SSC & Bank Exams Daily Current Affairs - English By Dr Gaurav Garg | Free PDF Download

Q1) Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association is to investigate the impact of the torrential rains that hit Kerala. GEER is based in which country?

(a)Germany (b) Japan (c) United States (d) United Kingdom

Ans:c

Q2) Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), the Centre and the World Bank have signed a loan agreement amounts to ______ ?

(a)USD 220 Million (b) USD 300 Million (c) USD 250 Million (d) USD 350 Million

Ans:b

Q3) India’s first interstate connected wind power project has been commissioned in which state ?

(a) Gujarat (b) Karnataka (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Odisha

Ans:a

Q4) At the fourth ‘Google for India’ event, Google has unveiled which Project to help Indian language publishers to take their content online?

(a) Saral Lekh (b) Navlekha (c) Sugmata (d) Digital Lekh

Ans:b

Q5) India along with which organization has joined hands to develop new Influenza vaccine through Horizon 2020 programme?

(a) European Union (b) World Health Organization (c) Piramal Group (d) Aurobindo Pharma

Ans:a

Q6) Which Indian Economist has been appointed as Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ?

(a) Jagdish Bhagwati (b) Kaushik Basu (c) Shankar Acharya (d) Satya Tripathi

Ans:d

Q7) National Sports Day was celebrated on?

(a)29 August (b) 28 August (c) 26 August (d) 27 August

Ans:a

Q8) Which state’s Chief Minister has inaugurated India’s tallest Film Studio?

(a)Andhra Pradesh (b) Maharashtra (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu

Ans:d

Q9) The Union Government has constituted a _____________member science and technology council to advise Prime Minister Narendra Modi on matters related to science, technology and innovations ?

(a)20 (b) 25 (c) 21 (d) 22

Ans:c

Q10) Which state assembly has passed the Police (Amendment) Bill 2018 that would pave way for setting up of a State Security Commission for selection of the director general of police (DGP)?

(a)Haryana (b) Punjab (c) Jharkhand (d) Uttar Pradesh

Ans:b

Q11) The Union Government, which state and the World Bank signed a USD 250 million Development Policy Loan (DPL) to support this state in improving the performance of its Electricity Distribution Sector under the State’s ‘24×7 Power for All’ program ?

(a) Gujarat (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Bihar (d) Rajasthan

Ans:d

Q12) The First South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Agri Cooperative Business Forum has begun in which country ?

(a) Maldives (b) Nepal (c) Bhutan (d) India

Ans:b

Q13) World’s Biggest Open Innovation Model – Smart India Hackathon 2019 was launched by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi. This was its which edition ?

(a) 2nd (b) 4th (c) 3rd (d) 1st

Ans:c

Q14) Actor Nandamuri Harikrishna dies in a car accident. He belonged to which political party?

(a) YSR Congress Party (b) Telugu Desam Party (c) Jana Sewa Party (d) NTR Telugu Desam Party

Ans:b

Q15) Tripura chief minister has promised to distribute 50,000 white ducklings among fishermen residing on the banks of which Lake ?

(a) Bijoy Sagar (b) Kamlasagar (c) Rudrasagar (d) Tam Dil

Ans:c

Q16) The Union Cabinet has approved an increase of _______ per cent in the dearness allowance (DA) for the central government employees with retrospective effect from July ?

(a) 1 % (b) 2.5 % (c) 2 % (d) 3 %

Ans:c

Q17) Arpinder Singh clinched India’s first men’s triple jump gold in 48 years, with a jump of 16.77m in the Asian Games 2018. He is from which state ?

(a)Haryana (b) Punjab (c) Delhi (d) Uttarakhand

Ans:b

Q18) Who has clinched India’s first-ever women heptathlon gold in Asian Games 2018?

(a) Purnima Hembram (b) J J Shobha (c) Pramila Ayyappa (d) Swapna Barman

Ans:d

Q19) How many States + UT so far have signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Abhiyan scheme?

(a) 26 (b) 27 (c) 29 (d) 25

Ans:c

Q20) Which organization has launched the consumer helpline to file complaints regarding GST rate cuts?

(a) National Anti-profiteering Authority (b) Ministry of Finance (c) Income Tax Department (d) GST Council

Ans:a

Q21) Manu Ginobili, four-time NBA champion with San Antonio Spurs, retires at 41 (basketball). He is from which country ?

(a) France (b) Spain (c) Argentina (d) Serbia

Ans:c

Q22) Who won Belgian Grand Prix 2018 ?

(a) Lewis Hamilton (b) Valtteri Boutas (c) Sergio Perez (d) Sebastian Vettel

Ans:d

Q23) DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance (DPLI) has appointed whom as Senior Executive Vice- President & Chief Operating Officer (COO)?