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The correct answer is Om Birla.

Key Points

• OM Birla has been unanimously elected Speaker of the 17^th Lok Sabha.
• OM Birla is also a second term BJP MP from Kota, Rajasthan.
• The Opposition did not field any candidate for the Speaker's post and the motion moved by Prime Minister Modi to choose the Kota-Bundi MP as Speaker was adopted by a voice vote.
• A total of 13 motions were moved in support of Om Birla as the Speaker.
• Birla was declared elected as a speaker by pro-tem Speaker Virendra Kumar.
• The Speaker can be removed from office only on a resolution of the Lok Sabha passed by the a majority. It is also mandatory to give a minimum of 14 days' notice of the intention to move the resolution.
• The Speaker may at any time by order in writing delegate to the Deputy Speaker. The vote of Speaker is called “Casting Vote”.
• The first speaker of Lok Sabha was Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar.
• The first female speaker of Lok Sabha is Meira Kumar.

The correct option is Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman.

• Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is the current union minister of Finance.

Key Points

• Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
• She currently serves as the Finance Minister of India. She is also head of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• Sitharaman was the Defence Minister in Modi's previous cabinet.
• She was appointed Defence minister post the cabinet reshuffle of the Modi government on September 3, 2017.
• Prior to this Sitharaman has served as a Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs under the Ministry of Finance and the Minister for Commerce and Industry with independent charge.

The correct answer is Dronacharya Award.

Key Points

• Dronacharya award:
• This award is given to those coaches who have successfully trained sportspersons or teams and enable them to achieve outstanding results in international competitions.
• This eminent award was started in the year 1985.
• It is given to coaches for their hard work to produce top-level sportspersons.
• This award is named after the legendary guru or teacher ‘Dronacharaya’.
• In this award, the coach is given 15 lakh rupees cash, the scroll of honour, and a statue of guru Dronacharaya.

The correct answer is Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.

Key Points

• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme:
• It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2015 at Panipat, Haryana as a comprehensive programme to address the declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR) and related issues of Women Empowerment.
• The aim of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme is to improve the woman status in the country by promoting women empowerment.
• It is a joint initiative of the following three Ministries:
• Ministry of Women and Child Development
• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
• Ministry of Human Resource Development
• Objectives of the Scheme:
• To stop the discrimination of the girl child and practice of sex determination test.
• Ensure survival & protection of the girl child.
• To ensure the participation of girls in education and other areas.
• Prevent gender-biased sex selective elimination.

The correct answer is Uttar Pradesh.

Key Points

• Uttar Pradesh is the leading producer of sugar in India among the given options.
• Deoria, Gorakhpur, Basti, Gonda, Meerut, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, and Muzaffarnagar are the major centres of the sugar industry in Uttar Pradesh.
• India is the 2^nd largest sugar-producing country in the World.
• In the year 1903, there was an advent of the modern sugar processing industry in India and set up the first sugar mill (United Province Sugar Company) at Pratappur (Deoria district) in Uttar Pradesh which was started with a grant of tariff protection to the sugar.
• It is the largest agro-based industry in India.
• The sugar industry plays a vital role in the rural economy.
• Uttar Pradesh has first place in the country in sugar production.
• The western part of the state has a greater number of mills.
• The Muzaffarnagar district has the highest number of sugar mills in the state.

The correct answer is Helicopter.

Key Points

• In February 2010, the UPA government signed a contract to purchase 12 AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters for Indian Air Force for Rs 3,600-crore
• This was bought to carry the president, PM, and other VVIPs.
• In February 2013, the government decided to put on hold the deal following the arrest of the chairman of Finmeccanica Giuseppe Orsi and CEO of Agusta Westland Bruno Spagnolini on charges that they bribed middlemen to secure the deal with IAF.
• In 2014, the Congress-led UPA government canceled the VVIP chopper deal with Agusta Westland on grounds that the integrity pact was violated.
• The government has recovered most of the money paid to the Italian company for the contract.
• This case put the officials to question.

The correct answer Andhra Pradesh.

Key Points

• Shri Harikota is situated in Andhra Pradesh.
• Satish Dhawan Space Centre is located at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
• Satish Dhawan Space Centre is an agency responsible for providing launch base infrastructure for the Indian space programme.
• It was established in 1971.
• It has two launch pads from where the rocket launching operations of PSLV and GSLV are carried out.
• It was formerly known as Sriharikota Range.
• Primer Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee renamed the centre as Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 5^th September 2002.
• Sriharikota Range was renamed after former ISRO chairman Satish Dhawan.

The correct answer is Wuhan.

Key Points

• The first known infections from SARS-CoV-2 or Novel Corona Virus was found in Wuhan, China.
• The original source of viral transmission to humans remains unclear, as does whether the virus became pathogenic before or after the spillover event.
• The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

Additional Information

• Coronavirus disease
• Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), also known as the coronavirus or COVID.
• It is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
• The disease has since spread worldwide, leading to an ongoing pandemic.
• Transmission of COVID-19 occurs mainly when an infected person is in close contact with another person.
• Small droplets containing the virus can spread from an infected person's nose and mouth as they breathe, cough, sneeze, sing, or speak.
• Other people are infected if the virus gets into their mouth, nose or eyes.
• Airborne transmission is also sometimes possible, as smaller infected droplets and particles can linger in the air for minutes to hours within enclosed spaces that have inadequate ventilation.

The correct answer is 3.

Key Points

• The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India.
• Membership is limited to 250 members, and the present Rajya Sabha has 245 members.
• Himachal Pradesh elects 3 members for the term of 6 years and indirectly elected by the state legislators, since the year 1956.

The correct answer is South America.

Key Points

• Amazon rainforest is in South America.
• Amazon rainforest is the world's largest rain forest and are contained within Brazil (60%), Peru(13%), Colombia (10%), and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
• It is home to 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.
• It contributes to almost 20% of the earth’s oxygen.
• In August 2019 there was a record number of fires due to the increasing deforestation. There have been around 72,843 fires in Brazil in 2019, with more than half in the Amazon rainforest.
• Bolivia ordered the world's largest air tanker Boeing 747 ‘Supertanker’ to put out the Amazon rainforest fire in 2019.