10 Questions • 5 Minutes • Current Affairs Mock Test in Hindi and English
• Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, launched the nation-wide 'Khet Bachao Abhiyan' on June 1, 2026.
• The campaign was kicked off from Ramsiya village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh.
• This is a month-long campaign spanning from June 1 to June 30, 2026, aimed at encouraging balanced fertilizer use, soil testing, natural farming, and water conservation.
• Agricultural scientists, experts from KVKs, and department officials are collaborating to educate farmers across the country.
• Both statements are correct. Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) is the world's largest government-funded health insurance scheme.
• It provides a cashless cover of up to Rs. 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization.
• It covers over 12 crore poor and vulnerable families based on the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data.
• The Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) was launched on January 22, 2015, from Panipat, Haryana, alongside the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign.
• It is a small deposit scheme for the girl child, implemented by the Ministry of Finance through post offices and authorized banks.
• Accounts can be opened from the birth of a girl child until she attains the age of 10 years, offering attractive interest rates and tax exemptions.
• The Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
• It was previously known as the Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana and was restructured and renamed from January 1, 2017.
• It is a Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme under which pregnant women and lactating mothers receive a cash incentive of Rs. 5,000 in installments for the birth of their first child to promote health and nutrition.
• The portal has been launched to help citizens, nominees, and legal heirs trace and locate forgotten investments and savings across the entire financial sector.
• It serves as a centralized umbrella system promoted jointly by 12 Public Sector Banks (PSBs).
• This portal is a vital extension of the nationwide awareness campaign titled 'Aapki Poonji, Aapka Adhikar'.
• Vietnam confirmed the high-value deal to procure the BrahMos missile system. The announcement was validated during the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit held in Singapore.
• BrahMos Aerospace is a Joint Venture between India's DRDO and Russia's NPO Mashinostroyeniya. The missile flies at a supersonic speed of 2.8 to 3 Mach.
• Notably, the Philippines became the first foreign nation to purchase the BrahMos shore-based missile system in 2022.
• Suman Kalyanpur was conferred with the Padma Bhushan in the year 2023. She recorded over 800 songs across regional languages like Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, and Bengali.
• Due to her striking vocal similarity to Lata Mangeshkar, she was often fondly referred to as the 'Second Lata'. She rose to massive prominence during a royalty dispute between Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi.
• She was also honored with Maharashtra's highest musical accolade, the 'Maharashtra Lata Mangeshkar Award', in 2009.
• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty claimed the men's doubles title at the Singapore Open by defeating the top pair from Indonesia in the final.
• With this historic triumph, they became the first-ever Indian men's doubles duo to clinch this world-renowned championship.
• Both players represent India globally and are currently ranked among the top badminton pairings under the Badminton World Federation (BWF).
• 'Samadhan Didi' is an AI-enabled conversational voice chatbot developed for CPGRAMS (Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System).
• It was developed by DARPG (Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances) in collaboration with the Bhashini team.
• The portal allows citizens to seamlessly register public grievances and track the progress or historical milestones of their past complaints using an interactive voice interface.
• India recorded an unprecedented estimated production of 154 million tonnes, officially overtaking China to become the world's largest producer of Rice.
• In other historic historical milestones mentioned: The Kapdaganda embroidered shawl belonging to the Dongria Kondh tribe of Odisha's Niyamgiri hills received a GI Tag.
• Additionally, India's first digital tribal freedom fighters museum was constructed in Nawa Raipur, Chhattisgarh, named after the iconic tribal freedom fighter Shahid Veer Narayan Singh.