Weekly Current affairs play a very important role in the competitive examinations and hence, aspirants have to give undivided attention to it while doing preparation for the government examinations. The ASO examinations comprise a section of “Current Affairs” to evaluate how much the aspirant is aware of the daily happenings taking place around the world. To complement your preparation, we are providing you with a compilation of Weekly Current affairs.
Q1) “World Mosquito Day” is observed every year on –
(1) 20th August
(2) 21st August
(3) 22nd August
(4) 19th August
Q2) “Akshay Urja Diwas” is observed every year in India on –
(1) 18th August
(2) 19th August
(3) 20th August
(4) 21st August
Q3) Every year India observes “Sadbhavana Diwas” on August 20 to commemorate the birth anniversary of –
(1) Indira Gandhi
(2) Rajiv Gandhi
(3) Morarji Desai
(4) Charan Singh
Q4) Which state has become India’s 1st ‘Har Ghar Jal’ certified State?
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Odisha
(3) Goa
(4) Kerala
Q5) In a first, which bank has opened its all-women branch in Kozhikode, north Kerala?
(1) Axis Bank
(2) Yes Bank
(3) HDFC Bank
(4) IndusInd Bank
Q6) Which state has launched ‘Vidya Rath-School on Wheels’ project?
(1) Madhya Pradesh
(2) Bihar
(3) Assam
(4) West Bengal
Q7) How many cities have declared themselves as ‘Safai Mitra Surakshit Shehar’?
(1) 100
(2) 250
(3) 500
(4) 750
Q8) Which city has World’s highest average level of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5), as per HEI’s report?
(1) Dhaka
(2) Varanasi
(3) New Delhi
(4) Colombo
Q9) Which country is the host of “Vostok-2022” military exercises?
(1) Belarus
(2) Mongolia
(3) Russia
(4) China
Q10) Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme has completed how many years in 2022?
(1) 5 Years
(2) 6 Years
(3) 7 Years
(4) 8 Years
Q11) “Dahi-Handi” has recognised as an Official Sport of which state?
(1) Gujarat
(2) Maharashtra
(3) Karnataka
(4) Uttar Pradesh
Q12) Which is the venue of the ‘National Security Strategies (NSS) Conference 2022’?
(1) Pune
(2) Vishakhapatnam
(3) New Delhi
(4) Mysuru
Q13) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has announced to open its first international marketing and sales office in –
(1) Maldives
(2) Mauritius
(3) Malaysia
(4) Singapore
Q14) Which Bank has launched a new campaign titled ‘Vigil Aunty’?
(1) Axis Bank
(2) Yes Bank
(3) HDFC Bank
(4) Canara Bank
Q15) RBI has cancelled the license of Deccan Urban Co-operative Bank, based in –
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Karnataka
(3) Kerala
(4) Tamil Nadu
Q16) Which Indian has been appointed to the 10-member Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel?
(1) Alkesh Kumar Sharma
(2) Rajiv Kumar
(3) Raj Shukla
(4) Ramesh Kandula
Q17) Novelist Narayan passed away at 82. He was the first tribal novelist and short story writer of –
(1) Kerala
(2) Tamil Nadu
(3) Karnataka
(4) Odisha
Q18) Who is launched an Online Marketplace feature – ‘Aqua Bazar’ in ‘Matsya Setu’ app?
(1) Anurag Thakur
(2) G. Kishan Reddy
(3) Narendra Singh Tomar
(4) Parshottam Rupala
Q19) Which airline emerges 2nd largest domestic airline by Indian market share?
(1) Go First
(2) Air India
(3) Vistara
(4) SpiceJet
Q20) United Kingdom (U.K) inflation rose to a new 40-year high in July 2022 by what percentage?
(1) 10.9%
(2) 10.6%
(3) 10.4%
(4) 10.1%
Q21) Which company has paid ₹8312.4 crore to the Department of Telecommunications for 5G spectrum?
(1) JIO
(2) VI
(3) Airtel
(4) BSNL
Q22) Recently the house of which eminent member of the Indian freedom struggle has received the ‘Blue Plaque’ award?
(1) Dadabhai Naoroji
(2) Vipin Chandra Pal
(3) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(4) None of above
Q23) “Bibi: My Story“, is the autobiography of Benjamin Netanyahu, former Prime Minister of –
(1) Lebanon
(2) Syria
(3) Egypt
(4) Israel
Q24) India is planning to take six Tu-160 long-range bombers from –
(1) Russia
(2) North Korea
(3) Japan
(4) USA
Q25) Who has become the first Indian footballer to play at the UEFA Women’s Champions League?
(1) Bala Devi
(2) Manisha Kalyan
(3) Aditi Chauhan
(4) Dalima Chhibber
Q26) “World Photography Day” is observed every year on –
(1) 18th August
(2) 19th August
(3) 20th August
(4) 21st August
Q27) “World Humanitarian Day” is observed every year on –
(1) 17th August
(2) 18th August
(3) 19th August
(4) 20th August
Q28) What is India’s rank in “Forbes Asia Best Under A Billion” with 24th Firms?
(1) 2nd
(2) 4th
(3) 6th
(4) 8th
Q29) India’s 1st Electric Double-decker Bus has been launched in –
(1) Kolkata
(2) Mumbai
(3) Hyderabad
(4) New Delhi
Q30) Asia’s Largest Compressed Biogas Plant has been started operation in –
(1) Haryana
(2) Punjab
(3) Bihar
(4) Uttarakhand
Q31) Mandla has become India’s 1st Fully Functionally Literate district of –
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Karnataka
(3) Uttar Pradesh
(4) Madhya Pradesh
Q32) Who has Topped the highest paid bank CEO of India?
(1) Amitabh Chaudhry
(2) Sumant Kathpalia
(3) Sandeep Bakhshi
(4) Kaizad Bharucha
Q33) Who has been elected as the first representative of the Indian Community in Germany?
(1) Sabrina Setlur
(2) Shweta Shetty
(3) Irshad Panjatan
(4) Gurdeep Randhawa
Q34) Which state government has launched “Aama Yojana” & “Vatsalya Yojana” for the welfare of women?
(1) Sikkim
(2) Manipur
(3) Meghalaya
(4) Tripura
Q35) Who has announced ‘Panch Pran’ goal for the next 25 years?
(1) Rajnath Singh
(2) Amit Shah
(3) Narendra Modi
(4) Nirmala Sitharaman
Q36) Which country has signed a climate change and healthcare bill of 750 billion dollars?
(1) New Zealand
(2) United States
(3) Canada
(4) Australia
Q37) Which State/UT government has launched an app named ‘Lucky Bill App’ to curb GST evasion?
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Delhi
(3) Gujarat
(4) Kerala
Q38) Which bank has launched a new Term Deposit Scheme named KBL Amrit Samriddhi?
(1) Punjab & Sind Bank
(2) Union Bank of India
(3) Karnataka Bank
(4) Karur Vyasya Bank
Q39) Which bank has signed an MoU with Food Corporation of India (FCI) to provide “Ultima Salary Package”?
(1) Axis Bank
(2) Yes Bank
(3) HDFC Bank
(4) Canara Bank
Q40) Who has been appointed as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?
(1) Inderjit Camotra
(2) Viktor Orban
(3) Gustavo Petro
(4) Simon Stiell
Q41) Who has been reappointed as Chief of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for another 3 months?
(1) Dr Jitendra Singh
(2) Dr. VG Somani
(3) Dr Rajesh S Gokhale
(4) Dr. Shekhar C. Mande
Q42) Who has been recommended by FSIB for the post of NABARD Chairman?
(1) Hamid Ansari
(2) Suresh N. Patel
(3) Narasimha Reddy
(4) Mohammad Mustafa
Q43) Who has been appointed as MD & CEO of Bajaj Electricals elevates?
(1) R K Gupta
(2) Rajiv Kumar
(3) Raj Shukla
(4) Anuj Poddar
Q44) Badminton Players Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and Chirag Shetty signed as the brand ambassadors of –
(1) VISA
(2) MasterCard
(3) PuPay
(4) Maestro
Q45) Which country’s cricketer Kevin O’Brien has retired from international cricket recently?
(1) France
(2) Ireland
(3) Sri Lanka
(4) Mexico
Q46) Vladimir Putin’s biography “Putin: His Life and Times” has been written by –
(1) Philip Shot
(2) Richard Hayes
(3) Andrew Russell
(4) None of these
Q47) Which state government will provide 2% reservation in all state departments to sportspersons?
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Haryana
(3) Karnataka
(4) Odisha
Q48) Which state cabinet approves “Night Safari Park” in Kukrail forest area?
(1) Uttarakhand
(2) Uttar Pradesh
(3) Maharashtra
(4) Madhya Pradesh
Q49) ‘Dettol School Hygiene Education Programme’ has been launched in which State?
(1) Karnataka
(2) Maharashtra
(3) Uttarakhand
(4) Uttar Pradesh
Q50) Who has been appointed as the new Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism?
(1) Tina Dabi
(2) Roman Saini
(3) Shah Faesal
(4) Smita Sabharwal
Q51) Which state government has announced “Make India No. 1” mission?
(1) Delhi
(2) Punjab
(3) Gujarat
(4) Kerala
Q52) Which state’s 3rd airport has been named ‘Doni Polo Airport’ recently?
(1) Bhubaneswar
(2) Arunachal Pradesh
(3) New Delhi
(4) Maharashtra
Q53) Who has launched India’s first Companionship Startup for the senior citizens?
(1) Gautam Adani
(2) Ratan Tata
(3) Azim Premji
(4) Mukesh Ambani
Q54) ‘School Hygiene Education Programme’ has been launched in which State?
(1) Chhattisgarh
(2) Uttarakhand
(3) Odisha
(4) Uttar Pradesh
Q55) Which state cabinet has approved ₹2808.39 crore for Millets Mission?
(1) Andhra Pradesh
(2) Rajasthan
(3) Odisha
(4) Haryana
Q56) IRDAI is organizing its first hackathon “Bima Manthan 2022” with the theme of –
(1) Term life insurance
(2) Liability Coverage
(3) Life Insurance
(4) Innovation in Insurance
Q57) A pan-India operation known as “Operation Yatri Suraksha” has been launched by –
(1) RPF
(2) BSF
(3) CRPF
(4) CISF
Q58) Which bank has launched its first dedicated “State-of-the-Art” branch in Bengaluru?
(1) State Bank of India
(2) Axis Bank
(3) Yes Bank
(4) HDFC Bank
Q59) Who has been appointed as Managing Director (MD) of NaBFID?
(1) Sumita Dawra
(2) Rajkiran Rai G
(3) Pankaj Jain
(4) Nalin Negi
Q60) As per survey by Ipsos India, which institution is the India’s Most Trusted Institution?
(1) RBI
(2) CBI
(3) PM Office
(4) Defence Forces
Q61) President Droupadi Murmu has approved how many gallantry awards to armed forces and CAPF personnel?
(1) 104
(2) 106
(3) 107
(4) 111
Q62) Amitabh Chaudhary passed away at 58. He was the former president of which state cricket association?
(1) Jharkhand
(2) West Bengal
(3) Rajasthan
(4) Punjab
Q63) Which Indian state/UT implements the ‘Mukhyamantri Anuprati Coaching Yojana’?
(1) Punjab
(2) Rajasthan
(3) Gujarat
(4) Karnataka
Q64) What is the name of the Centre’s passenger processing system based on facial recognition technology?
(1) DigiYatra
(2) Bharat Yatra
(3) Yatra Abhiyan
(4) Bharat Face RT
Q65) Which state/UT Police has received the most number of awards on the occasion of the Independence Day 2022?
(1) Jammu & Kashmir
(2) Maharashtra
(3) Ladakh
(4) Karnataka
Q66) What is the name of India’s domestically manufactured anti-personnel mine?
(1) Nalan
(2) Nipun
(3) Nimal
(4) Nishan
Q67) Which institution has successfully developed a 3D-printed cornea form the human donor corneal tissue?
(1) IIT Gandhinagar
(2) IIT Bombay
(3) IIT Hyderabad
(4) IIT Kanpur
Q68) Who has been appointed as the CEO of NATGRID?
(1) Nalin Negi
(2) Piyush Goyal
(3) Suresh Patel
(4) Pramod Kumar
Q69) Which Pakistani cricketer was recently honored with ‘Sitara-e-Imtiaz Samman’?
(1) Babar Azam
(2) Abid Ali
(3) Shakib Al Hasan
(4) Tamim Iqbal
Q70) Which country has become the first to provide free sanitary products to all women?
(1) India
(2) Scotland
(3) France
(4) Mexico
ANSWER:
S1. Ans. (1) 20th August
Sol: World Mosquito Day is observed on 20 August annually to raise awareness about the causes of malaria and how it can be prevented.
This day is observed to highlight the efforts of healthcare officials, NGOs, and others in fighting diseases caused by malaria.
On World Mosquito Day every year, awareness is created around diseases caused by mosquitoes.
Theme 2022: “Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives.”
The day also commemorates the discovery made by British doctor Sir Ronald Ross in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans. In 1902, Ross won Nobel Prize for Medicine becoming the first British person to receive the award.
S2. Ans. (3) 20th August
Sol: Akshay Urja Diwas (Renewable Energy Day) is observed every year on 20 August to raise awareness about the developments and adoption of renewable energy in India.
The Akshay Urja Day was initiated by the Indian Ministry for New & Renewable Energy Sources in 2004.
Energy such as Biogas, Solar Energy, Wind energy, hydroelectrical power is a few examples of Akshay Urja.
The main motive of Akshya urja Diwas is to make people aware that they have to think about renewable energy (Akshya Urja) apart from traditional energy.
The Akshay Urja Diwas in India was established in 2004 with the goal of supporting renewable energy development programs and promoting their usage instead of using traditional sources of energy. The first event of 2004 was organised in New Delhi. In that, then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a commemorative stamp with 12,000 school children forming a human chain to promote the use of efficient and green energy sources among the masses.
S3. Ans. (2) Rajiv Gandhi
Sol: Every year India observes Sadbhavana Diwas on August 20 to commemorate the birth anniversary of late erstwhile Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi.
This year on 20th August 2022, we are going to celebrate the 78th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The Indian National Congress instituted Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award in 1992, a year after his death.
Every year this day is celebrated in the memory of the late Rajiv Gandhi who was the youngest Prime Minister of India at the age of 40 years.
S4. Ans. (3) Goa
Sol: Goa and ‘Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu’ have become respectively the first ‘Har Ghar Jal’ certified State and UT in the country.
Over 10 crore rural households of the country have been connected to the facility of clean water through pipes, with 7 crore rural families getting connected in the last three years.
Jal Jeevan Mission is a flagship programme of the Government of India which was announced from the ramparts of Red Fort by the visionary Prime Minister on August 15, 2019.
The mission aims to make provision of potable tap water supply in adequate quantity, of prescribed quality and on regular and long-term basis to every rural household of the country by 2024. The program is implemented by the Government of India in partnership with States/UTs.
About Goa: Capital – Panaji; Chief Minister – Pramod Sawant; Governor – S. Sreedharan Pillai
S5. Ans. (3) HDFC Bank
Sol:HDFC has opened its first all-women branch with four women bankers in the north Kerala region in Kozhikode.
The branch will have 4 women bankers.
As on March 31, 2022, women constituted 21.7 percent of the workforce and the target is to increase it to 25 percent by 2025.
About HDFC Bank: Founded – August 1994; Founder – Hasmukhbhai Parekh; Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra; MD & CEO – Sashidhar Jagdishan; Tagline – We understand your world
S6. Ans. (3) Assam
Sol: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has launched Vidya Rath-School on Wheels project.
It aims to provide access to underprivileged children to elementary education for 10 months. After 10 months, the children will be integrated into the usual system of education.
Students will be offered free mid-day meals, uniforms, and textbooks under the project.
S7. Ans. (3) 500
Sol: According to Government data, 500 cities across India have declared themselves as ‘Safai Mitra Surakshit Shehar’.
All the cities have achieved sufficiency in terms of institutional capacity, equipment norms and manpower as provided by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs.
All the cities are now providing safe working conditions for Safai Mitras.
The “Safai Mitra Surakshit Shehar” declaration is in line with goal of promoting sustainable sanitation practices under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban.
This move will act as catalyst in transforming every ‘manhole’ into a ‘machine hole’. This, it will help in eliminating manual scavenging.
Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched the Safai Mitra Suraksha Challenge on the occasion of World Toilet Day on November 19, 2020. It was launched across 243 cities of India, with the objective of mechanizing all sewer and septic tank cleaning operations.
November 19 was designated as “World Toilet Day” by United Nations General Assembly in 2013.
S8. Ans. (3) New Delhi
Sol:
The ‘Air Quality and Health in Cities’ report was released by US-based Health Effects Institute (HEI).
It provides analysis of air pollution and global health effects for over 7,000 cities around the world, focusing on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
As per the report, India is home to 18 of the 20 cities with the most severe increase in fine particle pollutants (PM2.5) from 2010 to 2019.
New Delhi has the highest average level of fine PM 2.5 among the world’s most populated cities. Kolkata at second, Mumbai stands 14th on the list.
No Indian city appeared in the top 20 cities for NO2 exposure, with Shanghai having the worst average exposure.
S9. Ans. (3) Russia
Sol:
Russia is the host of Vostok-2022 military exercises.
China recently announced that its troops will take part in the Vostok-2022 military exercises.
The drill will also see participation of India, Belarus, Tajikistan, Mongolia and other countries.
The exercises are held under the annual cooperation plan between the Chinese and Russian militaries.
S10. Ans. (1) 5 Years
Sol: Regional Connectivity Scheme of Ministry of Civil Aviation, UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) has successfully completed 5 years.
This scheme was initiated in 2016.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched first flight under UDAN on April 27, 2017.
The scheme aims to connect small and medium cities with big cities through air service.
In the five years, scheme has benefited more than 1 crore passengers till August 4, 2022.
In 2014, there were just 74 operational airports in India. The number has now increased to 141 by now.
68 underserved or unserved destinations, including 58 Airports, 8 Heliports and 2 Water Aerodromes have been connected under UDAN Scheme, as of now.
This scheme has provided air connectivity to over 29 States/UTs by initiating 425 new routes.
In next four years, government is expecting to add more of 40 crore travellers in India.
S11. Ans. (2) Maharashtra
Sol:
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announces that ‘Dahi-Handi’ will be recognized as an official sport in Maharashtra.
The state is set to organize a ‘Pro- Dahi Handi’
The Maharashtra Government also announces that the Govindas will get a job under the sports category and if any Govinda loses his life insurance of Rs 10 lakh will be given, also if they end up being partially handicapped insurance of Rs 5 lakh will be given by the Government of Maharashtra.
S12. Ans. (3) New Delhi
Sol: Home Minister Amit Shah has inaugurated a two-day National Security Strategies (NSS) Conference in New Delhi.
Objective – To ensure a safe and secure nation by strengthening all aspects of the national security mechanism.
The Conference is being attended by 600 officers from across the country, physically and virtually.
During the conference, he also inaugurated the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) which was developed by NCRB.
NAFIS will help in quick and easy disposal of cases with the help of centralized fingerprint database.
S13. Ans. (3) Malaysia
Sol: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has signed an MoU for opening its first international marketing & sales office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The office in Kuala Lumpur will enhance HAL’s ability to secure the deal while also enabling them to fulfill other requirements of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) like the upgradation and servicing of the Russian Su-30s and British Hawk trainer aircraft.
This office in Malaysia will help HAL in tapping the new business opportunities for Fighter Lead in Trainer (FLIT) LCA.
It will also help HAL expand its services in South East Asia.
About Malaysia: Capital – Kuala Lumpur; Currency – Ringgit; Prime Minister – Ismail Sabri Yaakob
S14. Ans. (3) HDFC Bank
Sol: HDFC Bank has launched a new campaign titled ‘Vigil Aunty’.
It aims to encourage people across the country to practice safe banking habits.
This will complement the bank’s ‘Mooh Band Rakho’ campaign which urges people not to share their confidential banking information with others.
A campaign to promote Vigil Aunty and persuade people to follow her on social media and/or WhatsApp will be run for four to six weeks.
S15. Ans. (2) Karnataka
Sol: RBI has cancelled the license of Deccan Urban Co-operative Bank, Karnataka as the bank does not have adequate capital & earning prospects.
As per the data submitted by the bank, more than 99 percent of the depositors are entitled to receive the full amount of their deposits from Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC).
In its present financial position, the bank would be unable to pay its depositors in full.
The Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Karnataka, is to issue an order for winding up and appointing a liquidator for the bank.
About Reserve Bank of India (RBI): Founded – 1 April 1935; RBI Nationalized – 1 January 1949; Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra; RBI set up – Hilton Young Commission; 1st Governor – Sir Osborne Smith (Australia); 1st Indian Governor – CD Deshmukh; 25th Governor – Shaktikanta Das
S16. Ans. (1) Alkesh Kumar Sharma
Sol: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed India’s Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Alkesh Kumar Sharma to the 10-member Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel.
In addition, Guterres’ envoy on technology, Amandeep Singh Gill, was also appointed to the panel.
Alkesh Kumar Sharma is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Kerala cadre. A former secretary in the Cabinet secretariat, he has also worked with the UN Development Programme as the national project director for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.
List of 10 members in the panel:
Vint Cerf from the United States,
Hatem Dowidar from Egypt,
Lise Fuhr from Denmark,
Maria Fernanda Garza from Mexico,
Toomas Hendrik Ilves from Estonia,
Maria Ressa from the Philippines and the USA,
Alkesh Kumar Sharma from India,
Karoline Edtstadler from Austria,
Gbenga Sesan from Nigeria, and
Lan Xue from China.
S17. Ans. (1) Kerala
Sol: Kerala’s first tribal novelist and short story writer, Narayan, 82, whose novel Kocharethi gained global recognition, died in Kochi on 16th August 2022.
Narayan completed Kocharethi, his debut novel, in 1988 but struggled to find a publisher. Subsequently, the novel was published in 1998. The novel has been translated to English, Hindi and south Indian languages.
The critically acclaimed novel was selected for the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award in 1999. It was translated and published in Hindi under the title Pahadin by the Sahitya Akademi and was translated to English by Catherine Thankamma.
S18. Ans. (4) Parshottam Rupala
Sol: Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, 18th Aug 2022 launched the Online Market Place feature “Aqua Bazar” in the “MatsyaSetu” mobile app during the 9th general body meeting of the National Fisheries Development Board(NFDB).
The online marketplace will help the fish farmers and stakeholders to source the inputs such as fish seeds, feed, medicines, etc., and services required for fish culture as well as farmers can also list their table-size fish for sale.
The marketplace aims to connect all stakeholders in the aquaculture sector.
S19. Ans. (3) Vistara
Sol: Full-service Vistara emerged as the second biggest airline by domestic market share last month with a 10.4% pie of the sky, distantly second to the market leader IndiGo at 58.8%.
‘Vistara’ airline is Tata Sons’ joint venture with Singapore Airlines.
The number three, four and five positions saw airlines separated by just decimal points — Air India (8.4%), GoFirst (8.2%) and SpiceJet (8%).
India’s airlines carried 9.7 million passengers on domestic routes in July, almost double from a year earlier but lower than the 10.5 million passengers ferried in June 2022.
S20. Ans. (4) 10.1%
Sol: K. inflation rose to another 40-year high in July as spiraling food and energy prices continued to intensify the country’s historic squeeze on households.
The consumer price index rose 1% annually, according to estimates published by the Office for National Statistics on 17th August 2022, above a Reuters consensus forecast of 9.8% and up from 9.4% in June.
Core inflation, which excludes energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, came in at 6.2% in the year to July 2022, rising from 5.8% in June and ahead of projections of 5.9%.
S21. Ans. (3) Airtel
Sol: Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has paid ₹8,312.4 crore to the Department of Telecom towards dues for spectrum acquired in the recently concluded 5G auctions.
With the payment, Airtel has paid four years of 2022 spectrum dues upfront.
Telecom tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Bharti Airtel made a successful bid of ₹43,039.63 crore.
S22. Ans. (1) Dadabhai Naoroji
Sol: London home of Dadabhai Naoroji will get a ‘Blue Plaque’, an honour that is reserved for notable personalities who have lived and worked in London.
Naoroji was the first Asian who was elected as a Member of Parliament in Britain.
The Blue Plaque scheme, run by the English Heritage charity, honours the historic significance of particular buildings across London.
Naoroji’s plaque was unveiled to coincide with the 75th-anniversary celebrations of Indian Independence.
Naoroji often referred to as the “grand old man of India”, is reported to have moved to Washington House, 72 Anerley Park, Penge, Bromley, at a time when his thoughts were turning increasingly towards full independence for India in 1897. That red-brick home now has a plaque which reads: “Dadabhai Naoroji 1825-1917 Indian Nationalist and MP lived here”.
The Blue Plaque was erected at the homes of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Jawaharlal Nehru, and BR Ambedkar among others. Gandhi’s house was commemorated with the Blue Plaque in 1986. India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s home at 60 Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill received the Blue Plaque in 1989.
S23. Ans. (4) Israel
Sol: Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a memoir coming out this fall. “Bibi: My Story” will be published November 2022, three weeks after parliamentary elections are to be held in Israel.
The book describes Netanyahu’s journey from a young age to “his singular perspective on the geopolitics of the Middle East” and “his conversations with Presidents Clinton, Obama and Trump“.
Netanyahu is the son of a prominent Zionist and educator, Benzion Netanyahu. Netanyahu served as the ninth Prime Minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021.
Netanyahu has previously written “A Durable Peace” and “Fighting Terrorism” books.
He is currently facing the allegations of taking gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer.
S24. Ans. (1) Russia
Sol: India is planning to take six Tu-160 long-range bombers from Russia.
Tu-160 is known as the White Swan in the Russian Air Force.
It is codenamed Blackjack by NATO. It is a four-engine bomber.
It has operational range of 12,000 kilometers. It can achieve speeds greater than Mach 2 or 2,220 km/h.
It is capable of carrying conventional or nuclear operational load up to 40 tonnes.
Tu-160 long-range bombers are also known as strategic bombers.
As of now, strategic bombers do not exist in India’s arsenal. Chinese Air Force has Xian HS-6K.
Besides China, US and Russia are only two other countries with strategic bombers.
B-1, B2 and B-52 are strategic bombers operated by US Air Force. Russia has the Tu-160, Tu-22M3M and Tu-95MS.
As of 2022, Tupolev Tu-160 is the largest and heaviest combat aircraft. It is also the fastest bomber in use and the largest and heaviest variable-sweep wing airplane ever flown.
S25. Ans. (2) Manisha Kalyan
Sol:Young striker Manisha Kalyan has become the first Indian footballer to play at the UEFA Women’s Champions League when she made her debut for Apollon Ladies FC in the European Club competition in Engomi, Cyprus.
Kalyan replaced Cyprus’ Marilena Georgiou in the 60th minute at the Makareio Stadium, as Apollon Ladies FC beat Latvian top flight club SFK Riga 3-0 in their UWCL opener.
The 20-year-old had become as the fourth Indian woman footballer to sign for an overseas club when she landed a multi-year contract with Cypriot top division winners Apollon Ladies.
She was recently awarded the AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year for the 2021-22 season.
S26. Ans. (2) 19th August
Sol: World Photography Day is celebrated on 19 August every year to promote photography as a hobby and also inspire photographers around the globe to share a single photo with the rest of the world.
The first official World Photo Day was observed on August 19, 2010.
The origin of World Photo Day comes from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic process developed by Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1837.
It was on August 19, 1939 that the French government purchased the patent of Daguerreotype process and announced the invention as a gift “free to the world”.
S27. Ans. (3) 19th August
Sol:
World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is observed every year on 19 August to pay tribute to humanitarian personnel and those workers who lost or risked their lives while doing humanitarian service.
19 August marks the day on which the then Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 of his colleagues were killed in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad.
World Humanitarian Day was commemorated for the first time on 19 August 2009, after it was formally recognised by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009.
S28. Ans. (2) 4th
Sol:Forbes Asia published its 2022 edition of the best 200 mid-sized companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
These are publicly listed companies with annual revenue of below one billion dollars.
This year, 24 Indian firms made the list titled “Best Under A Billion”, down from 26 in 2021.
This placed India in the fourth position among Asian countries, one position ahead of China which has 22 companies on the list.
Taiwan has the greatest number of companies listed at 30, followed by Japan with 29 and South Korea has 27.
S29. Ans. (2) Mumbai
Sol: Union Minister of Road, Transport & Highway Nitin Gadkari has launched India’s first electric double-decker bus in Mumbai.
Two new electric buses, including the first air-conditioned double-decker bus in the country, will join the fleet of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
A single-decker electric bus for app-based premium bus service and a double-decker air-conditioned bus was launched at a function held at NCPA in south Mumbai.
About Maharashtra: Capital – Mumbai; Chief Minister – Eknath Sindhe; Governor – Bhagat Singh Koshyari
S30. Ans. (2) Punjab
Sol: Asia’s largest Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant has begun its commercial operations in Sangrur, Punjab.
A formal announcement about commissioning of the Asia’s Largest Compressed Biogas Plant was confirmed by the New and Renewable Energy Minister Aman Arora on 12th August.
The plant which has been setup at village Bhuttal Kalan (Sangrur) has a total operational capacity of 33.23-tonne CBG per day.
The Compressed Biogas being produced by the Sangrur plant is now being supplied to the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL)
The plant will also boost the local rural economy by creating employment for over 8000 skilled and unskilled workers and also attract investment worth Rs 1200/- crores.
Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has also decided to setup 42 additional CBG projects with a total capacity of 58 tonnes per day. ll these biogas plants will use agro-residues to create clean energy.
S31. Ans. (4) Madhya Pradesh
Sol: Madhya Pradesh’s tribal-dominated Mandla has become India’s first “functionally literate” district, declared state minister Bisahulal Singh.
A person can be called functionally literate when they are able to write their own name, count, read and write in Hindi.
Mandla collector Harshika Singh said the literacy rate in the district was 68 per cent as per a survey in 2011, while another report in 2020 pointed out that over 2.25 lakh people were not literate in the district and most of them were tribals living in the forest areas.
Within two years, the entire district has become functionally literate.
S32. Ans. (1) Amitabh Chaudhry
Sol: Amitabh Chaudhry, Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Axis Bank Ltd, has topped among the highest paid MD & CEOs of India in the fiscal year 2022.
He received a total payment of 7.63 crore in FY22, including his performance pay of Rs.89 lakh.
Sumant Kathpalia, MD & CEO of Indusind Bank, was the 2nd highest paid MD & CEO, with Rs.7.3 crore remuneration in FY22, followed by Sandeep Bakhshi, MD and CEO of ICICI Bank (Rs. 7.08 crore).
Executive Director of HDFC Bank, Kaizad Bharucha is the highest paid banker of FY22, received Rs. 10.64 crore remuneration in FY22, mainly due to Rs.4.46 crore as a performance bonus.
S33. Ans. (4) Gurdeep Randhawa
Sol: Gurdeep Singh Randhawa has been elected as the first representative of the Indian community in Germany on 17th August.
Randhawa is the first Indian representative of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) Thuringia. CDU is Germany’s strongest political party, currently headed by Friedrich Merz, and has been in power for most of the period since the end of World War II.
The 62-year-old entrepreneur is a member representative of the local CDU association in the Wachsenburg district, where he is also a member of the local council.
S34. Ans. (1) Sikkim
Sol:
Sol:Sikkim Chief Minister, P S Tamang has launched (15th Aug 2022) two welfare schemes for women – ‘Aama Yojana’ and ‘Vatsalya Yojana’.
Aama Yojana: All unemployed mothers in the state will receive Rs 20,000 annually. Amount will be deposited in their bank accounts.
Vatsalya Yojana: An aid of Rs 3 lakh will be provided to childless women for in vitro fertilization treatment. The amount will be given in two phases (Rs 1 lakh in the first and Rs two lakh in the last phase).
S35. Ans. (3) Narendra Modi
Sol: During the Independence Day speech, PM Modi gave a call for taking five resolutions to make India a developed country by 2047.
PM Modi said that five “Prans” (pledges) would take India to international eminence. He called the upcoming 25 years “Amrit Kal”.
The Panch Pran of Amrit Kaal are: Goal of developed India, to remove any trace of the colonial mindset, take pride in our roots, unity, and sense of duty among citizens.
The first resolution is to make India a developed country, while the second resolution is that slavery should not be in the deepest corner of our minds or habits.
The third resolution states that we should feel proud of our heritage and legacy. The fourth resolution is about unity and solidarity, while the fifth resolution is about the duty of citizens towards the nation.
He also gave the slogan “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan, Jai Anusandhan.”
In 2047, India will celebrate its 100 years of independence.
S36. Ans. (2) United States
Sol: The President of the United States Joe Biden signed a massive climate change and healthcare spending bill into law.
As per the White House, the 750-billion-dollar bill is the biggest commitment to counter climate change in the history of the country.
S37. Ans. (4) Kerala
Sol: The Kerala government has launched an app named ‘Lucky Bill App’ to curb Goods and Service Tax (GST) evasion.
The app was launched by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
Aim – To encourage the citizen to ask for a bill every time they make a purchase.
The users need to upload original bills of their purchases to win prizes, including a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh.
The app will also offer rewards such as gift packs from Kudumbashree and Vanashree as well as KTDC tour packages.
About Kerala: Capital – Thiruvananthapuram; Chief Minister – Pinarayi Vijayan; Governor – Arif Mohammad Khan
S38. Ans. (3) Karnataka Bank
Sol: Karnataka Bank has launched a new Term Deposit Scheme named KBL Amrit Samriddhi under Abhyudaya Cash Certificate (ACC) and Fixed Deposit for a tenure of 75 weeks (525 days).
The interest rate for this Deposit Scheme is 10% per annum.
With the new product, KBL Amrit Samriddhi, the bank has extended the benefit of increase in the interest rates to customers.
About Karnataka Bank: Founded- 18 February 1924; Headquarters– Mangalore, Karnataka; MD & CEO- Mahabaleshwara M S
S39. Ans. (1) Axis Bank
Sol: Axis Bank has signed an MoU with Food Corporation of India (FCI) to provide “Ultima Salary Package” with exclusive benefits & features to all its employees.
With this MoU, the Bank has reinstated its commitment to offering holistic banking services to the employees of the Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) sector.
S40. Ans. (4) Simon Stiell
Sol: Secretary of United Nations General Antonio Guterres has appointed Simon Stiell, the former environment minister of Grenada, as the new executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
He will replace Patricia Espinosa of Mexico.
Work – Keeping countries on track to meet international climate goals.
Recent Appointments:
MD of NaBFID – Rajkiran Rai
Part-time non-official directors on the central board of the RBI – Satish Kashinath Marathe, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Revathy Iyer, and Sachin Chaturvedi
Deputy President of FIDE – Viswanathan Anand
First woman Director General of CSIR – Nallathamby Kalaiselvi
MD & CEO of Unity SF Bank – Inderjit Camotra
S41. Ans. (2) Dr. VG Somani
Sol:
The Union government has extended the tenure of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) Chief VG Somani by 3 months.
In 2019, the government appointed Somani as DCGI for a period of three years to head India’s apex drug regulatory agency Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO).
Somani played a key role in the approval of Covid-19 vaccines.
S42. Ans. (4) Mohammad Mustafa
Sol:The Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) has recommended Mohammad Mustafa for the post of NABARD Chairman.
Mustafa, a 1995 batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, served as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
Prior to this, he had served as a Joint Secretary in the Department of Financial Services and also as a director. He had also served as CMD of National Housing Bank between 2014-15 and as MD of CERSAI in 2016.
The Appointments Committee of the cabinet headed by PM Modi will take the final decision.
About National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD): Founded – 12 July 1982; Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra; Chairman – Govinda Rajulu Chintala
S43. Ans. (4) Anuj Poddar
Sol:
Consumer durable products maker Bajaj Electricals has elevated its Executive Director Anuj Poddar to Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
The company has separated the post of Chairman & Managing Director and its patron Shekhar Bajaj will continue as Executive Chairman of the company.
Bajaj Electricals is a part of the business conglomerate Bajaj Group
Bajaj Electricals, part of business conglomerate Bajaj Group, had a turnover of Rs 4,813 crore in FY22.
S44. Ans. (2) MasterCard
Sol: Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, and Chirag Shetty have been signed as the brand ambassadors of MasterCard to promote digital payment in India.
To spread awareness about safety, security, and convenience of digital payments in India.
This partnership will build up the efforts of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and PM Modi’s vision of Digital India.
The company had also signed Shiv Kapoor and Anirban Lahiri as brand ambassador in 2021.
Recent Brand ambassadors:
KL Rahul – Realme, Innerwear Brand XYXX
Vidya Balan – Bharti AXA Life Insurance
Shahid Kapoor – PokerBaazi.com, Furo Sports Shoes, Aramusk
Aamir Khan – Pharmeasy, Phone Pe, Samsung, Dustin India, Vivo, CEAT Limited, Vedantu
Sonam A Kapoor – The Moms Co.
S45. Ans. (2) Ireland
Sol: Ireland all-rounder Kevin O’Brien has announced his retirement from international cricket after falling out of contention for this year’s T20 World Cup in Australia.
O’Brien played three Tests, 153 one-day internationals and 110 T20 internationals during a 16-year international career and had spells with a number of English county clubs and T20 franchise sides around the world.
The 38-year-old famously blasted the Irish to victory over England in a 2011 World Cup group match in India with a 50-ball century—still the tournament’s quickest.
The Dubliner scored 9,048 runs in total for Ireland, including the country’s first Test hundred, a second-innings knock of 118 against Pakistan in 2018, and took 276 wickets.
S46. Ans. (1) Philip Shot
Sol: “Putin His Life and Times“, a biography of the Russian President Vladimir Putin witten by Philip Short, a former correspondent for the BBC, The Economist and The Times, was released in the midst of the Ukraine Crisis.
Philip Short has been working on Putin’s biography for 8 years.
Th book is published by The Bodley Head, a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Random House.
Note: “First Person” published in 2021 was an authorised biography of Putin.
S47. Ans. (3) Karnataka
Sol: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai recently said that his government will provide 2% reservation in all state departments to sportspersons.
He said Karnataka is the first state to adopt athletes. It has adopted basketball as a state sport.
He felicitated Ashwini Ponnapa, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Gururaj Poojary, Ankitha Suresh, Priya Mohan and other athletes.
S48. Ans.(2) Uttar Pradesh
Sol:The Uttar Pradesh cabinet meeting presided by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on 16th August 2022 gave its nod for the project of setting up night Safari in Lucknow district’s “Kukrail forest” area.
As part of the project, the government will establish a zoological park on around 150 acres and night safari on 350 acres without disturbing the dense 2,027-hectare forest in the forest area’s eastern and western blocks.
Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh said the new zoological garden in Lucknow would replace the existing one. He called the plan an “ambitious project” and said the government would hire a consultant to conduct a survey and cost assessment.
The 75 acres of Kukrail would be dedicated for leopard and tiger each while 60 acres for wild beer.
S49. Ans. (3) Uttarakhand
Sol::
Consumer health and hygiene company Reckitt, under its flagship campaign Dettol Banega Swasth India has launched its ‘Dettol School Hygiene Education Programme’ across schools in Uttarakhand in Dehradun with it’s implementation partner PLAN India.
Pushkar Singh Dhami, chief minister, Uttarakhand further unveiled hygiene corner at the event.
Dettol School Hygiene Education Program aims to reach five million kids in 13,000 primary schools in all the 13 districts of Uttarakhand.
S50. Ans. (3) Shah Faesal
Sol: The Central government has reinstated controversial IAS officer Shah Faesal and appointed him as Deputy Secretary in the Tourism Ministry.
The Centre’s move comes four months after it accepted Faesal’s application for withdrawing his resignation and reinstated him in the service in April.
Faesal, a 2010 batch IAS topper of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir cadre, now AGMUT, had resigned from the services in January 2019 and joined politics, which he later quit in August 2020.
Faesal floated the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM) party soon after submitting his resignation. He was detained under the stringent Public Safety Act immediately after the abrogation of special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
S51. Ans. (1) Delhi
Sol: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on 17th August 2021, unveiled Aam Aadmi Party’s historic ‘Make India No 1’
The nation-wide mission has been rooted in five targets by the AAP convenor, namely — free and quality education for all; free and quality healthcare for all; equality & safety for women; jobs for all youth; and fair price to all farmers.
Kejriwal called for an alliance of 130 crore Indians at the event and termed the national mission to be larger than the scope of partisan politics.
S52. Ans. (2) Arunachal Pradesh
Sol: The third airport in Arunachal Pradesh, which is now under construction in Itanagar, the state capital, has been given the name “Donyi Polo Airport” by the Arunachal Pradesh administration.
According to a representative of the Chief Minister’s Office, the state cabinet adopted “Donyi Polo Airport” as the name of the airport at its meeting.
It is the only airport in the capital city and third in the state after Pasighat and Tezu airports.
In the state’s tribal language, ‘Donyi’ means Sun and ‘Polo’ means Moon.
S53. Ans. (2) Ratan Tata
Sol: Industrialist Ratan Tata has launched India’s first Companionship Startup for senior citizens, Goodfellows, to encourage intergenerational friendships.
Shantanu Naidu, an MBA from Cornell University, founded the Goodfellows startup. It promotes inter-generational friendships and has said that it received a seed investment of an undisclosed sum from Ratan Tata.
Goodfellows appoints young graduates who help in assisting the senior citizens.
S54. Ans. (2) Uttarakhand
Sol: With an aim to create awareness of cleanliness among children, the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami has launched the School Hygiene Education programme for the children in the state.
The programme will run in 13,000 primary schools in all the 13 districts of Uttarakhand.
For the programme, the Uttrakhand education department has signed an MoU with Reckitt.
The Chief Minister said that Uttarakhand is the first state in the country to implement the National Education Policy-2020. For the implementation of the National Education Policy, Bal Vatikas have been started in 4,457 co-located Anganwadi centres in the state. New programmes like ‘Praveshotsav’, ‘Aarohi’, ‘Kaushalam’, ‘Anandam’, and ‘Vidya Setu’ are being conducted.
S55. Ans. (3) Odisha
Sol:Odisha State Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has approved Rs 2808.39 crore for the promotion of Millets in the tribal areas of the state.
The Odisha Millets Mission was launched by Government of Odisha in 2017 to revive millets in farms and on plates. It emerged from consultation between Government, Academia (NCDS) and Civil Society Organizations (RRA Network, ASHA Network and local NGOs).
It is the first of its kind of agriculture programme with a priority on increasing consumption in Odisha.
The programme aims comprehensive revival of millets in farms and plates to promote climate resilient farming and contribute to addressing micronutrient deficiency.
About Odisha: Capital – Bhubaneswar; Chief Minister – Naveen Patnaik; Governor – Ganeshi Lal
S56. Ans. (4) Innovation in Insurance
Sol: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) is organizing its first hackathon “Bima Manthan 2022″ with the theme ‘Innovation in Insurance’.
The hackathon invites participants to identify & develop solutions that have the potential to make the insurance available to every individual in a seamless and swift manner with the use of technology.
S57. Ans. (1) RPF
Sol: Indian Railway Protection Force (RPF), have launched a pan-India operation known as Operation Yatri Suraksha.
Under this initiative, several steps are taken to provide round-the-clock security to passengers.
To kickstart Operation Yatri Suraksha, the RPF launched a month-long pan-India drive against criminals who loot passengers in July 2022.
During the drive, the RPF caught 365 suspects who were handed over to the concerned GRPs for legal action.
Recent Operation in News:
OPERATION SATARK – Railway Protection Force (RPF) has recently started ‘Operation Satark’ taking action against illicit liquor, fake currency circulation, etc.
OPERATION AAHT – Indian Railway Protection Force has launched a nationwide operation to curb human trafficking.
OPERATION MY SAHELI – South Eastern Railway launches to ensure security of women passengers.
OPERATION GANGA – India launches mission named Operation Ganga to evacuate Indian nationals from Ukraine.
OPERATION DEVI SHAKTI – India’s complex mission of evacuating its citizens from war-torn Afghanistan.
OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM – Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar flags off ‘Operation Blue Freedom’ to create a World Record at Siachen Glacier.
OPERATION PARAVAAH – Cochin airport launches ‘Operation Paravaah’ for flood control.
OPERATION CO-JEET – Launched by armed forces to fight COVID-19 in day.
OPERATION SAMUDRA SETU-II – Indian Navy launches for Speedy Shipment of Oxygen-filled Containers to India from Other Nations.
OPERATION SANKALP – Indian Navy’s stealth Frigate, INS Talwar is presently deployed for Op-Sankalp commemorating the 3rd continuous year of Indian Navy’s presence in the Gulf.
OPERATION SARD HAWA – Border Security Force (BSF) launched to the western international border of Rajasthan.
S58. Ans. (1) State Bank of India
Sol: The country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has launched its first branch dedicated to start-ups in Koramangala, Bengaluru.
The branch will provide services ranging from the stage of formation of start-ups to Initial Public Offerings and Follow-on Public Offerings.
SBI Chairman Dinesh Khara launched the branch which is located in Koramangala near HSR Layout and Indiranagar which are the biggest start-up hubs in the city.
After Bengaluru, the next branch will be opened in Gurgaon and third one will be in Hyderabad.
These branches would support the needs of the entire start-up ecosystem.
S59. Ans. (2) Rajkiran Rai G
Sol: The Centre and the board of National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) have appointed Rajkiran Rai G as its Managing Director (MD) for five years.
Last year in October 2021, the Centre had appointed K V Kamath as chairperson of NaBFID.
Subsequently, Pankaj Jain and Sumita Dawra were appointed directors to the board.
Recent Appointment:
Deputy President of FIDE – Viswanathan Anand
First woman Director General of CSIR – Nallathamby Kalaiselvi
MD & CEO of Unity SF Bank – Inderjit Camotra
CFO of BharatPe – Nalin Negi
Central Vigilance Commissioner – Suresh N Patel
S60. Ans. (4) Defence Forces
Sol: Defence forces, RBI and Prime Minister of India are the three Most Trusted Institutions in the country, according to a survey by Ipsos India.
The Supreme Court of India came fourth and it was followed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The survey was conducted by Ipsos India and interviewed 2,950 adults including females.
Ranked first are the Defence Forces with at least 2 in 3 (65%) citizens reposing their faith in them, ranked second was the RBI with 1 in 2 (50%) choosing them, ranked third was the PM of India chosen by 49% of citizens polled, and rank fourth was bagged by the Supreme Court of India (47%), rank fifth occupied by the CBI (43%) and rank 6th by the Police (38%).
This was followed by the Parliament (33%) ranked 7th, the media ranked 8th on the list while placed 9th was the Election Commission of India (31%).
S61. Ans. (3) 107
Sol: President Droupadi Murmu has approved 107 gallantry awards to armed forces and CAPF personnel.
The awards include three Kirti Chakra, 13 Shaurya Chakras, two bar to Sena Medals (gallantry), 81 Sena Medals (gallantry), one Nao Sena Medal (gallantry) and seven Vayu Sena Medals (gallantry).
8 Shaurya Chakras have been awarded to army personnel, including two posthumously.
Naik Devendra Pratap Singh has been awarded the second highest peacetime gallantry award Kirti Chakra.
Naik Devendra Pratap Singh was a part of an operation in Pulwama on January 29 where he killed two hardcore terrorists in a gunfight, showing exceptional bravery.
Sepoy Karn Veer Singh and Gunner Jasbir Singh have been awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously.
List of gallantry awards approved by President Murmu-
Kirti Chakra
NK Devendra Pratap Singh, Armd, 55 RR
Sudip Sarkar, Constable/gd, BSF (Posthumous)
Paotinsat Guite, Sub-inspector/gd, BSF (Posthumous)
Shaurya Chakra
Maj Nitin Dhaania, 2 Para (SF)
Maj Amit Dahiya, Sm, 1 Para (SF)
Maj Sandeep Kumar, Grenadiers, 55 RR
Maj Abhishek Singh, Mech Inf, 50 RR
Hav Ghanshyam, Grenadiers, 55 RR
L/nk Ragh Vendra Singh, Mech Inf, 9 RR
Sep Karn Veer Singh, Rajput, 44 RR (Posthumous)
S62. Ans. (1) Jharkhand
Sol:
Amitabh Chaudhary the former BCCI acting secretary and president of Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) has passed away at 58.
He served as acting secretary of the BCCI until 2019 and he was the Indian team manager in Zimbabwe in 2005-06
He was a retired senior IPS officer, who rose to the rank of IGP with the Jharkhand Police and was the chairman of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission.
He played a crucial role in developing infrastructure for Jharkhand cricket.
S63. Ans. (2) Rajasthan
Sol:
The Rajasthan government introduced the ‘Mukhyamantri Anuprati Coaching Yojana’ in 2021-22.
Under the scheme, such students are provided free coaching from reputed coaching institutes.
For the current financial year, the state government has allotted Rs 17.15 crore and the number of seats under the scheme has increased to 15,000.
It covers students from scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, other backward classes, minority, economically-backward classes and specially-abled.
In year 2021-2022, state government had aimed to give free coaching to 10,000 students. Out of over one lakh applications, 9,000 students were selected. For that year, government allotted Rs 3.65 crore and spent Rs 3.54 crore.
S64. Ans. (1) DigiYatra
Sol:
The Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) announced the launch of the Centre’s DigiYatra initiative.
It also rolled out the beta version of its app for Android platforms.
DigiYatra is the passenger processing system based on facial recognition technology.
With this technology, all checkpoints would automatically process the entries of the passengers based on the facial recognition system.
S65. Ans. (1) Jammu & Kashmir
Sol: On the occasion of Independence Day, police personnel from Jammu and Kashmir bagged 108 police medals for gallantry (PMG), the most among States and Union Territories of the total 347 gallantry awards.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has received the maximum gallantry medals at 109, followed by 108 to the J&K Police, 19 to the Border Security Force (BSF), and six each to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
Within the state police forces, 42 gallantry medals have been given to Maharashtra, 15 to Chhattisgarh for the anti-Maoist operations.
Out of the 347 gallantry awards, 204 personnel are being awarded for their gallant action in Jammu and Kashmir, 80 for displaying bravery in Left Wing Extremism or Naxal violence-affected areas, and 14 personnel for showing bravery in North-East Region, the Union Home Ministry said.
S66. Ans. (2) Nipun
Sol: Domestically manufactured new anti-personnel mine “Nipun” and Futuristic Infantry Soldier as a System (F-INSAS) were handed over by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to the Indian Army on 16th August 2022.
Indian firms have indigenously manufactured both the defence system.
The F-INSAS is planned to be manufactured in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, in a joint venture between Indian and Russian entities.
This included the AK-203 assault rifle, which will be manufactured in Amethi as part of the joint venture between Indian and Russian entities.
S67. Ans. (3) IIT Hyderabad
Sol:
Researchers from Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IITH), in association with the LVPEI and CCMB, have developed a 3D-printed cornea from the human donor corneal tissue.
For the first time in India, the researchers 3D-printed an artificial cornea and transplanted it into rabbit eye.
The product is completely natural, contains no synthetic components and is free of animal residues.
S68. Ans. (2) Piyush Goyal
Sol: IAS officer of the Nagaland cadre, Piyush Goyal has been appointed by the Central Government as the new CEO of NATGRID (National Intelligence Grid).
Along with this, the Central Government has also issued an order to post 26 other officers on the post of Additional Secretary.
Piyush Goyal is currently serving as Additional Secretary in the Union Home Ministry.
The post of its CEO was vacant since June when its then chief IPS officer Ashish Gupta was appointed as additional director general of the Border Security Force (BSF).
Chandrakar Bharti, a 1996 batch IAS officer of the Union Territory cadre, has been appointed in place of Piyush Goyal. Presently he is Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence.
NATGRID is the central organization for intelligence gathering with the aim of enhancing India’s counter-terrorism capabilities.
S69. Ans. (1) Babar Azam
Sol:Pakistan is celebrating its 75th Independence Day on August 14 and has honoured their men’s and women’s cricket team skippers Babar Azam and Bismah Maroof respectively with civil awards.
The government of Pakistan has decided to award the Sitara-e-Imtiaz to Babar Azam while the women’s team captain Bismah Maroof will receive the Tamgah-e-Imtiaz.
Meanwhile, Blind cricketer Masood Jan will receive the Pride of Performance award.
On the occasion of 75th year of independence of the country, President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi conferred Pakistan civil awards to 253 Pakistani citizens as well as foreign nationals.
S70. Ans. (2) Scotland
Sol: Scottish government said it became the first in the world to legally protect the right to access free period products when its Period Products Act came into force.
A law has taken effect in Scotland to ensure period products are available free of charge to anyone who needs them.
Under the new law, schools, colleges and universities as well as local government bodies must make a range of period products available for free in their bathrooms.
The Scottish government already invested millions of pounds since 2017 to fund free period products in educational institutions, but the law makes it a legal requirement.
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