Current Affairs

Question 1

The practice of a separate Railway Budget was started by the British in ______ under the recommendation of
a 10-member Acworth Committee

Answer 1

1924

Question 2

Recently, India successfully conducted flight tests of its indigenously developed anti-tank guided missile ________ from the Integrated Test Range in Odisha.

Answer 2

Dhruvastra (erstwhile known as Helina)

Question 3

Which state recently became first state to amend Industries (Facilitation) Act for Small, Medium & Large-Scale Industries?

Answer 3

karnataka

Question 4

India’s first online waste exchange platform launched by which state?

Answer 4

Andhra Pradesh

Question 5

Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics:

Answer 5

Amartya Sen

Question 6

Who was appointed as the new Chairman of Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for three-years?

Answer 6

Subhash Chandra Khuntia

Question 7

_________ was an important Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969

Answer 7

Jan Tinbergen

Question 8

Winner of Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Answer 8

Amartya Sen (this year)

Question 9

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladić to serve life term for ______ genocide as UN upholds ruling

Answer 9

1995

Question 10

The Abel Prize for 2020 goes to:

Answer 10

Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis

Question 11

IMF Managing Director:

Answer 11

Kristalina Georgieva

Question 12

India was the ___ largest recipient of FDI in 2019

Answer 12

9th

Question 13

current chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI):

Answer 13

Rajnish Kumar

Question 14

First female Arab astronaut

Answer 14

Nora Al Matrooshi

Question 15

Two Indian firms in WEF list of tech pioneers for 2020

Answer 15

ZestMoney and Stellapps

Question 16

Climate Pledge was founded by:

Answer 16

Amazon and environment firm Global Optimism

Question 17

The 1st gulf country to recognise Israel

Answer 17

UAE

Question 18

___ Airport is 1st to be free of single-use plastic usage

Answer 18

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport

Question 19

UN’s human rights chief:

Answer 19

Michelle Bachelet

Question 20

1st academic inst. to get nod from ICMR for its test kit

Answer 20

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi

Question 21

The World in 2030: Public Survey Report published by

Answer 21

UNESCO

Question 22

Which state is the max producer of wheat in 2020-21?

Answer 22

Madhya Pradesh

Question 23

Who is the first ombudsman of BCCI?

Answer 23

Justice D K Jain

Question 24

topmost country in IMD’s World Competitiveness Index

Answer 24

Singapore in 2020, Switzerland in 2021

Question 25

Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India

Answer 25

Ajay Tyagi

Question 26

India joins ‘_________’ at UN as founding member

Answer 26

Alliance for Poverty Eradication

Question 27

Who will receive the USIBC Global Leadership Award this year?

Answer 27

Tata Sons' Chairman N Chandrasekaran and Lockheed Martin's Jim Taiclet

Question 28

the first and current Chief of Defence Staff of India is _________

Answer 28

Bipin Rawat

Question 29

India's GDP has contracted by ___ in April to June 2020 compared to the previous year

Answer 29

24%

Question 30

US open championship- _________ became the first Indian in 7 years to win a grand slam singles match

Answer 30

Sumit Nagal

Question 31

Global innovation index 2020: _________ is ranked first followed by Sweden

Answer 31

Switzerland

Question 32

The Government of India has set a target of installing of installing 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by:

Answer 32

the year 2022

Question 33

Chairman and Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)

Answer 33

S Ramann

Question 34

Seasoned diplomat _________ has been appointed as India's envoy to China (The Ambassador of India to China)

Answer 34

Vikram Misri

Question 35

Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in ______ by Jamshedji Tata

Answer 35

1868

Question 36

Aircraft carrier _________ will be inducted in 2022: Eastern Naval Command. It is currently under construction at Kochi shipyard

Answer 36

INS Vikrant

Question 37

The first India-EU Summit, held in ______ in the year ______, resolved that India and EU would build a new strategic partnership

Answer 37

Lisbon; 2000

Question 38

Found in 2003, ___ is an independent commodity exchange based in Mumbai. It is the world's largest commodity trading exchange for gold as well as silver.

Answer 38

MCX

Question 39

Which Arab country has approved an expat quota bill which states that Indians should not exceed 15 per cent of the total population in the country?

Answer 39

Kuwait

Question 40

In 2016, which company has been selected by Government of India as an offset partner for Dassault Aviation to manufacture Rafale?

Answer 40

Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited

Question 41

How many Rafale fighter jets had India ordered from Dassault Aviation for about Rs 59,000 crore in September 2016?

Answer 41

36

Question 42

The J-14, designed by Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, ______ was said to be a twin engine design based on the single-engine J-10.

Answer 42

China

Question 43

For the first time, the G20 summit this year will take place virtually amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Which country will hold the 17th summit in 2022?

Answer 43

Indonesia (India in 2023)

Question 44

In the last bi-monthly monetary policy meet for the FY20, the RBI projected India’s GDP growth rate at _________ for the fiscal year 2021-22

Answer 44

10.5 percent

Question 45

Originally, the Constitution of India envisaged a supreme court with a chief justice and ______ judges; leaving it to parliament to increase this number

Answer 45

seven (currently we have 34 judges including the CJI)

Question 46

4 years after India and Iran signed an agreement to construct rail line from ___, the Iranian government has decided to proceed with the construction on its own

Answer 46

Chabahar port to Zahedan

Question 47

______ invested in 120 projects and created 5,429 new jobs in the UK to become the second-largest source of FDI after the US in 2019

Answer 47

India

Question 48

Which Article of the Indian Constitution requires the Union govt to distribute proceeds from all Central taxes based on recommendation of the Finance Commission?

Answer 48

Article 270

Question 49

The 14th Finance Commission recommended that the share of the States in the divisible pool be pegged at ___

Answer 49

42% (15th FC recommended 41%)

Question 50

As shown by _________ in their book, Indian Fiscal Federalism, the cesses and surcharges constituted 16.5% of Central gross tax revenue in 2015-16

Answer 50

YV Reddy and GR Reddy

Question 51

Which country launched its first mission 'Hope' (also called Al-Amal) to Mars as it strives to develop its technology capabilities?

Answer 51

UAE- Hope Probe blasted off from Japan's Space Center

Question 52

The ___ km-long-tunnel, built by the BRO, is the world's longest highway tunnel and connects Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley. Which state is it in?

Answer 52

9.02 km, Himachal Pradesh

Question 53

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called _________ is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014

Answer 53

Mangalyaan

Question 54

Indian-American, _________, was appointed as the acting chief of staff of the United States' space agency, NASA

Answer 54

Bhavya Lal

Question 55

_________ will be the first helicopter to attempt flight on another planet. The helicopter will ride to Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover.

Answer 55

Ingenuity, which weighs 4 pounds. (NASA launched)

Question 56

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), aka Mangalyaan, was India’s first interplanetary mission and it made it the ______ space agency to reach Mars

Answer 56

fourth (after Roscosmos, NASA, ESA)

Question 57

_________, a key member of India’s 1975 World Cup-winning hockey team, will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award

Answer 57

Ashok Kumar

Question 58

The blue London plaque has been erected on houses and venues associated with several Indian men including:

Answer 58

Gandhi, Raja Ram Mohon Roy, and BR Ambedkar.

Question 59

One of India's 3 main Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC): Improving the emissions intensity of its GDP by _________ by 2030 over 2005 levels

Answer 59

33–35%

Question 60

Pratyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at ______ and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), Noida resp.

Answer 60

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune

Question 61

The ______ was announced in 2015, with an aim to connect national institutions with more than 70 high-performance computing facilities over the period of _

Answer 61

National Supercomputing Mission; seven years

Question 62

the International Booker Prize 2020 was awarded to “The Discomfort of Evening,” written by the Dutch novelist _________

Answer 62

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (translates by M Hutchison)

Question 63

The Successor is a 2003 novel by the Albanian writer and INAUGURAL International Man Booker Prize winner _________

Answer 63

Ismail Kadare

Question 64

_________ was the first winner of the Booker prize in 1969 with Something to Answer For. From 2002, the prize became 'The Man Booker Prize'

Answer 64

PH Newby

Question 65

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to _________ "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus."

Answer 65

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice

Question 66

India and Myanmar have agreed to work towards operationalising the _________ in the first quarter of 2021.

Answer 66

Sittwe port

Question 67

Which organisation has developed an Advanced Chaff Technology to safeguard naval ships against missile attack?

Answer 67

DRDO

Question 68

The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day (_________ 2020)

Answer 68

5th October

Question 69

In 2019, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu in _________ inaugurated India’s longest electrified rail tunnel between Cherlopalli and Rapuru

Answer 69

Andhra Pradesh

Question 70

Which bank has launched digital platform 'Merchant Stack' to target over 2 crore retail merchants in the country?

Answer 70

ICICI Bank

Question 71

Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated India’s first plasma bank at the _________ to ease access to plasma that is being used as a trial to treat Covid-19 patients.

Answer 71

Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS)

Question 72

India and Kyrgyzstan Special Forces started a military exercise named “Exercise _________” in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Answer 72

Khanjar

Question 73

The Middle East Quartet, set up in 2002, consists of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and ______.

Answer 73

Russia

Question 74

In Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there are 17 goals and 169 targets specific targets to be achieved by ______

Answer 74

2030

Question 75

Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, is a run-of-the-river power project on the ______ River

Answer 75

Chenab

Question 76

The WTO has 164 members and 24 observer govts. _________ became the 164th member in July 2016. Also, when was WTO founded?

Answer 76

Afghanistan. WTO was founded in 1995

Question 77

_________ was going to, for the first time, hold combat readiness war game with Indian and French war ships at the naval exercise Varuna

Answer 77

The UAE (but they did not finally participate)

Question 78

The WHO launched the _________ initiative to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic.

Answer 78

COVID-19 Law Lab

Question 79

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to _________ "for the development of a method for genome editing." (CRISPR-cas9)

Answer 79

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna

Question 80

______ is developing exoskeleton for the Indian soldiers posted in high altitudes

Answer 80

DRDO

Question 81

The United States recently approved 550 million USD for the _________ Solar Project. The project will provide electricity to 87,500 homes.

Answer 81

Crimson Solar Project

Question 82

India, Bangladesh and Russia signed an agreement for the _________ nuclear power plant project in northwest Bangladesh.

Answer 82

Rooppur nuclear power plant

Question 83

Eight beaches in the country have bagged the coveted eco-label ‘Blue Flag’ from the international agency _________

Answer 83

Foundation for Environment Education, Denmark

Question 84

The Nobel Prize 2020 in Economic Sciences was awarded to _________ “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”

Answer 84

Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson

Question 85

Which state’s M Veeralakshmi Shatters The Glass Ceiling, Becomes India’s First Woman Ambulance Driver?

Answer 85

Tamil Nadu

Question 86

India’s GM _________ won the 48th annual world open chess tournament (online) recently. (Usually held in Philadelphia, the USA)

Answer 86

P. Iniyan

Question 87

Union Cabinet has approved the implementation of the Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States (STARS) project with the financial support of:

Answer 87

World Bank

Question 88

The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences launched two mobiles apps _________ to propagate data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for public users

Answer 88

‘Mausam’ and ‘Meghdoot’

Question 89

The Centre, in collaboration with ______, has decided to convert monumental dwelling of ravines in Gwalior-Chambal belt of Madhya Pradesh into arable land

Answer 89

the World Bank

Question 90

_________ has topped the list of aspirational districts ranked by government thinktank Niti Aayog for the February-June 2020 period

Answer 90

Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh

Question 91

The minimum donation one can make in PMNRF is Rs 100 while PM CARES accepts micro donations as low as ______.

Answer 91

Rs 10

Question 92

U.S. has vowed to stand up against Beijing’s territorial claims to much of the South China Sea, including the contested _________ Islands

Answer 92

Paracel islands

Question 93

_________ has declared an end to its Ebola outbreak, marking the first time in years the central African country has been free of it

Answer 93

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Question 94

Government has notified changes in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms on civil aviation. It will permit non-resident Indian nationals to own:

Answer 94

100 per cent stake of Air India.

Question 95

Yogi Adityanath flagged off the first _________, the country’s first “private” train run by its subsidiary IRCTC, on the Lucknow-New Delhi route.

Answer 95

Tejas Express

Question 96

_________ has approved a three million US dollar grant to India from its Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund (APDRF)

Answer 96

The Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Question 97

For the first time, Huawei Technologies Co. has passed _________ as the world’s No. 1 supplier of smartphones

Answer 97

Samsung Electronics

Question 98

The Ganges River Dolphin or also called ‘Susu,’ is the National Aquatic Animal of India. The declaration was made in ______

Answer 98

2009

Question 99

FinTech company __________ launched mpay.me - a UPI payment link service to send and receive money from any UPI payment app.

Answer 99

MobiKwik

Question 100

The Committee for Evolution of the New Education Policy (NEP) (Chairman: _________) submitted its report on May 7, 2016.

Answer 100

Mr. T. S. R Subramanian

Question 101

Global Tiger Day, often called International Tiger Day, is an annual celebration to raise awareness for tiger conservation, held annually on _________

Answer 101

29 July

Question 102

_________ has maintained its top spot when it comes to tiger population among all the 50 tiger reserves in the country

Answer 102

Corbett Tiger Reserve

Question 103

The First Finance Commission of India was appointed in 1951, for the period 1952-57 by the President of India and was chaired by _________.

Answer 103

K. C. Neogy

Question 104

Total number of Khelo India State Centre of Excellence (KISCE)

Answer 104

24

Question 105

First Indian woman to win Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award

Answer 105

Aishwarya Sridhar

Question 106

_________, an Indian-origin plastic surgeon, has been named as ”Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020” in the medical innovation category

Answer 106

Dr Jajini Varghese

Question 107

The report on tiger status detailed _________ has the highest number of tigers in the country with 526 mighty cats

Answer 107

Madhya Pradesh

Question 108

Mauritius claims it was forced to hand over the ______ Islands to the U.K. in 1965 for independence, which it gained three years later

Answer 108

Chagos

Question 109

Mauritius had proposed an exchange allowing the UK to let the ___ use the Chagos Islands for defence purposes. The UK rejected the proposal

Answer 109

USA

Question 110

The current President of Mauritius is:

Answer 110

Prithvirajsing Roopun.

Question 111

The world's first hydrogen powered yacht was unveiled at ______ yacht show 2019 as a concept design.

Answer 111

Monaco

Question 112

_________ has become the first state in the country to cap prices of all kinds of masks

Answer 112

Maharashtra

Question 113

The poll spending limit for candidates contesting Lok Sabha and Assembly elections has been enhanced by:

Answer 113

10 percent.

Question 114

The world’s first iodine-based sanitisers will be launched in which country?

Answer 114

India

Question 115

_________ has beaten Germany to the hosting right of the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships.

Answer 115

South Africa

Question 116

Kashmiris have traditionally observed ___ as black day to mark the 1st landing of Indian troops in the valley

Answer 116

October 27th

Question 117

India-born US District Judge _________ will preside over the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google.

Answer 117

Amit Mehta

Question 118

Which 2 countries sign 'world first' carbon offset deal under Paris Agreement?

Answer 118

Peru and Switzerland

Question 119

______ will provide customised news for the 30 million users of Snapchat in India.

Answer 119

NDTV

Question 120

___ has been commissioned. it is the last of four anti-submarine warfare ships under the Navy's Project 28

Answer 120

INS kavaratti

Question 121

Cabinet approves adoption of amendment to Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Raj act ______

Answer 121

1989

Question 122

Recently, the Taliban has captured Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam - _________.

Answer 122

Dahla Dam

Question 123

India and US expected to sign ______ deal during 2 plus 2 dialogue this month end

Answer 123

BECA (Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement)

Question 124

_________ is NASA's first asteroid sample return mission launched in 2016

Answer 124

OSIRIS-REx

Question 125

BepiColombo- it is a joint endeavour between the European space agency ESA and _________

Answer 125

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA.

Question 126

Who is currently the Chief Secretary of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir?

Answer 126

B. V. R. Subrahmanyam

Question 127

China recently launched _________ rocket from the Xichang satellite launch centre. It is a Yaogan satellite

Answer 127

Changsei 2C rocket

Question 128

PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) was launched by the Ministry of _________

Answer 128

Housing and Urban Affairs

Question 129

_________ - the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)

Answer 129

Mission Karmayogi

Question 130

During the British raj, Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and _________ reformed it

Answer 130

Charles Cornwallis (Father of Civil Services in India)

Question 131

The Government has set a target of doubling of farmers’ income by the year ______.

Answer 131

2022

Question 132

Which state/ UT has topped the country in the latest ease of doing business rankings?

Answer 132

Andhra Pradesh

Question 133

Chandrayaan-2 launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, aboard a:

Answer 133

Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket

Question 134

The Gaganyaan mission is expected to cost around Rs _________

Answer 134

10,000 crore.

Question 135

If India does launch the Gaganyaan mission, it will be the fourth nation to do so after:

Answer 135

the United States, Russia and China.

Question 136

The four astronauts-elect for India's first manned space mission Gaganyaan have completed training in:

Answer 136

Russia

Question 137

The Reserve Bank of India has announced that it will carry out US-style '___' to bring down interest rates.

Answer 137

Operation Twist

Question 138

National Education Commission was formed on 14 July 1964 under the chairmanship of:

Answer 138

Daulat Singh Kothari

Question 139

_________ rules in Amazon's favour, puts Future Group and Reliance industries limited deal on hold

Answer 139

Singapore International Arbitration Centre

Question 140

Acc to the Singapore International Arbitration Centre 2019 report, ___ was the top user of its arbitration seat

Answer 140

India

Question 141

_________ is an American activist who started the Me Too movement in 2006

Answer 141

Tarana Burke

Question 142

BECA is the ___ foundational agreement signed b/w India and the US for strengthening defence ties

Answer 142

4th

Question 143

General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) was signed in ___ between India and USA.

Answer 143

2002

Question 144

Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) is a logistics support agreement signed in:

Answer 144

2016.

Question 145

Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) was signed in ______.

Answer 145

2018

Question 146

Who was the first lieutenant governor of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir?

Answer 146

Girish Chandra Murmu

Question 147

Abdullah Abdullah leads the ___, which is expected to lead the intra-Afghan peace talks with the Taliban.

Answer 147

High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR)

Question 148

_________ Airport first in Asia-Pacific to get ACI World health accreditation

Answer 148

Incheon International Airport

Question 149

Its first component launched into orbit in 1998, and ___ is now the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit.

Answer 149

The International Space Station (ISS)

Question 150

Central Government has reportedly appointed _________ as the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)

Answer 150

Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha

Question 151

Tamil actor _________ announced that he was opting out of the biopic 800 based on Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, on the cricketer's request

Answer 151

Vijay Sethupathi

Question 152

_________, Tamil nationalist and guerrilla leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

Answer 152

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Question 153

Who was the Indian writer and politician who had the longest tenure as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu with 6,863 days in office?

Answer 153

Muthuvel Karunanidhi

Question 154

World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is held every year on _________. The day pays tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service

Answer 154

August 19

Question 155

______ was a mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force for airdropping supplies over the town of Jaffna in Sri Lanka on 4 June 1987 to support the Tamil Tigers

Answer 155

Operation Poomalai, also known as Eagle Mission 4

Question 156

World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialised agency of the United Nation, established on 7 April ______, and headquartered in Geneva

Answer 156

1948

Question 157

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil is a specific grade of crude oil and one of the main three benchmarks in oil pricing, along with:

Answer 157

Brent and Dubai Crude.

Question 158

______ is a plan of setting into space three spacecraft, a mother and two daughter spacecraft, which will fly in a triangular formation, trailing the earth

Answer 158

e-LISA

Question 159

Paris Agreement entered into force when 55 Parties representing at least 55% of global emissions joined the Agreement. It entered into force on:

Answer 159

Nov 4 2016

Question 160

The United States was the world's largest national CO2 emitter until 2006, when ______ surpassed U.S. emissions that year

Answer 160

China

Question 161

The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is located in ______, Germany.

Answer 161

Bonn

Question 162

The Global EV Outlook is an annual publication by _________ that identifies and discusses recent developments in electric mobility across the globe

Answer 162

International Energy Agency

Question 163

_________ announced the launch of India's first comprehensive banking programme for millennial customers, in the age bracket of 18 years to 35 years.

Answer 163

ICICI Bank

Question 164

Which state has launched an awareness campaign regarding the burning of Crop remains in many parts of the state?

Answer 164

Uttar Pradesh

Question 165

The ______ scheme was launched to provide uniform pensions for Armed Forces Veterans, who are retiring in the same rank with the same length of service.

Answer 165

One Rank One Pension (OROP)

Question 166

The International Day for Monuments and Sites also known as World Heritage Day is an international observance held on __________ each year

Answer 166

18 April

Question 167

European Commission plans to borrow around 150 billion euros annually until ______ to finance the bloc’s plan to make its economy greener and digitalised

Answer 167

2026

Question 168

Name the state which appointed the former Chief Secretary of state 'Nilam Sawhney' as the State Election Commissioner in April 2021.

Answer 168

Andhra Pradesh

Question 169

The origins of the Five Eyes alliance can be traced back to the _________, which was issued in August 1941

Answer 169

Atlantic Charter

Question 170

Recently, India unveiled new development initiatives for Afghanistan, including a dam to supply water to Kabul. The name of this dam is:

Answer 170

Shahtoot dam (near Kabul)

Question 171

In Himachal Pradesh, the state government launched _______to sensitize the people regarding Covid-19 pandemic

Answer 171

Him Suraksha Abhiyan

Question 172

Nagaland will form a committee for the preparation of the Register of _________ of Nagaland (RIIN), seen as a variant of Assam’s National Register of Citizens.

Answer 172

Indigenous Inhabitants

Question 173

Chaitanya Tamhane's “_________” has bagged the prestigious FIPRESCI award at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.

Answer 173

The Disciple

Question 174

India has been ranked ______ position “Global Economic Freedom Index 2020 Annual Report” by Canada's Fraser Institute

Answer 174

105th

Question 175

Michelin-starred chef _________ accepts a 2020 Asia Game Changer Award for dropping everything to feed millions in India

Answer 175

Vikas Khanna

Question 176

In the happiness rankings of states and union territories, _________, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands are the top three

Answer 176

Mizoram, Punjab

Question 177

_________ is India’s longest road tunnel with a length of 9.28 km. It is the first tunnel in the India with a fully integrated tunnel control system

Answer 177

Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel

Question 178

_________ becomes the first state to come out with Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Cybersecurity policies in the country.

Answer 178

Tamil Nadu

Question 179

In February 2020, Union Cabinet approved the setting up of the country’s 13th major port at Vadhavan in which state?

Answer 179

Maharashtra

Question 180

United Nations and Britain will co-host a global climate summit on Dec 12 to increase momentum ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26):

Answer 180

to be held in Glasgow in November 2021.

Question 181

_________ is the capital and largest city of Armenia. _________ is currently serving as Prime Minister of Armenia.

Answer 181

Yerevan; Nikol Pashinyan is the PM (resigned)

Question 182

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India was set up on _________ under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Code).

Answer 182

1st October 2016

Question 183

Labour falls in the Concurrent List of the Indian constitution. Article ___ of the Indian Constitution prohibits “forced labour”

Answer 183

Article 23

Question 184

__________ has scaled Mt Annapurna, the 10th highest mountain peak in the world, becoming the first Indian woman climber to achieve the feat.

Answer 184

Priyanka Mohite

Question 185

_________ announced that it has received the final nod from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit (BBPOU)

Answer 185

Vakrangee Ltd

Question 186

If successful in 2024, _________ could become the fourth nation on Earth to land a spacecraft on the moon, after the US, the Soviet Union and China

Answer 186

the UAE

Question 187

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said that _________ mobile application of the State Government will reduce hardships of farmers

Answer 187

e- Peek Pahani

Question 188

_________, Jal Shakti Minister, said that aim of Jal Shakti Mission is to provide functional tap water connections by 2024 to all the rural households

Answer 188

Gajendra Singh Sherawat

Question 189

Atal Tunnel or the Rohtang tunnel has been built in the Pir Panjal range of Himalayas. The tunnel is located at an altitude of:

Answer 189

10,000 Feet from the Mean Sea Level (MSL)

Question 190

The Indian embassy in _________ becomes first to go solar on October 2, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

Answer 190

Madagascar

Question 191

World Malaria Day is an international observance commemorated every year on _________ and recognizes global efforts to control malaria

Answer 191

25 April

Question 192

Which South Asian country is on track to become the first country in the world to have its own hospitality loyalty program?

Answer 192

Maldives

Question 193

_________ and The New India Assurance Co have been identified as Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SIIs) for 2020-21

Answer 193

LIC, General Insurance Corporation of India

Question 194

Ministry of Jal Shakti is a ministry formed in 2019. It was formed by merging of two ministries; Ministry of ______ and Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

Answer 194

Water Resources, River Development,Ganga Rejuvenation

Question 195

In the domain of space exploration, ______ will be taking part in ISRO’s mission to Venus, scheduled to launch in 2025

Answer 195

France

Question 196

The Government launched the ambitious Sagarmala Programme in March ______, with the vision of port-led development and growth

Answer 196

2017

Question 197

Nearly ________ states in the country have a drinking water source which is contaminated with fluoride, arsenic, iron, nitrate, heavy metals, or salinity

Answer 197

20

Question 198

In November 2020, as part of Mission _________, INS Airavat delivered food aid to Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea

Answer 198

Mission Sagar-II

Question 199

Recently, the Indian Naval Ship (INS) Kiltan has arrived at Sihanoukville Port, _________ as part of ongoing Mission Sagar-III.

Answer 199

Cambodia

Question 200

Azim Premji, the founder-chairman of ______, topped the list of philanthropists in India for 2020 with ₹ 7,904 crore in donations.

Answer 200

Wipro

Question 201

PM Modi virtually co-chaired the 17th ASEAN-India Summit along with the Prime Minister of which country?

Answer 201

Vietnam

Question 202

Every year since 2008, _________ is celebrated as education day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Answer 202

November 11

Question 203

_________ is the second-largest state in the country by area after Rajasthan. This state was the largest in India by area until 2000

Answer 203

Madhya Pradesh

Question 204

Malayalam film “_________”, based on celebrated writer S Hareesh's short story, Maoist, has been selected as India's official entry for Oscars 2021.

Answer 204

Jallikattu

Question 205

The historical fort cities of _________ in Madhya Pradesh have been included in the list of UNESCOs world heritage cities

Answer 205

Gwalior and Orchha

Question 206

Modi is set to virtually lay the foundation stones for the world's largest hybrid renewable energy park at ______

Answer 206

Khavda (Gujarat)

Question 207

The Indian govt has decided to file an appeal against the arbitration award in the retrospective tax demand case involving which company?

Answer 207

Cairn Energy

Question 208

India's first inter-state tiger translocation project was initiated in ______ wherein a male from Kanha Tiger Reserve and a female from MP were relocated

Answer 208

2018

Question 209

While Cairn Energy sold the majority of Cairn India, to _________ in 2011, income-tax authorities barred it from selling 10 per cent, citing pending taxation issues

Answer 209

Vedanta

Question 210

_________ has sourced the world’s first consignment of ‘carbon neutral oil’ from the US as it looks to become a net zero-carbon company by 2035

Answer 210

Reliance Industries Ltd

Question 211

Nobel laureate _________'s new book titled 'Covid-19: Sabhyata ka Sankat Aur Samadhan' was launched

Answer 211

Kailash Satyarthi

Question 212

The OPEC has since 1965 been headquartered in _________, although it is not an OPEC member state.

Answer 212

Vienna, Austria

Question 213

The first country which officially inducted a submarine handed over by India is:

Answer 213

Myanmar

Question 214

Who chaired the first meeting of National Startup Advisory Council (NSAC)?

Answer 214

Trade minister Piyush Goyal

Question 215

Reserve Bank of India extended restrictions on crisis-ridden _________ by three months till 31 March, 2021.

Answer 215

Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank

Question 216

_________ launched a new initiative called ‘Aahaar Kranti’

Answer 216

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Question 217

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization located at _________

Answer 217

The Hague in the Netherlands.

Question 218

Located in the Andaman Sea is the _________, the only confirmed active volcano in South Asia.

Answer 218

Barren Volcano

Question 219

Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices recommends MSP for 22 crops and:

Answer 219

Fair & Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane

Question 220

EU's plan, "Fit for 55," calls for its 27 member states to cut their output of greenhouse gases by:

Answer 220

by 55% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels

Question 221

Commonwealth Day is celebrated on May 24. It is also known as the _________

Answer 221

Empire Day

Question 222

Who has won the International Children's Peace Prize 2020 for his fight against cyberbullying?

Answer 222

Bangladeshi teen, 17-year-old Sadat Rahman

Question 223

India ranked ___ among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2020

Answer 223

94

Question 224

Name the 'father of fiber optics' who passed away in December 2020.

Answer 224

Narinder Singh Kapany, awarded Padma Vibhushan

Question 225

Currently, _________ are on the Financial Action Task Force black list.

Answer 225

Iran and North Korea

Question 226

The vehicle scrappage policy recommends the mandatory scrapping of all government vehicles _____

Answer 226

over 15 years old (only applicable to 4 wheelers)

Question 227

The Lonar Lake in Maharashtra and ____, in Agra, have been added to the list of recognised Ramsar sites.

Answer 227

Sur Sarovar, also known as Keetham Lake

Question 228

Vehicle manufacturers have been advised to provide ______ per cent discount on purchase of new vehicles against scrapping certificates

Answer 228

five

Question 229

International Museum Day is an international day held annually on or around ______

Answer 229

18 May

Question 230

The economy of India is the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the ______-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).

Answer 230

third

Question 231

A six-year study conducted by The Nature and Butterfly Society (TNBS) has identified Siruvani hills in _____________ as a butterfly super-hotspot.

Answer 231

Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu

Question 232

The Person of the Year is usually an individual, but multiple people have been named in the past. Time began its tradition in ______.

Answer 232

1927

Question 233

_________ won the prestigious Etienne Glichitch Award in recognition of its contribution to the growth and development of the sport

Answer 233

Hockey India

Question 234

The December 31, 1999 issue of Time named ______ the "Person of the Century". Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi were chosen as runners-up.

Answer 234

Albert Einstein

Question 235

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization that was based in northeastern Sri Lanka. When was it founded?

Answer 235

1976

Question 236

______ will be taking over the chairship of the BRICS, which would be the third BRICS Presidency for the country, and will host the 13th BRICS Summit in 2021

Answer 236

India

Question 237

National Commission on Farmers (NCF) headed by _________ had recommended that MSP should be at least 50% more than the weighted avg cost of prodn.

Answer 237

MS Swaminathan (recommended agri in concurrent list)

Question 238

In _________, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Mr Nitin Gadkari initiated Asia’s longest ZojiLa Tunnel works virtually

Answer 238

Ladakh Union Territory

Question 239

Which state has become the first state in the country to provide 100 per cent tap water connections in rural areas covering 2.30 lakh households?

Answer 239

Goa

Question 240

FATF is an intergovernmental organization founded in ______ on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering.

Answer 240

1989

Question 241

_________ is a Kenyan advocate and Human Rights Defender. She is the first woman to serve as Chief Justice in Kenya

Answer 241

Martha Karambu Koome

Question 242

While FIIs are short-term investments, the FDI’s | are long term investment. ___ can enter the stock market easily and also withdraw from it easily.

Answer 242

FII

Question 243

The Union government on Tuesday shifted economic affairs secretary _________ as the new revenue secretary

Answer 243

Tarun Bajaj (Now Ajay Seth is the economic affairs secy)

Question 244

_________ became the first Indian woman sailor to secure an Olympics quota place in the Laser Radial event.

Answer 244

Nethra Kumanan

Question 245

The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to _________, of the Netherlands for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics

Answer 245

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff

Question 246

The Montreux Record is a register of wetland sites | on the List of Wetlands of International Importance. At present, two wetlands of India are in Montreux Record:

Answer 246

Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan), Loktak Lake (Manipur)

Question 247

The northeastern state of _________ has accorded ‘industry’ status to sports. The main aim of the decision is to professionalise sports in the state.

Answer 247

Mizoram

Question 248

Who tied Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles by producing a nearly perfect performance against Novak Djokovic in the French Open final?

Answer 248

Rafael Nadal

Question 249

Indian-origin philanthropist _________ has been awarded the prestigious Sandra Neese Lifetime Achievement Award

Answer 249

Harish Kotecha

Question 250

The second phase of which programme was commenced on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11?

Answer 250

Vigyan Jyoti programme

Question 251

Steve Smith was named as the ICC Men's TEST Cricketer of the Decade. Who was given the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade award?

Answer 251

Rashid Khan

Question 252

In a first, an Indian has become the global CEO in Bata's 126-year history. _________, who was the CEO of Bata India, has now been elevated to the global role

Answer 252

Sandeep Kataria

Question 253

Who was named the Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year in the PCB awards following his stellar performances during the season?

Answer 253

Pakistan captain Babar Azam

Question 254

The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional intergovernmental political and economic union consisting of which countries?

Answer 254

Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE

Question 255

Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in ______ by the Government of India. Kailash Sankhala was the first director of Project Tiger

Answer 255

1973

Question 256

The world's largest floating 600 MW solar energy project to be constructed at Omkareshwar dam on Narmada river in Khandwa district of which state?

Answer 256

Madhya Pradesh (will begin operations in 2022-23)

Question 257

Himachal Pradesh CM declared _________ as the second capital of the state after Shimla, making it the third Indian state to have more than one capital.

Answer 257

Dharamshala

Question 258

India’s _________ won the 10m air rifle event at the fifth edition of the International Online Shooting Championship.

Answer 258

Visnu Shivaraj Pandian

Question 259

The theme of the 12th BRICS Summit, Meeting of the Leaders of BRICS countries is “BRICS Partnership for _________”.

Answer 259

Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth

Question 260

MARSIS – Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding spacecraft belongs to which space agency?

Answer 260

European Space Agency

Question 261

_________ was known as “Pied Piper of Delhi”. He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism in 1984. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2005.

Answer 261

RK Laxman

Question 262

The _________ airport has become the first airport of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) which is entirely solar-powered

Answer 262

Puducherry Airport

Question 263

Biden has invoked emergency powers to avoid fuel shortages after the worst-ever cyber-attack on US infrastructure shut down a _________

Answer 263

crucial pipeline

Question 264

Election Commission said the maximum limit on the number of star campaigners for recognized National and State political parties will be:

Answer 264

30 in place of 40

Question 265

______ is a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission. The mission's primary goal is to obtain a sample of at least 60 g from Asteroid Bennu

Answer 265

OSIRIS-REx

Question 266

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the keynote address at the Invest India Conference in which country through video conferencing?

Answer 266

Canada

Question 267

American poet _________ won the 2020 Nobel Literature Prize on October 8, an unexpected choice known for themes of childhood and family life

Answer 267

Louise Gluck

Question 268

World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7th April. What is the theme for “World Health Day – 2021”?

Answer 268

“Building a fairer, healthier world for everyone”

Question 269

Unlike the Henley Passport Index, which put Japan’s passport at the top of its list recently, Arton Capital’s Passport Index put _________ at the top

Answer 269

Germany

Question 270

___ is all set to host India's biggest floating solar power plant with a capacity of 100 MW. The project is being set up at Ramagundam thermal power plant reservoir

Answer 270

Telangana

Question 271

______ successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor, marking a great advance in the country’s nuclear power research capabilities.

Answer 271

China

Question 272

Which country charges ahead with its controversial plan to relocate Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, a remote island in the Bay of Bengal?

Answer 272

Bangladesh

Question 273

Recently, India participated in the ___ Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM) and shared plans for research and long-term cooperation in the Arctic Region.

Answer 273

3rd ASM

Question 274

_________ becomes fourth ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State/ Union Territory. It has achieved the ‘Har Ghar Jal’ status much ahead of the target fixed

Answer 274

Puducherry

Question 275

International Day of Education is an annual international observance day held on ___________ and is dedicated to education.

Answer 275

24 January

Question 276

NASA, as part of its Artemis program, will send its first mobile robot to the Moon in ______ in search of ice and other resources on and below the lunar surface

Answer 276

2023

Question 277

The Paris Agreement opened for signature on _________ at UN Headquarters in New York. It entered into force on 4 November 2016

Answer 277

22 April 2016 – Earth Day

Question 278

Which Article of the Paris Agreement allows countries to leave the Paris Agreement and lays down the process for leaving?

Answer 278

Article 28

Question 279

In 75 years, the United Nations, its specialised agencies, related agencies, and staff were awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize ______ times

Answer 279

twelve

Question 280

NorthStar plans to provide safe, sustainable solutions through its ______ satellite constellation designed specifically for Space Situational Awareness (SSA)

Answer 280

Skylark

Question 281

May 11 is celebrated as National _________ Day. May 11 is marked as the anniversary of Pokhran nuclear tests of 1998

Answer 281

National Technology Day

Question 282

The first bank to use the bad bank strategy was _________, which created a bad bank entity in 1988 to hold $1.4 billion of bad loans.

Answer 282

US-based Mellon Bank

Question 283

In a 4:1 judgment, 5-membered constitution bench of Supreme Court, in which case, has allowed women of all ages to worship in Sabarimala Temple?

Answer 283

Indian Young Lawyers Association vs. the State of Kerala

Question 284

______ and Sudan agreed to take steps to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States

Answer 284

Israel

Question 285

The UK-wide referendum in June 2016, was instigated by which Prime Minister after an election manifesto promise?

Answer 285

David Cameron

Question 286

In ______, the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order was introduced, whereby the region was given province-like status

Answer 286

2009

Question 287

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is made up of 10 Southeast Asian countries, as well as:

Answer 287

South Korea, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Question 288

Noted broadcaster and natural historian _________ has been presented the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.

Answer 288

David Attenborough

Question 289

The _________ is named the "S.S. Kalpana Chawla", in memory of Chawla who died w her 6 crewmates aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107)

Answer 289

NG-14 Cygnus

Question 290

The Indira Gandhi Prize for popularization of science for 2020 has been awarded to Prof. _________ of IMSc

Answer 290

R Ramanujam

Question 291

Pakistan's Ambassador to France _________ has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of Pakistan to India

Answer 291

Mueenul Haq

Question 292

The USA President Joe Biden has appointed _________ as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India

Answer 292

Donald L. Heflin

Question 293

_________ was an Indian Sikh political leader, he was an Indian independence movement leader and the first Defence Minister of India.

Answer 293

Baldev Singh

Question 294

Uttar Pradesh will soon have its first sports university in _________ after the state cabinet approved the State Sports University Bill 2021 draft.

Answer 294

Meerut

Question 295

Britain has appointed _________ as the full-time President of the United Nations COP26 climate conference to be held in Glasgow this November

Answer 295

Alok Sharma

Question 296

_________ has announced that it will offer a free Internationalized Domain Name, IDN in any of the preferred 22 official Indian language

Answer 296

The National Internet Exchange of India, NIXI

Question 297

_________ has become the first union territory in the country to operationalise public financial management system (PFMS) at the district level.

Answer 297

Jammu and Kashmir

Question 298

Originally Malabar begun in 1992 as a bilateral exercise between India and the United States, Japan became a permanent partner in which year?

Answer 298

2015

Question 299

The first of its kind in the world to have been fully deployed, the _________ is a digital version of the Bahamian dollar.

Answer 299

sand dollar

Question 300

The recent Suez Canal blockage was the canal's longest since it was shut for eight years following the _________.

Answer 300

1967 Six-Day War

Question 301

______ is a project under which 4 Anti-Submarine Warships have to be built indigenously in India by Garden Reach Shipbuilders And Engineers (GRSE)

Answer 301

P 28

Question 302

India and which country are now planning to jointly develop a new generation of Brahmos missiles with 600 km-plus range?

Answer 302

Russia

Question 303

On 23 March 2021, while traveling from Tanjung Pelepas in _________ to Rotterdam in Netherlands, the ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking it.

Answer 303

Malaysia

Question 304

In Badminton, former World Champion _________ clinched the Denmark Open title beating three-time world champion Carolina Marin

Answer 304

Nozomi Okuhara

Question 305

______'s first water taxi service launched in the backwaters of Alappuzha. The water taxi is set to ferry passengers.

Answer 305

Kerala

Question 306

The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, _________

Answer 306

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Question 307

The UN General Assembly, in its resolution 7 April 2011, declared _________ as the International Day of Human Space Flight

Answer 307

12 April

Question 308

Who has been elected as the Chairperson of the Governing Body of the ILO for the period October 2020- June 2021?

Answer 308

Apurva Chandra

Question 309

On 13 April 1919, people gathered at Jallianwala Bagh to protest against the arrest of the two nationalist leaders:

Answer 309

Satya Pal and Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew.

Question 310

In which state of India, the Mobile Polling Units are going door-to-door for the first time for collection of ballot papers?

Answer 310

Madhya Pradesh

Question 311

This is the first time Australia will be joining the Malabar exercise after ______ and it will bring all four countries of the Quadrilateral grouping together

Answer 311

2007

Question 312

Pakistan was put on the grey list by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in June ______ and the country has been struggling to come out of it.

Answer 312

2018

Question 313

FATF has maintained the FATF blacklist (formally called the “_________”) and the FATF greylist (formally called the “Other monitored jurisdictions”)

Answer 313

Call for action

Question 314

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), was adopted on 7 July 2017, opened for signature on 20 September 2017, and entered into force on:

Answer 314

22 January 2021

Question 315

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said that the country will achieve zero carbon emissions by which year?

Answer 315

2050

Question 316

Which is the first bank in the country to go live as a ‘Financial Information Provider’ (FIP) under the new ‘Account Aggregator Framework’ of the RBI?

Answer 316

IndusInd Bank

Question 317

India has 13 major ports (12 Government-owned and | one private). _________ which was notified as major port in 2010 was removed of its status

Answer 317

Port Blair

Question 318

On 14th April every year we celebrate the birth anniversary of Dr. BR Ambedkar as Ambedkar Jayanti. _________ is his birth place

Answer 318

Mhow of Madhya Pradesh

Question 319

Government teachers in ______ have successfully completed ‘Rabta Muhim’, a week-long campaign, by speaking with 12.71 lakh parents over the phone.

Answer 319

Punjab

Question 320

______ had become the first state in the country to fix the floor price for vegetables. The floor price will be 20 per cent above the production cost of the vegetable

Answer 320

Kerala

Question 321

______ has the highest number of real-time online transactions in 2020 as per report by UK based payments system company ACI.

Answer 321

India

Question 322

Former diplomat and Central Information Commissioner _________ is tipped to be appointed as the country’s next Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)

Answer 322

Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha

Question 323

The World Economic Forum has released the Global Gender Gap Report 2021. India has been placed at which rank?

Answer 323

140th

Question 324

The Raisina Dialogue is India’s premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics. PM Modi inaugurated which Edition of Raisina Dialogue recently?

Answer 324

6th

Question 325

International Film Festival of India announced this edition’s Country in Focus recently. The Country in Focus for the 51st IFFI is _________.

Answer 325

Bangladesh

Question 326

_________, Secretary General of BIMSTEC from the Kingdom of Bhutan assumed his charges in November 2020

Answer 326

Mr. Tenzin Lekphell

Question 327

India secured ___ rank in the 12th edition of the biennial Environment Performance Index (EPI Index 2020)

Answer 327

168

Question 328

Indian Army's Major Anoop Mishra has indigenously developed world's first universal bulletproof jacket '______'

Answer 328

Shakti

Question 329

The “SKOCH Challenger Award- Transparency in Governance” was conferred to Ministry of _________ for recognizing its IT-led initiatives

Answer 329

Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR)

Question 330

The government has decided to observe which day as 'Parakram Diwas' to commemorate the birth anniversary of Bose?

Answer 330

January 23

Question 331

Which state retained its leadership position in the major States category in the second edition of India Innovation Index released by NITI Aayog?

Answer 331

Karnataka

Question 332

_________, a young Indian mathematician, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others

Answer 332

Nikhil Srivastava

Question 333

Out of 189 countries, India has ranked ___ on the Human Development Index 2020 prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Answer 333

131

Question 334

The City of London Corporation announced it would remove statues of _________ from the Guildhall, in Moorgate

Answer 334

William Beckford and Sir John Cass

Question 335

SpaceX has managed to break the world record of the most number of satellites carried by a single rocket as which rocket carried as many as 143 payloads?

Answer 335

Falcon 9 (The mission was called Transporter-1)

Question 336

In its latest World Economic Outlook update, the IMF predicted that India's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow at the pace of _________ in 2021.

Answer 336

11.5 per cent (now increased to 12.5%)

Question 337

India climbed four spots on the Global Innovation Index 2020 and is now at ______ position in the list of top 50 innovative countries

Answer 337

48th

Question 338

Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2021 is awarded to _________ (Individual category) and SEEDS (Institutional category)

Answer 338

Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari

Question 339

India has been ranked ______ in a “Covid-19 Performance Index” comprising 98 countries. New Zealand and Vietnam are at the top

Answer 339

86th (86 rank in Corruption Perception Index too)

Question 340

_________ will establish the first leather park of the country in Kanpur district. The park is expected to provide employment to 50 thousand people directly

Answer 340

Uttar Pradesh government

Question 341

Which ministry has given its go-ahead for the creation of the first ever national database of migrant labour to provide a platform for workers and employers?

Answer 341

Union Finance Ministry

Question 342

In a first for the industry, _________ will develop and manufacture a military aircraft in India, having acquired IPR for a German-origin platform.

Answer 342

The Tata Group

Question 343

Close on the heels of announcing a MSP for 16 vegetables, the _________ has launched royalty for paddy fields in order to promote paddy cultivation

Answer 343

The left-front government in Kerala

Question 344

_________ researchers are to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in a world first trial

Answer 344

British researchers

Question 345

Central Information Commission includes 1 Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and not more than ___ Information Commissioners (IC)

Answer 345

10

Question 346

Mission Sagar-II, follows the first ‘Mission Sagar’ undertaken in May-June 2020, wherein India provided food and medicines to which countries?

Answer 346

Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Comoros

Question 347

The Haryana Assembly passed a Bill to reserve _________ of private sector jobs in the state for residents of Haryana

Answer 347

75 per cent

Question 348

_________, an archipelago of 500 islands in the western Pacific, has plans to become the world’s first carbon neutral tourism destination

Answer 348

The Republic of Palau

Question 349

_________ poised to be first in the world to map its entire seabed, becoming the first country in the world to have systematically mapped its marine territory

Answer 349

Ireland

Question 350

Having defeated incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election, Biden was inaugurated as the ___ president on January 20, 2021

Answer 350

46th

Question 351

TRP (Television Rating Point) is calculated by an Indian agency, the Broadcast Audience Research Council, using “_________”

Answer 351

BAR-O-meters

Question 352

30 of the 100 cities in the world susceptible to ‘water risk’ — defined as losses from battling droughts to flooding — are in India, according to the:

Answer 352

WWF Water Risk Filter.

Question 353

After India's independence in 1947, the name Royal Indian Air Force was kept. When was the prefix Royal removed?

Answer 353

With the transition to a Republic in 1950

Question 354

NASA’s _________, which is designed to image Sun’s outer atmosphere and the solar wind, has recently captured a sungrazing comet

Answer 354

Parker Solar Probe

Question 355

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced _________ as the title sponsor of the Women’s T20 Challenge 2020.

Answer 355

Reliance Jio

Question 356

Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has congratulated ___ Indian Institutions on securing a position in top 100 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021

Answer 356

12

Question 357

A bronze statue of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol will be unveiled at _________ to mark 25 years of their cult-hit romantic comedy film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Answer 357

London’s Leicester Square

Question 358

The Emmett Leahy award for 2020 was conferred on _________ from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune.

Answer 358

Dinesh Katre

Question 359

Indian Armed Forces Veterans Day is celebrated on _________ every year to honour services rendered by veterans of the Army.

Answer 359

14th of January

Question 360

The famous _________ of Tezpur, Assam got the geographical indication (GI) tags, making the item an incontrovertible proof of their origins in the state

Answer 360

litchis

Question 361

The armed forces conducted a joint tri-service exercise ‘_________’ at the Teressa Island in the Nicobar group of islands

Answer 361

Bull Strike

Question 362

_________ has bagged the first place under the ‘Best State’ category under the National Water Awards (NWAs) 2019

Answer 362

Tamil Nadu

Question 363

______ in Bihar’s Begusarai district has been recognised as a wetland of international importance, the first in the state, under the Ramsar Convention

Answer 363

Kabartal

Question 364

Jammu and Kashmir government has launched an _________ portal to promote trading of GI tagged ‘Kashmir Saffron’ across the country.

Answer 364

e-Auction

Question 365

_________, winner of the October 18 general elections in Bolivia, took office as the new president of the South American country for the next five years

Answer 365

Luis Arce

Question 366

Nepal President _________ has released a special anthology on Mahatma Gandhi- ‘My understanding about Gandhi’

Answer 366

Bidhya Devi Bhandari

Question 367

The RCEP was first proposed at the _________ with an aim to create a consolidated market for the 10 member countries and their trade partners

Answer 367

19th ASEAN meet in November 2011

Question 368

The Reserve Bank of India was founded on _________ to respond to economic troubles after the First World War

Answer 368

1 April 1935

Question 369

Originally the first four were grouped as “BRIC” (China, Brazil, Russia and India), before the induction of South Africa in which year?

Answer 369

2010

Question 370

_________ is an initiative of the government aimed at making banking services available at people’s doorstep

Answer 370

India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)

Question 371

HDFC Bank announced the launch of _________, a campaign to increase awareness on cyber frauds and preventing them

Answer 371

Mooh Band Rakho

Question 372

‘_________’ was the country’s first ever Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) Missile Test successfully conducted in 2019 from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha

Answer 372

Mission Shakti

Question 373

Who was The First Indian To Become A Judge at the International Court of Justice?

Answer 373

Sir Benegal Narsing Rau

Question 374

At least 14 scientists from the _________ have figured among the top two per cent scientists in a global list compiled by the prestigious Stanford University

Answer 374

IIT - Banaras Hindu University

Question 375

The first Scorpene submarine, _________, was commissioned in 2017 and Second Scorpene Khanderi was inducted in September 2019.

Answer 375

Kalvari

Question 376

Who is the only player to complete the career Golden Masters – that is, winning all nine modern ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, which he has done twice?

Answer 376

Novak Djokovic

Question 377

In ______, the Education department started an Aadhaar enrolment drive for nearly 70 lakh students from 9 November, 2020

Answer 377

Assam

Question 378

In which state, the name of the Tribal Welfare Department will be changed to Tribal Affairs Department?

Answer 378

Madhya Pradesh

Question 379

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser _________ to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience

Answer 379

Ron Klain

Question 380

Kenya-based teacher _________ has been conferred the 2020 Ahimsa Award by the Trustees of the Institute of Jainology in London.

Answer 380

Peter Tabichi

Question 381

Celebrated every _________, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the significant role of science in society

Answer 381

10 November

Question 382

Who topped The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Democracy Index report titled “Democracy in sickness and in health?”?

Answer 382

Norway

Question 383

India set aside over Rs 7,100 crore in its budget for 2021-22 as development assistance for countries, with ______ getting the maximum allocation

Answer 383

Bhutan

Question 384

India slipped two places to ______ position in the 2020 Democracy Index's global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit

Answer 384

53rd [Two spots lower than 2019 Rank – 51]

Question 385

Which project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre of collecting area?

Answer 385

Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - 10 countries are a part

Question 386

_________, the first MP to take the COVID-19 vaccine jab, on Sunday (January 17, 2021) said that he's feeling fine.

Answer 386

Mahesh Sharma

Question 387

A historic tripartite agreement for establishing India’s first-ever geothermal field development project, in ______, has been signed

Answer 387

Ladakh

Question 388

The scores that the countries get in the Democracy Index, classify them under the following four types: Full Democracy, Flawed Democracy, _________

Answer 388

Hybrid Regime, Authoritarian Regime

Question 389

Modi unveiled the ‘_________’ in Rajasthan to mark the 151st Birth Anniversary celebrations of Jainacharya Shree Vijay Vallabh Surishwer Ji Maharaj

Answer 389

Statue of Peace

Question 390

The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) is set to roll out India’s first Green Energy Convergence Project in which state?

Answer 390

Goa

Question 391

In the World Bank, ___ focuses on the world’s poorest countries, while ______ assists middle income and creditworthy poorer countries.

Answer 391

IDA; IBRD

Question 392

G20 leaders announced that India will host the summit of the high-profile grouping in ______ — a year later than what was decided earlier

Answer 392

2023

Question 393

According to the constitution, _________ seats in Myanmar parliament are reserved for candidates nominated by the army.

Answer 393

25 percent

Question 394

The world’s first hydrogen-powered double decker bus was launched in _________ which showcases the city as a trailblazer in hydrogen technologies

Answer 394

Aberdeen, Scotland

Question 395

RBI has set up an Innovation Hub for the financial sector and appointed _________ as the chairperson of the governing council

Answer 395

Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan

Question 396

The current SCO Secretary-General is _________ of Uzbekistan, appointed to the office of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Secretary-General in 2019.

Answer 396

Vladimir Norov

Question 397

India is at ______ position with a score of 45 in a global list that measures business bribery risks of 2020. The list is released by TRACE

Answer 397

77th

Question 398

How many Indian cities figured among the 36 cities all over the world as part of the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance?

Answer 398

Four

Question 399

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in:

Answer 399

Hawthorne, California

Question 400

_________, the supercomputer, has achieved 63rd rank in the list of 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Answer 400

Param Siddhi (India's fastest AI Supercomputer)

Question 401

As of June 2020, when ranking by number of supercomputer systems in the TOP500 list, India is ranked ______ in the world.

Answer 401

23rd

Question 402

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, is organizing RAISE 2020 (_________)

Answer 402

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment

Question 403

Supreme Court justice _________ recused himself from hearing pleas seeking to initiate proceedings of criminal contempt against Andhra Pradesh CM

Answer 403

UU Lalit

Question 404

Who has revealed the names of 16 environmental organisations that will receive a share of his $10 billion fund for climate action?

Answer 404

Jeff Bezos

Question 405

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed _________ as the Punjab state icon to make people aware about ethical voting

Answer 405

actor Sonu Sood

Question 406

Forbes Leadership Awards Honours _________ with Title Of 'COVID-19 Hero'. He assisted migrant laborers during lockdown

Answer 406

Sonu Sood

Question 407

World Toilet Day (WTD) is an official United Nations international observance day on _________ to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.

Answer 407

19 November

Question 408

Noted Marathi writer _________ will receive Saraswati Samman, 2020 for his book "Sanatan". The Saraswati Samman was instituted in 1991

Answer 408

Dr Sharankumar Limbale

Question 409

The fifth Scorpene submarine, _______, being built by the Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL) w technology transfer from France was launched into water.

Answer 409

Vagir

Question 410

Which company has delivered the first hardware, a booster segment, for Gaganyaan Launch Vehicle to ISRO ahead of schedule?

Answer 410

Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

Question 411

Agriculture Minister unveils ‘_________’ to impart training to primary cooperative societies in rural areas

Answer 411

Sahakar Pragya

Question 412

New Zealand has declared a “climate emergency” and promised to make its public sector carbon neutral by ______.

Answer 412

2025

Question 413

_________ becomes world’s first to achieve Level 4 Transformation of Airport Carbon Accreditation

Answer 413

Christchurch Airport

Question 414

Which city has dethroned London to become the world's most connected city?

Answer 414

Shanghai, China

Question 415

Which country was India’s top trading partner in 2019-20?

Answer 415

The US

Question 416

Astronomers have discovered a ‘super planet’-BDR J1750+3809 with the help of a radio telescope. Scientists have nicknamed the faint super-planet as:

Answer 416

'Elegast'

Question 417

Sweden is getting on board India’s Venus orbiter mission ‘_________’ with a scientific instrument to explore the planet

Answer 417

Shukrayaan

Question 418

Maharashtra: ______ to get its first mangrove park by June 2021

Answer 418

Uran

Question 419

Times 50 Most Desirable Men 2020 list topped by:

Answer 419

Sushant Singh Rajput

Question 420

Maradona was given the nickname _________, a name that stuck with him throughout his career

Answer 420

“El Pibe de Oro” (“The Golden Boy”)

Question 421

Ladakh ranks ___ among UTs in implementing PM SVANidhi Yojana

Answer 421

3rd

Question 422

Constitution Day was first celebrated in ______, when NDA Government decided to mark the day as a tribute to Dr B R Ambedkar

Answer 422

2015

Question 423

The current US secretary of the treasury is _________, the first woman to hold the post

Answer 423

Janet Yellen

Question 424

_________ received Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award

Answer 424

Education Minister RP Nishank

Question 425

_________ is India’s First Winner at International Emmys

Answer 425

Delhi Crime

Question 426

HDFC Bank targets to become carbon neutral by:

Answer 426

2031-32

Question 427

Which Indian state recently launched the ‘Free Gift Milk to Girl Students of State’ initiative?

Answer 427

Sikkim

Question 428

Army Day is celebrated on _________ every year in India, in recognition of Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa's taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief

Answer 428

15 January

Question 429

Azad Hind Fauj (Free Indian Army) was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists and Imperial Japan. The army was first formed in 1942 under ______________.

Answer 429

Mohan Singh

Question 430

Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected as the Congress president in 1939, defeating Pattabhi Sitaramaiah, which prompted ______ to label the defeat as his own.

Answer 430

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 431

The heads of government of the member states, as well as the representatives of the _________, meet at the annual G7 Summit

Answer 431

European Union

Question 432

Olympic-bound Indian wrestler _________ has been provisionally suspended after failing a dope test during the recent Qualifiers in Bulgaria

Answer 432

Sumit Malik

Question 433

The Five Fingers of Tibet is a Chinese foreign policy attributed to _________ that considers Tibet to be China's right hand palm

Answer 433

Mao Zedong

Question 434

Ten Public Sector Undertaking banks are amalgamated into four banks from 1 April 2020. With this, the number of public sector banks in India has come down to:

Answer 434

12

Question 435

Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) and United Bank of India are merged into _________. These together have formed the second-largest public sector bank

Answer 435

Punjab National Bank (PNB)

Question 436

Which committee was set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to review the governance of the board of banks in India in 2014?

Answer 436

P J Nayak Committee

Question 437

_________ has joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to become its 190th member. It is the largest microstate in Europe

Answer 437

Andorra

Question 438

On 22 February 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first edition of the Khelo India University Games in:

Answer 438

Cuttack

Question 439

Which Indian state government has recently brought an ordinance giving co-ownership rights to women in their husband's ancestral property?

Answer 439

Uttarakhand

Question 440

Which Indian state police has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SBI for implementation of e-challan?

Answer 440

Meghalaya

Question 441

_________, a 34-year-old Indian-origin employee at the United Nations, has announced that she is running for the Secretary-General post

Answer 441

Akanksha Arora

Question 442

_________ is an Indian politician who is the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Karnataka and Leader of the Opposition of Rajya Sabha

Answer 442

Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge

Question 443

The UN Capital Development Fund has appointed Indian-origin investment and development banker _________ as its Executive Secretary

Answer 443

Preeti Sinha

Question 444

Sanctuary Nature Foundation honours conservation hero _________ with Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020

Answer 444

S Theodore Baskaran

Question 445

Manipuri doctor, _________ has been conferred the 'Order of the Rising Sun' honour by the Japan government.

Answer 445

Thangjam Dhabali Singh

Question 446

The _________ has received the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award-2020 awarded by the United Nations Environment Programme

Answer 446

Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)

Question 447

In its direction of agriculture reforms, the Central Government has launched _________ Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF).

Answer 447

one lakh crore rupees

Question 448

Jhenaidah is the first city in the world to get ISO 9001:2015 certifications. Which is the second city to get ISO 9001:2015 certification?

Answer 448

Bhubaneswar

Question 449

In October 2019, _________ has become the first State in the country to enact a law on contract farming with the President giving assent to the Act

Answer 449

Tamil Nadu

Question 450

_________, by career a Japanese civil servant, is the president of the Asian Development Bank. He is the 10th president of ADB

Answer 450

Masatsugu Asakawa

Question 451

Which university ranks as the number one university in India (172nd in world ranking), according to QS World University Ranking 2021?

Answer 451

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT B)

Question 452

WhatsApp has appointed _________ as its grievance officer for India, according to updated information on the messaging platforms' website

Answer 452

Paresh B Lal

Question 453

_________ approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine jumping ahead of the US and Europe to become the West’s 1st country to formally endorse a jab

Answer 453

Britain

Question 454

How many Indian companies, led by Reliance Industries worth $169 billion, feature in the 2020 Hurun Global 500?

Answer 454

Eleven

Question 455

_________ launched India’s first 100 Octane petrol, helping India join a select league of nations globally that have such superior quality fuel

Answer 455

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)

Question 456

The Fortune 2020 Businessperson of the Year is ______ for a second time.

Answer 456

Musk

Question 457

Singapore has given US start-up _________ the green light to sell lab-grown chicken meat, it is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat

Answer 457

Eat Just

Question 458

The first human-made object to reach the Moon was the _________’s Luna 2 spacecraft in 1959, which was intentionally crashed onto the lunar surface

Answer 458

Soviet Union

Question 459

The FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men’s association football championship is scheduled to take place in ______ in 2022.

Answer 459

Qatar

Question 460

______ has once again topped the list of world’s most polluted cities, according to air pollution data released by the US Air Quality Index

Answer 460

Pakistan’s cultural capital Lahore

Question 461

World’s first graduate-level AI University, MBZUAI, appoints world-renowned academic _________ as President

Answer 461

Eric Xing

Question 462

"_________" has won the Central bank of the year award 2020. Apart from this, Mark Carney (Governor of Bank of England) has won the Governor of the year

Answer 462

Bank of Ghana

Question 463

Which has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative?

Answer 463

Ghana

Question 464

The Centre has announced the third stimulus package of Rs 900 crore for the Mission _________- The Indian COVID-19 Vaccine Development Mission

Answer 464

Mission COVID Suraksha

Question 465

______ plans to impose a tax on corporations providing digital services from 2022 until major nations come up w coordinated approach on taxation

Answer 465

Canada

Question 466

The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana launched on 18 February ______ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an insurance service for farmers for their yields.

Answer 466

2016 (Govt has allocated 16000 crore Rs for 2021-22)

Question 467

Who has become the first teacher from India to win the prestigious $1-million Global Teacher Prize for innovation in teaching?

Answer 467

Ranjitsinh Disale

Question 468

_________, the chairman of Star & Disney India and president of The Walt Disney Company, Asia Pacific, is the new president elect of FICCI for the year 2020-21.

Answer 468

Uday Shankar

Question 469

In a first, India has inducted 2 'Sea Guardian' drones, unarmed version of the deadly Predator series into the Navy on lease under emergency procurement from:

Answer 469

USA

Question 470

Which IIT has developed a low-cost device to produce electrolysed water that could be used as an alternative to alcohol-based disinfectant?

Answer 470

IIT Ropar

Question 471

Originally called the House of Parliament, it was designed by the British architects _________ in 1912-1913

Answer 471

Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker

Question 472

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is a celebratory day observed on _________ by the Republic of India to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community

Answer 472

9 January

Question 473

In a first-ever virtual summit with a Central Asian country, PM Narendra Modi was held a virtual summit with ______ President Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Answer 473

Uzbek

Question 474

During the 2018-19 Union Budget the government announced that MSP would be kept at 1.5 times the cost of production, as per recommendations of:

Answer 474

National Commission for Farmers (MS Swaminathan)

Question 475

India has dropped to the ______ position in Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) 2020 Climatescope survey ranking from first last year

Answer 475

second

Question 476

The first Trilateral Working Group Meeting between India, Iran and _________ on the joint use of Chabahar Port was held virtually

Answer 476

Uzbekistan

Question 477

In 1971, ______ was the first country in the world, followed by India as the second, to recognise Bangladesh as an independent country.

Answer 477

Bhutan

Question 478

World Health Organisation has appointed Indian-origin _________ as the Chief Executive Officer for the WHO Foundation

Answer 478

Anil Soni

Question 479

_________ has been ranked first across the Arab world and 22nd globally in the Global Artificial Intelligence Index

Answer 479

Saudi Arabia

Question 480

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has declared ‘_________’ as winner of the 2020 United Nations Investment Promotion Award

Answer 480

Invest India

Question 481

______ tops the list of states in urban governance followed by Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, according to the Urban Governance Index (UGI)-2020

Answer 481

Odisha

Question 482

B. C. Forbes and his partner _________, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street, founded Forbes magazine

Answer 482

Walter Drey

Question 483

UNEP was established by General Assembly Resolution 2997. Its headquarters were established in _________

Answer 483

Nairobi, Kenya

Question 484

The first centi-billionaire on the Forbes wealth index, ______ has been the world’s richest person and was named the “richest man in modern history”

Answer 484

Bezos

Question 485

_________ has set a world record for the highest number of elephant deaths in the world after more than 400 died across the island nation this year.

Answer 485

Sri Lanka

Question 486

_________ created history when he became the first Indian to win a Formula 2 race during the Sakhir Grand Prix

Answer 486

Jehan Daruvala

Question 487

India's urban transport is set for major transformation when _________, India’s 1st regional rapid transit system (RRTS), becomes operational in 2023

Answer 487

the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS Corridor

Question 488

Who has recently won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award instituted by the Schwab Foundation and Jubilant Bhartia Foundation?

Answer 488

Ashraf Patel

Question 489

In 1949, _________ was named “Man of the Half Century”, and the last issue of 1989 named Mikhail Gorbachev as “Man of the Decade” by Time magazine

Answer 489

Winston Churchill

Question 490

Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC):

Answer 490

Siddhartha Mohanty

Question 491

India's rank in 2021 Global Energy Transition Index:

Answer 491

87 (Sweden topped)

Question 492

Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in:

Answer 492

South Africa.

Question 493

The Economic Survey is prepared under guidance of:

Answer 493

Chief Economic Advisor

Question 494

______ topped the Human Development index

Answer 494

Norway

Question 495

The Human Development Index was developed by:

Answer 495

Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq

Question 496

3 countries invited as guest nations for G7 by the UK:

Answer 496

India, Australia, South Korea (UK also proposed D-10)

Question 497

Uttarakhand was carved out of UP in the year:

Answer 497

2000

Question 498

1st state to be formed on a linguistic basis in India

Answer 498

Andhra Pradesh

Question 499

World's tallest rail bridge will be on ______ in ______

Answer 499

on the Chenab, in Jammu and Kashmir

Question 500

Merger of Railway Budget w Union budget approved in

Answer 500

2016

Question 501

‘Swadhinata Sarak’ is between which two countries?

Answer 501

India and Bangladesh

Question 502

First world leader to die of Covid:

Answer 502

Eswatini Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini

Question 503

1st non-banking finance company in India to be converted into a bank:

Answer 503

Kotak Mahindra Bank

Question 504

India’s first operational smart city and international financial services centre:

Answer 504

Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City

Question 505

Ola to set up world’s largest scooter manufacturing facility in:

Answer 505

Tamil Nadu

Question 506

India ranks ___ out of 162 countries on Human freedom index. Who topped and who came last?

Answer 506

111. New Zealand topped, Syria came last.

Question 507

Highest income tax payer in the private sector in India:

Answer 507

Reliance Industries

Question 508

Advanced Hypersonic Wind Tunnel test facility is in:

Answer 508

Hyderabad

Question 509

The world’s most trafficked animal:

Answer 509

pangolins

Question 510

ISRO was formed in:

Answer 510

1969

Question 511

Qatar to host 2030 Asian Games, 2034 edition to be in

Answer 511

Saudi Arabia

Question 512

_________ is a Manipur martial art (1 of 4 indigenous games recently included in Khelo India Youth Games)

Answer 512

Thang-Ta

Question 513

The PM-KISAN scheme was launched in:

Answer 513

2019

Question 514

UP launched ‘______’ to double the income of farmers

Answer 514

Kisan Kalyan Mission

Question 515

___ tops Forbes’ list of highest-paid celebrities 2020

Answer 515

Kylie Jenner

Question 516

UN has declared 2021 as International Year of:

Answer 516

- Creative Economy for Sustainable Development - Peace and Trust - Fruits and Vegetables - Elimination of Child Labour

Question 517

International Universal Health Coverage Day:

Answer 517

12 December

Question 518

3rd Scorpene class submarine is:

Answer 518

INS Karanj

Question 519

Helina is the ______ variant

Answer 519

Army (Dhruvastra is the Air Force version)

Question 520

Prani Mitra Award for Lifetime Animal Services went to:

Answer 520

S Chinny Krishna, co-founder of Blue Cross of India

Question 521

Most Versatile Actor, Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Answer 521

Kay Kay Menon

Question 522

World's largest stadium

Answer 522

Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in North Korea.

Question 523

Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes

Answer 523

Vijay Sampla

Question 524

EU15 includes the fifteen countries in the EU from:

Answer 524

1 January 1995 to 1 May 2004

Question 525

1st country to ban all known Vulture-Toxic Drugs

Answer 525

Bangladesh

Question 526

The highest railway bridge in the world:

Answer 526

Chenab bridge

Question 527

Best film, Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Answer 527

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior

Question 528

CEO of Sansad TV

Answer 528

Ravi Kapoor

Question 529

UNGA declared 2023 as the:

Answer 529

International Year of Millets.

Question 530

The highest sporting honour of the Republic of India:

Answer 530

The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

Question 531

__ registered world's 1st COVID-19 vaccine for animals.

Answer 531

Russia

Question 532

______ collaborate for India’s first Gender Data Hub

Answer 532

UN Women and the Kerala government

Question 533

Subhas Chandra Bose became Congress President in:

Answer 533

1938

Question 534

India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge:

Answer 534

Anji Khad

Question 535

What was the capital of Assam before Dispur?

Answer 535

Shillong (until the creation of Meghalaya in 1972)

Question 536

India was the world’s ___ biggest economy in 2020

Answer 536

sixth

Question 537

Director-General of UNESCO:

Answer 537

Audrey Azoulay

Question 538

Bao dhaan is a variety of rice cultivated in which state?

Answer 538

Assam

Question 539

CTBT was adopted by the UNGA on:

Answer 539

10 September 1996

Question 540

Viceroy of India at the time of Chauri Chara incident:

Answer 540

Lord Reading was the then viceroy of India

Question 541

_________ in the periodic table is called “Einsteinium”

Answer 541

Element 99 (named after Albert Einstein)

Question 542

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is an:

Answer 542

statutory body (constituted in 2006)

Question 543

Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992 is a 1995 book by _________

Answer 543

Shahid Amin

Question 544

BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award 2020:

Answer 544

Koneru Humpy

Question 545

National Health Mission (NHM) was launched in:

Answer 545

2013

Question 546

‘Young Champions of the Earth’ Indian winner:

Answer 546

Vidyut Mohan

Question 547

___ launches contactless debit card with NPCI

Answer 547

Central Bank of India

Question 548

India 1st indigenous digital asset management platform

Answer 548

DigiBoxx

Question 549

Reserves of lithium have been discovered in:

Answer 549

Mandya, Karnataka

Question 550

chairman of the Airports Authority of India

Answer 550

Sanjeev Kumar

Question 551

DRDO was formed in:

Answer 551

1958

Question 552

World’s first wooden satellite was to be launched by:

Answer 552

Japan in 2023 (real first is happening this year from New Zealand)

Question 553

Men’s player of the year Best FIFA Football Awards

Answer 553

Robert Lewandowski and Lucy Bronze (women's best)

Question 554

The inaugural recipient of FIFA Foundation Award:

Answer 554

Marcus Rashford

Question 555

Whose bday is celebrated as Good Governance Day?

Answer 555

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December)

Question 556

US President presents ‘Legion of Merit’ award to:

Answer 556

PM Modi, Scott Morrison and Shinzo Abe

Question 557

International Day of Epidemic Preparedness:

Answer 557

27 December

Question 558

How many Odias got Padma Awards this year?

Answer 558

Six

Question 559

Health Ministry launches Tribal Health Collaborative:

Answer 559

Anamaya

Question 560

National Ganga Council is chaired by:

Answer 560

the Prime Minister

Question 561

Shinzo Abe was awarded _________ on Republic Day

Answer 561

Padma Vibhushan

Question 562

Who was the first woman to present the Budget?

Answer 562

Indira Gandhi

Question 563

Budget proposes ______ hike in health expenditure

Answer 563

137%

Question 564

Acc to Union Budget, expenditure is estimated at:

Answer 564

34.83 lakh crore

Question 565

Budget has allocated _________ for COVID vaccine

Answer 565

Rs 35000 crore

Question 566

2021 Golden Globes, Best Drama:

Answer 566

Nomadland

Question 567

India's rank in World Press Freedom Index 2020 and 2021

Answer 567

142 in both years

Question 568

India's rank in World Risk Index 2020:

Answer 568

89

Question 569

Sumitra Mahajan was awarded which Padma award?

Answer 569

Padma Bhushan (She is a former Lok Sabha speaker)

Question 570

Hand in Hand is an army exercise of India and:

Answer 570

China

Question 571

Garuda Shakti is an army exercise of India and:

Answer 571

Indonesia

Question 572

Top most polluted city (acc to IQAIR) is:

Answer 572

Xinjiang in China

Question 573

___ performed best in Land Records Digitisation

Answer 573

Madhya Pradesh

Question 574

Myanmar's military is also known as:

Answer 574

Tatmadaw

Question 575

Protest against military coup in Myanmar is called:

Answer 575

Five Twos revolution

Question 576

___ became title sponsor partner of IPL

Answer 576

Vivo

Question 577

Acc to AWS, ___ of Indian workforce is digitally skilled

Answer 577

12%

Question 578

_________ launches 'SmartUp Unnati' for women

Answer 578

HDFC Bank

Question 579

Minerals at ___ are the closest match to those on Mars

Answer 579

Lake Salda, Turkey

Question 580

India's first World Skill Center is at:

Answer 580

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Question 581

ICJ President:

Answer 581

Joan Donoghue

Question 582

Who is the only industrialist to receive Padma Bhushan

Answer 582

Rajnikant Shroff (received it this year)

Question 583

NITI Aayog released list of ___ PSUs for privatisation

Answer 583

12

Question 584

Pranab Mukherjee formed his own party called:

Answer 584

Rashtriya Samajwadi Party (merged w Congress 1989)

Question 585

Future Group CEO

Answer 585

Kishore Biyani

Question 586

Chief Economic Advisor of India

Answer 586

Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian

Question 587

Topmost UT in Ease of Doing Business Report:

Answer 587

Delhi

Question 588

Highest individual score in IPL is held by:

Answer 588

Chris Gayle

Question 589

India's first beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile

Answer 589

Astra

Question 590

Executive Director of UNEP:

Answer 590

Inger Andersen

Question 591

SHAKTI scheme is related to:

Answer 591

coal

Question 592

The world's largest e-waste recycling facility is in:

Answer 592

Dubai.

Question 593

_________ wins WEF's Crystal Award 2020

Answer 593

Deepika Padukone

Question 594

'The Accidental PM' was authored by:

Answer 594

Sanjay Baru (based on Manmohan Singh)

Question 595

The theme of World TB Day 2021 -

Answer 595

'The Clock is Ticking'

Question 596

International Day of Conscience

Answer 596

5 April (first celebrated in 2020)

Question 597

______ has the largest Exclusive Economic Zone

Answer 597

France (USA is second)

Question 598

1st state to establish Panchayati Raj system:

Answer 598

Rajasthan

Question 599

Neeraj Chopra is related to which sport?

Answer 599

Javelin thrower

Question 600

Which state has for the first time presented an outcome-based budget?

Answer 600

Jharkhand

Question 601

COVAX aims doses for atleast ___ of countries' populations

Answer 601

20%

Question 602

Koneru Humpy is an Indian ______ player who is also reigning women's world rapid champion.

Answer 602

chess

Question 603

India's 1st dedicated express cargo terminal is at which airport?

Answer 603

Bengaluru's Kempegowda airport

Question 604

Who is the first Indian fencer to ever qualify for the Olympics after qualifying for the 2021 Tokyo Games?

Answer 604

Bhavani Devi

Question 605

Who proposed the establishment of the Monetary Policy Committee and when?

Answer 605

YV Reddy in 2002

Question 606

Name the humanoid robot developed by ISRO for Gaganyaan mission

Answer 606

Vyom Mitra

Question 607

_________ has won the Nobel Prize for Peace for a record 3 times

Answer 607

International Committee of the Red Cross

Question 608

ISRO asked ___ to help prepare for Gaganyaan and to serve as its single European contact in this domain.

Answer 608

CNES (France's space agency)

Question 609

The first Indo-US 2+2 dialogue was held in New Delhi in:

Answer 609

2018

Question 610

The new limit of expenditure by candidates in Lok Sabha elections is:

Answer 610

Rs 77 lakhs

Question 611

What percentage of the Budget, acc to Union Budget 2021, will be on education?

Answer 611

3.5%

Question 612

Acc to Union Budget 2021, recapitalisation of Public sector banks in FY2021-22 has been pegged at:

Answer 612

Rs 20,000 crores

Question 613

A separate "agriculture budget" will be introduced in which state?

Answer 613

Rajasthan

Question 614

Who is the first and only Indian to win 3 Grammy awards?

Answer 614

Ravi Shankar

Question 615

______ has become the first state in the country to implement an ethanol promotion policy

Answer 615

Bihar

Question 616

_________ becomes the first nation in the world to vaccinate entire adult population against COVID 19

Answer 616

Gibraltar

Question 617

Bihar is set to become the country’s first state to have two green energy efficient towns in:

Answer 617

Rajgir and Bodh Gaya.

Question 618

Which state has developed India's first FPO (Farmer Producer Organization) portal?

Answer 618

Uttar Pradesh

Question 619

India's First Ever Covid-19 Tracking Blockchain Platform is:

Answer 619

BeIYo

Question 620

Who is the world number 1 in T20 International batswoman?

Answer 620

Shafali Verma

Question 621

Recently _________ has been honoured with the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2019)

Answer 621

Rajnikanth

Question 622

Which Indian bank signed a loan agreement of $1 billion with Japan Bank for International Cooperation?

Answer 622

SBI

Question 623

India-European Union (EU) Leaders’ Meeting 2021 was under Presidency of:

Answer 623

Portugal

Question 624

Each year the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action shall be observed on:

Answer 624

4 April

Question 625

Multi-lateral maritime exercise La Pérouse, being conducted in the _________ Indian Ocean Region

Answer 625

Eastern

Question 626

For the first time, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is participating in the Exercise Desert Flag-VI, hosted by:

Answer 626

the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Question 627

After Justice Indu Malhotra's retirement, who is the only woman SC judge?

Answer 627

Indira Banerjee

Question 628

R Madhavan plays the role of the ISRO scientist _________ in Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

Answer 628

Nambi Narayana

Question 629

The Galathea Bay Wildlife Sanctuary is home to the indigenous _________ community.

Answer 629

Shompen (The main tribe of Great Nicobar)

Question 630

Galathea Bay is included in _________, the zone with maximum protection.

Answer 630

Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)-I

Question 631

_________ was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950.

Answer 631

C Rajagopalachari

Question 632

Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time of India's independence?

Answer 632

Clement Attlee

Question 633

Who had been the last 'Emperor of India' and abandoned this title in 1947?

Answer 633

King George VI

Question 634

What is the length of the Line of Control (LoC) which divides Kashmir?

Answer 634

460 miles (740 km)

Question 635

India's first indigenous aircraft carrier, called ______, has completed basin trials.

Answer 635

IAC-1

Question 636

850 MegaWatt (MW) ______ hydropower project will be on Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir.

Answer 636

Ratle hydropower project

Question 637

When built, the canal was 164 km long and 8 m deep. After several enlargements, it is now _________ long

Answer 637

193.30 km

Question 638

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from India by:

Answer 638

2025

Question 639

Two new subsea cables _________ will provide connections between the Asia-Pacific region and USA

Answer 639

Echo and Bifrost (Facebook and Google are building)

Question 640

The Heart of Asia – Istanbul Process is an intergovernmental organisation established in:

Answer 640

November 2011

Question 641

_________, Chairman, Marico was named the EY Entrepreneur of the Year™ 2020

Answer 641

Harsh Mariwala

Question 642

The first recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award was _________

Answer 642

Devika Rani.

Question 643

M. Venkaiah Naidu presented the Kalinga Ratna Award for the year 2021, to:

Answer 643

Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan

Question 644

_________ ranks as the number one university in India, according to QS World University Ranking 2021

Answer 644

IIT Bombay (172 in world ranking)

Question 645

Every year on _________ World Haemophilia Day is recognised worldwide

Answer 645

17 April

Question 646

Which organisation is working on a common approach to ensure digital behemoths pay their share of taxes?

Answer 646

Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development

Question 647

If the return is successful, China will become the ___ country to have retrieved samples from the Moon

Answer 647

3rd (Chang’e-5 mission)

Question 648

The only human lunar missions to date have been | those of the United States’ NASA ______ program

Answer 648

Apollo

Question 649

The foundation stone of the India's largest hockey stadium was laid down in _______________.

Answer 649

Rourkela

Question 650

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is an international observance celebrated every year on:

Answer 650

October 17

Question 651

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded the 2020 Templeton Prize to geneticist and physician:

Answer 651

Francis Sellers Collins

Question 652

The Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) is a semiannual report by the:

Answer 652

International Monetary Fund

Question 653

MICR (_________) is a technology used to verify the legitimacy of paper documents, especially checks

Answer 653

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

Question 654

Golan Heights is a disputed region, internationally recognized as Syrian territory occupied by ______.

Answer 654

Israel

Question 655

IOC has recommended how many new games to become medal events at the Olympics?

Answer 655

breakdancing (Paris 2024), | Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing (Tokyo 2020)

Question 656

_________, which houses the world's tallest Statue of Unity, will become the country's first electric vehicle city.

Answer 656

Kevadia

Question 657

The Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme was notified by the which Ministry?

Answer 657

Ministry of Finance (infrastructure projects will be selected for financial support)

Question 658

Which Small Finance Bank launches 3-in-1 account for saving, trading & demat?

Answer 658

Equitas Small Finance Bank (founded in 2007 with | headquarters in Chennai)

Question 659

Which state and UT were the top performers in State Startup Rankings 2020?

Answer 659

Gujarat, Andaman and Nicobar islands

Question 660

______ Airport now houses India's first General Aviation terminal facility for Private Jets.

Answer 660

Delhi Airport

Question 661

The task force set up to take a re-look at the age of marriage for women was headed by:

Answer 661

Jaya Jaitly

Question 662

India has a goal of reaching 30% EV penetration by:

Answer 662

2030 (30% by '30)

Question 663

The world's first Negative Emissions Plant is up and running in which country?

Answer 663

Iceland

Question 664

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its fifty first flight (_________), successfully launched EOS-01

Answer 664

PSLV-C49

Question 665

Which was the latest addition from India to the list of Ramsar sites?

Answer 665

The Tso Kar Wetland Complex

Question 666

Scorpene class submarinea are being constructed by _________ for the Indian Navy

Answer 666

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited

Question 667

Modi participated in the 15th G20 Summit convened by _________ in virtual format

Answer 667

Saudi Arabia

Question 668

In the year ______, the very first G20 Summit took place in Washington DC.

Answer 668

2008

Question 669

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted to make the ________ the 51st state

Answer 669

District of Columbia (Washington DC)

Question 670

"The hand of God" was during the Argentina v ______ quarter finals match of the 1986 FIFA World Cup

Answer 670

England

Question 671

According to a Niti Aayog report, India's EVs market needs a minimum of ______ of cells by 2022, which would need to be expanded to about ______ by 2025

Answer 671

10 GW by 2022 | 50 GW by 2025

Question 672

Pham Minh Chinh is the Vietnam's new PM. Outgoing PM _________ was appointed the new President

Answer 672

Nguyen Xuan Phuc

Question 673

Whereabouts is a 2018 novel by _________. It was originally written in Italian, and translated into English

Answer 673

Jhumpa Lahiri

Question 674

________, the treaty that established the boundary line of Nepal, was signed on 2 December 1815

Answer 674

Treaty of Sugauli

Question 675

Movement for equal rights and identity of Madhesis and Tharus, Muslims and Janjati groups in Nepal:

Answer 675

Madhesh Movement

Question 676

Centre has approved the transfer of Covaxin technology from Bharat Biotech to ___________.

Answer 676

Haffkine Institute

Question 677

The 2021 Asian Wrestling Championships were being held in:

Answer 677

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Question 678

Russia is allegedly planning to deploy the _________, nicknamed the “doomsday nuke”, to its Arctic region

Answer 678

Poseidon 2M39 missile

Question 679

BCCI has decided to move the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 to _________

Answer 679

the UAE

Question 680

_________ are constructing an international center for trade and economic cooperation named 'Central Asia'

Answer 680

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

Question 681

the first RCEP Participating Country to complete the official ratification process of RCEP

Answer 681

Singapore

Question 682

UAE will send rover '______' to the moon in _____ on Japan's iSpace's lunar lander, using SpaceX's Falcon9

Answer 682

Rashid, in 2022

Question 683

______ develops affordable & long-lasting hygiene product DuroKea Series

Answer 683

IIT Hyderabad

Question 684

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) was signed on:

Answer 684

March 8, 2018

Question 685

World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on _________

Answer 685

16 October

Question 686

India decided to opt-out of the 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal in ______

Answer 686

2019

Question 687

The World bank has raised India's growth forecast to _________ from the earlier 5.4 per cent for FY 2021-22.

Answer 687

10.1 per cent (gave the range as 7.5% - 12.5%)

Question 688

The Securities and Exchange Board of India is a regulatory body under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It was established on:

Answer 688

12 April 1988

Question 689

In 2021, Government of British Columbia has decided to observe April 14 as "_________" in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

Answer 689

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Equality Day

Question 690

Laureus World Sportsman of the Year: | Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year:

Answer 690

Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka

Question 691

Which bank has recently approved 484 million USD for CKIC (Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor) in Tamil Nadu?

Answer 691

The Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Question 692

The government of India awarded _________ a Rs. 48,000 crore contract to supply 83 LCA Mk-1A jets to the Indian Air Force

Answer 692

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)

Question 693

World Homeopathy Day is celebrated every year on _________ to mark the birth anniversary of ______ physician Dr Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann.

Answer 693

10th April; German

Question 694

Which bank has said it has raised Rs 1,000 crore by issuing Basel III-compliant bonds on a private placement basis?

Answer 694

State-owned Union Bank of India

Question 695

Blockchain Technology is aka ___, as it makes the history of digital assets unalterable and transparent through decentralization and cryptographic hashing.

Answer 695

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

Question 696

According to the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) India is ______ among 107 countries with an MPI score of 0.123 and 27.91% headcount ratio

Answer 696

62nd

Question 697

_________ Nagar Nigam has issued India’s first Municipal Green Bonds on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Answer 697

Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam

Question 698

Which ministry has notified Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021 vide Gazette notification under reference G.S.R. 225(E)?

Answer 698

Ministry of Commerce & Industry

Question 699

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) celebrated its Foundation Day and launched app named “Little Guru” in _________ at Indian Embassy

Answer 699

Beijing

Question 700

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju inaugurates Khelo India State Centre of Excellence for Rowing discipline at Water Sports Academy in _________.

Answer 700

Srinagar

Question 701

On April 13 1984, Indian troops first unfurled the tri colour at Bilafond Lalaunching Operation Meghdoot. This day is celebrated as:

Answer 701

Siachen Day

Question 702

_________ has bagged the top position at National level for successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Answer 702

Udhampur district of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K)

Question 703

_________ are transaction records captured on the blockchain - the web version of a physical ledger. They allow people to trade ownership of digital entities

Answer 703

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Question 704

The Spanish city of _________ will host the 22nd Laureus World Sports Awards on May 6 in a virtual ceremony owing to the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Answer 704

Seville

Question 705

_________ has recently been appointed as the new Director-General of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).

Answer 705

Siddharth Longjam

Question 706

According to the Inclusive Internet Index -2021, what is India’s rank when it comes to internet inclusion and gender equality in accessing the internet?

Answer 706

49th (Sweden topped)

Question 707

Recently _________ called for the first ever United Nations Food Systems Summit to be held in September 2021

Answer 707

António Guterres

Question 708

United Nations marks _________ as the International Day for Monuments and Sites, in many countries also celebrated as World Heritage Day.

Answer 708

April 18

Question 709

Name the first political party that has declared the name of the entity which made donations to it through electoral bonds.

Answer 709

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

Question 710

China has acknowledged damage to fuel rods at a nuclear power plant in the south of the country, but said no radioactivity had leaked. Name the plant.

Answer 710

Taishan nuclear plant

Question 711

The National Civil Services Day is observed on _________ every year and is dedicated to India's civil servants for their contribution and hard work

Answer 711

April 21

Question 712

When was Jal Jeevan Mission launched?

Answer 712

2019

Question 713

President of Pakistan

Answer 713

Arif-ur-Rahman Alvi

Question 714

EOS01 was formerly known as:

Answer 714

RISAT-2BR2

Question 715

Which G20 summit (edition and year) will India host?

Answer 715

18th summit in 2023

Question 716

Hong Kong was a British colony until ______, when Britain gave it back to China under a special agreement called _________

Answer 716

1997 | One Country, Two Systems

Question 717

Which HC said that the Election Commission must perhaps face murder charge for not stopping political parties from violating Covid protocols?

Answer 717

Madras HC | 2nd oldest High Court of India after the Calcutta HC

Question 718

The Kartarpur Corridor is a visa-free border crossing and corridor, connecting the _________ in Pakistan to the border with India

Answer 718

Gurdwara Darbar Sahib (Indian Sikhs can cross the border w/o a visa but Pakistani Sikhs cannot)

Question 719

Which was the first state to start the Covaxin phase 3 trials with state home minister Anil Vij being the first volunteer to be administered a trial shot?

Answer 719

Haryana | The incumbent chief minister is Manohar Lal Khattar

Question 720

As per the G20 report released in November 2020, which country is ranked highest in terms of deaths due to extreme weather conditions?

Answer 720

Russia | India is second

Question 721

In 2000, Vajpayee Government started discussion on GST by setting up an empowered committee. The committee was headed by:

Answer 721

Asim Dasgupta | Former West Bengal Finance minister

Question 722

_________ has become the first state to implement New Education Policy 2020. It should be implemented in all schools over India by ______

Answer 722

Himachal Pradesh | 2022

Question 723

there have been only ______ rounds of bank licence issuance in India since the nationalization of banks in 1969.

Answer 723

three | the last round was 6 years ago

Question 724

NBFCs whose asset size are of _________ or more as per last audited balance sheet are considered as systemically important NBFCs

Answer 724

Rs. 500 crore (activities of such NBFCs will have a bearing on the financial stability of the overall economy)

Question 725

National Panchayati Raj Day is the national day of Panchayati Raj System in India celebrated by Ministry of Panchayati Raj on _________ annually.

Answer 725

24 April (Manmohan Singh declared the first National Panchayati Raj Day on 24 April 2010)

Question 726

_________ have come together to offer an easy, frictionless payment solution for cardholders with the launch of ConQR – a Mastercard QR on Card solution.

Answer 726

Mastercard | Bank of Baroda Financial Solutions (BFSL)

Question 727

This year the theme for World Immunization Week 2021 is '_________', which urges greater engagement around immunization globally

Answer 727

Vaccines bring us closer | April 24th - 30th

Question 728

Transparency International (TI) is a German non-governmental organization founded in ______. Based in ______, its purpose is to combat global corruption

Answer 728

1993 | Berlin

Question 729

Retired Supreme Court judge _________ was appointed as the first Lokpal of India by a committee on 17 March ______.

Answer 729

Pinaki Chandra Ghose | 2019

Question 730

Afghan President _________ will put forward a three-phase peace roadmap for Afghanistan during a proposed meeting in _____

Answer 730

Ashraf Ghani | Turkey

Question 731

Six plus Two Group on Afghanistan (aka "6 plus 2") describes an informal coalition of six nations bordering Afghanistan plus Two. Name the +2 countries

Answer 731

USA | Russia

Question 732

Name the famous case in which state governments need to follow the guidelines given by the Supreme Court with respect to the State Election Commissioner.

Answer 732

Kishan Singh Tomar vs Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad case

Question 733

The govt has been majorly focusing on boosting domestic defence production and set a target of ______ turnover in defence manufacturing by ______.

Answer 733

Rs 1.75 lakh crore (USD 25 billion) | 2025

Question 734

_________ Government has launched the 'Ayush _________' program to keep the home isolated Covid-19 positive patients healthy

Answer 734

Himachal Pradesh | Ayush Ghar-Dwar

Question 735

The 5 Olympic rings: blue, yellow, black, green and red. Which continents do the black and green rings represent?

Answer 735

Black denotes Africa | Green denotes Australia and Oceania

Question 736

In ______, ___________ became the first woman to win the Booker Prize for Fiction, for 'The Elected Member'.

Answer 736

1970 | Bernice Rubens

Question 737

ACCC proposes compulsory "_________" for disputes between media businesses and the digital platforms, Google and Facebook, in Australia

Answer 737

Final Offer Arbitration (when failed to resolve the issues between them after three months of bargaining)

Question 738

_________ in Russia is the world largest Single-dish aperture telescope. The World's 2nd largest ________ Observatory collapsed in Puerto Rico recently.

Answer 738

RATA-600 | Arecibo Observatory

Question 739

The 2021 Asian Boxing Championship, originally scheduled to be held in _________ in May, has been shifted to ______

Answer 739

originally in New Delhi | shifted to Dubai

Question 740

LIC has emerged as the ___ strongest and the ______ most valuable insurance brand globally, according to a report by Brand Finance Insurance 100 2021

Answer 740

third strongest | tenth most valuable

Question 741

The United Nations General Assembly declared ______ to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day

Answer 741

May 3. Theme: "Information as Public Good" | India was 142nd in World Press Freedom Index

Question 742

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has signed Indian edtech start-up ______ as global partner for ______ years

Answer 742

Byju’s | three years

Question 743

RBI capped the tenure of MD, CEO and whole-time director (WTD) of private sector banks at ______ and said the upper age limit for these posts will be ______

Answer 743

15 years | 70 years upper age limit

Question 744

_________ has become the first fully electrified railway zone in the country. What is the Target year of complete electrification?

Answer 744

West Central Railways | Target year of complete electrification is 2024

Question 745

Union Agriculture Ministry has signed MoU with _________ to run a pilot programme for 100 villages in ___ states to help boost farmers' income

Answer 745

Microsoft | In six states

Question 746

India has announced scholarships to 2000 descendants of the Liberation War fighters of Bangladesh under _________ scheme

Answer 746

Muktijoddha Scholarship scheme | launched in 2017

Question 747

The World Press Freedom Index has been published every year since ______ by Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) or Reporters Without Borders.

Answer 747

2002 | Norway topped in 2021

Question 748

______ becomes the first State in India to promote learning outcomes in school students through monthly micro scholarships

Answer 748

Sikkim | in association with Sri Aurobindo Society

Question 749

Two lithium battery manufacturing plants will be set up in _________ with the objective of promoting e-vehicles and reducing air pollution

Answer 749

Karnataka | India's first

Question 750

_________ will join the United States, Canada, Norway, and Qatar in forming '__________' for oil and gas producers

Answer 750

Saudi Arabia | Net Zero Producers Forum

Question 751

Scientists have recently created lightest form of Uranium. It is called the _________. This isotope has a _________ number of neutrons than protons

Answer 751

Uranium-214 | greater number of neutrons than protons

Question 752

What was once a drive-in movie theatre in ______, Madhya Pradesh, has now been turned into a COVID-19 drive-in vaccination centre

Answer 752

Bhopal | in Bhopal's Ashoka Hotel

Question 753

The Finance Minister announced that a new centrally sponsored scheme, _________, will be launched with an outlay of about Rs 64, 180 crore over ___ years.

Answer 753

PM AatmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana | 6 years

Question 754

Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a _________ racing driver. He currently competes in Formula One for __________, having previously driven for McLaren

Answer 754

British | Mercedes

Question 755

_________ Government and unions have signed an agreement with the country's coal mining industry to fully phase out coal production by ______.

Answer 755

Poland | 2049

Question 756

Oxygen concentrators received as gifts or ordered online from overseas would attract GST, but the GST rate payable was reduced from ___ to ___

Answer 756

from 28% | to 12%

Question 757

In accordance w the views of _________, Govt is allowing a normal ceiling of net borrowing for the states at ___ for the year 2021-2022

Answer 757

the 15th Finance Commission | 4% of GSDP

Question 758

Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company Limited (KLI) has appointed _________ as managing director of the company, following the retirement of _________

Answer 758

Mahesh Balasubramanian is the new MD | after retirement of G Murlidhar

Question 759

The _________ is better known as MOXIE. NASA is preparing for human exploration of Mars, and MOXIE will demonstrate a way to produce oxygen there

Answer 759

Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment | The helicopter is called Ingenuity

Question 760

For the first time, scientists have detected X-rays being emitted by the planet _________. The discovery was made by analysis of data from which observatory?

Answer 760

Uranus | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Question 761

Until ______ the Union Budget was presented on the _________ of February by the Finance Minister in Parliament

Answer 761

2016 | last working day of Feb

Question 762

US President Joe Biden let the ban on foreign workers visa, in particular ______, lapse as the notification issued by ______ expired

Answer 762

H-1B | Trump

Question 763

______ was the first P5 member to support a permanent UN Security Council seat for India and the first G7 member to invite India to a G7 Summit in ____.

Answer 763

The UK | 2005

Question 764

______ has decided to award the contract for construction of 679 megawatt Lower Arun Hydropower Project to India’s _________

Answer 764

Nepal | Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN)

Question 765

_________, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by _________

Answer 765

Turing Award | Google, Inc.

Question 766

_________ is to become the world's first country to bring in a climate change law for financial firms. The country wants to be carbon neutral by ______

Answer 766

New Zealand | 2050

Question 767

World Parkinson's Day, held annually on the _________. Also, what is the symbol of Parkinson's disease?

Answer 767

11th April | Red tulip is the symbol of Parkinson's disease

Question 768

The _________'s cricket team now holds the record of most consecutive wins in ODI cricket with ___ straight victories.

Answer 768

Australian women | 24 victories

Question 769

Tamil Nadu's _________ became India's ______ Chess Grandmaster when he crossed the 2500 ELO mark after beating Dragan Kosic

Answer 769

Arjun Kalyan | 68th

Question 770

The _________ is the current executive body governing Myanmar. _________ is currently serving as the acting president of Myanmar

Answer 770

State Administration Council | Myint Swe

Question 771

During a brief swing by ______, NASA’s _________ Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the upper atmosphere

Answer 771

Venus | Parker Solar Probe

Question 772

International No Diet Day is an annual celebration of body acceptance, including fat acceptance and body shape diversity. What is the date and symbol?

Answer 772

May 6 | symbol is a light blue ribbon

Question 773

_________ is a malaria vaccine, developed by scientists at _________, the same location where the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine was developed

Answer 773

R21/Matrix M | University of Oxford

Question 774

India and ___ adopted ‘_________’, which will elevate bilateral ties to a “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership”

Answer 774

UK | Roadmap 2030

Question 775

Global foreign direct investment flows ebbed to a 15-year low last year and ______ overtook _________ as the top destination, OECD data showed

Answer 775

China overtook the United States | In UNCTAD report, US is first and China is second

Question 776

India notified a revenue threshold of _________ and a limit of ______ users for non-resident technology firms such as Google, Facebook, Netflix, to pay tax in India

Answer 776

Rs 2 crore | 300,000 users

Question 777

_________ is an _________ professional snooker player and the current World Snooker Champion, having won the world title four times

Answer 777

Mark Selby | English player

Question 778

New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between USA and Russia. It was signed on _________ in ______

Answer 778

8 April 2010 | Prague

Question 779

The world's highest cricket stadium will now be at at Sissu in the Lahaul valley of _________, ______ feet above the sea level and next to the Atal Tunnel.

Answer 779

Himachal Pradesh | 10,000 feet above sea level

Question 780

_________ is a wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, western India. It is the only home of the endangered mighty _________

Answer 780

Gir Forest National Park | Asiatic Lion

Question 781

The _________ is an account of loans provided by the banks under RBI's on-tap liquidity window of Rs _________

Answer 781

COVID Loan book | Rs 50,000 crores.

Question 782

_________ has been named as the 2021 laureate of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

Answer 782

Maria Ressa | Filipino journalist

Question 783

_________ in _________ has bagged the first international award, TX2, for having doubled the number of tigers in less than the stipulated time.

Answer 783

Pilibhit Tiger Reserve | Uttar Pradesh

Question 784

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin (BBV152) is an _________ COVID-19 vaccine, whereas Covishield is a ______ vaccine

Answer 784

Covaxin- inactivated | Covishield- live

Question 785

_________ won the ICC men's ODI Player of the Decade award, while former wicket-keeper _________ won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade.

Answer 785

Virat Kohli | MS Dhoni

Question 786

India ranked ______ in Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021. This is the second time in a row that _________ is ranked at the bottom.

Answer 786

10th | the USA

Question 787

India has been ranked ______ in the most powerful passport report ‘Henley Passport Index 2021’. _________ has the worst passport to hold

Answer 787

85th (84 in quarter 2) | Afghanistan

Question 788

Joe Biden is the ______ President of the United States, while Kamala Harris is the ______ Vice President

Answer 788

46th President | 49th VP

Question 789

_________ was guest of honour for India's first Republic Day celebrations in 1950. In 2021, it was the ___ that we didn't have a chief guest

Answer 789

President Sukarno of Indonesia | 4th time

Question 790

India’s first Oxygen Express departed from _________ to _________

Answer 790

From Andhra Pradesh | To Maharashtra

Question 791

Theme of Earth Day 2021

Answer 791

Restore Our Earth

Question 792

Who is the first woman of colour, and the second woman to win the Oscar for the Best Director?

Answer 792

Chloé Zhao (this year for Nomadland)

Question 793

Which is the closest black hole to the Earth, and may be the galaxy’s smallest?

Answer 793

The Unicorn

Question 794

RBI Deputy Governors:

Answer 794

M Kumar Jain M D Patra M Rajeshwar Rao

Question 795

India’s rank in the Chandler Good Government Index? | Which is the first one?

Answer 795

India is the 49th rank | Finland is the first one

Question 796

Managing Director of Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited:

Answer 796

Shri Ravindra Kumar Jain

Question 797

_________ had rolled out the "_________" initiative in Maharashtra to help reach oxygen cylinders to medical facilities across the state.

Answer 797

Mahindra Logistics | Oxygen On Wheels

Question 798

In a world's first, ___ deployed _________ on a sea trial 4.5 kilometres beneath the sea surface to collect rock-like nodules

Answer 798

GSR | Patania II

Question 799

The ___ government has been accused of going back on its promises by cutting 85% of aid funding pledged to the _________

Answer 799

UK | UN Population Fund (UNFPA)

Question 800

Govt had announced that the Centre will offer Rs. 12,000 crore special interest-free 50-year loan to states for capital exp, under which scheme?

Answer 800

Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Expenditure

Question 801

______ is leaving the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, aka the _________

Answer 801

Turkey | Istanbul Convention

Question 802

DCGI has granted permission for emergency use of anti-COVID-19 therapeutic application of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) developed by:

Answer 802

A lab of DRDO | in collaboration with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

Question 803

______ is world's first airport to register 1,000 TaxiBot movements. 'TaxiBot' is a semi-robotic towbarless aircraft movement equipment developed by ________

Answer 803

Delhi's IGI airport | developed by the Israel Aerospace Industries

Question 804

Three Indian-American CEOs ______ have joined the Global Task Force on Pandemic Response, which is a corporate sector initiative to help India fight COVID19.

Answer 804

Sunder Pichai from Google, Punit Renjen from Deloitte and Shantanu Narayen from Adobe

Question 805

Chinese government “indefinitely suspended all activities” with _________ under a framework called the _________ Dialogue.

Answer 805

Australia | China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue

Question 806

_________ won the Best Actor award at the New York City International Film Festival for his short film _________

Answer 806

Anupam Kher | Happy Birthday

Question 807

DRDO Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics has developed “______”, an AI algorithm that can detect the presence of COVID-19 disease in ________

Answer 807

ATMAN AI | Presence of covid in Chest X Rays.

Question 808

Union Cabinet has given approval to a pan India central sector scheme i.e. Agriculture Infrastructure Fund. The duration of the scheme is:

Answer 808

Financial Year 2020 to 2029. | 10 years

Question 809

______ expands to nearly all online commerce activities done in India by businesses that do not have taxable presence through applicability of _________

Answer 809

The equalization levy | 2% on its revenues.

Question 810

Time's Person of the Year award has been given to an individual woman only ______ times. _________, an American socialite, was the first

Answer 810

five times | Wallis Simpson

Question 811

Global Tiger Forum in ______ at the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit has set a goal of doubling the count of wild tigers by ______.

Answer 811

in 2010 | by 2022

Question 812

In a first of its kind trilateral venture, an Israel-based company, ______, is producing an innovative robotic solar cleaning technology in India for a project in ____

Answer 812

Ecoppia | the United Arab Emirates.

Question 813

Nepalese Sherpa guide _________ scales Mt Everest for the ______ time, breaking his own previous record. He first scaled Everest in 1994

Answer 813

Kami Rita | 25th time

Question 814

The Japanese Government recently awarded the “Order of Rising Sun” to a _________ based Japanese teacher, _________.

Answer 814

Bengaluru based | Shyamala Ganesh

Question 815

Gandhi decided to stop Non-Cooperation Movement. Leaders like _________ recorded their dismay at this decision and established the Swaraj Party.

Answer 815

Motilal Nehru | CR Das

Question 816

Who addressed the inaugural ceremony of the ASEAN | India Hackathon? The ASEAN-INDIA Hackathon is an initiative taken by Ministry of _________

Answer 816

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ | M/o Education

Question 817

Govt has enhanced the allocation to the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund from _________ to _________ rupees.

Answer 817

from 30,000 crores | to 40,000 crores

Question 818

Coinciding with the World Wetland Day (___), India got its first specialised institution - Centre for Wetland Conservation and Management (CWCM) - in ______

Answer 818

2 February | Chennai

Question 819

(Previous) CM Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurates first heliport of Assam in ______ district, which has a distinct identity as the world’s largest _________

Answer 819

Majuli | river island

Question 820

According to the 2011 census, Delhi’s population was the second-highest in India after Mumbai. _________ is the current & ______ Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

Answer 820

Anil Baijal | 21st LG

Question 821

Government has increased FDI limit from ___ to _________ in Insurance Companies and allowed foreign ownership and control with safeguards

Answer 821

From 49% | To 74 per cent

Question 822

For the ______ consecutive year, _________ ended the year as the top-ranked footballing nation in the world, just ahead of world champions France

Answer 822

third year | Belgium

Question 823

______ will set up "a line of separation" at the summit of _________ to prevent the mingling of climbers from COVID-hit Nepal

Answer 823

China | Mount Everest

Question 824

Nepali Prime Minister _________ lost a confidence vote in parliament, pitching the country into political turmoil

Answer 824

K.P. Sharma Oli | The head of the main Maoist group is Prachanda

Question 825

_______ along with Indian Navy successfully conducted the maiden test trial of _________, India's first indigenous air droppable container

Answer 825

DRDO | SAHAYAK-NG

Question 826

EVA is your personal assistant on which Bank's website, available 24 x 7 to help you with your banking queries?

Answer 826

HDFC Bank | CEO: Sashidhar Jagdishan

Question 827

“Life in the Clock Tower Valley” is the debut book of Press Trust of India (PTI) journalist _________. It talks about _________

Answer 827

Shakoor Rather | Kashmir

Question 828

The first two meetings of Arctic Science Ministerial—ASM1 and ASM2—were held in the _________ and _________, respectively.

Answer 828

USA in 2016 | Germany in 2018

Question 829

World Happiness Report looks at six key variables to come to a happiness score: _________, freedom, trust in govt, _________ , social support, and generosity.

Answer 829

GDP per capita | healthy life expectancy

Question 830

In 2017, ________ became the first state in the country to set up 'Happiness Department'. _________ was the second state to set up 'Happiness Department'

Answer 830

Madhya Pradesh was 1st | Andhra Pradesh was 2nd

Question 831

_________, India's BRICS Sherpa, expressed serious concern over 'vaccine nationalism' and said India and _________ have repeatedly asked WTO members, to agree to provide IPR waivers

Answer 831

Shri Sanjay Bhattacharyya | South Africa

Question 832

The report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of USA: India is one of the ___ countries on the '_________' with regard to their currency practices.

Answer 832

11 countries | Monitoring List

Question 833

To spur growth and to build a self-reliant India, Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan rests on 5 important pillars:

Answer 833

(SIDED) Economy, Infrastructure, Systems, Democracy, and Demand

Question 834

A total of ______ Atmanirbhar Bharat packages worth _________ were announced by the government on 12 May, 12 October and 12 November 2020

Answer 834

three packages | Rs. 29.87 lakh crore (US$420 billion)

Question 835

The Dadasaheb Phalke award, named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who is revered as the _________, was instituted in ______

Answer 835

Father of Indian cinema | 1969

Question 836

_________ is an American politician and diplomat, currently serving as the ___ United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.

Answer 836

John Forbes Kerry | 1st (inaugural Envoy)

Question 837

Kulbhushan Jadhav, the 50-year-old retired _________, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court in _________

Answer 837

Indian Navy officer | April 2017

Question 838

___ of _________ states that foreign nationals who are arrested in host country must be given notice of their right to have their embassy notified of that arrest.

Answer 838

Article 36 | Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

Question 839

Jadhav's trial lasted three and a half months and the charges he was convicted for included spying for India, _________, _________, and destabilising the state.

Answer 839

waging war against Pakistan, | sponsoring terrorism

Question 840

ICJ was established in ______ by a UN Charter and began working in 1946 as the successor to the _________

Answer 840

1945 | Permanent Court of International Justice

Question 841

As per Minimum Wages Act, ______: The Section 2 of the Act defines the 'wages' as remuneration that is capable of _________

Answer 841

1948 | capable of being represented in the form of money

Question 842

The Indian School of Business (ISB) has been | ranked ___ in India and ___ worldwide in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2021.

Answer 842

1 | 23

Question 843

_________ is authored by _________. This book draws on the writer's research and conversations during her travels in the region of Gandhara

Answer 843

Buddha in Gandhara | Sunita Dwivedi

Question 844

_________ has urged the Prime Minister to temporarily relax stringent _________ norms to ease the flow of overseas COVID-19 relief into the country

Answer 844

``` Nasscom Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) norms ```

Question 845

The notification for starting the Supreme Court-monitored exercise to update the ______ NRC in Assam was issued in December ______.

Answer 845

1951 NRC | 2013

Question 846

According to a 2013 report by The New Indian Express, ______ missile is being developed confidentially under the code-name of _________

Answer 846

Surya missile | Agni-VI

Question 847

_________ has been named COP26 People’s Advocate for the U.K.’s Presidency of the UN climate change summit in _________

Answer 847

Sir David Attenborough | Glasgow

Question 848

State Bank of India's (SBI) _________ has been appointed as chief executive officer of a bad bank or _________

Answer 848

Padmakumar Madhavan Nair | National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARC)

Question 849

RBI has joined the Central Banks and Supervisors _________ (NGFS) as a Member. It was launched at the _________ on December 12, 2017

Answer 849

Network for Greening the Financial System | Paris One Planet Summit

Question 850

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved PTC, BSE and ICICI Bank-led Pranurja Solution Ltd to start India's ___ power exchange

Answer 850

THIRD power exchange. The other two are Indian Energy Exchange and Power Exchange of India Ltd

Question 851

_________ is serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the U.S. Department of State.

Answer 851

Hady Amr (He went to Tel Aviv to meet with Israeli, Palestinian leaders amid Gaza escalation)

Question 852

_________ condemns in the strongest terms the bombing and destruction of its offices by the Israeli military in ______

Answer 852

Al Jazeera | in Gaza

Question 853

Punjab Chief Minister _________ has launched Mobile Application and web portal called ‘_________’, to improve the delivery of citizen-centric services

Answer 853

Captain Amarinder Singh | PR Insight

Question 854

National Expert Group on _________ for COVID-19, met for the first time on 12th August. The meeting was chaired by _________

Answer 854

National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration | Dr V K Paul, Member Niti Aayog

Question 855

Lawmakers of _________ have passed legislation to allow the screening of future foreign investments to ensure they don't pose a threat to national security

Answer 855

Denmark (following security concerns over a bid by China's Huawei to build Denmark's 5G network)

Question 856

In 2020, NASA awarded ______ a US$140 million contract to provide at least one habitable spacecraft to attach to the _________

Answer 856

Axiom | International Space Station

Question 857

Prime Minister Imran Khan's Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony _________ said that Pakistan would observe Palestine Day on ______

Answer 857

Maulana Tahir Ashrafi | May 14

Question 858

The _________ are threatening to invade the natural water bodies across the Northeast. It is is included in the list of the world’s 100 most invasive species

Answer 858

Red-eared Sliders | It is a semiaquatic turtle.

Question 859

Black Fungus has been categorised as a notified disease in _________, making it imperative that government authorities be informed about each case

Answer 859

Haryana | Black fungus is aka Mucormycosis (previously called zygomycosis)

Question 860

_________ launched DigiGold, a digital platform for its customers to make investments in gold. DigiGold has been launched in partnership with _________

Answer 860

Airtel Payments Bank | SafeGold

Question 861

_________ has begun the first of its “zeolite cargo flights”. Through this India has begun the process of importing zeolite from across the world for ________

Answer 861

``` Air India (AI) for use in medical oxygen plants. ```

Question 862

Mucormycosis is an aggressive and invasive ______ infection caused by a group of molds called _________.

Answer 862

fungal infection | mucormycetes

Question 863

According to a study, _________ is the most common underlying cause for mucormycosis, followed by haematological malignancies and organ transplants

Answer 863

``` Diabetes mellitus (reported in 54% to 76% of cases) ```

Question 864

After the ______ Commission submitted its report on the Jallianwala Bagh incident, ______ was removed from duty.

Answer 864

Hunter Commission | General Dyer

Question 865

_________ approved a proposal to bring in new legislation for controlling the microfinance firms, which _________, as per the RBI guidelines.

Answer 865

The Assam government | which charge exorbitant interests from borrowers

Question 866

The _________ Accords, signed in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and ______ in March 1979.

Answer 866

Camp David Accords | Egypt

Question 867

_________, who is the founder of _________, has received the Glory of India Award 2020 on Business Standard

Answer 867

Khushhal Kaushik | Lisianthus Tech

Question 868

_________ was a statement issued by the British in ______ announcing support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine

Answer 868

The Balfour Declaration | 1917

Question 869

_________ is a series of letters that were exchanged during World War I in which _________ agreed to recognize Arab independence after the war

Answer 869

The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence | the United Kingdom

Question 870

_________ broke out when _________ invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of independence of Israel

Answer 870

The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 | 5 Arab nations

Question 871

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is jointly owned by:

Answer 871

Lockheed Martin and Boeing

Question 872

According to the report Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2021, Developing Asia's economic growth is set to rebound to ______ in 2021-22.

Answer 872

7.3%

Question 873

According to the Global Forest Goals Report 2021 released by _________, Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the challenges faced in managing forests.

Answer 873

UN (ECOSOC)

Question 874

_________ won best actress at the 93rd Academy Awards - her third such win. Only _________, a four-time winner, has won best actress more times.

Answer 874

Frances McDormand won this year | Katharine Hepburn won 4 times

Question 875

Thomas Vinterberg's "_________" won the best international film at the 93rd Academy Awards, an award he dedicated to his daughter, Ida

Answer 875

Another Round

Question 876

The Academy Awards are annually given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and were presented for the first time in __________

Answer 876

1929

Question 877

As of 2021, only three Indian films- _________ -have been nominated for the Academy award.

Answer 877

Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Lagaan (2001)

Question 878

India has a bilateral trade deficit with ___ of the 15 member countries of RCEP.

Answer 878

11

Question 879

Experts feel that India has been unable to leverage its existing bilateral free trade agreements with several RCEP members to _________.

Answer 879

increase exports

Question 880

All loans under Agriculture Infrastructure Fund will have interest subvention of _________ up to a limit of Rs. 2 crore

Answer 880

3% per annum

Question 881

CGTMSE scheme full form:

Answer 881

Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises

Question 882

Agriculture Infrastructure Fund scheme will be managed and monitored through an online _________ (MIS) platform.

Answer 882

Management Information System

Question 883

______ was the first state in India to levy a tax on agricultural income in 1938

Answer 883

Bihar

Question 884

In 2019, ISRO and the Russian government-owned _________ signed a contract for the training of candidates (for Gaganyaan)

Answer 884

Glavkosmos

Question 885

Gaganyaan is a spacecraft intended to be the formative spacecraft of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme. It is being designed to carry ___ people

Answer 885

three

Question 886

Under some special provisions, Corps Commanders/ Area Commanders have been delegated powers up to _________ per case

Answer 886

Rs. 50 lakh

Question 887

National Emergency has been proclaimed three times in India so far- in _________

Answer 887

1962, 1971 and 1975. (Both the second and the third proclamations were revoked in 1977)

Question 888

Oslo Accords are a series of agreements between Israel and the Palestinians signed in the ______.

Answer 888

Oslo I in 1993 and Oslo II in 1995 | a two-state solution was envisaged in the accords

Question 889

_________ has won the ‘World Choreography Award 2020’, becoming the first Indian to win the honour

Answer 889

Suresh Mukund | 10th Annual World Choreography Awards

Question 890

Who has been sued by a Chinese-American civil rights group for calling Covid-19 the "China virus"?

Answer 890

Former US President Donald Trump. Sued by Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition (CACRC)

Question 891

The West Asia peace plan was unveiled by ________ in _________

Answer 891

U.S. President Trump | Jan 2020

Question 892

Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan is a far-______ Islamist political party in Pakistan.

Answer 892

far right | Pakistan banned the TLP under the Anti-Terrorism Act

Question 893

The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi occurred as a result of a suicide bombing. The perpetrator was:

Answer 893

Thenmozhi Rajaratnam (also known as Dhanu) carried out the attack for the LTTE

Question 894

______ was an operation undertaken by the Indian Armed Forces in the aftermath of the ______ tsunami.

Answer 894

Operation Sea Waves | 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Question 895

The 2002–2004 SARS outbreak was an epidemic involving severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by

Answer 895

Severe acute respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-COV). First identified in Foshan, China

Question 896

_________ also known by the kunya Abu Mazen is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority

Answer 896

Mahmoud Abbas | First President: Yasser Arafat

Question 897

_________ was the top source of FDI into India in FY21, followed by ______ with Mauritius at the third position

Answer 897

Singapore | The US is 2nd

Question 898

China's Shunwei Capital has exited _________, the parent company of Vokal and Koo. Koo has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by _________.

Answer 898

Bombinate Technologies | Tiger Global

Question 899

While ______ is the world’s most populous city, this number is leveling out due to declining birth rates. ______ is the 2nd most populous city

Answer 899

Tokyo | Delhi

Question 900

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C51 successfully launched _________ along with ___ co-passenger satellites

Answer 900

Amazonia-1 | 18

Question 901

Who won the gold at the BWF World Championships 2019 held in Switzerland (Basel) in Women's Singles category?

Answer 901

India's P. V. Sindhu | she won silver at 2016 Summer Olympics

Question 902

Aged 36 years and 195 days, who became the oldest world No 1 tennis player in the world on 19 February 2018?

Answer 902

Federer | Swiss tennis player

Question 903

Tottenham Hotspur star _________ has won the 2020/21 Premier League Golden Boot award. _________ wins Europe’s Golden Shoe award

Answer 903

``` Harry Kane (boot) Robert Lewandowski (shoe) ```

Question 904

The biosphere reserve network was launched in ______ by UNESCO. The Government of India established ___ biospheres in the country

Answer 904

1971 | 18

Question 905

Biden will visit the city of ______, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the ___ massacre, known among the worst incidents of racial strife in American history

Answer 905

Tulsa in Oklahoma state | Tulsa race massacre

Question 906

_________ Revolution in _________ was a trigger for the Arab Spring. It was a civil resistance campaign of 28-days

Answer 906

Jasmine Revolution | Tunisia

Question 907

Hardeep Singh Puri is the current _________ Minister and Minister of _________. He was the Permanent Representative of India to the UN from 2009 to 2013

Answer 907

Civil Aviation | Housing and Urban Affairs

Question 908

_________'s CM _________ launched ‘e-Parivahan Vyavstha’ to provide faceless services to the people of the State regarding Driving Licence

Answer 908

Himachal Pradesh | Jai Ram Thakur

Question 909

Bar Council of India will set up India’s first law teacher training institute - Indian Institute of Law (IIL) - in collaboration with _________at _________

Answer 909

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Training (KIIT) | Bhubaneswar

Question 910

_________ is currently serving as the Minister of _________ in the NDA Government. He is currently the Leader of the House in the upper house

Answer 910

Thaawar Chand Gehlot | Social Justice and Empowerment

Question 911

FASTag is an electronic toll collection system in India, operated by the _________. It employs _________ (RFID) technology

Answer 911

National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) | Radio Frequency Identification

Question 912

_________ is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation across India. The surveys are carried out by _________

Answer 912

``` Swachh Survekshan (Cleanliness survey) Quality Council of India ```

Question 913

Uttarakhand is referred to as the _________, due to many Hindu temples and pilgrimage centres found throughout the state. In ___, it became the 27th state

Answer 913

Devbhumi | 2000

Question 914

Kerala University of _________ (KUDSIT) is established by upgrading the Indian Institute of _________ Kerala (IIITMK), which was set up in 2000

Answer 914

Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (new) | Information Technology and Management (old)

Question 915

Famed scientist and environmental advocate _________, won the 2021 Templeton Prize, a $_________ award

Answer 915

Jane Goodall | 1.5 million dollars

Question 916

The Chinese government considers LAC to be around _________ while India considers the LAC to be _________ long

Answer 916

2,000 km acc to China | 3,488 km acc to India

Question 917

The _________ is a Medium Altitude ______ Endurance unmanned air vehicle being developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation

Answer 917

DRDO Rustom | Long endurance

Question 918

Art historian _________ has become the first woman to be appointed the president of Louvre – the world’s ________ art museum — in its 228-year history

Answer 918

Laurence des Cars | world's largest art museum

Question 919

______ is aiming to raise about ₹21800 crore in an _________ (IPO) late this year, in what could be the country’s largest debut ever.

Answer 919

Paytm | initial public offering

Question 920

If successful, Paytm’s initial share sale would surpass _________’s offering, which raised more than ₹15,000 crore in ______ in the country’s largest IPO so far.

Answer 920

Coal India Ltd. | 2010

Question 921

_________ is a fugitive Indian businessman, residing in Antigua and Barbuda. He is currently in custody of the CID in _________.

Answer 921

Mehul Chinubhai Choksi | Dominica

Question 922

_________ is the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was established in ______

Answer 922

Michelle Bachelet | 1993

Question 923

Ambassador _________ was appointed Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN and International Organizations in Geneva in August 2020

Answer 923

Meirav Eilon Shahar (She was Israel’s Ambassador to Vietnam between 2012 and July 2017)

Question 924

Germany recognised that it committed genocide against the ___ people in ___ during its colonial rule, and promised financial support of over a billion euros

Answer 924

Herero and Nama people | Namibia

Question 925

______ government will set up a new department, namely the Department of _________ for strengthening the ‘self-help group’ initiatives

Answer 925

Odisha | Department of Mission Shakti

Question 926

India and Norway have agreed to jointly work in the area of marine spatial planning in the oceanic space for the next __ years. The initiative is known as _____

Answer 926

five years | Marine Spatial Planning

Question 927

With the inauguration of Maitri Setu, _________ is set to become the ‘Gateway of North East’ with access to _________ Port of Bangladesh

Answer 927

Tripura | Chittagong port

Question 928

On 28th June ______, India and the EU began negotiations on a broad-based Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) in Brussels, Belgium

Answer 928

2007 | The talks stalled in 2013

Question 929

NITI Aayog’s Project for Great Nicobar Island is estimated to cost _________. Galathea Bay is an iconic nesting site in India of the enigmatic _________

Answer 929

Rs. 75,000 crore | Giant Leatherback, the world’s largest marine turtle

Question 930

Little Andaman is the ............. largest island in Andamans. The little island is home to _________ Tribes

Answer 930

4th | Onge

Question 931

Pakistani troops had launched ‘_________’ that targeted Bangladeshi freedom fighters, the minority Hindu population, teachers, etc in ______

Answer 931

Operation Searchlight | 1971

Question 932

Bangladesh's Liberation movement began with the | declaration of Independence by the _______ (Freedom Fighters) led by ____________ on March 26, 1971.

Answer 932

Mukti Bahini | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Question 933

The United Nations General Assembly decided to celebrate _________ as the International Day of Living Together in Peace in 2017.

Answer 933

16th May (Theme: Recovering better for an equitable and sustainable world)

Question 934

_________, 45, of _________ scaled the Everest from the base camp in 25 hours and 50 minutes, and became the fastest female climber

Answer 934

Tsang Yin-hung | Hong Kong

Question 935

The ultra-nationalist leader Naftali Bennett said his party would join talks to form a governing coalition with centrist party leader _________ in Israel

Answer 935

Yair Lapid

Question 936

President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2021-22

Answer 936

Tata Steel Ltd CEO and MD: T.V. Narendran | Succeeding Uday Kotak

Question 937

The induction of women officers in the Army started in ______

Answer 937

1992

Question 938

In ______, the Women Special Entry Scheme (WSES) was replaced with the Short Service Commission (SSC) scheme, which was extended to women officers.

Answer 938

2006

Question 939

The apex court bench headed by _________ stated that denying women officers permanent commission in the navy will be a serious miscarriage of justice

Answer 939

Justice DY Chandrachud

Question 940

Which state garnered the highest share of FDI in the first nine months of FY21 at $21.23 billion followed by Maharashtra?

Answer 940

Gujarat

Question 941

China has reported the first case of human infection with the ______ strain of bird flu from the country's eastern Jiangsu province

Answer 941

H10N3 (it's a low pathogenic, relatively less severe strain)

Question 942

Human infection with avian influenza ______ virus was first reported in 2013. It is a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus

Answer 942

H7N9 (killed almost 300 people in China in 2016-2017)

Question 943

Russia reported the first human infection with the ______ virus that caused huge damage on poultry farms across Europe, Russia and East Asia last winter.

Answer 943

H5N8

Question 944

The ______ variant of bird flu that first infected people in 1997 has been the most deadly, killing 455 people globally so far.

Answer 944

H5N1

Question 945

“Is 5G technology safe for humans, animals, birds and other beings on the planet?” This is essentially the crux of a lawsuit _______ has filed in the Delhi High Court

Answer 945

actor Juhi Chawla

Question 946

______ has acknowledged that more than 60 per cent of its mainstream food and drinks products do not meet a "recognised definition of health".

Answer 946

Nestle

Question 947

Only 37 per cent of Nestle's food and beverages, excluding some products, achieve a rating above 3.5 under _________’s health star rating system.

Answer 947

Australia

Question 948

An internal document accessed by which newspaper described a large portion of Nestle’s food and drinks as unhealthy?

Answer 948

the Financial Times

Question 949

According to the document, about 70 per cent of Nestle’s food products and 96% of beverages — excluding _________ — failed to meet the threshold.

Answer 949

pure coffee

Question 950

An internet celebrity in China was sentenced to 8 months in jail for “defaming” Chinese soldiers killed in clash w Indian troops at the Galwan Valley. Name him

Answer 950

Qiu Ziming, known as “Labixiaoqiu” online

Question 951

Which country has the world’s most neglected number of displaced people, according to a new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)?

Answer 951

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Question 952

Pakistani journalist _________ was recently summoned over his alleged defamation of the government

Answer 952

Asad Ali Toor

Question 953

In Pak in 2014, four gunmen fired at _________, as he drove from Karachi airport to his Geo News office – he received bullets in his stomach and upper legs

Answer 953

Hamid Mir

Question 954

_________ is a three-star ranking general in the Pakistan Army. He is the 24th Director-General of the spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence

Answer 954

Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed

Question 955

_________ (otherwise known as General Rani or Ra'annie Yahya Khan) was the mistress of Army general and future military leader General Yahya Khan

Answer 955

Akleem Akhtar

Question 956

Pakistan’s veteran journalist ______ was stopped from hosting his popular talk show by a private TV channel after he criticised the country’s powerful ‘establishment’

Answer 956

Hamid Mir

Question 957

_________ is an independent and constitutionally established federal institution responsible for regulating and issuing channel licenses in Pakistan

Answer 957

Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA)

Question 958

India’s abstention from the latest resolution on the Palestinian issue suppresses human rights of “all people”, Palestine’s Foreign Minister _______ has said.

Answer 958

Dr. Riad Malki

Question 959

Representative of India to Palestine, _________, released third tranche of funding, worth $3 million, for the construction of a Palestine-India Techno Park

Answer 959

Sunil Kumar

Question 960

Anger has been simmering in the Lakshadweep islands over a number of controversial proposals floated by the Union Territory Administrator, _________

Answer 960

Praful K Patel

Question 961

Once a part of Malabar district of the Madras Presidency, Lakshadweep was given Union Territory status following Kerala state’s formation in ______.

Answer 961

1956

Question 962

_________ is India’s smallest Union Territory. It has the highest population share of Muslims (96%) and Scheduled Tribes (94.8%) among the UTs

Answer 962

Lakshadweep

Question 963

Lakshadweep is served by a Lok Sabha MP, currently _________ (NCP) since 2014. The NCP and the Congress are the dominant parties

Answer 963

Mohd Faizal P P

Question 964

Chinese govt's Global Times touted their “urgent” goal to expand its arsenal of long-range nuclear missiles in anticipation of an “intense showdown” with ______

Answer 964

the US

Question 965

After Modi became Prime Minister, ______ was appointed Administrator of the UTs of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

Answer 965

Praful Patel (also the 1st administrator of the merged UT)

Question 966

Praful Patel was given charge of Lakshadweep following the death of the incumbent Administrator _________

Answer 966

Dineshwar Sharma.

Question 967

Who became first Indian and Asian to get elected as Chair of International Nitrogen Initiative (INI), a global policy making initiative?

Answer 967

Indian scientist-academician N Raghuram

Question 968

The Union Cabinet has approved the _________ to be sent to the States and Union Territories to enact legislation or amend laws on rental properties.

Answer 968

Model Tenancy Act

Question 969

SDG India Index: India’s overall score across sustainable development goals improved marginally from 60 in 2019 to ___ in 2021

Answer 969

66

Question 970

SDG India Index: Kerala retained its rank as the top State with score of 75. _________ too maintained its top spot among the UTs with a score of 79

Answer 970

Chandigarh

Question 971

SDG India Index: ______, Jharkhand and Assam were the worst-performing states this year with 52, 56, and 57 points, respectively.

Answer 971

Bihar

Question 972

In SDG India Index, Front Runner is when the Index score is between 65 and 99, including both; ________ is when the Index score is between 50 and 64

Answer 972

Performer

Question 973

In SDG 3 (GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING), _________ and Delhi are the top performers among the States and the UTs, respectively

Answer 973

Gujarat

Question 974

In SDG 5 (GENDER EQUALITY), Chhattisgarh and _________ are the top performers among the States and the UTs, respectively

Answer 974

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Question 975

In SDG 10 (REDUCED INEQUALITIES), Meghalaya and _________ (Achiever, with Index score of 100) are the top performers

Answer 975

Chandigarh

Question 976

In SDG 16 (PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS), _________ and Puducherry are the top performers among the States and the UTs

Answer 976

Uttarakhand

Question 977

The controversy first arose when the ruling Communist Party’s youth wing shared an old statement from H&M on the Chinese social networking platform ______

Answer 977

Weibo

Question 978

_________ has stood true to his image as the ‘Mascot of Disaster Management’, a title he gained for his work during the 2004 tsunami and the 2018 Gaja cyclone.

Answer 978

IAS officer Gagandeep Singh Bedi

Question 979

As the origin of COVID-19 has come under renewed scrutiny, Trump demanded China pay _________ to the US and the world

Answer 979

$10 trillion

Question 980

_________ has done extensive work on bat-borne viruses since the 2002 SARS-CoV-1 international outbreak, which began in China.

Answer 980

The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)

Question 981

The Wuhan lab is not far from the _________, which was the site of the first known COVID-19 superspreader event

Answer 981

Huanan Seafood Market

Question 982

_________ has laid down guidelines for all villages to make themselves Covid free, and has turned this into a competition among villages (top village will get 50 lakh)

Answer 982

Maharashtra

Question 983

Group called _________ spent months scouring internet to discover how Wuhan lab had been studying coronaviruses

Answer 983

DRASTIC

Question 984

India's 1st Child-friendly police station was established in ____ as per the guidelines provided by the National Commissioner for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).

Answer 984

Pune

Question 985

Facebook Inc said that Trump’s Facebook and Insta accounts will remain suspended for at least _______. Trump is already facing a permanent ban from Twitter.

Answer 985

two years

Question 986

_________ will be retiring from the IMF next month to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as Director of Development Policy and Finance

Answer 986

Kalpana Kochhar

Question 987

The 2020 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians has gone to _________, from Brazil. She is the first non-Indian to win.

Answer 987

Dr Carolina Araujo

Question 988

The world’s first Bitcoin ATM has launched in _________. The machine, Robocoin, is similar to a regular ATM, except it involves no bank.

Answer 988

Vancouver

Question 989

RBI's Digital Payments Index (DPI) comprises 5 broad parameters. Which parameter has the lowest weightage of 5%?

Answer 989

Consumer Centricity

Question 990

Whose biggest target since returning is the Wimbledon Championships which he has won a record eight times?

Answer 990

Federer

Question 991

The Battle of Imphal saw some of the fiercest fighting of World War II at Maibam Lokpa Ching popularly known as _________.

Answer 991

Red Hill

Question 992

Which State government has launched the Knowledge Economy Mission to provide employment to the educated and support 'knowledge workers'?

Answer 992

Kerala

Question 993

India lost the ONGC Videsh Ltd-discovered ________ gas field in Persian Gulf after Iran awarded contract for developing the gas field to a local company

Answer 993

Farzad-B gas field

Question 994

If the deal gets through, the new supersonic “_________” aircraft will become the world’s fastest commercial airliner, reducing travel time by about half

Answer 994

Overture

Question 995

_________, the British-French turbojet-powered commercial airliner, was the first aircraft to carry passengers at supersonic speed, but discontinued

Answer 995

Concorde

Question 996

Advanced economies making up the ___grouping have reached a “historic” deal on taxing multinational companies. "global minimum corporate tax rate"

Answer 996

G7

Question 997

A remote village named _________ of Jammu Kashmir has become the first one in the country to vaccinate all its adult population against Covid-19

Answer 997

Weyan in Bandipora district

Question 998

Which State Assembly sat for the highest number of days and passed the highest number of laws in the country in 2020?

Answer 998

Karnataka

Question 999

Which state topped the list of state governments that issued the highest number of ordinances in the country in 2020?

Answer 999

Kerala

Question 1000

States passed an average of 22 Bills, excluding Appropriation Bills, in 2020. Karnataka once again topped the list, while the lowest was _________

Answer 1000

Delhi, which passed one Bill