Current Affairs MCQs of 13th April 2021
Q.1 Recently which country has approved the world’s largest free trade agreement, RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership)?
a. Singapore
b. Russia
c. Japan
d. None of these
Q.2 Which Indian business tycoon received the top civilian honor in the UAE?
a. Digvijay Singh Jhala
b. Sushil Chandra
c. Yusuf Ali
d. NOT
Q.3 Whose launched the Sanskrit learning app ‘Little Guru’ on 71st Foundation Day?
a. ICCR
b. FICCI
c. NSDC
d. NIC
Q.4 The name of which great poet’s tapasthali was changed from Mahmudpur to ‘Parsauli’?
a. kabir das
b. Mirza galib
c. Surdas
d. Kalidas
Q.5 Which Indian woman has been appointed as the Associate Administrator of UNDP?
a. Monica Pandey
b. Adaesh Goyal
c. Niraj Gupta
d. Usha Rao Monari
Q.6 Which state/UT has launched the Lab on Wheels program for poor students?
a. Delhi
b. Ladakh
c. Assam
d. Kerala
Q.7 Which country has banned entry for its own citizens & residents from India?
a. Japan
b. New Zealand
c. Pakistan
d. China
Q.8 India with which other country have announced the launch of strategic partnership in the water sector?
a. UK
b. USA
c. Switzerland
d. Netherlands
Q.9 Which state has planned to provide 100 percent water tap connections to all households before March 2022?
a. Mizoram
b. Sikkim
c. Meghalaya
d. Maharashtra
Q.10 Recently Sports Minister Kiran Rijiju inaugurated Khelo India State Centre of Excellence for Rowing in which city?
a. Srinagar
b. Jammu
c. Leh
d. Ranchi
Answers –
Q.1 a) RCEP: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership RCEP: 10 ASEAN countries as well as Australia, Japan, China, New Zealand, South Korea including 15 countries participating in the agreement.
Q.2 c)
Q.3 a) Indian government has launched the first-ever app that enables the user to learn Sanskrit, the ancient language of the country. The app created by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has been named ‘Little Guru’.
Q.4 c)
Q.5 d)
Q.6 a) Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia has inaugurated the Delhi Technological University’s ‘Lab on Wheels’ programme.
Q.7 b) New Zealand has temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens due to the high number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
Q.8 d) India and the Netherlands have announced the launch of the strategic partnership in the water sector to further intensify ongoing cooperation and better coherence in the area.
Q.9 b) Sikkim has planned to provide 100 percent tap water connections to all households before March next year under Jal Jeevan Mission. The State has about one lakh five thousand households, out of which 81 thousand households have tap water connections. It has provided about ten thousand 300 tap water connections in 2020-21.
Q.10 a)