Q.1 Harshit Raja is the 69th and newest Grandmaster in Chess for India. He hails from which city?
a. Kolkata
b. Pune
c Guwahati
d. Bhubaneswar
Q.2 PM Modi has declared to observe which day as the ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’?
a. 14 August
b. 15 August
c. 16 August
d. 13 August
Q.3 Who has declared himself as the caretaker president of Afghanistan?
a. Hamid Karzai
b. Sarwar Danish
c. Amrullah Saleh
d. Abdullah Abdulla
Q.4 Which state has become the third one to present a separate agricultural budget?
a. Kerala
b. Telangana
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Tamil Nadu
Q.5 What is the Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) for the period ending March 2021, introduced by the RBI?
a. 53.9
b. 55.5
c. 57.1
d. 59.4
Q.6 The mobile app Photographic Record of On-site Facility (PROOF) has been launched by which state/UT?
a. Delhi
b. Jammu & Kashmir
c. Rajasthan
d. Madhya Pradesh
Q.7 Who is the author of the book ‘The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan’?
a. Ashok Chakravarti and Mukesh Chakravarti
b. Siddhartha Mukherjee and Pallavi Mukherjee
c. Soumitra Singh and Shivam Shankar Singh
d. Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad
Q.8 The bilateral navy exercise named ‘Exercise Konkan 2021’ was held between the Indian Navy and the Navy of which country recently?
a. USA
b. Britain
c. Germany
d. Singapore
Q.9 Muhyiddin Yassin has recently resigned as the Prime Minister of which country?
a. Turkey
b. Sri Lanka
c. Bhutan
d. Malaysia
Q.10 Maki Kaji, who has passed away recently, was the creator of which innovative?
a. Lithium-ion battery
b. Abacus
c. Sudoku
d. Cassette-tape player
Answers –
Q.1 b)
Q.2 a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared that, August 14 will be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ or ‘Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas’, in memory of people’s struggles and sacrifices during the partition of the country in 1947.
Q.3 c) Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh declared himself as the legitimate caretaker President of Afghanistan on Tuesday, 17 August 2021. Saleh announced that he is in the country and vowed a new fight with the Taliban.
Q.4 d) Tamil Nadu has become the third state to present a separate farm budget after the DMK government presented a separate agricultural budget in Tamil Nadu Assembly on August 14, 2021. Before Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka were the only states that had presented their separate farm budget.
Q.5 a) The annual FI-Index for the period ending March 2021 is 53.9 while for the period ending March 2017 it is 43.4.
Q.6 b) In Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha unveiled a mobile application named PROOF, to bring more transparency and accountability in the governance system. PROOF stands for ‘Photographic Record of On-site Facility’.
Q.7 d) A new book titled “The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan”, written by historian Bimal Prasad and author Sujata Prasad, will be released on August 23, 2021.
Q.8 b) The Indian Naval Ship Tabar arrived at Portsmouth in England on August 12, 2021, to undertake the annual bilateral drill ‘Exercise Konkan 2021’ between the Indian Navy and Britain’s Royal Navy.
Q.9 d)
Q.10 d) Maki Kaji, the creator of puzzle Sudoku passed away at the age of 69 years due to bile duct cancer.