Answer is D

What is the news?

• On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of independence, Sirmaur district has secured the top position across the state in the Amrit Sarovar Campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for water conservation across the country.
• Before Independence Day, the Sirmaur administration executed this plan. Mandi district was second in the state by making 73 Amrit Sarovars and Chamba district was third by making 61 lakes.
• In fact, all the districts had got a target of building 75 Amrit Sarovars by Independence Day. Sirmaur has been number one in executing this scheme. However, a total of 135 lakes will be built in Sirmaur district. The work of building the remaining lakes will be completed next year.

It supports which campaign?

• Under the water conservation campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the work of constructing Amrit Sarovar was started in 10 districts of Himachal Pradesh.

Answer is D

What is the news?

• Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has congratulated Additional Superintendent of Police Narvir Singh Rathore for being chosen for ‘ National Medal for Excellence in Investigation’.

The award was announced by?

• The award was announced by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

Answer is C

• The country's thorium reserves make up 25 percent of the global reserves.
• Thorium alone cannot be directly used as nuclear fuel. It goes through a three-stage process that would
  Convert it into Uranium-233 and only then it can be put into reactor assembly.

Answer is A

What is the news?

• Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday congratulated the Kangra Central Cooperative Bank (KCCB) on its phenomenal turnaround.
• According to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the bank, which had suffered a loss of around Rs 46 crore in just four years has earned a profit of Rs 87 crores in the financial year 2021-22.

About Kangra Central Cooperative Bank (KCCB):

• The KCCB was issued a Certificate of Registration in 1920 and started operations in March of the same year. The bank currently has 26 branches with its Head Office at Dharamshala.

Answer is D

What is Cloud Burst?

• According to meteorologists, when a certain area receives a sudden heavy rainfall for a very short time, it is called cloudburst.

What is the news?

• Himachal Pradesh was hit by 29 cloudburst incidents in the last three years.
• This was informed in a written reply by Revenue and Jal Shakti Minister Mahender Singh Thakur in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly on Friday in reply to a starred question sought by MLA Ramesh Dhawala (Jawalamukhi) during the question hour.

Losses:

• As many as 19 lives were lost and property worth crores of rupees was reportedly destroyed in the last three years till 20 July this year as a result of flash floods due to cloudbursts.
• A loss of crop Rs 1, 85,813 and government property of Rs 19, 98, 00,000 was estimated in Kinnaur district.
  Damage to property including 12 houses, 5 water mills, 7 camping sites, 5 Dhabas, 6 livestock and damage to Malana project and one bridge was accounted for.

Answer is D

• The structure was built in 1553 by Maharaja Bahadur Singh.
• The Hidimba Devi temple is 24 meters tall.

Answer is B

• Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur today inaugurated the second Silk Seed Production Center of the state at Thunag in Seraj Assembly Constituency in district Mandi to meet the need of silk seed production in Himachal Pradesh and to strengthen the economy of sericulture farmers.

Answer is D

• The Pitt’s India Act, 1784 also called the East India Company Act, 1784 was passed by the British Parliament
  to correct the defects of the Regulating Act of 1773. This act resulted in dual control of British possessions
  in India by the British government and the Company with the final authority resting with the government.
• This act continued in effect until 1858.