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National Monuments Authority (NMA) will organize an astrophysical analysis of the movement of the sun around the ___________ on 21 June 2022.
Qutub Minar
Hawa Mahal
Meenakshi Temple
Taj Mahal
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Answer: Option AExplanation
NMA To Organise Astrophysical Study Of Movement Of Sun Around Qutub Minar Today. On the International Day of Yoga, National Monuments Authority is organizing an Astro physical analysis of the movement of the Sun around the Qutub Minar with the help of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
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Which Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has developed a metal 3D printer for aerospace, defense, and general engineering applications?
IIT Guwahati
IIT Jodhpur
IIT Madras
IIT Kanpur
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Jodhpur, June 21 (KNN) The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur has developed a metal 3D printer for aerospace, defense, and general engineering applications. All the components of the 3D printer are designed and manufactured in India, except the laser and the robot systems.
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Protean eGov Technologies Ltd and ___________ have partnered to offer PAN-related services?
PayNearby
NuBank
Coinbase
Ant Financial
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Protean eGov Tech, which was earlier known as NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure, said it has partnered with PayNearby, a digital payments, and banking network, to offer PAN-related services via Aadhar and biometric, or SMS-based OTP authentication
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Which International Airport has been named the World’s Best Airport for the year 2022?
Hamad International Airport
Athens International Airport
Dubai International Airport
Seoul Incheon International Airport
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Hamad International Airport has been named the World’s Best Airport for the second year running, announced at the 2022 World Airport Awards that were held at Passenger Terminal EXPO in Paris, France on 16 June 2022.
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Pieter Seelaar has announced his retirement from international cricket due to a persistent back injury. He was the captain of which nation’s cricket team?
New Zealand
Scotland
Netherlands
Ireland
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Pieter Seelaar, the captain of the Netherlands cricket team, has announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect due to a persistent back injury. He was appointed captain in 2018 after Peter Borren’s retirement.
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Who has developed India’s first body suit for Yoga in Space?
DRDO
ISRO
CSIR
AIIMS Delhi
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Answer: Option DExplanation
AIIMS-Delhi experts have developed the world’s first anti-gravity body suit that will allow astronauts to perform yoga in space. This is India’s first body suit for astronauts and will help astronauts strengthen muscles and prevent loss of bone density minerals. It will also increase the weight of the astronauts by more than 70 percent in space to prevent them from floating.
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Which Union Ministry has declared certain resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and NPCI as ‘critical information infrastructure’?
Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Electronics and IT
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The Union Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has declared the IT resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) as ‘critical information infrastructure’.
The Information Technology Act of 2000 defines ‘Critical Information Infrastructure’ as a “computer resource, the incapacitation or destruction of which shall have a debilitating impact on national security, economy, public health or safety”. The government has the power to declare any data, database, IT network, or communications infrastructure as CII.
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In which country, the world’s largest-ever freshwater fish has been found recently?
Chile
Cambodia
China
Australia
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Answer: Option BExplanation
A 300kg stingray caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish ever documented in the world.
Though there is no official database of the world’s biggest freshwater fish, the previous largest recorded fish was a 293kg Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005. The Mekong River flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
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Which is the main venue of the eighth International Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations in India?
Patna
Hyderabad
Mysuru
Gandhi Nagar
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the eighth International Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations in Karnataka’s Mysuru. The theme of this year’s Yoga Day celebrations is ‘Yoga for Humanity’.
Over 25 crore people across the world took part in various events and did yoga in unison. A program in coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs has also been organized for a mass Yoga Protocol around the world on the day following the movement of the sun.
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National Initiative for Promoting Upskilling of Nirman workers ‘NIPUN’ is an initiative of which the Union Ministry?
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Ministry of MSME
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri recently launched a project for skill training of construction workers called ‘NIPUN’ i.e. National Initiative for Promoting Upskilling of Nirman workers.
It is an initiative of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). It aims to train over 1 lakh construction workers, through skilling and upskilling programs and provides them with work opportunities also in foreign countries.
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In which city, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has inaugurated National Yoga Olympiad 2022 and quiz competition in June 2022?
Bhopal
Mumbai
New Delhi
Gurugram
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today inaugurated National Yoga Olympiad – 2022 and quiz competition in New Delhi. The National Yoga Olympiad is being organized jointly by the Ministry of Education and the National Council of Educational Research and Training from today till the 20th of this month.
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Which country will continue to be on the “Grey List” of countries under increased monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?
Syria
Iran
Turkey
Pakistan
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Pakistan will continue to be on the “Grey List” of countries under increased monitoring of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a statement from the Paris-based global money-laundering and terror-financing watchdog said on Friday.
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How many cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup?
20
24
16
12
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Answer: Option CExplanation
FIFA has announced the 16 North American cities that will host the World Cup in 2026. Eleven cities in the U.S., along with three cities in Mexico and two in Canada, will host the 48-team tournament, an expansion from the previous 32-team count.
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Who won the gold medal at the ongoing Kuortane Games in Finland on 18 June 2022?
Julian Weber
Neeraj Chopra
Jakub Vadlejch
Johannes Vetter
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Days after breaking his own national record recently, India’s ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal at the Kuortane Games in Finland on Saturday (June 18). Chopra, who won a historic gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, hurled the javelin to 86.69 meters in his first attempt in rainy conditions in Kuortane
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Which state has announced conducting a ‘Migration Survey’ to expand the data bank of expatriates?
Gujarat
Punjab
Kerala
Maharashtra
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced that the data bank of Expatriate Malayalees will be expanded by conducting the Kerala Migration Survey.
A ‘Pravasi data portal’ will be prepared for the survey while the state will conduct an extensive global registration campaign. The Chief Minister addressed online the valedictory meeting of the third edition of the Loka Kerala Sabha.
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Which institution has won UNESCO’s recognition for use of Information And Communication Technology in Education?
All India Council for Technical Education
University Grants Commission
Central Board of Secondary Education
Central Institute of Educational Technology
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Answer: Option DExplanation
The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a unit of the NCERT has been awarded the UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT (Information And Communication Technology) in Education for the year 2021.
The institution has used ICT under the ‘PM eVidya’ scheme during the Covid pandemic. The PM eVIDYA program was launched as part of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan’ in May 2020 to unify all efforts related to digital, online, on-air education Each prize-winner receives USD 25,000, a medal, and a diploma.
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Which Indian airport was named the ‘best regional airport in India and South Asia’ in Skytrax World Airport awards?
Bengaluru International Airport
Cochin International Airport
Delhi International Airport
Chennai International Airport
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Answer: Option AExplanation
The Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru was named the best regional airport in India and South Asia title in the 2022 Skytrax World Airport Awards.
The award is based on the feedback from the customers in a globally conducted survey about the experience from check-in to arrivals, transfers, shopping, security, immigration, and arrangements at the departure gates. The Bengaluru airport had also won the Best Airport and Aviation Innovation Award at the Wings India Awards earlier.
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PM Modi inaugurated the Centre for Brain Research in which city?
Bhopal
Ahmedabad
Pune
Bengaluru
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Centre for Brain Research and laid the Foundation Stone for Bagchi Parthasarathy Multispeciality Hospital at IISc Bengaluru on June 20, 2022.
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What is the theme of International Yoga Day 2022?
Yoga for Humanity
Yoga for Heart
Yoga for Health
Yoga For Wellness
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Tomorrow, 21st June will be marked as International Yoga Day. Guided by the theme of ‘Yoga For Humanity’, let us make this Yoga Day a success and further popularise Yoga. This year the theme for the celebration is “Yoga for humanity”.
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Which place set a new rainfall record for the highest single-day rainfall in June since 1966?
Nongstoin
Sohra
Cherrapunji
Mawsynram
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Mawsynram, Meghalaya in India, is the world’s wettest inhabited region. On June 17th the area achieved a new 24-hour rainfall record of 1003.6mm (39.51 inches), its heaviest single-day rainfall since 1966.
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Which Indian state has been ranked at the first position in Asia’s Global Start-up Ecosystem Report 2022?
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Jharkhand
Odisha
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Kerala has been ranked at first position in Asia’s Global Start-up Ecosystem Report, which was released on June 14, 2022. Kerala has also been ranked at fourth position in terms of Affordable Talent. The startup ecosystem report recognises creative steps taken by Kerala Start-up Mission (KSUM) to position it as a start-up power house.
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NPCI International has signed an MoU with which country’s Lyra network for acceptance of UPI & Rupay Card?
South Korea
USA
Japan
France
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Answer: Option DExplanation
The National Payments Corporation of India’s international arm has signed an MoU with Lyra Network of France for acceptance of UPI and Rupay in the country. With the MoU between NPCI International and Lyra Network, Indian tourists will be able to make seamless payments during their travel to France.
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In June 2022. which of the following has launched an instant credit line service on WhatsApp?
CASHe
Mahila Money
GetVantage
Small case
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Answer: Option AExplanation
CASHe has launched an industry-first credit line service on WhatsApp. Financial wellness platform, CASHe has launched an industry-first credit line service using its AI-powered chat capability on WhatsApp.
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Which country has topped the annual World Competitive Index 2022?
Finland
Denmark
Sweden
Switzerland
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Europe: Denmark has moved to the top of the 63-nation list from the third position last year, while Switzerland slipped from the top ranking to the second position and Singapore regained the third spot from the fifth.
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RBI, in June 2022, raised the Additional Factor of Authentication (AFA) limit from Rs 5,000 to Rs ________ per transaction for e-mandates on cards, Prepaid Payment Instruments, and UPI for recurring transactions.
Madhya Pradesh
Telangana
Jharkhand
Gujarat
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Answer: Option AExplanation
A team of Indian researchers, for the first time in the fossil history, has discovered an egg-in-egg or abnormal titanosaurid dinosaur egg from the Bagh area in Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh state (Central India).
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Which company has partnered with Jio-bp to accelerate EV adoption?
Zomato
Domino’s
Fasoos
Swiggy
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Jio-bp, a fuels and mobility joint venture between Reliance Industries and bp, and Zomato on Wednesday announced that they have entered an agreement to support the food delivery giant in its ‘The Climate Group’s EV100’ initiative of 100% EV fleet by 2030.
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Hamza Abdi Barre has been appointed as the prime minister of which country?
Zimbabwe
Somalia
Sudan
Kenya
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Mogadishu [Somalia], June 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Wednesday appointed Hamza Abdi Barre as the country’s new prime minister to replace Mohamed Roble who has been in office since September 2020.
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47th meeting of GST Council will be held on June 28-29 in _______
Srinagar
Dehradun
Ahmedabad
Kanpur
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Answer: Option AExplanation
On Thursday, the Twitter handle of the Office of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the dates for the GST Council meeting in Srinagar. “The 47th meeting of the GST Council will be held on June 28-29, 2022 (Tuesday & Wednesday) in Srinagar.
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Which country recently launched its most advanced aircraft carrier named ‘Fujian’?
China
Iran
UAE
North Korea
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Answer: Option AExplanation
China recently launched its third aircraft carrier named ‘Fujian’. It is also the country’s most advanced and the first fully domestically-built naval vessel.
Fujian is the name of China’s eastern coastal province of Fujian. Liaoning and Shandong are the names of the two previous aircraft carriers of China. China plans to have around five aircraft carriers while the next carrier is expected to be nuclear-powered.
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Which country proposed to organize a joint border operation named ‘Solidarity-2023’ for SCO member countries?
Bangladesh
China
India
Nepal
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Answer: Option BExplanation
India and other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) supported an initiative of China to organize a joint border operation ‘Solidarity-2023’ for the border agencies of the member countries next year.
India’s Border Security Force (BSF) Director announced this at the conclusion of the eighth meeting of the heads of border authorities of the competent bodies of SCO member states, which was held in Delhi, under the chairmanship of India.
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