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  • Question 1/10
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    Name India’s first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier that began sea trials off the coast of Kochi.
    Solutions

    * India’s first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier began sea trials off the coast of Kochi.

    * The landmark achievement puts India in an exclusive list of a handful of nations that have the capability to manufacture these most powerful of naval vessels.

    * The Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) will carry the name INS Vikrant — the same as the Indian Navy’s first aircraft carrier that was decommissioned in 1997 after more than 35 years of service — once it is commissioned next year.

    * Once it is commissioned, INS Vikrant will join the Russian-origin INS Vikramaditya, at present India’s sole aircraft carrier.

  • Question 2/10
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    In which state/UTs the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed the highest motorable road in the world at the height of 19,300 feet at Umlingla Pass?
    Solutions

    * The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed the highest motorable road in the world at the height of 19,300 feet at Umlingla Pass in eastern Ladakh.

    * The BRO has constructed a 52-km long black-topped road through Umlingla Pass, bettering the previous record of a road in Bolivia connecting to its volcano Uturuncu at 18,953 ft.

    * The road at Umlingla Pass now connects the important towns in the Chumar sector of Eastern Ladakh.

  • Question 3/10
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    Padma Shri awardee Padma Sachdev passed away recently, she was first modern woman poet of which language?
    Solutions

    * Noted author and Padma Shri awardee Padma Sachdev, the first modern woman poet of Dogri language, passed away in Mumbai.

    * Sachdev (81), who was born in Purmandal area of Jammu in 1940 in the house of Sanskrit Scholar Prof Jai Dev Badu.

    * She authored many books in Dogri and Hindi, and her poetry collections, including ‘Meri Kavita Mere Geet’, won her the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.

    * She received the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth-highest civilian award, in 2001 and was awarded the Kabir Samman for poetry for 2007-08 by the Madhya Pradesh government.

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    Lovlina Borgohain is associated with which sports who won a bronze medal in Tokyo Olympic 2020?
    Solutions

    * India boxer Lovlina Borgohain (23 years) has won bronze medal after losing by 0-5 , to top seed Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey, in the Women’s Welter (64-69kg) semi-final bout

    * She is the only third Indian boxer to win a medal at the Olympics after Vijender Singh (2008) and MC Mary Kom (2012).

    * She won bronze medal at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships

    * She hails from Golaghat district of Assam.

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    Indian men's hockey team has defeated which country to win the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics?
    Solutions

    * Indian men's hockey team has defeated Germany to win the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics

    * This is India's first Olympic medal in hockey since they won the gold medal in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

    * This is India's fourth medal in Tokyo so far.

    * This is India's fourth bronze medal at the Olympics and last won a bronze in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

    * Indian Hockey team is the most successful team at Olympics with eight gold medals.

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    Which country became the 5th country to sign International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement after amendments to it entered into force on 8th January 2021, opening its Membership to all Member States of the United Nations?
    Solutions

    * Germany became 5th country to sign International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework Agreement after amendments to it entered into force on 8th January 2021, opening its Membership to all UN Member States.

    * Membership to the ISA was earlier limited to 121 countries, which were partially or entirely located within the tropics.

    * This didn’t allow major solar energy economies to join the alliance

    * ISA initiative was launched in 2015.

  • Question 7/10
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    Which bank has approved USD 250 million project in India titled as Second Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP-2) agreement for long-term dam safety program and performance of existing dams of India?
    Solutions

    * World Bank has approved USD 250 million project in India titled as Second Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP-2) agreement for long-term dam safety program and performance of existing dams of India.

    * The agreement was inked between World Bank, Govt of India, Central Water Commission (CWC), and government representatives from 10 participating states.

    * Implementing agency: CWC

    * At state level, approximately 120 dams will be undertaken across the states.

  • Question 8/10
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    Which state government has launched earthquake early warning mobile application, titled as ‘Bhookamp Alert’?
    Solutions

    * Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami has launched earthquake early warning mobile application, titled as ‘Uttarakhand Bhookamp Alert’.

    * It is India’s first earthquake early warning’ app for notifying people about earthquake alerts.

    * It has been developed by IIT Roorkee, in association with Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority (USDMA)

    * It can detect the onset of the earthquake and issue warnings regarding an earthquake occurrence in the neighbourhood and the expected time of arrival and intensity at the location to prevent any loss of life.

  • Question 9/10
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    Shehroz Kashif belongs to which country who becomes the youngest mountaineer in the world to reach the summit of K2?
    Solutions

    * A 19-year old Pakistani climber named Shehroz Kashif has become the youngest mountaineer in the world to reach the summit of K2, the second-highest peak in the world.

    * He achieved the feat of scaling the 8,611-metre high peak with the aid of bottled oxygen, on July 27, 2021.

    * Prior to Kashif, Sajid Sadpara, the son of the legendary climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara, was the youngest person to have climbed K2 at the age of 20.

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    Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has signed MoU with which institute to give boost agricultural and processed food products exports?
    Solutions

    * Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has signed MoU with University of Agricultural Science (UAS) Bangalore to give boost agricultural and processed food products exports especially from Karnataka

    * Key areas of cooperation of MoU include developing technologies for advance alertness, efficient & precision farming for enhancing quality exports; diversifying the export basket, destinations and boost high-value Agri-exports

    * It will also help in strengthening forward and backward linkages, participations in international exhibitions and fairs, branding and marketing, establishment of market intelligence cell, developing traceability systems.

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