Daily Current Affairs Quiz: June 20 2024

Solution: Option A.)

Ans (A)
Eminent children’s filmmaker Vinod Ganatra has been conferred with South Africa’s prestigious “Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award” for his contribution to films.
Vinod Ganatra becomes the first Indian to be honored with the Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award.
Vinod Gantra was conferred with the award at the 7th Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival for his outstanding contribution to children’s cinema.
Ganatra has won 36 national and International awards. He is also the recipient of the “DadaSaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award” conferred by the Association of Film and Video Editors.‘

Solution: Option B.)

Ans (B)
The prestigious 18th V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred to the Noted wildlife filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu.
The award was conferred to Subbiah Nallamuthu by the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan at the inaugural ceremony of the 18th Mumbai International Film Festival in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Subbiah Nallamuthu received this award for his outstanding contributions to the field of non-feature and wildlife documentary filmmaking.
The Prestigious V.Shantaram Lifetime Achievement has been instituted in memory of the legendary filmmaker V.Shantaram.
The award, instituted in 1990 by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, is given at the Mumbai International Film Festival.
The first person to receive it was Ezra Mir in 1990.

Solution: Option D.)

Ans (D)
India has refused to endorse the communique issued after the end of the Summit on Peace in Ukraine.
The two day Summit on Peace in Ukraine was hosted by Switzerland at Burgenstock on June 15 and 16.
The summit ended with many countries supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine and calling upon all the parties to find a lasting solution to the conflict.
India was represented at the summit by the Secretary (West) of the Ministry of External Affairs, Pavan Kapoor.
Apart from India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were among the prominent countries that did not sign the final communique.

Solution: Option C.)

Ans (C)
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to invest $105 million (around Rs 871 crore) in the non-convertible debentures of Brookfield’s Bikaner Solar Power project in Rajasthan.
IFC is a company of the World Bank Group which provides finance to the private sector companies.
Brookfield Global Transition Fund (BGTF) is building a 550 MW solar power project in Bikaner in two phases.
The Brookfield commissioned the first phase of the Bikaner solar power project 268 MW in March 2024.
In the second phase, the capacity of the solar power project is 282 MW taking the combined power generation capacity to 550 MW.
The estimated cost of the second phase is estimated to be USD 317 million.

Solution: Option A.)

Ans (A)
The 2nd meeting of the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) was held between the two countries on 17 June 2024 in New Delhi.
The meeting was co-chaired by the National Security Advisor (NSA) of India, Ajit Doval and the United States (U.S) NSA Jake Sullivan.
Jake Sullivan is the first high-ranking official of the American government to visit India after the Narendra Modi government was sworn in for the third consecutive time.
The first iCET meeting was held in Washington, D.C., USA, in January 2023.

Solution: Option B.)

Ans (B)
Indian GM Arjun secured victory in the Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2024 held in Jermuk, Armenia, with a round to spare.
Erigaisi, India’s highest-rated chess player at 20 years old, achieved this feat by defeating Russian GM Volodar Murzin in 63 moves during the penultimate round.
His stellar performance included 4 wins and 4 draws, placing him at a career-high 4th spot in live chess ratings.

Solution: Option C.)

Ans (C)
New Zealand’s Lockie Ferguson became the 1st bowler in Men’s T20 World Cup history to bowl 4 maiden overs against Papua New Guinea in the 2024 T20 tournament.
Ferguson took 3 wickets for no runs in his spell, helping New Zealand restrict PNG to 78 runs; however, New Zealand was eliminated from the tournament after previous losses to Afghanistan and West Indies.
T20 Host: USA and West Indies

Solution: Option A.)

Ans (A)
Tesam Pongte was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 8th Arunachal Pradesh Assembly, announced by Pro-tem Speaker Ninong Ering.
Pongte was elected unopposed from the Changlang North Assembly segment.
BJP’s Kardo Nyigyor was also elected uncontested as the Deputy Speaker.
A special session was summoned by Governor Lt. Gen. K.T. Parnaik, where all 59 newly elected MLAs took the oath.

Solution: Option D.)

Ans (D)
RBI has canceled the license of Purvanchal Co-operative Bank, citing insufficient capital and poor earning prospects.
The Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies, UP, has been directed to wind up the bank and appoint a liquidator.
Depositors are entitled to Rs 5 lakh from the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation, with 99.51% of depositors covered.

Solution: Option B.)

Ans (B)
Dr. Annurag Batra, Chairman of BW Businessworld, has been elected as a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
He is celebrated for establishing exchange4media and pioneering digital platforms that have revolutionized media and television domains in India.
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