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India’s G20 Sherpa _________________- led an Indian official delegation to the third G20 Sherpa meeting of Indonesia’s G20 Presidency

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Shri Amitabh Kant

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________________ has joined 13 other Pacific nations in signing a wide-reaching US-led partnership agreement

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The Solomon Islands

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World maritime day 2022-
theme?

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29th september, “New technologies for greener shipping”.

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The Telangana government hailed the listing of _________________ by UNSECO

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Gollabhama sarees

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__________ is the Principal Place of Sitting of the Tribunal and Bhopal, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai shall be the other four places of sitting of the Tribunal.

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New Delhi

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LCH PRACHAND is designed, developed and extensively test-flown for over a decade by _______________.

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Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)

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Modi to inaugurate UN world geospatial congress 2022 in ___________ city.

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Hyderabad

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The theme for the year’s UN world geospatial congress is _____________________________

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“Geo-Enabling the Global Village: No One Should Be Left Behind.”

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9
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__________– wins the 2022 Nobel Prize for medicine

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Svante Paabo

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The Centre has appointed Justice _______________of the Delhi High Court as the presiding officer of the tribunal for the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), related to the ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates.

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Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma

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The 2004 amendment added “terrorist act” to the list of offences to ban organisations for terrorist activities, under which ________-organisations were banned

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34

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Popular Front of India is an Indian Muslim political organisation, that engages in a radical and exclusivist style of Muslim minority politics
and was founded on___________.

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22 November 2006

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what is the motto of the PFI?

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Motto: Naya Caravan, Naya Hindustan (New Caravan, New India)

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Who is the chairman of PFI?

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OMA Abdul Salam

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15
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Who is the general secretary of PFI?

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Anis Ahmed

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16
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Modi declared ____________ in gujarat as India’s first solar powered village

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Modhera

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17
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_________ becomes first state to implement Green Hydrogen Policy

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Rajasthan

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18
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The green hydrogen policy has set a target of ______________ tonnes per annum (MTPA) of green hydrogen production by 2030

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5 million

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19
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India has become the ____country to release a comprehensive Green Hydrogen Policy.

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18th

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20
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India’s ambitious goal of _________by 2022 got an impetus in the 2021-22 budget which allocated Rs. 1500 crore for renewable energy development and NHM.

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175 GW (Gigawatts)

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21
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International Solar Alliance 5th Summit to be held in _____

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Delhi

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International Solar Alliance is headquartered in _______.

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Gurugram, Haryana

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23
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The current director general of the International Solar Alliance is __________.

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Ajay Mathur

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How many members are a part of the International Solar Alliance?

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106 member countries out of which 86 have ratified the treaty

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25
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the WHO announced a link between four pediatric cough syrups from one Indian pharmaceutical company and the deaths of 66 children in_____ from kidney failure.

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Gambia

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26
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name the pharmaceutical company in question of making the cough syrup.

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Maiden Pharmaceuticals

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27
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name the contaminant in the cough syrup that is responsible for the death of 66 children

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The products are believed to be contaminated with diethylene glycol and/or ethylene glycol.

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28
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The WHO was established on _________-

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7 April 1948

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29
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Who is the current director general of WHO

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Tedros Adhanom (Ethiopia)

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30
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India became a party to the WHO on _____________

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12 January 1948

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31
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When is world health day celebrated and what is the theme for 2022?

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7th April is celebrated as World Health Day
Theme for 2022: Our Planet, Our Health.

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32
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____ to host the 9th general assembly of INTERPOL

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India

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33
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INS Arihant carried out the successful launch of a _______ Launched Ballistic Missile.

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Submarine

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34
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, INS Arihant was launched in 2009, and after extensive sea trials, was confirmed to be commissioned in August 2016. It is being built at the shipbuilding center in
-________________.

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Visakhapatnam

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35
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International Day of Eradication of poverty- __________-

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17 Oct

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36
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President Droupadi Murmu appoints Dr Justice _____________as the 50th CJI of India

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DY Chandrachud

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37
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World’s first nuclear waste tomb is in ___________.

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Finland

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38
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Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. It was first detected in ____________.

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Botswana

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39
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__________ will be the first state in the country to launch the NEP

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Uttrakhand

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40
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Booker Prize 2022 awarded to Sri Lankan author _____________ for his novel ________________________________.

A

Shehan Karunatilaka; ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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41
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The prize was established as the Booker Prize for Fiction after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd began sponsoring the event in _______.

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1969

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42
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The original Booker Prize trophy was designed by the artist ________-.

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Jan Pieńkowski

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43
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The first winner of the Booker Prize was_________ in 1969 for his novel Something to Answer For.

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P. H. Newby

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44
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Former Indian cricketer ____________appointed as the new BCCI chief

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Roger Binny

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45
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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body for cricket in India.Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, _______________ in Mumbai.

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Wankhede Stadium

46
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The world’s second oldest cricket club the _______ was founded in 1792 in Calcutta.

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‘Calcutta Cricket Club

47
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Who won the Noble prize for biology?

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Svante Paabo a Swedish geneticist, won for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

48
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____________ who is Svante Paabo’s father won the Noble prize in 1982.

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Sune Bergstrom

49
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Who won the Noble prize for physics?

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Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, for their work in quantum technology. (quantum mechanics).

50
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Name the two indian scientists who won the Noble prize for physics?

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C. V. Raman-1930
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar- 1983

51
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Who won the Noble prize for chemistry?

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Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless shared the award for chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry.

52
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Name the only indian scientists who won the Noble prize for chemistry?

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Venki Ramakrishnan, 2009

53
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Who won the Noble prize in literature?

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Annie Ernaux

54
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In 1984, she won the _____________ for another of her works La Place (A Man’s Place)

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Renaudot Prize

55
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Name the two Indians who won the Noble prize in literature?

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Rabindranath Tagore 1913, Rudyard Kipling 1907

56
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Who won the Noble peace prize?

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The Nobel Prize for peace was shared by Ales Bialiatski, a jailed Belarusian activist; Memorial, a Russian organization; and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine.

57
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Which organisation won the first Noble peace prize?

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Institute of International Law, founded by Gustave Moynier and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, in 1904.

58
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Name the two Indians who won the Noble peace prize?

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Mother Teresa 1979, Kailash Satyarthi 2014

59
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Who won the Noble prize in economics?

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The prize for economic science was awarded to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig for their research into banks and financial crises.

60
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Name the two Indians who won the Noble prize in Economics?

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Amartya Sen 1998, Abhijit Banerjee 2019

61
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___________ cave in Meghalaya, one of UNESCO’s ‘First 100 IUGS Geological sites’

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Mawmluh cave

62
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UNESCO names ________ as World Book Capital for 2024.

A

Strasbourg

63
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_____________wins UNHCR Nansen award for protecting Syrian refugees.

A

Angela Merkel

64
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________emerges as the world’s largest producer of sugar overtaking brazil.

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India

65
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World’s first all-electric plane ________completes maiden flight.

A

Alicia

66
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Nitin Gadkari launches _________ pilot project on flex fuel-strong hybrid EV

A

Toyota’s

67
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______________to be key G20 theme.

A

‘Soul of India’

68
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___________ has received the approval of the Reserve Bank of India to open a special Vostro account with Gazprom Bank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees.

A

UCO Bank

69
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In 1954, the SC held in the ____________case that the term “religion” will cover all rituals and practies “integral” to a religion. The test to determine what is integral is termed the “essential religious practices” test.

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Shirur Mutt case

70
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The Gati Shakti scheme will subsume Rs.________ National Infrastructure Pipeline that was launched in 2019.

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Rs 110 lakh crore

71
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Gati shakti has set targets for all infrastructure ministries and the targets to be achieved by ________

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2024-25

72
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The Living Planet Report is published every 2 years by the _______ for Nature since 1998.

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World Wide Fund

73
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North Eastern Council:
North Eastern Council (NEC) is a statutory advisory body constituted under the North Eastern Council Act 1971 and came into being on 7 November 1972 at ________.

A

Shillong

74
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The current Minister for Development of North Eastern Region is ____________.

A

G Kishan Reddy

75
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The 7th edition of IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise, among the Indian, Brazilian and South Africa navies was held at Port Gqeberha also known as ___________.

A

Port Elizabeth

76
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Coal India Ltd (CIL) will set up a 1,190-MW solar power plant in _________________________.

A

Bikaner district of Rajasthan

77
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President Droupadi Murmu Inaugurated the supercomputer ________________ in IIT Guwahati

A

PARAM KAMRUPA

78
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India’s first supercomputer was ________.

A

PARAM 8000

79
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India ranked ___ in the global hunger index and has a score of 29.1 which places it under ‘serious’ category.

A

107/121

80
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________121 ranks at the bottom of the global hunger index.

A

Yemen

81
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World Food Day is an international day celebrated on ________.

A

October 16th

82
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What was the theme for the world food day 2022?

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Theme: 2022: “Leave NO ONE behind”.

83
Q

Area-wise ________ has the largest forest cover in the country

A

Madhya Pradesh

84
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________had the lowest forest cover with respect to total geographical area in India

A

Haryana

85
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_________- had the most increase in forest cover in the year 2022.

A

Telangana

86
Q

Together with the WHO, the Republic of Korea is co hosting the first World Bio Summit to take place in _______.

A

Seoul

87
Q

____________ is the first Asain- American to be featured on the US currency

A

Anna May Wong

88
Q

Wildlife board approves a new tiger reserve called __________-in Madhya Pradesh

A

Durgavati tiger reserve

89
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Asia’s largest compressed bio gas plant inaugurated in _______.

A

Punjab

90
Q

FATF adds ________ to the list of high risk countries

A

Myanmar

91
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Myanmar is the third to be added to the FATF black list along with __________ and _____.

A

North Korea, Iran

92
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__________, was a British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine

A

Edward Jenner

93
Q

Who made the vaccine for rabies?

A

Louis Pasteur

94
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Sputnik V or Gam-COVID-Vac is an adenovirus viral vector vaccine developed by the ________________.

A

Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia

95
Q

_____________is the first veterinary vaccine against COVID-19. It was developed by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of Russia

A

Carnivac-cov

96
Q

The Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID‑19 vaccine, sold under the brand name _________

A

Covishield

97
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______________is an intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Bharat Biotech, American company Precision Virologics and the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, United States.

A

Inovacc- BBV154

98
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The Indian and US militaries carried out a three day joint humanitarian assistance exercise called _____________- in Visakhapatnam

A

Tiger triumph exercise

99
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India has previously only held tri-service exercises with ________-.

A

Russia

100
Q

where is the International Civil Aviation Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations headqautered?

A

Montreal, Canada

101
Q

The Union Cabinet gave its approval for the auction of the spectrum with a validity period of ____years

A

20

102
Q

In India, __________________- has voiced concerns over the Government’s plan to include the Millimeter Wave (mm Wave) bands

A

Satcom Industry Association-India (SIA)

103
Q

The 5G sector launch took place at the India Mobile Congress at _____ .

A

Delhi

104
Q

India’s biggest ever auction of telecom 5G spectrum held recently had giver a record of Rs._____.

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1.5 lakh crore.

105
Q

__________ launched the world’s first fully flagged 5G mobile networks in 2019.

A

South Korea

106
Q

_______________, is an independent stand-alone navigation of India.

A

NavIC, or Navigation with Indian Constellation

107
Q

________ is a global navigation satellite system that went live in 2016, created by the European Union through the European Space Agency.

A

Galileo

108
Q

EU’s parliament awards __________ to people of Ukraine for their resistance to Russia’s invasion

A

Sakharov prize

109
Q

________ is a planned coronagraphy spacecraft to study solar atmosphere, currently being designed and developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

A

Aditya L1

110
Q

Aditya L1 is planned to be launched in March 2023 aboard a _______launch vehicle.

A

PSLV-XL

111
Q

_____is ISRO’s heaviest rocket, is capable of launching a four ton class of satellite to Geosynchronous Transfer orbit.

A

LVM3

112
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United Nations Day is celebrated on___________-, marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter.

A

24 October

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