Current Affairs - 08 March to 14 March - 2019
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Question 1 |
Which tech giant has launched ‘Bolo’ app to tutor children to read in Hindi & English?
Google | |
Facebook | |
Microsoft | |
Infosys |
Question 2 |
Which state government has decided to teach ancient tribal language Gondi in tribal districts?
Rajasthan | |
Madhya Pradesh | |
Jharkhand | |
Bihar |
Question 3 |
Who is the head of the committee to review cases against tribals in naxal-hit areas of Chhattisgarh?
Vishweshwar Bhat | |
Kapil Mishra | |
A K Patnaik | |
Bijal Vachharajani |
Question 4 |
Where is the headquarters of National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG)?
Delhi | |
Pune | |
Chennai | |
Dehradun |
Question 5 |
“Al Nagah 2019” is the joint exercise between India and which of the following countries?
Iran | |
Israel | |
UAE | |
Oman |
Question 6 |
The Rice Knowledge Bank, which is in news recently, has been launched in which of the following states?
West Bengal | |
Jharkhand | |
Assam | |
Andhra Pradesh |
Question 7 |
Who has been conferred the first Atal Behari Vajpayee LTA by the Tripura Government?
Khagesh Dev Burman | |
Chandrakanta Murasingh | |
Gokulanada Gitiswami | |
Thanga Darlong |
Question 8 |
Which of the following IT companies has signed pact with the Andhra Pradesh government to build 3D printing centre in the state?
Hewlett Packard | |
Microsoft | |
Google | |
Wipro |
Question 9 |
Who has been nominated by India to head Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)?
Nandini Harinath | |
Ritu Karidhal | |
Trilochan Mohapatra | |
Ramesh Chand |
Question 10 |
How many science and technology missions have been identified under PM-STIAC?
9 | |
8 | |
7 | |
5 |
Question 11 |
Rome Statute, sometimes seen in news, is related to which of the following organizations?
International Criminal Court | |
Food and Agriculture Organization | |
UNIDO | |
World Bank |
Question 12 |
Which space agency has decided to carry out first all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS)?
NASA | |
Roscosmos | |
ISRO | |
JAXA |
Question 13 |
Who is the head of the Joint Working Group (JWG) which is formed by the IRDAI & NHA to curb fraud in Ayushman Bharat scheme?
Rajiv Kumar | |
Rajiv Kumar | |
Suresh Mathur | |
Dinesh Arora |
Question 14 |
Which Indian-American personality has been appointed as new UNDP Goodwill Ambassador?
Kal Penn | |
Alpana Singh | |
Padma Lakshmi | |
Mira Nair |
Question 15 |
What is the theme of the 2019 International Women’s Day (IWD)?
Women in the Changing World of Work | |
Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change | |
Equality for Women is Progress for All | |
Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality |
Question 16 |
Kiru Hydro Electric Project, which is in news recently, is located on which of the following rivers?
Chenab | |
Kaveri | |
Ganga | |
Narmada |
Question 17 |
Who will chair the National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage?
Amitabh Kant | |
Rajiv Kumar | |
Subhash Chandra Garg | |
Sanjay Mitra |
Question 18 |
Dr. Zhores Alferov, who passed away recently, was the physicist & Nobel Prize laureate of which country?
Russia | |
Japan | |
United States | |
France |
Question 19 |
What would be the funding pattern between Centre & North Eastern States for the newly approved Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP) scheme?
80:20 | |
70:30 | |
90:10 | |
60:40 |
Question 20 |
Who has been appointed new director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)?
Satheesh Reddy | |
Ajit Kumar Mohanty | |
Koppillil Radhakrishnan | |
P S Murthy |
Question 21 |
Who has been officially named as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records?
Kane Tanaka | |
Nabi Tajima | |
Violet Brown | |
Chiyo Miyako |
Question 22 |
Who is the head of the committee to formulate insurance cover for advocates?
Alok Srivastava | |
Tushar Mehta | |
Snehlata Shrivastava | |
Pramod Kumar Misra |
Question 23 |
Who led the Indian delegation at the first-ever India-Japan Space Dialogue in New Delhi?
Indra Mani Pandey | |
Desh Deepak Verma | |
Vinod Kumar Yadav | |
K. Vijay Raghavan |
Question 24 |
Who has become the first-ever Thari Hindu woman to be elected to the Senate of Pakistan?
Taniya Bhatia | |
Krishna Kumari Kohli | |
Ravi Kalpana | |
Ekta Bisht |
Question 25 |
The Centre of Excellence for European Union Studies in India (CEEUSI) has been inaugurated in which of the following universities?
IGNOU | |
Jamia Millia Islamia | |
Dr. Hari Singh Gour University | |
JNU |
Question 26 |
Who has been designated as the new Finance Secretary (FS) of India?
Atanu Chakraborty | |
Ajay Bhushan Pandey | |
Subhash Chandra Garg | |
Rajiv Kumar |
Question 27 |
The Principal Bench of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is located in which of the following cities?
Hyderabad | |
Delhi | |
Ahmedabad | |
Pune |
Question 28 |
Which of the following sports federation has recently recognized as India’s national sport federation?
Futsal | |
Carrom | |
Golf | |
Equestrian |
Question 29 |
Which state government has launched the Mukhyamantri Anchal Amrit Yojana?
Jharkhand | |
Uttarakhand | |
West Bengal | |
Odisha |
Question 30 |
Marayoor Jaggery, which recently got the GI Tag, is associated to which of the following states?
Kerala | |
Odisha | |
Karnataka | |
Tamil Nadu |
Question 31 |
Which Indian personality has been named Chief Scientist at WHO?
Mylswamy Annadurai | |
Subbiah Arunan | |
Moumita Dutta | |
Soumya Swaminathan |
Question 32 |
Which Indian defence lab has developed ‘combat drugs’ to reduce casualties in Pulwama type attacks?
INMAS, Delhi | |
IRDE, Dehradun | |
DTRL, Delhi | |
DRDL, Hyderabad |
Question 33 |
Kavinder Singh Bisht is associated with which sports?
Wrestling | |
Hockey | |
Football | |
Boxing |
Question 34 |
Who has been named the new Prime Minister of Palestine?
Rami Hamdallah | |
Salam Fayyad | |
Mohammad Shtayyeh | |
Mahmoud Abbas |
Question 35 |
The students of which IIT have devised solution to detect fake notes at Smart India Hackathon 2019?
IIT Bombay | |
IIT Kanpur | |
IIT Kharagpur | |
IIT Indore |
Question 36 |
India bagged first prize in which category at the international Golden City Gate Tourism Awards 2019?
Eco Tourism | |
TV Cinema Spot | |
TV Travel Magazine | |
Innovation |
Question 37 |
Who is the recipient of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize?
Peter Zumthor | |
Arata Isozaki | |
B V Doshi | |
Shigeru Ban |
Question 38 |
Who is the author of the book “Tiger Woman”?
Sirsho Bandopadhyay | |
Joy Goswami | |
Shahabuddin Nagari | |
Alokeranjan Dasgupta |
Question 39 |
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which sometimes seen in news, is associated to which of the following organizations?
CERN | |
ISRO | |
NASA | |
JAXA |
Question 40 |
Which country is organizing the 34th edition of Aahar 2019 – the International Food and Hospitality Fair?
Nepal | |
Japan | |
India | |
South Korea |
Question 41 |
Vinod Kashyap, who passed away recently, was the veteran personality of which field?
Science | |
Journalism | |
Sports | |
Law |
Question 42 |
Which country is hosting the 2019 SAFF Women’s Championship?
Nepal | |
Bangladesh | |
India | |
Sri Lanka |
Question 43 |
Which state government has recently approved 27% quota for OBCs?
Jharkhand | |
Uttar Pradesh | |
Rajasthan | |
Madhya Pradesh |
Question 44 |
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) works under which of the following union ministries?
Ministry of Defence | |
Ministry of Railways | |
Ministry of Law and Justice | |
Ministry of Home Affairs |
Question 45 |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), sometimes seen in news, is a robotic spacecraft of which of the following space agencies?
NASA | |
ISRO | |
JAXA | |
Roscosmos |
Question 46 |
The researchers of which institute have developed optical imaging system ‘DOLPHIN’ for finding tiny tumours?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Harvard University | |
University of Oxford |
Question 47 |
Who has been appointed as chairman of the ‘Ma Narmada, Ma Kshipra evam Ma Mandakini River Trust’ in Madhya Pradesh?
Aditya Joshi | |
Madhusudan Patidar | |
Varsha Varman | |
Namdev Tyagi |
Question 48 |
What is the theme of the World Kidney Day (WKD-2019)?
Kidney Disease and Obesity | |
Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere | |
Kidneys for Life – Stop Kidney Attack | |
Kidney Disease & Children: Act Early to Prevent It |
Question 49 |
Pinaka guided weapon rocket system, which is in news recently, is developed by which of the following organizations?
DIA | |
DRDO | |
BARC | |
VSSC |
Question 50 |
Which Indian sportsperson has been selected as Barbie role model?
Saina Nehwal | |
Dipa Karmakar | |
Mithali Raj | |
Mary Kom |
Question 51 |
Which country has become the largest arms importer in 2014–18, as per SIPRI’s latest report ‘Trends in International Arms Transfers-2018’?
Saudi Arabia | |
India | |
Australia | |
Pakistan |
Question 52 |
Which space observatory has been used by Indian astronomers to identify a new group of stars in the globular cluster NGC 2808?
Euclid | |
AstroSat | |
IXPE | |
Athena |
Question 53 |
Which Indian economist is the recipient of the Yaswantrao Chavan National Award 2018?
D. Subbarao | |
Shaktikanta Das | |
Raghuram Rajan | |
Urjit Patel |
Question 54 |
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched new Global Influenza Strategy for which of the following periods?
2019-2030 | |
2020-2025 | |
2022-2035 | |
2019-2025 |
Question 55 |
India’s first LGBTQ clinic and HIV treatment centre has inaugurated in which of the following cities?
Delhi | |
Mumbai | |
Hyderabad | |
Chennai |
Question 56 |
Who is the recipient of Kusumagraj literature award?
Ved Rahi | |
Jeet Thayil | |
Dilip Chitre | |
K. Srilata |
Question 57 |
What is the India’s position in gold holding, as per the latest report by the World Gold Council (WGC)?
15th | |
19th | |
10th | |
11th |
Question 58 |
Nice Agreement, sometimes seen in news, is related to which of the following fields?
Chind Education | |
Sports | |
Space Exploraion | |
Intellectual Property |
Question 59 |
The 14th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership is being organized by which of the following union ministries?
Ministry of External Affairs | |
Ministry of Corporate Affairs | |
Ministry of Finance | |
Ministry of Commerce & Industry |
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