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1) Which of the following company has announced that it will be rebranding PAYBACK India, the multi-brand loyalty program to ‘Zillion’?
(a) Mobikwik
(b) PayU
(c) BharatPe
(d) Paytm
(e) PhonePe
2) The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is to attend the 56th Annual General Meeting of the Board of Directors of Asian Development Bank in___________.
(a) Thailand
(b) South Korea
(c) Japan
(d) China
(e) Malaysia
3) As per the Ministry of Finance, how many financial companies under take the Aadhaar-based authentication of clients?
(a) 27
(b) 15
(c) 23
(d) 31
(e) 22
4) Who has been appointed as the overall operational commander of the law and order situation in Manipur after the Central government invoked Article 355?
(a) Rajesh Sharma
(b) Ashutosh Sinha
(c) Sanjay Gupta
(d) Amit Patel
(e) Vinay Kumar
5) Where was India’s first International Multi-Modal Logistics park to be set up?
(a) Bengaluru, Karnataka
(b) Jogighopa, Assam
(c) Jamui, Bihar
(d) Pune, Maharashtra
(e) Surat, Gujarat
6) Which Ministry has decided to introduce Millets, Shree Anna in the meals of personnel of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)?
(a) Ministry of Food Processing Industries
(b) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
(c) Ministry of Rural Development
(d) Ministry of Home Affairs
(e) Ministry of Defence
7) Which of the following company has secured a pan-India telecom licence that will enable it to offer telephone services to enterprise customers?
(a) Zillow
(b) GoDaddy
(c) LinkedIn
(d) Zoom
(e) Workday
8) Which of the following company has re-launched the 50-year-old iconic beverage brand Campa Cola in a new contemporise avatar?
(a) Sprite
(b) Adani
(c) Maaza
(d) TCS
(e) Reliance
9) Who became the first Pakistan foreign minister to visit India in 12 years?
(a) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
(b) Bilawal Bhutto
(c) Asif Ali Zardari
(d) Shehbaz Sharif
(e) Hina Rabbani Khar
10) Which state government has recently launched a Cattle insurance scheme to benefit 2 million rearers?
(a) Assam
(b) Bihar
(c) Gujarat
(d) Haryana
(e) Rajasthan
11) Santiago Pena has been elected as the new President of which of the following country?
(a) Venezuela
(b) Uruguay
(c) Croatia
(d) Guyana
(e) Paraguay
12) Which of the following IT majors has appointed Ajay Vij to the newly created role of Country Managing Director (MD) of India?
(a) Accenture
(b) Wipro
(c) Infosys
(d) HCL
(e) IBM
13) Who has been named as the next president of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)?
(a) Mike Haysman
(b) Bill Lawry
(c) Michael Slater
(d) Mark Nicholas
(e) Richie Benaud
14) Which of the following company has signed a binding term sheet with Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata for the merger of their Sri Lankan subsidiaries?
(a) Bharati Airtel
(b) Vodafone Idea
(c) Jio
(d) BSNL
(e) RailTel
15) Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in ____________ has won the first prize in the 24th National Youth Parliament Competition, 2022-23.
(a) Karnataka
(b) West Bengal
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e) Madhya Pradesh
16) Which of the following company has signed a three-year deal with Warner Brosto stream popular HBO Originals as well as Warner Bros?
(a) Eros International
(b) Disney Star
(c) Dharma Productions
(d) Viacom18
(e) SonyLIV
17) Which company has inked an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) to sell and service batteries at the state-owned firm’s petrol pumps?
(a) Mercedes-Benz
(b) Rivian
(c) Tesla Power
(d) BMW
(e) Polestar
18) Which bank has collaborated with Airtel to develop an Artificial Intelligence-based solution for combating fraud messages?
(a) HDFC Bank
(b) Axis Bank
(c) ICICI Bank
(d) DBS Bank
(e) YES Bank
19) Which of the following has successfully tested and space-qualified its ‘3U Satellite Orbital Deployers (DSOD-3U) and 6U Satellite Orbital Deployers’ (DSOD-6U) and ‘Orbital Link’?
(a) Agni Kul Cosmos
(b) Bellatrix Aerospace
(c) Skyroot Aerospace
(d) NewSpace India Limited
(e) Dhruva Space
20) Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi has clinched a silver medal at the Asian Weightlifting Championships 2023 held in Jinju, South Korea. In which category did she win the silver medal?
(a) 56kg category
(b) 62kg category
(c) 48kg category
(d) 55kg category
(e) 71kg category
Answers :
1) Answer: C
BharatPe Group, one of India’s leading names in the fintech industry, announced that it will be rebranding PAYBACK India, the multi-brand loyalty program to ‘Zillion’.
This new brand identity is in line with the company’s vision to make Zillion ubiquitous to loyalty and rewards across the country.
The new brand identity intends to appeal to clients of all ages and give their overall shopping experience across brands and categories a new dimension.
Zillion will offer a wide range of options for customers to earn and redeem at a wide range of partners across India.
Customers will be able to earn Zillion coins across the network of offline and online partners, including groceries, fuel, entertainment, travel, apparel, and more.
2) Answer: B
Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman will lead the Indian delegation to attend the 56th Annual General Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) along with Investor/ Bilateral and other associated meetings, in Incheon, the Republic of Korea.
The Meetings will be attended by official delegations of ADB members, observers, non-governmental and civil society organisations, media, financial institutions and banks and other private sector companies.
3) Answer: E
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has allowed 22 financial companies, including Amazon Pay (India) and Hero FinCorp, to undertake Aadhaar-based authentication of clients.
These 22 financial companies include Godrej Finance, Amazon Pay (India) Pvt Ltd, Aditya Birla Housing Finance, Tata Motors Finance Solution, IIFL Finance and Mahindra Rural Housing Finance Ltd.
The other modes of verification prescribed under the Money Laundering Act include offline verification under the Aadhaar Act, use of a passport and any other officially valid document or modes of identification as may be notified by the central government, and the client has a voluntary choice to opt for the mode of verification.
4) Answer: B
The central government invoked Article 355 after the situation worsened in Manipur.
More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from violence-hit areas and many people have migrated to Assam and Mizoram.
The central government has appointed Ashutosh Sinha, additional director general of police, intelligence as the overall operational commander of the law and order situation.
Kuldip Singh, the former DG, CRPF has been appointed as the security advisor to N Biren Singh’s government.
Article 355 of the Constitution empowers the Centre to take all necessary steps to protect the state against internal disturbances and external aggression.
5) Answer: B
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal visited the construction site of India’s first International Multi-Modal Logistics park in Jogighopa, Assam to review the progress.
The park is being developed under the ambitious Bharatmala Pariyojana of the Government.
First such MMLP, it is being made by NHIDCL in Jogighopa of Assam.
The park will be connected to road, rail, air and waterways.
This is being developed in 317-acre land along the Brahmaputra.
Built at a cost of Rs 693.97 crore, the park will provide direct waterways, road, rail & air connectivity.
6) Answer: D
The Ministry of Home Affairs has recently decided to introduce Millets, Shree Anna in the meals of personnel of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
The decision to introduce 30 per cent Millets in the meals.
The Ministry had asked all the forces to take action for the introduction of Millets based menu.
The Ministry informed that Millets will also be made available in Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar, Grocery Shops of the campuses and Ration Store by setting up dedicated counters and corners.
The forces will organize training of cooks in preparing millets based dishes through reputed institutes in this field.
The United Nations had declared 2023 the International Year Millets as recognizing the importance of millets, and creating a domestic and global demand along with providing nutritious food to the people, at the behest of the Government of India.
7) Answer: D
Zoom Video Communications (ZVC) has secured a pan-India telecom licence that will enable it to offer telephone services to enterprise customers.
US-based Zoom has been offering voice and video conference service through its website and app.
With these licences, the company will be able to offer its cloud-based private branch exchange (PBX) service ‘Zoom Phone’ to multinational corporations (MNCs) and businesses operating in India.
PBX works as a local telephone exchange for enterprises and helps them in managing conference call services.
Zoom partners with international telecommunication providers and offers phone numbers and calling plans in 47 countries and territories bundled with cloud PBX service.
About Zoom
Zoom, stylized as Zoom or Zoom Meetings, is a proprietary videotelephony software program developed by Zoom Video Communications.
The free plan allows up to 100 concurrent participants, with a 40-minute time restriction.
8) Answer: E
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance re-launched the 50-year-old iconic beverage brand Campa Cola in a new contemporise avatar as it looks to ramp up its own consumer goods offering to take on competition from Adani, ITC and Unilever.
In January this year, Reliance Consumer Products Ltd, the fast-moving consumer goods arm of Reliance Retail, acquired a 50 per cent stake in Gujarat-based carbonated soft drinks and juice maker Sosyo Hajoori Beverages Pvt Ltd.
It had previously acquired the Campa brand from Pure Drinks group for a reported Rs 22 crore.
And now, it has re-launched the Campa brand of beverages.
Campa-Cola was a popular soft drink brand in the 1970s and 1980s but fizzed out with the entry of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
RCPL is the FMCG arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL).
9) Answer: B
Pakistan’s foreign minister Mr Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari arrived in Goa, India to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), becoming the first senior leader from the neighbouring country to visit India in almost 12 years.
Bhutto travelled to Goa from Karachi and will attend the SCO foreign ministers’ meeting at Taj Exotica Resort.
Hina Rabbani Khar, currently minister of state for foreign affairs, was the last Pakistani foreign minister to travel to India in July 2011 for talks with her Indian counterpart.
India is holding the chairmanship of the SCO for the year 2023.
10) Answer: E
Looking at the importance of animal husbandry in the economy of Rajasthan, the state government is providing schemes, including recently launched insurance cover for milch cattle.
Livestock accounts for 8-9% of state GDP.
In inflation-relief camps, or “Mehangai Rahat” camps, a scheme of Rajasthan Chief Minister Shri Ashok Gehlot, launched on April 24, 2023 and slated to continue till June 30,2023 those in cattle rearing are being provided insurance cover of Rs 40,000 each for two milch cows under the Mukhyamantri Kamdhenu Pashu Bima Yojana.
According to the scheme, Rs 750 crore would be spent a year and more than 2 million cattle rearers would benefit from it.
The scheme is free for rearers with an annual income up to Rs 8 lakh a year, while those earning more have to pay Rs 200 per animal per annum.
11) Answer: E
Conservative Economist and former finance minister Santiago Pena won the Paraguay presidential election 2023.
Santiago Pena will be the 52nd President of Paraguay on Aug 15, 2023.
He won 43% of the vote in the Presidential election & defeated opposition candidate Efrain Alegre who secured 28% votes.
He will replace Mario Abdo Benítez who is serving as the president of Paraguay since 2018.
The incumbent conservative Colorado Party had governed the country for 71 of the past 76 years.
12) Answer: A
Accenture has appointed Ajay Vij to the newly created role of Country Managing Director (MD).
Rekha M. Menon, Senior Managing Director and Chairperson for Accenture in India, will retire as of June 30, 2023.
The primary responsibilities of the Chairperson will now be undertaken by the new appointees.
As country managing director, he will expand his current responsibilities as the Corporate Services & Sustainability lead for India to provide overall leadership and drive coordinated decision-making for key company priorities.
Sandeep Dutta has been appointed as the head of Accenture’s India market unit.
13) Answer: D
English cricket commentator and former cricketer Mark Nicholas has been named as the next president of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
He will serve a 12-month term as President, taking up the post on 1 October 2023.
His appointment was announced by the current President, Stephen Fry, at the Club’s Annual General Meeting held earlier.
14) Answer: A
Sri Lanka’s top mobile telecommunication firm, largest telecommunications provider Dialog Axiata and India’s Bharti Airtel have signed a binding term sheet for the merger of their Sri Lankan subsidiaries.
With this merger, Bharti Airtel will get access to a large customer base in Sri Lanka.
Dialog Axiata which is a subsidiary of Malaysian Axiata, informed of the proposed merger in a disclosure to Colombo Stock Exchange.
Key Highlights :
The proposed transaction envisages Airtel being granted a stake in Dialog, representing fair value of Airtel Lanka.
15) Answer: B
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal won the first prize in the 24th National Youth Parliament Competition, 2022-23.
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has been organising Youth Parliament Competitions in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas for the past 26 years.
The Youth Parliament Scheme aims at inculcating among the younger generations the spirit of self-discipline, righteous expression of views, and other virtues of a democratic way of life.
80 Vidyalayas spread over 8 regions of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti participated in the 24th National Youth Parliament Competition.
The main of the Youth Parliament Scheme is to inculcate the spirit of self-discipline, righteous expression of views, and other virtues of a democratic way of life among youths.
16) Answer: D
Reliance Industries Ltd-controlled Viacom18 has signed a three-year deal with Warner Bros.
The discovery will allow the broadcaster to stream popular HBO Originals, HBO as well as Warner Bros. content on JioCinema starting next month.
The deal is pegged at ₹900-1,000 crore and will help JioCinema attract premium English content-consuming audiences, which so far hadn’t seen value in the platform.
In July last year, Amazon Prime Video signed a one-year deal with Warner Bros. D
Discovery to offer a slate of 11 HBO Max Original series and 10 HBO Max original features exclusively on the service for Prime members in India as it looked to expand its catalogue of English entertainment.
With Warner Bros. Discovery signing an exclusive deal with Viacom18, the deal with Prime Video is not expected to be renewed.
17) Answer: C
Tesla Power USA has inked an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) to sell and service batteries at the state-owned firm’s petrol pumps.
The partnership will enable Tesla Power to sell and service batteries at over 36,000 IOCL petrol pumps across India.
This will be the first national-level tie-up with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd for battery distribution.
18) Answer: A
Bharti Airtel, one of India’s largest telecommunications companies, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning-based solution to proactively detect, prevent, and eliminate phishing, spam, and fraud through messaging, and is testing it in partnership with HDFC Bank, a leading Indian financial institution.
“Direct connectivity has been established between Airtel and HDFC to help secure end-to-end SMS (short messaging service) connectivity and flagging any other route,”.
The solution uses an anti-spam filter that can detect and block up to two million messages per day.
In April, 2023 Vodafone Idea (Vi) became the first telecom operator to showcase its anti-phishing solution to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) as well as financial regulators the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
19) Answer: E
Dhruva Space Private Limited has announced the successful test and space-qualification of its ‘3U Satellite Orbital Deployers (DSOD-3U) and 6U Satellite Orbital Deployers’ (DSOD-6U) and ‘Orbital Link’ on board Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C55 mission
The launch took place from the first launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
The Dhruva Space utilised the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM) which allows in-orbit scientific experiments using the spent PS4 stage as an orbital platform.
20) Answer: D
In Weightlifting, India’s Bindyarani Devi has clinched a silver medal in the women’s 55kg category at the Asian Weightlifting Championships 2023 in Jinju, South Korea.
Sorokhaibam Bindyarani Devi registered a combined lift of 194 kg to finish second on the podium.
China’s Chen Guan Ling won the gold medal with a combined lift of 204 kg.
Meanwhile in the men’s 61kg category Group B, Shubham Todkar lifted a combined weight of 263kg to finish sixth among nine competitors.
Commonwealth Games champion Jeremy Lalrinnunga will be in action in 67kg category.
The 20-year-old has given an entry total weight of 300kg.
The Asian Weightlifting Championships 2023 is the second in the series of qualifying events for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
