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Current Affairs - July 2021 Second Week: 04.07.2021 to 10.07.2021

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4 July 2021

1. International Day of Cooperatives celebrated on?

(A) July 4

(B) July 3

(D) July 1 www.postaffaire.com

Ans: (B) July 3

Note: Theme of the day is theme: ‘Rebuild better together’

2. Union Government has recently extended superannuation age of IPO-bound LIC Chairman to up to ___ years?

(A) 62

(B) 65

(D) 67

Ans: (A) 62

3. Who was on 3 July 2021 named as the next chief minister of Uttarakhand?

(A) Tirath Singh Rawat

(B) Trivendra Singh Rawat

(D) Satpal Maharaj

Ans: (C) Pushkar Singh Dhami

4. Who was named the fag-bearer of the Indian contingent in the Tokyo Paralympics, which begins on August 24, 2021? www.postaffaire.com

(A) Deepa Malik

(B) Devendra Jhajaria

(D) Mariyappan Thangavelu

Ans: (D) Mariyappan Thangavelu

5. Book titled “Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi’s Assassin” to be published by Pan Macmillan India in 2022 is authored by which journalist?

(A) Dhaval Kulkarni

(B) Anirudh Karna

(D) Aravind Verma

Ans: (A) Dhaval Kulkarni

6. 7th edition of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), concluded on July 01, 2021 at?

(A) Maldives

(B) Spain

(D) UK

Ans: (C) France

7. Which bank has recently launched a SalaamDilSey initiative to show gratitude to doctors for their tireless service during the pandemic, to pay tribute to doctors across the country?

(A) ICICI Bank

(B) Axis Bank

(D) State Bank of India

Ans: (C) HDFC Bank

8. Reserve Bank of India has modifed the instructions governing the interest rate to be paid by banks on the amount of Term Deposit that has matured and the proceeds are left unpaid. As per revised guidelines, such unclaimed term deposit will earn an interest rate?

(A) as applicable to a savings account

(B) the contracted rate of interest on the matured Term Deposit

(D) None of the above www.postaffaire.com

Ans: (C) Either A or B, whichever is lower

9. United World Wrestling (UWW), the world wrestling governing body, has imposed two-years ban on Indian wrestler with effect from July 03, 2021?

(A) Sumit Malik

(B) Sushil Kumar

(D) Kavitha Phogat

Ans: (A) Sumit Malik

10. International Plastic Bag Free Day is held on?

(A) July 5

(B) July 4

(D) July 3

Ans: (D) July 3

5 July 2021 www.postaffaire.com

1. World’s third largest cricket stadium is to be constructed in which Indian city?

(A) Kochi

(B) Dharmasala

(D) Vijayawada

Ans: (C) Jaipur

2. M Prasannan who died recently was the former Indian player in?

(A) Football

(B) Cricket

(D) Chess

Ans: (A) Football

3. President Ram Nath Kovind recently laid the foundation stone for Ambedkar Memorial and Cultural Centre at?

(A) Ahemedabad www.postaffaire.com

(B) Panaji

(D) Visakhapatnam

Ans: (C) Lucknow

4. Digital payments platform PhonePe has recently tied hands with _____ to launch a contactless ‘Scan and Pay’ feature for Flipkart’s pay-on-delivery orders?

(A) Amazon

(B) Flipkart

(D) Ajio

Ans: (B) Flipkart

5. Pushkar Singh Dhami, recently took oath as eleventh chief minister of which state?

(A) Jharkhand

(B) Uttarakhand

(D) Gujarat

Ans: (B) Uttarakhand

6. Military’s C-130 Hercules transport plane of which country recently (July 2021) crashed killing 45 soldiers?

(A)

6 and 7 July 2021

1. Who among the following players will be India’s fag-bearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, announced Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on 6 July 2021?

(A) MC Mary Kom and Manpreet Singh

(B) P R Sreejesh and P V Sindhu

(D) Bajrang Punia and Mariyappan Thangavelu

Ans: (A) MC Mary Kom and Manpreet Singh

2. Who among the following will be the fag-bearer of India at the closing ceremony of Tokyo Olympics on August 8, 2021?

(A) MC Mary Kom www.postaffaire.com

(B) Manpreet Singh

(D) P V Sindhu

Ans: (C) Bajrang Punia

3. Which Union Minister was on 6 July 2021 appointed as the Governor of Karnataka?

(A) Nitin Gadkari

(B) Thawarchand Gehlot

(D) Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ans: (B) Thawarchand Gehlot

4. Mizoram governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai was recently shifted as the Governor of?

(A) Haryana

(B) Gujarat

(D) Maharashtra www.postaffaire.com

Ans: (C) Goa

5. Which Veteran England fast bowler recently completed 1000 wickets in frst-class cricket?

(A) James Anderson

(B) Stuart Board

(D) Jofra Archer

Ans: (A) James Anderson

6. World Zoonoses Day is held every year on?

(A) July 5

(B) July 6

(D) July 8

Ans: (B) July 6

Note: Zoonoses are infectious diseases (virus, bacteria and parasites) that can spread from animals to humans, and vice versa, either with direct contact with animals or indirectly, vector-borne or food-borne. www.postaffaire.com

7. 52nd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be held from 20th -28th November 2021 at?

(A) Kerala

(B) Delhi

(D) Kolkata

Ans: (C) Goa

8. Who won the Austrian Grand Prix 2021?

(A) Valtteri Bottas

(B) Lando Norris

(D) Lewis Hamilton

Ans: (C) Max Verstappen

9. Axis Bank has recently inked multi-year deal with which company for digital transformation programme of the bank?

(A) Google www.postaffaire.com

(B) Microsoft

(D) Amazon Web Services

Ans: (D) Amazon Web Services

10. Andy Jassy has on July 5, 2021 took over as the CEO of?

(A) Alibaba

(B) Google

(D) Amazon

Ans: (D) Amazon

8 July 2021

1. Indian Army has recently named a fring range in Gulmarg, Kashmir after whih Indian cinema actress?

(A) Aishwarya Rai

(B) Vidya Balan

(D) Kankana Ranaut

Ans: (B) Vidya Balan

2. Which state government passed a resolution in state assembly on July 6, 2021 for creation of a legislative council in state under Article 169 of Constitution?

(A) West Bengal

(B) Tamil Nadu

(D) Telengana

Ans: (A) West Bengal

3. Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Giriraj Singh has on 7 July 2021 launched Online Course Mobile App ____ for fshermen?

(A) Fish for You

(B) Fishapp

(D) Matsya

Ans: (C) Matsya Setu www.postaffaire.com

4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government has on 6 July 2021 announced for creation of a new ministry named?

(A) Ministry of Cooperation

(B) Ministry of Temple

(D) Ministry of EWS Welfare

Ans: (A)Ministry of Cooperation

5. Name the Legendary Indian actor who died on 6 July 2021 at 98 in Mumbai?

(A) Raj Kapoor

(B) Rajesh Khanna

(D) Irrfan Khan

Ans: (C) Dilip Kumar www.postaffaire.com

6. Which state government has recently launched ‘Mukhyamantri COVID-19 Pariwar Aarthik Sahayata Yojana’ to provide fnancial assistance to families of COVID-19 victims?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Delhi

(D) Gujarat

Ans: (B) Delhi

7. World Chocolate Day celebrated on?

(A) July 8

(B) July 9

(D) July 7

Ans: (D) July 7

8. Jim Whitehurst has recently announced his stepping down as the president of which multinational technology company?

(A) IBM www.postaffaire.com

(B) Intel

(D) Microsoft

Ans: (A) IBM

9. Which Airline company has been recently announced the winner of one of the most prestigious honours in the aviation industry: Air Transport World’s (ATW) 2021 Airline of the Year?

(A) Vistara

(B) Singapore Airlines

(D) Qatar Airways

Ans: (C) Korean Air

10. Who among the following was recently appointed as the “Brand Ambassador” of Khadi Prakritk Paint made from cow dung by KVIC (Khadi and Village Industries Commission)?

(A) Narendra Modi

(B) Rajnath Singh

(D) Nitin Gadkari

Ans: (D) Nitin Gadkari

9 July 2021

1. Payments solution provider Razorpay has partnered with which card to launch ‘MandateHQ’, a payment interface that will help card-issuing banks to enable recurring payments for customers?

(A) Rupay

(B) Visa

(D) Maestro

Ans: (C) Mastercard

2. Who was on 7 July 2021 appointed as the Minister of the newly created Ministry of Cooperation?

(A) Nirmala Sitharaman

(B) Nitin Gadkari

(D) Amit Shah www.postaffaire.com

Ans:(D) Amit Shah

3. Jyotiraditya M Scindia was on 7 July 2021 appointed as the Cabinet Minister of?

(A) Communications and Electronics & Information Technology

(B) Railways

(D) Law & Justice

Ans: (C) Civil Aviation

4. Who among the following is the new Union Cabinet Minister for Railways?

(A) Ashwini Vaishnaw

(B) Sarbananda Sonowal

(D) Kiren Rijiju

Ans: (A) Ashwini Vaishnaw

5. Congress leader Virbhadra Singh who died on 7 July 2021 at the age of 87 was the former Chief Minister of which state?

(A) Haryana www.postaffaire.com

(B) Himachal Pradesh

(D) Jharkhand

Ans: (B) Himachal Pradesh

6. Jovenel Moise who was recently assassinated at his home is the president of?

(A) Haiti

(B) Sudan

(D) Zimbabwe

Ans: (A) Haiti

7. Name the Indian economist who has recently been awarded the Humboldt Research Award for Economics?

(A) Amartya Sen

(B) Kaushik Basu

(D) Arvind Subramanian www.postaffaire.com

Ans: (B) Kaushik Basu

8. Who recently took charge as Director General of All India Radio?

(A) N Venudhar Reddy

(B) Denesh Mistry

(D) Nirmal Singh

Ans: (A) N Venudhar Reddy

9. Name the director best known for helming the original ‘Superman’ flm who died recently?

(A) Sam Raimi

(B) Guy Ritchie

(D) Antonio Guttress

Ans: (C) Richard Donner

10. Neha Parikh, has been recently appointed as the CEO of crowd-sourced GPS navigation app? www.postaffaire.com

(A) Waze

(B) Mapquest

(D) Apple Maps

Ans: (A) Waze

10 July 2021

1. Who was recently re-appointed as the managing director and chief executive ofcer (CEO) of the federal bank?

(A) Shyam Srinivasan

(B) Murali Ramakrishnan

(D) Sandeep Bakhshi

Ans: (B) Murali Ramakrishnan

2. Which state has recently ofcially confrmed its frst case of Zika virus, which is a mosquito-borne viral infection?

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Gujarat www.postaffaire.com

(D) Kerala

Ans: (D) Kerala

3. Who among the following was recently appointed as the new Health Minister of India in a major cabinet reshufe?

(A) Harsh Vardhan

(B) Aswini Vaishnaw

(D) Piyush Goel

Ans: (C) Mansukh Mandaviya

4. World’s tallest sandcastle was recently constructed in which country?

(A) Sweden

(B) Denmark

(D) Japan

Ans:(B) Denmark www.postaffaire.com

5. Amazon has recently launched its frst Digital Kendra in India at?

(A) Surat, Gujarat

(B) Ernakulam, Kerala

(D) Bengaluru, Karnataka

Ans: (A) Surat, Gujarat

6. _____ has recently become the frst railway station in India with a movable freshwater tunnel aquarium?

(A) Bengaluru City Railway Station

(B) Gorakhpur Railway Station

(D) Thiruvananthapuram Railway Station

Ans: (A) Bengaluru City Railway Station

7. A new book titled “The Light of Asia”, a biography of an epic bio-poem on the Buddha, is authored by? www.postaffaire.com

(A) Veerappa Moili

(B) Venkaih Naidu

(D) P Chidambaram

Ans: (C) Jairam Ramesh

8. National Fish Farmers’ Day is celebrated every year on?

(A) 10 July

(B) 11 July

(D) 8 July

Ans: (A) 10 July

9. Which bank has recently signed MOU with the Indian Army offering a defence service salary package under its “Power Salute” initiative?

(A) State Bank of India

(B) Punjab National Bank

(D) Axis Bank

Ans: (D) Axis Bank

10. National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has recently announced a signifcant addition of the original camera negative of which Aamir Khan flm?

(A) PK

(B) 3 Idiots

(D) Fanaa

Ans: (A) PK

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