Apps in News MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Apps in News - Download Free PDF

The correct answer is Nakshe.

Key Points

• The "Nakshe" portal was launched by the Survey of India (SOI) on its 250th anniversary.
• It provides free access to digital versions of over 3,000 topographical maps for Indian citizens.
• The portal is a significant step toward promoting the government's "Digital India" initiative.
• It allows users to download maps in PDF format, which are especially useful for students, researchers, and professionals.

The correct answer is Technology supported language translation platform.

Key Points

• BHASHINI stands for Bharatiya Bhasha Interface, launched by the Government of India in 2022 as part of the Digital India initiative.
• It is a technology-supported platform aimed at enabling real-time language translation for Indian languages using advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
• The platform supports multilingual communication and is expected to assist in breaking language barriers for digital content, services, and applications.
• BHASHINI is designed to promote Indian languages and make internet-based information and services accessible to non-English speaking citizens.
• This initiative aligns with the government's vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) by fostering technological advancements in Indian languages.

Additional Information

• National Language Translation Mission (NLTM):
  • BHASHINI is a part of NLTM, a mission launched to make governance and public services linguistically inclusive.
  • It aims to develop and use AI-based translation tools for Indian languages.
• Significance of BHASHINI:
  • The platform can be used by government agencies, startups, and developers to build language-based solutions.
  • It promotes inclusivity by addressing the needs of diverse linguistic groups in India.
• Technological Framework:
  • BHASHINI uses machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to enhance translation accuracy.
  • It integrates crowdsourced datasets to improve linguistic resource availability.
• Potential Impact:
  • It supports the Digital India initiative by making online services accessible to non-English speakers.
  • BHASHINI is expected to contribute significantly to economic and social inclusion by bridging the digital divide.

The correct answer is Meta.

Key Points

• Meta is the new name adopted by Facebook in October 2021
• Reflects company's focus on building the metaverse
• Parent company now oversees Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc.
• Name change followed major rebranding initiative
• Represents shift from social media to virtual reality technology

 Additional Information

• Zip:
  • Name of various tech products but unrelated to Facebook
  • Compression software format used for files
  • Also name of payment services in some countries
  • No connection to social media or virtual reality
  • Never considered for Facebook's rebranding
• Hyperlapse:
  • Instagram's time-lapse video feature launched in 2014
  • Allows stabilized fast-motion videos
  • Standalone app discontinued in 2018
  • Remains as feature within Instagram app
  • Too product-specific for corporate rebranding
• Boomerang:
  • Instagram's looping video feature
  • Creates back-and-forth mini-videos
  • Launched in 2016 as standalone app
  • Later integrated into Instagram Stories
  • Never proposed as company name

The correct answer is capture receipt and expenditure including voucher entries and generates cash book, reports and register.

Key Points

• PRIA software is designed to capture detailed records of financial transactions including receipts and expenditures.
• It facilitates the entry of voucher details, which are essential for maintaining accurate financial records.
• This software generates a cash book, which is a primary financial document that summarizes all cash transactions.
• Additionally, PRIA software can produce various reports and registers that provide insights into financial operations and help in financial management.

Additional Information

• Monitoring Physical and Financial Outcomes:
  • This involves tracking the performance and progress of projects or initiatives in terms of both physical completion and financial expenditure.
  • Such monitoring ensures that resources are utilized efficiently and objectives are met within the budget.
• Details of Assets:
  • This refers to the recording and management of information about physical and intangible assets owned by an organization.
  • Asset management is crucial for maintaining the value and utility of assets over time.
• Dynamic Database:
  • A dynamic database is one that is regularly updated with new information to reflect the current state of affairs.
  • It allows for real-time data processing and is essential for applications requiring up-to-date information.

The correct answer is Money.

Key Points

• BHIM stands for Bharat Interface for Money, a mobile application developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
• The letter M in BHIM-UPI stands for "Money," emphasizing the app's primary purpose of facilitating secure and instant monetary transactions.
• BHIM app leverages the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a system enabling real-time interbank transactions using a mobile device.
• It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 30th December 2016, as part of India's push towards a cashless economy.
• The app ensures ease of use and accessibility, allowing users to send or receive money using a UPI ID or QR code.

Additional Information

• Unified Payments Interface (UPI):
  • UPI is a real-time payment system developed by NPCI that facilitates instant fund transfer between two bank accounts via mobile devices.
  • It eliminates the need for cumbersome details like IFSC codes or account numbers, using a unique UPI ID for transactions.
• Features of BHIM App:
  • Supports transactions via UPI ID, mobile number, or QR code.
  • Allows linking multiple bank accounts and offers a seamless user interface.
  • Provides additional features such as checking balance and generating transaction history.
• NPCI:
  • The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is an organization responsible for managing India's retail payment systems.
  • It oversees UPI, IMPS, RuPay card network, and other payment systems.
• QR Code Payments:
  • QR codes in BHIM allow users to scan and pay instantly without sharing sensitive details.
  • This feature enhances security and ease of use in monetary transactions.

The correct answer is the National Payments Corporation of India.

• ​​Taking the first step towards having a digital currency in the country, PM Modi will launch an electronic voucher-based digital payment system “e-RUPI”.
• The platform, which has been developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the National Health Authority, will be a person-specific and purpose-specific payments system

Key Points

• e-RUPI:
  • e-RUPI is a cashless and contactless digital payments medium, which will be delivered to the mobile phones of beneficiaries in form of an SMS string or a QR code. 
  • This will essentially be like a prepaid gift voucher that will be redeemable at specific accepting centres without any credit or debit card, a mobile app or internet banking. 
  • e-RUPI will connect the sponsors of the services with the beneficiaries and service providers in a digital manner without any physical interface.

Important Points

• significance of e-RUPI
  • The government is already working on developing a central bank digital currency and the launch of e-RUPI could potentially highlight the gaps in digital payments infrastructure that will be necessary for the success of the future digital currency. 
  • In effect, e-RUPI is still backed by the existing Indian rupee as the underlying asset and the specificity of its purpose makes it different to a virtual currency and puts it closer to a voucher-based payment system.
  • Also, the ubiquitousness of e-RUPI in the future will depend on the end-use cases.
  • On the other hand, central bank digital currency or CBDC — digital currencies issued by a central bank that generally take on a digital form of the nation’s existing fiat currency

The correct answer is Digital Sansad App.

Key Points

• The Parliament has launched a new app, Digital Sansad, that will make it easier for people to follow proceedings in Parliament, and also their own lawmakers.
• In addition, it will also help members of parliament access services such as checking personal updates.
• In the future, the MPs can log in for attendance, give questions for the Question Hour, or submit notices for debates.

The correct answer is option 4.

In News

• PIB News: President of India presents the National Panchayat Awards and inaugurates the National Conference on Incentivization of Panchayats.

Key PointsGS NIRNAY mobile app:

• The GS NIRNAY, National Initiative for Rural India to Navigate, InnovAte and Resolve PanchaYat decisions, a mobile application of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. Hence option 4 is correct.
• It is aimed at empowering rural communities during the National Conference.
• It enables easy access to critical information discussed during a Gram Sabha; acting as a means of verification of facts where necessary or in case of queries that may arise regarding the resolutions undertaken during the Gram Sabha.
• This would bring in more transparency and increase efficiency in the functioning of Panchayats, which play a vital role in decentralized participatory democracy.

The correct answer is Giriraj Singh.

Key Points

• Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh(As of Feb 2022) launched Ombudsperson App for Mahatma Gandhi NREGA on 24 Feb 2022.
• The app will enable easy tracking and timely passing of awards by Ombudsperson on each case as per the guidelines.
• Ombudsperson can also easily upload the quarterly and annual reports on the website through the app.

Additional Information

• ​National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005, later renamed as the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act" or MGNREGA).
• It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year.
• It will provide employment to at least one member of every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

The correct answer is Ministry of Labour and Employment.

• The Ministry of Labour and Employment had launched ‘Santusht portal’ to monitor the implementation of labour laws at the grassroots level.
• The objective of ‘Santusht’ is to promote transparency, accountability, effective delivery of public services and implementation of policies, schemes of Ministry of Labour and Employment at the grassroots level through constant monitoring. 
• The government aims to implement all four codes on wages, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety, health and working conditions. These are expected to improve ease of doing business and safeguard the interest of workers.
• For public grievances, Centralized Public Grievance Redressal and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) portal is already functional.

The correct answer is Centre for Railway Information Systems.

Key Points

• The Kolkata Metro has launched a new app "Metro Ride Kolkata", developed by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS).
• Commuters can now recharge their cards from their homes.
• In addition to this, the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation has also assigned colours to the city's corridors and their extensions.
• The new colours will help passengers to identify the direction of travel.

Important Points

• The colours that will be used to identify metro corridors:
  • Line 1: North-South metro corridor - Blueline
  • Line 2: East-West corridor-Green line
  • Line 3: Joka-Esplanade metro corridor-Purple line
  • Line 4: Noapara extension- Airport-Yellow line
  • Line 5: Baranagar-Barrackpore metro corridor-Pink line
  • Line 6: New Garia-airport metro corridor-Orange line

The correct answer is Hariyali.

Key Points

• Hariyali is a watershed development and management program implemented by the central and state governments.
• The project is being implemented at the Grama Panchayat level with peoples participation
• The main objectives of the Hariyali program are:
  • Harvesting every drop of rainwater for purposes of irrigation, plantations to create sustainable sources of income for the village community as well as for drinking water supplies.
  • Overall development of rural areas by creating regular sources of income for the Panchayat from rainwater harvesting and management.
  • Employment generation and poverty alleviation in rural areas.
• All the district level, ZP/DRDA shall be the nodal authority for the implementation of all the area development programmes under the supervision and guidance of the State Government and the Government of India.
• A meeting of the Gram Sabha/ Ward Sabha shall be convened for the preparation of the Action Plan/Watershed Treatment Plan

Additional Information

• The Gram Panchayat shall maintain a separate account for the watershed project and all receipts from ZP/DRDA will be credited to this account.
• The Gram Panchayat shall constitute Self Help Groups (SHGs) in the watershed area.
• Neeru-Meeru is a programme in Andhra Pradesh was taken up constructions of various water harvesting structures dug out ponds, check dams through people participation
• Arvary Pani Sansad programme is associated with Rajasthan.

The correct answer is Uttarakhand.

Key Points

• Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami launched an anti-corruption mobile app in April 2022.
• Developed by the Vigilance Department, '1064 Anti-Corruption Mobile App', makes it easier for people to lodge graft-related complaints directly with the authorities.
• All complaints will be registered through the app and the data as well as the identity of the complainant will be protected.

Additional Information

• Uttarakhand:
  • Lok Sabha seats - 5.
  • Rajya Sabha seats - 3.
  • State Animal - Alpine musk deer.
  • State Bird - Himalayan monal.
  • Registered GI - Uttarakhand Tejpat.
  • National Parks - Corbett National Park, Gangotri National Park, Govind National Park, Nanda Devi National Park, Rajaji National Park, Valley of Flowers National Park.

The correct answer is Narendra Modi.

Key Points

• PM Narendra Modi on 2 October 2021 launched the Jal Jeevan Mission mobile application.
• It aims to improve awareness among stakeholders and for greater transparency and accountability of schemes under the initiative.
• He also launched Rashtriya Jal Jeevan Kosh, where any individual or institution can contribute to help provide tap water connection in every rural household, school, etc.

Additional Information

•  Jal Jeevan Mission:
  • Jal Jeevan Mission is envisioned to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections by 2024 to all households in rural India. 
  • It was launched by Narendra Modi on 15^th August 2019.

The correct answer is Trinetra.

Key Points

• ‘Trinetra’ is an AI-based mobile application powered by Staqu’s expertise in facial recognition, visual search, machine learning, and deep learning technology has a record of 5 lakh criminals which contains a picture, address, and criminal history of each criminal. 
• Artificial Intelligence is being used by the UP Police to catch criminals. 
• As of 2016, Uttar Pradesh (UP) had the highest incidences of crime with a crime rate of 128.7 per 100,000 people. 
• But in terms of an absolute number of cases, Uttar Pradesh reported the highest incidence of violent crimes accounting for 15.2% of total violent crimes in India (65,155 out of 4,28,134) followed by Maharashtra (10.7%), and Bihar and West Bengal each accounting for 10.4% of such cases.
• Trinetra not only identifies a criminal but also finds their associates active in different parts of the state.

Additional Information

• Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh - Yogi Adityanath
• Governor of Uttar Pradesh - Anandiben Patel
• DGP of Uttar Pradesh - Mukul Goel.
• Literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh - 69.72 %
• Total districts in Uttar Pradesh - 75
• The largest district of Uttar Pradesh - Lakhimpur Kheri
• The smallest district of Uttar Pradesh - Bhadohi