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1) Which among the given months has been declared by PM Modi to be celebrated as the Month of Nutrition?
a) December
b) November
c) October
d) September
e) August
2) Heritage postal stamp of which railway station was introduced recently by Indian actor, film producer, Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) ?
a) Ghatkopar railway station
b) Santacruz railway station
c) Borivali railway station
d) Bandra railway station
e) None of these
3) India has partnered with which country to create world’s first space-based automatic identification system (AIS) to track merchant ships on a real-time basis?
a) Russia
b) Germany
c) France
d) UAE
e) USA
4) Where was the National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology centre inaugurated ?
a) Kochi
b) Surat
c) New Delhi
d) Coimbatore
e) Bangalore
5) The first ever Centre of Excellence in FinTech named FinBlue has been launched in which city?
a) Hyderabad
b) Chennai
c) Kolkata
d) Mumbai
e) Vijayawada
6) Recently, which state government categorised Nicotine as Class A poison?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana
c) Karnataka
d) Mizoram
e) Madhya Pradesh
7) “Super 50” an initiative for tribal students to fulfil dreams is launched by which state government?
a) Maharashtra
b) Gujarat
c) Punjab
d) Jammu and Kashmir
e) Kerala
8) Which country picks Borneo island as site of new capital?
a) Indonesia
b) Malaysia
c) Phillipines
d) Thailand
e) Brunei
9) As per the recommendation of Bimal Jalan Committee, how much amount of money will RBI transfer to the Government of India?
a) Rs 1,83,021 crore
b) Rs 1,61,021 crore
c) Rs 1,45,031 crore
d) Rs 1,23,041 crore
e) Rs 1,76,051 crore
10) Name the company that is to be the First Company to be Listed on BSE Startup Platform?
a) Alphalogic Techsys Limited
b) Betalogic Techsys Limited
c) Gamalogic Techsys Limited
d) Deltalogic Techsys Limited
e) Zetalogic Techsys Limited
11) Who was concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Cook Islands ?
a) Riva Ganguly Das
b) Ruchira Kamboj
c) Sangeeta Bahadur
d) Padmaja
e) None of these
12) Who was appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary for a tenure of two years?
a) Rajiv Gauba
b) Suresh Gauba
c) Rakesh Gauba
d) Dinesh Gauba
e) Rahul Gauba
13) _____ Interim CEO Suparna Singh has resigned her role with immediate effect
a) CNN
b) BBC
c) NDTV
d) Indian Express Limited
e) The Times Group
14) Who was appointed as the Commander of Sri Lankan Army?
a) Samaravera
b) Marvan Attapattu
c) Shavendra Silva
d) Aravinda de Silva
e) None of these
15) Which firm, entered into the 2019 Guinness World Records for creating the largest online video album of people waving the Indian flag during its ‘No matter where I am, #IAMINDIAN‘ campaign ?
a) Waze
b) LastPass
c) Likee
d) TikTok
e) Helo
16) The 2019 Indo-Pacific Chiefs of Defence (CHOD) Conference is being held in which country?
a) United States
b) Nepal
c) Malaysia
d) Thailand
e) Phillipines
17) What edition of the G7 summit has started recently in France?
a) 44
b) 45
c) 46
d) 47
e) 48
18) 7th Community Radio Sammelan twas recently held in Delhi. The theme of the event was- Community Radio for _________________.
a) Senior Citizens
b) Self Development Goals
c) School Children
d) Green Development
e) Educating citizens
19) The air forces of China and _____ began joint exercise ‘Shaheen-VIII’ in a location in northwest China.
a) India
b) Pakistan
c) Bangladesh
d) Nepal
e) Sri Lanka
20) Komalika Bari became the recurve cadet world champion at the World Archery Youth Championships in _______________.
a) Montreal
b) Rambouillet
c) Madrid
d) Shanghai
e) Toronto
21) Sahitya Akademi award winner and an eminent writer, Professor Niranjan Singh Tasneem passed away. He belongs to which state?
a) Punjab
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Bihar
d) West Bengal
e) Mizoram
22) Name the Indian first woman Director General of Police (DGP), who passed away recently.
a) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
b) Sowjanya Chaudhary Bhattacharya
c) Mrudula Chaudhary Bhattacharya
d) Kamala Chaudhary Bhattacharya
e) None of these
Answers:
1) Answer: D)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced to celebrate September as a month of nutrition.
Mr. Modi laid emphasis on creating awareness to fight malnutrition among children, particularly the girl child.
Gujarat Government launched a pilot project, Poshan Abhiyan which is a statewide mission to eradicate malnutrition among children. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had also launched ‘Purna’ project to eliminate malnutrition among the girls in the age group of 14 to 18.
State Government had allocated Rs. 270 crore for this pilot project. PURNA project is also known as Prevention of under Nutrition and Reduction of Nutritional Anaemia among Adolescent Girls.
2) Answer: D)
Actor Shah Rukh Khan launched heritage postal stamp of Bandra station on the completion of 150 years of the railway station.
Ashish Shelar, minister of School Education, Sports and Youth Welfare of Maharashtra was also present at the Bandra station.
3) Answer: C)
The world’s first space-based automatic identification system (AIS) to track merchant ships on a real-time basis will be built and operated jointly by India and France, the French space agency (Centre national d’études spatiales or the National Centre for Space Studies — CNES).
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and K Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed an agreement recently to start development and production of a constellation of satellites on which studies have been underway for more than a year.
4) Answer: D)
A National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology was inaugurated at Salim Ali Centre for Ornithlogy and Natural Sciences (SACON).
Ecotoxicological studies assume significance at a time when ecological factors are unable to explain continued mortality of birds leading to population decline over a period of time.
The Ministry has funded an estimated amount of Rs 4 crore for modernising the facility at SACON.
The centre would study the impact of chemical contaminants such as pesticides, heavy metals, poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, poly chlorinated biphenyls and drugs through food chain, and their harmful effects on individual species of birds and, where possible, link them to population and communities.
5) Answer: B)
Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) has set up a ‘Centre of Excellence in FinTech’ in Chennai, first of its kind in India, with an objective to provide resources in terms of mentoring, technology support and funding for FinTech start-ups Called ‘FinBlue’, the centre intends to incubate over 58 startups in the next five years.
The venture entails investments to the tune of over ₹23 crore, given by various stakeholders.
6) Answer: C)
Government of Karnataka amended the Karnataka Poisons (Possession and Sale) Rules 2015. He notified Nicotine as “Class A poison”.
The main aim is to strengthen the enforcement of the ban on production and sale of electronic cigarettes. The new rules are called the Karnataka Poisons (Possession and Sale) Rules, 2019.
The ban imposed after the study conducted the High Powered Committee on Tobacco Control headed additional Chief Secretary of Karnataka, Vandita Sharma.
The Government ordered the suspension of all kinds of promotion of e-cigarettes, including online promotion.
7) Answer: A)
Maharashtra’s Tribal Development Department in association with the Pace Educational Trust launched an academic programme for young tribal students aspiring to be doctors and engineers.
State launches a residential programme for smart, young minds to prepare them for engineering and medical exams.
8) Answer: A)
Indonesia has chosen the eastern edge of jungle-clad Borneo island for its new capital
The current capital, Jakarta, home to more than 10 million people, sits on swampy land. Parts of the city are sinking by as much as 25cm (10in) a year and almost half now sits below sea level.
The new location was at “minimal” risk of natural disasters
The estimated cost of the project was around 466 trillion rupiah (US$33 billion)
9) Answer: E)
The Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the transfer of Rs 1,76,051 crore to the Government of India.
To transfer a sum of Rs 1,76,051 crore to the Government of India comprising Rs 1,23,414 crore of surplus for the year 2018-19 and Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions identified as per the revised Economic Capital Framework (ECF).
Government of India had constituted an Expert Committee to Review the Extant Economic Capital Framework of the Reserve Bank of India under the chairmanship of Dr Bimal Jalan.
10) Answer: A)
The Bombay Stock Exchange has approved the IPO application of Alphalogic under their BSE Startup Platform. The company has already unveiled its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP), which has been uploaded to the BSE Startup Portal.
Now startups in India can raise funds through initial public offerings! This fact will be substantiated when Alphalogic Techsys Limited will come up with its IPO in the last of week of this month. It is expected that Alphalogic will be the first startup to be listed on the BSE Startup Platform.
BSE has approved the IPO applications of the first two companies till date, since the launch of the platform in December 2018.
Alphalogic is a boutique software company based in Pune, and it has been growing at the rate of CAGR 40% in the last 4 years.
11) Answer: D)
Ms. Padmaja, presently High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Fiji, has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Cook Islands, with residence in Suva.
12) Answer: A)
Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba was appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary for a tenure of two years effective from August 30, 2019. Gauba is a 1982-batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre will replace P.K. Sinha
13) Answer: C)
NDTV Interim CEO Suparna Singh has resigned her role with immediate effect
Singh who was the former head of NDTV Convergence was named as its CEO in December 2017.
Singh has been with NDTV since 1994 was chosen as its CEO following journalist Vikram Chandra’s resignation from the role in the year 2016.
14) Answer: C)
President Maithripala Sirisena appointed General Shavendra Silva as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army
Silva headed the Army’s 58th Division in the final battle against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in the final stages of the civil war in 2009
Lt Gen Shavendra Silva will take charge as incumbent Army chief Lt Gen Mahesh Senanayake
15) Answer: C)
Likee, the pioneering global short video creation platform, has won the Guinness World Record for creating the largest online video album of people waving the Indian flag during its ‘No matter where I am, #IAMINDIAN’ campaign.
During the campaign, Indians created more than 2.5 lakh videos which garnered more than 225.3 million views. Indian ace sprinter Hima Das also participated in the initiative.
#IAMINDIAN campaign successfully hit the right chord among the Indian youth who leveraged the platform to create unique videos while waving the Indian flag to showcase their patriotism.
16) Answer: D)
The 2019 Indo Pacific Chiefs of Defence (CHOD) Conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand’s. In this conference, India will be represented by Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and Chief of the Air Staff- Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa.
The conference will provide perspectives on common challenges faced by attending nations and elicit open discussions on the same. The theme for the conference is “Collaboration in a free and Open Indo – Pacific”.
17) Answer: B)
The 45th G7 summit was held on 24–26 August 2019, in Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
In March 2014, the G7 declared that a meaningful discussion was currently not possible with Russia in the context of the G8. Since then, meetings have continued within the G7 process. However, according to senior admin official, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron had agreed that Russia should be invited to the 2020 G7 Summit.
18) Answer: B)
The Seventh Community Radio Sammelan will be held at Dr. BR Ambedkar Bhawan, New Delhi from 27th to 29th August, 2019.
The Sammelan is organized by Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
The theme of this year’s Sammelan is ‘Community Radio for SDGs’
The Sammelan will also witness discussion on various flagship schemes of the government such as the Jal Shakti Abhiyaan and efforts for disaster risk reduction
19) Answer: B)
The air forces of China and Pakistan began joint exercise ‘Shaheen-VIII’ in a location in northwest China
The annual joint training is the eighth of its kind between the two countries since it was first launched
The joint exercise is conducted each year in both countries on an alternate basis.
Answer: C)
Jharkhand’s Komalika Bari won gold medal in women’s cadet recurve category in the World Archery Youth Championships in Madrid after a 7-3 victory over Japan’s Waka Sonoda in the final.
She is only the third Indian archer to hold a world title. She is the second Indian archer to become world champion in the Under-18 recurve women’s category.
Apart from this The Indian junior (U-21) compound mixed team of Markoo Raginee and Sukhbeer Singh won Gold Medal at World Archery Youth Championships.
21) Answer: A)
Sahitya Akademi award winner and an eminent Punjab writer, Professor Niranjan Singh Tasneem passed away
Tasneem had received Bhartiya Sahitya Akademi award in 1999 for his novel ‘Gwache Arth’ and Punjab’s highest literary honor – Punjabi Sahit Rattan in 2015.He has also written 12 books in English and two Urdu novels.
22) Answer: A)
The first woman Director General of Police (DGP), Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, passed away.Ms Bhattachary, a 1973 batch IPS officer, made history when she was appointed the DGP of Uttarakhand in the year 2004. She retired on October 31, 2007.
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