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- Which is the top Indian city in the Women Entrepreneur Cities Index 2019?
A) Delhi
B) Bengaluru
C) Mumbai
D) Pune
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Option B
Explanation: Dell has released the Women Entrepreneur Cities Index 2019 in which San Francisco Bay Area has topped. Singapore is the top Asian city at 21st rank. Bengaluru ranked at 43 is top Indian city followed by Delhi at 50.
- In which year the first ICC World Test Championship Finals be held?
A) 2020
B) 2021
C) 2022
D) 2023
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Option B
Explanation: International Cricket Council (ICC) has officially launched the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC). The World Test Championship will be held with top 9 test teams playing against each other over the next 2 years starting from August 01, 2019. For this 71 Test matches will be played across 27 series. After this, the two top teams will play the finals for World Test Championship (WTC) in June 2021 in the UK.
- Which state has the highest number of tigers in India as per the All India Tiger Estimation – 2018?
A) Karnataka
B) Maharashtra
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Uttar Pradesh
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Option C
Explanation: The count of tigers in India has risen to 2967, in 2018. The number of tigers in 2014 was 2226, in 2010 was 1706 and in 2006 was 1411. Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of tigers with 526, followed by Karnatak at 524. The data was collected using an Android-based application- M-STrIPES ( Monitoring system for Tigers’ Intensive Protection and Ecological Status).
- Cricketer Ellyse Perry is from which country?
A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) England
D) South Africa
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Option A
Explanation: Australia all-rounder cricketer Ellyse Perry has become the first cricketer of either gender to reach the rare milestone of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the T20 format.
- Ram Nath Kovind becomes first Indian head of state to visit which country?
A) The Gambia
B) Guinea
C) Niger
D) Benin
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Option D
Explanation: President Ram Nath Kovind on his three nations’ tour Benin, The Gambia and Guinea. He has reached Benin and has become the first Indian head of state to the country.
- BRICS Foreign Affairs Ministers Meet 2019 was held in which country?
A) Indian
B) Brazil
C) Russia
D) China
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Option B
Explanation: The meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs 2019 was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. BRICS consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
- When is World Nature Conservation Day observed?
A) July 26
B) July 27
C) July 28
D) July 29
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Option C
Explanation: World Nature Conservation Day: 28 July 2019
- Siddhartha Sanyal has been appointed as the chief economist at which bank?
A) Kotak Mahindra Bank
B) Axis Bank
C) Bandhan Bank
D) HDFC Bank
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Option C
Explanation: Siddhartha Sanyal has been appointed as the chief economist at Bandhan Bank. He will be the head of research and will spearhead the bank’s research and business strategy. MD and CEO of Bandhan Bank- Chandra Sekhar Ghosh
- Which state police has launched the AMBIS project for crime detection?
A) Maharashtra
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Meghalaya
D) Manipur
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Option A
Explanation: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has launched the Automated Multi-modal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS) which is a special digitized policing system to identify and track down criminals.
- Donkupar Roy who passed away recently was the former CM of which state?
A) Assam
B) Manipur
C) Mizoram
D) Meghalaya
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Option D
Explanation: The Meghalaya Assembly Speaker Donkupar Roy has passed away at the age of 64. He was a former Chief Minister of Meghalaya
- Which company has partnered with Google for ‘gStation’ to roll out free, high-speed WiFi zones in India?
A) Dell
B) Huawei
C) TCS
D) CISCO
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Option D
Explanation: Networking company CISCO has partnered with Google for its ‘gStation’ project that provides access to free and high-speed WiFi at public locations across the country.
- Who has been appointed as the Ombudsman of Indian Federation of Sports Gaming?
A) Justice Dipak Misra
B) Justice T.S. Thakur
C) Justice J.S. Khehar
D) Justice A.K. Sikri
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Option D
Explanation:
- Who has been appointed as the New Director General of BSF?
A) VK Johri
B) Paramjit Singh
C) VP Singh
D) NV Thakur
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Option A
Explanation: IPS officer VK Johri has been appointed as the next Director General (DG) of the Border Security Force (BSF). Presently he is the Special Secretary in the external intelligence agency RAW. He will take over as the DG of BSF from August 31, 2019 from incumbent Rajni Kanti Mishra as Mishra will retire on that day.
- Who is the head of Estimates Committee formed by Parliament?
A) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
B) Meenakshi Lekhi
C) Girish Bapat
D) Kirit Solanki
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Option C
Explanation: Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla has constituted 5 committees the name of which and its head is as under: Public Accounts Committee (PAC)- Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury; Committee on Public Undertakings – Meenakshi Lekhi; Estimates Committee- Girish Bapat; These three panels comprise the financial committees that are considered as “trustees” of Parliament in keeping a strict watch over the public expenditure.; Committee for Welfare of SC/ST- Kirit Solanki; Parliamentary Standing Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes- Ganesh Singh
- Who is the head of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) formed by Parliament?
A) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
B) Meenakshi Lekhi
C) Girish Bapat
D) Kirit Solanki
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Option A
Explanation: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
