- When Kargil Day is celebrated?
(A) 23 July
(B) 24 July
(C) 25 July
(D) 26 July
Answers With Explanation : (D) Kargil Day is celebrated on 26 July each year in India to commemorate the sacrifices made by Army personnel during the 1999 Kargil War. The conflict, dubbed as ‘Operation Vijay’, was waged by India and Pakistan in the Kargil area of Jammu & Kashmir.
- Who has been named as the AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year 2020-21?
(A) Nirmala Devi
(B) Bala Devi
(C) Kubali Devi
(D) Mira Devi
Answers With Explanation : (B) Bala Devi has been named as the AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year 2020-21, with young gun Manisha Kalyan winning the AIFF Women’s Emerging Footballer of the Year 2020-21 Award. This marks the third time that the mercurial forward has won this prestigious award, having previously won it two years in a row in 2014 and 2015.
- Which of the following statements is/are correct with reference to the Piezoelectric crystals?
(A) Piezoelectric crystals are a class of materials that generate electricity when it undergoes a mechanical impact.
(B) The piezoelectric molecules developed by the scientists called bipyrazole organic crystals recombine following mechanical fracture without any external intervention.
(C) Both A & B
(D) All of these
Answers With Explanation : (C) Indian Scientists have developed piezoelectric molecular crystals that repair their own mechanical damage without the need for any external intervention. Piezoelectric crystals are a class of materials that generate electricity when it undergoes a mechanical impact. The piezoelectric molecules developed by the scientists called bipyrazole organic crystals recombine following mechanical fracture without any external intervention, autonomously self-healing in milliseconds with crystallographic precision.
- Tripura AgarWood Policy 2021 aims to double agarwood plantation by which year?
(A) 2022
(B) 2023
(C) 2024
(D) 2025
Answers With Explanation : (D) Agarwood based industry, its plantation, it’s sustainable harvesting, the Tripura government released the ‘Tripura AgarWood Policy 2021’, in order to promote Agar tree. Tripura AgarWood Policy 2021 aims to double agarwood plantation by the year 2025. The policy attempts to make Rs.20 billion industry in the next 5 years.
- Who recently inaugurated the Inter State Bus Terminus at Mawiong located in the outskirts of Shillong city?
(A) Narendra Modi
(B) Amit Shah
(C) Rajnath Singh
(D) Nirmala Sitharaman
Answers With Explanation : (B) Home Minister of India Amit Shah inaugurated the Inter State Bus Terminus at Mawiong located in the outskirts of Shillong city. Mawiong is a Village in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. It falls under Shella Bholaganj Block.
- Which country to develop alternative social media platform for Facebook named ‘Jogajog’?
(A) India
(B) China
(C) Bangladesh
(D) Japan
Answers With Explanation : (C) The government of Bangladesh is working to develop a social media platform named ‘Jogajog’ as an alternative to Facebook. The ICT Ministry has taken the initiative in this direction to make the country self-reliant.
- Which of the following Bangladeshi folk singer has recently passed away?
(A) Kalpana Patowary
(B) Fakir Alamgir
(C) Mame Khan
(D) Mame Khan
Answers With Explanation : (B) Fakir Alamgir, Bangladesh’s legendary folk singer has passed away at the age of 71. After the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, he emerged as a Gono Sangeet singer. The singer was a key member of cultural organisations ‘Kranti Shilpi Gosthi’ and ‘Gana Shilpi Gosthi’ and played an important role during Bangladesh’s 1969 uprising.
- Who was Satish Kalsekar, recently seen in news?
(A) Hindi poet
(B) Marathi poet
(C) Sufi poet
(D) Punjabi poet
Answers With Explanation : (B) Renowned Marathi poet Satish Kalsekar passed away at the age of 78 following a heart attack. He was mostly known for his work as a poet. His popular collections of poems are ‘Indriyopnishad’, ‘Sakshat’ and ‘Vilambit’.
- Who recently published the study report named ‘Quantitative analysis of Microplastics along River Ganga’?
(A) NITI Aayog
(B) World Bank
(C) Toxics Link
(D) None of these
Answers With Explanation : (D) The ‘Quantitative analysis of Microplastics along River Ganga’, a newC study by Toxics Link has found heavy concentration of microplastics in the Ganga. Among the range of plastic debris that is found in water bodies, microplastics are the most notorious because of their small size, on average microplastics are less than 5 mm in length or roughly equal to five pinheads.
- The 97th Constitutional Amendment set out basic rules such as
(A) A maximum of 21 directors in a society.
(B) A fixed term of five years for elected members.
(C) A six-month cap on the time limit for which a society’s board of directors can be kept under supersession or suspension.
(D) All of these
Answers With Explanation : (D) The Supreme Court struck down certain provisions of the Constitution (97th Amendment) Act, 2011 in so far as it introduced clauses dealing with the working of cooperative societies working within a state. The Amendment set out basic rules such as a maximum of 21 directors in a society, a fixed term of five years for elected members, a six-month cap on the time limit for which a society’s board of directors can be kept under supersession or suspension, and reservation of one seat for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes, and two seats for women on the board of every cooperative society, that is, every society that has members from these sections.
