IBPS RRB PO & ASSISTANT - IBPS CLERKS --- GENERAL AWARENESS THIRD WEEK AUGUST 2021

 

24082021

Q1. Which of these regions in India has got the highest altitude herbal park of the country recently?
(a) Shimla
(b) Chamoli
(c) Dehradun
(d) Kinnaur
(e) Almora

Q2. NTPC Ltd. has unveiled India’s largest floating solar PV project in which city of India recently?
(a) Visakhapatnam
(b) Surat
(c) Rewa
(d) Thiruvananthapuram
(e) Ranchi

Q3. The Cybersecurity Multi-Donor Trust Fund has been launched by which organisation?
(a) IMF
(b) WEF
(c) World Bank
(d) UNDP
(e) ADB

Q4. The Hisar Airport is being renamed after which of these rulers?
(a) Raja Harishchandra
(b) Maharaja Agrasen
(c) Ahilyabai Holkar
(d) Rani Lakshmibai
(e) Razia Sultan

Q5. World Sanskrit Day is observed annually on the occasion of which Indian festival?
(a) Raksha Bandhan
(b) Diwali
(c) Ganesh Chaturthi
(d) Independence Day
(e) Onam

Q6. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the reconstituted Advisory Board for Banking and Financial Frauds (ABBFF) by CVC?
(a) Ajay Banga
(b) Kris Gopalakrishnan
(c) Narayana Murthy
(d) T M Bhasin
(e) Roshni Singhal

Q7. Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of which country?
(a) Iraq
(b) Malaysia
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) Maldives
(e) Iran

Q8. Name the AI-enabled chatbot launched by BPCL to provide seamless self-service experience and faster resolution of queries/issues.
(a) SHAKTI
(b) VED
(c) URJA
(d) VAJRA
(e) VANDANA

Q9. Veteran Indian politician Kalyan Singh who has passed away recently was the former Chief Minister of which state?
(a) Haryana
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Bihar
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e) Rajasthan

Q10. The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is celebrated every year on_________.
(a) 22 August
(b) 23 August
(c) 21 August
(d) 20 August
(e) 19 August

Q11. When is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition observed?
(a) 20 August
(b) 21 August
(c) 22 August
(d) 23 August
(e) 24 August

Q12. Who among the following has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of BARC India?
(a) Nakul Singh
(b) Nakul Bansal
(c) Nakul Tiwari
(d) Nakul Malhotra
(e) Nakul Chopra

Q13. Recently, OM Nambiar passed away. He was a renowned:
(a) Politician
(b) Footballer
(c) Athletics coach
(d) Actor
(e) Cricketer

Q14. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has launched ‘Ubharte Sitaare Fund’ for export-oriented firms and startups. Ubharte Sitaare fund has been set up by _____________.
(a) Export Import Bank of India
(b) Small Industries Development Bank of India
(c) Reserve Bank of India
(d) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(e) Both a & b

Q15. Onam is the most revered and celebrated festival of ______.
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Karnataka
(d) Telangana
(e) Andhra Pradesh

 

22082021

Q1. Neo Collections is a DIY Digital Repayment platform launched by which bank?
(a) Yes Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) UCO Bank
(d) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(e) IDBI Bank

Q2. PM Narendra Modi recently inaugurated several projects related to Somnath Temple. In which state is the historic temple located?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Maharashtra
(e) Uttarakhand

Q3. The World Senior Citizen Day is marked every year on which day?
(a) 20 August
(b) 21 August
(c) 22 August
(d) 23 August
(e) 24 August

Q4. Name the bank in UAE with which NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) has tied up to launch the UPI facility in UAE.
(a) Dubai Islamic Bank
(b) Union National Bank
(c) Mashreq Bank
(d) Emirates NBD
(e) Islamic Development Bank

Q5. The ‘Small Business Loans Initiative’ has been unveiled in India by which of these companies in collaboration with Indifi?
(a) Microsoft
(b) Flipkart
(c) Google
(d) Amazon
(e) Facebook

Q6. The International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism is celebrated on which day of the year?
(a) 20 August
(b) 21 August
(c) 19 August
(d) 18 August
(e) 17 August

Q7. Which company has emerged as the world’s most valuable company in Hurun’s 2021 Global 500 Most Valuable Companies?
(a) Amazon
(b) Facebook
(c) Microsoft
(d) Apple
(e) Tencent

Q8. Shanti Lal Jain has been appointed as the MD and CEO of which bank?
(a) Indian Bank
(b) UCO Bank
(c) ICICI Bank
(d) Canara Bank
(e) Bank of Baroda

Q9. The Sanskrit Week is being observed from _______ in 2021 in India.
(a) August 21 to August 27
(b) August 15 to August 21
(c) August 19 to August 25
(d) August 17 to August 23
(e) August 18 to August 24

Q10. Which film has won the “Best Feature Film” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021?
(a) Sherni
(b) The Great Indian Kitchen
(c) Ludo
(d) Pinki Elli?
(e) Soorarai Pottru

Q11. Which actor has won the “Best Performance Male (Feature)” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021?
(a) Pankaj Tripathi
(b) Suriya Sivakumar
(c) Manoj Bajpayee
(d) Dhanush
(e) Rajkummar Rao

Q12. Which actress has won the “Best Performance Female (Feature)” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021?
(a) Vidya Balan
(b) Nimisha Sajayan
(c) Samantha Akkineni
(d) Radhika Apte
(e) Keerthy Suresh

Q13. Reliance Industries is the top Indian company in Hurun Global 500 Most Valuable Companies list 2021, ranked at 57 spot. How many Indian companies are there in the list?
(a) 15
(b) 6
(c) 9
(d) 12
(e) 10

Q14. Which web series has won the “Best Series” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021?
(a) Family Man 2
(b) Mirzapur Season 2
(c) Asur
(d) Breathe 2
(e) Sacred Games 2

Q15. Who among the following has won the “Best Actor in a Series” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021?
(a) Abhishek Bachchan
(b) Ali Fazal
(c) Nawazuddin Siddiqui
(d) Pankaj Tripathi
(e) Manoj Bajpayee

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21082021

 

Q1. When is World Mosquito Day observed globally?
(a) 20 August
(b) 19 August
(c) 18 August
(d) 17 August
(e) 16 August

Q2. What is the revised GDP growth rate of India as projected by India Ratings (Ind-Ra) in FY22?
(a) 9.10%
(b) 9.60%
(c) 9.40%
(d) 9.80%
(e) 10.00%

Q3. The DISC 5.0 initiative has been launched by which ministry?
(a) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
(b) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
(c) Ministry of AYUSH
(d) Ministry of Culture
(e) Ministry of Defence

Q4. Which tech platform has been launched by India in collaboration with the UN, for improving the safety and security of the UN peacekeepers?
(a) Ultimate Visual
(b) Cognizant View
(c) Plugged Ware
(d) Unite Aware
(e) Unite Country

Q5. Sadbhavana Diwas is observed in India annually to commemorate the birth anniversary of which Indian leader?
(a) Syama Prasad Mukherjee
(b) Rajiv Gandhi
(c) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(e) Jawaharlal Nehru

Q6. In India, when is the Akshay Urja Diwas celebrated?
(a) 19 August
(b) 17 August
(c) 18 August
(d) 20 August
(e) 21 August

Q7. Recently, an All Women Tri-Services Mountaineering Team, successfully scaled the Mount Manirang and unfurled the national flag. The Mount Manirang is in which state?
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Ladakh
(c) Sikkim
(d) Uttarakhand
(e) Arunachal Pradesh

Q8. Faridabad Smart City Limited has roped in an unlikely collaborator to help promote its initiatives on social media – comic hero _______.
(a) Inspector Steel
(b) Super Commando Dhruva
(c) The Sadhu
(d) Chacha Chaudhary
(e) Bhokal

Q9. Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates Centre for Research & Innovation in AI set up at ____________.
(a) IIT-Delhi
(b) IIT-Bombay
(c) IIT-Madras
(d) IIT-Roorkee
(e) IIT-Hyderabad

Q10. Which of the following highway has become the country’s first EV-friendly highway?
(a) Delhi to Chandigarh Highway
(b) Srinagar to Kanyakumari Highway
(c) Delhi to Chennai Highway
(d) Delhi to Kolkata Highway
(e) Gujarat to Odisha Highway

Q11. Amazon Alexa gets, which Bollywood star as a part of its voice assistant in India?
(a) Ayushmann Khurrana
(b) Amitabh Bachchan
(c) Akshay Kumar
(d) Shah Rukh Khan
(e) Hrithik Roshan

Q12. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) signed an agreement for cooperation in remote sensing satellite data sharing with ____.
(a) JAXA
(b) CNSA
(c) ISRO
(d) NASA
(e) EUSA

Q13. Which institution have jointly developed an advanced chaff technology to safeguard fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) from enemy radar threats?
(a) DRDO
(b) ISRO
(c) BHEL
(d) HAL
(e) EIL

Q14. Which of the following state/UT will inaugurate the country’s first smog tower?
(a) Chandigarh
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Punjab
(d) Haryana
(e) Delhi

Q15. What is the rank of India in terms of crypto adoption?
(a) 1st
(b) 2nd
(c) 3rd
(d) 4th
(e) 5th

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20082021

 

Q1. Which country is the chair for the 5th meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers in 2021?
(a) South Africa
(b) India
(c) Brazil
(d) Russia
(e) China

Q2. World Photography Day is celebrated on _______ every year to promote photography.
(a) 19 August
(b) 20 August
(c) 21 August
(d) 22 August
(e) 23 August

Q3. World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is observed every year on ______ to pay tribute to humanitarian personnel and those workers who lost or risked their lives while doing humanitarian service.
(a) 16 August
(b) 17 August
(c) 18 August
(d) 20 August
(e) 19 August

Q4. What is PRISM, that is placed by RBI to strengthen compliance by supervised entities?
(a) Software to manipulate fraud Payment systems
(b) Application based software for security
(c) Web-based end-to-end workflow automation system
(d) An Antivirus Software
(e) Automation Software to be implemented in every e-commerce sites

Q5. India Navy ship INS Ranvijay has undertaken a bilateral maritime exercise in the South China Sea with which of the following country?
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Thailand
(d) Vietnam
(e) Malaysia

Q6. Anandha Kannan passed away recently. He was a/an ______________.
(a) Politician
(b) Journalist
(c) Actor
(d) Environmentalist
(e) Singer

Q7. Who among the following has been authored the book “OPERATION KHUKRI”?
(a) Laxmi Sehgal & Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia
(c) Kiran Bedi & Nirad C Chaudhuri
(d) Amrita Pritam & Arun Shourie
(e) M. Veerappa Moily & Ravi Rajan Sharma

Q8. Which country host 2021 edition of the World Athletics U20 Championships?
(a) Kenya
(b) Russia
(c) China
(d) Pakistan
(e) Indonesia

Q9. Who among the following is set to be named as the brand ambassador of adventure tourism in Kerala?
(a) Murali Sreeshankar
(b) Jabir M Palliyalil
(c) Sajan Prakash
(d) PR Sreejesh
(e) Alex Antony

Q10. Which of the following state is all set to launch India’s first ‘Smart Health Cards scheme’?
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Assam
(d) Kerala
(e) Odisha

Q11. What is the theme of 5th meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers?
(a) BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Security and Prosperity
(b) Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus
(c) New Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges for Manufacturing Industry
(d) Broad Vision and Shared Prosperity
(e) BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialisation

Q12. Which country bagged the top position in the list of cities with the cleanest air, according to British company HouseFresh?
(a) Muonio
(b) Kailua Kona
(c) New York
(d) Judbury
(e) Sydney

Q13. Which country was the most polluted country across the world in 2020, according to British company HouseFresh?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Nepal
(c) Myanmar
(d) Sri Lanka
(e) Afghanistan

Q14. Which state government will sponsor Indian Hockey teams for 10 more years?
(a) Assam
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Tamil Nadu
(e) Odisha

Q15. ‘JAZBAA-E-TIRANGA’, a replay Marathon organised by the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir, is of _______________ Kms.
(a) 250 km
(b) 120 km
(c) 400 km
(d) 40 km
(e) 325 km

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19082021

Q1. What is the Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) for the period ending March 2021, introduced by the RBI?
(a) 53.9
(b) 55.5
(c) 57.1
(d) 59.4
(e) 60.3

Q2. The mobile app Photographic Record of On-site Facility (PROOF) has been launched by which state/UT?
(a) Delhi
(b) Jammu & Kashmir
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Madhya Pradesh
(e) Gujarat

(a) Nihal Sarin
(b) Anurag Mhamal
(c) Raunak Sadhwani
(d) Gukesh D
(e) Rohit Verma

Q4. Hakainde Hichilema has won the Presidential election of which country?
(a) Zambia
(b) Botswana
(c) Ghana
(d) Kenya
(e) Chile

Q5. The bilateral navy exercise named ‘Exercise Konkan 2021’ was held between the Indian Navy and the Navy of which country recently?
(a) USA
(b) Germany
(c) Singapore
(d) France
(e) Britain

Q6. Muhyiddin Yassin has recently resigned as the Prime Minister of which country?
(a) Turkey
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Bhutan
(d) Malaysia
(e) Thailand

Q7. Name the father of Sodoku, who has passed away recently.
(a) Sakichi Toyoda
(b) Maki Kaji
(c) Kokichi Mikimoto
(d) Kikunae Ikeda
(e) Umetaro Suzuki

Q8. Who is the first Indian to receive the highest civilian award in the United States?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Neeraj Chopra
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
(e) Subash Chandra Bose

Q9. When did Pondicherry get Independence?
(a) 15th August 1947
(b) 21st November 1975
(c) 26th January 1952
(d) 13th December 1966
(e) 16th August 1962

Q10. Lionel Messi is ___________times winner of the Ballon d’Or for Europe’s best soccer player.
(a) 7 times
(b) 6 times
(c) 10 times
(d) 9 times
(e) 5 times

Q11. Who has been awarded the National Youth Award for displaying exemplary leadership qualities?
(a) Ram Singh Sharma
(b) Ramesh Sipi
(c) Mohammad Azam
(d) Divya Kumari Dutta
(e) Roshan Singh Kalra

Q12. Which city was adjudged the second most polluted city out of the 50 ‘most polluted cities’ in the world in 2020?
(a) Judbury
(b) Hotan
(c) Hawaii
(d) Ghaziabad
(e) Dhaka

Q13. Which of the following state has decided to set up a training centre for Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) commandos?
(a) Haryana
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Punjab
(d) Rajasthan
(e) Gujarat

Q14. Actor-producer ____________ was announced as the chairperson of Jio MAMI Film Festival.
(a) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
(b) Deepika Padukone
(c) Priyanka Chopra Jonas
(d) Kareena Kapoor
(e) Alia Bhatt

Q15. Amway India has announced that it has appointed Olympian ________ as the brand ambassador.
(a) Neeraj Chopra
(b) MC Mary Kom
(c) Ravi Dahiya
(d) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
(e) PV Sindhu

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18082021

Q1. How many Vande Bharat Express Train will be launched in India during the celebrations of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’?
(a) 100
(b) 75
(c) 50
(d) 25
(e) 30

Q2. Prime Minister announced the Pradhan Mantri Gatishakti initiative to create employment opportunities for the country’s youth and help in holistic infrastructure growth. The Initiatives will cost _________.
(a) Rs 1000 crore
(b) Rs 10 lakh crore
(c) Rs 1000 lakh crore
(d) Rs 100 lakh crore
(e) Rs 1100 lakh crore

Q3. Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh, Shakti, Manendragarh are the four newly formed districts to which state?
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Bihar
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Haryana
(e) Punjab

Q4. Harshit Raja is the 69th and newest Grandmaster in Chess for India. He hails from which city?
(a) Kolkata
(b) Pune
(c) Guwahati
(d) Bhubaneswar
(e) Dehradun

Q5. Vice President of India Shri M Venkaiah Naidu recently unveiled the foundation stone of Innovation and Development Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. In which city is the centrally-owned JNCASR based?
(a) Bengaluru
(b) Pune
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Ahmedabad
(e) Lucknow

Q6. Which Indian hospital has become the first hospital of India to house a fire station inside the hospital premises?
(a) PGIMER, Chandigarh
(b) Apollo Hospital, Chennai
(c) AIIMS, New Delhi
(d) Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
(e) Vedanta Hospital, Gurgram

Q7. The world’s second-largest National Gene Bank has been set up at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources. Where is the facility located?
(a) Dispur
(b) Dehradun
(c) Mumbai
(d) Kanpur
(e) New Delhi

Q8. How many Gallantry awards have been approved by President Ramnath Kovind for armed forces, police and paramilitary personnel on the occasion of Independence Day.
(a) 155
(b) 177
(c) 144
(d) 122
(e) 134

Q9. Who is the author of the book ‘The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan’?
(a) Sujata Prasad
(b) Bimal Prasad
(c) Vinay Narayan
(d) Bipin Chandra
(e) Both option 1 and 2

Q10. Recently, RBI has cancelled the license of which bank in Maharashtra?
(a) Karnala Nagari Sahakari Bank
(b) Fino India Bank
(c) Dan lakshmi Bank
(d) AU Small Finance Bank
(e) Axis Bank

Q11. RBI imposed a monetary penalty of ___________________ on Coöperatieve Rabobank UA.
(a) Rs 2.5 crore
(b) Rs 1 crore
(c) Rs 2 crore
(d) Rs 1.5 crore
(e) Rs 3 crore

Q12. Which bank has announced the introduction of ‘Green & Sustainable Deposits’ to safeguard the environment from climate change?
(a) HDFC Bank
(b) ICICI Bank
(c) SBI
(d) IDBI Bank
(e) Axis Bank

Q13. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced that Indian women’s hockey team player_______ will be the brand ambassador of the state’s Department of Women Empowerment and Child Development.
(a) Lalremsiami
(b) Deep Grace Ekka
(c) Vandana Katariya
(d) Nikki Pradhan
(e) Navneet Kaur

Q14. Who among the following has awarded Ashok Chakra in Gallantry awards 2021?
(a) Vikas Khatri
(b) Ashutosh Kumar
(c) Neeraj Ahlawat
(d) Arun Kumar Pandey
(e) Babu Ram

Q15. Name the following, who has been awarded Kirti Chakra in Gallantry awards 2021.
(a) Altaf Hussain Bhat
(b) Perminder Antil
(c) Chitesh Kumar
(d) Manjinder Singh
(e) Sunil Choudhary

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Solutions  2482021

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. India’s highest altitude herbal park has been inaugurated on Saturday at Mana village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.

S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. NTPC has commissioned the largest floating solar PV project in India of 25MW power on the reservoir of its Simhadri thermal station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. This is also the first solar project to be set up under the Flexibilisation Scheme. This scheme was notified by the Government of India in 2018.

S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. The World Bank has launched a new ‘Cybersecurity Multi-Donor Trust Fund’, to better roll-out cybersecurity development agenda in a systematic manner.. World Bank has partnered with four countries, namely Estonia, Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands, to launch the fund.

S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced to rename the Hisar Airport as Maharaja Agrasen International Airport.

S5. Ans.(a)
Sol. The World Sanskrit Day, (also known as Sanskrit Diwas), is celebrated every year on Shraavanapoornima, that is the Poornima day of the Shraavana month in the Hindu calendar, which is also marked as Raksha Bandhan. In 2021, this day is being observed on August 22, 2021.

S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has announced the re-appointment of T M Bhasin as chairman of the Advisory Board for Banking and Financial Frauds (ABBFF).

S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Malaysia. Before this, he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.

S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) launched (after pilot test) an AI-enabled chatbot, named Urja to provide its customers a platform for seamless self-service experience and faster resolution of queries/issues. URJA is the first such chatbot in the oil and gas industry in India.

S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Kalyan Singh passed away at the age of 89 years due to multiple organ failure.

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is observed on August 22 every year since 2019.

S11. Ans.(d)
Sol. International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is a UNESCO designated day held every year on August 23 to memorialize the transatlantic slave trade.

S12. Ans.(e)
Sol. Broadcast Audience Research Council India (BARC), the Industry’s Television Audience measurement body, has announced Nakul Chopra as its new Chief Executive Officer. Nakul Chopra joined the BARC India Board in 2016 and was subsequently appointed the Chairman of the company (2018-19).

S13. Ans.(c)
Sol. Renowned athletics coach OM Nambiar passed away at the age of 89. Nambiar worked with the Indian Air Force from 1955 to 1970 during which time he represented Services. Om Nambiar was honoured with the very first Dronacharya Award in 1985 along with two other coaches.

S14. Ans.(e)
Sol. Ubharte Sitaare fund has been set up jointly by Exim Bank and SIDBI. This fund is a mix of structured support– financial as well as advisory services by investing in equity or equity like instruments; debt– both funded & non-funded and technical assistance such as advisory services, grants & soft loans; to the Indian companies.

S15. Ans.(b)
Sol. Onam is the most revered and celebrated festival of Kerala, is celebrated every year by the Malayali community across the world. The 10-day long festival marks the beginning of harvest season as well as the appearance of the Vaman avatar of Lord Vishnu along with the homecoming of King Mahabali.

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Solutions---22-8-21

S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched a platform named ‘Neo Collections’, which is a Do It Yourself Digital Repayment Platform for missed loan repayments.

S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple projects in Somnath, Gujarat on August 20, 2021 via video conferencing.

S3. Ans.(b)
Sol. The World Senior Citizen Day is observed globally on August 21 every year to raise awareness about issues affecting older people, such as deterioration with age and the abuse of the elderly and support, honor and show appreciation to seniors and to recognize their achievements.

S4. Ans.(c)
Sol. NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) has partnered with Mashreq Bank to launch the payment system facility of Unified Payments Interface (UPI), in the UAE.

S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. Facebook India has launched “Small Business Loans Initiative” in India in partnership with online lending platform Indifi. India is the first country where Facebook is rolling out this programme.

S6. Ans.(b)
Sol. The International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism is a UN recognised day observed on August 21 to pay tribute to the individuals across the globe who have been attacked, injured, traumatized or lost their lives because of terrorist attacks.

S7. Ans.(d)
Sol. Apple is the world’s most valuable company (USD 2,443 billion) according to the Hurun Global 500 Most Valuable Companies list 2021.

S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. Shanti Lal Jain has been appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Bank for a period of three years. He will replace Ms. Padmaja Chunduru as MD and CEO of Indian Bank.

S9. Ans.(c)
Sol. In 2021, India is observing the Sanskrit Week from August 19 to August 25, 2021, to promote, popularise and cherish the importance of ancient language. In 2021, Sanskrit Day will be celebrated on August 22, 2021.

S10. Ans.(e)
Sol. Soorarai Pottru has won the “Best Feature Film” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021.

S11. Ans.(b)
Sol. Suriya Sivakumar has won the “Best Performance Male (Feature)” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021.

S12. Ans.(a)
Sol. Vidya Balan has won the “Best Performance Female (Feature)” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021.

S13. Ans.(d)
Sol. Reliance Industries (USD 188 billion) ranked at 57 is the top Indian company in the list. As many as 12 Indian companies found a place among the Hurun Global 500 for 2021.

S14. Ans.(b)
Sol. Mirzapur Season 2 has won the “Best Series” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021.

S15. Ans.(e)
Sol. Manoj Bajpayee has won the “Best Actor in a Series” Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021.

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Solutions-----21-8-21

S1. Ans.(a)
Sol. World Mosquito Day is observed on 20 August annually to raise awareness about the causes of malaria and how it can be prevented.

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. India Ratings (Ind-Ra) has projected the GDP growth rate for India for FY22 at 9.4%. Earlier Indi-Ra had projected the rate at between 9.1-9.6%.

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh launched Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC) 5.0 under Innovations for Defence Excellence – Defence Innovation Organisation (iDEX-DIO) initiative, on August 19, 2021 in New Delhi.

S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. India has launched a tech platform named “UNITE Aware”, in collaboration with the UN, for improving the safety and security of the UN peacekeepers.

S5. Ans.(b)
Sol. Every year India observes Sadbhavana Diwas on August 20 to commemorate the birth anniversary of late erstwhile Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi.

S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. Akshay Urja Diwas (Renewable Energy Day) is observed every year on 20 August since 2004 to raise awareness about the developments and adoption of renewable energy in India.

S7. Ans.(a)
Sol. An ‘All Women Tri-Services Mountaineering Team’ successfully scaled Mt Manirang (21,625 ft) in Himachal Pradesh on August 15, 2021 and unfurled the national flag as a part of commemorative activities for ‘Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav’, to celebrate the 75 years of Independence.

S8. Ans.(d)
Sol. Faridabad Smart City Limited has roped in an unlikely collaborator to help promote its initiatives on social media – comic hero Chacha Chaudhary.

S9. Ans.(e)
Sol. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has virtually inaugurated the Centre for Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence set up at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H).

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. With a network of solar-based electric vehicle charging stations, the Delhi-Chandigarh Highway has become the country’s first EV-friendly highway in the country.

S11. Ans.(b)
Sol. Amazon has launched the voice of the 78-year-old Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan as a part of its efforts to amuse existing users and attract new consumers to use its voice assistant over Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri.

S12. Ans.(c)
Sol. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) signed an agreement for cooperation in remote sensing satellite data sharing, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

S13. Ans.(a)
Sol. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have jointly developed an advanced chaff technology to safeguard fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) from enemy radar threats.

S14. Ans.(e)
Sol. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will inaugurate the country’s first smog tower on August 23, 2021, at Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught Place.

S15. Ans.(b)
Sol. India has ranked second in terms of crypto adoption worldwide behind Vietnam, but ahead of countries such as the US, UK, and China, according to the 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index by blockchain data platform Chainalysis.

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Solutions--20082021

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, Shri Piyush Goyal chaired the 5th BRICS Industry Ministers Meeting. India holds the Chairship of BRICS for 2021.

S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. The World Photography Day is celebrated on 19 August every year to promote photography as a hobby and also inspire photographers around the globe to share a single photo with the rest of the world.

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is observed every year on 19 August to pay tribute to humanitarian personnel and those workers who lost or risked their lives while doing humanitarian service.

S4. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Reserve Bank of India is putting in place a Platform for Regulated Entities for Integrated Supervision and Monitoring (PRISM), a web-based end-to-end workflow automation system, to strengthen compliance by supervised entities (SEs). This is aimed at helping supervised entities to strengthen their internal defences and resilience and bringing focus on root cause analysis.

S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. In continuation with the ongoing deployment of Indian Navy ships in the South China Sea, INS Ranvijay and INS Kora undertook bilateral maritime exercise with Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN) frigate VPNS Ly Thai To(HQ-012) on 18 Aug 21.

S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Tamil star and popular TV host Anandha Kannan passed away. He started his career with Vasantham TV in Singapore before moving to Chennai where he worked with Sun Music as a video jockey.

S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. CDS General Bipin Rawat was presented a book “OPERATION KHUKRI” by authors Major General Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia.

S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. The 2021 edition of the World Athletics U20 Championships has been started in Nairobi, Kenya. The impact of Covid on teams travelling and logistics of moving vital equipment around the world have proven to be a challenge, the governing body said in a release.

S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. Olympian Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh (PR Sreejesh), goalkeeper and former captain of the Indian National Hockey team is set to be named as the brand ambassador of adventure tourism in Kerala.

S10. Ans.(e)
Sol. Odisha is all set to launch India’s first ‘Smart Health Cards scheme’ covering its 3.5 crore people of 96 lakh families under the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana.

S11. Ans.(b)
Sol. The theme of 5th meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers is ‘Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus’.

S12. Ans.(d)
Sol. Judbury in Australia bagged the top position in the list of cities with the cleanest air with a PM2.5 level of 2.4µg/m3. Kailua Kona in America’s Hawaii and Muonio in Finland with PM2.5 concentrations of 2.6µg/m3 and 2.8µg/m3 respectively were the next top cities of 2020 with clean air.

S13. Ans.(a)
Sol. Bangladesh was the most polluted country across the world in 2020, followed by Pakistan, India and Mongolia.

S14. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Odisha government will sponsor the Indian Hockey teams for 10 more years, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced on 17th August. The state government started sponsoring the national hockey teams in 2018.

S15. Ans.(c)
Sol. In Jammu and Kashmir, the Army organised a 400 Km “JAZBAA-E- TIRANGA” Relay Marathon. The event was flagged off by Major General Rajeev Puri, General Officer Commanding, Ace of Spades Division, who led the relay, closely followed by other military personnel. More than 300 troops took part, carrying the Indian Tricolour all along the Line of Control (LoC).

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Solutions19082021

S1. Ans.(a)
Sol. The annual FI-Index for the period ending March 2021 is 53.9 while for the period ending March 2017 it is 43.4. RBI will release the FI-Index in the month of July every year. There is no base year for this Index.

S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. In Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha unveiled a mobile application named PROOF, to bring more transparency and accountability in the governance system. PROOF stands for ‘Photographic Record of On-site Facility’.

S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. A 15-year-old young Indian Grandmaster Raunak Sadhwani has won the 19th Spilimbergo Open chess tournament on August 15, 2021 in Italy.

S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. In Zambia, opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, of the United Party for National Development , has won the 2021 general Presidential election of the country.

S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Indian Naval Ship Tabar arrived at Portsmouth in England on August 12, 2021, to undertake the annual bilateral drill ‘Exercise Konkan 2021’ between the Indian Navy and Britain’s Royal Navy.

S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Prime Minister of Malaysia Muhyiddin Yassin and his cabinet resigned after losing confidence vote in parliament.

S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. Maki Kaji, the creator of puzzle Sudoku passed away at the age of 69 years due to bile duct cancer. He was known as the father of Sodoku and was from Japan.

S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. Mahatma Gandhi would be the first Indian to receive a Congressional Gold Medal, an honour bestowed upon great figures as George Washington, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks. The prestigious Congressional Gold Medal to Mahatma Gandhi is given posthumously in recognition of his promotion of peace and nonviolence. The medal is the highest civilian award in the United States.

S9. Ans.(e)
Sol. Puducherry on 16th August celebrated its De Jure Transfer day. Speaker of the Puducherry Assembly, R. Selvam, paid floral tributes at the memorial in Kizhur, a remote hamlet in Puducherry, where the transfer of power took place on the same day in 1962.

S10. Ans.(b)
Sol. Lionel Messi joined star-packed Paris St Germain after leaving Barcelona, the club where he had begun, after 21 years. Messi, a six-time winner of the Ballon d’Or for Europe’s best soccer player, signed a two-year contract with an option for a third year.

S11. Ans.(c)
Sol. Mohammad Azam from Karimnagar district in Telangana has been awarded the National Youth Award recently by the Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur in Delhi for displaying exemplary leadership qualities.

S12. Ans.(d)
Sol. Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad was adjudged the second most polluted city out of the 50 ‘most polluted cities’ in the world in 2020 by a report prepared by British company HouseFresh.

S13. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up a training centre for Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) commandos in Saharanpur’s Deoband.

S14. Ans.(c)
Sol. Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas was announced as the chairperson of Jio MAMI Film Festival, almost four months after Deepika Padukone stepped down from the position.

S15. Ans.(d)
Sol. Direct selling FMCG firm Amway India has announced that it has appointed Olympian Saikhom Mirabai Chanu as the brand ambassador for Amway and its Nutrilite range of products.

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Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on the occasion of 75th Independence Day on August 15, 2021 and announced that 75 ‘Vande Bharat’ trains would connect different parts of the country in 75 weeks of the celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

S2. Ans.(d)
Sol. Prime Minister announced a Rs 100 lakh crore Pradhan Mantri Gatishakti initiative which will create employment opportunities for the country’s youth and help in holistic infrastructure growth. Gatishakti will help local manufacturers turn globally competitive and also develop possibilities of new future economic zones.

S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has announced the creation of four new districts and 18 new tehsils in the state. The four new districts are: Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh, Shakti, Manendragarh.

S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. The 20-year-old Chess player Harshit Raja from Pune, Maharashtra has become the 69th Grandmaster of India in Chess.

S5. Ans.(a)
Sol. The Vice President of India Shri M Venkaiah Naidu laid the foundation stone of Innovation and Development Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru.

S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. The All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in New Delhi has become the first hospital of India to house a fire station inside the hospital premises, to meet any emergency. For this, AIIMS has collaborated with Delhi Fire Service (DFS).

S7. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the world’s second-largest National Gene Bank at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New Delhi.

S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. President Shri Ram Nath Kovind, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, has approved 144 Gallantry awards for armed forces, police and paramilitary personnel on the occasion of Independence Day 2021.

S9. Ans.(e)
Sol. The book, “The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan”, shares anecdotes and never-before-told stories from the life of the man who was known for his “emotional hunger for transformative politics, shunning power and incubating revolutionary ideas” . The book is written by historian Bimal Prasad and author Sujata Prasad and published by Penguin Publication

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of Karnala Nagari Sahakari Bank of Maharashtra. Consequently, the bank ceases to carry on banking business, with effect from the close of business.

S11. Ans.(b)
Sol. RBI imposed a monetary penalty of ?1- crore on Coöperatieve Rabobank UA. Its Mumbai Branch is a part of the Netherlands-based Rabobank Group. The penalty has been imposed for contravention of certain provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and directions related to ‘transfer to reserve funds’. A penalty of Rs 5 lakh has also been imposed on Village Financial Services Ltd, Kolkata.

S12. Ans.(a)
Sol. HDFC Bank has announced the introduction of ‘Green & Sustainable Deposits’ to safeguard the environment from climate change. These fixed deposits will be directed towards financing green and sustainable housing credit solutions and services.

S13. Ans.(c)
Sol. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced that Indian women’s hockey team player Vandana Katariya will be the brand ambassador of the state’s Department of Women Empowerment and Child Development.

S14. Ans.(e)
Sol. Babu Ram (posthumously), ASI, Jammu and Kashmir Police has awarded Ashok Chakra in Gallantry awards 2021.

S15. Ans.(a)
Sol. Altaf Hussain Bhat (posthumously), Constable, J&K Police has been awarded Kirti Chakra in Gallantry awards 2021.

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