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1 .

Which state's Chief Minister led a ten-party delegation to meet PM Narendra Modi to demand caste-based census?

A)

Bihar

B)

Gujarat

C)

Haryana

D)

Uttarakhand

Correct Answer : Bihar

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar-led ten parties delegation including Janata Dal (United), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and others met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at South Block in Delhi on Monday to discuss a caste-based census.

Besides Bihar Chief Minister, other members of the delegation were RJD's Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, JD(U) leader Vijay Kumar Choudhary, who is also the minister for education and parliamentary affairs, former Chief Minister and President of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) Jitan Ram Manjhi, Congress legislature party leader Ajeet Sharma and BJP leader and Bihar minister Janak Ram, CPI-ML legislature party leader Mahboob Alam, Akhtarul Imam of AIMIM, Mukesh Sahni of VIP, Suryakant Paswan of CPI and Ajay Kunar of CPM.

Published On : August 23, 2021

2 .

Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the reconstituted Advisory Board for Banking and Financial Frauds (ABBFF) by CVC?

A)

Ajay Banga

B)

Kris Gopalakrishnan

C)

T M Bhasin

D)

N.r. Narayana Murthy

Correct Answer : T M Bhasin

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on Thursday re-appointed T M Bhasin as chairman of the Advisory Board for Banking and Financial Frauds (ABBFF), a panel constituted to examine bank frauds of over Rs 50 crore and recommend action.

The re-appointment of Bhasin is with effect from August 21, 2021 for a further period of two years, as per the circular issued by CVC.

Published On : August 23, 2021

3 .

Name the AI-enabled chatbot launched by BPCL to provide seamless self-service experience and faster resolution of queries/issues?

A)

URJA

B)

VAJRA

C)

VED

D)

SHAKTI

Correct Answer : URJA

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has developed an AI-enabled chatbot named “URJA“. the chatbot will help in offering an interface for a seamless self-service experience and faster resolution of queries/issues for its customers. It will give answers and will give its solutions for consumer’s queries and requirements with its Artificial Intelligence.

* The Urja AI chatbot has become the first in the country’s oil and gas industry.

* It is “an intelligent virtual assistant with AI/NLP (Natural Language Processing) capabilities.

* It has been developed or trained with over 600 use cases.

Benefits of URHA :

* The URJA Chatbot will provide services including LPG booking, price and payment status, and delivery status of booked LPG cylinder and refill history.

* The Customers will be able to change LPG distributors, update mobile numbers, request services from BharatGas distributors including mechanic services, and seek double bottle connections (for single bottle connection customers).

* It will also provide the price of petrol and diesel.

* Users can find doorstep delivery of fuel through Chatbot.

Highlights :

* BPCL launched a successful 6-month pilot on WhatsApp for enabling LPG bookings.

* Now, Urja is available in 13 languages such as English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu and Assamese.

Published On : August 23, 2021

4 .

When is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition observed?

A)

22 August

B)

23 August

C)

24 August

D)

25 August

Correct Answer : 23 August

The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

It is against this background that the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is commemorated on 23 August each year.

This International Day is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the goals of the intercultural project "The Slave Route", it should offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.

The Director-General of UNESCO invites the Ministers of Culture of all Member States to organize events every year on that date, involving the entire population of their country and in particular young people, educators, artists and intellectuals.

Published On : August 23, 2021

5 .

Senior BJP leader Kalyan Singh passed away at 89. He was served twice as the Chief Minister of which state?

A)

Maharashtra

B)

Uttar Pradesh

C)

Madhya Pradesh

D)

Himachal Pradesh

Correct Answer : Uttar Pradesh

Kalyan Singh was a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He had served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh twice from June 1991 – December 1992 and then from September 1997 – November 1999.

Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh passed away on August 22, 2021 after a prolonged illness. He was 89.

The senior BJP leader was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow on July 4, 2021 following a deterioration in his health condition.

The hospital released a statement that read, "Former Chief Minister of UP and Ex-Governor of Rajasthan Kalyan Singh Ji breathed his last today. He was admitted on July 4 in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition. He died due to sepsis and multi-organ failure."

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who had met Kalyan Singh earlier in the day, said that Singh's last rites will be performed on the bank of Ganga in Narora on the evening of August 23. He had been on the ventilator and was undergoing dialysis.

Published On : August 23, 2021

6 .

India has signed a deal for procurement of 70,000 AK-200 series assault rifles with which nation?

A)

USA

B)

UK

C)

France

D)

Russia

Correct Answer : Russia

India and Russia on August 19, 2021 signed a deal for the immediate procurement of 70,000 AK-200 series assault rifles.

The agreement was signed at a time when both countries are working on a bigger project to jointly manufacture 6 lakh AK-203 rifles in India. The deal for the same has been pending since 2018.

India's initial plan was to directly import 20,000 of the 7.62×39mm AK-203 rifle and jointly manufacture around 6.5 lakh such rifles in India.

Due to delay in delay in joint production, there is an immediate need to procure the rifles off the shelf. The off-the-shelf equipment could include multiple variants of the AK-200 series, as the basic difference is the accessories that are fitted to the rifle.

AK-203 is the latest version of the AK-47 rifle. These rifles will replace the 5.56×45mm Indian Small Arms System (INSAS) rifles that are currently being used by the Indian Army, Navy and the Air Force besides other security forces.

The Indian Army currently has a requirement of around 770,000 AK-203 rifles, among which about 100,000 are expected to be imported while the rest are planned to be manufactured in India. The current off-the-shelf procurement will be a part of 100,000 assault rifles.

Russia will provide the 70,000 AK-203 assault rifles to India in the next six months. A deal has also been finalised between India and Russia to upgrade Kamov lightweight multi-role military helicopters at India's requests to suit Indian conditions.

Published On : August 22, 2021

7 .

A)

Tollywood

B)

Kollywood

C)

Mollywood

D)

Bollywood

Correct Answer : Mollywood

Actress Chithra, who played memorable roles in some iconic Malayalam films, passed away on August 21, 2021, in the morning at her residence in Chennai due to a heart attack. She was 56 years old.

Chithra has worked in more than 100 films in her career. She made her acting debut with K. Balachander's Tamil film ‘Apoorva Raagangal’ alongside Kamal Haasan. She then debuted as an adult in the Malayalam film ‘Aattakalasam’ in 1983 alongside actors Mohanlal and Prem Nazir.

The actress was given the nickname ‘Nallennai Chithra’ as she became popular and attained fame with the advertisement of an oil company, she had acted in.

Chithra got married to Vijayaraghavan in 1990 and the couple has a daughter together named Mahalakshmi who was born in the year 1992. Though she took a break from movies after her marriage, she has acted in several serials including Manasi (Malayalam), Kaialavu Manasu (Tamil), Asaigal, Udhyogasthan, Saariyum Illai Thappum Illai, Nagamma (Telugu) and others. She has also acted in Kannada films like ‘Sundara Swapnagalu’, ‘Krishna Mechida Radhe’ and others.

Published On : August 22, 2021

8 .

Who is first introduced Raksha Bandhan?

A)

Draupadi

B)

Seeta Devi

C)

Mandodari

D)

Satyabhama

Correct Answer : Draupadi

During the Mahabharata, it is believed that Draupadi tied a rakhi on Krishna’s wrist when he had injured his finger while using his sudarshan chakra against the king Shishupalal. While Krishna’s hand was bleeding, Draupadi tore a piece from her sari and tied it around his hand. Krishna was so touched by this gesture that in return, he vowed that he would always be there to protect and cherish her.

(Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore started a mass Raksha Bandhan festival during the Partition of Bengal (1905), in which he encouraged Hindu and Muslim women to tie a rakhi on men from the other community and make them their brothers. The exercise was designed to counter British efforts to create a divide between Hindus and Muslims.)

Published On : August 22, 2021

9 .

The Centre for Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence has been set up at which IIT?

A)

IIT Delhi

B)

IIT Guwahati

C)

IIT-Hyderabad

D)

IIT-Raurkela

Correct Answer : IIT-Hyderabad

Union Education Minister "Dharmendra Pradhan" has virtually inaugurated the Centre for Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence set up at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H). He also inaugurated the first Academic Building of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgical Engineering, High-Performance Computing Centre and High-Resolution Electron Microscopy Facility.

The Centre for Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency-JICA is the best example of international cooperation. The University has an agreement with Honeywell Technology Solutions for setting up the lab.

Published On : August 22, 2021

10 .

Malabar rebellion was one of the first manifestations of the Taliban mindset in which of the following state of India?

A)

Sikkim

B)

Kerala

C)

Punjab

D)

Gujarat

Correct Answer : Kerala

The Moplah rebellion, also known as the Mappila riots, of 1921 was one of the first manifestations of the Taliban mindset in India and the Left government in Kerala was allegedly trying to whitewash it by celebrating it as a communist revolution, RSS RPT RSS leader Ram Madhav claimed on 19-08-2021.

He said the national leadership is aware of the “correct history” and therefore, it will not give any space to such Talibani or separatist forces to create violence or divide people in the country, be it Kashmir or Kerala.

Published On : August 22, 2021