10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : June 19, 2018

Statement 1 is Correct – The Union Cabinet approved creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) .The National Testing Agency, which is being set up to relieve the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) of the burden of conducting multiple examinations.

Among the examinations that will be transferred to the NTA are the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to engineering colleges like the IITs and NITs and the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to all medical colleges in the country, except AIIMS and JIPMER, Puducherry.

Eventually, the new body will take over all examinations from the CBSE, except the 10th and 12th board examinations.

Statement 2 is Correct – National Testing Agency is  an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions.

Statement 1 is Incorrect – The National Informatics Centre (NIC) (Rashtriya Suchna Vigyan Kendra) is the premier science & technology organisation of Government of India in informatics services and information and communication technology.

Statement 2 is Correct- It plays a pivotal role in steering e-governance applications in the governmental departments at national, state and district levels, enabling the improvement in, and a wider transparency of, government services. Almost all Indian-government websites are developed and managed by NIC.

Statement 1 is Correct – The Goods and Service Tax Network (or GSTN) is a non-profit, non-government organization. It will manage the entire IT system of the GST portal, which is the mother database for everything GST. This portal will be used by the government to track every financial transaction, and will provide taxpayers with all services – from registration to filing taxes and maintaining all tax details.

Statement 2 is Correct – In GSTN, the Centre and State Governments hold 24.5 per cent stake each in GSTN; non-governmental institutions hold the other 51 per cent.

Statement 1 is correct: It was set up in February 2016 as an autonomous body.

Statement 2 is correct: It was set up based on the recommendations of the RBI-appointed Nayak Committee.

Statement 3 is correct: It was the part of Indradhanush Plan of government. Its broad agenda was to improve governance at state-owned lenders. Its mandate also involved advising the government on top-level bank appointments and assisting banks with capital-raising plans as well as strategies to deal with bad loans

The assumption island is a small island in the outer island of Seychelles north of Madagascar.

Africa is the only geographical area where the number of HIV infection in more in women than men. Statement 1 is correct

The prevalence of HIV infections is not uniform across Africa. The report finds that HIV prevalence among African women is higher in countries that follows customary law than those follow modern civil law. Statement 2 is correct

Reason for increasing HIV in common law:

• The common law does not provide property rights to African women after marriage.
• The common law has undermines the bargaining power of women within their families.
• The bargaining power in turn has increases the chances of them being forced to engage in unprotected sex with their husbands.