Q.1 Which country has become the newest member of the BRICS New Development Bank?
a. Egypt
b. Sri Lanka
c. Nigeria
d. Tanzania
Q.2 Which station has been renamed as Veerangana Laxmibai Railway Station?
a. Itarsi
b. Gwalior
c. Bina
d. Jhansi
Q.3 In which city Rajnath Singh has inaugurated the BrahMos missile manufacturing unit?
a. Patna
b. Shimla
c. Dehradun
d. Lucknow
Q.4 Who has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank by the Government of India?
a. Rajkiran Rai
b. Atul Kumar Goel
c. Shyam Srinivasan
d. Lingam Venkat Prabhakar
Q.5 Who has named PETA India’s 2021 person of the year?
a. R Madhavan
b. Jacqueline Fernandez
c. Anushka Sharma
d. Alia Bhatt
Q.6 Who has won the ‘Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award 2021’?
a. Viral Desai
b. Pritam Tiwari
c. Pankaj Dewan
d. Virat Shekhawat
Q.7 Which state government has started ‘Nadi Utsav’ to honour and conserve rivers?
a. Maharashtra
b. Gujarat
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Jharkhand
Q.8 Who will head the five-member committee to look into the withdrawal of AFSPA in Nagaland?
a. Radhika Jha
b. Vivek Joshi
c. Amit Shah
d. Neiphiu Rio
Q.9 DRDO has selected which company for handing over the technology of border surveillance systems?
a. Astra Microwave Products
b. Sika Interplant systems
c. Paras Defence & Space Technologies
d. MTAR Technologies
Q.10 China has claimed which Indian state as South Tibet?
a. Uttarakhand
b. Arunachal Pradesh
c. Mizoram
d. Sikkim
Q.11 Which of the following state’s Chief Minister has launched ‘Kaushal Rozgar Nigam’ portal?
a. Assam
b. Rajasthan
c. Haryana
b. Bihar
Q.12 PM Modi has inaugurated Sawra-Kuddu Hydro Power Project, in which state?
a. Maharashtra
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. Gujarat
d. Himachal Pradesh
Q.13 Who has been named ‘Journalist of the Year’ in Redink Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2021?
a. Saurabh Shukla
b. Faye D’ Souza
c. Danish Siddiqui
d. Prem Shankar Jha
Q.14 In which state the Central Government has approved to host the Khelo India Youth Games 2022-23?
a. Kerala
b. Haryana
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Rajasthan
Q.15 PM Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in which city?
a. Meerut
b. Kanpur
c. Ranchi
d. Bhopal
Q.16 Khalid Hussain has won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 in which language category?
a. Hindi
b. Kannada
c. Punjabi
d. Bengali
Q.17 With Which country,India is set to conclude Brahmos missile deal?
a. SriLanka
b. Philippines
c. Canada
d. Mexico
Q.18 Recently who was bestowed with RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism’?
a. Danish Siddiqui
b. Chitra Tripathi
c. Ravish Kumar
d. Ravi Bishnoi
Q.19 Who was given the Sahitya Academy Award 2021 in Hindi category?
a. Daya Prakash Sinha
b. Niranjan Singh
c. Gaurav Taneja
d. Sumona Chakraborty
Q.20 Who has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Energy Efficiency Services Ltd. (EESL)?
a. Priyank Tiwari
b. Tanmay Bhatt
c. Indra Nooyi
d. Radhika Jha
Q.21 Which country made ‘World’s Largest, Most Powerful’ nuclear-powered Icebreaker named Sibir?
a. France
b. Russia
c. India
d. USA
Answers –
Q.1 a)
Q.2 d) The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to rename Jhansi Railway Station as ‘Veerangana Laxmibai Railway Station’.
Q.3 d) Defense Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone of the BrahMos Aerospace cruise missile manufacturing unit in Lucknow.
Q.4 b) The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of UCO Bank MD and CEO Atul Kumar Goel as MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank (PNB) with effect from February 1 next year.
Q.5 d) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has named Bollywood star Alia Bhatt its 2021 Person of the Year.
Q.6 a) Surat-based industrialist Viral Sudhirbhai Desai, popularly known as the Greenman or Green Man of Gujarat, has been honoured with the Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award 2021.
Q.7 b) The Gujarat government launched ‘Nadi Utsav’, or river festival, to honour rivers for their contribution to the development of the state as well as to raise awareness about their protection.
Q.8 b)
Q.9 c) Defence Research Development Organization has selected Paras Defence & Space Technologies Ltd as one of the companies for handing over the technology of border surveillance systems developed by Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE) and DRDO.
Q.10 b) China has renamed 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh in its own language, claiming Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet, an area that falls under its administrative control.
Q.11 c) The Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar, launched the ‘Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam portal’ and announced to set up the Atal Park & Smriti Kendra in Gurugram, Haryana.
Q.12 d) PM Modi has inaugurated the Sawra-Kuddu Hydro Power Project, a 111 MW Project which has been built at a cost of around Rs 2,080 crore, in Himachal Pradesh.
Q.13 c) Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Wednesday presented the annual ‘RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism’, instituted by the Mumbai Press Club, in a virtual event. He presented the prestigious award to Siddiqui “for his spectrum of investigative and impactful news photography”.
Q.14 c)
Q.15 a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut.
Q.16 c) Bratya Basu and Khalid Hussain have won Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 for a play and collection of stories ‘Sullan Da Salan’, in Hindi and Punjabi language category respectively.
Q.17 d) India and the Philippines are set to formally seal a government-to-government BrahMos deal soon, capping years of negotiations for the supply of a batch of the supersonic cruise missiles for the Philippine navy, people familiar with the development said
Q.18 a) Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who died during an assignment in Afghanistan, has been posthumously awarded as the ‘Journalist of the Year’ for 2020 by the Mumbai Press Club. Chief Justice of India N V Ramana presented the annual ‘RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism’, instituted by the Mumbai Press Club, in a virtual event.
Q.19 a) The Sahitya Akademi announced a list of 22 winners each of the Yuva Puraskar and the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2021.
Q.20 d)
Q.21 b) Russia’s first serial project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker known as Sibir, was handed over to state atomic energy corporation Rosatom for exploitation.