Q.1 In which state India’s first Virtual Smart Grid Knowledge Center has been inaugurated?
a. Manesar, Haryana
b. Gandhinagar, Gujarat
c. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
d. Dehradun, Himachal Pradesh
Q.2 What is the position of India in the global investment in digital shopping 2021?
a. Third
b. Fourth
c. First
d. Second
Q.3 The Virtual SGKC has been developed by which company?
a. Power Finance Corporation
b. POWERGRID
c. NTPC Limited
d. Indian Oil Corporation
Q.4 Which ministry has organized the 3rd edition of “Gender Dialogue”?
a. Ministry of Education
b. Ministry of Tribals
c. Ministry of Women and Child Development
d. Ministry of Rural Development
Q.5 Which nation’s Prime Minister will visit India on March 19?
a. Canada
b. Japan
c. Australia
d. UK
Q.6 Society named Power Foundation has been formed under the aegis of which ministry?
a. Ministry of Education
b. Ministry of Women & Child Development
c. Ministry of Power
d. Ministry of Science
Q.7 Who has been appointed as the next Chairman and MD of Oil India Limited?
a. salil parekh
b. Ranjit Rath
c. Murali Ramakrishnan
d. Atul Kumar Goyal
Q.8 National Immunization Day is being celebrated on which day?
a. March 16
b. March 14
c. March 15
d. March 12
Q.9 Which Company launched India’s first fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV)?
a. Ola
b. Toyota
c. Honda
d. Tata
Q.10 Which country recently passed ‘Sunshine Protection Act’ making daylight saving time (DST) permanent?
a. Russia
b. USA
c. Brazil
d. Canada
Q.11 ‘Dishaank’ is a land digitisation application of which Indian state?
a. Karnataka
b. Kerala
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Gujarat
Q.12 “Green Triangle” named after Mahatma Gandhi was inaugurated in which country?
a. Sri Lanka
b. Nepal
c. Madagascar
d. Myanmar
Q.13 Which is the first state in the country to use ‘Crop Diversification Index’?
a. Andhra Pradesh
b. Telangana
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Punjab
Q.14 Which Union Ministry implements the ‘Credit guarantee scheme for subordinate debt (CGSSD)’?
a. Ministry of Finance
b. Ministry of MSME
c. Ministry of Commerce and Industry
d. Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Q.15 Which country is the largest importer of arms globally, as per SIPRI’s Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2021 Report?
a. USA
b. India
c. China
d. Israel
Q.16 Which day has been declared by the UN as ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’?
a. March 12
b. March 14
c. March 15
d. March 18
Q.17 Name the cargo vessel which has become the longest vessel ever to sail on the river Brahmaputra?
a. MV Northern Jaguar
b. MV MSC Valeria
c. MV Ram Prasad Bismil
d. MV APL Raffles
Q.18 India is the host country for the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022. The tournament will be held in which city of the country?
a. Chennai
b. Bhubaneswar
c. Pune
d. New Delhi
Q.19 The Indian Army has announced the establishment of General Bipin Rawat Memorial Chair of Excellence at which of its institutions?
a. The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
b. Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
c. Observer Research Foundation
d. United Service Institution of India (USI)
Q.20 Sahitya Akademi published a book-length poem titled ‘Monsoon’, to mark its 68th anniversary. Who is the author of this poem?
a. Amitabh Rajan
b. Abhay Kumar
c. Syed Asif Ibrahim
d. Sitakant Mahapatra
Answers –
Q.1 a) The Union Power Minister has inaugurated the Virtual Smart Grid Knowledge Center and Innovation Park in yet another digitization effort aimed at advancing smart grid technologies and capacity building in the power distribution sector in Manesar, Haryana.
Q.2 d) The report released by London & Partners of Co-Investment Data of Dealroom, India has been ranked second in the global investment in digital shopping 2021 in 2021.
Q.3 b) The Virtual SGKC is conceptualized and developed by POWERGRID with support from the Ministry of Power and technical support from USAID.
Q.4 d) Ministry of Rural Development has organized the 3rd edition of “Gender Dialogue” under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission which aims at the intervention of DAY-NRLM across India with Gender Lens.
Q.5 b) Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is scheduled to visit India on March 19, 2022, to participate in a physical summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Q.6 b)
Q.7 b)
Q.8 a) On 16 March every year, National Vaccination Day is being celebrated in India which is also known as National Immunisation Day (IMD).
Q.9 b) Union Minister Nitin Gadkari recently launched green hydrogen-based advanced fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV).
Named Toyota Mirai, it is the first-of-its-kind project in India that aims to create an ecosystem for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles in the country. It is powered by hydrogen and is completely environment-friendly.
Q.10 b) The United States Senate unanimously passed a law making daylight saving time (DST) permanent. It has scrapped the biannual practice of putting clocks forward and back coinciding with the arrival and departure of winter.
Q.11 a) The Dishaank application is implemented by Karnataka for digitisation of all land records (under the Bhoomi project).The mobile application has been developed under the Karnataka Geographical Information System program of the Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Center (KSRSAC). This is expected to bring in transparency and reduce land-related disputes.
Q.12 c) A “Green Triangle” named after Mahatma Gandhi was jointly inaugurated in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, to commemorate India’s 75th year of independence.The ‘Greening the Area’ meets the objective of the Urban Municipality of Antananarivo to create the maximum green space in the capital city of Madagascar.
Q.13 b) For the first time in the country, Telangana has begun recording crop diversification patterns in the form of an index.According to the crop diversification index, the state grows 77 varieties, with about 10 crops, mostly grains, preferred for diversification. The index will serve as a base for future crop diversification in the state.
Q.14 b) ‘Credit guarantee scheme for subordinate debt (CGSSD)’ is implemented by the Ministry of MSME. The Ministry has extended the CGSSD by one more year till March 31, 2023.
Q.15 b) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released the Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2021 Report.As per the report, India remains the largest importer of arms globally. Most of India’s defence imports come from Russia. India has been pushing for indigenous development in defence equipment, and allotted 68 per cent of the capital budget for 2022-23 for domestic manufacturing industries.
Q.16 c) The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution setting March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.The resolution was adopted by consensus by the UN and cosponsored by 55 mainly Muslim countries. It emphasizes the right to freedom of religion and belief and recalls a 1981 resolution calling for “the elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief.”
Q.17 c) The MV Ram Prasad Bismil has become the longest vessel ever to sail on the river Brahmaputra. The 90 meters long and 26 meters wide flotilla, loaded with a draft of 2.1 meters, achieved the feat on March 15, 2022, when it successfully completed the pilot run of heavy cargo movement from Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Haldia, to Pandu port in Guwahati.
Q.18 a) India has been picked as the host nation for the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022. The 44th edition of the Olympiad is scheduled to be held in Chennai. from 26th July 2022 to 8th August 2022.This is the first time that India will host the FIDE Chess Olympiad since its inception in 1927.
Q.19 d) The Indian Army has dedicated a Chair of Excellence in the memory of late Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat at the United Service Institution of India (USI), on the occasion of his 65th birthday anniversary.The purpose of Gen Bipin Rawat Memorial Chair of Excellence at USI will be to conduct research on strategic issues related to the armed forces, with focus on the field of Jointness and Integration.
Q.20 b) On the occasion of its 68th anniversary, the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, published a book-length poem titled ‘Monsoon’, written by Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K.