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17 january 2021
Q1. Recently India's first indigenous driver equipped Metro Car was inaugurated by?
a. Nitin Gadkari
b. Rajnath singh
c. Narendra Modi
d. None of these
Answer & Explanation
(b)
* India's first driveless metro car unveiled on 15 January during a ceremony held at Banglore Complex.
* Indigenously designed and developed.
Q2. Which state has announced to provide free Sanitary pads for high school and college girls?
a. Punjab
b. Haryana
C. Goa
g. Kerala
Answer & Explanation
(a)
* Punjab launches I-Rakhwali Mobile App for Environment protection.
* Punjab Smart Connect Scheme to provide free smart phones to class 12 students.
* IIT Ropar designs 'WardBot' to deliver food, medicined to COVID-19 patients.
Q3. Virander kumar Paul has been appointed as the Ambassador of India to which country?
a. Russia
b. China
c. Somalia
d. japan
Answer & Explanation
(c)
* Somalia, eastermost country of Africa, on the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and occupies between sub-Sahara Africa.
Q4. The world's oldest living first-class cricketer Alan Burgess who passed away recently, was from which country?
a. Australia
b. England
c. New Zealand
d. South Africa
Answer & Explanation
(c)
* Alan Thomas Burgess was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1940 to 1952. He was a tank driver in World war 2. In june 2020, Burgess became the world's oldest living first-class cricketer.
Q5. Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed its New Shepard vehicle, with hopes that human space flights can begin soon.Who is the founder of the The Blue Origin?
a. Jeff Bezos
b. Elon Musk
c. Burt Rutan
d. Shuji Ogawa
Answer & Explanation
(a)
* Jeff Bezos is the founder of The Blue Origin(Private spaceflights company)
* Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed its new shepard vehicle on its latest mission, NS-14, with hopes that human flights can begin soon.
* The 18-meter tall rocket launched a capsule to the boundary of space,one that's designed to eventually carry humans at a cost of $200,000 or so per ticket.
Q6. Recently which ministry has launched "SAKSHAM" campaign to spread awareness about green energy?
a. M/o Earth Sciences
b. M/o Commerce and Industry
c. M/o New & Renewable Energy
d. M/o Petroleum & Natural Gas
Answer & Explanation
(d)
* Petroleum Conservation Research Association(PCRA),M/o Peteoleum & Ntural gas launched month long mass awareness campaign "SAKSHAM" to spread awareness about 'Green and Clean Energy'.
* PCRA is a registered society set up under the aegis of ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India.
* PCRA is engaged in promoting fuel conserevation and energy efficiency in various sectors of the economy. It also helps the government in formulating policies and strategies for petroleum conservation, aimed at reducing excessive dependence of the country on oil imports.
Q7. "Kite festival Shakrain" is observed in which of the following South Asian Country?
a. Sri Lanka
b. Pakistan
c. Nepal
d. Bangladesh
Answer & Explanation
(d)
* This is a centuries old tradition in several parts of Bangladesh celebrated on the last day of the Bengali month of Paush.
* The Dhaka south city Corporation (DSCC) organised the festival for the first time this year with the slogan 'Let's fly a kite,Cherish Tradition'.
* "Kite festival shakrain" spread the culture,tradition and heritage of Bangladesh among the new generation along with eradicating communal forces from the country.
Q8. Recently Food Corporation of India (FCI) celebrated its foundation day.In which year FCI was founded?
a. 1960
b. 1965
c. 1970
d. 1975
Answer & Explanation
(b)
* The Food Corporation of India was setup under the Food Corporation's Act 1964, in order to fulfill following objectives of the Food Policy:-
(1) Effective price support operations for safeguarding the interests of the farmers.
(2) Distribution of food grains throughout the country for public distribution system.
(3) Maintaining Satisfactory level of operational and buffer stocks of food grains to ensure National Food Security.
* The Food Corporation of is a statutory body under the M/o Consumer Affairs,Food and public Distribution. M/o Consumer Affairs, Food and public Distribution is headed by Shri Piyush Goyal.
Q9. Recently India and Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance cooperation in which field?
a. Green Ocean Technologies
b. Space Exploration Technologies
c. Agriculture Technologies
d. Information & Communications Technologies
Answer & Explanation
(d)
* India and Japan signed this MoU to strengthen ties in the field of information and Communications. Telecom security, submarine optical fibre cable and smart cities are such technologies which work on 5G.
* Ravi Shankar Prasad,Union Minister for communications and IT, and Japan's Minister for Internal Affairs and communications Takeda Ryota signed the MoU via video conferencing.
Q10. Which Space Organization is ready to conduct final test of 'world's most powerful rocket'?
a. JAXA
b. NASA
C. CNSAA
d. ESA
Answer & Explanation
(b)
* NASA is looking to carry out the eighth and final test in its "Green Run" test series on 17th january, NASA informed on its official website.
* This eighth stage, termed "hot fire," will bring to an end a series of tests which, NASA says, will gradually bring together the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) to life for the very first time. The core stage of the SLS will form the backbone of what NASA says will be "most powerful rocket in the world" and will power its next-generation human Moon Missions.
* During the "hot fire" test, all four of the core stage's RS-25 engines will be fired simultaneously for up to eight minutes to simulate the core's performance during the actual launch.
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