Weekly CA Quiz: March 2019 3rd week with PDF

Explanation: World Sleep Day is observed on March 15.The theme is “Healthy Sleep,Healthy Ageing”.

Explanation: Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win their maiden Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy at the Holkar Stadium in Indore.

Explanation: In Athletics, Kamalpreet kaur grabbed the spotlight by winning a gold medal in he women’s discus throw event.

Explanation: india will host the U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020, International Football Federation President Gianni Infantino said.

Explanation: Aviva Life Insurance has announced the launch of “Wings”, a specially designed mentorship program to empower the female workforce.

Explanation: Bandhan bank said it has received no objection from the RBI for the proposed acquisition of Gruh Finance.

Explanation: The 4th session of the UN Environment Assembly took place in Nairobi,Kenya, as agreed during UNEA-3 in December 2017.

Explanation: Geographical Indication(GI) tags have been granted to Coorg Arabica Coffee,Wayaanad Robusta Coffee,Chikmagalur Arabica Coffee,Araku Valley Arabica Coffee and Bababudangiris Arabica Coffee,by GI Registry.

Explanation: The Election Commission launched a mobile application that will help poll observers to submit reports timely. Over 1800 IAS, IPS and IRS officials, officials of Central services will be deployed as observers in the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2019 and State Assembly elections.

Explanation: The two day national convention of war Decorated India began at the Manekshaw Auditorium in Chandimandir, the HQ of the Western Command in Chandigarh.

Explanation: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar passed away in after a prolonged illness. He was 63. He was diagnosed with a pancreatic ailment in February last year.

Explanation: The first BRICS Sherpa meeting under the Presidency of Brazil concluded at Curitiba in Brazil.

Explanation: Cyclone Idai, which is carrying heavy rains and winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph), made landfall at the port city of Beira.

Explanation: Indian captain Virat Kohli and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah have retained their respective number one positions in the ICC ODI Player rankings.

Explanation: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented the BusinessLine Changemaker of the Year Award to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over successful implementation of the GST. Jaitley received the award on behalf of the GST Council.

Explanation: Swati Shingade of Pune, Maharashtra has bagged the first prize of DD Mahila Kisan award for 2018-19.

Explanation: The Global Recycling Foundation has announced the second annual Global recycling Day will feature a “recycling into the Future” theme.

Explanation: Veteran Bengali actor Chinmoy Roy has passed away. He was 79.

Explanation: Indian fashion designer Ritu Beri has been appointed as the Cultural and Tourism Ambassador of Uzbekistan in India by the Ministry of Tourism of Uzbekistan.

Explanation: Former Supreme Court judge, Pianki Chandra Ghose,is all set to become the first Lokpal of India.

Explanation: Goa assembly Speaker Pramod Pandurang Sawant was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of a BJP-led coalition government by Governor Mridula Sinha.

Explanation: Mercedes team F1 driver Valtteri Bottas won his first champion in the Australian Grand Prix held in Melbourne. It was the fourth time in as many years that Hamilton has taken pole position in Australia only to finish second.

Explanation: Diksha wrote her own piece of history by becoming the youngest Indian women to win on the Ladies European Tour in Cape Town, South Africa.

Explanation: In a bid to curb fake news during the general elections, Whatsapp and NASSCOM Foundation came together to impart digital literacy training.

Explanation: Highlighting the close maritime proximity between India and Indonesia,Indian Coast Guard Ship “Vijit” became the first ever Coast guard ship to visit Sabang,Indonesia.

Explanation: ICICI Lombard and MObikwik announced a strategic partnership to provide cyber insurance cover. The relationship aims to provide protection against unauthorised and fraudulent transactions online, across bank accounts, debit & credit cards and mobile wallets.

Explanation: Noted Hindi writer Leelaadhar Jagudi will be conferred with the Vyas Samman 2018 for his collection of poems “Jitne Log Utne Prem”.

Explanation: C Prem Kumar, 96, with Vijay Sethupathi and Trisha, has clinched this year’s Gollapudi Srinivas Award. The prize money of Rs 1.5 lakhs will be handed over to the first-time director on August 12. The award, which was first announced in 1997, went to Leslie Carvalho’s debut work.

Explanation: Former Speaker of Goa legislative assembly and BJP MLA Pramod Sawant was sworn as the 11th CM of Goa. Vijai Sardesai from the Goa Forward Party and Sudin Dhavalikar from Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, both alliance partners, have been inducted as Deputy Chief Ministers.

Explanation: Indian youth team finish 2nd in the overall medals tally with a total of 26 medals including 8 gold, nine silver and nine bronze medals. China topped the overall medals tally with 31 medals that included 12 gold, 11 silver and eight bronze medals.
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Explanation: Bengaluru FC scored in the 27th minute of extra time to beat FC Goa in the final of the Indian Super League to secure their maiden ISL title.

Explanation: Paris,Singapore and Hong Kong are the world’s most expensive cities, a new survey has found. Caracas, the capital of crisis-hit Venezuela, is rated as the cheapest city in the world , with prices only slightly higher in the Syrian city of Damascus.

Explanation: Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lamba will preside over the debrief of the recently-commenced annual Theatre Level Readiness and Operational Exercise at Kochi, besides holding deliberations on the road map for future operations.

Explanation: The Ministry of HRD signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Higher Education, Afghanistan to work on Digital education Initiatives that will include many programs developed by Indian Institutes of Technology.

Explanation: Maldives finance ministry has signed an agreement with India’s EXIM Bank for line of credit (LOC) of 800 million US dollars to finance the new government’s infrastructure projects

Explanation: The inaugural Africa India Field Training Exercise 2019 for India and African nations called AFINDEX-19 started with a grand opening ceremony at Pune.

Explanation: The International Day of Happiness is celebrated on March 20 every year since 2013.The theme is “Happier Together”

Explanation: Every year March 20 is observed as World Sparrow Day to raise awareness about the bird. The theme is “I love Sparrows”.

Explanation: The 1971 India-Pakistan war hero, Captain M.N. Samant of the Indian Navy, who helped set up the foundation of the Bangladesh Navy, passed away in Mumbai following cardiac arrest. He breathed his last at the Bharatiya Arogya Nidhi Hospital in Juhu.

Explanation: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters named US mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck as the winner of the 2019 Abel Prize.

Explanation: Journalist and writer Raghu Karnad won the $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize in the non-fiction category for his debut book, The Farthest Field: An Indian Story Of The Second World War.

Explanation: The Election Commission of India has appointed transgender social activist Gauri Sawant, as one of the 12 election ambassadors from Maharashtra.

Explanation: Google has unveiled its Cloud Gaming Service called Stadia at the Game Developers Conference in san Francisco.

Explanation: Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned from his position after nearly 30 years in power. Nazarbayev, 78, who has led Kazakhstan since its independence from the Soviet Union, announced his resignation.

Explanation: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy bOard of India(IBBI) signed a memorandum of understanding with the SEBI with for effective implementation of the new bankruptcy law.

Explanation: Integral Coach Factory(ICF),the rail coach manufacturing factory at Chennai, which became famous for manufacturing Train 18, has become the single largest rail coach manufacturer in the world surpassing top Chinese manufacturers.

Explanation: The Centre has given its consent for changing the name of a village in Nagaland, , taking to nearly two dozens the number of name-change proposals, including those of towns and railway stations, to be cleared in the past one year.

Explanation: The Indian Department of Post released a “special stamp cover on Ice Stupa”. The stamp was released by Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Postmaster General during a function organised at the Ice Stupa site at Gangles Village in Leh.. A number of officers and dignitaries from Army and civil administration were present on the occasion.

Explanation: Defence Ministry cleared a major project for the Indian Army for the acquisition of 10 lakh “Made in India” multi mode hand grenades.

Explanation: The International day of Forest is observed on March 21.The theme is “Forest and Education”.

Explanation: The International Day for the elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on March 21.The theme is “Mitigating and Countering of rising nationalist populism and extreme supremacist ideologies”.

Explanation: Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Satya Brata Sinha passed away following age related ailments. Justice Sinha, 75, was appointed as a judge of the apex court in 2002 and he retired in 2009.

Explanation: Sociologist and political psychoanalyst Ashis Nandy was named the recipient of Hans Kilian award for the year 2019. He was chosen for his efforts to adapt western traditions of thought such as psychoanalysis to non-western context.

Explanation: Brazilian physicist and astronomer Marceo Gleiser has been awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize, , worth $1.4m, for his work blending science and spirituality. Gleiser is the first Latin American to win the award, which honours “a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension”.

Explanation: Election Commission has appointed two eminent former Civil Servants Shailendra Handa and Ms. Madhu Mahajan s Special Expenditure Observers for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections.

Explanation: Sudin Dhavalikar and Vijai Sardesai were appointed deputy chief ministers in the BJP led government in Goa.

Explanation: SBI has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bank of China third-largest bank in the world by capital size and one of the major players in the Chinese banking sector, to enhance business synergies between both the banks.

Explanation: World Water Day is observed on March 22.The theme is ‘Leaving no one behind”.

Explanation: Acclaimed actor of yesteryears LV Sharada who played an iconic role in the award-winning movie Phaniyamma passed away in Bengaluru.

Explanation: Chennai City FC was officially crowned the I-League champion in front of representatives of other clubs and bigwigs of All India Football Federation(AIFF) at a function in Chennai.

Explanation: The torch design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games was unveiled exactly a year before the flame is due to arrive in Japan from Greece.

Explanation: In football, India has clinched the SAFF Women’s Championship for the 5th time in a row, defeating hosts Nepal 3-1 in the final at Biratnagar. In the first half, Dalmia Chhibber of India scored the first goal of the match which was equalled by Nepal’s Sabitra Bhandari.

Explanation: Global rating agency Fitch has cut its India’s economic growth forecast to 6.8 percent for 2019-20 from the earlier estimate of 7 per cent due to weak momentum in manufacturing and agriculture. However, it said India economic growth forecast is expected to be 7.1 percent in 2020-21.

Explanation: The 33rd edition of India,Indonesia Coordinated Patrol(CORPAT) commenced at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Explanation: Indians are not as happy in 2019 as they were in 2018 and the country figures at 140th place, seven spots down from last year, on UN World Happiness Report 2019.The list is topped by Finland. The report was released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations.

Explanation: The Bank of Baroda may get Rs 5000 cr capital infusion from the Finance Ministry ahead of its united operations as a merged entity along with the Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank from April1.In February, the government approved Rs 48,239-crore recap bonds in 12 PSBs.

Explanation: Renowned Indian artist Haku Shah, best known for his themes of tribal and folk art, passed away following a cardiac arrest at his home in Ahmedabad. He was 85.

Explanation: Asian Development Bank said it has inked an agreement to invest USD 50 million in solar energy project developer Avaada Energy Pvt lTd to help the company scale up rapidly.

Explanation: The campus building for Siddheshwar Education Public Campus in Bamti Bhamdar of Ramechhap district was inaugurated in a public function organised jointly by the District Coordination Committee and Campus Management Committee.

Explanation: “The Great Disappointement:How Narendra Modi Squandered a Unique Opportunity to transform the Indian Economy”attempts to answer the overarching question of whether or not the Modi government transformed India’s economy and what the next government’s agenda should look like.

Explanation: Spice Jet has joined global airlines grouping IATA as a member,becoming the first Indian low cost carrier to get the membership.

Explanation: PhonePe, India’s fastest growing payments platform announced appointed of Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan as its brand ambassador.

Explanation: Vice Admiral Karambir Singh will be next chief of Naval Staff. He will be appointed after Admiral Sunil Lamba, who retires in May this year, vacates office. He is serving as the Flag Officer Commanding in Chief of the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.

Explanation: Karnataka Minister for Municipal Administation CS Shivalli suffered a massive heart attack and passed away in Hubballi. He was 58. Channabasappa Satyappa Shivalli was a three-time MLA from Kundagol constituency in Dharwad district. He won his first election as an independent candidate in 1999.

Explanation: World TB Day, which is observed on 24 March every year, is designed to raise public awareness regarding the epidemic of TB (tuberculosis) and efforts of eliminating the disease.The theme is “It’s Time’.