Current Affairs - 2019-20

1. Which Indian personality will be honoured with the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy?
[A] Azim Premji
[B] Nita Ambani
[C] Rahul Bajaj
[D] Indu Jain

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2. Government recently conducted the auction of several coal mines located at Brahmadih, Choritand Tiliaya, Jogeshwar and Khas Jogeshwar, Rabodih OCP and Rohne. In which state these mines are located?
[A] Odisha
[B] Jharkhand
[C] Madhra Pradesh
[D] Bihar

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3. Which of the following is not among the African countries in which Indian government has recently decided to open 18 new missions?
[A] Burkina Faso
[B] Cape Verde
[C] Chad
[D] South Africa

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4. What is the theme of the 2018 World Down syndrome Day?
[A] My life, My Community
[B] What I bring to the workplace
[C] My friends, My Community
[D] What I bring to my community

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5. If △ABC is an isosceles triangles with ∠C = = 90° and AC = 5 cm, then AB is:
[A] 5\sqrt{2}cm
[B] 2.5 cm
[C] 5 cm
[D] 10 cm

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6. Supercritical and Ultra-supercritical technologies, sometimes seen in news, are associated with:
[A] Power generation
[B] Transportation systems
[C] Cancer diagnosis
[D] Prediction of big earthquakes

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7. The term “Gyan Sangam”, which was recently in news, is associated to:
[A] Ministry of Human Resource Development
[B] Banks and Financial Institutions
[C] Ministry of Science and Technology
[D] Ministry of Culture

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8. Identify the national park with the help of given information:

  1. The park has been inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in 2016
  2. The  Lepcha tribal community  are among the indigenous peoples of this park
  3. The vegetation of the park includes temperate broadleaf and mixed forests consisting of oaks, fir, birch, maple, willow etc.

Select the correct answer from options given below:

[A] Khangchendzonga National Park
[B] The Great Himalayan National Park
[C] Dibru-Saikhowa National Park
[D] Namdapha National Park

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9. Recently, the Ministry of Communications has launched the Cool EMS Service which allows customers in India to import the food items for their personal use from which of the following countries?
[A] Myanmar
[B] Japan
[C] Sri Lanka
[D] Maldives

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10. Which of the following space observatories has recently observed the deepest gamma-ray burst (GRB) event?
[A] Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)
[B] ASTROSAT
[C] Hubble Space Telescope
[D] High Energy Transient Explorer-2

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