CURRENT AFFAIRS
18 AUGUST, 2020 TO 24 AUGUST, 2020
1. What
amount has been sanctioned by the Government of India for the National
Recruitment Agency (NRA)?
(a) Rs. 1500.60 crore
(b) Rs. 1517.57 crore
(c) Rs. 1623.30 crore
(d) Rs. 1450.73 crore
Answer:
(b)
2. Which
of the following institutes has top ranked in the recently released ‘Atal
Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA)’?
(a) IIT Madras
(b) IIT Kharagpur
(c) IIT Bombay
(d) IIT Guwahati
Answer:
(a)
3. Which
city has become the cleanest city in the recently announced Swachh Survekshan
2020 awards?
(a) Mumbai
(b) Patna
(c) Madurai
(d) Indore
Answer:
(d)
4. Which
city has become the cleanest city of the North East India in the recently
announced Swachh Survekshan 2020 awards?
(a) Tezpur
(b) Shillong
(c) Jorhat
(d) Dimapur
Answer:
(c)
5. Which
of the following cricketers will be awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
in the National Sports Awards 2020?
(a) Rohit Sharma
(b) Virat Kohli
(c) Hardik Pandya
(d) Ishant Sharma
Answer:
(a)
6. Which
of the following boxers will be awarded the Arjuna Award in the National Sports
Awards 2020?
(a) Jamuna Bora
(b) Ankushita Boro
(c) Shiva Thapa
(d) Lovlina Borgohain
Answer:
(d)
7. Which
of the following state governments has launched ‘Yellow Chain’, a centralised
e-commerce system to provide the people of the state integrated platform to
build sustainable businesses either in products or services from their own
locations for sustainable economic activity?
(a) Nagaland
(b) Tripura
(c) Mizoram
(d) Arunachal Pradesh
Answer:
(a)
8. Which
of the following state governments has announced to launch a student centric
scheme named ‘Padhai Tuhar Para’ to enable the school students to study with
the help of community in their localities and villages, in view of the
suspension of classes due COVID-19 pandemic?
(a) Jharkhand
(b) Odisha
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Chhattisgarh
Answer:
(d)
9. Who
has become the President of Dominican Republic?
(a) Luis Abinader
(b) Andrew Holness
Answer:
(a)
10. Who
has become the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for the second consecutive
term?
(a) Moses Nagamootoo
(b) Keith Rowley
(c) Mia Mottley
(d) Keith Mitchell
Answer:
(b)
11. Who
has become the Prime Minister of Republic of Equatorial Guinea for the third
consecutive term?
(a) Sylvestre Ilunga
(b) Joseph Ngute
(c) Rose Christiane
Ossouka Raponda
(d) Francisco Pascual
Obama Asue
Answer:
(d)
12. E-commerce
platform ‘Flipkart’ has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with which
of the following institutes to encourage industry focused applied research in
the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP)
and Machine Learning (ML)?
(a) IIT Guwahati
(b) IIT Madras
(c) IIT Patna
(d) IIT Bombay
Answer:
(c)
13. Which
of the following state governments has signed a ‘plan of cooperation’ with
Israel government to resolve water crisis in Bundelkhand region?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Gujarat
(d) Bihar
Answer:
(b)
14. Which
of the following banks has launched a campaign named ‘Digital Apnayen’ to
encourage customers to use digital banking channels?
(a) Punjab National Bank
(b) Bank of Baroda
(c) State Bank of India
(d) Allahabad Bank
Answer:
(a)
15. Which
of the following banks has launched ‘Shaurya KGC Card’ for Indian armed forces
personnel to offer agriculture loans for military and paramilitary
professionals?
(a) ICICI Bank
(b) Axis Bank
(c) IDBI Bank
(d) HDFC Bank
Answer:
(d)
16. Who
has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of GoAir Airline?
(a) Kaushik Khona
(b) Rono Dutta
(c) Ajay Singh
(d) Vinay Dube
Answer:
(a)
17. Who
among the following has been appointed as the brand ambassador of eBikeGo, an
e-mobility start-up based in Amritsar?
(a) Yuvraj Singh
(b) Harpreet Singh
(c) Harbhajan Singh
(d) Vijendar Singh
Answer:
(c)
18. Who
has been appointed as the Director-General of Border Security Force (BSF)?
(a) Rakesh Asthane
(b) Kumar Rajesh Chandra
(c) A.P. Maheshwari
(d) Arun Kumar
Answer:
(a)
19. Who
has appointed as the Governor of Meghalaya?
(a) Ramesh Bais
(c) Ganga Prasad
(d) Satya Pal Malik
Answer:
(d)
20. When
is the World Photography Day observed?
(a) 18 August
(b) 19 August
(c) 20 August
(d) 21 August
Answer:
(b)
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