Weekly Current Affairs Revision Notes: August 5-11, 2019
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1. Kanti Bhatt, who passed away recently, was the veteran personality of which field?
Answer: Journalism
2. Anant Setalvad, who passed away recently, was the veteran personality of which sports?
Answer: Cricket
3. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy is associated to which sports?
Answer: Badminton
4. ISRO has decided to setup Space Situational Awareness Control Centre in which city?
Answer: Bengaluru
5. India’s first large-scale trial for VPM1002 & Immuvac is related to which disease?
Answer: TB
6. On which date, the 2019 UN International Day of Friendship is celebrated recently?
Answer: July 30
7. Which state has become the India’s first state to adopt a digital fingerprint and iris scanning system?
Answer: Maharashtra
8. The Union Government has approved Rs 4,900 crore Kosi-Mechi Interlinking project. Mechi is an important tributary of which river basin?
Answer: Mahananda
9. Which Bollywood actor to be felicitated with 'Excellence in Cinema' award by Victorian Government?
Answer: Shahrukh Khan
10. Naaz Joshi, who won the Miss World Diversity 2019 title, is from which country?
Answer: India
11. The census of elephants is undertaken at the national level once in how many years?
Answer: 5
12. The United States has designated which country as currency manipulator?
Answer: China
13. Which Indian cricketer has been chosen as the July's PCA player of the month?
Answer: R Ashwin
14. Which union ministry has organized the 2nd All India Annual Conference of IIS Officers?
Answer: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
15. Which Indian cricketer has been conferred with Karthik Bose Lifetime Achievement award?
Answer: Arun Lal
16. The ScooNews Global Educators Fest (SGEF) is being held in which city?
Answer: Udaipur
17. Which state government has launched Mission Shakti sports initiative?
Answer: Maharashtra
18. Which Indian wrestler bagged gold in women's 53kg category of the 2019 Poland Open wrestling tournament?
Answer: Vinesh Phogat
19. Which space agency has discovered first nearby super-earth planet GJ357d?
Answer: NASA
20. India’s first 3-D Smart Traffic Signal ‘Intelights' has launched in which city?
Answer: Mohali
21. The researchers at which IIT have developed portable device to detect bacteria without cell culture or microbiological assays?
Answer: IIT Guwahati
22. Jay Om Prakash, who passed away recently, was the veteran personality of which field?
Answer: Film Industry
23. The 5th edition of International Army Scout Masters Competition has started in which military station?
Answer: Jaisalmer
24. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has passed away. She was from which country?
Answer: United States
25. Which city has been chosen as the venue for the main event of the 5th National Handloom Day (NHD)?
Answer: Bhubaneswar
26. Which union ministry has unveiled draft e-commerce norms for consumer protection?
Answer: Ministry of Consumer Affairs
27. Which state government has launched a new higher education model "RACE"?
Answer: Rajasthan
28. Urkund software, which is in news recently, is related to which field?
Answer: Education
29. Which zone of Indian railways has introduced a new Biometric Token System (BTS)?
Answer: Western Railways
30. Which state /UT government has launched a project titled ‘Oral History Programme’?
Answer: Delhi
31. Which state has topped the rankings in Health Ministry report card on “Breastfeeding & Infant & Child feeding Practices”?
Answer: Manipur
32. What is the theme of the 2019 edition of World Tribal Day (WTD)?
Answer: Indigenous Languages
33. What is the theme of the 2019 edition of 22nd National Conference on e-Governance?
Answer: Digital India: Success to Excellence
34. The Kerala Government has signed MoU with which organisation to develop Space Park?
Answer: VSSC
35. The Lahore-Attari Samjhauta Express train service was started in which year?
Answer: 1976
36. Who is the head of the RBI task force on Offshore Rupee Markets?
Answer: Usha Thorat
37. Who has been appointed as the green ambassador of Manipur?
Answer: Valentina Elangbam
38. Which union ministry has launched ‘Samagra Shiksha-Jal Suraksha’ drive?
Answer: Ministry of Human Resource Development
39. Which state has won the most film-friendly state award at 2018 National Film awards?
Answer: Uttarakhand
40. Which movie has won the Best Feature Film award at the 2018 National Film awards?
Answer: Hellaro
41. What is the theme of the 2019 edition of World Biofuel Day (WBD)?
Answer: Production of Biodiesel from Used Cooking Oil (UCO)
42. Which state government has announced to waive loans taken by tribals from money-lenders?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
43. Which state government has announced Mukhyamantri Madad Yojna for tribals?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
44. Who is the new prosecution director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ?
Answer: Sudha Rani Relangi
45. The researchers at which IIT have designed a system to recycle urine?
Answer: IIT Madras
46. Which IIT with Harvard University studied mercury accumulation in fish?
Answer: IIT Hyderabad
47. Where is the headquarters of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)?
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland
48. The Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC) has launched a Leather Mission from which district of Rajasthan?
Answer: Sirohi
49. Which country has recently designated India in its list of major illegal drug producing & transit countries?
Answer: United States
50. India’s first clinical ecotoxicology facility has launched in which city?
Answer: Delhi
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