1. Who among the following was awarded 2019 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award?
a. Ritvik Ahuja
b. Sushmita Mehta
c. Suman Gawani
d. Tanya Shergill
S-c
EXPLANATION-
• Major Suman Gawani, an Indian Army officer and a Military Observer formerly deployed with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), will receive the 2019 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award along with Brazilian Navy officer Commander Monteiro de Castro Araujo.
• Major Suman Gawani is also the first Indian peacekeeper to win the prestigious award.
• She was commissioned into the Army Signal Corps in 2011 after graduating from the Officers Training Academy, Chennai. Major Suman, a native of Pokhar village in Uttarakhand's Tehri Garhwal, completed her schooling in Uttarkashi. She holds a Bachelor of Education from the Government Post Graduate College in Dehradun, Uttarakhand India. She also has a telecommunication engineering degree from Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), Mhow in Madhya Pradesh.
2. Which is the first Indian state that has declared the internet as a fundamental right to its citizens?
a. Kerala
b. Punjab
c. Assam
d. Arunachal Pradesh
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• Kerala is the first state that has declared the internet as a fundamental right to its citizens.
• K-FON project was launched with an aim to provide quality internet which will be free of cost for the poor and at an affordable price for the others.
• Kerala Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan has announced that Kerala Fibre Optic Network Project (K-FON) project that will provide free internet access to the poor will roll out by December 2020.
• It will be a Rs. 1,500 crore for the project. No state in India has implemented such a scheme.
• The project will be completed by December 2020.
• The project will be of immense benefit for the state as K-FON will bring internet connectivity to hospitals, schools, government officers, and other institutions.
3. Which of the following private company has helped the Government of India to create a National Program for the youth in India?
a. Intel India
b. Facebook
c. Google
d. Twitter
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• Ravi Shankar Prasad launched a National Program for the youth, “Responsible AI for Youth”.
• The aim of this Program is to give the young students of our country a platform and empower them with appropriate new age tech mind-set, relevant AI skill-sets and access to required AI tool-sets to make them digitally ready for the future.
• The Program has been created and launched by the National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT in collaboration with Intel India, with support from Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Human Resource Development. DoSE&L will help reach-out to State Education Departments to nominate teachers as per eligibility criteria.
4. Which is the first Indian state that has declared the internet as a fundamental right to its citizens?
a. Kerala
b. Punjab
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Andhra Pradesh
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• Kerala is the first state that has declared the internet as a fundamental right to its citizens.
• K-FON project was launched with an aim to provide quality internet which will be free of cost for the poor and at an affordable price for the others.
• Kerala Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan has announced that Kerala Fibre Optic Network Project (K-FON) project that will provide free internet access to the poor will roll out by December 2020.
• It will be a Rs. 1,500 crore for the project. No state in India has implemented such a scheme.
• The project will be completed by December 2020.
• The project will be of immense benefit for the state as K-FON will bring internet connectivity to hospitals, schools, government officers, and other institutions.
5. When did India start its domestic flight operations after the Lockdown?
a. 25 May 2020
b. 21 May 2020
c. 22 May 2020
d. 23 May 2020
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Puri announced that India will start domestic flight operations in a "calibrated manner" from May 25.
• Airports across various parts in the country including have started introducing fresh measures to keep travellers protected from the deadly coronavirus.
• Earlier this month, in a communication to airport managers across the country, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had asked all airports to be prepared to handle flight operations.
• Filling up of a detailed questionnaire related to Covid-19, carrying no cabin baggage, using Aarogya Setu app and reaching the airport at least two hours before a flight departure might well be among the requirements for air passengers during the initial phase after the resumption of commercial flights.
• Cabin crew members of Indian airlines will have personal protective equipment (PPE) like face shields, gowns and masks as part of their attire on commercial passenger flights when they resume operations.
• India has been under lockdown since March 25 to curb the spread of coronavirus. All commercial passenger flights have remained suspended for this period.
• However, cargo flights, medical evacuation flights and special flights to repatriate Indian citizens had been operating during this period.
