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Q. Which team defeated Dabang Delhi to win the 7th season of Vivo Pro Kabaddi League 2019?
(a) Bengaluru Bulls
(b) Bengal Warriors
(c) Haryana Steelers
(d) U Mumba
(e) UP Yoddha
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) Bengal Warriors
Explaination: Bengal Warriors defeated Dabang Delhi to win the 7th season of Vivo Pro Kabaddi League 2019.
Q. The 1st India-Bangladesh Stakeholders’ meet was held in?
(a) Jaipur
(b) Surat
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Guwahati
(e) Dispur
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (d) Guwahati
Explaination: The 1st India-Bangladesh Stakeholders’ meet was held in Guwahati.
Q. Who among the following has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Cabo Verde?
(a) Rajeev Kumar
(b) Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas
(c) Anil Kumar Rai
(d) Manpreet Vohra
(e) Ausaf Sayeed
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas
Explaination: The Ministry of External Affairs notified that Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Cabo Verde.
Q. Which institute has topped all Indian Institutes in the list of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) India University Rankings 2020?
(a) IIT Delhi
(b) IISc Bangalore
(c) IIT Mandi
(d) IIT Bombay
(e) IIT Goa
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (d) IIT Bombay
Explaination: The IIT Bombay has topped all Indian Institutes in the list of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) India University Rankings 2020.
Q. Who among the following has been appointed as the Policy Advisor in the External Affairs Ministry in the rank of Additional Secretary?
(a) Sanjay Kothari
(b) I. V. Subba Rao
(c) Pramod Kumar Misra
(d) Rajiv Gauba
(e) Ashok Malik
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (e) Ashok Malik
Explaination: Ashok Malik has been appointed as the Policy Advisor in the External Affairs Ministry in the rank of Additional Secretary.
Q. The 2019 summit of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) was held in which city?
(a) Dehradun
(b) Shimla
(c) Darjeeling
(d) Delhi
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (d) Delhi
Q. On which date, the 2019 edition of International Snow Leopard Day (ISLD) is observed?
(a) October 26
(b) October 23
(c) October 25
(d) October 24
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) October 23
Q. The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) has launched which national repository of startups?
(a) TechBharat
(b) TechWalk
(c) TechSagar
(d) TechTea
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) TechSagar
Q. IIM Kozhikode and Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd. have announced a special drive _______________ to support women entrepreneurs in the country.
(a) Ja Eve
(b) La Eve
(c) Ka Eve
(d) Ma Eve
(e) Sa Eve
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) La Eve
Explaination: IIM Kozhikode and Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd. have announced a special drive “La Eve” to support women entrepreneurs in the country.
Q. The AYUSH ministry has signed an MoU with which ministry to provide traditional medicine services at the armed forces’ hospitals and dispensaries?
(a) Ministry of Food Processing Industries
(b) Ministry of Home Affairs
(c) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(d) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
(e) Ministry of Defence
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (e) Ministry of Defence
Explaination: The AYUSH ministry has signed an MoU with the Defence Ministry to provide traditional medicine services at the armed forces’ hospitals and dispensaries.
Q. Name the Para-athlete who has won 2 gold medals at the 7th CISM World Military Games held in Wuhan, China.
(a) Devendra Jhajharia
(b) Mariyappan Thangavelu
(c) Anandan Gunasekaran
(d) Naresh Kumar Sharma
(e) Varun Singh Bhati
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) Anandan Gunasekaran
Explaination: Para-athlete Anandan Gunasekaran has won 2 gold medals at the 7th CISM World Military Games held in Wuhan, China.
Q. Which union ministry has inaugurated the International Workshop on Environment Flows at Delhi?
(a) Ministry of AYUSH
(b) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
(c) Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
(d) Ministry of Jal Shakti
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (d) Ministry of Jal Shakti
Q. Which company has signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture company in India with Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH (MR) of Germany for the manufacturing and sale of Composite Hollow Core Insulators?
(a) Modern Insulators Limited
(b) Grasim Insulators Limited
(c) Oriental Insulators Limited
(d) Grasim Industries Limited
(e) Adpro Ceramics (India) Pvt. Ltd
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (d) Grasim Industries Limited
Explaination: Grasim Industries Limited has signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture company in India with Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH (MR) of Germany for the manufacturing and sale of Composite Hollow Core Insulators.
Q. Indian Railways has installed the most advanced Electronic Interlocking System on the Grand Chord route. Who is the present Railway Minister of India?
(a) Piyush Goyal
(b) D.V. Sadananda Gowda
(c) Amit Shah
(d) Nirmala Sitharaman
(e) Ravi Shankar Prasad
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (a) Piyush Goyal
Explaination: Indian Railways has installed the most advanced Electronic Interlocking System on the Grand Chord route. Railway Minister: Piyush Goyal.
Q. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has imposed penalties of Rs 1.01 crore on ______________________
(a) United India Insurance Company Ltd
(b) Cholamandalam MS GIC
(c) BajajAllianz General Insurance
(d) LIC Insurance Company India
(e) Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) Cholamandalam MS GIC
Explaination: The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has imposed penalties of Rs 1.01 crore on Cholamandalam MS GIC.
Q. The State Cabinet of which state has decided to make government jobs out of bounds for people with more than 2 children?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Nagaland
(c) Assam
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e) Madhya Pradesh
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) Assam
Explaination: The State Cabinet of Assam has decided to make government jobs out of bounds for people with more than 2 children.
Q. Which Indian sportsperson has been named ambassador for PM Modi’s ‘Bharat Ki Laxmi’ initiative?
(a) Saina Nehwal
(b) Mary Kom
(c) PV Sindhu
(d) Mithali Raj
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) PV Sindhu
Q. Who has been appointed new CEO of UIDAI?
(a) Prakash Sharma
(b) Pankaj Kumar
(c) Mayank Dutt
(d) Vijay Kumar
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) Pankaj Kumar
Q. Who is the head of the committee to resolve MeitY and NITI fight over Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
(a) K Vijay Raghavan
(b) S. K. Sinha
(c) Shobhana K. Pattanayak
(d) Tarun Shridhar
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (a) K Vijay Raghavan
Q. Which Indian Armed Force has decided to conduct exercise codenamed ‘Sindhu Sudarshan’?
(a) Indian Air Force
(b) Indian Navy
(c) Assam Rifles
(d) Indian Army
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (d) Indian Army
Q. Former South Africa skipper _________________ and former Australian off-spinner Tim May has been elected an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).”
(a) Jacques Kallis
(b) Herschelle Gibbs
(c) Shaun Pollock
(d) Justin Kemp
(e) Graeme Smith
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (e) Graeme Smith
Explaination: Former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith and former Australian off-spinner Tim May has been elected an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
Q. Who among the following has been appointed as the new CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)?
(a) Tarun Shridhar
(b) P. Raghavendra Rao
(c) Pankaj Kumar
(d) Rajesh Kotecha
(e) Jai Priye Prakash
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) Pankaj Kumar
Explaination: The Government of India appointed IAS officer Pankaj Kumar as the new CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
Q. Who among the following has take over as the 39th President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?
(a) Sourav Ganguly
(b) Vinod Kambli
(c) Sachin Tendulkar
(d) Anil Kumble
(e) Harbhajan Singh
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (a) Sourav Ganguly
Explaination: Sourav Ganguly takes over as the 39th President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Q. Which organization has started the work to produce hypersonic weapon missiles that travel at 5 times speed of sound, or a little over a mile every second?
(a) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(b) Indian Space Research Organisation
(c) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
(d) Bharat Electronics Limited
(e) Defence Research and Development
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (e) Defence Research and Development
Explaination: The Defence Research and Development (DRDO) has started work to produce hypersonic weapon missiles that travel at 5 times speed of sound, or a little over a mile every second.
Q. 2024 Olympics will be hosted in?
(a) Tokyo, Japan
(b) Beijing, China
(c) Paris, France
(d) Moscow, Russia
(e) Seoul, South Korea
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) Paris, France
Explaination: The logo for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games unveiled at a ceremony in the French capital.
Q. The State Cabinet of Assam has decided to make government jobs out of bounds for people with more than 2 children. The policy will come into effect from January 1 _____________________
(a) 2020
(b) 2021
(c) 2022
(d) 2023
(e) 2024
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) 2021
Explaination: The State Cabinet of Assam has decided to make government jobs out of bounds for people with more than 2 children. The policy will come into effect from January 1, 2021.
Q. Bhashan Char Island, which is in news recently, is located in which country?
(a) India
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Bangladesh
(d) Pakistan
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) Bangladesh
Q. Who led Indian delegation at the 18th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Raj Nath Kovind
(c) Venkaiah Naidu
(d) Rajnath Singh
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (c) Venkaiah Naidu
Q. Who among the following is the Chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India?
(a) Lala Yodh Raj
(b) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
(c) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi
(d) Deepak Parekh
(e) Subhash Chandra Khuntia
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (e) Subhash Chandra Khuntia
Explaination: Subhash Chandra Khuntia is the Chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India.
Q. Where is the headquarter of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)?
(a) Kolkata
(b) New Delhi
(c) Pune
(d) Chennai
(e) Chandigarh
Answer/ Explanation
Answer: (b) New Delhi
Explaination: Headquarters of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is in New Delhi.
Todays TOP GK Current Affairs One-Liners in Short 25-10-2019
National Current Affairs:
Google achieves ‘quantum supremacy’
Google has officially announced that it has achieved quantum supremacy with its advanced processor that was able to surpass the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
- Google says that its 54-bit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years.
- The search giant has made the details of its research public for the scientific community to fully scrutinize its achievement.
M. Venkaiah Naidu to lead the Indian delegation at 18th Non-Aligned Movement Summit
Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu will lead the Indian delegation at the 18th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held at Baku, Azerbaijan on 25th to 26th of this month.
- The Summit will be preceded by Senior Officials Meeting and Ministerial Meeting.
- The theme for the Summit is ‘Upholding the Bandung Principles to ensure concerted and adequate response to the challenges of the contemporary world’.
- India is one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement which was established in 1961 with 29 members.
- It has since grown to 120 members to become one of the largest groupings of nation-states.
Prakash Javadekar launches first national protocol to enumerate snow leopard population in India
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change launched the first national protocol to enumerate the snow leopard population in the country on the occasion of International Snow Leopard Day.
- International Snow Leopard Day is celebrated on October 23 every year to protect and conserve the snow leopards and preserve the beautiful wildlife of the Himalayas.
- India is believed to have 400 to 700 snow leopards spread across Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
- Project Snow Leopard is an initiative of the Environment Ministry which aims to safeguard and conserve India’s unique natural heritage of high altitude wildlife populations and their habitats by promoting conservation through participatory policies and actions.
IAF chief leaves for Oman to witness joint exercise ‘Eastern Bridge’
Chief of Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria left for Oman on an official visit to witness the ongoing Indo-Oman Joint Exercise ‘Eastern Bridge’
- ‘Eastern Bridge is a joint military exercise between the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) and the Indian Air Force at RAFO base in Masirah, Oman.
- The IAF MiG-29s (upgraded) is participating with Hawks, F-16 and Eurofighter Typhoons of Omani Air Force in the exercise.
- For the first time, MiG-29 fighter aircraft are participating in an international exercise outside India.
Government hikes minimum support price of Rabi crops for 2020-21
The Union Cabinet has decided to hike Minimum Support Price, MSP, for Rabi crops for marketing season 2020-21.
- MSP of wheat has been increased by 85 rupees per quintal to 1,925 rupees per quintal.
- While MSP of Gram has been increased by 255 rupees, barley 85 rupees, mustard oil 225 rupees and sunflower 270 rupees per quintal.
- The move will help increase farmers’ income.
Business Current Affairs
Government approves the in-principle merger for BSNL and MTNL
The Union Cabinet approved the proposal for revival of BSNL and MTNL.
- The Cabinet approved administrative allotment of spectrum for 4G services to BSNL and MTNL so as to enable these PSUs to provide broadband and other data services.
- The spectrum will be funded by the government by capital infusion in these PSUs at a value of Rs 20,140 crore.
- The GST of Rs 3,674 crore for the spectrum value will also be borne by the government.
- By using this spectrum allotment, BSNL and MTNL will be able to deliver 4G services, compete in the market and provide high-speed data using their vast network including in rural areas.
- The minister said that the BSNL and the MTNL will also raise long-term bonds of Rs 15,000 crore for which sovereign guarantee will be provided by the government.
- BSNL and MTNL will restructure their existing debt with these resources.
GeM Partners with Federal Bank for payment-related services
The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Federal Bank to offer a number of services.
- These serviced including the transfer of funds through GeM Pool Accounts (GPA), advising of Performance Bank Guarantees (e-PBG) and Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) to the registered users on the portal.
- The MoU will facilitate a cashless, paperless and transparent payment system on the portal and would create an efficient procurement system for government entities.
Awards Current Affairs
Panchayati Raj Minister confers National Panchayat Awards 2019
Minister of Panchayati Raj Narendra Singh Tomar conferred the national Panchayat Awards, 2019 at a function in New Delhi.
- 246 Awards were given to awardee Panchayats and States in various categories for their best performance at different levels, including the delivery of services.
- 195 awards were conferred under Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar category, 20 Gram Panchayats in Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar category and 3 Gram Panchayats in Gram Panchayat Development Plan Award category.
- 22 Gram Panchayats were awarded in Child-Friendly Gram Panchayats Award and six states were awarded under e-Panchayat Puraskar category.
- The Minister also launched an App called ‘Gram Manchitra’ which is a Geo-Spatial based decision support system for panchayats.
Sports Current Affairs
Aneesh Kumar Surendran Pillai bags third gold for India at World Military Games
Aneesh Kumar Surendran Pillai bagged the third gold medal for India in the ongoing World Military Games here at Wuhan, China.
- He won the gold in disabled men’s shotput IT1 event and he finished with a score of 12.76.
- Previously, He had bagged two gold medals for the Indian contingent in the ongoing World Military Games.
- He won the first gold in the disabled men’s 100m IT1 event and won another gold in the disabled men’s 400m IT1 event.
Praveen Kumar becomes first Indian man to win gold at Wushu World Championships
Praveen Kumar became the first Indian man to win a Wushu World Championships gold, beating Russel Diaz of Philippines in the 48kg category in Shanghai.
- The Indian saw off his Filipino opponent 2-1 in the men’s Sanda event of the 15th World Wushu Championships.
- Among other Indians in the fray, Poonam (women’s 75kg) and Sanathoi Devi (women’s 52kg) secured silver medals while Vikrant Baliyan bagged the bronze in the men’s 60kg category.
- India finished third overall in the championship in event with a gold, two silvers and a bronze.
- Wushu is a Chinese martial art which combines full-contact kickboxing, including close-range punches and kicks, with wrestling, takedowns, throws, sweeps and kicks catch.