Daily Quiz 15 April 2025

Answer: C

Explanation:

• Statements 1, 2 and 3 are correct: The objective of the Stand-Up India scheme is to facilitate bank loans between 10 lakh and 1 Crore to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch for setting up a greenfield enterprise. This enterprise may be in manufacturing, services, agri-allied activities or the trading sector In case of non-individual enterprises at least 51% of the shareholding and controlling stake should be held by either an SC/ST or Woman entrepreneur.
• Eligibility
  • SC/ST and/or woman entrepreneurs, above 18 years of age.
  • Loans under the scheme is available for only green field project. Green field signifies, in this context, the first time venture of the beneficiary in the manufacturing, services, agri-allied activities or the trading sector.
  • In case of non-individual enterprises, 51% of the shareholding and controlling stake should be held by either SC/ST and/or Women Entrepreneur.

Borrower should not be in default to any bank/financial institution.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars in the sky. In its prime mission, a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS monitored the brightness of stars for periodic drops caused by planet transits. The prime mission ended on July 4, 2020 and TESS is now in an extended mission. TESS is finding planets ranging from small, rocky worlds to giant planets, showcasing the diversity of planets in the galaxy.
• Statement 1 is not correct: TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission led and operated by MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Statement 2 is correct: NASA’s TESS is conducting a survey of about 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun with the aim of searching for transiting exoplanets. So far, it has identified over 7,500 candidate exoplanets (TESS Objects of Interest, or TOI), of which 620 have been confirmed so far.

Answer: A

Explanation:

• Option A is correct:Deir Al Balah governorate is located in central Gaza. A monastery was built there in the mid-fourth century AD, giving it its name which translates to Monastery of the Date Palm. The governorate is famous for its palm products like dates and jam. And Al Awda factory, a local favorite, has been manufacturing sweets there since 1977.
• Recently, Israel struck tents on the edge of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah.

Answer: A

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is not correct: The time immediately following the Question Hour and laying of papers and before any listed business is taken up in the House has come to be popularly known as the `Zero Hour’. As it starts around 12 noon, this period is euphemistically termed `Zero Hour’.
• Statement 2 is correct: For raising matters during the ‘Zero Hour’ in Lok Sabha, Members give notice between 8.30 a.m. and 9.00 a.m. everyday to the Speaker stating clearly the subject which they consider to be important and wish to raise in the House. It is, of course, for the Speaker to allow or not to allow for raising such matters in the House. The term `Zero Hour’ is not formally recognised in our parliamentary procedure.
• Statement 3 is not correct: Recently, Lok Sabha made a record when the Zero Hour lasted for more than five hours and a whopping 202 MPs spoke on April 3, 2025. There is no maximum limit of one hour.

At present, twenty matters per day as per their priority in the ballot are allowed to be raised during “Zero Hour”. The order in which the matters will be raised is decided by the Speaker at his/her discretion. In the first phase, 5 matters of urgent national and international importance, as decided by the Chair, are taken up after Question Hour and laying of papers, etc. In the second phase, the remaining admitted matters of urgent public importance are taken up after 6.00 P.M. or at the end of the regular business of the House. However, since there is no provision in the rules regarding ‘Zero Hour’, hence there is no maximum limit on the number of matters that can be raised on any given day.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• Option B is correct: The earliest systematic and most complete collection of early Buddhist sacred literature is the Pali Tipitaka (“Three Baskets”; Sanskrit: Tripitaka). The Tripitaka (Three Baskets) consists of Vinaya Pitaka (Basket of Discipline), Sutta Pitaka (Basket of Discourses) and Abhidhamma Pitaka (Basket of Scholasticism) written in Pali language.

Dhammapada is not included in it.