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1. 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
2. Vice President of India Shri M Venkaiah Naidu recently unveiled the foundation stone of the Innovation and Development Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). In which city is the centrally-owned JNCASR based?
A) Bengaluru
B) Pune
C) Hyderabad
D) Ahmedabad
3. Unmukt Chand has recently announced his retirement from which game for India?
A) Wrestling
B) Football
C) Sprinting
D) Cricket
4. Which Indian hospital has become the first hospital in India to house a fire station inside the hospital premises?
A) PGIMER, Chandigarh
B) Apollo Hospital, Chennai
C) AIIMS, New Delhi
D) Safdarjung Hospital, NewDelhi
5. Which state in India has become the first to recognise the Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) in an urban area and in the core area of a tiger reserve?
A) Bihar
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Haryana
D) Rajasthan
6. The world’s second-largest National Gene Bank has been set up at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR). Where is the facility located?
A) New Delhi
B) Indore
C) Nagpur
D) Chennai
7. How many Gallantry awards have been approved by President Ramnath Kovind for armed forces, police and paramilitary personnel on the occasion of Independence Day on August 15, 2021?
A) 155
B) 177
C) 144
D) 122
8. How many Ramsar sites are there in India currently?
A) 46
B) 38
C) 49
D) 53
9. Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is located in which state?
A) Gujarat
B) Rajasthan
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Assam
10. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)?
A) Meera Mamgaain
B) Kamlesh Kumar Pant
C) Sujeet Kumar
D) Rajneesh Tingal
Answers:
B) Pune
A) Bengaluru
D) Cricket
C) AIIMS, New Delhi
B) Chhattisgarh
A) New Delhi
C) 144
A) 46
D) Assam
B) Kamlesh Kumar Pant
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