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1) International Day of the Girl Child is observed on which day?
(a) October 08
(b) October 09
(c) October 10
(d) October 11
(e) October 12
2) Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the Competition Commission of India’s Regional Office in which place?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Mumbai
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Chennai
(e) Bengaluru
3) The Union government has now formed a Commission of Inquiry to examine the issue of whether Scheduled Caste (SC) status can be accorded to Dalits. This commission is headed by ____________
(a) K.G. Balakrishnan.
(b) H. L. Dattu
(c) T. S. Thakur
(d) Jagdish Singh Khehar
(e) Sharad Arvind Bobde
4) World Health Organisation issued an alert against four cough syrups after 66 children died in which country?
(a) Senegal
(b) Gabon
(c) Nigeria
(d) the Gambia
(e) Zambia
5) India & __________ has recently launched a new energy storage task force to support the clean energy transition
(a) the United Kingdom
(b) the United States
(c) UAE
(d) Israel
(e) Russia
6) United Nations (UN) International Civil Aviation Organization adopts new carbon emissions goal to achieve net zero from planes by which year
(a) 2030
(b) 2040
(c) 2050
(d) 2060
(e) 2070
7) Finland ties up with which Indian State Government to implement the ‘Little KITEs’ model?
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Delhi
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Karnataka
(e) Kerala
8) Which state government has recently unveiled a post-matric scholarship mobile app, and revamped e-gov portals?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Assam
(d) Himachal Pradesh
(e) Punjab
9) Which state digitizes property registrations & launches a Self Help’ portal for e-registrations which will also involve the usage of blockchain technology?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Karnataka
(d) Manipur
(e) Telangana
10) Which state or Union Territory’s Tourism department inaugurates 1st ever Bird Festival at Pahalgam?
(a) Jammu & Kashmir
(b) Ladakh
(c) Sikkim
(d) Lakshadweep
(e) Goa
11) The Haryana government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ___________ for economic cooperation
(a) Dubai
(b) Qatar
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) Singapore
(e) Malaysia
12) Nobel Peace Prize 2022 won by Belarusian human rights activist named _________
(a) Svante Pääbo
(b) Annie Ernaux
(c) Ales Bialiatski
(d) Alain Aspect
(e) John Clauser
13) Who becomes the first European female International Space Station (ISS) commander?
(a) Samantha Cristoforetti
(b) Jessica Watkins
(c) Margherita Hack
(d) Yelena Serova
(e) Jessica Meir
14) Omara Dates appoints who among the following as their Brand ambassadors?
(a) Tiger Shroff
(b) Varun Dhawan
(c) Amitabh Bachchan
(d) Ranveer Singh
(e) Ranbir Kapoor
15) New mobile banking Malware prowling in Indian cyberspace named ___________
(a) MAVA
(b) KAVA
(c) SOVA
(d) NOVA
(e) MOVA
16) Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer recently maps the abundance of _________ on the moon for the first time
(a) Potassium
(b) Sodium
(c) Magnesium
(d) Zink
(e) Calcium
17) Defence Maker agrees to Produce Carl-Gustaf M4 Rocket Launchers In India.
(a) SAAB
(b) Almaz-Antey
(c) Leonardo
(d) Thales
(e) General Dynamics
18) Who has been named the FIH Player of the Year 2022?
(a) Rupinder Pal Singh
(b) Gurjant Singh
(c) Mandeep Singh
(d) Manpreet Singh
(e) Harmanpreet Singh
19) Indian Olympic Association (IOA) planned to conduct the 37th National Games in which state?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Telangana
(d) Goa
(e) Punjab
20) Who became the first athlete to win a gold medal in Yogasan at the 36th National Games?
(a) Pooja Patel
(b) Ishaan Sharma
(c) Vedika Chauhan
(d) Chirag Aggarwal
(e) Sujoy Ghosh
Answers :
1) Answer: D
International Day of the Girl Child is commemorated on 11 October every year for empowering girls and amplifying their voices around the globe.
This day recognizes the rights of the girl child and the challenges faced by them across the world.
Girls are breaking stereotypes, boundaries, and barriers.
The Beijing Declaration was adopted by the UN in 1995 during the World Conference on Women in Beijing.
2) Answer: B
Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates Competition Commission of India’s Regional Office (West) in Mumbai.
A statutory body established under the provisions of The Competition Act, 2002, and established in 2003.
A Chairperson and 6 Members are appointed by the Central Government. Headquarters: New Delhi.
Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission.
To implement provisions of The Competition Act, 2002 which –prohibits anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position by enterprises regulates mergers and acquisitions (M&A) which can harm competition within India.
3) Answer: A
The Union government has now formed a Commission of Inquiry to examine the issue of whether Scheduled Caste (SC) status can be accorded to Dalits who have over the years converted to religions other than Sikhism or Buddhism.
The three-member Commission is headed by former Chief Justice of India, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan.
Currently, the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 stipulates that no person professing a religion different from Hinduism, Buddhism, or Sikhism can be deemed to be a member of a Schedule Caste.
4) Answer: D
WHO issued an alert against India-made cough syrups after 66 children died in the Gambia.
The World Health Organisation has issued a medical product alert on four cough and cold syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in India.
The cough syrups–Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup, and Magrip N Cold Syrup –were made by Haryana-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals.
The Central Drug Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has launched an investigation into the matter.
5) Answer: B
During a Ministerial meeting of the United States – India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP), U.S. Energy Secretary Mr. Jennifer Granholm (United States) and Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Mr. Hardeep S. Puri (India) launched a new energy task force to support large-scale integration of renewable energy (RE) needed to support the clean energy transition.
The Ministers welcomed collaboration between Indian and U.S. companies through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy methane abatement technologies in India’s city gas distribution sector under the Low Emissions Gas Task Force to help reduce emissions in the oil and gas sector.
6) Answer: C
The United Nations (UN) International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO adopted a long-term aspirational goal of making carbon emissions from air travel net zero by 2050 in response to growing pressure for airlines to reduce their pollution in Montreal, Canada.
It could boost the production of sustainable aviation fuel.
Airlines and governments expect to greatly reduce emissions by gradually switching from kerosene-based jet fuel to fuels made from fats, grease, plants, or renewables.
The European Union has proposed higher taxes on fossil fuels including jet fuel.
7) Answer: E
Finland has announced its partnership with Kerala to implement the Little KITEs program by Kerala Education Department in their country’s schools.
As per the collaboration, the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) will provide technical assistance for this and a Special Working Group will be constituted for this program.
The decision was taken in the meeting held at the Capital of Finland, Helsinki, between Finland Education Department’s team and a high-level delegation from Kerala comprising V P Joy, state chief secretary, V K Ramachandran, vice chairman, State Planning Board, and A P M Mohammed Hanish, principal secretary, general education department.
8) Answer: A
Government of Rajasthan, social justice and empowerment minister Shri Tikaram Jully has launched a new post-matric scholarship mobile application in a move to push e-governance initiatives in Rajasthan.
Meanwhile, the Govt of Rajasthan revamped other online portals of Mukhyamantri Anuprati Coaching Scheme, Palanhar Yojana, and Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana.
Apart from these, the state government is also looking to fast-track various other e-governance schemes including Palanhar Scheme, Social Security Pension, Post Matric Scholarship, Hostel scheme, Chief Minister Kanyadan Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana, Silicosis Scheme, Residential School, and Vidya Sambal Yojana.
9) Answer: B
The government of Maharashtra has started the e-registration of properties to be sold by realty developers in a bid to digitize the process which will also involve the usage of blockchain technology.
With this, Maharashtra has become the first state to enable e-registrations of properties.
Initially, the facility will be enabled for e-registration of the agreement of the first sale, and resale transactions will not be part of it.
Now homebuyers of Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) approved projects have the option to register their sales agreements online, sitting in the developer’s office.
10) Answer: A
In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), a first-of-its-kind Bird Festival 2022 was inaugurated at Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
The Bird Festival is being organized by the J & K Tourism Department in collaboration with Sanctuary Nature Foundation.
Secretary of the J&K Tourism Department, Sarmad Hafeez inaugurated the festival.
The inaugural ceremony of the 6-day Bird Festival was attended by a large number of nature enthusiasts and bird lovers from across the country as well as Jammu and Kashmir.
The Bird Festival will be beneficial for tourism and the local economy of Jammy and Kashmir
11) Answer: A
The Haryana government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Dubai, the governing authority of the Emirate of Dubai, for cooperation in various economic activities.
These activities include investment promotion and land development, including but not limited to real estate development, industrial parks, IT parks, multi-purpose towers, mixed-use townships, innovation centers, and projects related to logistics in Haryana.
12) Answer: C
The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to give the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 to one individual and two organizations.
2022 Nobel Peace Prize won by Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organization Memorial, and Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties on 7 October.
They have made an outstanding effort to document power abuse, war crimes, and human rights abuses.
Together, they demonstrated the importance of civil society to democracy and peace.
Ales Bilyatsky was one of the initiators of the democratic movement that took place in Belarus in the mid-1980s.
13) Answer: A
Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti became the first female European Commander of the International Space Station (ISS)
She succeeded Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.
She is the fifth woman after Frank De Winne, Alexander Gerst, Luca Parmitano, and Thomas Pesquet and the first non-US woman to become commander since the role was created in 2000.
She will also be responsible for the performance and well-being of the astronauts in orbit, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
ESA describes the ISS as a “stepping stone for future exploration”.
14) Answer: C
Healthy snacks brand, Omara Dates, has appointed actor Amitabh Bachchan as a brand ambassador.
Through this association, Omara Dates aims to enhance the adoption of this healthy food for daily snacking and gifting.
The brand has rolled out a campaign ‘Pyaar Bhi, khayaal bhi’ (love and also care) urges people to include care along with their gestures of love.
15) Answer: C
A new type of mobile banking malware campaign called SOVA Android Trojan (SOVA – owl in Russian) has now reached India.
SOVA, which can secretly encrypt an Android phone for ransom and is difficult to erase, is targeting Indian users.
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) recently reported that a new type of mobile banking malware campaign that uses the SOVA Android Trojan virus is targeting Indian banking customers.
The first version of the malware was spotted at a sale in September 2021 in “underground markets”.
16) Answer: B
In a recent work published in ‘The Astrophysical Journal Letters’, Chandrayaan-2 mapped the abundance of sodium on the Moon for the first time using CLASS (Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer).
The new findings from Chandrayaan-2, provide an avenue to study surface-exosphere interaction on the moon, which would aid the development of similar models for mercury and other airless bodies in our solar system and beyond.
17) Answer: A
Swedish defense company Saab has announced its decision to set up a production facility in India for its Carl-Gustaf M4 shoulder-fired weapon system.
The M4 is one of the world’s most popular pieces of military equipment utilized primarily by the Special Forces (SF).
The Carl-Gustaf M4 shoulder-fired weapon system can fire anti-armor and illuminating rounds as well as various other types of ammunition, with the maximum range being 1,500 meters.
Neither Saab nor the GOI has stated the location of the production facility but it is supposed to go into operation in 2024.
18) Answer: E
India defender Harmanpreet Singh was named the FIH Player of the Year in the men’s category for the second successive time.
The 26-year-old became just the fourth player to win the Player of the Year award (men’s category) in consecutive years, joining an elite list that includes Teun De Nooijer (Netherlands), Jamie Dwyer (Australia) and Arthur van Doren (Belgium).
In the women’s category, Felice Albers of the Netherlands was named the FIH Player of the Year.
19) Answer: D
The Goa government has conveyed to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) its in-principle approval to host the 37th National Games in October 2023.
IOA is pleased to note the wholehearted support of the government of Goa to host the 37th National Games in 2023, hence conveying IOA’s approval to organize the 37th National Games in Goa.
The Goa delegation may receive the IOA flag in the closing ceremony of the 36th National Games on October 12 in Surat, Gujarat.
20) Answer: A
Gujarat’s Pooja Patel became the first athlete to win a gold medal in Yogasan at the 36th National Games.
For the first time, five new sports have been included in the National Games, one of which is Yoga.
Earlier this year, this Indian indigenous game was introduced at the Khelo India University Games.
Among other events, Maharashtra won the gold medal in women’s diving in the one-meter springboard event.
36th National Games is being hosted by Gujrat from 27 September to 10 October.