Current Affairs MCQs of 28th May 2021

Q.1 The 74th session of World Health Assembly (WHA) has been organised from 24 May to 1 June 2021. Which country has been elected as the President for the WHA74?

a. Germany

b. The Bahamas

c. India

d. Bhutan

Q.2 Which nation has provisionally approved the breathalyser test to detect COVID-19 in one minute?

a. UK

b. South Korea

c. China

d. Singapore

Q.3 Who is the author of the book “Nehru, Tibet, and China”?

a. Arpit Agrawal

b. T. Sathish

c. Avtar Singh Bhasin

d. Shantanu Munshi

Q.4 Which country has named the cyclone ‘Yaas’?

a. Nepal

b. Malaysia

c. Oman

d. Myanmar

Q.5 Which state has decided to implement ‘Mukhya Mantri Covid-19 Anukampa Niyukti Yojana’?

a. Madhya Pradesh

b. Uttar Pradesh

c. Uttarakhand

d. Himachal Pradesh

Q.6 Who chaired the opening session of the 33rd meeting of Health Ministers of Commonwealth countries?

a. Harsh Vardhan

b. Anurag Singh Thakur

c. Narendra Modi

d. Nitin Gadkari

Q.7 Name the Indian who has recently won the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award?

a. Abhijit Banerjee

b. Amartya Kumar Sen

c. Arvind Subramanian

d. Raghuram Rajan

Q.8 Recently who became the first Indian citizen to head the ‘International Narcotics Control Board’ (INCB)?

a. Jagjit Pavadia

b. B. S. Bawla

c. Satish Hemant

d. None of these

Q.9 . Recently the IPL team ‘Punjab Kings’ has launched a program to help the government to fight Covid-19?

a. Fight Corona

b. Covi-Help

c. ‘Project Saah’

d. None of these

Q.10 One-Stop Centres (OSC) is a flagship scheme of  which Union Ministry?

a. Ministry of Health and Family Affairs

b. Ministry of Women and Child Development

c. Ministry of Home Affairs

d. Ministry of AYUSH

Answers – 

Q.1 d) The 74th session of World Health Assembly (WHA) has been organised virtually from 24 May to 1 June 2021. WHA is the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO). The 74th World Health Assembly elected Dechen Wangmo, Bhutan’s Minister of Health, as the President of WHA.

Q.2 d) The Singapore authority has provisionally approved a COVID-19 breathalyser test that determines if someone is COVID positive in less than a minute.

Q.3 c) 

Q.4 c) Yaas, named by Oman as such, refers to a Jasmine-like tree that has a good fragrance.

Q.5 a) In Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan transferred the amount of Rs. 112. 81 crore under the COVID-19 assistance scheme into the account of Rs. 11. 28 lakh construction workers of the state.

Q.6 a) Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan chaired the opening session of the 33rd meeting of Health Ministers of Commonwealth countries through video conferencing.

Q.7 b) Indian economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Kumar Sen has been conferred with ‘ 2021 Princess of Asturias Award’ by Spain in the social sciences category on May 26, 2021.

Q.8 a) 

Q.9 c) 

Q.10 b)