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➢ Which space agency has developed a new, easy-to-

build high-pressure ventilator called VITAL to treat

patients with milder symptoms of COVID-19?

✓ NASA

➢ What does VITAL stands for?

✓ Ventilator Intervention Technology

Accessible Locally

➢ Which security force has launched an e-office

application called 'e-karyalay' for the movement of

files?

✓ CISF

➢ Indian telecom company Vodafone Idea has joined

hands with which payment app to launch ‘Recharge

Saathi’ programme?

✓ Paytm

➢ Which country has launched its first military satellite

called Noor (meaning light) into orbit?

✓ Iran

➢ Iran has launched its first military satellite called Noor

via which rocket?

✓ Ghased

➢ Usha Ganguly, who passed away recently, was the

famous personality in which field?

✓ theatre

➢ Name India's first COVID-19 sample collection mobile

lab developed jointly by DRDO and ESIC Medical

College and Hospital, Hyderabad?

✓ BSL-3 VRDL Lab

➢ The HRD Minister has launched the VidyaDaan 2.0

program to provide e-learning content through which

app?

✓ DIKSHA

➢ Which state government has launched "Apthamitra"

helpline and app to fight COVID-19?

✓ Karnataka

➢ Which social media platform has bought 9.99% stake

in Reliance Jio, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries

Ltd (RIL)?

✓ Facebook

➢ Recently Facebook has bought 9.99% stake of Reliance

Jio in _____.

✓ USD 5.7 billion

➢ Name the executive director of Bajaj Auto, who has

recently been elected the president of the International

Motorcycle Manufacturers Association (IMMA)?

✓ Rakesh Sharma

➢ In whose place, the International Motorcycle

Manufacturers Association has elected Rakesh Sharma

as its President?

✓ Johannes Loman

➢ Name the author of "Midnight in Chernobyl: The

Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster",

who recently won William E. Colby Award?

✓ Adam Higginbotham

➢ Which state government has launched 'Aayu & Sehat

Sathi app' in association with healthcare startup

MedCords to tackle COVID-19?

✓ Rajasthan

➢ Who has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of

Huawei Telecommunications India?

✓ David Li

➢ Where is the Headquarters Huawei located?

✓ Shenzhen, China

➢ The Reserve Bank of India has given its approval for

the re-appointment of N Kamakodi as MD & CEO of

which bank?

✓ City Union Bank (CUB)

➢ Where is the Headquarters of City Union Bank located?

✓ Tamil Nadu

➢ Recently, Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL) has

partnered with _ to issue virtual and physical debit

cards.

✓ Mastercard

➢ Where is the Headquarters of Paytm Payments Bank

Limited (PPBL) located?

✓ Noida




➢ When did the Interest Subvention Scheme came into

existence in India?

✓ 2006

➢ In India the Interest Subvention Scheme is being

implemented by which organisation?

✓ RBI & NABARD

➢ Name the BMW Group India President who died

recently?

✓ Rudratej Singh

➢ Who has been appointed as the interim president of

BMW India operations after the demise of Rudratej

Singh?

✓ Arlindo Teixeira

➢ Recently the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet

approved the appointed whom as Secretary to the

President on contract basis, for a term co-terminus with

the tenure of the President?

✓ Kapil Dev Tripathi

➢ Who is the incumbent secretary to Ram Nath Kovind,

the president of India?

✓ Sanjay Kothari

➢ Which bank has launched voice assistance-based

banking services for its customers on Amazon's Alexa

& Google Assistant?

✓ ICICI Bank

➢ What is the name of the WhatsApp chat-based service

provided by ICICI Bank provided for uninterrupted

banking services for both retail and business customers.

✓ ICICIStack

➢ Who has won the Formula One Esports Virtual Grand

Prix championship 2020?

✓ Charles Leclerc

➢ Charles Leclerc, who has won the F1 Esports Virtual

Grand Prix championship 2020 belongs to which team?

✓ Ferrari

➢ Who is the incumbent Chief Justice of Bombay High

Court?

✓ Justice BP Dharmadhikari

➢ The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the

appointment of whom as chief justice of Meghalaya

high court?

✓ Justice Biswanath Somadder

➢ Who is the acting Chief Justice of Odisha High Court?

✓ Sanju Panda

➢ The US has appointed which Indian-American as a

member of the National Science Board for a six-year

term?

✓ Sudarsanam Babu

➢ Sudarsanam Babu, who has been appointed as the

member of National Science Board of America will

have a tenure of:

✓ 6 years

➢ What is the name of the standalone gaming app for

Android smartphone users launched by Facebook?

✓ Facebook Gaming

➢ Twitch, which is a video live streaming service

operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of whom?

✓ Amazon

➢ American credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings Inc. has

projected India's GDP forecast for FY21 to:

✓ 1.8%

➢ What is the revised GDP forecast of China as per Fitch

Ratings Inc. for FY21?

✓ 1.1%

➢ Name an Oscar-winning animator who directed the

series "Tom and Jerry" as well as "Popeye the Sailor",

who died recently?

✓ Jean ditch

➢ Name the campaign launched by HDFC Bank to

encourage consumers to follow social distancing?

✓ #HDFCBankSafetyGrid

➢ Where is the headquarters of HDFC Bank located?

✓ Mumbai

➢ Who is the author of a book titled "Shuttling to the Top:

The Story of PV Sindhu"?

✓ V krishnaswamy




➢ The world's most famous bicycle race Tour de France

has been postponed in the wake of the Corona virus

pandemic, which will now take place in __ in August.

✓ Nice

➢ What is the value of Confidence index of India Inc in

the fourth quarter of 2019-20?

✓ 42.9

➢ Confidence Index of India Inc. is released by whom?

✓ Federation of Indian Chambers of

Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

➢ For the 1st time ever, the World Bank has projected a

window to forecast the GDP of India. What is the

window?

✓ 1.5 to 2.8 % of GDP

➢ In order to fight COVID-19, the World Bank has

provided how much financial assistance to India?

✓ $1 Billion

➢ Recently which private sector lender headquartered in

Mumbai is considering to raise its equity capital via

FPO & QIP?

✓ Kotak Mahindra Bank

➢ What does the term F stands for in the abbreviation

FPO?

✓ Follow

➢ What does the term I stands for in the Abbreviation

QIP?

✓ Institutional

➢ Recently which NGO has urged government to actively

use DMF funds and accelerate relief efforts towards the

protection of lives and livelihoods of Covid-19 affected

communities across states?

✓ PRAHAR

➢ In context to NGO PRAHAR, what does it mean?

✓ Public Response Against Helplessness and

Action for Redressal

➢ In context to Mines, what does DMF stands for?

✓ District Mineral Foundation

➢ Name the app launched by the Agriculture Minister to

facilitate the transportation of food grains and

perishables during lockdown?

✓ Kisan Rath

➢ Recently the Government of Chhattisgarh has

inaugurated an online portal named 'Cghaat' for __.

✓ Home Delivery of Fruits, Vegetables

➢ Name the freedom fighter who had participated in the

Quit India Movement, who died recently?

✓ RV Bhuskute

➢ Which state/UT has launched a new 'Assess Koro Na'

app for door-to-door survey in COVID-19 containment

zones?

✓ Delhi

➢ Recently who chaired the "National Conference on

Kharif Crops 2020", which took place through video

conference on April 16?

✓ Narendra Singh Tomar

➢ In context to Indian Exports, Niryat Bandhu Scheme

was launched in the year:

✓ 2011

➢ What is the name of the scheme whose aim is to reach

out to the new and potential exporters and mentor them

to get into international trade and boost exports from

India?

✓ Niryat Bandhu Scheme

➢ How much aid has recently been provided to Pakistan

by US in order to fight COVID-19 pandemic?

✓ $8.4 million

➢ The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved

___ in emergency financing to Pakistan to address the

economic impact of the COVID-19 shock.

✓ USD 1.3 billion

➢ India's third-largest two-wheeler manufacturer TVS

Motor Company has acquired which British brand for

₹153 crore?

✓ Norton

➢ The World Economic Outlook ie released by whom?

✓ IMF




➢ 122-year-old British brand Norton Motorcycles has

recently been acquired by which Indian Brand for 153

crore?

✓ TVS Motors

➢ Recently Tamas Ajan has resigned from which post of

International Weightlifting Federation?

✓ President

➢ After the resignation of International Weightlifting

Federation President Tamas Ajan, who will now lead

the Sports governing body as Acting President?

✓ Ursula Papandria

➢ _____ has been chosen as official mascot for the

Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games.

✓ Feifei

➢ Name the chess champion, who has joined WWF

(World Wide Fund) India as its ambassador for

environment education programme?

✓ Viswanathan Anand

➢ Where is the headquarters of WWF (World Wide Fund)

located?

✓ Switzerland

➢ Name the Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL,

who has been given additional charge of Mahanagar

Telephone Nigam Limited for the third time?

✓ P K Purwar

➢ Brian Dennehy, who passed away recently, was the

famous US ________.

✓ Actor

➢ With the recent policy rate cut by RBI, what will be the

new difference in value between Repo & Reverse Repo

Rates?

✓ 0.65%

➢ What will be the new limit provided by RBI to States

under Ways and Means Advances (WMA)?

✓ 60% (upto 30 Sept 2020)

➢ What is India's growth estimate for FY21 as per the

recent World Economic Outlook presented by IMF?

✓ 1.9%

➢ Where did the next World's largest mobile event,

Mobile World Congress (MWC) will be held?

✓ Barcelona (Spain)

➢ What is the name of the "Little Mermaid" Animator

who was nicknamed as 'Giggles' by MPTF?

✓ Ann Sullivan

➢ The 44th session of the UNESCO World Heritage

Committee has been postponed due to the COVID-19

pandemic, which was initially scheduled to take place

in ______.

✓ Fuzhou

➢ Where is the headquarters of UNESCO located?

✓ Paris

➢ Where is the headquarters of Paytm located?

✓ Noida

➢ Algerian writer Abdelouhab Aisoui has received the

13th International Arab Fiction Award 2020 for his

novel.

✓ 'The Spartan Court'

➢ Which Indian cricketer has been appointed by

PokerStars India as its new brand ambassador?

✓ Mahendra Singh Dhoni Mahendra Singh

Dhoni

➢ PokerStars is an online poker cardroom owned by___.

✓ The Stars Group

➢ Which state govt has launched ‘YSR Nirman’ an online

platform to help various departments of the State to

procure cement from suppliers for government works?

✓ Andhra Pradesh

➢ Under which category, Tata Power has recently been

conferred with the Edison Award?

✓ social innovation

➢ Where is the Headquarters of Tata Power located?

✓ Mumbai

➢ Ranjit Chowdhry, who died recently, was the famous

personality in which field?

✓ Cinema




➢ Who has been named as the managing director and

chief executive officer of Paytm General Insurance

Ltd?

✓ Vineet Arora

➢ Ajay Mahajan has been as Managing Director and

Chief Executive Officer of which credit rating agency

in India?

✓ CARE Ratings

➢ Where did India's 1st remote health monitoring system

that can monitor a patient remotely launched?

✓ Rishikesh

➢ In association with whom, the All India Institute of

Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh has set up India’s

1st remote health monitoring system in uttrakhand?

✓ Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)

➢ Birupaksha Mishra has taken over the charge as the

fourth executive director of which state run bank?

✓ Union Bank of India

➢ The Corporation Bank & Andhra Bank has now been

amalgamated into which entity?

✓ Union Bank of India

➢ Which state has launched the electronic format of

comic textbooks for Class III, IV and V respectively?

✓ Manipur

➢ Which subjects have been included in the electronic

format of comic textbooks, launched by Manipur

Government in a single electronic format?

✓ Mathematics, Environmental Studies and

English Language

➢ Doug Sanders, who died recently, was related to which

sports?

✓ Golf

➢ Name the first state to integrate allopathy with

Ayurveda to treat COVID-19 patients?

✓ Goa

➢ Which financial institution has increased the size of its

COVID-19 Response Package to $20 Billion?

✓ Asian Development Bank

➢ Name the webinar series launched by the Ministry of

Tourism amid COVID-19?

✓ Dekho Apna Desh

➢ The first series of "DekhoApnaDesh" webinar

launched by the Ministry of Tourism is based on which

city?

✓ Delhi

➢ Tata Sky and Airtel DTH will air the human resource

development ministry's three _____ channels for free.

✓ Swayam Prabha

➢ In India, the CPI based retail inflation is accounted on

the statics provided by:

✓ MOSPI

➢ What does CPI Stands for?

✓ Consumer Price Index

➢ Under which instrument/method the Pakistan has

requested the IMF for a low-cost, fast-disbursing loan

to deal with the adverse economic impact of COVID-

19?

✓ Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI)

➢ Recently how much loan under RFI has been requested

by Pakistan from IMF?

✓ USD 1.4 billion

➢ Which country has requested USD 1.4 billion loan from

IMF under the fund's Rapid Financing Instrument

(RFI)?

✓ Pakistan

➢ From which year onwards the Asian Boxing

Championship became a combined event for men and

women?

✓ 2019 (Last year)

➢ Name the co-founder of Flipkart who has been

appointed the managing director of Bengaluru-based

Navi Technologies?

✓ Sachin Bansal

➢ Padma Bhushan awardee Ashok Desai, who passed

away recently, was the former _______.

✓ Attorney General of India




➢ What is the name of the Navi’s microfinance arm who

had formally approached the Reserve Bank of India

(RBI) for a universal banking licence?

✓ Chaitanya India Fin Credit Pvt. Ltd

(CIFCPL)

➢ Name the new digital stethoscope developed by IIT-

Bombay to examine COVID-19 infected patients?

✓ "AyuSynk"

➢ Yes Bank has extended the bancassurance partnership

with Max Life Insurance for how many years?

✓ 5 years

➢ Where is the Headquarters of Yes Bank located?

✓ Mumbai

➢ Which ministry has launched a web-portal YUKTI

(Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge,

Technology and Innovation)?

✓ human resource development ministry

➢ Stirling Moss, who died recently, was associated with

which sport?

✓ Motorsport

➢ Recently the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet

(ACC) has approved to extend the tenure of the current

part-time chairman of the Bank Board Bureau (BBB)

for how many years?

✓ 2 years

➢ Who is the current part-time chairman of the Bank

Board Bureau (BBB)?

✓ Bhanu Pratap Sharma

➢ Where is the headquarters of Bank Board Bureau

(BBB) located?

✓ Mumbai

➢ Which Pune based Laboratory has designed and

developed a digital Infra-Red (IR) thermometer &

oxygen enrichment unit (OEU) to aid covid-19

mitigation?

✓ CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory

➢ CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory has developed a

handheld digital Infra-Red (IR) thermometer in

collaboration with which company?

✓ Bharat Electronics Limited

➢ India Biotech has tied up with which US company to

develop a vaccine named “Coro-Flu”?

✓ FluGen

➢ Name the e-learning platform launched by UPSC to

help aspirants in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic?

✓ UPSCGuide

➢ Who is the founder of of UPSCGuide e-learning

platform?

✓ Abhijeet Nikam

➢ What is the criteria for Net Credits towards Priority

Sector Lending (PSL) for Jana Small Finance Bank?

✓ 75%

➢ Name the former Chelsea and England goalkeeper

popularly known as "The Cat", who passed away

recently?

✓ Peter Bonetti

➢ Name the statutory body of MSME, who has recently

bagged an order to supply 7.5 lakh pieces of khadi

masks to Jammu and Kashmir government?

✓ Khadi and Village Industries Commission

(KVIC)

➢ Who is the incumbent chairman of mumbai based

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC),

which is an apex organisation under the MSME?

✓ Vinai Kumar Saxena

➢ A new initiative titled ‘Food Bank’ has introduced by

which state government?

✓ Manipur

➢ Who is the current Chief minister of Manipur?

✓ N. Biren Singh

➢ Which scheduled commercial bank has launched

DigiGen, a digital banking platform to open savings

account and fixed deposit instantly; any time,

anywhere?

✓ Jana Small Finance Bank




➢ Former Union secretary Vinay Sheel Oberoi died, he

earliar worked in which Ministry?

✓ HRD & Women and Child Development

➢ What is the minimum criteria for the Capital to open a

Small Finance Bank?

✓ Rs. 100 Crore

➢ Vehicle Research Development Establishment

(VRDE) is a DRDO laboratory situated in___.

✓ Ahmednagar

➢ Who is endorsing RBI's Twitter campaign amid

Coronavirus pandemic?

✓ Amitabh Bachchan

➢ What we called the messages sent by a person on

America's famous microblogging & Social Networking

platform, Twitter?

✓ Tweets

➢ Which campaign was recently launched by MHRD to

invite suggestions to overcome any constraints found in

the online education system?

✓ Bharat Padhe Online

➢ The ministry of Human Resource & Development,

which is being headed by Ramesh Pokhriyal now a

days was instituted in which year?

✓ 1985

➢ What is the name of the method on which Apple &

Google have partnered to build COVID-19 Tracing tool

for Smartphones?

✓ Contact-Tracing

➢ In context to software building-block, what does API

stands for?

✓ Application Programming Interface

➢ What is the name of the former Governor of RBI who

has been appointed to an external advisory group to

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva recently?

✓ Raghuram Rajan

➢ Who is the incumbent Chief Economist of the

Washington, D.C. based International Monetary Fund

(IMF)?

✓ Gita Gopinath

➢ What is the name of the therapy which has been

approved by Indian Council of Medical Research

(ICMR) for COVID-19 treatment?

✓ Convalescent-plasma Therapy

➢ Which medical institute has been given approval by

ICMR for carrying out convalescent-plasma therapy

for COVID-19 patients?

✓ SCTIMST

➢ Recently, IFFCO Tokyo General Insurance Company

has appointed Anamika Roy Rashtravar to which post?

✓ Managing Director and Chief Executive

Officer

➢ Where is the Headquarters of IFFCO Tokyo General

Insurance Company located?

✓ Gurugram

➢ According to the Economic and Social Survey of Asia

and the Pacific (ESCAP) by the United Nations, what

is India's GDP forecast for FY21?

✓ 4.8%

➢ How many member countries are in the United

Nations?

✓ 193

➢ Name the artist who played Sugriva in Ramanand

Sagar's Ramayan, who has passed away recently?

✓ Shyamsundar Kaalaani

➢ Name the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The

Washington Post, who has written book on Melania

Trump?

✓ Mary Jordan

➢ What is the name of the book written by Pulitzer Prize

winner Mary Jordan on Melania Trump?

✓ The Art of Her Deal

➢ which Laboratory of DRDO has designed full body

disinfection chamber called as Personnel Sanitisation

Enclosure (PSE)?

✓ Vehicle Research Development

Establishment (VRDE)




➢ 'Operation SHIELD' is an initiative of which state/UT

government?

✓ Delhi

➢ What does E stands for in Operation SHIELD launched

by Delhi government?

✓ Essential Supply

➢ Indian Immunologicals Limited has partnered with

which University of Australia to develop a live

attenuated vaccine against novel coronavirus disease

(SARS – CoV-2)?

✓ Griffith University

➢ Where is the Headquarters of Indian Immunologicals

Limited located?

✓ Hyderabad, Telangana

➢ Which company has launched a new Braille keyboard

for Android users with low vision or blindness?

✓ Google

➢ Which ministry has launched a mega ONLINE

challenge "SAMADHAN"?

✓ Ministry of HRD

➢ With whom, Ministry of Human Resource

Development (MHRD) has launched a mega online

challenge "Samadhan"?

✓ All India Council for Technical Education

(AICTE)

➢ Jock Edwards, who passed away recently, was the

former player of which national cricket team?

✓ New Zealand

➢ Who has been appointed as managing director and

chief executive officer of Bharti AXA Life Insurance?

✓ Parag Raja

➢ BXA Life Insurance has appointed Parag Raja as

managing director and chief executive officer of the

company. He will succeed __.

✓ Vikas Seth

➢ Who has been named as the leading Cricketer in the

World in the 2020 edition of Wisden Cricketers'

Almanack?

✓ Ben Stokes

➢ Who has been named as the Wisden's 2020 leading

woman player in the world?

✓ Ellyse Perry

➢ Where is the headquarters of SAARC located?

✓ Kathmandu, Nepal

➢ United States Agency for International Development

(USAID) has announced a grant of to India to help it

fight the coronavirus pandemic.

✓ $2.9 million

➢ Which company has won a 'large' contract from the

Indian Army for setting up an advanced IT-enabled

system to operate the Armed Forces network?

✓ Larsen & Toubro

➢ Famous coach Radomir Antic, who died recently, was

associated with which sport?

✓ Football

➢ The SAARC Development Fund (SDF) has allocated

for COVID-19 projects in eight member countries.

✓ USD 5 million

➢ Who is the current Secretary-General of South Asian

Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)?

✓ Esala Ruwan Weerakoon

➢ Which Pune based company funded by Department of

Science and Technology (DST) has developed a

'membrane oxygenator equipment' to treat COVID-19

patients?

✓ Genrich Membranes

➢ Where is the headquarters of IndusInd Bank located?

✓ Pune

➢ Which state government has launched a newly

developed app called COVIDCARE?

✓ Arunachal Pradesh

➢ Who is the current Chief minister of Arunachal

Pradesh?

✓ Pema Khandu

➢ Who is the current Prime Minister of Libya?

✓ Fayez al-Sarraj




➢ Which ministry has named DigiLocker as its sole

National Academic Depository?

✓ HRD Ministry

➢ In which year, DigiLocker was launched by the Prime

Minister Narendra Modi?

✓ 2015

➢ Who took charge as spokesperson of Ministry of

External Affairs?

✓ Anurag Srivastava

➢ Ministry of External Affairs has appointed Anurag

Srivastava as spokesperson in place of _____.

✓ Raveesh Kumar

➢ Who is the current Minister of External Affairs?

✓ Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

➢ Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the

National Association of Software and Services

Companies (Nasscom), for 2020-21?

✓ UB Pravin Rao

➢ Who has been named as the vice chairperson of

Nasscom for 2020-21?

✓ Rekha M. Menon

➢ Mahmoud Jibril, who passed away recently, was the

former Prime Minister of which country?

✓ Libya

➢ Recently the International Weightlifting Federation

(IWF) has imposed disciplinary sanctions on Thailand

and Malaysia and banned both the countries to from

participating in weightlifting events at the Tokyo

Olympics, for how many years respectively?

✓ 3 & 1 year

➢ According to the International Olympic Committee

(IOC), the original name of Tokyo 2020 will remain

intact irrespective of the fact that it will take place in

the year:

✓ 2021

➢ According to the latest Hurun Global Rich List (as on

March 31), what will be the new position of India's

richest man, Mukesh Ambani after a loss of nearly Rs.

1.44 Lakh crore of his net worth in the last two months?

✓ 17th place

➢ In the recently launched Hurun Global Rich list(Top

100 list), how many Indians are there in the list now?

✓ Only 1(Mukesh Ambani)

➢ The Supreme Court has now extended the tenure of

whom as the chairperson of Telecom Disputes

Settlement and Appellate Tribunal for 3 months?

✓ Shiva Kirti Singh

➢ In general what is the term length of the chairperson of

Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal?

✓ 3 years

➢ With whom PNB Housing Finance has signed an

agreement to raise 75 million dollars (about Rs 568

crore) to finance mortgage loans in the affordable

housing segment?

✓ Japan International Cooperation Agency

(JICA)

➢ Name the co-financer of the PNB Housing Finance,

who has agreed to finance 25 million dollars to finance

mortgage loans in the affordable housing segment as

per the agreement with JICA?

✓ Citibank

➢ Recently IIT Roorkee has developed a low cost

COVID-19 portable ventilator ‘Prana-Vayu’ in

collaboration with which healthcare institute?

✓ AIIMS Rishikesh

➢ Who has been posthumously selected as a member of

the 2020 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame?

✓ Kobe Bryant

➢ What is the approximate manufacturing cost of the

portable ventilator 'Pran-Vayu' made by IIT Roorkee

and AIIMS Rishikesh?

✓ ₹ 25,000

➢ To support and supplement the government's efforts in

fighting coronovirus, an initiative called 'Caruna' has

been launched by which government officials?

✓ IAS & IPS




➢ What is the full form of an initiative called 'CARUNA'

launched by civil servants to fight the COVID-19

pandemic?

✓ Civil Services Associations Reach to

Support in Natural Disasters

➢ What is the name of the low-cost ventilator prototype

made by the Indian Railways' Rail Coach Factory

(RCF) in Kapurthala to fight corona virus outbreak?

✓ Jeevan

➢ Which country will host the FIFA U-17 Women's

World Cup 2020?

✓ India

➢ Which institute has developed a low-cost, portable,

emergency-use ventilator Called “Jeevan Lite"?

✓ IIT Hyderabad

➢ Which organization of IIT Bombay is an implementing

agency of CAWACH, a rapid response center to

combat COVID-19?

✓ Society for Innovation and

Entrepreneurship (SINE)

➢ Name one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-

Stern method, who died recently?

✓ Tony Lewis

➢ Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method is related to which

sport?

✓ Cricket

➢ Which Bengaluru-based startup has launched India's

first 'rapid' at-home COVID-19 screening kit?

✓ Bione

➢ How long does the India's first at-home testing kit for

COVID-19 takes to deliver the results?

✓ 10 minutes

➢ Who has launched 'Hack the Crisis-India', an Online

Hackathon to find working solutions for overcoming

COVID 19 pandemic?

✓ Sanjay Dhotre

➢ 'Hack the Crisis-India' is an initiative supported by

which ministry?

✓ Ministry of Electronics and Information

Technology

➢ Name the World-renowned Indian-origin virologist,

who died after contracting the novel coronavirus

(COVID-19)?

✓ Gita Ramjee

➢ Official mascots of 19th Asian Games were unveiled in

which city of China?

✓ Hangzhou

➢ The three official mascots for the 2022 Hangzhou

Asian Games, are collectively known as __.

✓ smart triplets

➢ Who is the current Head of UNICEF?

✓ Henrietta H. Fore

➢ The Odisha government has launched an online cultural

competition called “Mo Prativa” in collaboration with

which UN agency?

✓ UNICEF

➢ 'mCOVID-19' mobile app is an initiative of which state

government?

✓ Mizoram

➢ Which company has overtaken HDFC Bank to become

the third most valuable company in terms of Market

Cap?

✓ Hindustan Unilever (HUL)

➢ Name the most valuable company in India in terms of

Market Cap?

✓ Reliance Industries

➢ John "Bucky" Pizzarelli, who died due to COVID-19,

was famous for playing which musical instrument?

✓ Guitar

➢ Which state government has launched the COVID-19

helpline chatbot on WhatsApp to provide updated

information on coronavirus, for which the person needs

to send Hi text?

✓ Delhi government

➢ Name the founders of Google?

✓ Larry Page, Sergey Brin




➢ Name the social app launched by Google in Mumbai in

2018, which will shut down on May 12?

✓ Neighbourly

➢ Name the app launched by the Government of India

that will let users know if they were near a COVID-19

positive person?

✓ Aarogya Setu

➢ 'Aarogya Setu app' has been developed by which

institution under Ministry of Electronics and

Information Technology?

✓ National Informatics Centre (NIC)

➢ Which tech giant has announced to provide 4,000

laptops to students in US and free Wi-Fi to 1,00,000

rural households amid the coronavirus crisis?

✓ Google

➢ Name the Parent organization of Google?

✓ Alphabet Inc.

➢ Which online platform will launch TikTok-like short-

video feature called 'Shorts' by end of 2020?

✓ YouTube

➢ Which manufacturing company has acquired Horlicks

brand for the Indian market from the UK-based

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)?

✓ Hindustan Unilever

➢ In which year Google bought the YouTube site for

US$1.65 billion?

✓ 2006

➢ who is the current CEO of YouTube?

✓ Susan Wojcicki

➢ Which government agency has fabricated a bio suit

named "Personal Protective Equipment" to keep the

medical, paramedical and other personnel engaged in

combating COVID-19 safe from the deadly virus?

✓ Defense Research and Development

Organization (DRDO)

➢ Who is the current Chairman of Defence Research and

Development Organisation?

✓ Dr G. Satheesh Reddy

➢ Who has been appointed by NTPC as its director

Human resources?

✓ Dilip Kumar Patel

➢ Where is the headquarters of NTPC located?

✓ New Delhi

➢ Name the Padma Shri awardee and former 'Hazuri

Raagi' at the Golden Temple, who died of coronavirus

recently?

✓ Nirmal Singh

➢ Name the musician best known as the co-founder of the

2000s pop-rock band Fountains of Wayne, who died of

COVID-19 recently?

✓ Adam Schlesinger

➢ Who has been appointed as the Managing Director

Sundaram Home Finance?

✓ D Lakshminarayanan

➢ Recently the World Bank has offered _ to the Indian

government for a proposed India Covid-19 emergency

response and health systems preparedness project.

✓ $1 billion

➢ Where is the Headquarters of Hindustan Unilever

Limited located?

✓ Mumbai

➢ Name the Byju's former Chief Business Officer, who

has been appointed by Mumbai-based edtech startup

upGrad as its India operations CEO?

✓ Arjun Mohan

➢ The board of Hindustan Unilever has approved the

acquisition of the Horlicks brand for India from GSK

for.

✓ ₹ 3,045 crore

➢ Bob Weighton, who has been officially recognised as

world's oldest man by Guinness World Records, is from

✓ UK

➢ Name the dedicated Twitter handle account launched

by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to

give updates about COVID-19?

✓ #IndiaFightsCorona




➢ Name the actor of Star Wars, who has recently died in

Britain due to the coronavirus?

✓ Andrew Jack

➢ Which ministry has launched a dedicated Twitter

handle named #IndiaFightsCorona for sharing news

and updates about novel coronavirus?

✓ Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

➢ Active Case Finding Campaign, under which health

workers would provide information regarding

symptoms of COVID-19 to the people at their

doorsteps, is an initiative of which state government?

✓ Himachal Pradesh

➢ Amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, BharatPe

has partnered with which Insurance company to roll out

'COVID-19 Protection Insurance Cover' for

shopkeepers?

✓ ICICI Lombard

➢ Recently, ICICI Lombard and BharatPe has launched

'COVID-19 Protection Insurance Cover' for which

group of people?

✓ shopkeepers

➢ Which state government has started doorstep pension

payment to over 58 lakh beneficiaries?

✓ Andhra Pradesh

➢ The Center has extended the tenure of Reserve Bank

Deputy Governor B P Kanungo for how many years?

✓ One

➢ Currently, how many deputy governors are there in the

Reserve Bank of India?

✓ Four

➢ With the decision of merger of 10 public sector banks

effective from 1 April 2020, the number of state-run

banks in the country will be reduced to ______.

✓ 12

➢ In the wake of COVID-19, WHO has partnered with

representatives from the gaming industry to launch a

new campaign, called.

✓ #PlayApartTogether

➢ Praveen Jadhav has recently resigned as CEO and MD

of which Paytm's subsidiary?

✓ Paytm Money

➢ In wake of a financial crisis due to the coronavirus

pandemic, which state government has announced a

massive pay cut for all its employees ranging from 10%

to as high as 75%?

✓ Telangana

➢ K. Chandrashekar Rao is the current Chief minister of

which state?

✓ Telangana

➢ Which Tech giant has launched an app in the US that

will help users do self-screening for COVID-19?

✓ Apple Inc

➢ Name the mobile app on which Rajasthan Police start

giving permit to individuals in the state for movement

in necessary conditions during lockdown?

✓ RajCop

➢ Paravai Muniyamma, who passed away recently, was

the famous actress and folk singer of which region?

✓ Tamil

➢ Who is the current CEO of Apple Inc?

✓ Tim Cook

➢ which financial institution has recently announced a

100 million US Dollars funding for the Indian

infrastructure sector?

✓ Asian Development Bank

➢ Recently, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has

announced a 100 million US Dollars funding for the

Indian infrastructure sector through which India’s

sovereign wealth fund?

✓ National Investment and Infrastructure Fund-

NIIF

➢ Coronavirus risk-tracking app ‘Corona Kavach’ is

jointly developed by the Union Ministry of Health and

Family Welfare &.

✓ Union Ministry of Electronics and Information

Technology




➢ Name the mobile app, which is recently developed by

a team at IIT Bombay to track COVID-19 quarantine

patients?

✓ CORONTINE

➢ Which state government has launched a mobile app

PRAGYAAM to issue e-passes during national

lockdown to combat COVID-19?

✓ Jharkhand

➢ Name the senior official from India who has resigned

from his position of Representative of the UN

Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of

the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund?

✓ Sudhir Rajkumar

➢ World famous comedian Ken Shimura, who died

recently, hailed from which country?

✓ Japan

➢ What is the name of the person, who created India's first

coronavirus testing kit?

✓ Minal Dakhave Bhosle

➢ Minal Dakhave Bhosle, who created India's first

coronavirus testing kit, is associated with which

company?

✓ Mylab Discovery Solutions

➢ Name the oldest British victim of Coronavirus, who

survived the Spanish flu(1918) and both the world wars

✓ Hilda Churchill

➢ Due to the Corona Virus pandemic, the merger of ten

state-run banks into four will take effect from which

date:

✓ 1 April 2020

➢ With the amalgamation of state-run banks, Now the

OBC and United Bank of India branches will operate

as:

✓ PNB Branches

➢ With the amalgamation of state-run banks, Now the

Syndicate Bank branches will function as:

✓ Canara Bank

➢ Which movie was declared Best Film (Tamil) and

Movie of the Year at the Critics' Choice Film Awards

2020?

✓ Super Deluxe

➢ Who has won the Best Actor (Hindi) at Critics' Choice

Film Awards 2020?

✓ Ranveer Singh

➢ At the Critics' Choice Film Awards 2020, the best film

in Hindi category goes to:

✓ Gully Boy

➢ Which nation has become the 30th member of the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

✓ Republic of North Macedonia

➢ With the recent joining of Republic of North

Macedonia in the NATO group, It beomes the __

member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO).

✓ 30th

➢ According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp users will no

longer be able to upload a video status of more than:

✓ 15 seconds

➢ Recently the Indian government's flagship fitness

movement "Fit India" has joined hands with which

Bollywood actress during the 21-day lockdown owing

to Covid 19?

✓ Shilpa shetty

➢ In which year, Fit India Movement was launched by

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in New Delhi

on National Sports Day?

✓ 2019

➢ Antonio Guterres is a chief of which Organisation, who

has launched a $2 billion global humanitarian response

plan for the world's poorest countries to fight COVID-

19?

✓ United Nations

➢ Where is the headquarters of United Nations located?

✓ New York




➢ Which American company has launched a test kit to

detect coronavirus in just five minutes?

✓ Abbott Laboratories

➢ The new test kit launched by Abbott Laboratories to

detect Covid-19 in just five minutes is based on which

technology?

✓ Molecular technology

➢ Who have recently been appointed as members of the

Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?

✓ Krishan Mohan Prasad and Satish Kumar

Gupta

➢ Which institute in Gandhinagar has launched 'Project

Isaac' to engage students in creative projects during

COVID-19 lockdown?

✓ Indian Institute of Technology (IITGN)

➢ Which country has announced to provide $174-million

(around ₹1,300-crore) financial assistance to 64

countries, including $2.9 million (around ₹21.7 crore)

to India, to help them fight the coronavirus pandemic?

✓ USA

➢ Which UT has now introduced door-to-door ATM vans

amid COVID-19 lockdown?

✓ Chandigarh

➢ Who is the incumbent Administrator of Chandigarh?

✓ V.P. Singh Badnore

➢ According to recent GDP forecast by ICRA, what is

India's estimated growth rate for the year 2020-21?

✓ 2%

➢ ICRA is a wholly owned subsidiary of:

✓ Moody's Corporation

➢ Former Union Minister and veteran Samajwadi Party

(SP) leader Beni Prasad Verma, was the telecom

minister between:

✓ 1996-1998

➢ What is the new repo rate by RBI amid lockdown due

to coronavirus?

✓ 4.4%

➢ Name the actor who voiced the titular character in 'Bob

the Builder' in the US and Canada, who passed away

recently?

✓ William Dufris

➢ Which state govt. will set up the largest COVID-19

hospital in India with a capacity of 1,000 beds?

✓ Odisha

➢ Padma Vibhushan awardee Satish Gujral, who died

recently, was the renowned _____.

✓ Painter

➢ Who will chair the emergency virtual summit of G20

leaders, also called "Virtual Summit" to advance the

coordinated response to the novel coronavirus

pandemic?

✓ Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Saudi Arabia)

➢ Former India player Abdul Latif, who passed away

recently, was associated with which sport?

✓ Football

➢ Name the 1st city in India to use drones to sanitize the

city areas against coronavirus outbreak?

✓ Indore

➢ Due to Coronavirus amid nationwide lockdown, RBI

has permitted banks to allow _ month moratorium on

EMIs on all term loans.

✓ 3

➢ Name the Hollywood actor, known for work in Netflix

series You, who has passed away recently due to

complications from coronavirus?

✓ Mark Blum

➢ This year which country will host the official G-20

Summit, scheduled from 21-22 Nov 2020?

✓ Saudi Arabia

➢ Who has been appointed as the Chief Secretary of

Madhya Pradesh?

✓ Iqbal Singh Bains

➢ Who took charge as the president of the Telangana

Olympic Association?

✓ K Ranga Rao




➢ Sumant Kathpalia has recently been appointed as the

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

of which bank?

✓ IndusInd Bank

➢ Recently Sumant Kathpalia has been appointed as MD

and CEO of IndusInd Bank in place of ______.

✓ Romesh Sobti

➢ Which Bollywood filmmaker has recently been

conferred the IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 at the

India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC)?

✓ Zoya Akhtar

➢ Recently 8th India International Film Tourism

Conclave (IIFTC) was held in which city?

✓ Mumbai

➢ Name the veteran Bollywood actress, popularly known

as Nimmi, who passed away recently?

✓ Nawab Banoo

➢ Which state government has launched "Mo Jeeban

programme" amid coronavirus pandemic?

✓ Odisha

➢ Recently, Government has announced _ insurance for

doctors, nurses and healthcare workers who are

exposing themselves to the coronavirus and working on

the frontline for three months.

✓ ₹ 50 lakh per person

➢ Under which scheme, around 8.3 crore below poverty

line (BPL) families will get free cylinders for three

months amid coronavirus pandemic?

✓ Ujjawala scheme

➢ Which state government has announced four months'

advance salary for doctors, nurses and other

paramedical staff amid coronavirus pandemic?

✓ Odisha

Let’s Recap

1. What is the theme of this year’s “Bharat Parv”? Ek

Bharat Shreshtha Bharat

2. 'Shiv Bhojan' scheme is an initiative scheme of which

state government? Maharashtra

3. Kobe Bryant, who died recently, was associated with

which sport? Basketball

4. Who recently became youngest artist to win a

Grammy Award at the age of 18 in four major

categories (Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Record

of the Year and Album of the Year)? Billie Eilish

5. Which ministry has launched an online web portal

'GATI' on the pattern of 'PRAGATI', the portal used

by the Prime Ministers' Officer for monitoring

projects? Ministry of Road Transport and

Highways

6. Name the former India women's hockey team captain,

who died recently? Sunita Chandra

7. Who hosted the Grammy Award Ceremony this year?

Alicia Keys

8. Which singer-songwriter has won the 2020 'Best Pop

Solo Performance' Grammy for 'Truth Hurts'? Lizzo

9. Bharat Parv 2020 has recently started in which city?

New Delhi

10. Which two Sportspersons have been awarded this

year's Padma Vibhushan & Padma Bhushan

respectively? Mary Kom & PV Sindhu

11. Which three politicians have been posthumously

awarded the 2020 Padma Vibhushan? Arun Jaitley,

Sushma Swaraj and George Fernandes

12. Who has been appointed as director in the central

board of the State Bank of India? Debasish Panda

13. Recently, Devashish Panda has been appointed as

Director on the Central Board of State Bank of India.

Who will he replace? Ravi Mittal

14. Recently India's first and only super fab lab outside

U.S has been launched in which state of India?

Kerala

15. India's first KSUM Super Fab Lab in Kochi will

function in collaboration with which institute?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

16. Sher Singh Kukkal, who died recently, was the noted

personality in which field? Art

17. Who has recently been elevated as secretary of

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting? Ravi

Mittal

18. Which state of India has emerged as the top state in

the country in vegetable production in 2018-19,

according to horticulture production data released by

the Central government recently? West Bengal

19. According to state-wise horticultural production data,

how many tonnes of vegetables were produced in

West Bengal in FY 2018-19, which was the maximum

in the country during that period? 29.55 million tonne

20. Which state of India has emerged as the top state in

the country in Fruits production in 2018-19? Andhra

Pradesh

21. Recently the Union Road Transport Minister Nitin

Gadkari has launched which online web portal to

speed up and monitor Rs 3 lakh crore road projects?

GATI

22. Name the Prime Minister of Slovenia, who has

recently resigned from his post? Marjan Sarec




23. Who is the current President of Slovenia? Borut

Pahor

24. Recently the Central Government has signed a peace

agreement with one of which dangerous militant

groups of Assam? National Democratic Front of

Bodoland (NDFB)

25. In which year, the first Bodo accord was signed

between All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) and GoI?

1993

26. Which state's tableau won the first prize at 71st

Republic Day parade? Assam

27. What is the theme of Central Public Works

Department's tableau, which got Special Prize at 71st

Republic Day parade? Kashmir se Kanyakumari

28. Recently, a novel (new) coronavirus named "2019-

nCoV" has been found in which city? Wuhan, China

29. Jameela Malik, who died recently, she was the

famous___. Actress

30. Recently NASA has partnered with which

organisation for a mission to snap the first pictures of

the Sun’s north and south poles? European Space

Agency

31. Who has recently resigned from the board of Ujjivan

Small Finance Bank Ltd? Sachin Bansal

32. Where is the headquarters of Ujjivan Small Finance

Bank located? Bangalore

33. Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz Al Thani has

been named as the new Prime Minister of which

country? Qatar

34. Who took charge as the chief executive of Indian

Banks’ Association (IBA)? Sunil Mehta

35. Recently, which Indian woman officer has been

appointed as the Resident Co-Ordinator in Thailand

by the United Nations? Gita Sabharwal

36. Recently Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed

which of its executive director as a member of

Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)? Janak Raj

37. RBI Executive Director Janak Raj was recently

appointed as a member of the MPC. Who will he

replace? MD Patra

38. Who chairs the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)?

RBI Governor

39. How many members are there in the Monetary Policy

Committee? 6

40. Who is the current chairman of Wipro? Rishad

Premji

41. The world's largest meditation center and global

headquarters of the Heartfulness Institute have been

inaugurated recently in which city? Hyderabad

42. In which year, the government formed the Monetary

Policy Committee to fix the main interest rate? 2016

43. How many meetings of Monetary Policy Committee

are held in a year? 4

44. Which Military unit of India has recently constructed

a combined war memorial in Nagaland for the 357

Martyrs? Assam Rifles

45. Recently Assam Rifles has built a joint war memorial

for 357 martyrs of Army and Assam Rifles in which

city of Nagaland? Mokokchung

46. What is the theme of the 2020 edition of World

Sustainable Development Summit? Towards 2030

Goals: Making the Decade Count

47. Heartfulness Institute, which is in the news recently,

is related to which field? Meditation

48. Where is the headquarters of Wipro located?

Bangalore

49. Recently in which city Indian Railways has set up a

waste-to-energy production plant? Bhubaneswar

50. Recently World Sustainable Development Summit

(WSDS) 2020 has started in which city? New Delhi

51. Every year the World Sustainable Development

Summit (WSDS) is organized by: The Energy and

Resources Institute

52. Name the operation, which Indian Navy has started to

provide humanitarian aid and disaster relief in

Madagascar? Operation Vanilla

53. Recently 'Operation Vanilla' has been launched to

provide assistance to the affected population of

Madagascar post devastation caused by Cyclone__.

Diane

54. Which Nobel laureate has recently been conferred the

honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) by his alma mater

Calcutta University at its annual convocation in

Kolkata? Abhijit Banerjee

55. The first waste to energy plant of Indian Railways in

Bhubaneswar is based on which technology?

POLYCRACK

56. Which Indian-origin technology executive has been

named as the Chief Executive Officer of American IT

giant International Business Machines (IBM)?

Arvind Krishna

57. Where is the headquarters of International Business

Machines (IBM) located? New York, U.S.

58. Recently the Supreme Court has allowed introduction

of which animal in India from Namibia? African

cheetah

59. In which city the 34th Surajkund International Crafts

Fair was started from 1st February? Faridabad

60. Which state has been chosen as the theme state of the

34th Surajkund International Crafts Fair 2020?

Himachal Pradesh

61. Name the partner country of 34th Surajkund

International Crafts Fair 2020? Uzbekistan




62. The 34th Surajkund International Crafts Fair 2020 is

organized by: Haryana Tourism

63. Dalip Kaur Tiwana, who died recently, was the

famous___. Novelist

64. Who won 2020 Australian Open Men's Singles title?

Novak Djokovic

65. Who has stepped down as Wipro CEO and MD

almost a year before his five-year term comes to an

end in 2021? Abidali Z Neemuchwala

66. Who recently became the first-ever hockey player to

won the prestigious 'World Games Athlete of the

Year' award? Rani Rampal

67. Who has been appointed as India's next envoy to

Nepal? Vinay Mohan Kwatra

68. Recently Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed as

India's next envoy to Nepal. He previously served as

India's ambassador to France

69. Recently Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed as

India's next envoy to Nepal in place of. Manjeev

Singh Puri

70. Ajmal Sultanpuri, who died recently, was an eminent

poet of which language? Urdu

71. Which edition of joint military training exercise

between India-Bangladesh 'SAMPRITI-IX' to be

conducted in Meghalaya from February 3rd? Ninth

72. SAMPRITI-IX is a joint military training exercise

between India and which country? Bangladesh

73. In the Economic Survey of 2019-20, the economic

growth rate of the country is estimated to be between

what percent during the next financial year? 6 to 6.5

per cent

74. What is the theme of Economic Survey 2020? Enable

markets, promote 'pro-business' policies and

strengthen 'trust'

75. Who has been appointed as the next High

Commissioner of India to Canada? Ajay Bisaria

76. Recently Ajay Bisaria has been appointed as the High

Commissioner to Canada. He previously served as

India's High Commissioner to __Pakistan

77. Who have been appointed as BCCI's new three-

member of Cricket Advisory Committee? Madan

Lal, Rudra Pratap Singh and Sulakshana Naik

78. Who became the 18th president of Cricket Association

Bengal (CAB), who is also the youngest one to hold

the post? Avishek Dalmiya

79. The bio-jet fuel is manufactured from: “Tree-Borne

oils”

80. Where is the headquarters of Board of Control for

Cricket in India located? Mumbai

81. Ravinder Kumar, who has been banned for four years

for failing dope test, is related which sport?

Wrestling

82. Who won 2020 Australian Open Women's Singles

title? Sofia Kenin

83. Who has been elected as the new joint secretary of

CAB? Snehasish Ganguly

84. What is the project outlay for setting up a new Major

Port at Vadhavan near Dahanu in Maharashtra?

Rs.65,544.54 crore

85. The Union Cabinet gave its approval to confer the

status of Institution of National Importance to five

Indian Institutes of Information Technology, IIITs,

namely: Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala and

Raichur IIITs

86. Who has been appointed as acting CEO of AirAsia?

Tharumalingam Kanagalingam

87. What does the middle P stand for in the abbreviation

PPP? Private

88. Where did the Union Cabinet has given its in-

principle approval for setting up a new Major Port,

after which India is expected to enter the list of

countries with top 10 container ports in the world?

Vadhavan (Maharashtra)

89. Who has been chosen the goodwill ambassador of the

Indian contingent at the Tokyo Olympics this year?

Sourav Ganguly

90. Rabi Singh, who died recently, was an eminent poet

of which regional language? Odia

91. Who is the current President of Iraq? Barham Salih

92. Name the state bird of Goa, which is the mascot for

Goa 2020 National Games? Rubigula

93. Which state will be hosting the 36th edition of the

National Games from 20th October to 4th November

2020? Goa

94. Name the largest and longest book fair held in

Bangladesh every year in February, which has started

recently? Ekushey Book Fair

95. The book ‘Amar Dekha Naya Chin’- The New China

as I saw is written by: Bangabandhu Sheikh

Mujibur Rahman

96. Which state has recently bagged the first position for

the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matru

Vandana Yojana? Madhya Pradesh

97. Under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana,

how much incentive is given to female workers to

compensate for the loss in wages due to being on

leave during pregnancy? Five thousand

98. Who has been named as new prime minister of Iraq?

Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi

99. Daniel Arap Moi, who passed away recently, was the

former president of which country? Kenya

100. Who has been appointed as chairman of the Central

Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)? M Ajit

Kumar




101. Where is the headquarter of JSW Steel Ltd located?

Mumbai

102. Which Aircraft of Indian Air Force powered with

10% blend of bio-jet fuel took off and landed

successfully in Leh airport? AN-32

103. The 21st edition of the International Indian Film

Academy Awards (IIFA Awards) will be held in

which city from March 27-29? Indore

104. Which edition of the International Indian Film

Academy Awards (IIFA Awards) will be held in

Indore from March 27-29? 21st

105. Name the CEO of AirAsia Group, who has recently

stepped down from his post? Tony Fernandes

106. The Banker is a London-based international financial

affairs publication owned by: The Financial Times

107. Who has been named the Central Banker of the Year,

Asia-Pacific 2020, by the Banker magazine, a unit of

Financial Times (FT)? Shaktikanta Das

108. Which country has recently become the 54th member

of the Commonwealth of Nations? Maldives

109. In which year, Maldives decided to secede from the

Commonwealth? 2016

110. Who has bagged the inaugural Mathrubhumi Book of

the Year award for his translated book "Blue Is Like

Blue"? Vinod Kumar Shukla

111. Which book of Vinod Kumar Shukla got the first

Mathrubhumi Book of Year Award recently? Blue Is

Like Blue

112. Where is the headquarters of Coal India Ltd situated?

Kolkata

113. Who has been elected as president of Paralympic

Committee of India? Deepa Malik

114. Which bollywood actor will be conferred the Madhya

Pradesh government's National Kishore Kumar

Samman for the year 2018? Waheeda Rehman

115. Kishore Kumar Samman' is annually given by which

state government? Madhya Pradesh

116. Who has bagged the Best Actress award for the film

Judy at BAFTA 2020? Renée Zellweger

117. Which film won the 2020 BAFTA Best Film award?

1917

118. Joaquin Phoenix has bagged the 2020 BAFTA Best

Actor award for which movie? Joker

119. Which state government has recently decided to use

drones for mapping villages? Madhya Pradesh

120. Who has recently been appointed as wholetime

member (law) of Pension Fund Regulatory and

Development Authority (PFRDA)? Pramod Kumar

Singh

121. Who is the current chairman of Pension Fund

Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)?

Hemant Contractor

122. Who is the current President of FICCI? Sangita

Reddy

123. Where is the headquarters of Pension Fund

Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)

located? New Delhi

124. Recently which country surpassed China to become

India's top trading partner, according to Commerce

Ministry data? USA

125. Name the recent coastal security exercise conducted

by the Indian Navy in Kolkata, West Bengal? Matla

Abhiyaan

126. Who has been appointed as India's next High

Commissioner to Sri Lanka? Gopal Baglay

127. Recently Gopal Bagle has been appointed as India's

next High Commissioner to Sri Lanka. Who will he

replace? Taranjit Singh Sandhu

128. Who took charge as the new chairman and managing

director of Coal India Ltd? Pramod Agrawal

129. Recently Pramod Agrawal has assumed charge as the

new chairman and managing director of Coal India

Ltd in place of__. A K Jha

130. Who has been selected as secretary general of

Paralympic Committee of India? Gursharan Singh

131. In which year, Flipkart had acquired Jabong through

Myntra for $70 million? 2016

132. The insurance cover on bank deposits is provided by

which wholly-owned subsidiary of RBI? Deposit

Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation

(DICGC)

133. According to RBI, Deposit Insurance and Credit

Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) will now provide

insurance cover of how much rupees on bank

deposits? Rs. 5 lakh

134. Which Indian cricketer has been chosen as the brand

ambassador of JSW Steel Ltd? Rishabh Pant

135. Recently, RBI has announced that an insurance cover

on bank deposits has been increased to Rs 5 lakh.

What was the limit earlier? 1 lakh rupees

136. Recently Government has approved 'Alliance Air' to

start international flight services for which two cities

of Sri Lanka? Palaly and Batticaloa

137. Recently Cabinet has approved Alliance Air, a

subsidiary of national carrier Air India, to commence

international flights services between India and which

country? Sri Lanka

138. Vidya Bal, who passed away recently, was the

famous. Social activist

139. Who will be the new CEO of LinkedIn? Ryan

Roslansky

140. Recently Flipkart has shut down which of its

Subsidiary? Jabong




141. Who is the Founder & Chairman of JSW Steel Ltd?

Sajjan Jindal

142. Who is the founder of Air India? J. R. D. Tata

143. What is the theme of RBI's Financial Literacy Week

2020? Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

(MSMEs)

144. Which financial institution has been conducting

Financial Literacy Week (FLW) every year since

2016? Reserve Bank of India

145. Name the LinkedIn's CEO, who has recently resigned

from his post after 11 years? Jeff Weiner

146. The fifth India-Russia Military Industrial Conference

was held recently in which city? Lucknow

147. Recently Indian Oil has signed a deal with which

Russia’s Petroleum refining company for the annual

purchase of 2 million metric tonnes of crude oil?

Rosneft

148. Recently the first ever annual oil purchase deal was

signed between India and which country? Russia

149. According to the World Steel Association data, what

is India's position in the list of top crude steel

producers in the world in 2019? Second

150. Which country has topped the list of top crude steel

producers in the world in 2019? China

151. Where is the headquarters of FICCI located? New

Delhi

152. Recently which Indian organization has launched the

"Central Asia Business Council" in New Delhi?

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and

Industry (FICCI)

153. Recently, which singer has been named by Britain's

Prince Charles as the ambassador of British Asian

Trust's Child Protection Fund associated with India?

Katy perry

154. Who has recently unveiled a new children's protection

fund for India as part of the British Asian Trust?

Prince Charles

155. Who won her 1st Oscar as Best Supporting Actress at

Oscars 2020? Laura Dern

156. Who has recently been appointed by Supreme Court

to prepare an inventory and valuation report of

ornaments of Lord Ayyappa of Sabarimala temple? C

N Ramachandaran Nair

157. SC has appointed retired Kerala HC judge to prepare

inventory of ornaments of Lord of Sabarimala temple.

Ayyappa

158. Recently the Supreme Court has appointed CN

Ramachandran Nair to prepare a list of Jewelery and

price estimation report of which temple? Sabarimala

temple

159. Name the Indian Army Major, who has developed the

world's first bulletproof helmet which withstands

even an AK-47 bullet round from a distance of 10

meters? Anoop Mishra

160. Which NASA astronaut has recently set a record of

328 days stay in space? Christina Koch

161. Recently Christina Koch broke the record of which

American woman to be on single spaceflight for 289

days in space? Peggy Whitson

162. Who won Best Actor & Best Actress Oscar at 92nd

Academy Awards? Joaquin Phoenix & Renée

Zellweger

163. Brad Pitt won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar 2020

for his role in. 'Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood'

164. Which movie won the Oscar for Best International

Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming

the first South Korean film to do so? Parasite'

165. Recently which state government has organized

'Hornbill Festival' for the first time? Tripura

166. Who recently won the Allan Border Medal which is

given to the "most outstanding" male Australian

cricketer of the past season? David Warner

167. Who has been named Female ODI Player of the Year

at the Australian Cricket Awards 2020? Alyssa Healy

168. Who has bagged Male Test Player of the Year at the

Australian Cricket Awards 2020? Marnus

Labuschagne

169. 2019 Novel Coronavirus was first detected in which

city of China? Wuhan

170. Who recently became the youngest girl in the world

to climb Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in South

America? Kamya Karthikeyan

171. Kamya Karthikeyan, who recently became the

youngest girl in the world to climb Mount Aconcagua,

is from which Indian city? Mumbai

172. Mt. Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside of

Asia, being the highest in both the Southern and

Western Hemispheres with a summit elevation of?

6,960.8 m

173. Recently which Metro Rail became the second-largest

operational Metro network in the country after Delhi

Metro? Hyderabad

174. The Hyderabad Metro Rail became the second-largest

operational metro network in the country covering:

69.2 kms

175. Who has been appointed as the President of Hinduja

Foundation? Paul Abraham

176. Who has recently been conferred with an honorable

mention at the 2019 International Olympic

Committee’s Coaches Lifetime Achievement

Awards? Pullela Gopichand

177. Name the veteran cricket journalist and writer on film

music, who passed away recently? Raju Bharatan




178. The idea of organizing the Hornbill Festival in

Tripura was first conceived after a meeting chaired by

whom? Biplab Kumar Deb

179. Which country has recently approved the sale of an

Integrated Air Defense Weapon System to India for

an estimated cost of USD 1.867 billion? US

180. Who has been named as the 2019 Women's Rising

Star of the Year by the International Hockey

Federation? Lalremsiami

181. Who has been named as 2019 men's rising star of the

year by the International Hockey Federation (FIH)?

Vivek Sagar Prasad

182. Which team has recently won the first Men’s section

KHELO India Ice Hockey tournament 2020? Ladakh

Scouts Regimental Centre (LSRC)

183. Where is the headquarters of Hinduja Foundation

located? Mumbai

184. Paul Abraham, who recently appointed as the

President of the Hinduja Foundation, was the Chief

Operating Officer (COO) in which bank before this

appointment? IndusInd Bank

185. What is the official name of 2019 Novel Coronavirus

recently given by World Health Organization?

COVID-19

186. Name the former Indian Oil and BPCL Chairman,

who has recently joined Reliance Industries Limited

(RIL) as senior advisor? Sarthak Behuria

187. Who is the Chairman & MD of Reliance Industries

Limited (RIL)? Mukesh Ambani

188. Name the group CEO of MakeMyTrip, who has

recently resigned from his post? Deep Kalra

189. Recently US has approved the sale of an Integrated

Air Defense Weapon System to India for an estimated

cost of __. USD 1.867 billion

190. Who is the current Chairman of Tata Trusts? Ratan

Tata

191. Recently which state government has approved the

Ground Water Act-2020? Uttar Pradesh

192. Under Uttar Pradesh Ground Water Act-2020, if a

person is caught polluting the ground water level for

the first time, then he will be punished for how many

years? One year

193. 'Ajeya Warrior 2020' is joint military exercise

between India & which country? UK

194. Who has recently been honored as the 'Captain of the

Year' at the 13th edition of the ESPNcricinfo Awards?

Eoin Morgan

195. India's 1 Rupee currency Note bears the signature of

whom? Finance Secretary

196. Which online social networking site has recently

launched digital literacy program for 1 lakh Indian

women? Facebook

197. Recently Odisha government signed a Memorandum

of Understanding (MoU) with which bank to provide

smart banking solutions to Startups in the state?

HDFC Bank Limited

198. Where is the headquarters of HDFC Bank Limited

located? Mumbai

199. Padma Shri awardee Wendell Rodricks, who passed

away recently, was the famous. Fashion designer

200. Which country has recently announced the ban on e-

cigarettes in both domestic and international flights

and at airports? India

201. Recently India has announced the ban on e-cigarettes

in both domestic and international flights and at

airports. In context to same, what punishment will be

given in case of repeat offenders? Jail term for up to

3 years with Rs 5 lakh fine

202. Who has recently been appointed as the Chief

Executive of the Tata Trusts? Srinath Narasimhan

203. 'Reading Mission' is an initiative of which state

government? Haryana

204. In which city, Home Minister Amit Shah will

inaugurate a two-day Conference on Combating Drug

Trafficking for BIMSTEC Partner Nations? New

Delhi

205. The book 'THE THIN MIND MAP BOOK' is written

by: Dharmendra Rai

206. The Haryana State Government has launched an

initiative named 'Reading Mission'. With reference to

the same, which group of people does the 'Reading

Mission' belong to? Students

207. After establishing air quality monitoring system at 90

stations, Mumbai will overtake which city to become

India's largest monitoring network? Delhi

208. Who has recently been awarded the Women's Batting

Performance of the Year at the 13th edition of the

ESPNcricinfo Awards? Meg Lanning

209. Recently, President Ram Nath Kovind has conferred

the President’s Colour to which institution of the

Indian Navy for his remarkable contribution? INS

Shivaji

210. Who is the current Prime minister of UK? Boris

Johnson

211. Who has recently been appointed as the Chairman and

Managing Director of Air India for the second time?

Rajiv Bansal

212. Who became the first Indian hockey player to win the

FIH Men's Player of the Year award? Manpreet

Singh

213. Where is the headquarters of International Hockey

Federation situated? Switzerland

214. Who is the current President of UAE? Khalifa bin

Zayed Al Nahyan




215. Name the Indian-origin politician, who has recently

been appointed as the UK's new finance minister?

Rishi Sunak

216. Which Indian cricketer has been appointed by

Emirates Cricket Board as the new director of cricket?

Robin Singh

217. Who is the current President of Emirates Cricket

Board? Abdul Rahman Bukhatir

218. Who will be the new President of the Institute of

Chartered Accountants (ICAI) for the year 2020-21?

Atul Kumar Gupta

219. Who has been elected as the Vice President of the

ICAI for 2020-21? Nihar Niranjan Jambusaria

220. Which Bank has topped the list of 'Highest increase

in brand value' among global banks, according to 'The

Banker's Top 500 Banking Brands 2020' report?

IndusInd Bank

221. Recently, the name of Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra has

been changed to. Sushma Swaraj Bhavan

222. Name former Jet Airways CEO, who has recently

been appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO)

of the GoAir? Vinay Dube

223. Where is the headquarters of GoAir located?

Mumbai

224. Who is the current Founder & MD of GoAir?

Jehangir Wadia

225. Which Indian feminist scholar has won the

prestigious Dan David Prize recently? Gita Sen

226. In which category, Renowned Indian Feminist

Scholar Gita Sen has won the prestigious Dan David

Prize? Gender equality (present category)

227. Alia Bhatt has won the Best Actress award at Filmfare

Awards 2020 for her role in. 'Gully Boy'

228. Who has been named the Best Actor at Filmfare

Awards 2020? Ranveer Singh

229. Who is the director of 65th Filmfare Award winning

movie 'Gully Boy'? Zoya Akhtar

230. scored the highest number of awards at the 65th

Filmfare Awards. Gully Boy

231. Recently the NBA All-Star Game MVP award has

been named after which player? Kobe Bryant

232. What is the theme of 13th Conference of Parties (COP)

of the Convention on the conservation of migratory

species of wild animals (CMS) in India? Migratory

species connect the planet and we welcome them

home

233. Kobe Bryant, who died recently, was associated with

which sport? Basketball

234. Recently, PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated a 63-

feet tall statue of which former Bharatiya Jana Sangh

leader in Varanasi? Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya

235. Mickey Wright, who died recently, was related to

which sport? Golf

236. Recently how many feet high Deendayal Upadhyaya

statue was unveiled by PM Narendra Modi in

Varanasi? 63 feet

237. Who took oath as deputy chief minister of Delhi?

Manish Sisodia

238. Which state government has decided to give 6 crore

rupees to players of the state that bag gold medals at

the Olympic Games? Haryana

239. How much cash incentive will be given by Haryana

govt to each player participating in the Olympic

Games? 15 lakh rupees

240. The 13th Conference of Parties (COP) of the

Convention on the conservation of migratory species

of wild animals (CMS), an environmental treaty

under the aegis of the United Nations Environment

Programme, is going to be held in which city?

Gandhinagar

241. The mascot chosen for the CMS COP-13 is. “Gibi -

The Great Indian Bustard”

242. Name the only Indian, who bagged best Sporting

Moment at Laureus World Sports Awards 2020?

Sachin Tendulkar

243. Name the only Indian athlete, who won a silver medal

in the World Snowshoe Championship recently held

in Japan? Ayan bin Shahnaz

244. How many medals did Indian athletes win in various

categories at the World Snowshoe Championships?

Three

245. Which government organisation has recently

constituted a municipal bonds development

committee? SEBI

246. Recently SEBI has constituted a municipal bonds

development committee headed by: Sujit Prasad

247. Name the Bengali actor & ex-TMC MP, who passed

away recently? Tapas Pal

248. Amit Dahiya, who has recently been banned for four

years by NADA, is associated with which sport?

Javelin throw

249. Which Indian grandmaster recently won the Cairns

Chess tournament in the US? Koneru Humpy

250. Who have been declared as joint winners of the

prestigious 2020 Laureus World Sportsman of the

Year Award? Lionel Messi and Lew




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