Daily Current Affairs for SSC and Bank | Free PDF – 8th August ‘2020

Q1) August 7 was chosen as the National Handloom Day to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement which took place in which year?

1. 1906
2. 1905
3. 1903
4. 1901

Q2) Which institution  has won the first prize in the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2020?

1. Defence Institute of Advanced Technology
2. Birla Institute of Technology
3. International Institute of Information Technology
4. Homi Bhabha National Institute

Q3) Tick-borne SFTS virus has re emerged in which country?

1. Japan
2. Brazil
3. China
4. Mexico

Q4) The country’s first Kisan Special Parcel Train or Kisan Rail  will transport material between Maharashtra’s Devlali and which station of Bihar?

1. Mansi railway station
2. Danapur Railway station
3. Kishanganj railway station
4. Buxar railway station

Q5) India has extended Line of Credit worth 18 million US dollars to the Government of which country for the expansion of fishing facilities?

1. Maldives
2. Laos
3. Vietnam
4. Cambodia

Q6) How many states and UTs have joined Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) as on August 3, 2020?

1. 28
2. 32
3. 19
4. 25

Q7) Which state has launched a unique identity card — called Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP)?

1. Punjab
2. Gujarat
3. Haryana
4. Chhattisgarh

Q8) Which company has signed a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

1. Infosys
2. Wipro
3. Jio Platforms
4. Bharti Airtel

Q9) Padma Vibhushan Ebrahim Alkazi, who passed away recently, was a renowned ______?

1. Politician
2. Author
3. Theatre director
4. Painter

Q10) A new species of pygmy grasshopper, discovered after 116 years by a group of foreign researchers in Sri Lanka, has been named after whom?

1. Dhaneesh Bhaskar
2. Raman Sukumar
3. Aparajita Datta
4. Priya Davidar

Q11) Which state has launched a Works Management System portal to manage and monitor development works in all urban local bodies in the state?

1. Punjab
2. Gujarat
3. Haryana
4. Madhya Pradesh

Q12) Who has been appointed as the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India?

1. Shashi Kant Sharma
2. Girish Chandra Murmu
3. Rajiv Mehrishi
4. Vinod Rai

Q13) The Supreme Court has made it mandatory for all municipal corporations and state pollution control boards to use which App for tracking biomedical waste daily?

1. COVID19BWM App
2. COVBIO APP
3. COVID19BIO App
4. COVIDWASTE App

Q14) Who is the author of the book “RAW: A History of India”s Covert Operations”?

1. Pratap Chatterjee
2. Upendra Rai
3. Arun Shourie
4. Yatish Yadav

Q15) Pakistan has unveiled a new political map that includes all of Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Sir Creek and which place?

1. Sriganganagar
2. Sialkot
3. Junagadh
4. Banaskantha

Q16) An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was launched by which country?

1. Russia
2. United States
3. Israel
4. Japan

Q17) Ram D Pradhan who passed away recently was the former Governor of which state?

1. Assam
2. Nagaland
3. Arunachal Pradesh
4. Sikkim

Q18) Which bank has entered into a partnership with Bharti AXA General Insurance to offer Smart Plan Shop Package Policy?

1. Airtel Payments Bank
2. India Post Payments Bank
3. Fino Payments Bank
4. Jio Payments Bank

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