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- Name the winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
A) Kritika Pandey
B) Shalini Vatsa
C) Chitrangada Chakraborty
D) Divya Unny
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Option A
Explanation: Indian author Kritika Pandey, who won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Asia region on 2 June 2020, has been declared as the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The 29-year-old has won the 5,000 pound award for her story The Great Indian Tee and Snakes.
- Who is the current Chairman of the NHAI, whose tenure has been extended by the government for a period of 6 months till 21 January 2021?
A) Sanjiv Singh
B) Arvind Singh
C) Sukhbir Singh Sandhu
D) B.S. Bhullar
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Option C
Explanation: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension of the tenure of senior bureaucrat Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as the Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for a period of six months, beyond July 21, 2020, up to January 21, 2021.
- The Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri has virtually launched the toolkit for Swachh Survekshan-2021. This will be which edition of the annual cleanliness survey drive?
A) 7th
B) 6th
C) 5th
D) 4th
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Option B
Explanation: The Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri virtually launched the toolkit for Swachh Survekshan-2021. The 2021 edition will be the sixth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of urban India conducted by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The Swachh Survekshan-2021 indicators will mainly focus on parameters pertaining to wastewater treatment and reuse along with faecal sludge.
- What is the name of the new registration portal launched by MSME Ministry for Classification and Registration of MSME enterprises?
A) Udyam
B) Shram
C) Rozgar
D) Uddyati
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Option A
Explanation: The Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) has launched the new fully online process of Classification and Registration of MSME enterprises from 1st July, 2020. For this, the Ministry has launched a new portal called Udyam registration, which will felicitate online, paperless and self-declaration based registration. No documents or proof are required to be uploaded for registering an MSME.
- Who among the following has been appointed as the Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)?
A) P K Mittal
B) Ravinder Takkar
C) Ajai Puri
D) Rajan S. Mathews
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Option C
Explanation: Telecom industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has appointed Bharti Airtel chief operating officer for India and South Asia, Ajai Puri, as its new Chairman for 2020-21. Apart from this, Reliance Jio President P K Mittal has been appointed as the vice-chairman of the industry body.
- Chinese Champion Lin Dan has announced his retirement from which of these sports recently?
A) Tennis
B) Badminton
C) Chess
D) Basketball
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Option B
Explanation: The two-time Olympic badminton champion Lin Dan from China has announced his retirement on 4 July 2020.
- Which among these financial lenders has recently joined Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) as an observer?
A) ADB
B) AIIB
C) RBI
D) WEF
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Option A
Explanation: The Manila, Philippines based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has joined the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) as an observer on 23 June 2020. ADB’s inclusion as Observer will help the institution to fulfill its corporate strategy, ‘the Strategy 2030’,
- NPCI has decided to set up its own Smart Datacentre in which city of India?
A) Mumbai
B) Bengaluru
C) Hyderabad
D) New Delhi
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Option C
Explanation: The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is setting up its own ‘Smart Datacentre’ in Hyderabad, Telangana, at an investment of Rs. 500 crore. The foundation stone for this Tier-IV data centre was laid by Telangana Information Technology and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao at Narsingi village in Hyderabad.
- Name the video conferencing app launched by the Reliance Industries to enable group meeting?
A) JioChat
B) JioMeet
C) JioConference
D) JioGroup
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Option B
Explanation: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has launched a video conferencing app, JioMeet, with unlimited free calling facility. It is a close competitor of US-owned Zoom app. The JioMeet video conferencing app is available to work across Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and web since July 2 after beta testing. JioMeet supports HD audio and video call quality and allows up to 100 participants at a time.
- The Mars Orbiter Mission of ISRO has captured the image of the closest and biggest moon of Mars. What is the name of this moon?
A) Deimos
B) Triton
C) Callisto
D) Phobos
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Option D
Explanation: The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan mission, of the ISRO, has captured the image of the closest and biggest moon of Mars, named Phobos. The image was taken on July 1, 2020, by the Mars Colour Camera (MCC) onboard MOM, when the MOM was about 7,200 km from Mars and 4,200 km from Phobos.
