Current Affairs : 16th June, 2020 to 22th June, 2020

1. Which of the following countries have ranked top in the recently released World Competitiveness Index 2020 by Institute for Management Development?

a) Switzerland

b) Denmark

c) Singapore

d) India

 2. What is the rank of India in the recently released World Competitiveness Index 2020 by Institute for Management Development?

a) 14

b) 23

c) 52

d) 43

3. Which of the following has become the top state in India to provide Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA)?

a) Assam

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Bihar

d) Gujarat

4. How much man-days has been generated by the Uttar Pradesh Government through MGNREGA?

a) 7.26 crore

b) 9.12 crore

c) 7.93 crore

d) 5.36 crore

5. Which of the following countries have ranked top in the recently released Nature Index Table 2020?

a) United States of America

b) India

c) Germany

d) Japan

6. What is the rank of India in the recently released Nature Index Table 2020?

a) 13

b) 22

c) 33

d) 12

7. Which of the following State Government have launched the ‘Ghar Ghar Nigrani’ mobile application (app) to check the community spread of COVID-19?

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Punjab

c) Rajasthan

d) Bihar

8. Which of the following State Government have launched the job portal ‘Karmo Bhumi’ for IT professionals who have returned to the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic so that they can connect with companies based in the state?

a) Assam

b) West Bengal

c) Odisha

d) Tripura

9. In which of the following state a new fish species named as ‘Schizothorax’ has been discovered by Dr. Keshav Kumar Jha?

a) Arunachal Pradesh

b) Mizoram

c) Manipur

d) Nagaland

10. ‘Raja Parba’ festival is celebrated in which state?

a) Bihar

b) Maharastra

c) Kerala

d) Odisha

11. On which day Karnataka Government observed the ‘Mask Day’ to aware the people about the use of masks, sanitizers, washing hands with soap in order to control the spread of COVID-19 in the state?

(a) 18 June, 2020

(b) 16 June, 2020

(c) 21 June, 2020

(d) 22 June, 2020

12. Which Indian bank has introduced an online overdraft (od) facility ‘Insta FlexiCash’ for its salary account customers?

(a) HDFC Bank

(b) State Bank of India

(c) Axis Bank

(d) ICICI Bank

13. Which general life insurance company has partnered with UK based tech firm TropoGo Limited to launch India’s first ‘Pay as you Fly’ insurance for drone-owners in India?

(a) HDFC ERGO General Insurance

(b) ICICI Lombard General Insurance

(c) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

(d) Kotak Mahindra General Insurance

14. Which Indian finance company has launched a special affordable housing loan scheme ‘SARAL’ to fund homes in urban and rural areas?

(a) Mahindra Finance

(b) LIC Housing Finance

(c) ICICI Home Finance

(d) Muthoot Finance

15. Who won the World Stars Sharjah Online International Chess Championship?

(a) Pentala Harikrishna

(b) Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

(c) Radoslaw Wojtaszek 

(d) Salem Abdulrahman Mohamed Saleh

16. On which day the ‘World Blood Donor Day’ is observed globally?

(a) 20 June

(b) 22 June

(c) 14 June

(d) 17 June

17. Which bollywood actor has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Bihar Khadi by the state government?

(a) Manoj Bajpayee

(b) Sanjay Mishra

(c) Sekhar Suman

(d) Pankaj Tripathi

18. An Artificial Intelligence enabled robot ‘Captain Arjun’ has been launched by which zone of Indian Railways?

(a) Eastern

(b) Northern

(c) Southern

(d) Central

19. Which of the following sportspersons has been signed as brand ambassadors of JSW Cement?

(a) Sourav Ganguly & Sunil Chetri

(b) Hima Das & Mary Kom

(c) Sachin Tendulkar & Mahesh Bhupathi

(d) Saina Nehwal & Vijendar Singh

20. Who is the Prime Minister of New Zealand?

(a) Justin Trudeau

(b) Jacinda Ardern

(c) Nicola Sturgeon

(d) Leo Varadkar

 

Answers:

1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (d) 11. (a) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (d) 19. (a) 20. (b)