1. Who has taken charge as Director General of All India Radio?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (D) AnIIS Officer of 1988 batch N Venudhar Reddy took charge as Director General of All India Radio. Currently Working as Principal DG of News Services Division, All India Radio, he was given additional charge of AIR, upon the approval of the Appointments Committee of the cabinet.
2. Under which Article of the Constitution, the Trinamool Congress government led by Mamata Banerjee has passed a resolution to form a Legislative Council?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (C) Government of West Bengal passed a resolution in the state assembly in favour of creating a legislative council in the state under Article 169 of the Constitution. The resolution was passed with 196 votes in favour and 69 against it. The West Bengal Legislative Assembly has a strength of 294 members but only 265 were present during the voting.
3. Which of the following has launched newsletter platform “Bulletin”?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (D) Facebook launched their new newsletter platform, Bulletin. The new site will be a place for writers and podcasters to publish content and build a subscriber base. As this new platform is in development, Facebook is testing tools and features with a small number of selected writers, but shares an overview of what’s to come.
4. Which of the following has partnered with Mastercard to launch ‘MandateHQ’ for recurring payment
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (A) Payments solution provider Razorpay has partnered with Mastercard to launch ‘MandateHQ’ – a payment interface that will help card-issuing banks to enable recurring payments for its customers. Razorpay, which is backed by Sequoia Capital, GIC, and others, aims to integrate MandateHQ with more than 50 banks in the next 12 months.
5. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has entered into a corporate agency agreement with which of the following bank?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (A) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has entered into a corporate agency agreement with Bank of India through its network of branches and some other facilities across the country, will distribute the general insurer’s products. A bouquet of personal lines of products such as motor, health, home and travel insurance as well as commercial line of products, including engineering and marine insurance, are to be offered to customers of the bank as part of the agreement.
6. Congress leader Virbhadra Singh passed away recently. He was the former CM of which state?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (B) Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister and veteran Congress leader Virbhadra Singh passed away at the age of 87 years. Mr. Singh was a nine-time MLA was elected to the State Legislative Assembly first time in October 1983.
7. India's first FASTag/UPI-based cashless parking facility has been launched by DMRC at which of the following metro stations?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (C) The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) launched India's first FASTag or Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based parking facility to reduce the time for entry and payment. The facility was launched at Kashmere Gate metro station. The parking facility was launched by Dr Mangu Singh, Managing Director of DMRC.
8. Who has been appointed as the CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced GPS navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (A) Neha Parikh has been appointed as the new CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google. Neha, 41, a board member of the online used car retailer Carvana, replaced Noam Bardin, who stepped down in November as the CEO after leading the Israeli company for 12 years.
9. Which e-commerce company has recently abolished plastic packaging?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (B) Flipkart has eliminated all single-use plastic packaging used across its fulfilment centres in the country. With this, the e-commerce major has delivered on its public commitment to move to plastic-free packaging in its supply chain by 2021.
10. Which country has launched Fengyun-3E satellite?
Answers with Explanations with Explanation : (B) China has recently launched Fengyun-3E satellite, a new Chinese weather satellite which flew into an early morning polar orbit to feed data into global computer models. The three-stage Long March 4C rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Inner Mongolia region of northwestern China.
