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1) On which date the World Braille Day has been observed to celebrate awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication?
(a) 2 January
(b) 3 January
(c) 4 January
(d) 5 January
(e) 6 January
2) Recently, the Defence Research and Development Organization have celebrated which foundation Day on January 1, 2022?
(a) 63th
(b) 64th
(c) 65th
(d) 66th
(e) 67th
3) Recently the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Steel Bridge built over which River at a cost of over Rs 75 crore between Silchar and Imphal?
(a) Khuga River
(b) Jiri River
(c) Iril River
(d) Namul River
(e) Barak River
4) How much GST rate has been proposed for the textiles sector during the 46th meeting of the Goods and Services Tax Council under the chairmanship of Finance Minister?
(a) 18%
(b) 12%
(c) 5%
(d) 28%
(e) 0%
5) Approximately how much GST revenue has been collected in December 2021?
(a) 1,11,000 Crores
(b) 1,29,000 Crores
(c) 1,09,000 Crores
(d) 79,000 Crores
(e) 99,000 Crores
6) In which state the first battery-powered electric boat has been built, carry 100 passengers at a time?
(a) Telangana
(b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Karnataka
(e) Kerala
7) Who has recently inaugurated a road named Narendra Modi marg previously known as Jawaharlal Nehru Road?
(a) Amit Shah
(b) Ramnath Kovind
(c) Ganga Prasad
(d) J.P Nadda
(e) Prahlad Patel
8) Recently the Reserve Bank of India has issued a framework to enable small value digital payments in which mode using any channel such as cards, wallets and mobile devices?
(a) Offline mode
(b) Online mode
(c) Virtual mode
(d) Both a and c
(e) All of the above
9) Which company has recently introduced ‘Unified Presentment Management System’ for recurring bill payments?
(a) Amazon Pay
(b) Google Pay
(c) Phone Pay
(d) NPCI Bharat Bill Pay
(e) Bharat Pay
10) The government has approved the issuance of the 19th tranche of electoral bonds with a validity of _________ days from the date of issue.
(a) 15 Days
(b) 10 Days
(c) 7 Days
(d) 21 Days
(e) 30 Days
11) Who among the following has recently won the Ramnath Goenka Award in the Photo Journalism category?
(a) Ateeq Latif
(b) Ahmed Khan
(c) Praveen shah
(d) Zishaan Siddique
(e) Zishaan A Latif
12) Who has been recently nominated for the prestigious Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year-2021 award?
(a) Mithali Raj
(b) Deepti Sharma
(c) Smriti Mandhana
(d) Shikha Pandey
(e) Radha Yadav
13) Name the Prime Minister of Sudan who has recently announced his resignation amid a political deadlock and widespread pro-democracy protests in the country.
(a) Bakri Hassan Saleh
(b) Abdalla Hamdok
(c) Omar al-Bashir
(d) Sadiq al-Mahdi
(e) Rashid Bakr
14) Who has been recently appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Vistara airline?
(a) Leslie Thng
(b) Raghav Dudheja
(c) Amita Chapra
(d) Vinod Kannan
(e) Vighnesh Singh
15) Which Company has recently acquired 100 percent equity shares in Allyis India Pvt Ltd and Green Investments LLC, holding company for Allyis Group?
(a) Infosys
(b) Tech Mahindra
(c) Wipro
(d) HCL
(e) Amazon
16) Which of the following is the name of the newly found plant species in the Western Ghats regions in Thiruvananthapuram and Wayanad districts?
(a) Fimbristylis sunilii
(b)Neanotis prabhuii
(c) Fimbristylis prabhuii
(d) Neanotis M. nigra
(e) Both a and b
17) The Kargil District Disaster Management Authority, DDMA, has cancelled the Kargil Winter Expedition due to the rise of Covid 19 cases in which region?
(a) Kathua
(b) Jammu
(c) Reasi
(d) Kargil
(e) Ladakh
18) Which country has recently won the U-19 Men’s Asia Cup 2021 held at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, UAE?
(a) India
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Bangladesh
(d) Pakistan
(e) Nepal
19) Recently Veteran all – rounder Mohammad Hafeez has announced his retirement from international cricket. He is from which county?
(a) Nepal
(b) Afghanistan
(c) Pakistan
(d) Ireland
(e) Pakistan
20) What was the name of the Swiss-French photographer passed away recently?
(a) Sabine Weiss
(b) Ebrahim Alkazi
(c) Lynn Cohen
(d) Rocky Johnson
(e) Neil Peart
21) Recently Nairobi borned, world-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter passed away. What was his/her name?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) Emily Dickinson
(c) Richard Leakey
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(e) Edgar Allan Poe
22) The Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy and Awareness has been launched on which birth anniversary of former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam?
(a) 85th
(b) 89th
(c) 75th
(d) 100th
(e) 95th
23) Which of the following is the very rare wasp-like flower flies namely Monoceromyia flavoscutata and M. nigra from north-eastern India and the Western Ghats?
(a) Monoceromyia flavoscutata
(b) Rakthamichthys mumba
(c) Ramamsamy SRK
(d) Cryptic Rakthamichthys
(e) None of the above
Answers :
1) Answer: C
World Braille Day is an international day on 4 January and celebrates awareness of theimportance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and visually impaired people. The day is marked remembering the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille – for people with visual disabilities. Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols.
2) Answer: B
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) celebrated the 64th DRDO Day on January 1, 2022. The DRDO was formed in 1958 from the amalgamation of the then already functioning Technical Development Establishment (TDEs) of the Indian Army and the Directorate of Technical Development & Production (DTDP) with the Defence Science Organization (DSO).Over 175 transfers of technologies will happen in 2021.
3) Answer: E
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated 13 Projects worth around Rs. 1850 crores and laid the foundation stone of 9 projects worth around Rs 2950 crore in Imphal, Manipur. These projects relate to diverse sectors such as Road Infrastructure, Drinking Water Supply, Health, and Urban Development, among others. He inaugurated the Steel Bridge built over the Barak River on NH-37, at a cost of over Rs 75crore, which would decongest traffic between Silchar and Imphal.
4) Answer: C
The 46th meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The GST Council has recommended deferring the decision to change the rates in textiles recommended in the 45th GST Council meeting. Consequently, the existing GST rates of 5% instead of 12% in the textile sector would continue.
5) Answer: B
The gross Goods and Services Tax, GST revenue collected in December 2021 is over one lakh 29 thousand crore rupees. Of which, CGST is 22 thousand 578 crore rupees, SGST is 28 thousand 658 crore rupees, IGST is 69 thousand 155 crore rupees and CGST is nine thousand 389 crore rupees. The revenues for the month of December 2021 are 13 percent higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year.
6) Answer: E
In Kerala, the first battery-powered electric boat built for the Kochi Water Metro Project was handed over to the Kochi Metro Rail Limited at a function held at the Cochin Shipyard. The fully air-conditioned boat is among the 23 boats being built by the Cochin Shipyard for the 747-crore rupee Kochi Water Metro project. The 50 seater boat can carry 100 passengers at a time. The Kochi Water Metro system will have 78 ferries, linking 38 terminals spread over 76 route kilometers.
7) Answer: C
Governor of Sikkim Ganga Prasad inaugurated a road named Narendra Modi marg. The older route is called Jawaharlal Nehru Road, and was named after Jawaharlal Nehru. It is the second road linking Tsomgo Lake and Nathula border pass with Gangtok. It is a 19.52 km long road &it is a double-lane road at 51 Kyongasala Gram Panchayat Unit.
8) Answer: A
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a framework to enable small value digital payments in offline mode using any channel or instrument such as cards, wallets and mobile devices. An offline digital payment means a transaction which does not require internet or telecom connectivity. Under this new framework, offline payments can be made in face-to-face (proximity) mode only. Payment instruments will be enabled for offline transactions by Authorized Payment System Operators and Participants (Banks and Non-banks) based on explicit consent of the customer.
9) Answer: D
NPCI Bharat Bill Pay (NBBL), the wholly-owned subsidiary of National Payments Corporation of India, has introduced ‘Unified Presentment Management System’ (UPMS) for recurring bill payments. UPMS will enable the customers to set up standing instructions from any channel and for any mode on their recurring bill payments. The bills will be automatically fetched from the billers and presented to customers for their action, in terms of auto-debit and bill payment management.
10) Answer: A
Ahead of assembly elections in five states, the government approved the issuance of the 19th tranche of electoral bonds, which will be open for sale from January 1 to 10, 2022. State Bank of India (SBI), in the XIX Phase of sale, has been authorized to issue and encash Electoral Bonds through its 29 Authorized Branches. The bonds do not have a maximum limit and are issued in the multiples of Rs 1,000, Rs 10,000, Rs 1 lakh and 1 crore. An electoral bond will be valid for 15 days from the date of issue.
11) Answer: E
Zishaan A Latif won the award for his photo essay, the arduous struggle for inclusion in the NRC, which was published in The Caravan in October 2019. The winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award in the Photo Journalism category documented the plight of people who were dropped from the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and put a face to an untold human story.
12) Answer: C
India women’s team cricketer Smriti Mandhana was nominated for the prestigious Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year-2021 award. She has scored 855 runs in 22 internationals, at an average of 38.86 with one century and 5 half-centuries. Besides Mandhana, the other three cricketers are England’s Tammy Beaumont, Australia’s Lizelle Lee, Ireland’s Gaby Lewis.
13) Answer: B
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced his resignation amid a political deadlock and widespread pro-democracy protests following a military coup that derailed the country’s fragile transition to democratic rule. He signed a political agreement with the military in November; roundtable discussion is needed to reach a new deal.
14) Answer: D
Vinod Kannan took over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vistara airline. He replaced Leslie Thng who was the CEO from July 16, 2017 to December 31, 2021. Deepak Rajawat has been elevated to take up the role of Vistara’s Chief Commercial Officer. He was the Divisional Vice President and Head of Corporate Planning with the airline until December 31, 2021. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and University of California, Los Angeles.
15) Answer: B
Tech Mahindra announced that the company and its wholly-owned subsidiary Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc. have approved the proposal to acquire 100 per cent equity shares in Allyis India Pvt Ltd and Green Investments LLC, holding company for Allyis Group. Tech Mahindra will pay total consideration of up to $125 million, including employment-related and performance-related earnouts.
16) Answer: E
Researchers from SNM College Maliankara, the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, and the Payyanur College have reported two new plant species Fimbristylis sunilii and Neanotis prabhuii from the biodiversity-rich Western Ghats regions in Thiruvananthapuram and Wayanad districts.
Fimbristylis sunilii has been named after plant taxonomist C.N. Sunil, retired professor andresearch guide of Botany, SNM College. Neanotis prabhuii is a prostrate perennial herb named after K.M. Prabhukumar, Senior Scientist at CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow.
17) Answer: E
The Kargil District Disaster Management Authority, DDMA, has canceled the Kargil Winter Expedition due to the rise of Covid 19 cases in the Ladakh region. The Expedition which includes various events like Snow Horse Polo, Snow Soccer, Snow Bashing etc. It was scheduled to begin from 22nd January for 7 days.
18) Answer: A
In cricket, India defeated Sri Lanka by nine wickets in the final of the U-19 Men’s Asia Cup 2021 to seal their eighth title at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, United Arab Emirates.
India under the leadership of Yash Dhull won through the Duckworth Lewis method (DLS) as the match was reduced to 38 over’s due to rain interruption. The 2021 Under-19 Asia Cup was the 9th edition of the ACC Under-19 Cup. The cricket tournament was played in the United Arab Emirates from 23 December 2021 to 31 December 2021.
19) Answer: C
On Jan 03, 2021, Veteran Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez, who captained his national team in every format of the game, announced his retirement from international cricket, ending a Pakistan career spanning more than 18 years. The 41-year-old top-order batsman Hafeez signed up for Lahore Qalandars in the upcoming edition of the Pakistan Super League.
20) Answer: A
Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss Passed away at the age of 97. Sabine Weiss was born on 23 July 1924, in Switzerland and became a naturalized French citizen in 1995. She was regarded as the last of the French humanist photography schools of post-World War II that reimagined the evocative powers of images, which included Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Brassai. Her work covered eight decades, pioneering what was to become known as street photography. Weiss photographed the condition of ordinary people in Paris & she wanted to immortalize “the snotty-nosed kids,” “the beggars” and “the little piss-takers” in her photos.
21) Answer: C
On Jan 02, 2021, Richard Leakey, a world-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter passed away at the age of 77. Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on 19 December 1944 in Nairobi. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archeology and wildlife conservation. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO Wildlife Direct and twice served as board chairman at the Kenya Wildlife Service.
22) Answer: A
KAPILA Kalam Campaign. KAPILA is an acronym for the Kalam Program for IP (Intellectual Property) Literacy and Awareness. The KAPILA programme was launched on 15th October 2020 i.e. 89th birth anniversary of former President and Scientist Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. The program is under administrative control of the ministry of education to spread awareness with the help of educational programs about the importance of patenting an invention, to lead India towards self-reliance.
23) Answer: A
Researchers have discovered two new species of very rare wasp-like flower flies namely Monoceromyia flavoscutata and M. nigra from north-eastern India and the Western Ghats. The species belong to the Syrphidae family. The members of the genus are extremely rare with only 12 species reported from India previously & the discovery of new species happening in India after 80 years.
