Current Affairs Q&A

1) Who heads the Group of Transport Ministers (GoM), which recommends the Motor Vehicles
(Amendment) Bill, 2019 to address the issue of road safety ?
1) Raj Kumar Singh
2) Rao Inderjit Singh
3) Yoonus Khan
4) Narendra Singh Tomar
5) None of these

Answer – 3) Yoonus Khan

2) How many days are provided as a timeline for insolvency resolution process and specifies
minimum payouts to operational creditors in recently passed Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
(IBC) (Amendment) Bill, 2019 ?
1) 350 day
2) 310 day
3) 270 day
4) 330 day
5) None of these

Answer – 4) 330 day

3) Name the languages that will be included in the Sub-Field of Field “Literature” in the scheme
component ‘Award of Senior/Junior Fellowships to Outstanding Artistes in the Fields of Culture’ .
1) Nepali and Santhali
2) French and Portuguese
3) Portuguese and Hausa
4) Javanese and Quechua
5) None of these

Answer – 1) Nepali and Santhali

4) What is the position of India among the highest risk country in the world as per the Verisk
Maplecroft’s Water Stress Index 2019 ?
1) 38th
2) 35th
3) 40th
4) 46th
5) None of these

Answer – 4) 46th

5) In which four states, One Nation One Ration Card scheme was launched in order to boost the
National Food Security ?
1) Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat
2) Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat
3) Telangana, Kerala, Maharashtra and Gujarat
4) Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka and Gujarat
5) None of these
 Answer – 2) Telangana , Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat

6) Name the state, which has launched a special digitized policing system called “Automated
Multi-modal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS)” to aid police investigations .
1) Gujarat
2) Kerala
3) Maharashtra
4) Karnataka
5) None of these

Answer – 3) Maharashtra

7) Name the bank that will be converted into small finance bank(SFB) with the aim to provide
micro-credit at the doorsteps to individuals and SME’s(Small and medium-sized enterprises) .
1) Jio Payments Bank
2) Airtel Payments Bank
3) India Post Payments Bank(IPPB)
4) Aditya Birla Payments Bank
5) None of these
Answer – 3) India Post Payments Bank(IPPB)
Explanation:
The postal department has decided to convert the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) into a small finance
bank (SFB) with the aim to provide micro-credit at the doorsteps to individuals and SME’s (Small and
medium-sized enterprises). The postal department also sets a target to open one crore accounts for IPPB
in 100 days.

8) Who was appointed as the 20th governor of Nagaland ?

1) RN Ravi
2) Krishan Kant Paul
3) Padmanabha Acharya
4) Ashwani Kumar
5) None of these
Answer – 1) RN Ravi
9) Which institute scientists have developed the world’s first robot hand for the rehabilitation of
stroke patients ?
1) Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Madras
2) Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi
3) Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Kanpur
4) Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
5) None of these

Answer – 3) Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

10) Who will head the 4-member panel of ministers, which was created in 2018 to propose action
against mob lynching ?
1) Narendra Singh Tomar
2) Amit Shah
3) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
4) Rajnath Singh
5) None of these

Answer – 2) Amit Shah

11) Which bank recently received permission from Reserve Bank of India(RBI) to provide regular
bank services in India and included in the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act,
1934?
1) Bank of East Asia
2) Bank of China
3) Standard Chartered
4) DBS Bank
5) None of these

Answer – 2) Bank of China

12) Where was the Money Museum of Reserve Bank of India(RBI) opened in order to improve the
people’s knowledge of the banking system ?
1) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2) Mumbai, Maharashtra
3) New Delhi, Delhi
4) Kolkata, West Bengal
5) None of these

Answer – 4) Kolkata, West Bengal

13) What is the Gross Domestic Product(GDP) of India for the fiscal year 2020 as per the Credit
Rating Information Services of India Limited(CRISIL) ?
1) 7.5%
2) 7.2%
3) 6.9%
4) 7%
5) None of these

Answer – 3) 6.9%

14) Name the Indian writer, who was awarded with Asian version of the Nobel Prize, 2019 Ramon
Magsaysay Award for “harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless” .
1) Arnab Goswami
2) Sudhir Chaudhary
3) Punya Prasun Bajpai
4) Ravish Kumar
5) None of these

Answer – 4) Ravish Kumar

15) What is the new threshold limit of annual passenger traffic for major airports as per the
“Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2019” passed by
Parliament?
1) 25 lakh
2) 50 lakh
3) 40 lakh
4) 35 lakh
5) None of these

Answer – 4) 35 lakh
16) National Medical Council (NMC) will comprise of how many members ?
1) 35 members
2) 30 members
3) 25 members
4) 20 members
5) None of these

Answer – 3) 25 members

17) Name the two new vaccines, which is introduced to conduct India’s first large scale
tuberculosis preventive trial .
1) MDR1003 and XDRVAC
2) MDR1003 and VPM1002
3) IMMUVAC and MDR1003
4) IMMUVAC and VPM1002
5) None of these

Answer – 4) IMMUVAC and VPM1002

18) Which state has granted infrastructure project status for a $10-billion plan to build the
world’s first ultra-fast hyperloop project ?
1) Maharashtra
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Gujarat
5) None of these

Answer – 1) Maharashtra

19) Shanghai branch of which bank has become the first Indian Bank branch to be connected &
inducted to China’s National Advance Payment System (CNAPS)?
1) Canara Bank
2) State Bank of India(SBI)
3) ICICI Bank
4) HDFC Bank
5) None of these

Answer – 2) State Bank of India(SBI)

20) Name the mobile app launched by Minister for Earth Science, Science and Technology Dr.
Harsh Vardhan to help farmers .
1) HelpFarmers
2) Landmand
3) Agriculture
4) Meghdoot
5) None of these

Answer – 4) Meghdoot
21) How many years of jail term is rewarded to person, who indulge in pornography using child
as per the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) (Amendment) Bill, 2019 ?
1) Life Imprisonment
2) 15 years
3) 5 years
4) 10 years
5) None of these

Answer – 3) 5 years

22) Who will chair the National Statistical Office (NSO) ?

1) Prabhat Kumar
2) Pravin Srivastava
3) P. K. Sinha
4) Ajit Seth
5) None of these

Answer – 2) Pravin Srivastava

23) Which articles are repealed by government of India that grants special status to Jammu and
Kashmir ?
1) Article 350 and 31A
2) Article 370 and 31A
3) Article 350 and 35A
4) Article 370 and 35A
5) None of these

Answer – 4) Article 370 and 35A

24) Who was the first Indian head to visit African countries viz, Benin, The Gambia and Guinea
recently ?
1) Rajnath Singh
2) Venkaiah Naidu
3) Ram Nath Kovind
4) Narendra Modi
5) None of these

Answer – 3) Ram Nath Kovind

25) Which country has conferred ‘The National Order of Merit’, its highest award to President
Ram Nath Kovind ?
1) Ghana
2) Guinea
3) Gambia
4) Benin
5) None of these

Answer – 2)Guinea