Micromax, Celkon, Karbonn, Andhra Pradesh - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

ANSWER: Education and Employment

Explanation:
Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly has unanimously passed Kapu Reservation Bill, 2017 to provide 5% quota in education and employment. The reservation to Kapu community will be given by including them in Backward Classes list. The reservation to existing Backward Castes will not be affected by this decision.

With the quota for Kapus, the total reservation in state goes up to 55%, beyond 50% cap set by Supreme Court for reservations. Andhra Pradesh already has 29% reservation for Backward Castes. Apart from this, 15% and 6% reservations exist for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).

The bill will be sent to Centre for its consent and State government is also going to request Centre to include this reservation in the 9th Schedule, to insulate it from judicial review.

ANSWER: Eros Now

Explanation:
To provide seamless digital content to users, domestic smartphone maker Micromax announced partnership with Eros international Digital platform EROS Now

• EROS Now will now leverage Micromax’s presence to distribute content

ANSWER: Bharat Singh Malik

Explanation:
Micromax subsidiary YU has said it has made three senior level appointments as part of its efforts to strengthen offline sales network.

• Bharat Singh Malik has been appointed as vice president of Service while Deepak Dahiya will take over as head of sales (South and West region).
• Chandra Kishore has been appointed as head of sales - North and East region, YU said in a statement.

ANSWER: Micromax

Explanation:
Following hardware, Micromax now seeks to expand its software services business across areas like healthcare, e-commerce and payments. City based firm has partnered with TranServ to integrate payments with its service platform which will enable the users to employ mobile wallets in a simplified manner. This is the first smartphone based native payments solution of the country.

ANSWER: Amravati

Explanation:
PM Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the new capital city of Amravati in AP at Uddandayauruni Palem village. This is one of the 3 villages were seed capital will be established, the other two being Lingayapalem and Thallayapalem. The need for a capital city became necessary as the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 mandated that Hyderabad will be the common capital for AP and Telangana for just 10 years. After this, it will remain the capital of the latter state. Amravati is derived from the capital city of the Satavahana rulers.

ANSWER: Micromax

Explanation:
The second largest handset maker in India, Micromax has invested in India’s largest streaming and music broadcast service, Gaana. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. As per the deal, Gaana will be available on Micromax smartphones and new users will receive free trials allowing unlimited downloads without ads. Gaana has 20 million active users and has seen close to 30 million downloads and a library of close to 10 million songs with ad supported streaming in more than 45 languages.

ANSWER: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:
Centre has decided to provide continued support for development of backward districts of Andhra Pradesh and work for creation of new capital of AP including Raj Bhawan, High Court, Government Secretariat, Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council, and such other essential infrastructure. Centre has also announced special assistance of INR 1000 crore during current fiscal. It will also give special assistance of INR 350 crore for development of 7 backward districts, another INR 350 crore for development of state capital and INR 300 crore for Polavaram Irrigation Project. AP Reorganisation Act 2015 divided AP into two- creating the new state of Telangana from 2nd June 2014. Special assistance is to be provided to backward areas of the state as well and amount of INR 4403 crore was released to successor AP state during 2014-2015.

ANSWER: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:
The objective of ‘Nava Nirmana Deeksha’ is to make people partners in the development of Andhra Pradesh.

ANSWER: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation:
Under the new Accident Insurance Scheme, the registered unorganised sector labourers and transport drivers will get a Rs 5 lakh insurance cover. The enrolled will get an accident death insurance of Rs 2 lakh under the Pradhan Mantri Bima Suraksha Yojana by opening a Jan Dhan Yojana account and Insurer will give Rs 3 lakh for which the state government will have an MoU.