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1) Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation in which place?
(a)Varanasi, UttarPradesh
(b)Kolkata, West Bengal
(c) Bangalore, Karnataka
(d) Mumbai, Maharashtra
(e)Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2) 2nd phase of the Sari Festival “VIRAASAT”- Celebrating 75 handwoven Sarees of India begins in which State or Union Territory?
(a)New Delhi, Delhi
(b) Leh, Ladakh
(c) Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
(d) Hyderabad, Telangana
(e) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
3) As per recent news, which minister has recently inaugurated the Siyom Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh?
(a)Shri Nitin Gadkari
(b) Shri Amit Shah
(c) Shri Rajnath Singh
(d)Shri Piyush Goyal
(e) Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
4) Under which ministry, the Government of India recently proposes to ban online betting ads on social media platforms?
(a)Ministry of Home Affairs
(b)Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
(c) Ministry of Education
(d) Ministry of Women and Child Development
(e) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
5) Who among the following has recently inaugurated Samvidhan Udyan at Raj Bhavan in Jaipur, Rajasthan?
(a)President Droupadi Murmu
(b) Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
(c) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
(d)Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud
(e) Home Minister Amit Shah
6) Under the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), the Government of India proposes self-regulation for ______________ companies
(a) Electric Vehicle companies
(b) Semi-Conductor manufacturing companies
(c) Agriculture Companies
(d) Online e-gaming companies
(e) Solar Panel manufacturing companies
7) Which country has recently joined Schengen Zone and adopted the Euro as their currency?
(a) Croatia
(b) Slovenia
(c) Serbia
(d) Albania
(e) Czech Republic
8) The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government Signed an MoU worth Rs 18,590 Crore with 6 Companies belonging to which country?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) UAE
(c) Oman
(d) Iran
(e) Iraq
9) Which among the following State or Union Territories becomes the 1st state to have separate registration for ‘vintage vehicles’?
(a) Delhi
(b) Bihar
(c) Odisha
(d) Jharkhand
(e) Chhattisgarh
10) As per the Finance news, HDFC Bank Collaborates with which Tech Giant is part of its digital transformation journey?
(a) Apple
(b) Google
(c) IBM
(d)Microsoft
(e) Tech Mahindra
11) Which Health Insurance signs a corporate agency agreement with Sundaram Finance to strengthen its distribution?
(a)Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Ltd.
(b)Star Health & Allied Insurance Co. Ltd.
(c) Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd.
(d) Care Health Insurance Ltd.
(e) Acko Health Insurance Ltd.
12) Which Bank recently partnered with Microsoft to transform the mobile banking experience?
(a)AXIS BANK
(b)DCB Bank
(c)YES Bank
(d) IDBI Bank
(e) J&K Bank
13) To emphasizes the ‘trust’ that the brand has been able to earn in 7 years, ‘Jahaan Bandhan, Wahaan Trust’ campaign was launched by which Bank?
(a)Bandhan Bank
(b)CSB Bank
(c) IDFC FIRST Bank
(d) IndusInd Bank
(e) RBL Bank
14)As per the Government of India’s Public Enterprise Survey 2021-22, which state-owned organisation will be the most profitable public sector enterprise in 2021-22?
(a)Defence Research and Development Organisation
(b) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
(c) Bharat Electronics Limited
(d) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(e) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
15) Mr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava was appointed as the new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive officer (CEO)of which among the following Public Sector Bank?
(a)Union Bank of India
(b) Canara Bank
(c) Indian Bank
(d) Indian Overseas Bank
(e) Bank Of India
16) As per the Election Commission of India, Maithili Thakur was appointed as the state icon of which among the following state?
(a) Odisha
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Bihar
(d) Kerala
(e) Jharkhand
17) As per Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India’s 1st Atmanirbhar human space flight Gaganyaan to be launched by which year?
(a) 2023
(b) 2024
(c) 2025
(d) 2026
(e) 2027
18) Manu S. Pillai presents his new book, The World: A Family History. That was published by ____________
(a)Harper Collins Publishers
(b)MacMillan India
(c) Hachette India
(d) Penguin Random House
(e) Bloomsbury India
19) Breaking Barriers is a new book written by ____________
(a)KAKI MADHAVA RAO
(b)ADITYA NEGI
(c) BALASUBRAMANIAN T
(d) DIVYA MITTAL
(e) GIRISH KUMAR MISHRA
20) Anita Pointer Passed away in Los Angeles. She was famous __________
(a) Doctor
(b) Scientist
(c) Dancer
(d) Singer
(e) Actress
Answers :
1) Answer: B
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation (SPM-NIWAS) at Joka in Kolkata via video conferencing.
SPM – NIWAS has been set up at a cost of around Rs. 100 Crore, on 8.72 acres of land at Joka, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata, West Bengal.
Through this apex institute on Water and Sanitation, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS) aims to bridge the knowledge capacity-building gap in the field of public health engineering, sanitation & hygiene, through short, medium & long-term courses which are not just related to engineering but also cover aspects of management, health, accounting, law, and public policies.
The inauguration of SPM-NIWAS was followed by a day-long national conference on ‘Drinking Water Quality– Issues & Challenges’ organized by DDWS and supported by UNICEF, INREM Foundation, and WaterAid.
2) Answer: A
The second phase of the Sari Festival “VIRAASAT”- Celebrating 75 handwoven Sarees of India will begin in New Delhi.
This phase being organized by the Ministry of Textiles will start at 11 AM and will close at 8 PM on daily basis.
The second phase, having 90 participants from different parts of the country, will bring participation of famous handcrafted varieties of sarees like Tie and Dye, Chikan embroidered Saris, Hand Block Saris, Kalamkari printed Saris, Ajrakh, Kantha, and Phulkari. The first phase of “VIRAASAT”- started on the 16th and concluded on the 30th of last month.
3) Answer: C
Defense minister Rajnath Singh has inaugurated the Siyom bridge in Arunachal Pradesh, along with 27 other infrastructure projects completed by the Border Roads Organisation.
Built at 724 crore rupees, these projects will hugely augment India’s border infrastructure, mostly along the Chinese border, from Ladakh to Arunachal.
The Siyom bridge on the Along-Yinkiong Road will facilitate faster induction of troops, heavy equipment like howitzers, and mechanized vehicles to forward areas of the Upper Siang district, Tuting, and Yinkiong regions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
21 other bridges, three roads, and three additional infrastructure projects in Arunachal Pradesh, J&K, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Punjab, and Rajasthan, were virtually inaugurated by Rajnath Singh from the Siyom bridge site.
4) Answer: E
The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has proposed to ban advertisements of online betting sites on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, as per draft rules for online gaming.
The Indian Express was the first to report, in October, on how these social media platforms were rife with such advertisements and that the government could soon intervene to curb them.
According to the draft rules, social media platforms must seek verification from a proposed self-regulatory body about whether an online gaming company has been registered with it before hosting its advertisements.
The self-regulatory body, in turn, can only register those online games that do not allow wagering based on the outcome of an event, that is, betting platforms.
This means intermediaries like Instagram and YouTube will not be allowed to host advertisements on platforms that offer online betting under the proposed rules.
Social media platforms must also display that a certain online game has been registered with the self-regulatory body.
5) Answer: A
President Droupadi Murmu reached Jaipur on a two-day visit to Rajasthan.
She inaugurated Samvidhan Udyan at Raj Bhavan in Jaipur.
The President, women are continuously moving forward from Panchayat to Parliament House on their merit.
It is a record to have more than 100 women in the Parliament of the country for the first time.
President Murmu described Indian Constitution as a vibrant document.
The President will also inaugurate the Transmission System for Solar Energy Zones in Rajasthan and lay the foundation stone for the thousand Mega Watt Bikaner Solar Power Project virtually.
She will also grace the launch of a National Campaign on ‘RISE-Rising India through Spiritual Empowerment’, organized by Brahma Kumaris.
Also, the President will grace the inauguration of the 18th National Jamboree of the Bharat Scouts and Guides at Pali, Rajasthan.
6) Answer: D
A self-regulatory body, mandatory know-your-customer norms for verification, and a grievance redressal mechanism are among the key proposals in the draft rules for online gaming, released by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY).
Online games will have to register with a self-regulatory body, and only games cleared by the body will be allowed to legally operate in India.
Online gaming companies will not be allowed to engage in betting on the outcome of games, the proposed rules say.
The proposed rules, aimed at safeguarding users against potential harm from skill-based games, have been introduced as an amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
The attempt is to regulate online gaming platforms as intermediaries and place due diligence requirements on them.
As per the principles laid under the rule, wagering on the outcome of a game will not be allowed.
7) Answer: A
Croatia has switched its currency to the euro and joined the European Union’s borderless Schengen zone.
Croatia first entered the European Union (EU) in 2013 and now becomes the 27th country to join the Schengen area and the 20th to adopt the euro as its currency.
However, Croatia will continue to impose strict border controls on its eastern boundaries with non-EU neighbours such as Bosnia, Serbia, and Montenegro.
About Schengen Area:
The Schengen Area is an area comprising 27 European countries that have officially abolished all passports and all other types of border control at their mutual borders.
Of the 27 EU member states, 23 participate in the Schengen Area & 4 EU members are not part of the Schengen Area.
The area is named after the 1985 Schengen Agreement and the 1990 Schengen Convention, both signed in Schengen, Luxembourg.
8) Answer: B
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth Rs 18,590 crore with 6 United Arab Emirates (UAE) companies.
The MoU was signed ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Global Investor Summit (UPGIS) 2023 in Lucknow, UP in February 2023.
A delegation led by Minister of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) Rakesh Sachan, met with UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi.
The agreement will help create more than 20,000 new jobs.
About the MoU:
The two companies, Astha Green Energy Venture and Shree Siddharth Infratech and Services, will invest Rs 4,480 crore and Rs 8,000 crore, respectively, in renewable energy to create 2,560 and 4,800 new jobs.
Meanwhile, another two companies, Sharaf Group and Hindustan Port will invest Rs 1300 and Rs 210 crore respectively for providing 1500 and 1000 jobs in the Logistics Park sector.
9) Answer: C
Odisha became the first Indian state to have a separate registration process for vintage vehicles (both two and four-wheelers) that are more than 50 years old.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has made provision under CMV Rule, 1989 for the registration process of Vintage Motor Vehicles intending to preserve and promote the heritage of vintage.
Key Highlights:
The new rules shall provide salient features such as the retention of old already registered vehicles with a new Vintage registration mark “VA” series (Unique Registration Mark). “
As per the rule, two-wheelers and four-wheelers (personal use) that are more than 50 years old from the date of their first registration (including imported vehicles) shall be defined as Vintage Motor Vehicles.
A vintage motor vehicle is allowed to run on Indian roads only for display, technical research, or taking part in a vintage car rally, refuelling and maintenance, exhibitions, vintage rallies, and to and fro to such exhibitions or car rallies.
10) Answer: D
India’s largest private sector bank, HDFC Bank, partnered with Microsoft in the next phase of its digital transformation journey and unlocked business value by transforming the application portfolio, modernizing the data landscape, and securing the enterprise with Microsoft Cloud.
HDFC Bank as a part of its Future Ready strategy is developing in-house IPs as well as partnering with several companies including FinTechs’ to co-create technology IPs.
The bank will leverage Microsoft Azure to consolidate and modernize its enterprise data landscape through a Federated Data Lake to scale its information management capabilities across enterprise reporting, and advanced analytics using artificial intelligence (AI).
Key Highlights:
The IP is built on the Microsoft Azure stack, the solution will enable the bank to democratize and monetize its data landscape catering to several business units, spanning multiple systems, reports, and processes.
The solution is powered by its unified architecture, collaborative engineering environment, industry-leading security, and ecosystem of AI/ML-based deep learning capabilities.
11) Answer: C
Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited (formerly Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited), signed a corporate agency agreement with Sundaram Finance Limited.
Under the pact, Sundram Finance will offer Niva Bupa’s select range of indemnity plans to its growing range of existing and past customers.
Some of the innovative retail products being offered by Sundaram Finance to its customers include ReAssure – Niva Bupa’s highest-selling comprehensive family floater plan, Senior First, a tailor-made plan for Senior Citizens, and Health Recharge, a Super Top Up plan.
12) Answer: C
YES BANK has partnered with Microsoft to introduce a next-generation mobile application (app) to provide customers with a personalized banking experience.
Yes, Bank will leverage Microsoft’s Azure platform to create the app which will offer customers a host of services such as online payments, shopping, rewards, and offers, as well as customized dashboards.
About the app:
The new app will run on Microsoft’s enterprise-grade cloud platform.
With the support of the app, Yes Bank aims to scale up various services by bringing merchants and ecosystem partners onto a common platform.
This will empower the Bank to cater to the diverse financial needs of customers across loans, payments, deposits, investments, and cards.
13) Answer: A
One of the fastest-growing banks in the country, Bandhan Bank, launched its integrated marketing campaign featuring cricketer Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador.
This is the first time that Bandhan Bank has appointed a pan-India brand ambassador.
Key Highlights:
The campaign was conceptualized by Leo Burnett Orchard, which was brought in as the bank’s creative agency in August 2022.
The ‘Jahaan Bandhan, Wahaan Trust’ campaign emphasizes the ‘trust’ that the brand has been able to earn in 7 years as a Bank and over the last two decades in the various avatars before the Bank.
The campaign uses the analogy of Ganguly’s career, who became the Bank’s customer soon after the Bank was launched 7 years ago, to showcase the trust of customers and stakeholders that the brand has been able to achieve.
14) Answer: E
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC) was the top profit-making central public sector business (CPSE) in 2021-22, according to the government of India’s Public Enterprise Survey 2021-22.
Following ONGC, the most profitable CPSEs were the Indian Oil Corporation, Power Grid, NTPC, and SAIL.
During 2021-22, the net profit of operational public sector firms increased by 50.87 percent to Rs 2.49 lakh billion.
In 2020-21, it was Rs 1.65 lakh crore.
The net loss of loss-making CPSEs was lowered by 37.82 percent to Rs 0.15 lakh crore in 2021-22 from Rs 0.23 lakh crore in 2020-21.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd (MTNL), Air India Assets Holding Ltd, and Eastern Coalfields Ltd were among the major loss-making CPSEs.
15) Answer: D
The Centre has appointed Mr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of the public sector Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) for 3 years.
He was appointed following the superannuation of Mr. Partha Pratim Sengupta.
Before this appointment, he was serving as the executive director of the IOB.
About Mr Ajay Kumar Srivastava:
He started his banking career as a probationary officer in 1991 with Allahabad Bank.
He also served as Director on the Board of Regional Rural Bank in Allahabad Bank.
After serving for over 27 years, he joined IOB in October 2017.
He was appointed as Director on the Board of India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) by the government for 2 years.
16) Answer: C
Folk singer Maithili Thakur was appointed as the state icon for Bihar by the Election Commission (EC).
She will create awareness among the voters for their participation in the electoral process.
About Maithili Thakur:
Maithili Thakur was born in the Madhubani district of Bihar.
She has rendered traditional folk songs of Bihar in Maithili, Bhojpuri, and Hindi.
Recently, she was selected for the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar of the Sangeet Natak Akademi for her contribution to the folk music of Bihar for 2021.
17) Answer: B
Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh announced that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to launch India’s first Atmanirbhar human flight ‘Gaganyaan’ by the year 2024.
Gaganyaan’ would be India’s first human flight and it will also be an excellent symbol of self-reliance as it will increase the confidence of the nation.
Key Highlights:
In 2024, there will be two preliminary launchings.
The 1st launch will be unmanned, this experiment will be done to mark the routes because if the ‘Gaganyaan’ rocket goes into space then it should also return safely in the same way.
In the 2nd launch also there will be no humans, instead, a robot will be there as a human replica.
After the complete success of 2 tests, in the 3rd launch, humans will be sent into space.
18) Answer: C
“The World: A Family History of Humanity,” by British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, was recently discussed with Indian scholar Manu S. Pillai.
This two-part book, published by Hachette India, focuses on the significance of families in shaping world history.
Montefiore, an internationally bestselling author whose works have been translated into 48 languages, hopes to provide a comprehensive narrative of humankind’s journey through the ages, beginning with a family walking along a beach 9,50,000 years ago and including notable families such as the Caesars, Medicis, Incas, Ottomans, Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs, Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Krupps, and Churchills.
The book, released on October 27, 2022, has been regarded as a ground-breaking achievement that will alter our perception of history.
19) Answer: A
“Breaking Barriers: The Story of a Dalit Chief Secretary,” a new book by former IAS officer Kaki Madhava Rao, examines the inner workings of the civil service at the grassroots level and throws insight into micro policies and governance.
The book was written by Rao, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official from the 1962 batch who retired as the chief secretary of Andhra Pradesh, and it was published by Emesco Books Private Limited.
Rao had a career in the IAS as well as roles as a member of the Board for Financial Supervision and a Director at the Reserve Bank of India.
He was born in 1939 in the Pedamaddali village of Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district.
Rao’s rural Andhra Pradesh background is covered in “Village Days,” which summarizes the entire book.
Rao’s exposure to the national stage and development into an adult is described in depth in chapters two through five.
The sociopolitical elements of state and local administration are covered in Chapters 6 through 9, along with the interaction of politics and economics in decision-making.
NT Rama Rao, Chenna Reddy, and N Chandrababu Naidu are just a few of the politicians that are discussed in chapters 10 and 11 along with the political economy of the nation.
20) Answer: D
Grammy-winning American singer and songwriter Anita Marie Pointer Passed away at the age of 74 in Los Angeles.
About Anita Marie Pointer:
Anita Marie Pointer was born on January 23, 1948, in Oakland, California, United States.
She was best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters.
She was also the lead singer on many of their other hits, including “Yes We Can Can”, “Fire”, “Slow Hand”, and “I’m So Excited”.
In 1987 Anita released her first solo album named, “Love for What It Is”, which got the single Overnight Success.
