The correct answer is Arvind Adiga.

Key Points

• India's first-time novelist Aravind Adiga won the 50,000 pounds Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel.
  • The White Tiger. Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker's shortlists of six.
  • The other is Australia's Steve Toltz.
  • The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.
• It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize the same year.

Additional Information

• Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer and the winner of the 54th Jnanpith award, India’s highest literary honour, best known for his work in English fiction.
• Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • As a writer, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
• Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.
  • She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. 

The correct answer is 1 July.

Key Points

• National Doctor’s Day is observed on July 1st every year in healthcare organizations to recognize the contributions of physicians to individual lives and communities.
• The day honours the legendary physician & the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.
• He was born on July 1, 1882, and died on the same date in 1962, aged 80 years.
• Dr Roy was honoured with the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna on February 4, 1961.
• In 1991, the Central Government established the day to pay respect and honour Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.

Additional Information

• Every year, the theme for Doctor's day is announced by Indian Medical Association.
• The theme of the year 2022 Doctors Day is “Family doctors on the front line”.
• This includes awareness about asymptomatic hypoxia and early aggressive therapy.
• Last year it was 'Zero tolerance to violence against doctors and clinical establishments.'

The correct answer is Cobra Gold.

Key Points

• Cobra Gold is the largest Asia-Pacific military exercise held in Thailand every year.
• It is a military exercise to improve the coordination between the armed forces of the USA and Thailand.
• Cobra Gold exercise started in 1982.
• Cobra Gold exercise consists of three activities namely Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercise(CALFEX), Command Post Exercise (CPX) and assisting the local Thai population. 

The correct answer is Vinesh Phogat 

Key Points

• Vinesh Phogat is an Indian wrestler.
• She became the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in Asian Games. 
• She is also the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in the Commonwealth Games.
• Phogat became the first Indian athlete to be nominated for Laureus World Sports Awards in 2019.
• Awards: Arjuna Award for Wrestling, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for Wrestling

The correct answer is Paris.

Key Points

• Eiffel Tower is located in Paris, France.
• Eiffel Tower, French Tour Eiffel, the Parisian landmark that is also a technological masterpiece in building-construction history.
•  It was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair and it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world.

Important Points

Option 1 is correct.

Key Points

• Kazakhstan has renamed its capital Astana to Nur-Sultan.
• The name change was done in the honour of the first President", Nursultan Nazarbayev, who served in the role for nearly 30 years.
• Jomart Tokayev is the President of Kazakhstan.

Additional Information

Kyrgyzstan:

• Bishkek is the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
• Som is the currency of Kyrgyzstan.

Kenya:

• Nairobi is the capital of Kenya.
• Kenya shilling is the currency of Kenya.

Kiribati:

• Tarawa Atoll is the capital of Kiribati.
• Kiribati dollar is the currency of Kiribati.

The correct answer is Hockey.

• If the defenders send the ball over the end line intentionally of defending team fouls in the shooting circle, a penalty corner awarded to the attacking team.   

Key Points

• The Captian of the National men's hockey team is Manpreet Singh.
• Manpreet  Singh became the first Indian player to win the International Hockey Federation's player of the year award.
• The President of the Indian Hockey Federation is Gyanendro Ningombam.  
• The headquarters of the Indian Hockey Federation is in New Delhi.
• There are 11 players in a team of Hockey.

Additional Information

• Hockey player Rani Rampal conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2020.
• She became the third hockey player to be conferred with the Khel Ratna.
• A Football team consists of 11 players.
• Some Golf terms - Bogey, Ballooning, Ball mark, etc.
• Some Volleyball terms - Smash, Penetration, Libero, etc.

The correct answer is Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle  

Key Points

• ​PSLV (Polar S.atellite Launch Vehicle) is an indigenously-developed expendable launch system of the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization).
• PSLV is the third generation launch vehicle of India and is the first Indian launch vehicle to be equipped with liquid stages. 
• PSLV has a four-stage system comprising a combination of solid and liquid-fuelled rocket stages.
• All the operations of PSLV are controlled from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, east coast, India.
• Some remarkable launches by PSLV are Chandrayaan-1 (First Indian lunar probe), Mangalyaan-1 (First Mars Orbiter Mission by India) and Astrosat (First Indian dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory).

The correct answer is Measurement of Poverty in the country.

Key Points

• Rangarajan Committee -
  • The Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan was formed to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty in the country.
  • It was constituted by the Planning Commission in the year 2012.

Additional Information

• Tendulkar Committee - Suresh Tendulkar committee was constituted by the Planning Commission in the year 2005.
  • Suresh Tendulkar committee adopted the cost of living as the basis for identifying poverty.
• Sarkaria commission - On March 24, 1983 Government announced the proposal to appoint a Commission under the Chairmanship of R. S. Sarkaria, a retired Judge of the Supreme Court.
  • The Commission reviewed the arrangements between the Centre and the States.

The correct answer is Music Industry.

Key Points

• Grammy Awards are given to recognize achievements in the music industry.
  • They are given annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the USA.
  • The awardees receive a golden statuette of a gramophone.
  • The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles in 1959.

Important Points

• Recently, the 63rd annual Grammy Awards were presented in Los Angeles on March 15, 2021. 
  • Billie Eilish became the first solo artist to win the record of the year award for two years in a row.
  • Beyoncé became the most-awarded woman in the history of Grammys with 28 wins.
  • Taylor Swift became the first woman to win the album of the year award three times.