current affairs 3 Flashcards
India and China signed an agreement to reduce the use of guns and explosives near the border in which year
1996
how many wars with pakistan?
3
how many wars with china?
1
India formally accepted the concept of Line of Actual Control under the leadership of which of the following former Prime Ministers of India?
PV NARSIMHA RAO
OSOWOG has been taken up under the technical assistance program of?
World bank
How much percentage of the total estimated cost of the Green corridor project will be covered by the Central Financial Assistance?
33%
Green corridor phase 2 will be implemented in how many states?
7
ISFR report is published with the interval of how many years?
2 yrs
The first India State of Forest Report was published in which year?
1987
Which article of the Constitution gives Parliament the power to make laws for the whole or any part of India?
245
When is national organ donation Day
27th November
which two cities have been submitted by the state government of Kerala for theUNESCO global learning city?
Thrissur and Nilambur
What is the name of the cyclone to hit Odisha in December in 130 years? Which country named it? What is its name meaning?
cyclone Jawad, Saudi Arabia, merciful or liberal
Who were the three people who will comprise the committee to look and review the criteria for EWS quota
Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Sanjeev Sanyal, VK Malhotra
Which commission report of 2010 has been cited by the government to push the 10% reservation for EWS
sinho commission
Which corridor is situated to have the largest wildlife elevated corridor in Asia?
Delhi Dehradun national Highway
What is the name of the first large survey vessel for the Indian Navy? It is being billed under which project? Who built it?
Sandhayak, survey vessel large project, GRSE: Garden reach shipbuilders and engineers
Who joined the board of advisers for international Institute for democracy and electoral Assistance?
Former CEC Sunil Arora
Where are the headquarters of international Institute for democracy and electoral assistance? How many members are in it?
Stockholm, Sweden, 34
sarayu nahar national project is in which state?
UP
Which district of Madhya Pradesh is being affected by the Ken Betwa linking project? What is the name of the tiger reserve that is being affected
Chhatarpur district, Panna Tiger reserve
What is the name of the helicopter that crashed killing CDS Bipin Rawat?
MI – 17VH
Which country recently concluded their first joint naval exercise with ASEAN?
Russia
ASEAN has how many member states? when was ASEAN created? What is the name of the declaration through which ASEAN was created? Which day is observed as ASEAN day? Where is the Secretariat of ASEAN? What is the Motto of ASEAN?
10, 1967, Bangkok declaration, eighth August, Indonesia Jakarta, one vision one identity one community
Who has been re-elected as Gambia’s President
adama barrow
What is Nirmala Sitharaman’s rank in the Forbes hundred most powerful woman in the world list?
30
Who has been declared as the number one in the hundred most powerful woman in the world index
McKenzie Scott
What is the motto of the Forbes magazine? Who is his editor-in-chief? Who is its CEO? Where are its headquarters?
change the world, Steve Forbes, Mike federal, Jersey City, New Jersey
Which article of the universal declaration of human rights recognised the right to receive and share information regardless of frontiers?
Article 19
when was reporters without Borders founded? where is it’s head office?
1985, Paris
When is SAARC charter day observed? When was SAARC charter adopted and where? The year 2022 marks the – anniversary of the regional group? Where is it Secretariat?
Eighth December, 1985 Dhaka, 37, Kathmandu Nepal
when was WTO was established? What is the name of the treaty that was signed to replace the GATT? How many members are in the WTO?
1995, Marrakesh agreement, 164
What are the name of the three companies from India which have been included in the top hundred global companies making arms?
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bharat electronics Limited, India in ordnance factories
What is India’s rank in the Asia power index 2021?
Fourth most powerful country
Who releases the Asia power index?
Lowy institute Asia
What is India’s rank in the world talent ranking? Who releases the world talent ranking?
62, international Institute for management development
Where was Asia’s first mulberry fossil unearthed
Rajasthan
Which place sequence the genome of the turmeric plant for the first time in the world
IISER, Bhopal
Where was India international science Festival held
Panaji, Goa
What is the name of the Indian woman researcher who discovered over 50 species of frogs?
Sonali Garg
Who won the Saudi Arabian grand Prix?
Lewis Hamilton
Who became the first player in international cricket to complete 50 events in each format
Virat Kohli
Which became the first channel globally to surpass 200,000,000 subscribers on YouTube?
T series
Who has been conferred the United Nations V award?
Akash Shroff
Who has been conferred the legend award by sanctuary nature foundation
Jane Goodall
Who is being conferred with the 57th Jnanpith award?
Damodar Mauzo
Who is being conferred the 56th jnanpithaward?
neelmani phookan
Who confers the Gyan Pete award? When was it instituted? Who was the first recipient?
Bharatiya Gyan Pete?, 1961, G Sankara Kurup
What was the name of the inaugural project for Kashi Vishwanath? Because she Vishwanath Temple is dedicated to which God? The current structure was built by – –?
Divya Kashi Bhavya Kashi, Lord Shiva, Ahilyabai Holkar
How many intangible cultural heritage elements from India have now been inscribed into the UNESCO representative list? Which was the most recent one?
Durga Puja, 14
When was UNESCO founded
1945
Who organise the world’s first AI technology-based hacker day?
Chitkara University
The new bill to increase legal age for marriage for women has been brought and is amending which article?
Prohibition of Child marriage act, 2006
Which act set the age of marriage for girls at 14 years and boys at 18 years? When was it later on amended and what is its popular colloquial name? Why so?
Child marriage restraint act, 1929, 1949 child marriage restraint act, Har Bilas Sarda therefore Sharda Act
Which state has learnt to happiness curriculum in primary schools?
UP
DART is a joint mission between which two organisations
NASA and John Hopkins applied physics laboratory
Who developed a test to detect Omicron in 90 minutes?
IIT Delhi
Who has been named times 2021 athlete of the year?
Simone Biles
The first person to touch all four world’s deepest ocean trenches?
Victor vescovo
Who’s authored the book battle of belonging
Shashi Tharoor
zWho has been honoured with the Royal gold medal 2022 that is the world highest honour for architecture
Balkrishna Doshi
Who recieved the global child prodigy award 2022
Avani Prashant
Who is conferred the global entrepreneur of the year award from the Indus entrepreneurs?
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Which year was recognised by the international year of millets by the Indian government? Which year had been recognised by the international year of millets by the United Nations General assembly
2018, 2023
When was WFP formed? Where are you headquarters? When did it receive nobel prize?
1961, Rome, 2020
Which French company recently decided to opt out of the P 75 India project

What is the pin – 75 India project
six conventional submarines are to be built in India for the indian navy
What did the P 75 project include? It was built in partnership with which organisation?
Six Kalvari class Scorpene class conventional submarines, Mazgaon dock ship builders
Who became the first Indian to win a weightlifting gold in the junior world championship?
Harshada Garuda
Who is an anchor investor in an IPO?
Qualified institutional buyer like a foreign portfolio investor or mutual fund or insurance company which invests before the IPO is made available to the public
du bill introduced in assembly?
16 January, 1922
When did the Delhi uni bill come into existence? Who was the first vice chancellor and chancellor
May 1, 1922, hari singh gour-vice chancellor
chancellor: lord reading
Who is the nodal agency for conducting NFHS
International Institute for population sciences
Who funded the NFHS?
United States agency for international development , UNICEF
Who is planning the world’s first bitcoin city
 El Salvador El Salvador
Who is Germany’s first foreign woman minister?
annalena baerbok
The first country in the world to legalise drugs checking?
New Zealand
mooh band rakho is a campaign to create awareness on cyber frauds launched by – – –
HDFC bank
Who has opened India’s first government approved vehicle scrapping and recycling facility?
Maruti Suzuki Toyotsu India, a joint venture between Maruti Suzuki India and Toyota tshusho corporation
The WTO’s Wells ministerial conference was originally planned for which country?
No Sultan, Kazakhstan
DART was launched on which rocket from which space base!
Falcon nine rocket from the Vandenberg space for space
Where are the headquarters of WHO? Then versus established? Who is the current Director general?
Geneva Switzerland, 1948,tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Which became the first Indian club to field team in FIFA global series?
Mumbai city FC
Who became the first Indian to win Malaysian open?
Saurav Ghosal
Who has been selected as the delegate for Asian executive committee of interpol
Praveen Sinha
When is national milk Day observed?
26 November
What is 2021 theme of national milk Day
Sustainability in the dairy sector
Where is international Day of solidarity with the Palestinian people observe
29th November
When was the P – 75 contract signed and with whom? What was the former name of the naval group with which the contract was signed? what was the partner company?
2005, DCNS, Mazagaon dock shipbuilders
which was the first submarine under the P-75 project? when was it commissioned?
INS KALVARI, 2017
Who is going to be the country of honour at the Cannes film Festival?
India
The second Indo Nordic summit happened at – – –
Copenhagen
The Pawan Hans Limited helicopter services have been sold to which company? what was the bid by the company?
starNine mobility Private Limited, Rs.211.14 crore
how many helicopters are there in the Pawan Hans fleet? What is the stake in Pawan Hans between the government and state owned ONGC Ltd?
42 helicopters, 51:49
Starnine mobility Private Ltd is a three-way consortium of which three companies?. when was the company incorporated?
Big charter Private Limited, Maharaja aviation Private Limited and Almas global opportunity fund SPC, 2021
When was the
indian army is considered __ largest active army in the world. which is the first?
Second, China
Which place has maximum number of supercomputer?
China
Which was India’s first supercomputer? Which was India’s first indigenously developed? Where is the first indigenously developed supercomputer installed right now?
PARAM 8000, Param Shivaya, IITBHU
When was the national supercomputing Mission launched
2015
When was Indian Ocean Naval symposium established?
2007