Daily Current Affairs Today MCQ Hindi : 16 March 2023 Quiz

The Vande Bharat Express is now being driven by Surekha Yadav, the first female locomotive pilot in Asia.

From Solapur to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminal (CSMT) in Maharashtra, Yadav ran the Vande Bharat Express.

Surekha Yadav, a native of Satara, Maharashtra, became the nation’s first female train driver in 1988.

The Central Railway previously ran the famous Mumbai-Pune Deccan Queen Express and CSMT-Kalyan ladies’ special local train with all-female crews in honour of International Women’s Day (8 March).

Yadav was the Deccan Queen’s operator that day, while Sayali Sawardekar was his assistant loco pilot.

Mumtaz Kazi, the first suburban motor lady in Asia, was in charge of the K99 local, a ladies-only train that ran between Kalyan and Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Station (CSMT). On the train, Mayuri Kamble was a guard.

India’s Wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation eased below the 4 per cent-mark in February and was recorded at 3.85 per cent, data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed.

In January, the WPI inflation figure was 4.73 per cent.

This is the lowest since January 2021 when the WPI inflation was 2.51 per cent.

Wholesale price index(WPI) -

Food Index -

The Food Index consisting of ’Food Articles’ from Primary Articles group and "Food Product" from Manufactured Products group have increased from 171.2 in January 2023 to 171.3 in February 2023.

The rate of inflation based on WPI Food Index decreased from 2.95 per cent in January 2023 to 2.76 per cent in February 2023.

For the primary articles segment, the inflation rate eased to 3.28 per cent from 3.88 per cent in the previous month.

The month over month change in WPI for the month of February 2023 stood at 0.20 per cent as compared to January 2023.

The WPI based inflation rate was 13.43 per cent in February 2022.

Denmark inaugurates a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad.

The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming of the atmosphere, is on the site of an old oil field.

Led by British chemical giant Ineos and German oil company Wintershall Dea, the "Greensand" project is expected to store up to eight million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030.

The North Sea is particularly suitable for this type of project as the region already has pipelines and potential storage sites after decades of oil and gas production.

According to the European Environment Agency (EEA), the member states of the EU emitted 3.7 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2020 alone.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with 40 more internet satellites for rival OneWeb, followed by the landing of the rocket’s first stage booster back at the Florida spaceport.

The mission, SpaceX’s 16th flight of the year overall, was the third and final planned dedicated Falcon 9 launch for OneWeb, which switched launch providers from Russia’s Soyuz rocket to SpaceX and Indian rockets last year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

OneWeb has another reservation with SpaceX for a rideshare mission with Iridium later this year.

Ganesh Joshi, the state’s agriculture minister, said that Uttarakhand launched the country’s first "Resham Keet Bima" programme to safeguard its sericulturists.

200 sericulturists from five blocks in four districts—Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, and Nainital—received insurance in the first phase of the pilot project, which started in Uttarakhand.

This insurance protected them from the effects of climate change, water scarcity, and other dangers.

The programme has been launched as a pilot project spanning five development blocks of four districts of the state in order to safeguard farmers from loss.

The department and the Agricultural Insurance Company of India have decided to accomplish this.

The initiative was launched in Dehradun and is managed by Saral Krishi Beema.

Amitava Mukherjee, NMDC Director (Finance), has been given the additional responsibility of Chairman-Cum-Managing Director.

Mukherjee, an Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) officer from the 1995 batch, has a Master’s in Commerce from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya in Bilaspur and is also a Cost Accountant.

His leadership enabled the timely completion of NMDC Steel Ltd’s demerger from NMDC Ltd.

His areas of expertise are project management, digital initiatives, and policy formulation.

The nation’s largest iron ore producer said in a BSE filing that he has successfully led the Australia operations of NMDC to the pre-production stage (gold) and also finalised a strategic tie-up with a significant international mining giant Hancock.

He has also prospected quickly and capitalised on an iron ore mining tenement.

He served as Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd.’s General Manager (Finance) before joining NMDC.

He worked with IRAS from 1997 to 2016 and held a crucial position with the Eastern Railroad.

He spent the years 1994 to 1997 working for Indian Oil Company Ltd. before joining IRAS.

Every year on March 15, the International Consumer Rights Day is observed with the goal of promoting consumer protection and increasing global knowledge of consumer rights.

The day is also used to raise awareness of global market inequities. The yearly celebration of cooperation among the global consumer movement.

On this day, consumers everywhere promote their fundamental rights, call for their protection and observance, and denounce unfair trade practises.

World Consumer Rights Day 2023’s theme is “Empowering Consumers Through Clean Energy Transitions.”

The day was originally commemorated on March 15, 1983, and it was motivated by US President John F Kennedy’s speech to the US Congress on that same day in 1962.

He spoke about the subject of consumer rights, emphasised how important it was, and made history by being the first head of state to do so.

On this day each year, a number of organisations, including Consumer International, commemorate the occasion by hosting activities and launching campaigns to defend consumer rights.

Tablesh Pandey and M Jagannath have been appointed as the managing directors of the Life Insurance Company (LIC).

Tablesh Pandey will take over on April 1, 2023, and M Jagannath will start working on March 13, 2023.

Raj Kumar and BC Patnaik are the two managing directors that left the company this week.

There are currently four managing directors at LIC.

M Jagannath joined the LIC in 1988 as a Direct Recruit Officer.

He has a wealth of marketing expertise, has held numerous significant positions, and has effectively managed sizable teams. Between 2009 and 2013, he spent 4 years as the Chief Executive Officer and Management Director of LIC (Lanka) Ltd in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The insurance company’s executive director right now is Tablesh Pandey.

Recently, For a period of three months beginning March 14, the Center has chosen Siddhartha Mohanty as the interim chairman of the Life Insurance Company of India (LIC).

In Nagpur, Maharashtra, a new project known as "beggar-free city" has been launched. Amitesh Kumar, the Nagpur City commissioner of police, announced that notification 144 CrPC has been issued in this regard.

The social welfare division of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and the Nagpur City Police are partners in this effort.

In order to accommodate homeless people in its shelters, the NMC has developed particular provisions.

This will be severely enforced by the Nagpur police, and begging is not permitted in public areas.

The social welfare division of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and the Nagpur City Police are partners in this effort.

In order to accommodate homeless people in its shelters, the NMC has developed particular provisions.

The civic organisation has a bus and an ambulance on standby to transport beggars apprehended by police to its shelter residence.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled Rs 118500 crore budget for Jammu & Kashmir Union Territory for the next financial year.

The total budget estimates for the fiscal is Rs 118500 crore, of which developmental expenditure is of the order of Rs 41491 crore.

The expected revenue receipts are Rs 106061 crore whereas Revenue expenditure is expected to be Rs 77009 crore, thereby making available revenue surplus for capital expenditure to the tune of Rs 29,052 crore.

This was the fourth consecutive budget of Jammu and Kashmir to be presented in the Parliament.

The budgets of 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23 were also presented in the Parliament in absence of an elected government in the Union Territory.