Latest Current Affairs and General Knowledge April 28 – 2021
1.Which state cabinet approved a policy to provide jobs on compassionate grounds and economically weaker section (EWS) status to children under Harihar Scheme?
A) Bihar
B) Telangana
C) Haryana
D) TamilNadu
Ans: Haryana
2.Recently India has built infrastructures of three educational institutions in Palpa district of which country?
A) Myanmar
B) Nepal
C) Bhutan
D) Bangladesh
Ans: Nepal
3.Which country hoped to launch its own orbital station in 2025?
A) UK
B) Russia
C) France
D) China
Ans: Russia
4.Who is the author of book The Living Mountain?
A) Amitav Ghosh
B) Sharbina Basu
C) Mohan Kanda
D) Shailesh Pandey
Ans: Amitav Ghosh
5.What is the theme of this year’s World Immunization Week 2021?
A) Vaccines bring us closer
B) Safe Vaccines
C) Vaccines Work for All
D) Polio Eradication
Ans:Vaccines bring us closer
6.Which among the following Indian States the Defence Industrial Corridors has been set up?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B
Ans. Both A and B
7.As per China’s Central Bank report, India’s demographic advantage to overtake China’s by which year?
A) 2035
B) 2039
C) 2025
D) 2030
Ans: 2035
8.Who will be representing Delhi and India at the World Cities Cultural Forum (WCCF)?
A) Arvind Kejriwal
B) Manish Sisodia
C) Yogi Adityanath
D) Narendra Modi
Ans: Arvind Kejriwal
9.Recently WHO unveiled global immunization strategy to save 50 million lives by which year?
A) 2040
B) 2025
C) 2035
D) 2030
Ans: 2030
10.Which company launched Revolutionary mobile application RING to make investments in stock market?
A) ICICI Prudential
B) Upstox
C) Zerodha
D) Axis Direct
Ans: Axis Direct
11.RBI imposed ceiling of how much maximum years for tenure of MD and CEO of private bank?
A) 70
B) 72
C) 75
D) 80
Ans: 70
12.Recently the New development Bank issued how much amount of benchmark bond?
A) 1.5 billion
B) 2.0 billion
C) 1 billion
D) 1.7 billion
Ans: 1.5 billion
13.Recently Aceware FinTech Services, a fintech services company launched its first neobank in which state?
A) TamilNadu
B) Kerala
C) Karnataka
D) Assam
Ans: Kerala
14.The CII Indian Green Building Council has launched ‘IGBC Mission on Net Zero’ to facilitate ‘India achieve net zero carbon emission status by which yEAR?
A) 2050
B) 2045
C) 2055
D) 2060
Ans: 2050
15.Which state has inked MoU with Microsoft to skill over 1.6 lakhs unemployed youth and college students?
A) Karnataka
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Assam
D) TamilNadu
Ans: Andhra Pradesh
16.Which state entered into a MoU with the World Trade Center (WTC) recently to promote and facilitate trade and investment in the state?
A) TamilNadu
B) Assam
C) Haryana
D) Maharashtra
Ans: Haryana
17.Recently Mahamat Idriss Déby was sworn in as new president of which country?
A) Philippines
B) Thailand
C) Kenya
D) Chad
Ans: Chad
18.Recently who was appointed on RBI board by the central government?
A) Aneesh ShAh
B) Debashish Pandey
C) Tarun Bajaj
D) Ajay Seth
Ans: Ajay Seth
19.Which Indian women has made it to the Forbes Asia’s 30 Under- 30 in just one year of opening her venture Cosmix?
A) Vibha Harish
B) Shweta Pandey
C) Unnati Rawat
D) Swati Maliwal
Ans: Vibha Harish
20.Which country has been awarded with global award for the ICC Development Initiative of the Year?
A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) Uganda
D) Vanuatu
Ans: Argentina
21.Recently Waman Bhonsle passed away.He was related to the which field?
A) Politics
B) Social Activist
C) Actor
D) Editor
Ans: Editor
22.In which among the following places the DRDO’s Defence Bio-Engineering & Electro Medical Laboratory (DEBEL) is located?
A) Bengaluru
B) Chennai
C) Chandimal
D) New Delhi
Ans: Bengaluru
23.What is Hypoxia?
- It is a state where the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues is not adequate to meet all the energy requirements of the body.
- The earliest signs of Hypoxia are confusion, restlessness, etc.
Choose the correct answer
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Both 1 and 2
D) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. Both 1 and 2
24.Which of the following statements is correct about SpO2?
- It is the Saturation of Peripheral Oxygen and is referred to as Oxygen Saturation.
- It is the measure of the amount of oxygen-carrying haemoglobin in the blood to the amount of haemoglobin not carrying oxygen.
Choose the correct answer
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Both 1 and 2
D) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: Both 1 and 2
25.Who was the first Indian Chief Justice of India?
A) Justice M. Patanjali Sastri
B) Justice Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
C) Justice A.K. Sarkar
D) Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania
Ans. Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania
26.When did the Federal Court of India come into existence?
A) 1 June 1934
B) 8 September 1936
C) 1 October 1937
D) 10 November 1939
Ans. 1 October 1937
27.Who is the longest-serving Chief Justice of India?
A) Justice Y. V. Chandrachud
B) Justice Dipak Misra
C) Justice Kamal Narain
D) Justice A.S. Anand
Ans. Justice Y. V. Chandrachud
28.When was the first population census in British India conducted?
A) 1800
B) 1853
C) 1867
D) 1872
Ans. 1872
29.Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution deals with the protection of interest of minorities?
A) Article 25
B) Article 26
C) Article 28
D) Article 29
Ans. Article 29