RBI OFFICER GRADE ‘B’ PHASE-I EXAM Held on : 09.11.2019(Part-IV)

The US military on 3 October, 2019 announced to have tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a reentry vehicle from a base in California across the Pacific Ocean.

• Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the reentry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles (6,750 km) across the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The Daughter from a Wishing Tree: Unusual Tales about Women in Mythology has been authored by Sudha Murty.

• This book discusses the different forms of Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Parvati and many other women who have been a part of our primitive stories

Legendary Milkha Singh and star batswoman Smriti Mandhana were among the winners during the second edition of the Indian Sports Honours (ISH), held in Mumbai, in October 2019.

• Milkha Singh, best known as the ‘Flying Sikh’ and most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400 m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, was bestowed with the lifetime achievement award.

Bandhan Bank on 23 August 2019 announced its foray into the credit cards segment, in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank.

• The announcement came on the fourth anniversary of Bandhan Bank.

• Bandhan Bank has launched three variants of co-branded credit cards called One – for the mass market, Plus – for the affluent segment, and Xclusive – for the premium segment.

Air India in October 2019 became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on an A320 aircraft with passengers onboard.

• Taxibot is a robot-used aircraft tractor for taxiing an aircraft from parking bay to runway and vice versa.
• With Taxibot it is possible to tow an aircraft from the parking bay to the runway with its engines switched off.
• It is a pilot-controlled semi-robotic towbarless aircraft tractor used as an alternate taxiing equipment.

• Telugu is at 4th with 6.7 percent speakers and Tamil at 5th with 5.7 percent speakers.
• In all, 13 of the 22 scheduled languages were reported as the mother tongue by at least 1 percent of the population.

Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank Limited in July 2019 announced winding up of its business on account of “unanticipated developments” that made its economic model “unviable”.

• The company became the fourth payments bank to shut shop after Tech Mahindra, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company and a consortium of Dilip Shanghvi, IDFC Bank Ltd and Telenor Financial Services that pulled the plug of operations.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have And The Breakthroughs We Need has been authored by Bill Gates.

• In this book, Bill Gates shares what he’s learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems.

• The book sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.

UNESCO headquarters are located at Place de Fontenoy in Paris, France.

• UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN).

• Its declared purpose is to contribute to promoting international collaboration in education, sciences, and culture in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter.

Both State Trading Corporation (STC) and Project and Equipment Corporation of India (PEC) come under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

• The commerce ministry in September 2019 announced its decision to close State Trading Corporation (STC) and Project and Equipment Corporation of India (PEC) within a definite time frame, given their precarious financial position.
• The STC was set up in 1956 as a trading arm of the government to undertake trade with East European countries.
• PEC was incorporated as a subsidiary of STC in 1971.