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1) Every year the World Day of Social Justice has been observed on which of the following date?
(a) February 21
(b) February 20
(c) February 19
(d) February 18
(e) February 17
2) Every year, the World Pangolin Day has been celebrated on the third Saturday of February. This year marked which of the following edition?
(a) 15th
(b) 14th
(c) 13th
(d) 12th
(e) 11th
3) What is the State Share in the expenditure of the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme?
(a) Rs. 4808.19 crore
(b) Rs. 8120.97 crore
(c) Rs. 2929.16 crore
(d) Rs. 3454.87 crore
(e) Rs. 4786.45 crore
4) Recently inaugurated Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG) Plant in Indore has expected to produce around ___________ kilograms per day of CNG.
(a) 8,000
(b) 10,000
(c) 12,000
(d) 15,000
(e) 17,000
5) Which of the following country’s former Prime Minister has visited India for treatment of his daughter’s eyesight through Ayurvedic?
(a) South Africa
(b) Kenya
(c) Ireland
(d) Uganda
(e) Bangladesh
6) As per the recent green hydrogen policy what is the target production of Green hydrogen by 2030?
(a) 5 million
(b) 4 million
(c) 3 million
(d) 2 million
(e) 5 million
7) As per the updated annual Global Trade report of UNCTAD ,what is the record level of global trade (in dollars) in 2021?
(a) 14.1 Trillion
(b) 28.5 Trillion
(c) 31.2 Trillion
(d) 16.53 Trillion
(e) 18.8 Trillion
8) Recently Madhya Pradesh government has announced to name the Global Skill Park of Bhopal as ____________.
(a) Guru Ravidas
(b) Rani Kamlapati
(c) Kushabhau Thakre
(d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(e) Veer Savarkar
9) Recently BSE Ebix has signed an insurance broker agreement for the distribution of LIC products. Who is the current CEO& MD of BSE Ebix?
(a) Pankaj Kapoor
(b) Pradeep Singh
(c) Richa Mishra
(d) Ashish Kumar Chauhan
(e) Shubham Kumar Chauhan
10) Recently Ecowrap has revised the GDP growth for FY22 to 8.8%. Earlier it was estimated at what percentage?
(a) 8.1%
(b) 8.5%
(c) 8.9%
(d) 9.3%
(e) 9.8%
11) Recently JusPay has introduced __________ to comply with RBI’s PPI interoperability guidelines and full-KYC compliant by March 31, 2022.
(a) Open PPI
(b) Closed PPI
(c) Semi-Closed PPI
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above
12) Which of the following bank’s licenses has been cancelled by the Reserve Bank of India to cease any banking business?
(a) Mantha Urban Cooperative Bank
(b) Buldhana Urban Cooperative Bank
(c) Mehsana Urban Co-Op Bank
(d) Nutan Nagarik Sahakari Bank
(e) Rajkot Nagrik Sahakari Bank
13) Recently Adidas has appointed India’s Manika Batra as brand ambassador. She is related to which of the following Sports?
(a) Lawn Tennis
(b) Golf
(c) Badminton
(d) Table Tennis
(e) Wrestling
14) Recently the Union Ministry of Tourism has signed a MoU with which of the following Aviation company to boost tourism across India?
(a) Deccan Aviation Limited
(b) Indigo Airlines
(c) Alliance Air Aviation Limited
(d) Jet Airways
(e) Air India Airways
15) Recently National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd has signed a MoU with Indian Oil Corporation for setting up ___________.
(a) Biofuel Projects
(b) Farmer Producer Organizations
(c) Mandis
(d) Green Hydrogen Plants
(e) Ammonia Plants
16) From which of the following INS, the Indian Navy has carried out the test-firing of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile off the western seaboard?
(a) INS Shardul
(b) INS Cheetah
(c) INS Magar
(d) INS Vikramaditya
(e) INS Visakhapatnam
17) Around how many households in Rajasthan have electrified through a solar-based standalone system under the Saubhagya scheme?
(a) 65,845
(b) 73,245
(c) 1,96,123
(d) 1,23,682
(e) 1,73,122
18) In which of the following city the International Olympic Committee Session would coming in 2023?
(a) Mumbai
(b) Bangalore
(c) Delhi
(d) Shillong
(e) Pune
19) Who amongst the following has recently authored the book titled “Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us”?
(a) Anupam Mishra
(b) Pramod Vivek Sharma
(c) Dev Tiwari
(d) Ro Khanna
(e) Divya Rajak
20) Recently East Bengal legend Surajit Sengupta passed away. He was related to which of the following sports?
(a) Hockey
(b) Cricket
(c) Football
(d) Basketball
(e) Baseball
21) Which of the following National Park is not located in Madhya Pradesh?
(a) Satpura National Park
(b) Pench National Park
(c) Van Vihar National Park
(d) Hemis National Park
(e) Bandhavgarh National Park
Answers :
1) Answer: B
The United Nations (UN) World Day of Social Justice is annually observed on February 20to encourage people to look at how social justice affects poverty eradication. This year’s theme: “Achieving Social Justice through Formal Employment”.Social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous coexistence within and among nations.
2) Answer: E
Every year, World Pangolin Day is celebrated on the Third Saturday of February. In 2022, the annual World Pangolin Day is being celebrated on 19th February 2022. This year marks the 11th edition of World Pangolin Day. The main aim of this day is to raise awareness about these unique mammals and speed up conservation efforts.
3) Answer: A
The Government has approved the scheme of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) for continuation till 31st March 2026. It has an expenditure of Rs. 12929.16 crore out of which Central Share is Rs. 8120.97 crores and the State Share is of Rs. 4808.19 crores. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) operating for funding the state government universities and colleges to achieve the aims of equity, access and excellence.
4) Answer: E
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG) Plant in Indore, M.P. It is expected to produce around 17 thousand kilograms per day of CNG, and 100 tonnes per day of organic compost. The Mission is being implemented under the principles of waste to wealth and circular economy for maximizing resource recovery.
5) Answer: B
Union Minister of Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation for the fourth part of Dhanwantri Bhawan organized by the All-India Ayurveda Congress at its headquarters in Punjabi Bagh West, Delhi. Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga travelled to India for treatment of his daughter’s eyesight. Her eyesight was restored by Ayurvedic treatment for which he thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to spread Ayurveda across the world.
6) Answer: A
The Ministry of Power has notified green hydrogen policy, the target of production of 5 million tonnes of Green hydrogen by 2030. The Mission aims to aid the government in meeting its climate targets and making India a green hydrogen hub. Production of these fuels by using power from renewable energy termed green hydrogen and green ammonia, is one of the major requirements towards environmentally sustainable energy security of the nation.
7) Answer: B
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s released its annualGlobal Trade Update 2022, which shows that the value of global trade reached a record level of $ 28.5 trillion in 2021. This is an increase of 25% in 2020 and 13% higher compared to 2019.
8) Answer: A
Madhya Pradesh CM, Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced welfare schemes for Dalits, including one related to self-employment, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Ravidas. Chouhan announced that the Global Skill Park, which is being built in Bhopal, would be named after Guru Ravidas.
9) Answer: D
BSE Ebix Insurance Broking signed an insurance broker agreement for the distribution of Life Insurance Corporation’s (LIC) products on its platform. Under this agreement, BSE EBIX will offer their clients insurance products offered by LIC such as Life and Health, using its Omni-channel digital presence. Ashish Kumar Chauhan is the current CEO & MD of BSE Ebix.
10) Answer: C
According to the latest edition of SBI’s research report Ecowrap, India’s gross domestic product (GDP) is likely to grow at 5.8% in the third quarter of fiscal 2022. The FY22 GDP growth is now revised downwards to 8.8% from the earlier estimate of 9.3%. The real GDP will be around Rs 2.35 lakh crore more or 1.6% higher than the FY20 real GDP of Rs 145.69 lakh crore.
11) Answer: A
JusPay, a Softbank-backed digital payments infrastructure company, introduced Open PPI. This software stack aids prepaid instruments (PPI) such as digital wallets in implementing and complying with RBI’s PPI interoperability guidelines. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced in May 2021 that by March 31, 2022, all full-KYC compliant prepaid cards and wallets must be fully integrated and mutually compatible.
12) Answer: A
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has canceled the license of Mantha Urban Cooperative Bank and consequently, the bank ceases to carry on banking business. Every depositor would be entitled to receive deposit insurance claim amount of his/her deposits up to a monetary ceiling of ₹5,00,000. DICGC has sanctioned ₹39.95 crores of the total insured deposits under the provisions of Section 18A of the DICGC Act, 1961.
13) Answer: D
Adidas has appointed India’s top-ranked female table tennis player Manika Batra as brand ambassador. Batra became the first Indian woman to bag a commonwealth table tennis individual gold medal in CWG 2018. She is the top-ranked female table tennis player in India and ranked 50th in the world as of February 2022.
14) Answer: C
The Union Ministry of Tourism (MoT) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alliance Air Aviation Limited (AAAL) to boost tourism throughout India. Alliance Air is the front runner in promoting the “Regional Connectivity Scheme” (RCS) of the Government of India which is being promoted under the Prime Minister’s UDAN- (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) scheme.
15) Answer: A
National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) for setting up Biofuel projects, plants for post-processing of products and marketing of end products of CBG (Cannabigerol). NAFED is committed to working towards a greener & sustainable future.
16) Answer: E
Indian Navy’s warship INS Visakhapatnam carried out the test-firing of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile off the western seaboard. The warship reached Visakhapatnam to take part in the President’s Fleet Review. The advanced sea to sea variant of the BrahMos Supersonic Cruise missile was a joint venture between India and Russia where Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) represents the Indian side.
17) Answer: D
Rajasthan has the maximum households electrified through the solar-based standalone system, while hill states of Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir had nil beneficiaries under the initiative. Under the Saubhagya scheme, as many as 1,23,682 households were electrified through a solar-based standalone system in Rajasthan. Under the Scheme, 2.817 crore households were electrified up to March 31, 2021.
18) Answer: A
Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur announced the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session is coming to Mumbai, India in 2023. The Minister termed it historic and added that Indian sport has made giant strides in recent years.
About IOC:
- Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
- President: Thomas Bach
- Founded: 23 June 1894, Paris, France
19) Answer: D
A new book titled “Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of us” has authored by Ro Khanna released. The book mentioned the digital divide i.e, unequal access to technology and revenue, as it is one of the most pressing issues faced by the United States. Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley in Congress.
20) Answer: C
Former India midfielder (Football) and East Bengal legend Surajit Sengupta mesmerized Kolkata Maidan with his dribbling skills in 1970. Sengupta had been associated with Kolkata’s three big clubs, Mohun Bagan (1972-1973, 1981-1983), East Bengal (1974- 1979) and Mohammedan Sporting (1980). He represented the national team from 1973 to 1979 and was in the national team for the 1978 Asian Games.
21) Answer: D
About Madhya Pradesh:
- Capital: Bhopal
- Chief Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Governor: Mangubhai C. Patel
- National Parks: Kanha National Park, Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhav National Park, Sanjay National Park, Van Vihar National Park, Panna National Park, Satpura National Park, Pench National Park, Mandla Plant Fossils National Park.
