Current Affairs and General knowledge april 20 -2020

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Current Affairs and Genaral knowledge april 20 -2020

1.Name the Indian multinational motor company which has acquired 122-year-old iconic British company Norton Motorcycle (UK) Ltd for Rs 153 crore.
1) TVS motor
2) Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India
3) Suzuki Motorcycle India
4) Bajaj Auto
5) Hero Motocorp

Ans: TVS motor

2.Name the Indian movie producer and distributor company which has done 1st of its kind all share merger with Hollywood’s STX Entertainment.
1) Fox Star Studios
2) Excel Entertainment
3) Eros International
4) Reliance Entertainment
5) AVM Productions

Ans: Eros International

3.Which Indian organization has developed Automatic Mist Based Sanitisers Dispensing Unit & UV Sanitisation Box and Hand-held UV device recently?
1) Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
2) Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
3) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
4) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
5) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Ans: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

4.Which of the following is India’s 2nd institute which decodes entire genome sequence of Coronavirus (1st – National Institute of Virology)?
1) Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
2) Kalam Institute of Health Technology
3) National Centre for Cell Science
4) Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre
5) Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

Ans: Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre

5.Which command of Indian navy has developed air evacuation pod for covid-19 patients?
1) Central Command
2) Southern Command
3) Eastern Command
4) Western Command
5) Northern Command

Ans: Southern Command

6.The team of researchers of which institute has developed a portable compact solid-state sensor to identify the heavy metal ions in water?
1) Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow
2) Agharkar Research Institute, Pune
3) Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru
4) Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational-Sciences, Nanital
5) Bose Institute, Kolkata

Ans: Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru

7.Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura, the writer and author who passed away recently belongs to which country?
1) Netherlands
2) Ireland
3) Germany
4) Spain
5) Chile

Ans: Chile

8.The theme for world Heritage Day 2020 is “Shared Culture, Shared Heritage and Shared Responsibility”, when was World Heritage Day celebrated annually?
1) March 29
2) April 7
3) May 3
4) April 18
5) April 23

Ans: April 18

9.Name the Union Culture Minister (I/C) who has launched national list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in April 2020.
1) Nitin Gadkari
2) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
3) Prahlad Singh Patel
4) Narendra Singh Tomar
5) Ram Vilas Paswan

Ans: Prahlad Singh Patel

10.Find the Indian ministry which has formulated color codes (Red, Orange, Green zones) for Lockdown 2.0.
1) Ministry of Home Affairs
2) Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
3) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
4) Ministry of Science and Technology
5) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Ans: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

11.Name the 1st Indian state which carried out the rapid testing for covid-19.
1) Rajasthan
2) Goa
3) Kerala
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Uttar Pradesh

Ans: Rajasthan

12.What is the revised loss coverage for micro loan defaults under Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units (CGFMU) scheme?
1) 45%
2) 75%
3) 60%
4) 25%
5) 50%

Ans: 75%

13.What is the amount of fund released to states and UTs under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)?
1) 10000 crores
2) 3500 crores
3) 4100 crores
4) 7300 crores
5) 8400 crores

Ans: 7300 crores

14.South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s party wins election amid COVID-19 pandemic. He belongs to which party?
1) Democratic Party
2) Republic Part
3) Labour Party
4) People Party
5) Justice Party

Ans: Democratic Party

15.The Equitas small finance bank (SFB) has launched Selfe Fixed Deposits (FD) and Selfe savings accounts to expand its digital banking services recently. Where is the HQ of Equitas SFB located?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Jaipur
4) Chennai
5) Bengaluru

Ans: Chennai

16.What is the amount for which RBI announced to conduct auction for Targeted Long-Term Repo Operations 2.0 (Note: on April 17, 2020 concluded 1 Lakh crore TLTRO)?
1) 40000 cr
2) 10000 cr
3) 20000 cr
4) 50000 cr
5) 25000 cr

Ans: 50000 cr

17.What is the Business Confidence Index for the 4th quarter of FY 20 as per National Council for Applied Economic Research’s (NCAER) 112th Business Expectations Survey (BES)?
1) 85.9%
2) 111%
3) 98.6%
4) 77.3%
5) 101.5%

Ans: 77.3%

18.What is the S&P Global Ratings’ revised growth forecast of India for the FY 20-21?
1) 1.2%
2) 2.7%
3) 2.4%
4) 2%
5) 1.8%

Ans: 1.8%

19.Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has attended the 101st Development Committee plenary Meeting of World Bank – IMF recently. Where is the Headquarters of IMF located?
1) Geneva, Switzerland
2) Vienna, Austria
3) Paris, France
4) Washington DC, US
5) New Delhi, India

Ans: Washington DC, US

20.The 44th session of UNESCO’s (HQ – Paris, France) World Heritage committee 2020 which was scheduled at Fuzhou is postponed. The Fuzhou is the city in which country?
1) South Korea
2) Japan
3) China
4) North Korea
5) Chinese Taipei

Ans: China