Important Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2021- 1st October

Q1. The Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu laid the foundation stone of the Innovation and Development Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research at which of the place?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Bangalore
(c) Kanpur
(d) Bhatinda
(e) None of the above

Q2. ____________and World Resources Institute (WRI), India, jointly launched the ‘Forum for De-carbonizing Transport’ in India.
(a) IIT Mumbai
(b) Ministry of Road and Transport
(c) NITI Aayog
(d) Tata Motors
(e) None of the above

Q3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a__________ National Edible Oil Mission-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) to make India self-sufficient in cooking oils, including palm oil.
(a) Rs 9,000 crore
(b) Rs 11,000 crore
(c) Rs 15,000 crore
(d) Rs 20,000 crore
(e) None of the above

Q4. Give the name of an integrated one-stop solution platform launched by Indian Railways?
(a) Rail Sahayak
(b) Rail Yatri
(c) Rail Sarthi
(d) Rail Madad
(e) None of the above

Q5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the target of becoming an ‘energy independent country by the year _________.
(a) 2047
(b) 2050
(c) 2040
(d) 2051
(e) None of the above

Q6. US-based Ohmium International has started India’s first green hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturing unit in which state?
(a) Assam
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Karnataka
(e) None of the above

Q7. Rajnath Singh has named the Army Sports Institute ________and named the Army Sports Institute stadium as “Neeraj Chopra Stadium”.
(a) Shimla
(b) Pune
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Bikaner
(e) None of the above

Q8. The Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr Virendra Kumar has flagged off a pioneering world record expedition from Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi. What is the name of this expedition?’
(a) Operation Green Freedom
(b) Operation Yellow Freedom
(c) Operation Blue Freedom
(d) Operation Golden Freedom
(e) None of the above

Q9. Who has inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple projects at Somnath in Gujarat?
(a) Ram Nath Kovind
(b) Amit Shah
(c) Narendra Modi
(d) Shripad Yasoo Naik
(e) None of the above

Q10. India has won the elections for membership of two key bodies of UPU during the 27th UPU Congress in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. What is the full form of UPU?
(a) United Progress Union
(b) Universal Postal Union
(c) United Postal Union
(d) Universal Progress Union
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1.Ans(b)
Sol. The Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu laid the foundation stone of the Innovation and Development Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru.

S2.Ans(c)
Sol. NITI Aayog and World Resources Institute (WRI), India, jointly launched the ‘Forum for Decarbonizing Transport’ in India.

S3.Ans(b)
Sol. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a Rs 11,000 crore National Edible Oil Mission-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) to make India self-sufficient in cooking oils, including palm oil.

S4.Ans(d)
Sol. Indian Railways has launched an integrated onestop solution “Rail Madad” in which the national transporter has merged a number of existing helplines that were used for various purposes into one.

S5.Ans(a)
Sol. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the target of becoming an ‘energy independent country by the year 2047, the year when India will celebrate the 100th year of Independence.

S6.Ans(d)
Sol. US-based Ohmium International has started India’s first green hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturing unit at Bengaluru, Karnataka.

S7.Ans(b)
Sol. Raksha Mantri, Rajnath Singh visited the Army Sports Institute (ASI), Pune and named the Army Sports Institute stadium as “Neeraj Chopra Stadium”.

S8.Ans(c)
Sol. The Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr Virendra Kumar has flagged off a pioneering world record expedition named ‘Operation Blue Freedom’ from Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi on the occasion of 75th Independence Day.

S9.Ans(c)
Sol. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple projects in Somnath, Gujarat on August 20, 2021, via video conferencing.

S10.Ans(b)
Sol. India has won the elections for membership of two key bodies of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), during the 27th UPU Congress in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.