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Q1. 9th Meeting of India-Lao PDR Joint Commission on Bilateral Co-operation was recently held at _______.
(a) Mumbai
(b) Pakse
(c) Luang
(d) New Delhi
(e) Vientiane
Q2. ‘Sayaji Ratna Award’ was recently conferred on _______.
(a) Lata Mangeskar
(b) Amitabh Bachchan
(c) Sachin Tendulkar
(d) Jaya Bachchan
(e) Rahul Dravid
Q3. Mexico’s highest civilian honor “Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca” was recently conferred on _________.
(a) Abhijit Bose
(b) Pranab Mukherjee
(c) Ramnath Kovind
(d) Shyama Prasad Ganguly
(e) Narendra Modi
Q4. Who among the following has been appointed as acting Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) following the resignation of the executive director Erik Solheim?
(a) Ted Nugent
(b) David Zayas
(c) Joyce Msuya
(d) Erik Estrada
(e) Shaquille O’Neal
Q5. _______has recently partnered with the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to offer online insurance premium payments on its platform.
(a) Paytm
(b) Google Pay
(c) True Caller
(d) WhatsApp
(e) Phone Pay
Q6. _________and Indian Chamber of Commerce(ICC) has signed an MoU for energising the startup ecosystem in East and Northeast India.
(a) IIT Madras
(b) ISI Kolkata
(c) IIT Kharagpur
(d) IIM Calcutta
(e) IIM Ahmadabad
Q7. 7th International Tourism Mart for the North-East States held in which of the following states?
(a) Assam
(b) Tripura
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Manipur
(e) Sikkim
Q8. Who has been appointed as the head of WhatsApp India?
(a) Abhijit Bose
(b) Akash Basu
(c) Jagdish Sen Gupta
(d) Kumar Gaurav
(e) Ajay Bijalwan
Q9. Which of the following country has got UN Environment Award for combating Transboundary Environmental Crime?
(a) Norway
(b) Bhutan
(c) Nepal
(d) France
(e) India
Q10. Who has won Forbes India Leadership Awards 2018, Lifetime Achievement?
(a) Azim Premji
(b) Mukesh Ambani
(c) Shantanu Narayan
(d) N R Narayan Murthi
(e) N S Raghavan
Solutions
Ans.1.(e)
Exp. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj co-chaired the 9th Meeting of India-Lao PDR Joint Commission on Bilateral Co-operation with her counterpart Saleumxay Kommasith in Vientiane, Capital of Laos.
Ans.2.(b)
Exp. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan was awarded the third Sayaji Ratna Award, established in the memory of erstwhile Baroda ruler Sayajirao Gaekwad III. Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy and noted industrialist Ratan Tata have been given the award earlier.
Ans.3.(d)
Exp. JNU’s Hispanic Studies professor Shyama Prasad Ganguly has won Mexico’s highest civilian honor “Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca” (Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle) accorded to foreign nationals.
Ans.4.(c)
Exp. Tanzanian national Joyce Msuya was appointed as acting Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) following the resignation of the executive director Erik Solheim.
Ans.5.(a)
Exp. Paytm (One 97 Communications Limited) has partnered with the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to offer online insurance premium payments on its platform.
Ans.6.(d)
Exp. IIM Calcutta Innovation Park and Indian Chamber of Commerce(ICC) has signed an MoU for energising the startup ecosystem in East and Northeast India.
Ans.7.(b)
Exp. The Governor of Tripura Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki inaugurated the ‘7th International Tourism Mart for the North-East States in the presence of Minister of State (I/C) for Tourism K.J Alphons and the Chief Minister of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb in Agartala, Tripura.
Ans.8.(a)
Exp. Facebook Inc.-owned messaging service WhatsApp on it has appointed Abhijit Bose as head of WhatsApp India, the local entity that is expected to begin operations next year amid calls to check the spread of fake messages.
Ans.9.(e)
Exp. United Nation Environment has awarded Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India with Asia Environment Enforcement Awards, 2018 for excellent work done by the Bureau in combating transboundary environmental crime.
Ans.10.(a)
Exp. Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, has won Forbes India Leadership Awards 2018, Lifetime Achievement. Wipro is India’s fourth-biggest software services company by revenue and Ajim Premji is the second richest Indian.
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