1) Who is the national record holder in the men’s 3000m steeplechase?
Ans .Avinash Sable
Avinash Sable he is holder seventh 3000m steeplechase event at the Tokyo Olympic 2020. He took 8 minut e 18.12 Seconds (8:18.12s) to finish the race and set a national record by breaking his own record of 8:20.20s that he set during the federation cup in March. He become the first Indian after 1952 to qualify for the Olympic in 3000m steeplechase event Avinash Sable belongs to Beed district of Maharashtra.
2)What is the venue of INDRA-21, the joint military exercise of Indian army and Russian army ?
Ans.Volgograd
Indian and Russian army is schedule to be organised from August 1 at Volograd city located to Russia. The military exercise will help in strengthening the bilateral security cooperation and will serve to reinforce the longstanding bond of friendship between India and Russia it will also conduct counter terror operations as mandate under the UN’s framework of joint forces against international terror groups.
3) Who is the first Italian man to win an Olympic medal in a 100 m race ?
Ans.Marcell Jacobs
He is won the gold medal 100 race at Tokyo Olympic .And he is completed the race in 9.80 second and become the first Italian man to win an Olympic medal in 100 metre race He also set a European record in 100 metre race by finish the race 9.80 second. he is Italian sprinter long jumper .he won the 60 metre title during the 2021 european athletes indoor championship
4) Who won the Hungarian Grand Prix,2021 ?
Ans.Esteban Ocon
Hungarian Grand prix,2021 was held at the Hungaroring in Mogyogard,Hungry on August 1,2021.Esteban Ocon won his maiden F1 race . Hungarian Grand prix who was the eleventh round of the 2021 formula one world championship .Esteban Ocon has now taken the formula 1 championship lead from Max Verstappen.Esteban Ocon belongs to France and he competes for Alpine- Renault .
5) According to the Forbes Fortune Global 500 list , which company is ranked first in terms of total revenues in a fiscal year ?
Ans.Walmart
Walmart is ranked first in terms of total revenue for their respective fiscal year ended on before March 31,2021 . Walmart had a revenue of USD 524 billion . Walmart Inc is a American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarket discount department stores and grocery stores is the company based in United States of America it is headquarter in Bentonville, Arkansas it was founded on 2nd July ,1962 by Sam Walton and Walton family is it owner Doug Mcmillion is the current CEO of this company.
6) In which state, Har Hith store scheme has been launched recently ?
Ans. Haryana
The Scheme has been launched to encourage student towards self employment under this scheme, a chain of grocery shop will be open in rural and urban area to sell the best quality daily needs product at reasonable prices and they will also provide information technology support system.
7) Which bank has been honoured as the global winner for most innovative in digital banking 2021 ?
Ans.DBS Bank
DBS Bank is a Singaporean multinational banking and is a financial services corporation is headquarters in Marina Bay Singapore . Earlier it was know as The Development Bank of Singapore limited . It was named as DBS bank limited on 21 July 2003. Piyush Gupta is the current CEO of DBS Bank Ltd.
8) Who is the chief of staff of US army who recently visited India ?
Ans. General James C MC Conville
Chief of staff US army general James m Conville is on a two visit to India on 4th August 2021 , he laid a wreath at the National War memorial and received a guard of honour at South block.General Mc Conville called on army chief General M. M Naravane and discuss issue of mutual interest .
9)Which of the following is the key objective of the airport economic regulatory authority of India bill 2021 ?
Ans. Pairing of smaller airport with big airport
With the passage in rajya sabha airport economic regulatory of India Amendment Bill, 2021 got approval of both houses of parliament on August 4, 2021 Earlier ,on July 29, the bill was passed in Lok sabha the bill paves the way for privatisation of a small loss making airport by clubbing it with a larger airport.
10)Lovlina Borgohain,who won the boxing bronze medal Tokyo Olympic is from which state ?
Ans. Assam
Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain won the bronze medal in womens welterweight 69 kg category at the Tokyo Olympic on 4th August 2021.The 23 year old from Assam lost the semi final wo Turkeys Busenaz surmeneli .
[11)As per the World Health Assembly, when is the ‘World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day’ to be observed?
Ans.January 30
The ongoing 74th World Health Assembly declared January 30 as ‘World Neglected Tropical Diseases NTD DayThe proposal to recognise the day was initiated by the United Arab Emirates and it was adopted unanimously by the member countries. NTDs are a group of infections caused by a variety of pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa and parasitic worms.
12)When was the GST system of taxation implemented in India?
Ans.July 1 2017
July 1st 2021 marks the 4th anniversary
of the Goods and Services Tax (GST),which was implemented on the same date in 2017. This date has been
designated by the Central Government as GST DAY.This year, the Union Finance Ministry has proposed to issue certificates of
appreciation to 54,000 GST payers for timely filing of returns to mark the GST Day.
13)India’s Manna Patel is associated with which sports?
Ans.Swimming
Maana Patel made history on July 2, 2021 as she became the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through the ‘Universality quota’. The Universality quota allows one male and one female competitor from a country to participate in the Olympics, provided no other swimmer from the same gender qualifies for the Games or receives a FINA invite based on his or her Olympic Selection time (B time).
14)Which of the following survey ships of India recently completed the survey data of the MV X-Press Pearl acid leak and fire accident?
Ans.INS Sarvekshak
Indian Navy’s Hydrographic Survey Ship INS Sarvekshak successfully completed survey action around the site of ill-fated MV X-Press Pearl on July 2 and handed over the survey data to the Sri Lankan authorities. The X-Press Pearl reported an onboard acid leak and caught fire just as it was due to enter the Colombo harbour on May 20. The fire was put out only after 13 days.
15)Which country has recently become 15th nation to be part of the world’slargest weapons project, Joint StrikeFighter program?
Ans.Switzerland
Switzerland has ordered these fighter jets, making it the 15th nation to be part of the world’s largest weapons project, Joint Strike Fighter program. This 5.5 million USD deal was criticised as the small Alpine country does not require such capability to secure itself since these supersonic jets can cross it in 10 minutes
16)Which Indian state is called the ‘falcon Capital of the world’?
Ans.Nagaland
Nagaland is known as the Falcon Capital of the World. It became India’s 16th state on Dec. 1, 1963. The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party’s Neiphiu Rio is its current chief minister. Recently, declaring the state as a “disturbed area”, the Centre extended the operation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the state for six more months, till December 31.
17)Which country announced the ‘Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code’?
Ans.India
India announced the ‘Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code’ and it came into force from May 2021. As per the rules, all significant social media intermediaries had to publish monthly reports on the details of complaints, actions taken and monitoring details.
18)’Freight Smart Cities’, which were making news recently, will be set up by which Union Ministry?
Ans.Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced its plans to build freight smart cities to improve urban freight efficiency. This is aimed to reduce the logistics costs.Ministry of Commerce and Industry launched a website on ‘Freight Smart Cities’. Initially, 10 cities would be identified, and it can be expanded to 75 cities in the next phase before launching it throughout the country.
19)Which company partnered with AJNIFM to build Al and emerging technologies Centre of Excellence?
Ans.Microsoft
Microsoft has collaborated with Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM) to build a centre of excellence enabled with Al and emergin technologies. AJNIFM was set up in 1993 as a registered society under Ministry of Finance
The main aim of this collaboration is to transform the public finance management, Expenditure management in India and prevent risks like money laundering, use of machine learning models for decision making etc..
20)Which Indian bank launched”Salaam-Dil-Sey” initiative?
Ans.HDFC Bank
HDFC Bank launched “Salaam-Dil-Sey” initiative. It has been launched to show gratitude to doctors for theirsignificant service during the pandemicSimilarly, ICICI Bank launched banking solution package called Salute Doctors, to provide customised banking and value-added services to all doctors.
