June 4,5 2023 Flashcards
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Cannes Film Festival 2023
1. Palme d’Or: ___, directed by Justine Triet
2. Grand Prix: ___ Director: Jonathan Glazer
3. Best Director: __ for The Pot-Au-Feu
4. Best Screenplay: __, written by Yuji Sakamoto
5. Best Actress: __, About Dry Grasses
6. Best Actor:__, Perfect Days
7. Camera d’Or:__, directed by
Thien An Pham
8. Short Film Palme d’Or: __, directed by Flóra Anna Buda
9. Queer Palm:
10. Honorary Palme d’Or:
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- Anatomy Of A Fall
- The Zone Of Interest
- Tran Anh Hung
- Monster
- Merve Dizdar
- Kōji Yakusho
- Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
- 27
- Monster
- Michael Douglas
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- Recently, how much amount is sanctioned under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin for the construction of houses for people from hilly states?
1) Rs. 1.90 lakh 2) Rs. 1.50 lakh 3) Rs. 1.10 lakh 4) Rs. 1.80 lakh 5) Rs. 1.30 lakh - ICICI Bank has recently re-appointed Sandeep Batra as the Executive Director (ED) for 2 years with effect from _________.
1) 04th July 2023 2) 03rd September 2023 3) 23rd December 2023
4) 17th October 2023 5) 15th August 2023 - Which insurance company has launched a term insurance plan for Type 2 diabetics?
1) Bajaj Allianz Insurance 2) Bharti AXA Insurance
3) Max Life Insurance
4) Edelweiss Insurance 5) Cholamandalam MS Insurance - In which city, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has recently launched a pilot project on Electronics Repair Services Outsourcing (ERSO)?
1) New Delhi, Delhi 2) Mumbai, Maharashtra 3) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
4) Bengaluru, Karnataka 5) Ahmedabad, Gujarat - In which year ‘United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)’ was founded?
1) 1982 2) 1950 3) 1995 4) 1966 5) 1974 - Name the helicopter of the Indian Navy that has recently landed for the first time on the Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant.
1) Dornier 228 2) Pilatus PC-7 3) Hawk MK 132
4) SH-60 Seahawk 5) MH-60R - Which of the following country has won Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023?
1) Pakistan 2) Maldives 3) Bhutan 4) India 5) Sri Lanka - The 2024 summer Olympics Games will be held at which Country?
1) Ottawa, Canada 2) Paris. France 3) Sydney, Australia 4) Moscow, Russia 5) Rome, Italy - Name the company that recently became the First Manufacturer to receive
GreenPro ecolabel for its ‘Automotive Steel’ products.
1) JSW Steel Limited 2) Hindalco Industries Limited 3) Vedanta Limited
4) TATA Steel Limited 5) Hindustan Zinc Limited - In which state ‘Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary’ is located?
1) West Bengal 2) Odisha 3) Jharkhand 4) Maharashtra 5) Madhya Pradesh - India has won the title of the Central Asian Volleyball Association (CAVA) Women’s Volleyball Challenge Cup 2023 held in __________.
1) Kathmandu, Nepal 2) Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka 3) Astana, Kazakhstan
4) New Delhi, India 5) Dhaka, Bangladesh - How many railway stations to be upgraded under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme? 1) 1106 2) 1000 3) 1275 4) 834 5) 551
- ‘World Bicycle Day’ is an annual event celebrated on ‘June 3rd’. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in ___________.
1) 2015 2) 2018 3) 2020 4) 2016 5) 2021 - Who has recently taken charge as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) by succeeding Rajesh Gopinathan?
1) K Krithivasan 2) Pradeep Kumar Khosla 3) Aarthi Subramanian
4) O. P. Bhatt 5) Ganapathy Subramaniam
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- In which Indian state, the world’s first 3D-printed Hindu temple is being built? 1) Odisha 2) Telangana 3) Jharkhand 4) Andhra Pradesh 5) Kerala
- According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index released on 1st June 2023, Elon Musk has again claimed his position as the world’s richest person with a net worth of about _______.
1) USD 192 billion 2) USD 128 billion 3) USD 150 billion
4) USD 134 billion 5) USD 143 billion - “Captain Roop Singh Cricket Stadium” located in which of the following Indian state?
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Karnataka 3) West Bengal
4) Bihar 5) Madhya Pradesh - Which government ministry launched the website and logo for the CEM-14 / MI-8 meetings?
1) Ministry of Power 2) Ministry of External 3) Ministry of Science and Technology
4) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
5) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change - Which state’s Information technology (IT) department has recently got a new logo in its state language lettering style?
1) West Bengal 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Gujarat
4) Odisha 5) Kerala - In which state, ‘Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR)’ is located?
1) Karnataka 2) West Bengal 3) Odisha
4) Assam 5) Uttarakhand - What is the ‘Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)’ Rate as per the First Bi-monthly policy statement for FY24?
1) 6.75% 2) 5.00% 3) 6.50% 4) 6.00% 5) 4.65% - The Government of India (GoI) decided to retain the interest rates on small savings schemes for Q1 FY23-24. What is the current interest rate of the ‘Sukanya Samriddhi Account’?
1) 6.2% 2) 6.8% 3) 7.9% 4) 8.0% 5) 7.6% - Who has Equitas Small Finance Bank collaborated with to build a digital banking platform?
1) Amazon 2) IBM Consulting 4) Microsoft 5) Oracle
3) Google - All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in ________ became the first to be accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH).
1) Nagpur, Maharashtra 2) Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh 3) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
4) Rishikesh, Uttarakhand 5) Deoghar, Jharkhand - Which company has recently announced Juspay as its official payment partner? 1) SpiceJet 2) Vistara 3) IndiGo 4) Air India 5) Akasa Air
- Who has signed a strategic MoU with the State Bank of India (SBI) for various financial products and offerings?
1) TCS 2) Godrej Capital 3) Wipro
4) Dabur 5) Robert Bosch - The Union Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW) set a target of ________ Million Tonnes (MT) of production of foodgrains for the 2023-2024 crop years (July 2023-June 2024).
1) 332 MT 2) 310 MT 3) 352 MT 4) 315 MT 5) 320 MT - Which of the following day is observed every year on ‘June 02nd’?
1) National Best Friend Day
2) World Brain Tumour Day
3) International Sex Workers’ Day
4) World Day Against Child Labour
5) World Elder Abuse Awareness Day - Name the bank that has recently launched ‘Shubh Arambh Deposit Scheme’ for senior citizens.
1) Bank of Baroda 2) Bank of India 3) Canara Bank 4) Bank of Maharashtra 5) Punjab National Bank
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Toddler Ariha Shah of Indian-origin parents was taken away from her family by child protection authorities of which country two years ago? India on Friday expressed its “dismay” over the treatment of the baby.
Germany
France
Sweden
Norway
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Germany
5
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Significance of June 5
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- World Environment Day
Theme: solutions to plastic pollution
World Environment Day has been celebrated by millions of people across the world since its establishment by the United Nations Environment Programme during the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. - International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
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- __ is a cost-effective solution that has been certified with (SIL-4), ensuring high safety standards with an incredibly low probability of error (1 error in 10,000 years).
- Expand SIL
- A significant step towards improving train operation safety in India has been taken by Ministry of Railways with the development of __, an indigenous __.
- It was developed by the __ in collaboration with three Indian vendors and has been adopted as the National ATP System for Indian Railways.
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- Kavach
- Safety Integrity Level
- Kavach, Automatic Train Protection System
- Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO)
7
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Significance of June 4
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International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
8
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- __ from Trinidad and Tobago is elected as 78th UNGA president
- Expand UNGA
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- Dennis Francis
- United Nations General Assembly
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- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 2.20 crore on __ for violating various rules and regulations.
- The penalty was imposed due to the bank’s failure to make a minimum mandatory __ of a sum equivalent to 25 percent of its disclosed profit and a significant divergence between the non-performing assets (NPAs) reported by the bank and those assessed during inspection.
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- Indian Overseas Bank (IOB)
- transfer
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IOB Bank
1. Expand
2. Founded on
3. Headquarters
4. Nationalised in
5. Tagline
6. Founder
7. MD and CEO
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- Indian Overseas Bank
- 10 Feb 1937
- Chennai
- 1969
- Good People to Grow With
- Muttaiya Chidambaram Chettiar
- Shri Ajay Kumar Srivastava
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- A meteorologist of __ has been elected as the new President of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for a four-year term from 2023 to 2027.
- Secretary General of WMO
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- United Arab Emirates (UAE) Dr Abdulla Al Mandous
- Petteri Taalas
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- The ___ has emerged victorious in the bid to host the prestigious (WCC) in 2025.
- Expand WCC
- The (IUCN) has chosen __ as the venue for this momentous event.
- Expand IUCN
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- United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- World Conservation Congress
- Abu Dhabi
- International Union for Conservation of Nature
13
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Ahmednagar Renamed __: A Move to Empower the __ Community
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Ahilyadevi Nagar, Dhangar
14
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- NIPCCD organized a Refresher Training Programme on Mission __.
- Expand NIPCCD
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- Vatsalya
- The National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) is an autonomous organization headquartered in New Delhi, India.
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- The __ has retained the top spot in the (NIRF), 2023 for the fifth consecutive year.
- Expand NIRF
Name the top ranked Universities in the following fields according to NIRF - Overall Ranking
- Engineering
- Colleges
- Research
- Innovation
- Management
- Pharmacy
- Law
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- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
- National Institute of Ranking Framework
- Jawaharlal Nehru University
- IIT Madras
- Miranda House (Delhi University)
- IISc Bengaluru
- IIT Kanpur
- IIM Ahmedabad
- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad
- National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
