Current Affairs

By: MG Jayasankar (20+ Years Teaching Experience) ExamLounge.com

Practice Problems with Solution

Question 1:Which city is ranked as the cleanest city in India as per the SwachhSurvekshan 2020 cleanliness survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs? A: Indore B:Navi Mumbai C: Surat D: Varanasi

Question 2:Which football club has won the UEFA champions league 2020? A: Barcelona B: Paris Saint German C: Real Madrid D: Bayern Munich

Question 3:Name the week long campaign launched by Bharatiya Janata Party to celebrate the 70th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi A:SevaSaptah B:SwachhSaptah C:SwasthyaSaptah D:HarithSaptah

Question 4:Development Policy Loans are issued by which financial organisation? A: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development B: Asian Development Bank C: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank D: European Monetary Union

Question 5:Who was the chairman of Fifteenth Finance Commission [FFC]? A: N K Singh B: Ajay Narayan Jha C:Dr.Rajeev Kumar D: Arvind Mehta

Downloaded from ExamLounge.com 1

Question 6:Dominic Thiem became only the second Austrian to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament when he won the US Open Men’s Singles 2020 at Flushing Meadows in New York defeating Alexander Zverev of Germany. Who was the first Austrian to win a Grand Slam? A: Oliver Marach B:Jurgen Melzer C: Thomas Muster D: Stefan Koubek

Question 7:‘BindasBol” a controversial TV news series which was banned from telecasting its future episodes by the Supreme Court was aired by which channel? A: Republic TV B: ABP News C:AajTak D:Sudarshan TV

Question 8:The Atal tunnel which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is situated in which state? A:Uttarakhand B: Sikkim C: Himachal Pradesh D: Arunachal Pradesh

Question 9:Which country has recently handed over three antique bronze idols of Rama, Sita and Lakhsmana which were reportedly stolen from a temple in India in 1978? A: Australia B: USA C: Japan D: United Kingdom

Question 10:Who is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights? A:Navi Pillay B:ZeidRaad Al Hussein C: Louise Arbour D: Michelle Bachelet

Downloaded from ExamLounge.com 2

Answers and Solutions

1:- A Solution: Surat and Navi Mumbai got the second and third places respectively. Indore has emerged as the cleanest city in the country for the fourth time in a row.

Cleanest mega city – Ahmedabad Cleanest Ganga town – Varanasi Cleanest cantonment – Jalandhar Cantt

2:- D Solution: Bayern Munich of Germany won the UEFA Champions League trophy on 23rd Augsut 2020 defeating Paris Saint German of France by1-0 in the final held at Lisbon, Portugal.

Manual Neuer is the captain of Bayern Munich and Hansi Flick is the coach.

Thiago Silva is the captain of PSG and Thomas Tuchen is the coach.

The winner of 2019 UEFA Champions League is Liverpool of England

3:- A Solution:The campaign was launched by party president J P Naddah at Chhaprauli village in GautamBuddh Nagar of Western UP

4:- A Solution: In India, these loans are generally given to state governments through a tri-partite agreement between the Union Government, State Governments and the World Bank. Union government has recently adopted a policy not to make the Development Policy Loan [DPL] of US Dollar 2 billion available to state governments, but to use it for national projects in the health and MSME sectors.

State governments have been advised to get aid from the World Bank’s Program for Results [PforR] financing instrument which uses a country’s own institutions and processes and linking disbursement of funds directly to the achievement of programme results.

Downloaded from ExamLounge.com 3

5:- A Solution: Ajay Narayan Jha is a full time member of FFC and Arvind Mehta is its Secretary. Dr.Rajeev Kumar is the Vice-chairman of NITI Ayog and Amitabh Kant is its CEO

6:- C Solution: He won the French Open in 1995 US Open, French Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon are the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments

7:- D Solution: A three judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud observed that prima facie the object of the programme is to vilify the Muslim community and accuse it of surreptitiously trying to infiltrate the civil services.

8:- C Solution: It is built under the Rohtang Pass by Border Roads Organisation [BRO] and it ensures yearlong connectivity to Leh and other forward areas

9:- D Solution: The bronze idols of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana were reportedly stolen from Rajagopalasamy temple in Anandamangalam near Nagapattinam in 1978. The Idol wing of Tamil Nadu Police, The Art and Antique Unit of London Metropolitan Police, High Commission of India in London and the Archaeological Survey of India were involved in the detection and recovery of the Idols. The idols were in the possession of an art collector in London who had purchased it in good faith from a dealer who is now deceased.

Downloaded from ExamLounge.com 4

10:-D Solution:At the 45th regular session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, while speaking on the “Global Human rights Update”, she made a reference to the law and order situation in Kashmir, the imposition of partial lockdown and suspension of internet services after the abrogation to Article 370.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN,Indra Mani Pandey, in her speech, expressed regret on the reference made by the High Commissioner and stated that India remains committed to uphold all human rights

Downloaded from ExamLounge.com 5