Daily Current Affairs Quiz: November 17 2023

Solution: Option A.)

Ans (A)
Airgun Surrender Abhiyan initiative of the Arunachal Pradesh Govt selected as India’s best success story on wildlife conservation to present in UNESCO’s International Conference on Biosphere Reserves, held at Sabah, Malaysia.
Under the scheme, people were invited to voluntarily surrender their Airguns and licensed guns to stop the use of these guns to kill birds and other wild animals.
Various Wildlife Conservation Projects
The government of India has initiated many wildlife conservation projects like Project Snow Leopard, Project Tiger, Indian Rhino Vision 2020, Project Hangul, Crocodile Conservation Initiative, etc.

Solution: Option C.)

Ans (C)
India is in the process of procuring a batch of Igla-S hand-held anti-aircraft missiles from Russia to bolster the combat capability of the Army units deployed in various sensitive forward locations.
India is also looking at production of the Russian missile systems in the country.
The Army, Navy and the Indian Air Force already have Igla man-portable missiles in their inventories.

Solution: Option D.)

Ans (D)
Union S&T Minister Dr Jitendra Singh launched the software application “Dashboard” portal of the Ministry of Science & Technology for real-time, prompt and effective Parliament business.
It will include updation of Parliament Questions, Acts of Parliament and Gazette Notifications of Govt. of India as well as Cabinet Notes.
It will promote transperancy and accountability of the Parliament.

Solution: Option C.)

Ans (C)
Bestu Varas, also known as the Gujarati New Year, is usually celebrated a day after Diwali in the month of Kartik.
This year, Gujaratis around the world celebrated this day with joy on Tuesday, November 14.
This day is observed on Pratipada Tithi of the Kartik month of Hindu calendar.
In May 1, 1960, the state of Gujarat was formed from the north and west portions of Bombay state.

Solution: Option B.)

Ans (B)
On November 15, the State of Jharkhand celebrated its foundation day.
The state was carved out of Bihar in 2000 after the Parliament passed the Bihar Reorganization Act, 2000.
The day coincided with the birth anniversary of tribal leader Birsa Munda also known as Bhagwan Birsa.
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has greeted people of Jharkhand on the foundation day of Jharkhand.

Solution: Option C.)

Ans (C)
Former Indian Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar has joined as an advisor to the Board at the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum.
As the Defence Secretary of India, Kumar was tasked with the overall responsibility of defence between August 2019 and October 2022.
Dr Kumar brings in over three decades of expertise and understanding of nexus between defence and critical and emerging technology.

Solution: Option A.)

Ans (A)
Indian skydiver Sheetal Mahajan has become the first woman to skydive by jumping from a helicopter from a height of 21,500 feet in front of the world’s highest peak Mount Everest.
After which she landed at ‘Kalapathar’ peak at a height of 17,444 feet.
He is a renowned Indian skydiver who holds several skydiving records and was also awarded the fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2001.

Solution: Option D.)

Ans (D)
Former Indian captain Diana Edulji became the first Indian woman cricketer to be inducted by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in its Hall of Fame.
Along with him, former Indian opener Virender Sehwag and Sri Lankan Aravind de Silva have also been included in the Hall of Fame.
Diana played 54 matches for India between 1976 and 1993 and took more than 100 wickets.

Solution: Option A.)

Ans (A)
Subrata Roy, founder and chairman of Sahara Group, died at the age of 75 in a hospital in Mumbai.
Subrata Roy, born in 1948 in Araria, Bihar, started Sahara India Parivar in 1978.

Solution: Option B.)

Ans (B)
Virat Kohli has broken Sachin Tendulkar’s record, scores 50th ODI century in World Cup semifinal.
Virat Kohli smashed his 5th ODI World Cup hundred against New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
He has now surpassed the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, recording his 50th ODI century in his illustrious career.
He has now become the first batsman to score 50 centuries in ODI cricket.
This is also Virat’s maiden century in the ODI World Cup knockouts.
He is now the highest run scorer of this ODI World Cup.