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Question 1
1) Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection.
2) Herd immunity is obtained through vaccination only.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
Question 2
(1) CSIR was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the largest research and development organisation in India .
(2) JIGYASA - ‘a student - scientist connect programme’ is one of the major initiatives taken up by CSIR at national level.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
Question 3
1) It was launched by the Sports Authority of India.
2) It aims to resume the sports activities and events at national level in a phased manner.
Select the correct option
Question 4
1) Shinku La – Arunachal Pradesh
2) Zoji La – Ladakh
3) Fotu La – Uttarakhand
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Question 5
1) The Standards were notified through an amendment to Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989
2) The hydrogen fuel specification for fuel cell vehicles will be in accordance with ISO 14687
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
Question 6
1) TRAI has recently proposed creation of multi-stakeholder body (MSB) for adherence to the provisions of net neutrality.
2) The net neutrality principles adopted by DoT will not be applicable to 5G technology.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
Question 7
1) It flows through the 5 states from Himachal Pradesh to West Bengal.
2) It plays a significant role in sustaining the lives of about 50 percent of the country’s population
3) Ganga Avalokan Museum was recently inaugurated in Haridwar.
Which of the following statements is /are correct?
Question 8
(1) Scheme certificate is issued to members who withdraw their EPF contribution but wish to retain their membership with EPFO, to avail pension benefits on attainment of retirement age.
(2) A member becomes eligible for pension only if he has been, cumulatively, a member of the Employees’ Pension Scheme,1995 for at least 20 years.
(3) Upon joining a new job, Scheme Certificate ensures that previous pensionable service is added to pensionable service rendered with the new employer thereby, increasing the amount of pension benefits.
Which of the above statements are correct:
Question 9
(1) Serum Insti¬tute of India (SII) is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) runs under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
(2) Serum Institute of India was founded in 1966 with the aim of manufacturing life-saving immuno-biologicals, which were in shortage in the country and imported at high prices.
(3) Serum Institute of India is now the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally.
Which of the above statements are correct:
Question 10
Question 11
1) It is compiled and released quarterly by the Labour Bureau.
2) It is utilized primarily for measuring Dearness Allowance (DA) payable to workers in the organized sector including PSUs, Banks and Insurance companies besides Govt. employees.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 12
1. Aqaba is the only coastal city of Syria
2. Beirut is an important city of Israel
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
Question 13
1) Palk Strait – Sri Lanka
2) Bab-el-Mandeb Strait – Yemen
3) Malacca Strait – Indonesia
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Question 14
Question 15
(1) POWERGRID is a Maharatna Company.
(2) It is India’s second largest Electric Power Transmission Utility.
(3) It is Listed Company since 2007
Which of the following statements regarding Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (POWERGRID) is/are correct:
Question 16
1) Now India’s premium Cotton would be known as ‘Kasturi Cotton’ in the world cotton Trade.
2) India is the 3rd largest cotton producer and the largest consumer of cotton in the world.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are incorrect?
Question 17
1) The new members nominated have been given a four-year term.
2) The six-member MPC has the mandate to maintain annual inflation at 4 percent, with an upper tolerance of 6 percent and a lower tolerance of 2 percent.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 18
1) Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
2) POPs are identified chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate in living organisms, adversely affect human health/ environment
3) POPs have the property of long-range environmental transport (LRET).
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 19
1) SMART is a missile assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operations far beyond the Torpedo range.
2) It has been successfully flight tested from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 20
Consider the following statements in this regard :
1) ISLRTC is an autonomous National Institute of DEPwD, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
2) NCERT is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Education, which is responsible for ensuring qualitative improvement in school education.
3) As per the 2011 Census, the total population of deaf persons in India numbered about 50 lakh.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
Question 21
1) The focus is to enhance farm productivity with increased input use efficiency and environmental sustainability.
2) It utilizes a wide array of technologies like sensors, remote sensing, deep learning, artificial intelligence and IoT for monitoring and quantification of soil, plant and environment.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 22
1) The mechanism involves cross checking the financial instrument with the details provided by the issuing party or individual.
2) It has potential to make cheque payments more secure from altering, counterfeiting and forging.
Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?
Question 23
1) It aims to provide working capital loans to the street vendors impacted by COVID -19 lockdown.
2) The Scheme targets only those street vendors who are in urban areas.
Select the correct option
Question 24
Question 25
1) Diffie–Hellman key exchange is a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel
2) The method allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure channel.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 26
1) It is a summit on utilizing Artificial Intelligence for the purpose of social transformation, inclusion and empowerment.
2) It is organised by Ministry of Science and Technology and NITI Aayog.
Select the correct option
Question 27
1) Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S. won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping “scissors”.
2) The first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 28
1) The share of natural gas in the energy mix was 15% in 2019
2) The domestic gas production has complete marketing and pricing freedom.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 29
Question 30
1) The policy aims to provide standard procedure for sale of natural gas in a transparent and competitive manner to discover market price by issuing guidelines for sale by contractor through e-bidding.
2) The policy has also permitted Affiliate companies to participate in the bidding process in view of the open, transparent and electronic bidding.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 31
1) Zojila Tunnel will provide all-weather safe connectivity between Srinagar, Dras, Kargil and Leh regions.
2) It will be the longest road tunnel in Asia once completed.
Question 32
Question 33
1) It is a Ministerial-level committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
2) The Committee discusses matters of common concern affecting the global economy and advises the IMF on the direction of its work.
3) The IMFC meets twice a year.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 34
1.The STAR project is being implemented to strengthen the education system of school and to provide education to all under the New Education Policy (NEP).
2.The project is being started on the basis of partnership between India and New Development Bank ( NDB).
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Question 37
1) Ministry of AYUSH, through the National Medicinal Plants Board, initiated establishment of National Raw Drug Repository and Regional Raw Drug Repositories.
2) NMPB have identified National Institute of Siddha as the lead Institute with the Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine, Chennai and the Siddha Central Research Institute, Chennai as the Collaborating Institutes.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 38
Question 39
1) It has been prepared by the NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Institute of Competitiveness.
2) Tamil Nadu has emerged as the top-performing state in the ‘Coastal States’ category.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 40
1) Aquaponics is an emerging technique in which both fishes as well as the plants are grown in an integrated manner.
2) The fish waste provides fertilizer for growing plants and the plants absorb nutrients and filter the water.
Question 41
1) It is an eco label for the beaches only.
2) It is accorded by The Foundation of Environment Education, FEE Denmark.
3) Shivrajpur, Ghogla, Rushikonda are some of the blue flag certified beaches.
Select the correct option.
Question 42
1) APG is a regional affiliate of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
2) The APG Secretariat is located in Sydney, Australia.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 43
1) It is a project launched under the Integrated coastal zone management project by SICOM.
2) Objective of the BEAMS program is to promote sustainable development of beach amenities/ facilities.
Which of the following statements is /are correct?
Question 44
1) It aims to provide rural people with the right to document their residential properties so that they can use their property for economic purposes.
2) The scheme is for surveying the land parcels in rural inhabited area using Drone technology.
3) The survey shall be done across the country in a phase wise manner over the period of four years (2020 -2024)
Which of the following is/are correct?
Question 45
Question 46
1) Several hundred miniature paintings from the National Museum, New Delhi can be viewed online by people around the world through the “Life in Miniature”project .
2) The project uses technologies like machine learning, augmented reality and digitization with high-definition robotic cameras
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 47
1) It operates by combustion of fuel in a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft itself.
2) The airflow through the engine remains supersonic, or greater than the speed of sound.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 48
1) INS Kavaratti is an anti-submarine warfare corvette (ASW) of the Indian Navy built under Project 75(I).
2) It is the last of four indigenously-built ASW under Kamorta-class corvettes of the Navy.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 49
1) New series of Consumer Price Index for Industrial Worker (CPI-IW) has base year 2016
2) The weight of Food & Beverages has increased in the new series.
3) The weight of housing has also increased in the new series.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 50
1) Canada
2) New Zealand
3) Russia
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Question 51
1) It is a combination of CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET).
2) This technology has helped in identifying new cancer cells in the throat region.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Question 52
1) Malabar Exercise started as a bilateral Japan-India naval exercise in 1995
2) USA(United States of America) has never participated in the Malabar Exercise before 2020
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 53
1) The SANT missile is an air-to-air missile developed by DRDO for the Indian Air Force.
2) The SANT missile is an upgrade on India’s Helina missile believed to have a range of 7 to 8 km.
3) The SANT missile has both lock-on before launch and lock-on after launch capability.
Which of the above statements is/ are correct ?
Question 54
1) It has been developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
2) It will enable government stakeholders, start-ups, and local organizations in India to access cloud-based technologies.
Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?
Question 55
1) It refers collectively to the peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
2) This was the first time any Arab country had normalized relations with Israel since Jordan in 1994
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 56
1) It is a unique scheme to assist cooperatives play an important role in creation of healthcare infrastructure.
2) It is formulated by National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC).
3) NCDC is the apex autonomous development finance institution under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Select the correct option
Question 57
1) It is a gene - editing tool which was awarded the 2020 Nobel prize in medicine.
2) It can be used to identify specific sequences of DNA.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 58
1) It was formed in 1989 by the G- 20 group of countries.
2) One of its objectives is to stop funding for weapons of mass destruction.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Question 59
1) Trading across borders
2) Getting Electricity
3) Resolving Insolvency
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Question 60
1) Reserve Bank of India will conduct its first-ever Open Market Operation (OMO) purchase of State Developments Loans (SDLs) on 22nd October.
2) State Development Loans (SDLs) are dated securities issued by states for meeting their market borrowings requirements.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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