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- What is the issue price set for the tranche 4 of Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2022-23?
A) Rs 5,486 per gram
B) Rs 5,201 per gram
C) Rs 5,323 per gram
D) Rs 5,611 per gram
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Option D
Explanation: The subscription for the Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2022-23 – Series IV will be opened from March 06 – March 10, 2023. Issue Price: Rs 5,611 per gram.
- India has recently unveiled world’s first-ever ‘bamboo crash barrier’ in which state?
A) Sikkim
B) Gujarat
C) Maharashtra
D) Tamil Nadu
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Option C
Explanation: The world’s first-ever ‘bamboo crash barrier’ has been launched by India and has been installed on the Vani-Warora Highway, in Vidarbha, Maharashtra.
- Mauganj is the newly set up district of Madhya Pradesh. What is the total number of districts in the state with the introduction of this new one?
A) 59th
B) 61st
C) 47th
D) 53rd
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Option D
Explanation: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced the formation of a new district in the state. Mauganj, a tehsil of Rewa district, has been declared as the 53rd district of Madhya Pradesh.
- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has set up the Advanced Electronics Materials Laboratory in which city?
A) Pune
B) Thrissur
C) Bengaluru
D) Guwahati
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Option B
Explanation: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has set up the Advanced Electronics Materials Laboratory at the Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), in Thrissur, Kerala.
- How many astronauts were launched by SpaceX in the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) recently?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 7
D) 6
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Option A
Explanation: SpaceX successfully launched the four astronauts of the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 03, 2023. They were launched to the ISS on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- India has signed a Framework Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Qualifications with which country?
A) Australia
B) South Africa
C) Norway
D) Sri Lanka
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Option A
Explanation: India and Australia have signed a Framework Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Qualifications on March 02, 2023 in New Delhi.
- “Kosmos-1” is an AI-based multimodal large language model (MLLM), launched by which organisation?
A) Apple
B) IBM
C) Microsoft
D) Alphabet
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Option C
Explanation: Researchers from Microsoft have unveiled “Kosmos-1”, a multimodal large language model (MLLM), having state of the art features like responding to language prompts, image captioning, visual question answering, and more.
- Who has been appointed as the new chief coach of the Indian men’s hockey team?
A) Sidney Crosby
B) Craig Fulton
C) Nathan MacKinnon
D) Bobby Orr
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Option B
Explanation: Hockey India has chosen South Africa’s Craig Fulton as the new chief coach of the Indian men’s hockey team.
- Anupama Upadhyaya and Mithun Manjunath are associated with which sports?
A) Badminton
B) Boxing
C) Tennis
D) Cricket
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Option A
Explanation: Anupama Upadhyaya and Mithun Manjunath have won the singles titles in their respective categories in the 84th senior national badminton championship, held at the Balewadi stadium in Pune.
- Government has recently launched “Jal Shakti Abhiyan – Catch the Rain 2023” campaign. What is the theme of this campaign?
A) conserve water. Save a million lives
B) the whole world depends on you. Save water
C) think before you let it drip
D) source sustainability for drinking water
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Option D
Explanation: The President of India Droupadi Murmu launched the “Jal Shakti Abhiyan – Catch the Rain 2023” campaign in New Delhi on March 04, 2023. The theme of the campaign in 2023 is “source sustainability for drinking water.”
