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- Harshit Raja is the 69th and newest Grandmaster in Chess for India. He hails from which city?
A) Kolkata
B) Pune
C) Guwahati
D) Bhubaneswar
- Vice President of India Shri M Venkaiah Naidu recently unveiled the foundation stone of Innovation and Development Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). In which city is the centrally-owned JNCASR based?
A) Bengaluru
B) Pune
C) Hyderabad
D) Ahmedabad
- Unmukt Chand has recently announced his retirement from which game for India?
A) Wrestling
B) Football
C) Sprinting
D) Cricket
- Which Indian hospital has become the first hospital of India to house a fire station inside the hospital premises?
A) PGIMER,Chandigarh
B) Apollo Hospital, Chennai
C) AIIMS, New Delhi
D) Safdarjung Hospital, NewDelhi
- Which state in India has become the first to recognise the Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) in an urban area and in core area of a tiger reserve?
A) Bihar
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Haryana
D) Rajasthan
- The world’s second-largest National Gene Bank has been set up at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR). Where is the facility located?
A) New Delhi
B) Indore
C) Nagpur
D) Chennai
- How many Gallantry awards have been approved by President Ramnath Kovind for armed forces, police and paramilitary personnel on the occasion of Independence Day on August 15, 2021?
A) 155
B) 177
C) 144
D) 122