may week 2

Question 1

who chaired 13th brics summit? what was its theme

Answer 1

india. BRICS@15: intraa brics cooperation for continuity, consolidation and censensus. 15th anniversary

Question 2

when was brics formed? when and where was the first summit? when did south africa join

Answer 2

june 2006. 2009 at yekaterinburg in russia. 2010.

Question 3

first institution to issue green bonds and when

Answer 3

2007 by european investment bank

Question 4

first state to have a real time digital flood reporting system, what is it called

Answer 4

assam. flood reporting and information management system

Question 5

who is the sec of labour and employment

Answer 5

apurva chandra.

Question 6

what was the first brics labour employment group called who attended who chaired

Answer 6

1st brics employment working group. brics, ilo, interN social security agency. apurva chandra

Question 7

who hosted the 3rd arctic science ministerial? and 1st and 2nd one? what was the theme

Answer 7

japan and iceland. theme: knowledge for sustainable arctic. 1st 2016 by us. 2nd 2018 by ger

Question 8

top 5 most remittances according to the world bank

Answer 8

1st india 83mil. 2nd china 59.5mil. 3rd mexico 42.9mil. 4th philippines 5th egypt

Question 9

what is the GoI telemedicine platform called? what was launched on it and by whom?

Answer 9

e-sanjeevani OPD. Ex-defence OPD was launched by ajay kumar and surgeon vice admiral rajat datta, dg of armed forces medical science

Question 10

what does INTERPOL stand for? what was it est as and when? who is its prez and the sg and hq? what app did they make to identify and recover stolen cultural property

Answer 10

interN criminal police organisation. in 1914 as interN criminal police congress. S.korean Kim Jong Yang. general jurgen stock. lyon. ID Art

Question 11

which country is gonna recognize animals as sentient by law? what is the plan for it called?

Answer 11

uk’s action pan for animal welfare

Question 12

who is the first woman head of italy’s secret service dept of information security? she was also the first what and what

Answer 12

elisabetta belloni. 1st woman head of italy’s crisis unit and 1st woman sg of its foreign ministry

Question 13

which organisation is directing india’s policy of privatization of indian agricul? who is controlling this org

Answer 13

WEF through new vision for agriculture india business council.

Question 14

what is the NFRA? when was it formed? its purpose? its chairman? hq?

Answer 14

national financial reporting authority. oct 2018. to oversee auditing and accounting standards in india. rangachari sridharan. new delhi

Question 15

what is RBI’s core banking solution? what can it do

Answer 15

e-Kuber. allows banks to access its current accounts anytime from anywhere in india

Question 16

who is the national prez of ficci ladies organization

Answer 16

ujwalla singhania

Question 17

who is rbi’s new executive director?

Answer 17

jose j kattor

Question 18

who is the first ceo of the govt approved national asset reconstruction company?

Answer 18

sbi chief general manager padma kumar nair

Question 19

which payment app is getting international money transfer and who are they collabing with?

Answer 19

google pay collab with 2 companies, wise and western union

Question 20

what is SWAMIH?

Answer 20

special window for affordable and middle income housing fund

Question 21

nasa aircraft _ collected samples from asteroid _. only country to have ever done this is _.

Answer 21

OSIRIS-REx, bennu. japan.

Question 22

nasa admin

Answer 22

bill nelson

Question 23

world’s first ai ship? who made it?

Answer 23

mayflower 400. by ProMare in collab with IBM

Question 24

which organisation controls pharma prices in india and when was it formed?

Answer 24

national pharmaceuticals pricing authority. 29th aug 1997.

Question 25

drdo drug for corona made by who all? what was it called?

Answer 25

drdo, institute of nuclear medicine and allied sciences, dr reddy’s lab. 2-deoxy-D-glucose.

Question 26

according to IUCN how many endangered species are facing threat dure to war civil unrest and military ex?

Answer 26

219.

Question 27

who made world’s first commercial scale plant able to recycle all kinds of plastic

Answer 27

uk’s mura technology

Question 28

best and worst healthcare infra of indian cities

Answer 28

best pune worst delhi

Question 29

environmentally most at risk cities. top 3? top indian? _ out of top 100 are in asia.

Answer 29

1st jakarta 2nd delhi 3rd chennai. delhi 2nd, chennai 3rd, 6th agra, 10th kanpur, 22nd jaipur, 24th lucknow 27th mumbia. 99.

Question 30

mayor of london and deputy mayor of business

Answer 30

sadiq khan. rajesh agrawal

Question 31

who is the un humanitarian chief

Answer 31

martin griffiths

Question 32

first women finance minister of assam

Answer 32

ajanta neog

Question 33

who won world food prize 2021? for what? when was the first one and who won?

Answer 33

shakuntala haraksingh thilsted. for aquatice food system. 1987 ms swaminathan

Question 34

who won green urja award by indian chambers of commerce

Answer 34

indian renewable energy development agency

Question 35

first indian to win youth competition of sony world photography awards 2021? what title was he given by whom

Answer 35

pubarun basu. youth photographer of the year 2021 by world photography organisation

Question 36

who won whitley award 2021 which is dubbed as the green oscar and why did they win it

Answer 36

nuklu phom. protecting amur falcons in nagaland.

Question 37

when is national technology day and its theme

Answer 37

11th may. science and technology for a sustainable future

Question 38

interN day of families? theme?

Answer 38

15th may. families and new technologies