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1. Name the person who authored the book titled, ‘One Arranged Murder’?
a) Arundhati Roy
b) Chetan Bhagat
c) Vikram Seth
d) Amitav Ghosh
2. Who has won the 2020 world snooker championship (at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England)?
a) Neil Robertson
b) John Higgins
c) John Higgins
d) Ronnie O’Sullivan
3. The Interceptor Boat ‘ICGS C-454’ developed by which company was inducted into the service of the Indian Coast Guard at Surat, Gujarat?
a) Larsen and Toubro Limited
b) Mazagon Dock Limited
c) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
d) Cochin Shipyard Limited
4. The Defence Ministry has approved the proposed to expand NCC to how many border and coastal districts?
a) 173
b) 183
c) 163
d) 153
5. The Competition Commission of India has approved 100% proposed acquisition of C&S Electric Limited (C&S) by which company?
a) ABB
b) Havells
c) Siemens
d) Kirloskar
6. Which is the cleanest city of India (> 10 Lakh population) as announced by Hardeep Singh Puri in 5thannual cleanliness urban survey of India, SwachhSurvekshan 2020?
a) Indore
b) Surat
c) Jaipur
d) Mumbai
7. Which India company enters into top 100 on Fortune Global 500 list (August 2020)?
a) State Bank of India
b) Indian Oil Corporation
c) Reliance Industries
d) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
8. Name the ministry which signed a joint communication agreement with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to promote sustainable livelihood opportunities among tribal women SHGs.
a) Ministry of Rural Development
b) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
c) Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
d) Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
9. Which IIM has signed MoU with Switzerland based HELP logistics?
a) Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
b) Indian Institute of Management Indore
c) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
d) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
10. Name the company which partnered with National Skill Development Corporation to offer a free digital education platform for skill development.
a) Google
b) IBM
c) Apple
d) Microsoft
11. Mahesh Kumar Jain the deputy governor of RBI has released the National Strategy for Financial Education (NSFE) 2020-2025 recently. The NFSE 2020-2025 recommends which strategy?
a) 5C
b) 4A
c) 7B
d) 3D
12. Which is the 1st foreign bank to launch a ‘Green Deposit Programme’ in India?
a) DBS Bank
b) Standard Chartered Bank
c) HSBC
d) Deutsche Bank
13. Which state/UT’s police has launched ‘EkSankalp – Bujurgokenaam’ campaign?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Delhi
c) Rajasthan
d) Chandigarh
14. Who launched the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI)’s ‘Eat Right India’ Handbook recently?
a) RS Prasad
b) Harsh Vardhan
c) Nirmala Sitharaman
d) Piyush Goyal
15. Name the tribal minister of India who launched the tertiary processing centres of the “Trifood Project” in Maharashtra’s Raigad and Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur.
a) Arjun Munda
b) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
c) Harsh Vardhan
d) Mahendra Nath Pandey
Answers:
b) Chetan Bhagat
d) Ronnie O’Sullivan
a) Larsen and Toubro Limited
a) 173
c) Siemens
a) Indore
c) Reliance Industries
a) Ministry of Rural Development
d) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
b) IBM
a) 5C
c) HSBC
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Harsh Vardhan
a) Arjun Munda
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