Daily Current Affairs Quiz 11 April 2022

b) New Delhi

The Delhi government included electric cycles under its Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy and announced that it will offer a subsidy of 5,500 each to the first 10,000 buyers.
This will include both passenger and cargo e-cycles with a speed of less than 25 km/hour. The first 10,000 buyers will get 25 per cent of the purchase incentive on buying the e-cycle.

b) 2 only

Central Tibetan Relief Committee (CTRC)
It was launched in 2015. The main objective of the committee is to coordinate Individual, Voluntary Agencies and Indian Government’s efforts to rehabilitate and settle Tibetan Refugees.
CTRC includes members from each of the 53 Tibetan settlements in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Hence, statement 1 is not correct.
It is dedicated to preserving the cultural and religious heritage of Tibet and building and maintaining sustainable, democratic communities in exile.
CTRC is dependent on generous international assistance from governments, especially India, Nepal and Bhutan, philanthropic organisations and individuals.
All the CTRC activities are carried out with consent and support from the Board of Directors and approval from TPiE (Tibetan Parliament in Exile). Hence, statement 2 is correct.
The TPiE has its headquarters in Dharamsala, in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh according to which over 1 lakh Tibetans are settled across India.

c) 4.00 %

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent for the 11th consecutive time.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the MPC had voted unanimously to maintain the accommodative stance and added that the reverse repo rate too was kept unchanged at 3.35 per cent. Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and bank rate also were kept unchanged at 4.25 percent.

c) 9th

The 9th Edition of the India-Kyrgyzstan Joint Special Forces Exercise ‘Khanjar 2022′ which commenced on 25 Mar 2022 at Special Forces Training School, Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh (HP) culminated on April 6, 2022.
i. It strengthened the mutual confidence & interoperability between Indian Special Forces and Kyrgyzstan Special Forces.

a) 1, 2

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization located in The Hague, Netherlands. It is not a court in the traditional sense, but provides services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes that arise out of international agreements between member states, international organizations or private parties.

The cases span a range of legal issues involving territorial and maritime boundaries, sovereignty, human rights, international investment, and international and regional trade.

The organization is not a United Nations agency, but the PCA is an official United Nations Observer.