General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 21st October |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 21st October: Hello Students, General Awareness is an essential part of all government exams. It’s better to prepare this section daily and revise the same using the factsheet provided. Bankersadda team has brought you up a new series in which we will come up with 10 questions and answers, other options of the question have related news to them. So don’t miss reading the solutions.

Q1. Which of the following has not hold the Prime Minister of United Kingdom?

(a) Liz Truss

(b) Boris Johnson

(d) Rishi Sunak

Q2. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves acquisition of equity securities amounting up to 10% in YES Bank by Verventa Holdings. Verventa Holdings has the headquarters in which country?

(a) USA

(b) Germany

(d) Cyprus

Q3. Which financial wellness platform announced its partnership with IRCTC to provide a “travel now pay later” (TNPL) payment option ?

(a) Phone Pe

(b) Paytm

(d) Google Pay

Q4. What is the amount dedicated for the Accelerator Program to Strengthen Agri Startups?

(a) 100 crore

(b) 500 crore

(d) 1500 crore

Q5. Where LiFE mission is launched?

(a) Surat

(b) Ekta Nagar

(d) Delhi

Q6. Who has become the president of the Congress President?

(a) Shashi Tharoor

(b) Mallikarjun Kharge

(d) Priyanka Gandhi

Q7. What is the name of the Neutral Expert of the court of arbitration regarding the Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric power plants?

(a) Michel Lino

(b) Sean Murphy

(d) Sean Lino

Q8. Where Asia’s largest Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plant is inaugurated?

(a) Sangrur, Punjab

(b) Umtham, Meghalaya

(d) None of these

Q9. Who topped the grievance redressal index published by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG)?

(a) Ministry of Education

(b) Ministry of Health

(d) UIDAI

Q10. Dhan Varsha Scheme is launched by which financial institution?

(a) SBI

(b) IRDAI

(d) HDFC

Solutions

Ans.1.(d)

Why in News?

Liz Truss to resign as PM of UK: Liz Truss will step down from her position after only six weeks in office. Suella Braverman, Indian origin British interior minister, also resigned.

Ans.2.(d)

Cyprus is the headquarters

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves acquisition of equity securities amounting up to 10% in YES Bank by Verventa Holdings

Verventa Holdings Ltd. (Acquirer) is an investment holding company. Currently, it does not have any operations in India.

Ans.3(c)

AI-driven financial wellness platform, CASHe, announced that it has partnered with the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), to provide a “travel now pay later” (TNPL) payment option on its travel app, IRCTC Rail Connect.

Ans.4.(b)

Rs. 500 Million Accelerator Program to Strengthen Agri Startups: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar announced that the central government will launch a Rs 500 crore accelerator programme to support the productive ideas of agro businesses.

Ans.5.(b)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment), in the presence of the UN Secretary General António Guterres, at the Statue of Unity, Ekta Nagar, Gujarat.

Ans.6.(b)

Veteran Karnataka leader Mallikarjun Kharge defeated his rival Shashi Tharoor to become the first non-Gandhi Congress president in 24 years, and the first Scheduled Caste chief of the grand old organization in four decades.

Ans.7.(a)

The World Bank has appointed a “neutral expert” and a chairman of the Court of Arbitration regarding the Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric power plants.

Michel Lino has been appointed as the Neutral Expert and Sean Murphy has been appointed as Chairman of the Court of Arbitration.

Ans.8.(a)

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri has inaugurated Asia’s largest Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plant in Lehragaga, in Sangrur, Punjab.

Meghalaya is all set to host the four-day long mega global adventure sports spectacle, ‘Megha Kayak Festival, 2022’ starting October 13 at the picturesque Umtrew River at Umtham Village.

The Pullumpara village panchayat in the Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala achieved the distinction of becoming the first totally digitally literate panchayat in the country.

Ans.9.(d)

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which oversees Aadhaar, has once again topped the September rankings report published by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), for resolving most public grievances among all government ministries and government departments. This is the second consecutive month UIDAI has topped the rankings.

Ans.10.(c)

Life Insurance Company (LIC) has launched the ‘LIC Dhan Varsha’ scheme. The ‘LIC Dhan Varsha scheme is a non-linked, non-participating, individual, savings life insurance plan which offers a combination of protection and savings. The savings insurance plan provides financial support for the family in case of unfortunate death of the life assured during the policy terms.

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