July MCQ Part 2

 

1. Global payment tech leader VISA has partnered with which private bank to deploy VISA Secure for e- Commerce?

[A] City Union Bank

[B] Federal Bank

[C] Karnataka Bank

[D] Kotak Mahindra Bank

 

2. What is the target year set by the Indian Railways to achieve net zero carbon emission?

[A] 2025

[B] 2027

[C] 2030

[D] 2035

 

3. Which organisation has estimated that India needs 6.2% additional spending of GDP to achieve 2030

SDGs?

[A] Reserve Bank of India

[B] NITI Aayog

[C] Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation

[D] National Development Council

 

4. Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), that has established stable cultures of coronavirus, is located in which state/UT?

[A] New Delhi

[B] Odisha

[C] Uttar Pradesh

[D] Gujarat

 

5. Who has been named as the recipient of the 2020 Von Karman Award of the International Academy of Astronautics?

[A] Dr K Sivan

[B] Dr G Satheesh Reddy

[C] Tessy Thomas

[D] Ritu Karidhal

 

6. Which racing driver has won the Styrian Grand Prix tournament?

[A] Lewis Hamilton

[B] Valtteri Bottas

[C] Sebastian Vettel

[D] Max Verstappen

 

7. Which institution has developed an Ultraviolet sanitizing product named SHUDH?

[A] IIT Madras

[B] IIT Kanpur

[C] IISc Bangalore

[D] AIIMS

 

8. Who has been appointed as India’s new High Commissioner to Bangladesh?

[A] Vikram Doraiswami

[B] Akhilesh Mishra

[C] Indra Mani Pandey

[D] Arun K. Chatterjee

 

9. Shipping Ministry has approved Rs 107 Crore for improving fire-fighting facilities in which major port?

[A] Chennai Port

[B] Cochin Port

[C] Kolkata Port

[D] Mumbai Port

 

10. Which company has launched its new video conferencing app named ‘BlueJeans’?

[A] Jio Platforms

[B] Bharti Airtel

[C] Amazon

[D] Facebook

 

11. Which international organisation has released a report titled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’?

[A] International Monetary Fund

[B] United Nations

[C] World Economic Forum

[D] Asian Development Bank

 

12. Which Indian has become the world’s sixth-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?

[A] Gautam Adani

[B] Mukesh Ambani

[C] Lakshmi Mittal

[D] Shiv Nadar

 

13. Which state government has launched the ‘Operation Muskaan’, to trace missing children?

[A] West Bengal

[B] Maharashtra

[C] Andhra Pradesh

[D] Gujarat

 

14. Which country celebrates ‘Bastille Day’ ceremony also called as Fête nationale?

[A] Russia

[B] France

[C] Germany

[D] Italy

 

15. As per the Health Ministry, what percentage of the country’s GDP is to be spent for public health, by 2025?

[A] 1.5%

[B] 2.0%

[C] 2.5%

[D] 5%