Daily Current Affairs May 13&14

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May 13&14| Daily Current Affairs 2023

Important Days – Daily Current Affairs May 13&14

1. On which date is World Migratory Bird Day observed?
A) April 22
B) May 1
C) May 5
D) May 13
E) May 20
Answer: D) May 13

• World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated twice a year, on the second Saturday in May and October.
• It observed in 2023 are May 13 & 14th October.
• This bi-annual global event aims to raise awareness about the importance of migratory birds and their conservation.
• In 2005, the AEWA Secretariat introduced the Migratory Waterbird Days (MWD) in Africa, Europe, and parts of Asia to address the lack of a similar event for the rest of the world. The MWD was well-received in the African-Eurasian region, prompting the decision to expand it to a global commemorative day celebrating all migratory birds.
• The first WMBD was launched on the weekend of April 8-9, 2006 in Kenya.
• Theme: Water: Sustaining Bird Life

The 7th UN Global Road Safety Week

• Date: 15-21 May
• Theme: sustainable transport
• First: 2007
• Slogan: #RethinkMobility
• The week is organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN regional commissions.
• It focuses on sustainable transport, in particular the need to shift to walking, cycling and using public transport. Road safety is both a prerequisite for and an outcome of this shift.

International Day of Plant Health

• International Day of Plant Health is celebrated globally on May 12.
• Theme: Plant Health for Environmental Protection
• Edition: 2nd
• First: 2022 by the United Nations
• The idea was promoted by Zambia and then adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly.
• International Day of Plant Health helps raise global awareness of this issue so that poverty can be reduced, hunger can end, and economic development can be enganced, while protecting biodiversity as well.

Obituary – Daily Current Affairs May 13&14

2. Who recently passed away, known for being an eminent singer?
A) LataMangeshkar
B) Asha Bhosle
C) K.S. Chithra
D) Shreya Ghoshal
E) KalyaniKazi
Answer: E) KalyaniKazi

• Eminent singer and the youngest daughter-in-law of poet KaziNazrul Islam, KalyaniKazi died after a prolonged illness.
• West Bengal government had conferred on her the SangeetMahasamman award in 2015.
• She was a member of the advisory council of PoschimbongoKaziNazrul Islam Akademi.

Banking and Finance – Daily Current Affairs May 13&14

3. Who is heading the expert panel formed by IRDAI for advice on mental health cover?
A) Ramesh Sinha
B) Pratima Murthy
C) Arjun Kapoor
D) Rajesh Sharma
E) Neeta Verma
Answer: B) Pratima Murthy

• Insurance regulator IRDAI has constituted a five-member expert committee comprising medical experts and insurers for advice on matters related to mental health and insurance.
• With the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) DirectorPratima Murthy as chairperson, the committee will be providing advice and inputs on existing coverage and those to be offered for mental illnesses.
• It will also guide on the terminology and concept from a medical domain perspective, and aspects pertaining to mental illnesses from an insurance perspective.
• The panel, with a two-year tenure, comes in the backdrop of mental health being identified as an important area requiring attention for insurance coverage.

4. Which organization has HDFC Bank signed an MoU with to promote employment of fresh graduates?
A) NASSCOM
B) FICCI
C) ASSOCHAM
D) CII
E) TASK
Answer: E) TASK

• HDFC Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK), a not-for-profit organization under the Department of Information Technology, Electronics & Communication (ITE&C), to promote employment of fresh graduates and post-graduates.
• As per the MoU, HDFC Bank will now have access to a large pool of talent across 700 institutions registered with ‘TASK.’
• The MoU was signed in Hyderabad by Shrikant Sinha, CEO – TASK, and Ranga Subramanian, Head – Talent Acquisition, HDFC Bank, in the presence of officials from the Government of Telangana, TASK, and HDFC Bank.
• Under the partnership, TASK will help HDFC Bank to hire trained students, and it will provide logistical support for placement drives and interviews.

5. What is the name of the meta commerce platform launched by PayNearby?
A) NearbyMart
B) PayMall
C) NearbyShop
D) PayNearby Mall
E) NearbyCommerce
Answer: D) PayNearby Mall

• PayNearby, India’s leading branchless banking and digital network, launched PayNearby Mall—a meta commerce platform to enable easy availability of good and services, in an assisted mode at the last mile.
• This will soon be integrated with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform. With this initiative, PayNearby aims to upgrade every retailer, in its million+ active network, to benefit from the ongoing e-commerce revolution, including the ONDC platform.
• Within hours of the launch, the company shared that more than 6000+ retailers have upgraded themselves into a mall. More than 100+ retailers have ordered over 250+ orders. The most popular categories included mobile phones and accessories, home appliances, groceries and textiles while many searched for two wheelers also.

Appointments – Daily Current Affairs May 13&14

6. Who has been appointed as the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the high-powered selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
A) Praveen Sood
B) Rakesh Asthana
C) AlokVerma
D) Rajiv Jain
E) Sushil Kumar Shinde
Answer: A) Praveen Sood

• The high-powered selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood as Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a period of two years. He will take charge from Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, who completes his tenure on May 25.
• A 1986-batch IPS officer of the state cadre, Sood was appointed Karnataka DGP in January 2020, superseding Ashit Mohan Prasad.
• Sood was decorated with Chief Minister’s Gold Medal for excellence in service in 1996, Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2002 and President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 2011.
• The tenure of the CBI director is limited to a fixed two-year term, which can be extended up to a maximum of five years.

International Affairs – Daily Current Affairs May 13&14

7. Which edition of the India-Indonesia Bilateral exercise held in Batam, Indonesia?
A) 1st edition
B) 2nd edition
C) 3rd edition
D) 4th edition
E) 5th edition
Answer: D) 4th edition

• INS Kavaratti, indigenously designed & built ASW Corvette, arrived at Batam, Indonesia to participate in the 4th edition of India-Indonesia Bilateral exercise Samudra Shakti-23 from 14-19 May 23.
• An Indian Navy Dornier Maritime Patrol aircraft and Chetak helicopter is also participating. The Indonesian Navy will be represented by KRI Sultan Iskandar Muda, CN 235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft and AS565 Panther Helicopter.
• Exercise Samudra Shakti is aimed at enhancing interoperability, jointness and mutual cooperation between both the navies.
• The Harbour phase will comprise Cross deck visits, professional Interactions, Subject Matter Expert Exchanges, and sports fixtures.
• During the Sea Phase, weapon firing, Helicopter Operations, Anti-submarine warfare & air defence exercises and boarding operations are planned.
• Samudra Shakti -23 will showcase the high level of interoperability between the two navies and their shared commitment towards peace and stability in the region.

National Affairs – Daily Current Affairs May 13&14

8. Who approved the 4th Positive Indigenisation List (PIL) of 928 strategically-important sub-systems, spares, and components?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Rajnath Singh
D) Amit Shah
E) S. Jaishankar
Answer: C) Rajnath Singh

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the 4th Positive Indigenisation List (PIL) of 928 strategically-important sub-systems, spares, and components, which will help the government avoid imports worth ₹715 crore.
• In the list, Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), a leading PSU shipyard, has decided to buy a maximum of over 870 items — such as Line Replacement Units (LRUs)/Sub-systems/Spares and Components, including high-end materials and spares — from the domestic players to promote ‘Atmanirbharta’ or self-reliance.
• Similarly, HAL has 25 items, mostly for its HTT-40 trainer aircraft, which will replace the Indian Air Force’s retired HPT-32 Deepak and the remaining are for Sukhois-30MKIs and Jaguars.
• The previous three Positive Indigenisation Lists, published in December 2021, March 2022, and August 2022 respectively, contained 2,500 items for which the country is no longer dependent on foreign manufacturers or suppliers.
• Of another 1,238 items, 310 too have been indigenised and the remaining will happen within the given timelines.
• Over 450 of the items in the fourth list are different kinds of components of “magazine fire-fighting systems”, while 260 are related to gas turbine generators and 147 to shafting. The list also includes several items connected to the HTT-40 trainer aircraft, including main and nose wheel tyres and multi-function displays.

9. Which warship successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic missile?
A) INS Vikrant
B) INS Chakra
C) INS Kolkata
D) INS Viraat
E) INS Mormugao
Answer: E) INS Mormugao

• A BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully tested from the Indian Navy’s frontline guided missile ship INS Mormugao.
• The missile launch displayed the Indian Navy’s might at sea.
• Earlier in March, Indian Navy had successfully test-fired in the Arabian Sea the ship-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic missile.
• BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between India and Russia, manufactures supersonic cruise missiles that can potentially be launched from submarines, ships, aeroplanes, or land platforms.
• The BrahMos missile travels at 2.8 Mach, or nearly three times the speed of sound. The BrahMos missiles are also exported by India.
• In January of last year, India signed a $375 million deal with the Philippines to deliver three missile batteries.
• INS Mormugao is the second ship of the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy, which was built at Mazagon Dock Limited, Goa.

10. In which city did the second meeting of the G20 Culture Working Group Meeting take place?
A) New Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Kolkata
D) Bhubaneswar
E) Chennai
Answer: D) Bhubaneswar

• The second meeting of the G20 Culture Working Group Meeting, which begins in Bhubaneswar, will focus on achieving sustainability through crafts and heritage.
• In keeping with that theme, an exhibition — ‘Sustain: The Craft Idiom’ — will be inaugurated by Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik on Monday at Odisha Crafts Museum.
• The 1st CWG meeting held in February at Khajuraho.
• An exquisite sand art exhibit by Padma Shri SudarsanPattnaik was organized at the Puri beach. Created to celebrate the theme of ‘Culture Unites All’, the sand art installation was inaugurated by the Minister for Culture, Tourism and DoNER, Shri G. Kishan Reddy and Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Culture and Parliamentary Affairs.

11. The government has set up __________ to ensure timely and process-bound deregistering of companies from records and provide more meaningful data to the stakeholders?
A) Centre for Processing Accelerated Corporate Exit (C-PACE)
B) Centre for Providing Accelerated Corporate Exit (C-PACE)
C) Centre for Processing Anxiety Corporate Exit (C-PACE)
D) Centre for Prolixity Accelerated Corporate Exit (C-PACE)
E) Centre for Processing Accumulated Corporate Exit (C-PACE)
Answer: A) Centre for Processing Accelerated Corporate Exit (C-PACE)

• The government has set up the Centre for Processing Accelerated Corporate Exit (C-PACE) to ensure timely and process-bound deregistering of companies from records and provide more meaningful data to the stakeholders.
• The centre has been set up by the corporate affairs ministry.
• The establishment of the C-PACE will help to reduce the stress on the Registry along with keeping the registry clean besides availability of more meaningful data to the stakeholders.
• The C-PACE will also benefit the stakeholders by providing hassle-free filing, timely and process-bound striking off their company’s names from the register.
• The centre is situated at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) in Manesar, Haryana.

12. What is the purpose of the ‘Him Data Portal’ launched by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu?
A) Promote tourism in Himachal Pradesh
B) Facilitate agricultural development in the state
C) Enhance healthcare services for the residents
D) Improve the delivery of welfare schemes
E) Strengthen the education system in the state
Answer: D) Improve the delivery of welfare schemes

• Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu launched ‘Him Data Portal’ — a digital platform to integrate data of all government wings for the delivery of welfare schemes — developed by the Indian School of Business (ISB).
• The portal was launched at the ISB in Punjab’s Mohali during the first Governance Summit organised by the Bharti Institute of Public Policy of the ISB.
• The Summit on ‘governance and technology’ saw a multitude of stakeholders including policymakers, senior functionaries of the State governments of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Central government agencies, think tanks, NGOs, and academicians from various research education institutions come together to deliberate upon governance.
• The portal that was developed in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology, Government of Himachal Pradesh, aims to serve as a one-stop platform to provide easy access to more than 200 datasets with all State-specific information available at the highest spatial granularity including block and village-level information.

13. Who launched the 3rd Semicon India future design roadshow at IIT Delhi?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Rajnath Singh
D) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
E) Ravi Shankar Prasad
Answer: D) Rajeev Chandrasekhar

• Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar launched the third Semicon India future design roadshow at IIT Delhi.
• During the roadshow, global semiconductor leaders will exchange their visions to catalyse the semiconductor ecosystem in India.
• The third Semicon India future design roadshow is part of a series of roadshows organised by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology across the country.
• The aim of these shows is to promote semiconductor designers and develop a culture of
• co-development and joint ownership of intellectual property with active industry participation.
• The MeitY has set up ChipIN Centre at C-DAC Bangalore to dedicate its services to semiconductor design community of the country. The facility acts as one-stop centre to provide semiconductor design tools, fab access, virtual prototyping hardware lab access to fabless chip designers from Startups and Academia. The MoU s exchanged between C-DAC Bangalore and Ansys to nurture chip design using Ansys EDA tools hosted at ChipIN Centre.
• Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, introduced an NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) chipset specifically for the Indian market. The new chipset also can be used in asset tracking, lighting, security and numerous other applications.
• During the 3rd Roadshow, announcement on following future DESIGN Start-ups (viz. Morphing Machines and Netrasemi) approved under the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme was made with a believe that the next unicorn will be from fabless chip design area – Morphing machines is focusing on a dynamic runtime reconfigurable RISC-V many cores accelerator, with near ASIC performance across diverse domains & heterogeneous applications, all on the same homogeneous fabric.
• Netrasemi is providing edge AI chipsets, platforms enabling smart vision and domain specific SoC solutions with advanced AI/ML and hardware acceleration capabilities.

14. What is the objective of the automated scrutiny of GST returns rolled out by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs?
A) Simplify the GST return filing process
B) Reduce tax rates for businesses
C) Enhance tax compliance
D) Increase tax exemptions for taxpayers
E) Streamline customs duties and procedures
Answer: C) Enhance tax compliance

• The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has rolled out automated scrutiny of GST returns aimed at improving tax compliance and to boost revenue collections.
• The move comes after Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman directed the board to roll out the non-intrusive compliance verification system for GST returns.
• The module enables officers to scrutinize GST returns of Centre Administered Taxpayers, selected on the basis of data analytics and risk identification by the system.
• Discrepancies associated with returns risk are displayed to the tax officers.
• The module offers tax officers a workflow to interact with taxpayers via the GSTN Common Portal to communicate discrepancies identified under FORM ASMT-10, receipt of taxpayer’s response in FORM ASMT-11 and subsequent action, such as issuing an order of acceptance of reply in FORM ASMT-12 or a show cause notice, or initiating an audit/investigation.

15. Which ministry secured the second position in the Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI) assessment for 2022-2023 (Q3)?
A) Ministry of Finance
B) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
C) Ministry of Education
D) Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
E) Ministry of External Affairs
Answer: D) Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways

• The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) has secured the second position among 66 ministries in the highly influential Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI) assessment for 2022-2023 (Q3).
• The Ministry has achieved a score of 4.7 out of 5, further highlighting the Ministry’s commitment to excellence in data governance.
• Conducted by the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog
• The DGQI survey aims to measure the maturity level of administrative data systems and their use in the decision-making of various Ministries and Departments on the implementation of Central Sector Schemes (CS) and Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS).
• The DGQI assessment encompasses six pivotal themes, including Data Generation, Data Quality, Use of Technology, Data Analysis, Use and Dissemination, Data Security and HR Capacity, and Case Studies.

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