Exercise :: September 16, 2021 Current Affairs - Daily Current Affairs
- September 16, 2021 Current Affairs - Daily Current Affairs
| 1. | India's first FASTag-based metro parking facility has been launched in which city? |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: India's first FASTag-based metro parking facility, at the Kashmere Gate metro station in partnership with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
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| 2. | Lieutenant General (retd) Gurmit Singh has been sworn in as the new Governor of which state? |
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Answer: Option A Explanation: Lieutenant General (retd) Gurmit Singh has been sworn in as the new Uttrakhand Governor.
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| 3. | Which player has been adjudged as the ICC Men's Player of the Month for August 2021? |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: England Test skipper Joe Root has been voted as the winner of the ICC Men's Player of the Month for August 2021.
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| 4. | Which nation will host the 2021 SCO Summit in a hybrid format? |
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Answer: Option D 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.
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| 5. | What is the theme of the International Day of Democracy 2021? |
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Answer: Option C Explanation: The theme for 2021 International Day of Democracy is "Strengthening democratic resilience in the face of future crises".
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| 6. | Who is the winner of the ICC Women's Player of the Month for August 2021? |
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Answer: Option A Explanation: Ireland's Eimear Richardson has bagged the ICC Women's Player of the Month for August 2021.
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| 7. | Which state has banned the storage, sale and bursting of all kinds of firecrackers? |
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Answer: Option A Explanation: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a complete ban on the storage, sale and bursting of all kinds of firecrackers.
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| 8. | Union Cabinet has approved PLI Scheme worth Rs 26,058 crores for which sector? |
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Answer: Option B 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.
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| 9. | Which one is the fast payment system of Singapore with which RBI has linked its Unified Payments Interface (UPI)? |
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Answer: Option D 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.
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| 10. | Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Indian National Space Promotion Authorization Centre (In-SPACe)? |
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Answer: Option A 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.
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| 11. | RBI has launched the 'Third Cohort' under the Regulatory Sandbox (RS). What is the theme of this cohort? |
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Answer: Option C Explanation: The Reserve Bank of India has announced the theme for the Third Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox (RS) as 'MSME Lending'.
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| 12. | Who is the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021? |
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Answer: Option D Explanation: English author Susanna Clarke has won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 for her second novel 'Piranesi'.
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| 13. | India has declared to institutionalise regular Defence Dialogue with which region, on the sidelines of the biennial DefExpo military exhibition? |
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Answer: Option C 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.
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| 14. | Cricket player Brendan Taylor has announced his retirement from international cricket. Did he play for which country? |
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Answer: Option C Explanation: Former Zimbabwe skipper and wicket-keeper batsman Brendan Taylor has announced his retirement from international cricket.
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| 15. | National Engineer's Day is being celebrated in India on which day? |
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Answer: Option A 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.
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| 16. | Which state has declared encroachment of temple land as a cognizable and non-bailable offence? |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a bill that makes the encroachment of properties belonging to religious institutions a cognizable and non-bailable offence.
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| 17. | The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in which city? |
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Answer: Option B Explanation: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University at Aligarh, in Uttar Pradesh.
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| 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? |
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Answer: Option C 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).
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| 19. | The International Day of Democracy is being celebrated every year on which date? |
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Answer: Option A Explanation: The International Day of Democracy is celebrated across the world on 15 September every year, since 2008.
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| 20. | The first-ever in-person QUAD Leaders' Summit is scheduled to be held in which country? |
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Answer: Option D 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.
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