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1) Every year, the International Day for the Remembrance of Slave Trade and Abolition has been observed on which of the following day?

(a) 22 August

(b) 23 August

(d) 20 August

(e) 24 August

2) According to Mercom India Research, Solar capacity installations in India rose by how much percent to a record 7.2 gigawatts (GW) during the first half of 2022?

(a) 62

(b) 59

(d) 57

(e) 60

3) In which of the following place the 10^th National Conference of Women Police held?

(a) Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

(b) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

(d) Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh

(e) Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir

4) Who has launched India’s first truly indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune?

(a) Rajnath Singh

(b) Narendra Modi

(d) Amit Shah

(e) Nirmala Sitharaman

5) India recorded another milestone – of 101462 villages declaring themselves as ODF. Which of the following is not among the top 5 performing states the maximum number of villages have been declared as ODF Plus?

(a) Assam

(b) Telangana

(d) Tamil Nadu

(e) Uttar Pradesh

6) Which of the following has partnered with Seva Bharti and Yuva Vikas Society to launch the second phase of the Grameen Udyami Project?

(a) Quality Council of India

(b) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

(d) Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India

(e) Confederation of Indian Industry

7) Engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has partnered with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and ReNew Power to commission a new green hydrogen plant at Hazira in ___________.

(a) Odisha

(b) Haryana

(d) Rajasthan

(e) Gujarat

8) Which state government to collaborated with the Government of India to develop a “district good governance portal”?

(a) Tripura

(b) Assam

(d) Arunachal Pradesh

(e) Manipur

9) Which of the following bank has partnered with Protium Finance and lncred Financial Services Limited (IFSL) to offer loans to MSME borrowers?

(a) State Bank of India

(b) Bank of India

(d) Indian Bank

(e) Bank of Baroda

10) Which of the following has signed an MoU with the Union Territory of Ladakh to manage the entire operations of the Ladakh Milk Federation?

(a) Institute of Rural Management Anand

(b) Amul

(d) Food Corporation of India

(e) National Dairy Development Board

11) NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) has signed an MoU with which company for acceptance of the payment solutions in the United Kingdom.

(a) Paysafecard

(b) Vestigo

(d) Emerio Banque

(e) Canary Wharf

12) Which city ranked first in the top 10 most polluted cities as per the report titled “Air Quality and Health in Cities” on air quality released by Health Effects Institute (HEI)?

(a) Shanghai

(b) Kolkata

(d) Beijing

(e) Surat

13) Who has been appointed as the Secretary to President Droupadi Murmu?

(a) Shashi Sinha

(b) Pralay Mondal

(d) Sana Shetty

(e) Prashant Jhaveri

14) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Appoints Indian philanthropist _________ to its board of trustees.

(a) Ranjit Rath

(b) Prashant Jhaveri

(d) Renu Singh

(e) Rajeev Ahuja

15) Vijay Shekhar Sharma has been re-appointed as the MD and CEO of which company?

(a) Bharti Airtel

(b) Flipkart

(d) Paytm

(e) PayPal

16) Where did the Indian Air Force contingent participate in the Pitch Black 2022 Exercise?

(a) USA

(b) the Maldives

(d) Thailand

(e) Canada

17) Who has inaugurated India’s first Composite Indoor Shooting Range in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh?

(a) VR Chaudhari

(b) R. Hari Kumar

(d) Manoj Mukund Naravane

(e) Karambir Singh

18) Who has released Sathya Sodhana Mahatmuni Athmakatha, a Telugu translation of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth?

(a) Rajnath Singh

(b) Sharad Arvind Bobde

(d) Droupadi Murmu

(e) N.V. Ramana

19) Recently, Syed Sibtey Razi passed away at the age of 83. He was the former Governor of which state?

(a) Assam

(b) Jharkhand

(d) All of the above

(e) Both (a) and (b)

20) Samar ‘Badru’ Banerjee has passed away recently at the age of 92. Which of the following sports is he related with?

(a) Football

(b) Hockey

(d) Tennis

(e) Badminton

Answers :

1) Answer: B

August 23 is marked as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
During the imperialist regimes run by the colonial powers of Europe, the slave trade was a cruel yet common practice.
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is commemorated on August 23 because of a significant event that took place surrounding this date.
Santo Domingo, which is modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic, was an erstwhile colonial settlement of France in the eighteenth century.
The days of August 22 and August 23, 1791, saw the start of the uprising that would play a vital role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade led by the European colonial powers.
The uprising inspired the Haitian Revolution which was led by the Black and mixed-race people against the colonial rulers.

2) Answer: B

Solar capacity installations in the country rose by 59 percent to a record 7.2 gigawatts (GW) during the first half of 2022, according to Mercom India Research.
In January-June or H1 of 2021, the country had added 4.5 GW of solar capacity, the research firm’s ‘Q2 2022 India Solar Market Update.
The solar installations in April-June 2022 also increased by 59 percent to over 3.9 GW compared to 2.4 GW installed in the second quarter of 2021.
Cumulative large-scale solar PV installations in Rajasthan reached almost 13 GW as of June 2022, and the state accounted for almost 27 percent of the total installations in the country.
In the first half of 2022, Rajasthan and Gujarat were the top states for large-scale solar, accounting for 53 percent and 14 percent of installations, respectively, followed by Maharashtra with 9 percent.

3) Answer: A

In Himachal Pradesh, the 10th National Conference of Women Police will begin in Shimla. More than two hundred women police officers and employees across the country are participating in this two-day National conference.
The conference is being organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) in collaboration with Himachal Police.
The main objective of this conference is to enhance the leadership potential of women police officers and discuss their problems and challenges.
State Director General of Police Sanjay Kundu said, at present, the strength of women in the police force in Himachal is 13 percent and the women quota in the police has been increased to 25 percent.

4) Answer: C

Jitendra Singh launched India’s first truly indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune.
The Minister lauded the joint development efforts of KPIT and CSIR-NCL and pointed out that the technology prowess of Indian scientists and engineers is no less than the best in the world and also at much lower costs.
Later, Jitendra Singh inaugurated the Bisphenol-A pilot plant in CSIR-NCL and said these pilot plants have successfully demonstrated novel process technologies developed by NCL under CSIR’s Covid-19 mission program and Bulk Chemicals mission program.
The global market for Bisphenol-A is projected to reach 7.1 Million Tons by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 2% over the analysis period 2020-2027.

5) Answer: A

Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G), the flagship program of the Government of India recorded another milestone – of 101462 villages declaring themselves as ODF (open defecation free) Plus.
Almost eight years ago, Hon’ble Prime Minister Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission from the ramparts of the Red Fort, with a vision to make the country open defecation free as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary. Under his visionary leadership, the country came together in the world’s largest behavior change campaign and achieved its aim, and on 2nd October 2019.
The top five performing states are Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh where a maximum number of villages have been declared as ODF Plus.

6) Answer: C

To augment skill training in tribal communities for their inclusive and sustainable growth, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in partnership with Seva Bharti and Yuva Vikas Society launched the second phase of the Grameen Udyami Project.
Under the initiative, the endeavor is to multiskill India’s youth and impart functional skills to them for enabling livelihoods.
Grameen Udyami is a unique multiskilling project, funded by NSDC that aims to train 450 tribal students in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.
The project is being implemented in six states— Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Gujarat.

7) Answer: E

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) commissioned a new green hydrogen plant at Hazira in Gujarat.
The development comes five months after the company inked a joint venture with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and ReNew Power for the production of green hydrogen.
The plant was inaugurated by Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
L&T and IOC had also inked a separate joint venture for the production of electrolyzers.

Key Highlights :

The plant will produce 45 kg of green hydrogen daily, which will be used for captive consumption in the company’s Hazira manufacturing complex.
The green hydrogen plant is designed for an electrolyzer capacity of 800 kW comprising both alkaline (380 kW) and polymer electrolyte membrane (420 kW) technologies.
It will be powered by a rooftop solar plant of 990kW peak DC capacity and a 500kWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
As part of its ESG commitments, L&T has pledged to achieve water neutrality by 2035 and carbon neutrality by 2040.

8) Answer: D

The Central government has planned to collaborate with the Government of Arunachal Pradesh to develop a “district good governance portal”.

Aim:

To monitor the performance of each district of the state every month and help in benchmarking performance.
The plan is to help the state in upgrading the e-office version 5.6 to e-office version 7.0 in a phased manner.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced during the two-day Regional Conference on “Bringing Citizens and Government Closer through Administrative Reforms” at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
The Conference organized by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) comes after the National Conference on e-Governance held in Meghalaya in August 2019, when the “Shillong Declaration” on e-Governance was adopted.

9) Answer: C

State-owned Central Bank of India, a Public Sector Bank (PSB) has entered into a co-lending partnership with Protium Finance and lncred Financial Services Limited (IFSL) to offer loans to Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) borrowers.
Protium Finance will originate and process MSME proposals under the priority sector as per jointly formulated credit parameters and eligibility criteria.
The Central Bank of India will take into its books 80% of the MSME priority sector loans under mutually agreed terms.

10) Answer: E

National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) signed a tripartite MoU with the Union Territory of Ladakh and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) by which it will manage the entire operations of Ladakh Milk Federation for five years and implement a structured dairy development program for the region.
On this occasion, the Chairman of NDDB reiterated the continued focus of NDDB on the regions where the dairy sector is yet to be developed to significantly contribute to the livelihoods of the rural households.
IDMC, the wholly owned subsidiary company has already completed the refurbishment and upgradation of the milk processing plant, Leh which will be soon operationalized.
The National Dairy Development Board is a statutory body set up by the Parliament of India Act.

11) Answer: C

NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has signed an MoU with PayXpert for acceptance of the payment solutions in the UK.
The collaboration will make the Indian payment solutions available in the UK on all PayXpert’s Android point-of-sale (POS) devices for in-store payments.
PayXpert would offer QR code payments via Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and later integrate RuPay card payments.
The development comes on the back of the Indian government’s effort to enable the adoption of UPI and RuPay cards in other countries.
The NPCI has also signed similar MoUs for acceptance of UPI in France, the UAE, Singapore, and Nepal.

12) Answer: C

Health Effects Institute (HEI) released “Air Quality and Health in Cities” on air quality. As per the report, the biggest cities and urban areas of the world are witnessing the worst air quality on Earth.
It focuses on two harmful pollutants, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
PM 2.5 Levels: Delhi and Kolkata were ranked first and second in the top 10 most polluted cities when PM 2.5 levels were compared.
NO2 Levels: No Indian city appeared in the list of top 10 or even top 20 polluted cities when NO2 levels were compared.

13) Answer: C

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet appointed Rajesh Verma as secretary to President Droupadi Murmu.
Verma will replace the incumbent Mr. Kapil Dev Tripathi, a 1980-batch IAS officer.
Verma is a 1987-batch Odisha cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer.
In 2020, he was appointed as the chairman of the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA).
Before the central deputation, Verma had served as principal secretary to Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik & Principal Secretary of the Energy Department, Government of Odisha.
Currently, He is serving as Secretary of, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

14) Answer: C

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has appointed Indian philanthropist Mr. Ashish Dhawan, founder and CEO of Convergence Foundation, to its board of trustees.
Helene D Gayle, president of Spelman College, US, has also been appointed to the foundation’s board of trustees.
Dhawan is the chairperson of Ashoka University and Central Square Foundation a nonprofit organization working to improve the quality of education for children in India.

15) Answer: D

Shareholders of One97 Communications, which operates under the Paytm brand, have approved the re-appointment of Mr. Vijay Shekhar Sharma as managing director and chief executive officer of Paytm.
According to the report, 67% of votes were in favor of Sharma’s re-appointment while only 0.33% voted against the resolution.
The remuneration of Mr. Vijay Shekhar will remain fixed for the next three years without any annual increment
Shareholders have also approved the appointment of Madhur Deora, as Whole-time Director, designated as Executive Director, President, and Group Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

16) Answer: C

The Indian Air Force joined Pitch Black 2022, a joint military exercise in Australia.
Exercise Pitch Black 2022 started on August 19 and will continue till September 8, 2022, in Darwin, Australia.
The last edition was conducted in 2018.
The 2020 edition of the exercise was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The exercise will have participants from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, the Republic of Korea, the UAE, Singapore, Thailand, the US, and the

17) Answer: C

A first-of-its-kind Composite Indoor Shooting Range (CISR) was inaugurated by Vice-Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command (ENC) at Indian Naval Ship (INS) Karna on the eastern seaboard, near Bheemili, Visakhapatnam, Andra Pradesh (AP).
INS Karna is the first in the Navy and perhaps the only military unit in the country to set up and use CISR.
The CISR is a state-of-the-art, self-contained, 25m, six-lane, live firing range for all primary and secondary weapons in the Navy.
It will enable to take up tasks through uninterrupted training under controlled conditions for a wide variety of weapons and simulated situations.

18) Answer: E

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has released Sathya Sodhana Mahatmuni Athmakatha, a Telugu translation of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’, published by Tirupati MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy.
The CJI also unveiled the statue of president and founder general secretary of Rashtriya Seva Samithi (RASS) Gutta Muniratnam in the presence of G Sundaravadivelu, its present president, and S Venkataratnam, general secretary.
He also released a book on the life of Muniratnam titled ‘Manavatha Nikethanam’.

19) Answer: E

Senior Indian National Congress leader and former Jharkhand and Assam governor Syed Sibte Razi passed away at the age of 83.
Syed Sibtey Razi was born on March 7, 1939, in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh,
He joined the Uttar Pradesh Youth Indian National Congress (INC) in 1969 and became the head of the Youth Congress in 1971.
He was made president of the Youth Congress in 1971 -1973
He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha thrice (from 1980 to 1985, from 1988 to 1992 & 1992 to 1998)
He served as the Governor of Jharkhand from the year 2004- 2009 and governor of Assam in 2009.

20) Answer: A

Former India football team captain Samar ‘Badru’ Banerjee Passed away at the age of 92. Samar ‘Badru’ Banerjee is Fondly known as ‘Badru Da’
He played in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne as captain of the India national football team.
He played for Mohun Bagan from 1952 to 1960, being named captain in 1958
He won the Calcutta League 5 times, the IFA Shield thrice, and 3 Durand Cups, including the first time the club won the coveted trophy in 1953 with Banerjee scoring in the semi-final and final, and the Rovers Cup once.
Besides guiding Mohun Bagan to several trophies including their 1st ever Durand Cup (1953), Rovers Cup (1955)
He has also won the Santosh Trophy twice as a player (1953, 1955) and once as a coach (1962).

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