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1 .

India has signed a $300 million loan agreement with which financial institution to improve primary healthcare in urban areas?

A)

WB

B)

ADB

C)

IMF

D)

EBRD

Correct Answer : ADB

The Indian Government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $300 million loan agreement to improve primary healthcare in the urban areas of 13 states. It will benefit over 256 billion urban dwellers including the 51 million from the slum areas.

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2 .

Who is 1st women President of Indian Mountaineering Foundation?

A)

Smriti Irani

B)

Harshwanti Bisht

C)

Meenakshi Lekhi

D)

Renuka Singh Saruta

Correct Answer : Harshwanti Bisht

Noted mountaineer from Uttarakhand, Harshwanti Bisht has earned the distinction of being elected the first woman president of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF). The 62-year-old Bisht won 60 out of a total of 107 votes to get elected to the coveted post. It is for the first time that a woman has been elected as the president of the IMF, which was founded in the year 1958.

About Harshwanti Bisht :

* Bisht, 62, who hails from a village named Sukai in Pauri district, says promoting mountaineering and other adventure sports, and bringing more women into the field will be among her priorities.

* Bisht, who has been honoured with the Arjuna award for her achievements in the field of mountaineering, said there was a time when Uttarakhand used to be at the top when it came to adventure sports like mountaineering but the scenario has changed in recent years.

* Bisht, who did a course in mountaineering from the Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in 1975, scaled the Nanda Devi peak in 1981 which earned her the Arjuna award. She was also a member of an expedition team to Mount Everest in 1984.

* A professor of economics, Bisht recently retired as the principal of PG College, Uttarkashi.

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3 .

As per the Multidimensional Poverty Index, which state has been elected as the poor state in India?

A)

Goa

B)

Delhi

C)

Kerala

D)

Tamil Nadu

Correct Answer : Kerala

Kerala (0.71%), Goa (3.76%), Sikkim (3.82%), Tamil Nadu (4.89%) and Punjab (5.59 %) have been ranked as the top 5 lowest poverty states across India.

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4 .

Who is the new Prime Minister of Czech Republic on November 2021?

A)

Petr Fiala

B)

Andrej BabiÅ¡

C)

Bohuslav Sobotka

D)

JiÅ™Ã Rusnok

Correct Answer : Petr Fiala

Czech Republic President "Milos Zeman" appointed "Petr Fiala" as the Prime Minister of the country on November 28, 2021. Fiala is the leader of the Together coalition that had won the general elections in the Czech Republic in October 2021. The ceremony of appointing Fiala as the new head of the Czech Republic government was broadcast by Czech Television.

Milos Fiala leads a bloc of five centre and centre-right opposition parties that had won the elections in October and had ousted the incumbent premier Andrej Babis and his allies. The new Prime Minister of the Czech Republic also acknowledged that the new government has a very complicated time ahead as well as many challenges.

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5 .

The Reserve Bank of India has recently increased the cap on promoters stake in private bank to _____ percent of the paid-up voting equity share capital of the bank.

A)

26%

B)

32%

C)

39%

D)

45%

Correct Answer : 26%

The cap on promoters’ stake in long run of 15 years has been raised from 15% (earlier) to 26% of the paid-up voting equity share capital of the bank.

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6 .

Which of the following state has emerged as the poorest state in India at all dimensions in the inaugural national Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released by NITI Aayog?

A)

Assam

B)

Kerala

C)

Punjab

D)

Bihar

Correct Answer : Bihar

The government think tank Niti Aayog has released the first ever Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) to measure poverty at the national, State/UT, and district levels. As per the inaugural index, Bihar has been adjudged as the state with highest level of multidimensional poverty. 51.91% of the state’s population are multidimensionally poor.

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7 .

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 1 crore on which bank?

A)

Canara Bank

B)

State Bank of India

C)

ICICI Bank

D)

HDFC Bank

Correct Answer : State Bank of India

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) by an order dated November 16 has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 1 crore on the State Bank of India for contravention of section 19 (2) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (the Act), informed RBI.

"This action is based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance and is not intended to pronounce upon the validity of any transaction or agreement entered into by the bank with its customers," reads the official release.

As per the press note, the irregularities were identified after a Statutory Inspections for Supervisory Evaluation (ISE) of the bank was conducted by RBI with reference to its financial positions as on March 31, 2018, and March 31, 2019, and the examination of the Risk Assessment Reports, Inspection Report and all related correspondence pertaining to the same, revealed, inter-alia, contravention of section 19 of the Act.

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8 .

The joint Armed Force Exercise Dakshin Shakti 2021 was held in which place recently?

A)

Jaipur, Rajasthan

B)

Jaipur, Rajasthan

C)

Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

D)

Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Correct Answer : Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

The Indian Army had organised the biggest military exercise called "Dakshin Shakti" in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer from November 19 to 22, 2021. Exercise Dakshin Shakti witnessed the participation of over 30,000 troops from the Army, Navy, IAF, Coast Guard, BSF and intelligence.

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9 .

Name the Indian candidate who has recently been elected as 'Delegate for Asia' on the executive committee of the INTERPOL?

A)

Anand Mahto

B)

Praveen Sinha

C)

Ramani Bharadwaj

D)

Srinivasan Doraiswamy

Correct Answer : Praveen Sinha

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Director Praveen Sinha has been elected as ‘Delegate for Asia’ on the executive committee of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol).

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10 .

What is the new COVID-19 variant_________in South Africa on 24 November 2021?

A)

B.1.1.529(Omicron)

B)

B.1.2.500(Omicron)

C)

B.1.1.501(Omicron)

D)

B.1.2.507(Omicron)

Correct Answer : B.1.1.529(Omicron)

The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened on 26 November 2021 to assess the SARS-CoV-2 variant: B.1.1.529(Omicron).

The B.1.1.529(Omicron) variant was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24 November 2021. The epidemiological situation in South Africa has been characterized by three distinct peaks in reported cases, the latest of which was predominantly the Delta variant. In recent weeks, infections have increased steeply, coinciding with the detection of B.1.1.529(Omicron) variant. The first known confirmed B.1.1.529(Omicron) infection was from a specimen collected on 9 November 2021.

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