1. How much amount of financial outlay has been approved for a new Mission on Oil palm known as the National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) by the centre?
A) Rs 16,030 crore
B) Rs 11,040 crore
C) Rs 12,860 crore
D) Rs 13,980 crore
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- Answer: B
2. With which of the following the Ministry of Tourism signed a MoU in a bid to strengthen the hospitality and tourism industry especially in the times of the pandemic?
A) MakeMyTrip and IBIBO
B) Ease my Trip and MakeMyTrip
C) IBIBO and Yatra
D) Yatra and Cleartrip
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- Answer: A
3. Which state government has launched a comprehensive Talent Search Campaign in the field of sports?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Gujarat
C) Himachal Pradesh
D) Haryana
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- Answer: A
4. Whose voice Amazon India has introduced for its Amazon Echo’s Alexa device?
A) Karan Johar
B) Ranveer Singh
C) Shahrukh Khan
D) Amitabh Bachchan
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- Answer: D
5. Which city roped in comic book icon Chacha Chaudhary for its social media campaign?
A) Jaipur
B) Faridabad
C) Gurgaon
D) Agra
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- Answer: B
6. Where did NTPC Limited commission the largest floating solar PV project of 25 MegaWatt?
A) Rajasthan
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Odisha
D) Madhya Pradesh
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- Answer: B
7. Which state has celebrated Thiruvonam on 21st August, the most important day of the Onam festival?
A) Kerala
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Maharashtra
D) Karnataka
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- Answer: A
8. For which of the following the Supreme Court issued an interim order allowing them to take the National Defence Academy exam which is scheduled on September 5, 2021?
A) Students of other nations
B) Tribal people
C) Transgenders
D) Women
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- Answer: D
9. Where did the State Bank of India inaugurate a floating ATM?
A) Nigeen Lake
B) Dal Lake
C) Wular Lake
D) Jhelum River
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- Answer: B
10. Where did the NABARD extend a grant of ₹24.90 lakh for a project on Integrated Mangrove Fishery Farming System (IMFFS)?
A) Kakinada
B) Balasore
C) Cuddalore
D) Kochi
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- Answer: C
11. Which state has become the first in the country to officially implement the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020?
A) Gujarat
B) Haryana
C) Odisha
D) Karnataka
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- Answer: D
12. How much worth amount required for National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), a four-year pipeline for those infrastructure assets that the government plans to monetise?
A) Rs. 3 Lakh Crore
B) Rs. 7 Lakh Crore
C) Rs. 6 Lakh Crore
D) Rs. 9 Lakh Crore
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- Answer: C
13. Where did the India and Vietnam Navies carry out bilateral maritime exercise?
A) Indian Ocean
B) South China Sea
C) Arabian Sea
D) Mediterranean Sea
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- Answer: B
14. Which Indian Navy Ship (INS) has participated in the four-day Maritime Partnership Exercise in Bahrain?
A) INS Kochi
B) INS Viraat
C) INS Chennai
D) INS Vikrant
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- Answer: A
15. Which country topped the global cryptocurrency adoption index as per Global Crypto Adoption Index by blockchain data platform Chainalysis?
A) India
B) Cambodia
C) China
D) Vietnam
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- Answer: D
16. Which of the following signed an agreement for cooperation in remote sensing satellite data sharing, according to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)?
A) APAC countries
B) G20 countries
C) BRICS countries
D) G7 countries
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- Answer: C
17. Which state has signed a MoU with Corsight AI, an Israel-based company to set up an Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence at a Tech City situated in the state?
A) Sikkim
B) Assam
C) Manipur
D) Meghalaya
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- Answer: B
18. With which country’s navy the Indian navy participated in the second edition of the joint naval exercise, Zair-Al-Bahr?
A) Egypt
B) Israel
C) Oman
D) Qatar
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- Answer: D
19. Which country will host the second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) in October 2022?
A) India
B) Japan
C) USA
D) Singapore
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- Answer: A
20. At which position India emerged as the most sought-after manufacturing destination across the world according to Cushman and Wakefield’s 2021 Global Manufacturing Risk Index?
A) First
B) Third
C) Second
D) Fourth
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- Answer: C
21. Which city is at the bottom of the 2021 Safe Cities Index, published by Economist Intelligence Unit?
A) Copenhagen
B) Toronto
C) Yangon
D) New Delhi
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- Answer: C
22. Where was the fifth edition of Indo- Kazakhstan Joint Training Exercise, KAZIND-21 conducted?
A) Aisha Bibi
B) Nur Sultan
C) Ukasha Ata
D) Almaty
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- Answer: A
23. At which position India ranked in the UNICEF’s ‘The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index’ [CCRI]?
A) 26th
B) 23rd
C) 34th
D) 33rd
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- Answer: A
24. Which company became the second in the country to cross the market capitalisation of Rs 13 lakh crore for first time?
A) Infosys
B) HCL
C) TCS
D) Reliance Industries
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- Answer: C
25. With which of the following the Universal Service Obligation Fund has signed an agreement for hiring of 10 Gbps International Bandwidth for Internet Connectivity to Agartala from Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited?
A) BSNL
B) MTNL
C) Vodafone Idea
D) Airtel
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- Answer: A
26. Which of the following has extended over Rs 550 crore debt support to IndoSpace logistics fund to develop logistics and industrial parks in India?
A) Asian Development Bank
B) Institute of International Finance
C) International Finance Corporation
D) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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- Answer: C
27. Under the purview of which department the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NABFID) has been place by the Union government?
A) Department of Financial Services
B) Department of Revenue
C) Department of Economic Affairs
D) Department of Commerce
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- Answer: A
28. Which of the following has launched a new Cybersecurity Multi-Donor Trust Fund under its broader Digital Development Partnership (DDP) umbrella programme?
A) World Bank
B) International Monetary Fund
C) Asian Development Bank
D) BRICS New Development Bank
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- Answer: A
29. To what percent India Ratings and Research (Ind Ra) has revised its GDP growth forecast upwards for FY2021-22?
A) 9.1%
B) 9.9%
C) 9.5%
D) 9.4%
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- Answer: D
30. Which of the following launched a new programme called the “Small Business Loans Initiative”, in partnership with online lending platform Indifi?
A) LinkedIn
B) Microsoft
C) Facebook
D) Google
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- Answer: C
31. Which company lead the list of 500 most valuable firms in the world as per by Hurun Global?
A) Tencent
B) Apple
C) Microsoft
D) Amazon
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- Answer: B
32. With which foreign bank the NPCI International Payments Ltd. has partnered to provide its mobile-based real-time payment system UPI in that foreign country?
A) Mashreq Bank - UAE
B) BNP Paribas - France
C) Deutsche Bank - Germany
D) Bank of Ceylon – Sri Lanka
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- Answer: A
33. Which bank became the first USA bank to have received a license from the IFSC Authority to set up its banking unit at India’s first International Financial Services Centre at GIFT City, Gujarat?
A) TD Bank
B) Bank of America
C) Barclays bank
D) Citibank
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- Answer: D
34. Which institute will collaborate with Road Transport Ministry on pavement engineering and intelligent transportation systems?
A) IISc Bengaluru
B) IIT Bombay
C) IIT Madras
D) DRDO
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- Answer: C
35. Where is the India’s very first Solar Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station inaugurated?
A) New Delhi
B) Chennai
C) Karnal
D) Vishakhapatnam
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- Answer: C
36. In which district the highest altitude herbal park of India, situated at a height of 11,000 feet was inaugurated?
A) Leh - Ladakh
B) Srinagar – Jammu & Kashmir
C) Chamoli - Uttarakhand
D) Spiti Valley – Himachal Pradesh
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- Answer: C
37. How much of air per second India’s first smog tower will purify in Delhi within a radius of around 1 km which was recently launched?
A) 1,000 cubic metres
B) 2,000 cubic metres
C) 3,000 cubic metres
D) 4,000 cubic metres
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- Answer: A
38. Which of the following launched Urja, a virtual assistant with AI/NLP (Artificial Intelligence/Natural Language Processing) capabilities and trained on more than 600 use cases?
A) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
B) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
C) Indian Oil Corporation
D) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
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- Answer: B
39. With which of the following Intel India collaborated to launch Plugin Alliance, a first-of-its-kind industry-technology grouping with a focus on accelerating Industry 4.0 transformation in India?
A) IIT Roorkee
B) IIT Guwahati
C) IIT Madras
D) IIT Bombay
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- Answer: D
40. How many more additional earthquake Observatories will be there by the end of 2021, as announced by Union Minister for Earth Sciences Dr Jitendra Singh?
A) 50
B) 35
C) 45
D) 40
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- Answer: B
41. Which institute developed India’s first indigenous motorised wheelchair vehicle, NeoBolt, which can be used even on uneven terrains?
A) IIT Chennai
B) IIT Madras
C) IIT Roorkee
D) IIT Kanpur
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- Answer: B
42. What is the name of the new geospatial planning portal launched by the government that will help in facilitating new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system-based data?
A) Sanyukta
B) Yuktdhara
C) Sampoorna
D) Bhuvan
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- Answer: B
43. Where is the world’s first fossil-free steel manufactured?
A) Finland
B) Sweden
C) Italy
D) Denmark
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- Answer: B
44. With which of the following NITI Aayog jointly launched the ‘Forum for Decarbonizing Transport’ in India as part of the NDC-Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA) project?
A) The Nature Conservancy
B) Environmental Defense Fund
C) Center for Global Development
D) World Resources Institute
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- Answer: D
45. Who announced himself as the caretaker president of Afghanistan?
A) Hamza bin Laden
B) Abdul Ghani Baradar
C) Amrullah Saleh
D) Jalaluddin Haqqani
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- Answer: C
46. Who has been elected as the President of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) society?
A) Suresh Narayan
B) Satish Gaba
C) NK Singh
D) KD Bhandari
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- Answer: C
47. Who is the head of the committee constituted by union government for doubling the production and quadrupling the exports of handlooms in a span of three years?
A) Munesh Awasthi
B) Rakesh Khanna
C) Sunil Sethi
D) Vivek Kamra
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- Answer: C
48. Who has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Bank?
A) Sandeep Shekhawat
B) Pavan Kumar Singh
C) Ramesh Jain
D) Shanti Lal Jain
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- Answer: D
49. Who has resigned from the post of managing director and chief executive officer (MD&CEO) of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank?
A) Nitin Chugh
B) Jatin Chugh
C) Veerendra Singh
D) Pushpendra Basar
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- Answer: A
50. Who was appointed as the governor of Manipur?
A) Vinayak Ganesan
B) Tamilisai Soundararajan
C) La Ganesan
D) Banwarilal Purohit
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- Answer: C
51. Who has been appointed as the prime minister of Malaysia?
A) Ismail Sabri Yaakob
B) Haji Mahiaddin bin Yasin
C) Anwar bin Ibrahim
D) Khairy Jamaluddin
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- Answer: A
52. Who is appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Broadcast Audience Research Council India (BARC), the industry TV viewership measurement body?
A) Chunmun Das
B) Ketan Gupta
C) Rajiv Bansal
D) Nakul Chopra
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- Answer: D
53. Who is appointed as joint secretary in the Ministry of Cooperation?
A) Abhay Kumar Singh
B) Rajeev Porwal
C) Amit Dubey
D) Ravi Shankar Prasad
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- Answer: A
54. Where will the 2021 edition of the World Athletics U20 Championships be held?
A) Sydney, Australia
B) Nairobi, Kenya
C) Jakarta, Indonesia
D) Manama, Bahrain
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- Answer: B
55. Where will the country’s largest hockey stadium be completed till July 2022?
A) Bhilai
B) Bhubaneswar
C) Rourkela
D) Puri
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- Answer: C
56. Who was the India’s flag-bearer during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics 2020?
A) Amit Mariyappan
B) Ravi Prasad
C) Thangavelu Mariyappan
D) Tek Chand
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- Answer: D
57. Who became the first Indian to be part of an NBA title winning team?
A) Harpreet Singh
B) Princepal Singh
C) Anil Singh
D) Govind Kumar
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- Answer: B
58. When was World Humanitarian Day observed?
A) August 16
B) August 17
C) August 18
D) August 19
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- Answer: D
59. When was World Photography Day observed?
A) August 19
B) August 16
C) August 21
D) August 18
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- Answer: A
60. When was ‘Sadbhavana Diwas’ or Harmony Day’ observed to mark the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi?
A) August 22
B) August 20
C) August 26
D) August 18
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- Answer: B
61. When was Akshay Urja Diwas celebrated in India to create awareness about the importance of renewable resources of energy?
A) 09 February
B) 20 August
C) 11 August
D) 25 March
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- Answer: B
62. When was World Senior Citizen’s Day observed?
A) August 21
B) August 25
C) August 23
D) August 24
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- Answer: A
63. When was World Entrepreneurs’ Day celebrated?
A) 15 December
B) 11 Aug
C) 21 Aug
D) 07 March
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- Answer: C
64. When was World Sanskrit Day celebrated?
A) August 18
B) August 21
C) August 25
D) August 22
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- Answer: D
65. What was the theme of World Water Week 2021 which was organized from 23 to 27 August 2021?
A) Building Resilience Faster
B) Water and Climate Change: Accelerating Action
C) Water for society – Including all
D) Water, Ecosystems and Human Development
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- Answer: A
66. Who is the author of the book titled ‘Operation Khukri’?
A) Shrishti Punia
B) Shweta Punia
C) Damini Punia
D) Kamlesh Punia
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- Answer: C
67. Along with whom Boria Majumdar authored the book titled ‘Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest‘?
A) Pritam Goswami
B) Kushan Sarkar
C) Kumar Ramesh
D) Rajib Saxena
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- Answer: B
68. Which university secured first position in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released by Shanghai Ranking recently?
A) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B) University of Cambridge
C) Stanford University
D) Harvard University
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- Answer: D
69. Who has written the book titled ‘Battlefield?
A) Robert
B) Andrew
C) Vishram Bedekar
D) Naresh Kumar
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- Answer: C
70. Who is the author of the book ‘Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID’?
A) Surbhi Chopra
B) Ritu Menon
C) Shweta Sabharwal
D) Ragini Gupta
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- Answer: B
71. Who has written the book titled ‘Let’s Go Time Travelling Again’?
A) Mangalam Sinha
B) Gopi Nath
C) Ram Shankar
D) Subhadra Sen Gupta
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- Answer: D
72. Which state government conferred the prestigious Sri Basava International Award on Sri Basavaliga Pattaddevaru, senior seer of Bhalki Hiremath?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Karnataka
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Rajasthan
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- Answer: B
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