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1) Which of the following country is the host of the World Tourism Day observed on 27 September with the theme of “Rethinking Tourism” for the year 2022?
(a) India
(b) France
(c) Indonesia
(d) Singapore
(e) Spain
2) What is the name of the Operation conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) at 56 locations in 20 states against the circulation and sharing of child sexual abuse material online?
(a) Meghachakra
(b) Megadoot
(c) Megasakthi
(d) Dharamchakra
(e) None of these
3) Who among the following has launched Virtual Conference ‘SymphoNE’ to boost Tourism Sector in North East India?
(a) Nitin Gadkari
(b) Narendra Singh Tomar
(c) G. Kishan Reddy
(d) S Jaishankar
(e) Gajendra Singh Sekhawat
4) Where will the DefExpo 2022 be scheduled to be held in October 2022?
(a) Chennai
(b) Gandhinagar
(c) Gurugram
(d) Mumbai
(e) Guwahati
5) Which of the following state has launched an innovative campaign ‘Hamar Beti-Hamar Maan’ (Our Daughter – Our Pride) for women’s safety and their empowerment in society?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Odisha
(d) Gujarat
(e) Chhattisgarh
6) Which state government has launched its health insurance scheme called the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme (CMHIS)?
(a) Nagaland
(b) Manipur
(c) Sikkim
(d) Meghalaya
(e) Chhattisgarh
7) Which of the following bank has become the first to receive the approval from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to open a special Vostro account with Gazprombank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees (INR)?
(a) Union Bank of India
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) Axis Bank
(d) UCO Bank
(e) Bank of India
8) Which state government has decided to use the air pressure machine named SAANS to reduce neonatal mortality?
(a) Bihar
(b) Assam
(c) Odisha
(d) Gujarat
(e) Punjab
9) On the Occasion of International Red Panda Day on September 17 the State Bank of India Foundation (SBIF) and WWF India entered into a partnership safeguarding key habitats of the Red Panda in ____________ and _________________.
(a) Sikkim, West Bengal
(b) Sikkim, Assam
(c) Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal
(d) Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim
(e) Bihar, West Bengal
10) Daniel Spielman has been announced as the winner of the Breakthrough Prize in mathematics. Which country does he hail from?
(a) India
(b) the United States
(c) Spain
(d) France
(e) Russia
11) Who has been announced as the winner of the Hermann Kesten Prize?
(a) Meena Kandasamy
(b) Sunita Williams
(c) Veena Murali
(d) Veena Kandasamy
(e) Naveena Murali
12) Which Organisation has signed an agreement with Brazilian national oil company Petrobras for sourcing crude oil from the Latin American nation as part of plans to diversify its sourcing needs?
(a) Gas Authority of India Limited
(b) Steel Authority of India Limited
(c) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd
(d) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
(e) Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
13) Who was appointed as the new president of Hockey India (HI)?
(a) Dilip Tirkey
(b) Bhola Nath
(c) Rajiv Bahl
(d) Suresh Mathur
(e) Sunil Bharath
14) Who was appointed as the Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Secretary Department of Health Research (DHR) for 3 years?
(a) Dilip Tirkey
(b) Bhola Nath
(c) Rajiv Bahl
(d) Suresh Mathur
(e) Sunil Bharath
15) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has re-appointed Dilip Asbe as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for 5 years. Which of the following bank is not a promoter of NPCI?
(a) State Bank of India
(b) Canara Bank
(c) Indian Bank
(d) Punjab National Bank
(e) Bank of Baroda
16) Which of the following Organisation has developed an intelligent artificial limb, a 1.6 kg microprocessor-controlled knee (MPK)?
(a) Defence Research and Development Organisation
(b) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(c) Indian Space Research Organization
(d) Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd
(e) All the above
17) Where is the Headquarters of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)?
(a) Mumbai
(b) Delhi
(c) Pune
(d) Bengaluru
(e) Lucknow
18) The United States actress Louise Fletcher has Passed away recently. When did she receive the Oscar Award?
(a) 1956
(b) 1970
(c) 1976
(d) 1982
(e) 1985
19) The Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga of historical novel has passed away recently. When did she receive the Booker Prize?
(a) 2009
(b) 2010
(c) 2012
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) Both (a) and (c)
20) Where is Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary located?
(a) Assam
(b) Nagaland
(c) Sikkim
(d) Manipur
(e) Meghalaya
Answers :
1) Answer: C
World Tourism Day is celebrated on the 27th of September every year. World Tourism Day is celebrated to pay tribute to the tourism industry and encourage people to travel and honor those who were working in the tourism sector.
This year the host country is Indonesia and the World Tourism Day Theme 2022 is “Rethinking Tourism”. The United Nations World Tourism Organization celebrated World Tourism Day as an International Observance on 27th September 1980.
2) Answer: A
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out ‘Operation Meghachakra’ at 56 locations in 20 states against the circulation and sharing of child sexual abuse material online.
CBI launched the exercise code ‘Operation Meghachakra’ using the inputs from the Interpol unit of New Zealand. CBI carried out a similar exercise “Operation Carbon” in 2021 at 76 locations across the country. CBI is the first probe agency to set up a cybercrime unit for the investigation of cybercrimes in the country.
3) Answer: C
Union Minister Shri G. Kishan Reddy launches Virtual Conference ‘SymphoNE’ to boost Tourism Sector in North East India.
SymphoNE is the start of a series of dialogues on the North Eastern Region’s Development Conference comprised of a broad range of Policy Thinkers, Stakeholders & Influencers to boost the Tourism Sector in the North Eastern Region. The Virtual Conference ‘SymphoNE’ is being organized on the 24th & 27th of September 2022 by the Ministry of Development of the North Eastern Region on the occasion of World Tourism Day. This two-day conference will aim to create a roadmap to showcase the unexplored beauty of North East India & boost the tourism Sector in the North Eastern Region. SymphoNE aims to develop a one-stop solution to eliminate all obstacles that are being faced by the tourists, and the tour operators while carrying out the operations for the visitors.
4) Answer: B
The forthcoming DefExpo 2022, scheduled to be held in Gandhinagar from October 18 to 22, will host the second edition of the India-Africa Defence Dialogue with invites extended to 53 African countries.
A separate Indian Ocean Region plus (IOR+) conclave with the participation of approximately 40 countries is also on the anvil. The Expo, earlier scheduled to be held in March, was postponed due to “logistical challenges”. For DefExpo 2022, Indian companies, Indian subsidiaries of foreign Original Equipment Manufacturers, a Division of a company registered in India, and exhibitors having joint ventures with an Indian company will be considered Indian participants. The theme of DefExpo 2022 is ‘Path to Pride’, aiming to showcase the needs of the domestic defense industry, which is now powering the ‘Make in India, Make for the World’ resolve of the Government and the nation at large.
5) Answer: E
The Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Shri Bhupesh Baghel announced the launch of an innovative campaign ‘Hamar Beti-Hamar Maan’ (Our Daughter – Our Pride) for the women’s safety and their empowerment in society
Women officers and employees of the Chhattisgarh police will communicate, guide, and teach the daughters in schools and colleges about their legal rights, good touch, bad touch, molestation, sexual abuse, cyber crime, protection from social media crimes, and their rights. Under the campaign, a helpline number will also be issued so that prompt action could be taken on the crimes against any woman after they complain about it through that number. A special team of police will patrol the girl’s schools, colleges, and other prominent places with the specific presence of females. Moreover, the Inspector General (IG) Range will be responsible for ensuring that the probe in such matters is completed within a stipulated time and a challan is also presented.
6) Answer: A
The Government of Nagaland will launch its health insurance scheme called the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme (CMHIS) on the 1st of October, 2022. To reduce out-of-pocket expenditure on hospital care for all bonafide citizens of Nagaland.
The scheme will cover two beneficiary categories: State government employees and pensioners including legislators/ex-legislators and their dependents, and all the Indigenous and or Permanent residents of the State who are not beneficiaries under AB PM-JAY or any public-funded insurance scheme. It provides free health insurance coverage of up to 5 lakh rupees per family per year.
7) Answer: D
Public sector lender UCO Bank has become the first bank to receive the approval from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to open a special Vostro account with Gazprombank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees (INR).
On July 11, 2022, the RBI issued a circular allowing trade settlements between India and other countries, including Sri Lanka and Russia, in rupee. The RBI had stated that the exchange rate between the currencies of the two trading partner countries is to be market determined. Gazprombank is a Russian lender, which was set up by the world’s largest gas producer and exporter Gazprom to provide banking services for gas industry enterprises and has been operating since 1990. UCO Bank was chosen by the Union government in 2012 as the payment bank for oil imports from Iran after the United State tightened the earlier rounds of sanctions.
8) Answer: B
The Assam government has decided to use the air pressure machine named SAANS to reduce neonatal mortality. It is developed by a Bangalore-based start-up, InnAccel Technologies.
The ‘SAANS’ system is a portable, easy-to-use, robust, neonatal Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) device. It is designed to provide short-term breathing support for infants suffering from Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) in hospital settings as well as during travel. Assam has the third-highest infant mortality rate in India, with 40 fatalities per 1,000 live births.
9) Answer: A
On the Occasion of International Red Panda Day (third Saturday of September- Sep 17, 2022) the State Bank of India Foundation (SBIF) and WWF India entered into a partnership to generate fine-scale information on the species at a transboundary level and engage with communities in safeguarding key habitats of the Red Panda in the Khangchendzonga landscape of Sikkim and Darjeeling, Kalimpong district in West Bengal.
An event was organized at the Himalayan Zoological Park in Gangtok to celebrate International Red Panda Day. Himalayan Zoological Park is the first-of-its-kind, where animals are kept in their natural habitat.
10) Answer: B
Daniel Spielman has been announced as the winner of the Breakthrough Prize in mathematics.
He got the award for his contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics. Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced the winners in the three categories — fundamental physics, mathematics, and life sciences. The winners of the prizes are known as “laureates”. The Breakthrough Prizes was instituted by a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in 2010. It is also known as the “Oscars of Science”.
11) Answer: A
Meena Kandasamy has been announced as the winner of the Hermann Kesten Prize. The award will be given at a ceremony in Darmstadt on 15 November 2022.
Meena Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist. She works on issues related to gender, caste, sexuality, patriarchy, and oppression by the Brahmanical system. Her novels have been selected for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize, and the Hindu Lit Prize. Tamil Tigresses (2021), Touch (2006), Gypsy Goddess (2014), and Ms. Militancy (2010) are some famous works of Meena Kandasamy. This year, a special award will be also given to the website “Weiter Schreiben” to encourage writers from conflict zones.
12) Answer: C
State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has signed an agreement with Brazilian national oil company Petrobras for sourcing crude oil from the Latin American nation as part of plans to diversify its sourcing needs.
BPCL imports a large volume of crude oil which is turned into fuel such as petrol and diesel at its three oil refineries at Mumbai, Bina in Madhya Pradesh, and Kochi in Kerala. The firm, which gets the majority of its supplies from west Asian nations such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia, is looking to diversify its sources of supply in an attempt to cut down reliance on any particular region. Company chairman and managing director Arun Kumar Singh and Petrobras CEO Caio Paes de Andrade signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Brazil. Bharat Petro Resources Limited (BPRL), the upstream oil and gas exploration and production subsidiary of BPCL, plans to invest USD 1.6 billion to develop an oil block in Brazil.
13) Answer: A
Former India captain Mr. Dilip Tirkey has been elected unopposed as the new president of Hockey India (HI).
The International Hockey Federation has approved Dilip Tirkey and his team’s appointments. Mr. Bhola Nath was elected as the secretary general of Hockey India. Mr. Tirkey who filed his nomination as President of Hockey, Odisha, was elected after Uttar Pradesh Hockey chief Mr. Rakesh Katyal and Jharkhand’s Mr. Bhola Nath Singh withdrew nominations. Mr. Dilip Tirkey became Hockey India’s First player president.
14) Answer: C
The Central government appointed Dr. Rajiv Bahl as a Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) cum- Secretary Department of Health Research (DHR) for 3 years.
The order of his appointment was issued by the Secretariat of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training, GoI. He will replace Dr. Balram Bhargava, who was appointed to the post in April 2018 for 4 years. Mr. Bahl currently serves as head of research in the maternal, newborn child, and adolescent Health-cum-Newborn unit of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.
15) Answer: C
The shareholders of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) approved the re-appointment of Mr. Dilip Asbe as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for 5 years with effect from Jan 8, 2023, to 7th Jan 2028.
The ten core promoter banks are State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, Bank of India, ICICI Bank Limited, HDFC Bank Limited, Citibank N. A., and HSBC.
16) Answer: C
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has developed an intelligent artificial limb, a 1.6 kg microprocessor-controlled knee (MPK).
It is expected to be cheaper by up to 10 times, benefitting above-knee amputees to walk with a comfortable gait. The MPKs is being developed by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD), Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya National Institute for Persons with Physical Disabilities (Divyangjan) (PDUNIPPD (D)), and Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO).
17) Answer: D
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18) Answer: C
United States actress Louise Fletcher Passed away at the age of 88.
She was awarded the Oscar in 1976 for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). She was also a recipient of a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for her roles in the television series Picket Fences (1996) and Joan of Arcadia (2004).
19) Answer: E
Dame Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga of historical novels, has Passed away at the age of 70.
Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for “Wolf Hall” in 2009 and its sequel “Bring Up the Bodies” in 2012. She was also honored with the Walter Scott Prize (2010, 2021) and Costa Novel Prize (2012). Her first novel ‘Every Day is Mother’s Day, was published in 1985. Her Notable works include Bring Up the Bodies, Fludd, and Beyond Black.
20) Answer: B
Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Nagaland