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- The fourth edition of the All India Tiger Estimation has created the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey. The 4th cycle of the survey was held in which year?
A) 2018
B) 2016
C) 2015
D) 2017
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Option A
Explanation: The fourth edition of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018 has created the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey.
- Boeing Co. has completed the final delivery of all the 37 Military Helicopter to the India Air Force. These military helicopters included:
A) 26 AH-64E Apache and 11 CH-47 Chinook helicopters
B) 20 AH-64E Apache and 17 CH-47 Chinook helicopters
C) 22 AH-64E Apache and 15 CH-47 Chinook helicopters
D) 12 AH-64E Apache and 25 CH-47 Chinook helicopters
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Option C
Explanation: America’s largest Aerospace company Boeing Co. has completed the final delivery of all the 37 Military Helicopter to the India Air Force. The 37 Military Helicopters included 22 AH-64E Apache and 15 CH-47 Chinook helicopters. Boeing handed over the final five Apache helicopters to the IAF at Air Force Station Hindan in June 2020.
- SEBI has restructured the advisory committee on matters related to regulation and development of mutual fund industry. Who is the head of this new panel?
A) Kalpana Morparia
B) Nachiket Mor
C) Shyamala Gopinath
D) Usha Thorat
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Option D
Explanation: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has re-constituted its advisory committee on mutual funds that advises the capital markets regulator on matters related to regulation and development of mutual fund industry. The revamped advisory committee on mutual funds has 20-member and will be headed Usha Thorat, former deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
- Which among the following days is marked as World Malala Day?
A) 10 July
B) 11 July
C) 12 July
D) 9 July
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Option C
Explanation: July 12 was declared by the United Nations as World Malala Day on July 12, 2013 to honour the young activist, Malala Yousafzai. July 12 also marks the birth anniversary of Yousafzai, the Pakistani human rights activist, and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
- ADB has renewed the MoU with IEA on Energy Sector Sustainability and Resilience. What is the term of the renewed MoU?
A) 5 years
B) 3 years
C) 4 years
D) 2 years
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Option B
Explanation: The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Energy Agency (IEA) to further scale up collaboration and advance progress on sustainability on energy sector resilience in the Asia and the Pacific region. The three-year agreement, upto 2023, will enable the two organisations to share knowledge and best practice in energy sector data and analysis, on-the-ground engagement, capacity building, technology and innovation among other areas.
- UNIFIL’s Indian Battalion (INDBATT) has won the first prize of the Annual Environment Award 2020 by UNIFIL. Where is the headquarter of UNIFIL based?
A) Lebanon
B) Kenya
C) UAE
D) Oman
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Option A
Explanation: UNIFIL’s Indian Battalion (INDBATT), the Indian battalion stationed at United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has won the first position in the Annual Environment Award. INDBATT has won the award for a project that seeks to increase awareness and decrease waste generation by planting seedlings in their positions and areas of responsibility, preventing littering, reusing plastic bottles, building green houses and building compost pits.
- Who is the author of the biography “His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography”?
A) Tashi Wangdi
B) Lobsang Sangay
C) Tenzin Geyche Tethong
D) Gyalo Thondup
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Option C
Explanation: The biography of the current Dalai Lama titled “His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography”, is set to hit the stands in October 2020. The 352-page book has been written by Tenzin Geyche Tethong, one of the Dalai Lama’s closest aides and advisor of over 40 years. The book is published by Roli Books.
- Nadaun police station has been ranked among the best police stations of India. It is located in which state of the country?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Jammu & Kashmir
D) Kerala
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Option B
Explanation: Nadaun police station in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh has been ranked among the best police stations of the country and the top most police station of the state in the annual ranking of police stations for 2019.
- Name the newly appointed Officiating President of Hockey India?
A) Rajinder Singh
B) Tapan Kumar Das
C) Gyanendro Ningombam
D) Gumjum Haider
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Option C
Explanation: The Hockey India Executive Board has named former chief executive officer (CEO) of Manipur Hockey, Gyanendro Ningombam, as the new Officiating President of Hockey India.
- India’s first Reusable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) with triple viral shield technology has been developed by Loyal Textile Mills Limited in partnership with with which Indian company?
A) Reliance Industries
B) TCS
C) Lupin Limited
D) ITC Limited
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Option A
Explanation: India’s Loyal Textile Mills Limited has launched a new product ‘VIRAL SHIELD’ which comprises of Covid-19 Anti-Viral, Reusable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Masks and Protective Fashion Wear Range.The new triple viral shield products by Loyal Textile has been launched in collaboration with Reliance Industries India and HeiQ from Switzerland.This PPE is the World’s first Reusable PPE.
- When is the National Fish Farmers’ Day observed in India?
A) 12 July
B) 10 July
C) 11 July
D) 9 July
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Option B
Explanation:The 20th edition of the National Fish Farmers’ Day was celebrated on 10 July 2020 by the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying in association with the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB)..
- What is the estimated number of tigers in India as per the latest All India Tiger Estimation by the National Tiger Conservation Authority?
A) 2,226
B) 2000
C) 2,501
D) 2,967
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Option D
Explanation:As per the 4th survey conducted in 2018-19, India has an estimated 2,967 tigers or 75 percent of the global tiger population.
