Current Affairs - 2019-20

1. Which cricket team has won the 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Trophy?
[A] Karnataka
[B] Gujarat
[C] Jharkhand
[D] Tamil Nadu

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2. Who has been appointed as the new Economic Affairs Secretary?
[A] Arvind Mayaram
[B] Shaktikanta Das
[C] Vijay Kelkar
[D] Tapan Ray

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3. The 56th Liberation Day of Goa is celebrated on which date in India?
[A] December 18
[B] December 21
[C] December 19
[D] December 20

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4. Hypersonic Flight Experiment conducted by ISRO in 2016 is part of which of the following programmes?
[A] GAGAN satellite navigation system
[B] Mars Orbiter Mission
[C] Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstration (RLV-TD)
[D] None of them

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5. Neo protectionism is associated to:
[A] Control on FDI in an economy
[B] Use of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs)
[C] Use of Tariff Barriers
[D] Control on Foreign Institutional Investment

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6. Recently, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has introduced a new star rating methodology called Indian Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (ISEER) for _?
[A] Refrigerators
[B] Air conditioners
[C] Televisions
[D] Solar Rooftops

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7. The term “Triffin dilemma”, which was recently in news, is associated with:
[A] International Territorial Disputes
[B] International Currency System
[C] Trade Protectionism
[D] Global Food Security

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8. Which of the following organizations published the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2017 (WESP)?
[A] World Bank
[B] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
[C] International Monetary Fund (IMF)
[D] World Economic Forum

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9. Sathyabamasat, a satellite recently launched by ISRO, aims to:
[A] monitor the green house gases in the atmosphere
[B] collect data about agriculture and geological formations
[C] develop better cyclone detection and weather forecasting
[D] study the composition of the earth’s crust

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10. Which of the following organizations was in news for working with internet service providers in India to test its ‘Express Wi-Fi’ project?
[A] Google
[B] Facebook
[C] Microsoft
[D] Yahoo Inc

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