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1) The International Childhood Cancer Day has been observed on 15th February every year. This annual event was created in which year?
(a) 2000
(b) 2001
(c) 2002
(d) 2003
(e) 2004
2) The Government has launched the scheme for economic empowerment for DNTs in New Delhi. What is the full form of DNTs?
(a) De-Notified Tribes
(b) De-Nationalized Tribes
(c) De-Nominated Tribes
(d) Development of National Tribes
(e) Development of Nominated Tribes
3) Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved a Milestone of Providing Tap Water to _______ Crore Rural Homes.
(a) 6 Crore
(b)7 Crore
(c)8 Crore
(d)9 Crore
(e)10 Crore
4) Arjun Ram Meghwal has launched the Career Counselling Workshop. It is named ________.
(a) Rajmarsh 2022
(b)Pramarsh 2022
(c) Career 2022
(d) Counselling 2022
(e) Kaamarsh 2022
5) NITI Aayog in association with which payment company has launched the Fintech Open Hackathon?
(a) Paytm
(b) BharatPe
(c) PhonePe
(d) Paypal
(e) Google Pay
6) The Cabinet has approved the preparations for India’s G20 Presidency and staffing of the G20 Secretariat. India will hold the G20 summit in which year?
(a) 2023
(b) 2024
(c) 2025
(d) 2026
(e) 2027
7) Name the booklet which released during the meeting the 58th meeting of Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Commit under PMAY(U).
(a) Transformation towards Housing for All
(b) Housing for all within 2025
(c) Housing for all under Modi Government
(d) Reforms on Housing
(e) Transformative Reforms towards Housing for All
8) The Delhi Tourism has facilitated Mughal Garden visits via application. What is the name of the application?
(a)Mera Delhi
(b)Dekho Meri Dilli
(c) Dekho Parks
(d) Eco Delhi
(e) Dekho Mera Delhi
9) Jaisalmer Desert Festival, a famous festival in which village of Rajasthan has begun?
(a)Ramkunda Village
(b)Phoolasar Village
(c)Pokaran village
(d)Chaudhariya Village
(e)Fatehgarh Village
10) Which payment service has announced its integration with Big Commerce to boost SMB digitalization?
(a) PayPal
(b) Paytm
(c) PhonePe
(d) Gpay
(e) PayU
11) Which Indian Private Sector Bank & UNANU Technologies has tied-up for digital freight finance to fund transport contractors?
(a) DBS Bank
(b) KVB Bank
(c) TMB Bank
(d) Dhanlakshmi Bank
(e) Karnataka Bank
12) DMI Finance has set to provide digital personal loans to Google Pay users. The programme will disburse up to Rs._____________ Lakh per loan.
(a)Rs 1 lakh
(b) Rs 2 lakh
(c)Rs 3 lakh
(d) Rs 4 lakh
(e) Rs 5 lakh
13) Which of the following organization has been appointed Vineet Joshi as its new chairman?
(a)University Grants Commission
(b)National Council of Educational Research and Training
(c)Central Board of Secondary Education
(d)National Medical Commission
(e)The Institution of Engineers
14) Who among the following has won the Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21?
(a) Amitabh Chaudhry
(b)Shyam Srinivasan
(c)Sashidhar Jagdishan
(d)Sandeep Bakhshi
(e)Uday Kotak
15) LKP Securities Ltd has entered into an arrangement with _________ Bank to offer a special 3-in-1 online account.
(a) Axis Bank
(b) HSBC Bank
(c) RBL Bank
(d) DBS Bank
(e)HDFC Bank
16) Which state Government has signed a MoU with QX Global group for the holistic development of the IT in the state?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Gujarat
(c) Haryana
(d)Telangana
(e) Karnataka
17) Vedanta has signed amemorandum of understanding with Foxconn to manufacture ____________ in India.
(a) Copper Wires
(b) Bike Engines
(c) Amplifiers
(d) Semi Conductors
(e) Mobile Processors
18) Which Indian armed force would conduct its First Hackathon Sainya Ranakshetram?
(a) Indian Army
(b) Indian Navy
(c) Indian Air Force
(d)Both (a) & (b)
(e) Both (a) & (c)
19) Which edition of India-Maldives Defence Cooperation Dialogue held recently in Maldives?
(a) 2nd
(b) 3rd
(c) 4th
(d) 5th
(e) 6th
20) Which Indian government owned enterprise has bagged an order to supply compact heat exchanger sets for Tejas aircraft?
(a)Defence Research and Development Organisation
(b)Bharat Dynamics Limited
(c)Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited
(d)Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
(e)Bharat Electronics Limited
21) Strict anti-doxxing policies have been recently launched by which social media giant?
(a) Meta
(b) Gmail
(c) Meta
(d)Youtube
(e) Telegram
22) The Ministry of Finance has granted__________ crore to Urban Local Bodies of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, and Sikkim.
(a) Rs 1154.20 crore
(b) Rs 1154.90 crore
(c) Rs 1154.50 crore
(d) Rs 1154.70 crore
(e)Rs 1154.90 crore
23) Heather Knight has been votedas ICC Women Players of the Month for January. She belongs to which country cricket team?
(a) South Africa
(b) England
(c) New Zealand
(d) Australia
(e) West Indies
24) Rafael Nadal has won Australian Open Tennis 2022 held at Melbourne, Australia. This is his ________ Grand Slam title.
(a) 18th
(b) 19th
(c)20th
(d) 21st
(e) 22nd
25) Who among the following has won theICC Men’s Players of the Month for January?
(a)Keegan Petersen
(b)Dewald Brevi
(c)Ebadot Hossain
(d)Chamari Athapaththu
(e)Deandra Dottin
26) Bappi Lahiri passed away at a Mumbai hospital. He was a _______________.
(a) Actor
(b) Music Composer
(c) Environmentalist
(d) Journalist
(e) Athlete
27) Sandhya Mukherjee passed away at 91. She was a well-known ________________.
(a) Actress
(b) Politician
(c) Singer
(d) Doctor
(e) Entrepreneur
28) Who has won women singles in Australian Open Tennis 2022 held at Melbourne, Australia?
(a) Danielle Rose Collins
(b)Madison Keys
(c)Iga Swiatek
(d)Naomi Osaka
(e) Ashleigh Barty
29) What is the current Cash Reserve Ratio of RBI’s 6th and the last Monetary Policy Committee?
(a) 3.50 %
(b) 3.75 %
(c) 3.95 %
(d) 4.00 %
(e) 4.15 %
30) What is the current interest rate of Kisan VikasPatra?
(a) 7.1%
(b) 6.8%
(c) 6.9%
(d) 7.6%
(e) 7.4%
Answers :
1) Answer: B
International Childhood Cancer Day is observed on 15th February Every year is a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer, and to express support for children and adolescents with cancer, the survivors and their families.
The second year of three-year campaign for ICCD (2021-2023) under the theme of ‘Better Survival is achievable #throughyourhands Right care at the right time by the right team” is underway and with your support we are going to celebrate this important milestone on 15th of February in collaboration with CCI.
This annual event was created in 2002 by Childhood Cancer International.
2) Answer: A
Government has launched a Scheme for Economic Empowerment for DNTs, SEED for the welfare of De-notified, Nomadic and semi-nomadic communities in New Delhi.
De-notified Tribes communities are the most neglected, marginalized and economically and socially deprived communities.
Historically, these communities never had access to private land or home ownership and used forests and grazing lands as a mean for their livelihood and residential use.
This scheme with free education opportunity, health insurance worth five lakh rupees under Ayushman Bharat
3) Answer: D
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of providing clean tap water to every home in the country by 2024, in a short span of two and half years and despite COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown disruptions, Jal Jeevan Mission, has provided tap water supply to more than 5.77 Crore rural households.
As a result, 9 Crore rural households in the country are enjoying benefits of clean tap water supply.
4) Answer: B
The Minister of State for Culture & Parliamentary Affairs Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal launched the career counselling workshop’Pramarsh 2022′ for the students of the Bikaner, Rajasthan
In this workshop one lakh students participated from more than thousands of schools of Bikaner district mainly from rural area.
Workshop conducted with the support of The National Institute of Career Services (NICS) which comes under the Ministry of Labour & Employment and educational start-up Edumilestones.
5) Answer: C
NITI Aayog in association with PhonePe will be hosting the first-ever open-to-all Hackathon event for ideating and coming up with the most creative solutions for the FinTech space.
The Hackathon will provide an opportunity for innovators, digital creators and developers from all over India to think, ideate and code
Participants at the hackathon need to use any open-data APIs like PhonePe Pulse
6) Answer: A
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the setting up of a G20 Secretariat and its reporting structures, which will be responsible for implementation of overall policy decisions and arrangements needed for steering India’s forthcoming G20 Presidency.
India will hold the Presidency of the G20 from 1 December 2022 to 30 November 2023, culminating with the G20 Summit in India in 2023.
7) Answer: E
Project proposals for more than 60,000 houses were approved for construction in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan at the 58th meeting of Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
The meeting, held in video conference mode, was chaired by Shri Manoj Joshi, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
The total investment under the Mission is ₹ 7.52 Lakh crore, with Central Assistance of ₹ 1.87 Lakh Cr. So far, Central Assistance amounting to ₹ 1.21 Lakh Cr has already been released.
A booklet on ‘Transformative Reforms Towards Housing for All’ was also released by Secretary, MoHUA.
8) Answer: B
Delhi government’s mobile app Dekho Meri Dilli can now be used to book a visit to Mughal Garden and other major tourist spots.
The app will provide users with a link to the Mughal Garden ticketing site and help them with details such as how to reach the area and what facilities are available nearby.
The app was launched by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on September 27 2021.
Recently the app added details of the biodiversity parks developed and maintained by Delhi Development Authority and the Bharat Darshan Park developed by South Delhi Municipal Corporation to give users a holistic experience of Delhi.
9) Answer: C
The world-famous Jaisalmer Desert Festival, also known as Maru Mahotsav of the Golden City began at Pokaran village in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan from 13 to 16 February 2022.
To showcase the rich cultural heritage of Rajasthan.
The four-day-long festival started with a colourful grand procession followed by Miss Pokaran and Mister Pokran competitions.
Rajasthan Minority Affairs Minister, Shale Mohammad flagged off the event
10) Answer: E
PayU announced its integration with BigCommerce, an Open SaaS e-commerce platform for fast-growing and established brands.
PayU can provide payment infrastructure & solutions to BigCommerce’s small-to-medium-sized merchants in India.
The BigCommerce platform provides e-commerce services to retailers, including online store creation, search engine optimization, hosting, marketing and security.
Businesses can directly integrate their BigCommerce store with PayU to offer India-specific online payment methods like UPI and more.
11) Answer: B
Karur Vysya Bank has joined hands with the Chennai-based UNANU Technologies for digital freight finance to fund transport contractors using the end-to-end logistics technology platform.
KVB is the first bank to introduce digital freight financing through marketplace in the banking sector.
UNANU has built the Freight Financing System within their suite of software platforms.
Using the module “U-Turbo – a marketplace”, one can on-board logistics companies and shippers to Freight Financing programme.
12) Answer: A
DMI Finance, a credit platform, announced the launch of a personal loan product on Google Pay to offer credit to pre-qualified users of the digital wallet platform.
This product leverages the dual advantages of Google Pay’s customer experience and the digital loan disbursal process of DMI.
It will also help bring new-to-credit users into the ambit.
The programme will disburse up to Rs 1 lakh per loan which would be repayable over a maximum of 36 months.
This partnership is being launched in over 15,000 pin codes.
13) Answer: C
According to the order released by the Ministry of Education’s Department of School Education and Literacy, IAS Vineet Joshi, Additional Secretary, Department of Higher Education, has been appointed as new chairman of Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE with effect from Feb 14, 2022.
Joshi would be replacing IAS Manoj Ahuja.
14) Answer: D
Sandeep Bakhshi, managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of ICICI Bank, is the Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21.
The unanimous decision was taken by a high-profile jury of five, chaired by former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor S S Mundra.
15) Answer: E
LKP Securities Ltd has entered into an arrangement with HDFC Bank Ltd to offer a special 3-in-1 online account.
Under this facility, customers of LKP Securities Ltd. can complete thier bank account opening formalities and gain added benefits of broking and demat account.
The 3-in-1 account offers a host of benefits including no annual maintenance charges (AMC) for one year from the trading account opening date and waiver on brokerage charges of up to Rs 500 for one month from the date of demat account opening.
The demat and trading accounts also provide the facility to trade in other segments like commodities and currency.
16) Answer: B
The Gujarat government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with global business process management company QX Global Group Limited, for the holistic development of the IT and ITeS sector in the State.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.
Under the MoU, signed in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, around 2,000 jobs will be generated in the IT sector.
The Gujarat government’s Department of Science and Technology had announced a new IT/ ITeS policy for the next five years in a push to develop a robust ecosystem for the IT and digital sector.
17) Answer: D
Vedanta and Taiwan-based Hon Hai Technology Group, also known as Foxconn, announced signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture company that will manufacture semiconductors in India.
According to the MOU signed between the two companies, Vedanta will hold the majority of the equity in the joint venture, while Foxconn will be the minority shareholder.
The targeted project plans to invest in manufacturing semiconductors.
In December 2021, the central government approved ₹76000 crore for development of semiconductors and display manufacturing ecosystem in India.
18) Answer: A
The Indian Army had conducted a first-of-its-kind Hackathon named “Sainya Ranakshetram” from 01 Oct 2021 to 31 Dec 2021.
The Hackathon was conducted at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), Mhow under the overall guidance of the Shimla based Army Training Command (ARTRAC).
To showcase the technological side of the Army and promote proficiency and expertise in the use of emerging technologies.
19) Answer: B
Indian Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar co-chaired ‘3rd India Maldives Defence Cooperation Dialogue’ with Chief of Defence Force (CDF) of Maldives National Defence Force Major General Abdulla Shamaal.
Both sides discussed joint efforts and capacity building initiatives being taken by both the countries to deter trans-national crimes and bolster national security in the region.
India’s Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar visited the Maldives on February 13-14, for discussions with the Maldives National Defence Force as part of the second Defence Cooperation Dialogue.
In that meeting they discussed the immense and expanding India-Maldives defence cooperation in the past three years.
20) Answer: D
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), the country’s largest power equipment manufacturer, has received a prestigious order from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the supply of compact heat exchanger sets for 83 Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) MK1A aircraft.
The BHEL’s Heavy Plates and Vessels Plant (HPVP), Visakhapatnam is the sole supplier of heat exchangers for LCA Tejas to HAL since 1996.
The BHEL-HPVP and Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore have jointly designed and developed 13 different types of compact heat exchangers for Environmental Control System (ECS) and Secondary Power System (SPS) of LCA MK-1 programme.
21) Answer: C
Meta’s oversight board suggested Facebook and Instagram to make strict doxxing rules.
It urged Meta to consider doxxing as “severe,” that should prompt temporary account suspension.
It has asked Meta to implement strict regulations on publishing and sharing personal information like an individual’s residential address that can easily identify people and make them targets for those with malicious intent.
22) Answer: E
Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has released an amount of 1154.90 crore rupees to four states for providing grants to Urban Local Bodies.
The States to which grants are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, and Sikkim.
The grants released are meant for Non-Million Plus cities including Cantonment Boards.
The 15th Finance Commission in its report for the period from 2021-22 to 2025-26 has divided the Urban Local Bodies into two categories.
23) Answer: B
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced Heather Knight and Keegan Petersen as the winners of the ICC Players of the Month Award for January 2022.
South Africa’s Test sensation Keegan Petersen and England women’s team captain Heather Knight were voted ICC Players of the Month for January 2022.
In the men’s category, South African batter Keegan Petersen was a sensation during the home Test series against India.
He ended the series as the highest run-scorer with 276 runs and was named the Player of the Series.
24) Answer: D
Rafael Nadal achieved his record-breaking 21st Grand Slam Men’s Singles Title at the first Grand Slam of 2022 i.e. the 2022 Australian Open was held at Melbourne Park, Melbourne in Australia.
Organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), it was the 110th edition of the Australian Open, and the 54th in the Open Era.
Rafael Nadal Parera of Spain by defeating Russia’s Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev in Men’s Single
Ashleigh Barty of Australia by defeating the United States’ Danielle Rose Collins in Women’s single
25) Answer: A
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced Heather Knight and Keegan Petersen as the winners of the ICC Players of the Month Award for January 2022.
South Africa’s Test sensation Keegan Petersen and England women’s team captain Heather Knight were voted ICC Players of the Month for January 2022.
In the men’s category, South African batter Keegan Petersen was a sensation during the home Test series against India.
He ended the series as the highest run-scorer with 276 runs and was named the Player of the Series.
26) Answer: B
Music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri passed away at a Mumbai hospital.
He was 69.
Bappi Lahiri, whose real name was Alokesh, was known for delivering popular songs in several films of the late 1970s-80s like Chalte Chalte, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi.
Bappi Lahiri ruled the music industry for several years and had given many hits.
Bappi da as he was fondly called by film fraternity can be called as the father of Disco music in India.
27) Answer: C
Singing legend Sandhya Mukherjee, also known as Sandhya Mukhopadhyay passed away at the age of 91 after a cardiac arrest.
The information of her demise was shared by Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shantanu Sen.
The veteran Bengali singer suffered a massive cardiac arrest earlier in the day and despite extensive efforts to revive her, she passed away
28) Answer: E
Ashleigh Barty of Australia by defeating the United States’ Danielle Rose Collins in Women’s single in the 2022 Australian Open was held at Melbourne Park, Melbourne in Australia.
Rafael Nadal achieved his record-breaking 21st Grand Slam Men’s Singles Title at the first Grand Slam of 2022
Organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), it was the 110th edition of the Australian Open, and the 54th in the Open Era.
Rafael Nadal Parera of Spain by defeating Russia’s Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev in Men’s Single
29) Answer: D
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) of RBI’s 6th and the last Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting is 4.00%
30) Answer: C
The current interest rate of Kisan VikasPatra (KVP) is 6.9%