Daily Current Affairs Quiz: March 6 2024

Ans (D)
Border Security Force (BSF) sub-inspector Suman Kumari has become the first woman sniper of the Border Security Force.
Suman recently completed an eight-week sniper course at the Central School of Weapons and Tactics (CSWT), Indore, and achieved an ‘Instructor Grade’.
Suman is a resident of the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
She joined BSF in the year 2021.
BSF is the only CAPF (Central Armed Police Forces) to have a Full-fledged Water Wing, Air Wing, and even an Artillery Regiment of its own.
It comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
It is one of the five Central Armed Police Forces of India.
BSF has been termed as the First Line of Defence of Indian Territories.
It is headquartered in New Delhi.

Ans (A)
The Zoological Survey of India has named a new marine species of ruby red-spotted head-shield sea slug after Indian President Draupadi Murmu.
This species belonging to the Melanochlamys genus was discovered from Digha on the West Bengal coast and Udaipur on the Odisha coast.
The new species of head-shield sea slug, which is found nowhere else in the world, has been named ‘Melanochlamys Draupadi’.

Ans (E)
Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal recently inaugurated a 60T Bollard Pull Tug and Medical Mobile Unit (MMU) named ‘Ocean Grace’.
Ocean Grace is a made-in-India ASTDS tug built by Cochin Shipyard Limited.
It has been developed under the Green Tug Transition Program (GTTP).
The goal of the Green Tug Transition Programme (GTTP) is to convert at least 50% of all tugs into Green Tugs by 2030 and to have Green Tugs operating at all major ports.

Ans (B)
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya launched the AYUSH-ICMR Advanced Center for Integrated Health Research at AIIMS in New Delhi.
It aims to provide holistic health care to patients by using both traditional Indian knowledge and modern medicine together.
These centers will be set up at various AIIMS locations such as AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS Jodhpur, AIIMS Nagpur, and AIIMS Rishikesh.
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination, and promotion of biomedical research.
In 1911, the Government of India set up the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) with the specific objective of sponsoring and coordinating medical research in the country.
It was redesignated as the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 1949 and considerably expanded its scope of functions.

Ans (C)
Exercise ‘Samudra Laksamana’ was recently conducted between the Indian and Malaysian navies off the coast of Visakhapatnam.
It is a joint naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Navy.
This was the third edition of this exercise.
The exercise aims to strengthen bonds and enhance interoperability between the Indian and Royal Malaysian Navy.

Ans (A)
The Global Resources Outlook 2024 report was launched during the Sixth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) at the UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
This is the flagship report of the International Resources Panel of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
UNEP is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations.
United Nations Environment Assembly is the governing body of the UN Environment Programme.
It is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment.
The Assembly is made up of the 193 UN Member States and convenes every two years to advance global environmental governance.
It was created in June 2012, during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also referred to as RIO+20.

Ans (C)
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh launched the “ADITI scheme” to promote innovations in critical and strategic defense technologies during DefConnect 2024 in New Delhi.
Under the scheme, start-ups will be eligible to receive grant assistance of up to Rs 25 crore for their research, development, and innovation efforts in defense technology.
Rs 750 crore has been allocated under this scheme for the period 2023-24 to 2025-26.

Ans (A)
Manipur passed a resolution urging the central government to implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state.
The assembly had in 2022 adopted a resolution to implement NRC in the state.
Speaker Th Satyabrata reaffirms the previous resolution.
CM N Biren Singh launched the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) in the assembly, transforming it into a digital and paperless house.
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is the register containing the names of Indian CITIZENS.
The only time that a National Register of Citizens (NRC) was prepared was in 1951 when after the conduct of the Census of 1951, the NRC was prepared by recording particulars of all the persons enumerated during that Census.

Ans (D)
The RBI has approved the appointment of S Ravindran as the part-time chairman of Tuticorin-based Tamilnad Mercantile Bank.
He has extensive work experience 29 years at the Securities and Exchange Board of India, where he served as the executive director.
The approval is subject to Ravindran, stepping down from his directorships in Shriram Finance and Bandhan AMC, before assuming charge

Ans (B)
21-ft Maharana Pratap Statue unveiled In Hyderabad, Telangana
A 21-feet statue of Rajput king Maharana Pratap was installed and unveiled at the ‘Maharana Pratap Chowk’ at Begum Bazaar
The statue was installed by the Maharana Pratap Jagruti Manch, which claims that it is also the first of its kind in all of South India.
The man behind this initiative and execution is Thakur Surender Singh, a youth leader from the Rajput community.