Current Affairs Flashcards
The practice of a separate Railway Budget was started by the British in ______ under the recommendation of
a 10-member Acworth Committee
1924
Recently, India successfully conducted flight tests of its indigenously developed anti-tank guided missile ________ from the Integrated Test Range in Odisha.
Dhruvastra (erstwhile known as Helina)
Which state recently became first state to amend Industries (Facilitation) Act for Small, Medium & Large-Scale Industries?
karnataka
India’s first online waste exchange platform launched by which state?
Andhra Pradesh
Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics:
Amartya Sen
Who was appointed as the new Chairman of Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for three-years?
Subhash Chandra Khuntia
_________ was an important Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969
Jan Tinbergen
Winner of Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Amartya Sen (this year)
‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladić to serve life term for ______ genocide as UN upholds ruling
1995
The Abel Prize for 2020 goes to:
Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis
IMF Managing Director:
Kristalina Georgieva
India was the ___ largest recipient of FDI in 2019
9th
current chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI):
Rajnish Kumar
First female Arab astronaut
Nora Al Matrooshi
Two Indian firms in WEF list of tech pioneers for 2020
ZestMoney and Stellapps
Climate Pledge was founded by:
Amazon and environment firm Global Optimism
The 1st gulf country to recognise Israel
UAE
___ Airport is 1st to be free of single-use plastic usage
Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport
UN’s human rights chief:
Michelle Bachelet
1st academic inst. to get nod from ICMR for its test kit
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
The World in 2030: Public Survey Report published by
UNESCO
Which state is the max producer of wheat in 2020-21?
Madhya Pradesh
Who is the first ombudsman of BCCI?
Justice D K Jain
topmost country in IMD’s World Competitiveness Index
Singapore in 2020, Switzerland in 2021
Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India
Ajay Tyagi
India joins ‘_________’ at UN as founding member
Alliance for Poverty Eradication
Who will receive the USIBC Global Leadership Award this year?
Tata Sons’ Chairman N Chandrasekaran and Lockheed Martin’s Jim Taiclet
the first and current Chief of Defence Staff of India is _________
Bipin Rawat
India’s GDP has contracted by ___ in April to June 2020 compared to the previous year
24%
US open championship- _________ became the first Indian in 7 years to win a grand slam singles match
Sumit Nagal
Global innovation index 2020: _________ is ranked first followed by Sweden
Switzerland
The Government of India has set a target of installing of installing 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by:
the year 2022
Chairman and Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
S Ramann
Seasoned diplomat _________ has been appointed as India’s envoy to China (The Ambassador of India to China)
Vikram Misri
Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in ______ by Jamshedji Tata
1868
Aircraft carrier _________ will be inducted in 2022: Eastern Naval Command. It is currently under construction at Kochi shipyard
INS Vikrant
The first India-EU Summit, held in ______ in the year ______, resolved that India and EU would build a new strategic partnership
Lisbon; 2000
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.
MCX
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?
Kuwait
In 2016, which company has been selected by Government of India as an offset partner for Dassault Aviation to manufacture Rafale?
Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited
How many Rafale fighter jets had India ordered from Dassault Aviation for about Rs 59,000 crore in September 2016?
36
The J-14, designed by Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, ______ was said to be a twin engine design based on the single-engine J-10.
China
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?
Indonesia (India in 2023)
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
10.5 percent
Originally, the Constitution of India envisaged a supreme court with a chief justice and ______ judges; leaving it to parliament to increase this number
seven (currently we have 34 judges including the CJI)
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
Chabahar port to Zahedan
______ 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
India
Which Article of the Indian Constitution requires the Union govt to distribute proceeds from all Central taxes based on recommendation of the Finance Commission?
Article 270
The 14th Finance Commission recommended that the share of the States in the divisible pool be pegged at ___
42% (15th FC recommended 41%)
As shown by _________ in their book, Indian Fiscal Federalism, the cesses and surcharges constituted 16.5% of Central gross tax revenue in 2015-16
YV Reddy and GR Reddy
Which country launched its first mission ‘Hope’ (also called Al-Amal) to Mars as it strives to develop its technology capabilities?
UAE- Hope Probe blasted off from Japan’s Space Center
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?
9.02 km, Himachal Pradesh
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called _________ is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014
Mangalyaan
Indian-American, _________, was appointed as the acting chief of staff of the United States’ space agency, NASA
Bhavya Lal
_________ 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.
Ingenuity, which weighs 4 pounds. (NASA launched)
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), aka Mangalyaan, was India’s first interplanetary mission and it made it the ______ space agency to reach Mars
fourth (after Roscosmos, NASA, ESA)
_________, a key member of India’s 1975 World Cup-winning hockey team, will be conferred with the
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ashok Kumar
The blue London plaque has been erected on houses and venues associated with several Indian men including:
Gandhi, Raja Ram Mohon Roy, and BR Ambedkar.
One of India’s 3 main Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC): Improving the emissions intensity of its GDP by _________ by 2030 over 2005 levels
33–35%
Pratyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at ______ and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF), Noida resp.
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune
The ______ was announced in 2015, with an aim to connect national institutions with more than 70 high-performance computing facilities over the period of _
National Supercomputing Mission; seven years
the International Booker Prize 2020 was awarded to “The Discomfort of Evening,” written by the Dutch novelist _________
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (translates by M Hutchison)
The Successor is a 2003 novel by the Albanian writer and INAUGURAL International Man Booker Prize winner _________
Ismail Kadare
_________ was the first winner of the Booker prize in 1969 with Something to Answer For. From 2002, the prize became ‘The Man Booker Prize’
PH Newby
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to _________ “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice
India and Myanmar have agreed to work towards operationalising the _________ in the first quarter of 2021.
Sittwe port
Which organisation has developed an Advanced Chaff Technology to safeguard naval ships against missile attack?
DRDO
The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day (_________ 2020)
5th October
In 2019, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu in _________ inaugurated India’s longest electrified rail
tunnel between Cherlopalli and Rapuru
Andhra Pradesh
Which bank has launched digital platform ‘Merchant Stack’ to target over 2 crore retail merchants in the country?
ICICI Bank
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.
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS)
India and Kyrgyzstan Special Forces started a military exercise named “Exercise _________” in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Khanjar
The Middle East Quartet, set up in 2002, consists of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and ______.
Russia
In Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there are 17 goals and 169 targets specific targets to be achieved by ______
2030
Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, is a run-of-the-river power project on the ______ River
Chenab
The WTO has 164 members and 24 observer govts. _________ became the 164th member in July 2016. Also, when was WTO founded?
Afghanistan. WTO was founded in 1995
_________ was going to, for the first time, hold combat readiness war game with Indian and French war ships at the naval exercise Varuna
The UAE (but they did not finally participate)
The WHO launched the _________ initiative to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic.
COVID-19 Law Lab
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to _________ “for the development of a method for genome editing.” (CRISPR-cas9)
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
______ is developing exoskeleton for the Indian soldiers posted in high altitudes
DRDO
The United States recently approved 550 million USD for the _________ Solar Project. The project will provide electricity to 87,500 homes.
Crimson Solar Project
India, Bangladesh and Russia signed an agreement for the _________ nuclear power plant project in northwest Bangladesh.
Rooppur nuclear power plant
Eight beaches in the country have bagged the coveted eco-label ‘Blue Flag’ from the international agency _________
Foundation for Environment Education, Denmark
The Nobel Prize 2020 in Economic Sciences was awarded to _________ “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”
Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson
Which state’s M Veeralakshmi Shatters The Glass Ceiling, Becomes India’s First Woman Ambulance Driver?
Tamil Nadu
India’s GM _________ won the 48th annual world open chess tournament (online) recently. (Usually held in Philadelphia, the USA)
P. Iniyan
Union Cabinet has approved the implementation of the Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States (STARS) project with the financial support of:
World Bank
The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences launched two mobiles apps _________ to propagate data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for public users
‘Mausam’ and ‘Meghdoot’
The Centre, in collaboration with ______, has decided to convert monumental dwelling of ravines in Gwalior-Chambal belt of Madhya Pradesh into arable land
the World Bank
_________ has topped the list of aspirational districts ranked by government thinktank Niti Aayog for the February-June 2020 period
Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh
The minimum donation one can make in PMNRF is Rs 100 while PM CARES accepts micro donations as low as ______.
Rs 10
U.S. has vowed to stand up against Beijing’s territorial claims to much of the South China Sea, including the contested _________ Islands
Paracel islands
_________ has declared an end to its Ebola outbreak, marking the first time in years the central African country has been free of it
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Government has notified changes in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms on civil aviation. It will
permit non-resident Indian nationals to own:
100 per cent stake of Air India.
Yogi Adityanath flagged off the first _________, the country’s first “private” train run by its subsidiary IRCTC, on the Lucknow-New Delhi route.
Tejas Express
_________ has approved a three million US dollar grant to India from its Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund (APDRF)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB)
For the first time, Huawei Technologies Co. has passed _________ as the world’s No. 1 supplier of smartphones
Samsung Electronics
The Ganges River Dolphin or also called ‘Susu,’ is the National Aquatic Animal of India. The declaration was made in ______
2009
FinTech company __________ launched mpay.me - a UPI payment link service to send and receive money from any UPI payment app.
MobiKwik
The Committee for Evolution of the New Education Policy (NEP) (Chairman: _________) submitted its report on May 7, 2016.
Mr. T. S. R Subramanian
Global Tiger Day, often called International Tiger Day, is an annual celebration to raise awareness for tiger conservation, held annually on _________
29 July
_________ has maintained its top spot when it comes to tiger population among all the 50 tiger reserves in the country
Corbett Tiger Reserve
The First Finance Commission of India was appointed in 1951, for the period 1952-57 by the President of India and was chaired by _________.
K. C. Neogy
Total number of Khelo India State Centre of Excellence (KISCE)
24
First Indian woman to win Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award
Aishwarya Sridhar
_________, an Indian-origin plastic surgeon, has been named as ”Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020” in the medical innovation category
Dr Jajini Varghese
The report on tiger status detailed _________ has the highest number of tigers in the country with 526 mighty cats
Madhya Pradesh
Mauritius claims it was forced to hand over the ______ Islands to the U.K. in 1965 for independence, which it gained three years later
Chagos
Mauritius had proposed an exchange allowing the UK to let the ___ use the Chagos Islands for defence purposes. The UK rejected the proposal
USA
The current President of Mauritius is:
Prithvirajsing Roopun.
The world’s first hydrogen powered yacht was unveiled at ______ yacht show 2019 as a concept design.
Monaco
_________ has become the first state in the country to cap prices of all kinds of masks
Maharashtra
The poll spending limit for candidates contesting Lok Sabha and Assembly elections has been enhanced by:
10 percent.
The world’s first iodine-based sanitisers will be launched in which country?
India
_________ has beaten Germany to the hosting right of the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships.
South Africa
Kashmiris have traditionally observed ___ as black day to mark the 1st landing of Indian troops in the valley
October 27th
India-born US District Judge _________ will preside over the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google.
Amit Mehta
Which 2 countries sign ‘world first’ carbon offset deal under Paris Agreement?
Peru and Switzerland
______ will provide customised news for the 30 million users of Snapchat in India.
NDTV
___ has been commissioned. it is the last of four anti-submarine warfare ships under the Navy’s Project 28
INS kavaratti
Cabinet approves adoption of amendment to Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Raj act ______
1989
Recently, the Taliban has captured Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam - _________.
Dahla Dam
India and US expected to sign ______ deal during 2 plus 2 dialogue this month end
BECA (Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement)
_________ is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission launched in 2016
OSIRIS-REx
BepiColombo- it is a joint endeavour between the European space agency ESA and _________
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA.
Who is currently the Chief Secretary of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir?
B. V. R. Subrahmanyam
China recently launched _________ rocket from the Xichang satellite launch centre. It is a Yaogan satellite
Changsei 2C rocket
PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) was launched by the Ministry of _________
Housing and Urban Affairs
_________ - the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB)
Mission Karmayogi
During the British raj, Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and _________ reformed it
Charles Cornwallis (Father of Civil Services in India)
The Government has set a target of doubling of farmers’ income by the year ______.
2022
Which state/ UT has topped the country in the latest ease of doing business rankings?
Andhra Pradesh
Chandrayaan-2 launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, aboard a:
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket
The Gaganyaan mission is expected to cost around Rs _________
10,000 crore.
If India does launch the Gaganyaan mission, it will be the fourth nation to do so after:
the United States, Russia and China.
The four astronauts-elect for India’s first manned space mission Gaganyaan have completed training in:
Russia
The Reserve Bank of India has announced that it will carry out US-style ‘___’ to bring down interest rates.
Operation Twist
National Education Commission was formed on 14 July 1964 under the chairmanship of:
Daulat Singh Kothari
_________ rules in Amazon’s favour, puts Future Group and Reliance industries limited deal on hold
Singapore International Arbitration Centre
Acc to the Singapore International Arbitration Centre 2019 report, ___ was the top user of its arbitration seat
India
_________ is an American activist who started the Me Too movement in 2006
Tarana Burke
BECA is the ___ foundational agreement signed b/w India and the US for strengthening defence ties
4th
General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) was signed in ___ between India and USA.
2002
Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) is a logistics support agreement signed in:
2016.
Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) was signed in ______.
2018
Who was the first lieutenant governor of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir?
Girish Chandra Murmu
Abdullah Abdullah leads the ___, which is expected to lead the intra-Afghan peace talks with the Taliban.
High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR)
_________ Airport first in Asia-Pacific to get ACI World health accreditation
Incheon International Airport
Its first component launched into orbit in 1998, and ___ is now the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit.
The International Space Station (ISS)
Central Government has reportedly appointed _________ as the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
Tamil actor _________ announced that he was opting out of the biopic 800 based on Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, on the cricketer’s request
Vijay Sethupathi
_________, Tamil nationalist and guerrilla leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Velupillai Prabhakaran
Who was the Indian writer and politician who had the longest tenure as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu with 6,863 days in office?
Muthuvel Karunanidhi
World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is held every year on _________. The day pays tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service
August 19
______ 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
Operation Poomalai, also known as Eagle Mission 4
World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialised agency of the United Nation, established on 7 April ______, and headquartered in Geneva
1948
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:
Brent and Dubai Crude.
______ 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
e-LISA
Paris Agreement entered into force when 55 Parties representing at least 55% of global emissions joined the Agreement. It entered into force on:
Nov 4 2016
The United States was the world’s largest national CO2 emitter until 2006, when ______ surpassed U.S. emissions that year
China
The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is located in ______, Germany.
Bonn
The Global EV Outlook is an annual publication by _________ that identifies and discusses recent developments in electric mobility across the globe
International Energy Agency
_________ announced the launch of India’s first comprehensive banking programme for millennial customers, in the age bracket of 18 years to 35 years.
ICICI Bank
Which state has launched an awareness campaign regarding the burning of Crop remains in many parts of the state?
Uttar Pradesh
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.
One Rank One Pension (OROP)
The International Day for Monuments and Sites also known as World Heritage Day is an international observance held on __________ each year
18 April
European Commission plans to borrow around 150 billion euros annually until ______ to finance the bloc’s plan to make its economy greener and digitalised
2026
Name the state which appointed the former Chief Secretary of state ‘Nilam Sawhney’ as the State Election Commissioner in April 2021.
Andhra Pradesh
The origins of the Five Eyes alliance can be traced back to the _________, which was issued in August 1941
Atlantic Charter
Recently, India unveiled new development initiatives for Afghanistan, including a dam to supply water to Kabul. The name of this dam is:
Shahtoot dam (near Kabul)
In Himachal Pradesh, the state government launched _______to sensitize the people regarding Covid-19 pandemic
Him Suraksha Abhiyan
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.
Indigenous Inhabitants
Chaitanya Tamhane’s “_________” has bagged the prestigious FIPRESCI award at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
The Disciple
India has been ranked ______ position “Global Economic Freedom Index 2020 Annual Report” by Canada’s Fraser Institute
105th
Michelin-starred chef _________ accepts a 2020 Asia Game Changer Award for dropping everything to feed millions in India
Vikas Khanna
In the happiness rankings of states and union territories, _________, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands are the top three
Mizoram, Punjab
_________ 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
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel
_________ becomes the first state to come out with Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Cybersecurity policies in the country.
Tamil Nadu
In February 2020, Union Cabinet approved the setting up of the country’s 13th major port at Vadhavan in which state?
Maharashtra
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):
to be held in Glasgow in November 2021.
_________ is the capital and largest city of Armenia. _________ is currently serving as Prime Minister of Armenia.
Yerevan; Nikol Pashinyan is the PM (resigned)
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India was set up on _________ under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Code).
1st October 2016
Labour falls in the Concurrent List of the Indian constitution. Article ___ of the Indian Constitution prohibits “forced labour”
Article 23
__________ has scaled Mt Annapurna, the 10th highest mountain peak in the world, becoming the first Indian woman climber to achieve the feat.
Priyanka Mohite
_________ announced that it has received the final nod from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up
Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit (BBPOU)
Vakrangee Ltd
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
the UAE
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said that _________ mobile application of the State Government will reduce hardships of farmers
e- Peek Pahani
_________, Jal Shakti Minister, said that aim of Jal Shakti Mission is to provide functional tap water connections by 2024 to all the rural households
Gajendra Singh Sherawat
Atal Tunnel or the Rohtang tunnel has been built in the Pir Panjal range of Himalayas. The tunnel is located
at an altitude of:
10,000 Feet from the Mean Sea Level (MSL)
The Indian embassy in _________ becomes first to go solar on October 2, on the occasion of the birth
anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
Madagascar
World Malaria Day is an international observance commemorated every year on _________ and recognizes global efforts to control malaria
25 April
Which South Asian country is on track to become the first country in the world to have its own hospitality loyalty program?
Maldives
_________ and The New India Assurance Co have been identified as Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SIIs) for 2020-21
LIC, General Insurance Corporation of India
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
Water Resources, River Development,Ganga Rejuvenation
In the domain of space exploration, ______ will be taking part in ISRO’s mission to Venus, scheduled to launch in 2025
France
The Government launched the ambitious Sagarmala Programme in March ______, with the vision of port-led development and growth
2017
Nearly ________ states in the country have a drinking water source which is contaminated with fluoride, arsenic, iron, nitrate, heavy metals, or salinity
20
In November 2020, as part of Mission _________, INS Airavat delivered food aid to Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea
Mission Sagar-II
Recently, the Indian Naval Ship (INS) Kiltan has arrived at Sihanoukville Port, _________ as part of ongoing Mission Sagar-III.
Cambodia
Azim Premji, the founder-chairman of ______, topped the list of philanthropists in India for 2020 with ₹ 7,904 crore in donations.
Wipro
PM Modi virtually co-chaired the 17th ASEAN-India Summit along with the Prime Minister of which country?
Vietnam
Every year since 2008, _________ is celebrated as education day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
November 11
_________ is the second-largest state in the country by area after Rajasthan. This state was the largest in India by area until 2000
Madhya Pradesh
Malayalam film “_________”, based on celebrated writer S Hareesh’s short story, Maoist, has been selected as India’s official entry for Oscars 2021.
Jallikattu
The historical fort cities of _________ in Madhya Pradesh have been included in the list of UNESCOs world heritage cities
Gwalior and Orchha
Modi is set to virtually lay the foundation stones for the world’s largest hybrid renewable energy park at ______
Khavda (Gujarat)
The Indian govt has decided to file an appeal against the arbitration award in the retrospective tax demand case involving which company?
Cairn Energy
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
2018
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
Vedanta
_________ 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
Reliance Industries Ltd
Nobel laureate _________’s new book titled ‘Covid-19: Sabhyata ka Sankat Aur Samadhan’ was launched
Kailash Satyarthi
The OPEC has since 1965 been headquartered in _________, although it is not an OPEC member state.
Vienna, Austria
The first country which officially inducted a submarine handed over by India is:
Myanmar
Who chaired the first meeting of National Startup Advisory Council (NSAC)?
Trade minister Piyush Goyal
Reserve Bank of India extended restrictions on crisis-ridden _________ by three months till 31 March, 2021.
Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank
_________ launched a new initiative called ‘Aahaar Kranti’
Dr. Harsh Vardhan
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization located at _________
The Hague in the Netherlands.
Located in the Andaman Sea is the _________, the only confirmed active volcano in South Asia.
Barren Volcano
Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices recommends MSP for 22 crops and:
Fair & Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane
EU’s plan, “Fit for 55,” calls for its 27 member states to cut their output of greenhouse gases by:
by 55% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels
Commonwealth Day is celebrated on May 24. It is also known as the _________
Empire Day
Who has won the International Children’s Peace Prize 2020 for his fight against cyberbullying?
Bangladeshi teen, 17-year-old Sadat Rahman
India ranked ___ among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2020
94
Name the ‘father of fiber optics’ who passed away in December 2020.
Narinder Singh Kapany, awarded Padma Vibhushan
Currently, _________ are on the Financial Action Task Force black list.
Iran and North Korea
The vehicle scrappage policy recommends the mandatory scrapping of all government vehicles _____
over 15 years old (only applicable to 4 wheelers)
The Lonar Lake in Maharashtra and ____, in Agra, have been added to the list of recognised Ramsar sites.
Sur Sarovar, also known as Keetham Lake
Vehicle manufacturers have been advised to provide ______ per cent discount on purchase of new vehicles against scrapping certificates
five
International Museum Day is an international day held annually on or around ______
18 May
The economy of India is the world’s fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the ______-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).
third
A six-year study conducted by The Nature and Butterfly Society (TNBS) has identified Siruvani hills in _____________ as a butterfly super-hotspot.
Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu
The Person of the Year is usually an individual, but multiple people have been named in the past. Time began its tradition in ______.
1927
_________ won the prestigious Etienne Glichitch Award in recognition of its contribution to the growth and development of the sport
Hockey India
The December 31, 1999 issue of Time named ______ the “Person of the Century”. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi were chosen as runners-up.
Albert Einstein
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization that was based in northeastern Sri Lanka. When was it founded?
1976
______ 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
India
National Commission on Farmers (NCF) headed by _________ had recommended that MSP should be at least 50% more than the weighted avg cost of prodn.
MS Swaminathan (recommended agri in concurrent list)
In _________, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Mr Nitin Gadkari initiated Asia’s longest ZojiLa Tunnel works virtually
Ladakh Union Territory
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?
Goa
FATF is an intergovernmental organization founded in ______ on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering.
1989
_________ is a Kenyan advocate and Human Rights Defender. She is the first woman to serve as Chief Justice in Kenya
Martha Karambu Koome
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.
FII
The Union government on Tuesday shifted economic affairs secretary _________ as the new revenue secretary
Tarun Bajaj (Now Ajay Seth is the economic affairs secy)
_________ became the first Indian woman sailor to secure an Olympics quota place in the Laser Radial event.
Nethra Kumanan
The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to _________, of the Netherlands for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
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:
Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan), Loktak Lake (Manipur)
The northeastern state of _________ has accorded ‘industry’ status to sports. The main aim of the decision is to professionalise sports in the state.
Mizoram
Who tied Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles by producing a nearly perfect performance against Novak Djokovic in the French Open final?
Rafael Nadal
Indian-origin philanthropist _________ has been awarded the prestigious Sandra Neese Lifetime Achievement Award
Harish Kotecha
The second phase of which programme was commenced on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11?
Vigyan Jyoti programme
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?
Rashid Khan
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
Sandeep Kataria
Who was named the Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year in the PCB awards following his stellar performances during the season?
Pakistan captain Babar Azam
The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional intergovernmental political and economic union consisting of which countries?
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE
Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in ______ by the Government of India. Kailash Sankhala was the first director of Project Tiger
1973
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?
Madhya Pradesh (will begin operations in 2022-23)
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.
Dharamshala
India’s _________ won the 10m air rifle event at the fifth edition of the International Online Shooting Championship.
Visnu Shivaraj Pandian
The theme of the 12th BRICS Summit, Meeting of the Leaders of BRICS countries is “BRICS Partnership for _________”.
Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth
MARSIS – Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding spacecraft belongs to which space agency?
European Space Agency
_________ was known as “Pied Piper of Delhi”. He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism in 1984. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2005.
RK Laxman
The _________ airport has become the first airport of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) which is entirely solar-powered
Puducherry Airport
Biden has invoked emergency powers to avoid fuel shortages after the worst-ever cyber-attack on US infrastructure shut down a _________
crucial pipeline
Election Commission said the maximum limit on the number of star campaigners for recognized National and State political parties will be:
30 in place of 40
______ 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
OSIRIS-REx
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the keynote address at the Invest India Conference in which country through video conferencing?
Canada
American poet _________ won the 2020 Nobel Literature Prize on October 8, an unexpected choice known for themes of childhood and family life
Louise Gluck
World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7th April. What is the theme for “World Health Day – 2021”?
“Building a fairer, healthier world for everyone”
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
Germany
___ 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
Telangana
______ successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor, marking a great advance in the country’s nuclear power research capabilities.
China
Which country charges ahead with its controversial plan to relocate Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, a remote island in the Bay of Bengal?
Bangladesh
Recently, India participated in the ___ Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM) and shared plans for research and long-term cooperation in the Arctic Region.
3rd ASM
_________ becomes fourth ‘Har Ghar Jal’ State/ Union Territory. It has achieved the ‘Har Ghar Jal’ status much ahead of the target fixed
Puducherry
International Day of Education is an annual international observance day held on ___________ and is dedicated to education.
24 January
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
2023
The Paris Agreement opened for signature on _________ at UN Headquarters in New York. It entered into force on 4 November 2016
22 April 2016 – Earth Day
Which Article of the Paris Agreement allows countries to leave the Paris Agreement and lays down the process for leaving?
Article 28
In 75 years, the United Nations, its specialised agencies, related agencies, and staff were awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize ______ times
twelve
NorthStar plans to provide safe, sustainable solutions through its ______ satellite constellation designed specifically for Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
Skylark
May 11 is celebrated as National _________ Day. May 11 is marked as the anniversary of Pokhran nuclear tests of 1998
National Technology Day
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.
US-based Mellon Bank
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?
Indian Young Lawyers Association vs. the State of Kerala
______ and Sudan agreed to take steps to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States
Israel
The UK-wide referendum in June 2016, was instigated by which Prime Minister after an election manifesto
promise?
David Cameron
In ______, the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order was introduced, whereby the region was given province-like status
2009
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is made up of 10 Southeast Asian countries, as well as:
South Korea, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Noted broadcaster and natural historian _________ has been presented the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.
David Attenborough
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)
NG-14 Cygnus
The Indira Gandhi Prize for popularization of science for 2020 has been awarded to Prof. _________ of IMSc
R Ramanujam
Pakistan’s Ambassador to France _________ has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of Pakistan to India
Mueenul Haq
The USA President Joe Biden has appointed _________ as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India
Donald L. Heflin
_________ was an Indian Sikh political leader, he was an Indian independence movement leader and the first Defence Minister of India.
Baldev Singh
Uttar Pradesh will soon have its first sports university in _________ after the state cabinet approved the State Sports University Bill 2021 draft.
Meerut
Britain has appointed _________ as the full-time President of the United Nations COP26 climate conference to be held in Glasgow this November
Alok Sharma
_________ has announced that it will offer a free Internationalized Domain Name, IDN in any of the preferred 22 official Indian language
The National Internet Exchange of India, NIXI
_________ has become the first union territory in the country to operationalise public financial management system (PFMS) at the district level.
Jammu and Kashmir
Originally Malabar begun in 1992 as a bilateral exercise between India and the United States, Japan became a permanent partner in which year?
2015
The first of its kind in the world to have been fully deployed, the _________ is a digital version of the Bahamian dollar.
sand dollar
The recent Suez Canal blockage was the canal’s longest since it was shut for eight years following the _________.
1967 Six-Day War
______ is a project under which 4 Anti-Submarine Warships have to be built indigenously in India by Garden Reach Shipbuilders And Engineers (GRSE)
P 28
India and which country are now planning to jointly develop a new generation of Brahmos missiles with 600 km-plus range?
Russia
On 23 March 2021, while traveling from Tanjung Pelepas in _________ to Rotterdam in Netherlands, the ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking it.
Malaysia
In Badminton, former World Champion _________ clinched the Denmark Open title beating three-time world champion Carolina Marin
Nozomi Okuhara
______’s first water taxi service launched in the backwaters of Alappuzha. The water taxi is set to ferry passengers.
Kerala
The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its
leader, _________
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
The UN General Assembly, in its resolution 7 April 2011, declared _________ as the International Day of Human Space Flight
12 April
Who has been elected as the Chairperson of the Governing Body of the ILO for the period October 2020- June 2021?
Apurva Chandra
On 13 April 1919, people gathered at Jallianwala Bagh to protest against the arrest of the two nationalist leaders:
Satya Pal and Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew.
In which state of India, the Mobile Polling Units are going door-to-door for the first time for collection of ballot papers?
Madhya Pradesh
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
2007
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.
2018
FATF has maintained the FATF blacklist (formally called the “_________”) and the FATF greylist (formally called the “Other monitored jurisdictions”)
Call for action
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:
22 January 2021
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said that the country will achieve zero carbon emissions by which year?
2050
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?
IndusInd Bank
India has 13 major ports (12 Government-owned and
one private). _________ which was notified as major port in 2010 was removed of its status
Port Blair
On 14th April every year we celebrate the birth anniversary of Dr. BR Ambedkar as Ambedkar
Jayanti. _________ is his birth place
Mhow of Madhya Pradesh
Government teachers in ______ have successfully completed ‘Rabta Muhim’, a week-long campaign, by speaking with 12.71 lakh parents over the phone.
Punjab
______ 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
Kerala
______ has the highest number of real-time online transactions in 2020 as per report by UK based payments system company ACI.
India
Former diplomat and Central Information Commissioner _________ is tipped to be appointed as the country’s next Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
The World Economic Forum has released the Global Gender Gap Report 2021. India has been placed at which rank?
140th
The Raisina Dialogue is India’s premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics. PM Modi inaugurated which Edition of Raisina Dialogue recently?
6th
International Film Festival of India announced this edition’s Country in Focus recently. The Country in Focus for the 51st IFFI is _________.
Bangladesh
_________, Secretary General of BIMSTEC from the Kingdom of Bhutan assumed his charges in November 2020
Mr. Tenzin Lekphell
India secured ___ rank in the 12th edition of the biennial Environment Performance Index (EPI Index 2020)
168
Indian Army’s Major Anoop Mishra has indigenously developed world’s first universal bulletproof jacket ‘______’
Shakti
The “SKOCH Challenger Award- Transparency in Governance” was conferred to Ministry of _________ for recognizing its IT-led initiatives
Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR)
The government has decided to observe which day as ‘Parakram Diwas’ to commemorate the birth anniversary of Bose?
January 23
Which state retained its leadership position in the major States category in the second edition of India Innovation Index released by NITI Aayog?
Karnataka
_________, a young Indian mathematician, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others
Nikhil Srivastava
Out of 189 countries, India has ranked ___ on the Human Development Index 2020 prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
131
The City of London Corporation announced it would remove statues of _________ from the Guildhall, in Moorgate
William Beckford and Sir John Cass
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?
Falcon 9 (The mission was called Transporter-1)
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.
11.5 per cent (now increased to 12.5%)
India climbed four spots on the Global Innovation Index 2020 and is now at ______ position in the list of top 50 innovative countries
48th
Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2021 is awarded to _________ (Individual category) and SEEDS (Institutional category)
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari
India has been ranked ______ in a “Covid-19 Performance Index” comprising 98 countries. New Zealand and Vietnam are at the top
86th (86 rank in Corruption Perception Index too)
_________ will establish the first leather park of the country in Kanpur district. The park is expected to provide employment to 50 thousand people directly
Uttar Pradesh government
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?
Union Finance Ministry
In a first for the industry, _________ will develop and manufacture a military aircraft in India, having acquired IPR for a German-origin platform.
The Tata Group
Close on the heels of announcing a MSP for 16 vegetables, the _________ has launched royalty for paddy fields in order to promote paddy cultivation
The left-front government in Kerala
_________ researchers are to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in a
world first trial
British researchers
Central Information Commission includes 1 Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and not more than ___ Information Commissioners (IC)
10
Mission Sagar-II, follows the first ‘Mission Sagar’ undertaken in May-June 2020, wherein India provided
food and medicines to which countries?
Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Comoros
The Haryana Assembly passed a Bill to reserve _________ of private sector jobs in the state for residents of Haryana
75 per cent
_________, an archipelago of 500 islands in the western Pacific, has plans to become the world’s first carbon neutral tourism destination
The Republic of Palau
_________ 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
Ireland
Having defeated incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election, Biden was inaugurated as the ___ president on January 20, 2021
46th
TRP (Television Rating Point) is calculated by an Indian agency, the Broadcast Audience Research Council, using “_________”
BAR-O-meters
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:
WWF Water Risk Filter.
After India’s independence in 1947, the name Royal Indian Air Force was kept. When was the prefix Royal removed?
With the transition to a Republic in 1950
NASA’s _________, which is designed to image Sun’s outer atmosphere and the solar wind, has recently captured a sungrazing comet
Parker Solar Probe
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced _________ as the title sponsor of the Women’s T20 Challenge 2020.
Reliance Jio
Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has congratulated ___ Indian Institutions on securing a position in top 100 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021
12
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
London’s Leicester Square
The Emmett Leahy award for 2020 was conferred on _________ from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune.
Dinesh Katre
Indian Armed Forces Veterans Day is celebrated on _________ every year to honour services rendered by veterans of the Army.
14th of January
The famous _________ of Tezpur, Assam got the geographical indication (GI) tags, making the item an
incontrovertible proof of their origins in the state
litchis
The armed forces conducted a joint tri-service exercise ‘_________’ at the Teressa Island in the Nicobar group of islands
Bull Strike
_________ has bagged the first place under the ‘Best State’ category under the National Water Awards (NWAs) 2019
Tamil Nadu
______ in Bihar’s Begusarai district has been recognised as a wetland of international importance, the first in the state, under the Ramsar Convention
Kabartal
Jammu and Kashmir government has launched an _________ portal to promote trading of GI tagged ‘Kashmir Saffron’ across the country.
e-Auction
_________, 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
Luis Arce
Nepal President _________ has released a special anthology on Mahatma Gandhi- ‘My understanding about Gandhi’
Bidhya Devi Bhandari
The RCEP was first proposed at the _________ with an aim to create a consolidated market for the 10 member countries and their trade partners
19th ASEAN meet in November 2011
The Reserve Bank of India was founded on _________ to respond to economic troubles after the First World War
1 April 1935
Originally the first four were grouped as “BRIC” (China, Brazil, Russia and India), before the induction of South Africa in which year?
2010
_________ is an initiative of the government aimed at making banking services available at people’s doorstep
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
HDFC Bank announced the launch of _________, a campaign to increase awareness on cyber frauds and preventing them
Mooh Band Rakho
‘_________’ was the country’s first ever Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) Missile Test successfully conducted in 2019 from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha
Mission Shakti
Who was The First Indian To Become A Judge at the International Court of Justice?
Sir Benegal Narsing Rau
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
IIT - Banaras Hindu University
The first Scorpene submarine, _________, was commissioned in 2017 and Second Scorpene Khanderi was inducted in September 2019.
Kalvari
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?
Novak Djokovic
In ______, the Education department started an Aadhaar enrolment drive for nearly 70 lakh students from 9 November, 2020
Assam
In which state, the name of the Tribal Welfare Department will be changed to Tribal Affairs Department?
Madhya Pradesh
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
Ron Klain
Kenya-based teacher _________ has been conferred the 2020 Ahimsa Award by the Trustees of the Institute of Jainology in London.
Peter Tabichi
Celebrated every _________, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the significant role of science in society
10 November
Who topped The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Democracy Index report titled “Democracy in
sickness and in health?”?
Norway
India set aside over Rs 7,100 crore in its budget for 2021-22 as development assistance for countries, with ______ getting the maximum allocation
Bhutan
India slipped two places to ______ position in the 2020 Democracy Index’s global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit
53rd [Two spots lower than 2019 Rank – 51]
Which project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre of collecting area?
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - 10 countries are a part
_________, the first MP to take the COVID-19 vaccine jab, on Sunday (January 17, 2021) said that he’s feeling fine.
Mahesh Sharma
A historic tripartite agreement for establishing India’s first-ever geothermal field development project, in ______, has been signed
Ladakh
The scores that the countries get in the Democracy Index, classify them under the following four types:
Full Democracy, Flawed Democracy, _________
Hybrid Regime, Authoritarian Regime
Modi unveiled the ‘_________’ in Rajasthan to mark the 151st Birth Anniversary celebrations of Jainacharya Shree Vijay Vallabh Surishwer Ji Maharaj
Statue of Peace
The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) is set to roll out India’s first Green Energy Convergence
Project in which state?
Goa
In the World Bank, ___ focuses on the world’s poorest countries, while ______ assists middle income and creditworthy poorer countries.
IDA; IBRD
G20 leaders announced that India will host the summit of the high-profile grouping in ______ — a year later than what was decided earlier
2023
According to the constitution, _________ seats in Myanmar parliament are reserved for candidates nominated by the army.
25 percent
The world’s first hydrogen-powered double decker bus was launched in _________ which showcases the city as a trailblazer in hydrogen technologies
Aberdeen, Scotland
RBI has set up an Innovation Hub for the financial sector and appointed _________ as the chairperson of the governing council
Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan
The current SCO Secretary-General is _________ of Uzbekistan, appointed to the office of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Secretary-General in 2019.
Vladimir Norov
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
77th
How many Indian cities figured among the 36 cities all over the world as part of the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance?
Four
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space
transportation services company headquartered in:
Hawthorne, California
_________, the supercomputer, has achieved 63rd rank in the list of 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Param Siddhi (India’s fastest AI Supercomputer)
