Today’s GK & Current Affairs Quiz for February 28, 2019

G.R. Karthikeyan was honored with the lifetime achievement award at the FMSCI annual awards Mumbai. Narain spoke about his father’s inspiring presence in his career and as one of the pioneers in establishing a framework for Indian motorsport.

President Ram Nath Kovind gave away the Gandhi Peace Prize for 4 years from 2015 to 2018. Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari got the award for 2015 for their contribution to rural development, education, development of natural resources.

The National Book Trust(NBT) has appointed educationist and author Govind Prasad Sharma as its new Chairman. Has Served As The Principal Of Government P.G. College, Madhya Pradesh. Later, He Was Appointed As The Additional Director Of Higher Education (Gwalior Chambal Division) And Has Also Been The Director Of Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Akademi.

Sanath Jayasuriya was banned from all cricket related activities for two years after the former Sri Lanka skipper admitted to breaching Articles 2.4.6 and 2.4.7 of the ICC Anti-corruption code. As a result of the admissions, he has accepted a sanction of a two-year period of ineligibility.

Sri Lanka became the first Asian side in the world to beat South Africa in their home conditions. The Lankans completed a 2-0 sweep against the Proteas, bagging an 8-wicket win in the second Test at Port Elizabeth.

Leg-spinner Rashid Khan became the first bowler to bag 4 wickets off successive deliveries in T20 internationals.. Rashid’s impressive bowling performance in the third and final game also helped Afghanistan sweep the T20I series against Ireland in Dehradun.

Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the Cannes International Open after taking an easy draw with Pier Luigi Basso of Italy in the ninth and final round that concluded recently. Earlier this year, Abhijeet had also tied for the first place at the Delhi International open in January.

In a relief to e-wallet companies, RBI extended by 6 months the deadline for compliance with KYC norms, for prepaid payment instruments(PPI) issuers. The earlier deadline was February 28. The RBI had said it had received requests from various stakeholders to increase the timeline given the difficulties in undertaking Aadhaar e-KYC and time necessary to put in place alternative systems for completing the KYC process.

Monkeys have again been declared vermin for the next one year in 11 districts‘ 91 tehsils and sub-tehsils of Himachal Pradesh. The state government had urged the centre to declare Monkeys as vermin because the animals have been adversely affecting crops and causing harm to humans.

India successfully test fired a quick reaction surface to air missile(QRSAM) off the coast of Odisha. Two quick reaction surface missile was tested by the DRDO. The missile is being developed by DRDO for the Indian Army. The missile has a strike range of 25 km to 30 km and has a capability of engaging multiple targets.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal launched Rail Drishti Dashboard in New Delhi. The Dashboard has been launched to keep people informed about the work going on in the Railways across the country. People can now track any information related to Indian Railways in a swipe even while on the move.

India ranked 47th in the overall “inclusive Internet Index 2019” score while Sweden topped the chart, followed by Singapore and the US, a Facebook-led study has revealed. According to the Inclusive Internet Index(3i) prepared by the Economic Intelligence Unit for Facebook, there are demonstrable benefits from comprehensive female e-inclusion policies, digital skills programmes and targets for women and girls to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Health Minister JP Nadda inaugurated the 4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit in New Delhi. The Global Digital Health Partnership is an international collaboration of governments, government agencies and multinational organisations dedicated to improving the health and well-being of their citizens through the best use of evidence-based digital technologies.

India and Bangladesh will be conducting a joint military exercise, ‘Exercise Sampriti 2019’ at Tangail, Bangladesh from March 2 to March 15, 2019. This will be the eighth edition of the exercise which is hosted alternately by both countries.

The Indian Space Research Organisation would be launching an electronic intelligence satellite Emisat for Defence Research and Development Organisation in March 2019. In the special mission, ISRO would also be launching 28 third-party satellites and demonstrate its new technologies.