Current Affairs - Current Affairs
1.
India's first FASTag-based metro parking facility has been launched in which city?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
India's first FASTag-based metro parking facility, at the Kashmere Gate metro station in partnership with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
Category : National
2.
Lieutenant General (retd) Gurmit Singh has been sworn in as the new Governor of which state?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Lieutenant General (retd) Gurmit Singh has been sworn in as the new Uttrakhand Governor.
Category : State
3.
Which player has been adjudged as the ICC Men's Player of the Month for August 2021?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
England Test skipper Joe Root has been voted as the winner of the ICC Men's Player of the Month for August 2021.
Category : Sports
4.
Which nation will host the 2021 SCO Summit in a hybrid format?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The 21st meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of State will be held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in a hybrid format.
Category : International
5.
What is the theme of the International Day of Democracy 2021?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The theme for 2021 International Day of Democracy is "Strengthening democratic resilience in the face of future crises".
Category : Important Days
6.
Who is the winner of the ICC Women's Player of the Month for August 2021?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Ireland's Eimear Richardson has bagged the ICC Women's Player of the Month for August 2021.
Category : Awards and Honours
7.
Which state has banned the storage, sale and bursting of all kinds of firecrackers?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a complete ban on the storage, sale and bursting of all kinds of firecrackers.
Category : State
8.
Union Cabinet has approved PLI Scheme worth Rs 26,058 crores for which sector?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The Union Cabinet gave its approval to Rs. 26,058 crore Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for the auto, auto-components and drone industry.
Category : National
9.
Which one is the fast payment system of Singapore with which RBI has linked its Unified Payments Interface (UPI)?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have announced a project under which the two central banks will link their respective fast payment systems viz, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and PayNow.
Category : National
10.
Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Indian National Space Promotion Authorization Centre (In-SPACe)?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Pawan Kumar Goenka, the former managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Indian National Space Promotion Authorization Centre (In-SPACe), the regulator for India's space industry.
Category : Persons
11.
RBI has launched the 'Third Cohort' under the Regulatory Sandbox (RS). What is the theme of this cohort?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The Reserve Bank of India has announced the theme for the Third Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox (RS) as 'MSME Lending'.
Category : National
12.
Who is the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
English author Susanna Clarke has won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 for her second novel 'Piranesi'.
Category : Awards and Honours
13.
India has declared to institutionalise regular Defence Dialogue with which region, on the sidelines of the biennial DefExpo military exhibition?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The Government of India has proposed to institutionalise the India-Africa Defence Dialogue, as a regular event, to be held on the sidelines of the biennial DefExpo military exhibition.
Category : International
14.
Cricket player Brendan Taylor has announced his retirement from international cricket. Did he play for which country?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Former Zimbabwe skipper and wicket-keeper batsman Brendan Taylor has announced his retirement from international cricket.
Category : Sports
15.
National Engineer's Day is being celebrated in India on which day?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
In India, Engineer's Day is celebrated on September 15 every year, since 1968, to recognise the contribution of engineers in the development of the nation.
Category : Important Days
16.
Which state has declared encroachment of temple land as a cognizable and non-bailable offence?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a bill that makes the encroachment of properties belonging to religious institutions a cognizable and non-bailable offence.
Category : State
17.
The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in which city?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University at Aligarh, in Uttar Pradesh.
Category : National
18.
Which is the first bank in India to launch real-time online tracking for cross-border payments for corporate clients in partnership with SWIFT GPI?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
DBS Bank has launched real-time online tracking for cross-border payments for its corporate clients, in partnership with SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (GPI).
Category : Banking
19.
The International Day of Democracy is being celebrated every year on which date?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The International Day of Democracy is celebrated across the world on 15 September every year, since 2008.
Category : Important Days
20.
The first-ever in-person QUAD Leaders' Summit is scheduled to be held in which country?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to attend the first-ever in-person QUAD ( Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) Leaders' Summit at the White House, in Washington D.C.
Category : National
Quick links
Quantitative Aptitude
Verbal (English)
Reasoning
Programming
Interview
Placement Papers