Daily Current Affairs Quiz: May 6, 2023

Solution: option c.)
Uttam Singh of Karampur, Ghazipur will lead the Indian squad in the Men’s Hockey Junior Asia Cup to be held in Salalah, Oman from May 23 to June 1.
The squad will also have three other players from UP, including defender Amir Ali and Shardanand Tiwari from Lucknow and midfielder Vishnukant from Ghazipur.

Uttar Pradesh CM: Yogi Adityanth
Uttar Pradesh Governor: Anandiben Patel
Uttar Pradesh Capital: Lucknow

Solution: option a.)

Belgium’s Luca Brecel has become the first European player to win the 2023 World Snooker Championship.
This was his first world title. He defeated Mark Selby of England with an 18-15 win.
The tournament was held from 15 April to 1 May 2023 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Solution: option c)

Former 100m world champion sprinter from the United States of America, Tori Bowie passed away at 32 in Orlando, Florida.
She was crowned world champion in 2017 and won three Olympic medals at the Rio Games in 2016.
She won the Olympic Gold with the USA relay team at the Rio Olympics in 2016. She was born and raised in Mississippi.

Solution: option b)

India and Israel will enhance their partnership in areas like innovation and StartUps and usher in a new phase of deeper bilateral collaboration.
India and Israel signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Industrial Research and Development Cooperation with focus on several key technology areas, like Aerospace, Electronics Instrumentation, Civil, Infrastructure & Engineering, Ecology, Environment, Earth & Ocean Sciences and Water, Mining, Minerals, Metals & Materials, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Energy (Conventional & Non-Conventional) and Energy Devices, Agri, Nutrition & Biotech and Healthcare.
The Multi-Sectoral Agreement was signed between CSIR and the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), Ministry of Defense of the State of Israel, in the August Presence of Union Minister for Science & Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh at the CSIR-Science Centre.

Israel Capital: Jerusalem
Israel Currency: Shekel
Israel PM: Benjamin Netanyahu

Solution: option b)

Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal reviewed the progress of India’s first International Multi-Modal Logistics park in Jogighopa, Assam.
The park is likely to be completed within this year. About India’s First International Multimodal Logistics Park, The park is being developed under the ambitious Bharatmala Pariyojana.

Assam Cm: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Assam Capital: Guwahati
Assam Governor: Gulab Chand Kataria

Solution: option b)

Dvara SmartGold has partnered strategically with Jana Small Finance Bank (SFB) to offer gold loans. Initially, this offering is available across Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
Under this partnership, Dvara SmartGold, which is a fintech and a portfolio company of Dvara Holdings (formerly Dvara Trust), will provide gold loans to its customers with Jana Small Finance Bank (SFB) as the lending provider.
Customers of Dvara SmartGold can use the platform to apply for gold loans and receive funds directly in their bank accounts, per a joint statement by the two partners.

Solution: option d)

Get Vantage, an alternative financing fintech platform, said it had secured a non-banking financial company (NBFC) licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and its NBFC arm Get Growth Capital would run the lending operations.
Get Vantage, which is backed by investors including Chiratae Ventures, Varanium, InCred, DMI, and Japanese investors like Sony and DI, will capitalise the NBFC with ₹50 crores and aims to raise ₹200 crores in total to scale up its lending operations.

Solution: option b)

Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur launched the Logo, jersey, mascot, torch and anthem of the Khelo India University Games 2022 (KIUG 2022) in Lucknow on 5th May.
The 3rd edition of the Khelo India University Games will take place from May 23 to June 3. The opening ceremony is scheduled on May 25 at the Babu Banarasi Das University in Lucknow.

Solution: option b)

To position Ayodhya as a global tourism hotspot, the Uttar Pradesh government is planning to develop a theme park ‘Ramaland’ modelled on Disneyland to narrate the story of Lord Ram.
With Ramaland, the tourism department is looking to attract children and adults alike to showcase the legendary tales from Ramayan in the template of ‘learning with entertainment’.

Besides, the River Saryu cruise is in the works and will be launched in the coming months.
Uttar Pradesh CM: Yogi Adityanth
Uttar Pradesh Governor: Anandiben Patel
Uttar Pradesh Capital: Lucknow

Solution: option b)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend this year’s Bastille Day Parade in Paris (France) as the guest of honour on July 14, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Friday.
An Indian armed forces contingent will also participate in the parade along with their French counterparts, the MEA said in a statement.
The Bastille Day military parade, also known as the 14 July military parade, a translation of the French name of Défilé militaire du 14 juillet, is a French military parade that has been held on the morning of 14 July each year in Paris since 1880, almost without exception

France Capital: Paris
France Currency: Euro
France President: Emmanuel Macron

Solution: option d)
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming the fastest cricketer to score 5000 ODI runs. The 28-year-old reached the landmark in his 97th ODI innings on Friday, 5th May, while playing against New Zealand.
He slammed 107 and with the knock broke the record of Hashim Amla, who took 101 innings to reach the figures.
He also achieved another feat in the course of the knock by becoming the quickest to score 18 ODI tons in the history of ODI cricket.

Solution: option c)

Katherine Sciver-Brunt retired from international cricket on May 5 after a superb 19-year career in which she took more wickets than any other woman for England.
Sciver-Brunt, who made her international debut in 2004, amassed 335 wickets in 267 appearances for England.

Solution: option c)

HDFC Bank on Thursday launched its retail banking programme ‘Vishesh’ for customers in semi-urban and rural geographies wherein it plans to onboard around 1 lakh new customers.
As a part of this, the bank plans to add more branches and launch customised, tailor-made products and financial solutions for this market segment.
HDFC Bank will look to add 675 branches in semi-urban and rural geographies in FY24 to take the total number to nearly 5,000. As of March 31, 52 per cent of the bank’s 7,821 branches are in rural and semi-urban locations.

HDFC MD: Sashidhar Jagdishan
HDFC HQ: Mumbai

Solution: option b)

PhonePe has gone live with the UPI LITE feature on its app. The feature allows users to initiate low-value payments under ₹200, with a tap from their UPI LITE account without entering a PIN.
faster transaction
The transaction is processed directly by debiting the on-device UPI LITE balance without involving the customers’ banks’ (remitter bank) core banking systems in real time. This is expected to make UPI transactions faster and also increase the success probability of the transaction.
PhonePe MD: Sameer Nigam
PhonePe (H.Q): Bengaluru