided to rename National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM), Faridabad as Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM).
• NIFM, Faridabad, was set up in 1993 as a registered society under Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Government of India with the mandate to train officers of various Finance and Accounts Services recruited by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) through the Civil Services Examination as also officers of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS).
• The Union Finance Minister is the President of the NIFM Society.
5. Where will be India’s largest air quality monitoring network established?
a. Mumbai
b. Lucknow
c. New Delhi
d. Pune
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will develop an air quality monitoring network across 90 locations in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It will be the largest network in India.
• The project will be completed within next 5 years, funded by BMC and private organisations
